RE: The former guy planting the “nuclear secrets” rumor as a tactic to mitigate whatever it was he was actually caught with: It is a slimy thing that America’s most popular crime family would try to do. It is bolstered by the fact that the government can’t very well come out and say, “Well, akshually.” However, I will still refer back to the fact that this search warrant was signed and approved at the highest levels of the DOJ. People calling this “unprecedented” aren’t wrong, but that would require something truly unprecedented to warrant such an action, and let’s face it: If they had evidence that he was selling American nuclear secrets (even if it was just “operational data” around our nuclear handling procedures), that would absolutely be grounds for an oh-shit, get-those-back-now search warrant. We’ll have to see what happens when the indictments come down; because you can’t tell me that there won’t be indictments after the execution of a freaking search warrant.