I spent the last weeks of August off social media, including this blog. I needed to detox a bit from the fetid information stew swirling around the internet. What’s been stirring a good deal of this is the search warrant executed on Mar-A-Logo, Trump’s Florida residence.

I’ve spent the last twenty-plus years with a high clearance due to the type of work I did, and on occasion still do. I’ve been investigated regularly to keep that clearance because that’s the way a clearance works. They just don’t walk up to a stranger and hand out  clearances like free tickets to a movie. I’ve laid my life bare on multiple SF-86 documents because, again, that’s the way it works (and paid the price; my SF-86 information was part of the the OPM cyber breach of 2015 ( https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/cybersecurity-incidents ). I know the rules and what document clearance covers look like. You go through yearly security training to refresh that knowledge and to learn of any changes, and those training classes are also logged. Fail to take your training and you lose your clearance. That information was always locked in a SCIF or locked in a heavy upright safe inside a secure area. If I needed that information, and if I was cleared to see it, then it was logged when I received it and locked back up at the end of my shift. Leave out any secured documents and again you lose your clearance. There is too much at stake to treat such sensitive information lackadaisically.

When I viewed the photo of what the FBI found at Mar-A-Logo the first thought to cross my mind was how Trump wasn’t in jail, followed by the thought that if I’d done anything close to that I’d be in handcuffs on the way to jail.

Trump is a traitor to this country. Any defense of Trump on the specific crimes of the miss-handling of classified documents and the obstruction of trying to recover those documents, should be a litmus test of finding other traitors to this country. And right now, based on what I’ve seen and read in the news, those traitors are legion.