'A spy's dream': Former FBI deputy director calls Trump's document stash 'unmitigated recklessness'
Former President Donald Trump's pattern of behavior with highly classified military secrets was a horrific danger to national security and to people who work in defense — and a massive boon to anyone who would seek to harm either, said former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on CNN Friday.
He was speaking shortly after special counsel Jack Smith publicly announced a 37-count indictment against the former president, making a statement to similar effect.
"You've not had the greatest history with Donald Trump, but you have an incredible history looking at indictments and being a part of major investigations," said anchor Jake Tapper. "Have you ever seen an indictment quite like this?"
"This is extraordinary," said McCabe. "I've worked on and around many mishandling cases, Espionage Act cases. I've never seen an indictment with this level of granularity, detail, the photographs, just to mention those photographs, to drive home this point of what you were just referring to, Jake, that the unmitigated recklessness of how our most sensitive information was handled. It's off the charts. Stratospheric."
"And this is not the presidential — this is not like George W. Bush's home, guarded by Secret Service agents," cut in Tapper. "This is a hotel!"
"It's a public entity that has a long history of intruders, people with suspicious backgrounds, being taken into custody and investigated for the activities they engaged there," said McCabe. "So it's absolutely a spy's dream."
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