re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

As with anything so important, I’ll believe it when more time goes by.

These kinds of things are what news outlets desire, and I am not sure if the WaPo vetted their sources as well as they think.

Presidents have access to nuclear information, but that is the command side of the national military structure. Things like launch codes, and the disposition of nuclear forces, etc. All those things can be changed, so I doubt that the security of the US was endangered.

The only real damage can be to Trump and his clique.

Yes, embarrassing things, like having to change launch codes because Trump mentioned something to Putin in their meeting.

I disagree. Having worked with classified material my entire career, single pieces of material may not, in themselves, reveal much. However, a bunch of material, when analyzed as a whole can reveal much, much more beyond what’s in individual docs. They can also reveals sources and methods. In short, the material is classified at such a high level because dissemination can result in extremely severe harm to the US.