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WASHINGTON (AP) In late November, a member of Donald Trumps transition team approached national security officials in the Obama White House with a curious request: Could the incoming team get a copy of the classified CIA profile on Sergey Kislyak, Russias ambassador to the United States?
Marshall Billingslea, a former Pentagon and NATO official, wanted the information for his boss, Michael Flynn, who had been tapped by Trump to serve as White House national security adviser. Billingslea knew Flynn would be speaking to Kislyak, according to two former Obama administration officials, and seemed concerned Flynn did not fully understand he was dealing with a man rumored to have ties to Russian intelligence agencies.
To the Obama White House, Billingsleas concerns were startling: a member of Trumps own team suggesting the incoming Trump administration might be in over its head in dealing with an adversary.
The request now stands out as a warning signal for Obama officials who would soon see Flynns contacts with the Russian spiral into a controversy that would cost him his job and lead to a series of shocking accusations hurled by Trump against his predecessors administration.
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https://apnews.com/b109774705594ae887a86b337c444e6b/Trump-transition-raised-flags-about-Flynn-Russia-contacts
applegrove
(118,696 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)It was the 45 transition team who outed Flynn
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Where they giving that information to the Russians?
The Republican Congress is failing America, refusing to lift even as much as a finger to stop the Russian infiltration and manipulatioN. It's a shameful dereliction of duty
onit2day
(1,201 posts)resist, stay informed, challenge these bigots
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Someone who might have said, ummm this is a SCIF... you can't photocopy this material?
This gets stranger and stranger.
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)What there is NEVER a legitimate reason to do is exactly what Trump's team did: courier the photocopies from a secure facility to an unsecure one. I think the Trump people, who have a LOT of contacts within Russia, took that information straight to the Russian Ambassador.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)BarbD
(1,193 posts)This seems to be more than ineptitude. Isn't this flirting with treason?
Maynar
(769 posts)Yes it is.
And welcome to DU!
haele
(12,660 posts)I'd not only lose my clearance, I'd never be able to work in my field again. My family members or good friends would be flagged if they wanted to get any sort of Security Clearance.
And I'd be facing up to 5 years in a Federal facility just for my stupidity.
If you get the clearance to work in a SCIF, you have to get the training before you can walk through the door. There's no way you wouldn't know that you can't take material out without all sorts of paperwork, security processing, and packing. And you would probably have a minder if you weren't a Trusted Agent with years of background checks in your resume.
People need to go to jail. This is criminal stupidity.
Haele
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Understand how they were making copies of classified documents.
Norbert9
(494 posts)pnwmom
(108,980 posts)Norbert9
(494 posts)Does "copied and removed" mean copied and then deleted or just removing the copies from the building once copied? There is a difference, though both appear illegal. The title implies deleting IMO.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)pnwmom
(108,980 posts)jmowreader
(50,560 posts)A SCIF (it means Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) is an extremely highly secured workspace. Most of the places people are calling SCIFs are not actually SCIFs. There's a standard for a real SCIF, and it's unbelievable - the gold in Fort Knox isn't secured that well.
This is a SCIF...
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)Construction[edit]
Some entire buildings are SCIFs where all but the front foyer is secure. A SCIF can also be located in an air, ground or maritime vehicle, or can be established on a temporary basis at a specific site. The physical construction, access control, and alarming of the facility has been defined by various directives, including Director of Central Intelligence Directives (DCIDs) 1/21 and 6/9, and most recently (2011) by Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 705, signed by the Director of National Intelligence. ICD 705 is a three-page capstone document that implements Intelligence Community Standard (ICS) 705-1, ICS 705-2 and the Technical Specifications for Construction and Management of Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities or "Tech Specs." The latest version of the Tech Specs was published in September 2015 (Version 1.3).
Computers operating within such a facility must conform to rules established by ICD 503. Computers and telecommunication equipment within must conform to TEMPEST emanations specification as directed by a Certified TEMPEST Technical Authority (CTTA).
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)kentuck
(111,104 posts)They did not behave as innocent individuals...