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30-year intel veteran: Don't fall for Trump's secret documents trap
Declassification Theater Is Not TransparencyPresident Donald Trump used a televised address and a White House document dump to present a story about election vulnerability, Chinese data acquisition, and supposed intelligence suppression. The source text that follows then does something more important than repeating that claim: it explains why a release like this cannot be treated as proof of anything by itself.The Power Is the PointThe central fact is not the existence of the documents. It is who gets to release them, when, and under what political script. Trump held the institutional power…
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