But there's one other point that's really important because on your show, you talked about the fact that there was this affidavit that was just unredacted that provided some information. From a criminal prosecution standpoint, it could. Or at least, it would not appear to change the calculation. From a national security perspective, it doesn't change that calculation. And if the former president declassified them, are they any less sensitive, any less hazardous to the United States that they would be out in the world? Former President Trump has made a claim for which there is no documentation whatsoever, that he had a standing order to declassify various documents. INSKEEP: I want to understand a few things that the former president and some of his supporters have said and what the implications of them are. INSKEEP: Meaning that whether you prosecute anybody or not, you needed to get the documents back and understand what the danger is here. And it's the reason why, from the Department of Justice perspective, from the FBI's perspective, obtaining these documents and providing them to the intelligence community is and always was the top priority of the government. And this is the reason why the letter from the director of National Intelligence was so important to get that confirmation, although it's not a surprise, which is this is what the intelligence community needs to be doing right now, should be doing, which is receiving and reviewing this information and determining exactly what you said, conducting that risk assessment and determining - if there is, in fact, this risk - what they can do to mitigate it. But it's also - it's important to qualify this, which is we don't know. And if their identity is revealed, it's not just that they'd be compromised. Or we might call them a spy in another country. We're talking about somebody who may be an informant. INSKEEP: I want to be totally clear about this.
And it's the reason why there are so many layers of protection in terms of handling it. These human sources, these methods to collect information could be compromised and impair not just our government's ability to collect this information but could also harm individuals. VAN GRACK: Well, the reason these documents have these markings on them are to signal that these sources and methods and expert within the intelligence community has determined that if this information were disclosed to unauthorized individuals, these sources and methods could be compromised. Why would it be so sensitive, potentially, that that kind of intelligence might be compromised?
So we heard the description of the intelligence according to the warrant, the property receipt and the redacted affidavit, its description of human intelligence and signals intelligence. Welcome to the program.īRANDON VAN GRACK: Good morning. He also was part of Robert Mueller's special counsel team. He's a former federal prosecutor who has investigated and prosecuted cases involving the Espionage Act.
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