If you’re running the security directorate of a hostile nation, savor this moment. It’s never been easier to steal secrets from the United States government. Can you even call it stealing when it’s this simple? The Trump administration has unlocked the vault doors, fired half of the security guards and asked the rest to roll pennies. Walk right in. Take what you want. This is the golden age.

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      I mean, it’s basically shoplifting. Trump admin is taking down all the securities so they can keep it out of the safe and sell them… but in the process, they are also opening them up to being taken without asking. Then it comes down to the same question of say music/software piracy. Is it easier to buy it from the trump admin, or just get it from back channels.

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      Maybe that’s his defense, if he ever sees a trial over them. “You can’t prove my idiotic subordinates didn’t give them away before I could sell them!”

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      Don’t even bother. Just look in the nightstand drawer. They’re right there, where the bibles used to be. And if you look on the desk, there’s a convenient menu of services available for those interested in a little light corruption.

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      Just invite them to a chat and let them give them to you.

      Seriously wondering what would happen if someone created a group with the NSA, CIA, and FBI heads if they’d even notice it was created by some rando.

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    Well yes. The government is collapsing and no longer values its own secrets unless they personally impact a handful of billionaires.

    Plus, its own leadership includes its enemies. The government as we know it is in its death throws if not already dead.