Under the care of then-White House chief of staff and now criminally indicted, Mark Meadows, a binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference has gone missing. The binder contained raw intelligence the US and its NATO allies collected on Russians and Russian agents, including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources tell CNN. Most of the contents in the 10 inch binder were directly related to the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. But the raw intelligence on Russia was among its most sensitive classified materials, and top Trump administration officials repeatedly tried to block the former president from releasing the documents.
The information in the binder was so sensitive that that lawmakers and congressional aides with top secret security clearances were able to review the material only at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where their work scrutinizing it was itself kept in a locked safe. Intelligence officials briefed Senate Intelligence Committee leaders last year about the missing materials and the government’s efforts to retrieve them but no one has located it.
The last culprits to have had access to the highly classified and sensitive information was none other than the criminally indicted former president and his criminally indicted, former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. TFG had requested the document so he could declassify it the day before leaving office.
