The Mechanics of Espionage. My take.

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The Mechanics of Espionage. My take.

Rather than take the chance of being caught selling top secret documents, I believe Trump "rented" access to them.

So . . . he would allow to go into his office for an hour as a repayment to, say, Saudi agents as repayment for Jared's Saudi windfall.

That way he is relieved of further, dangerous efforts. The agent him or herself can take pictures of the documents and pass them on.

All he needs to do is leave his office door unlocked and and get word to the agent where the specific document is locate. The following week, he can return the document and bring new ones.

(Unfortunately, the Crown Prince likely now knows inside details about the Israeli nuclear program.)

Fortunately, we have video evidence of who went into each room.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217130417

Your take is a fantasy. 

[SVPete]

So Trump "rented" the documents to a flow of foreign agents in front of scores or hundreds of Secret Service people, other government employees, and MaL employees? Don't quit your fryolator day job to become a fiction writer, mmmmkay?

[Drafe Hoblin]

Michael Moore Underground.

As if Ukraine isn't happening.  Nothing about NATO or drone-technology.  I'm tired of the premise that only 'nuclear secrets', whatever that means, matter to the DUmmies' contrived Trump mindset.

[SVPete]

Michael Moore Underground.

As if Ukraine isn't happening.  Nothing about NATO or drone-technology.  I'm tired of the premise that only 'nuclear secrets', whatever that means, matter to the DUmmies' contrived Trump mindset.

Well, when DUmmies engage their impoverished imaginations to contrive fictional might-have-beens, the predictable result is slog too implausible and silly for the Juvenile Fantasy section in B & N's or Costco's clearance bins.

 

[CollectivismMustDie]

As if the Trumps think they need more money so desperately.


 

[FlaGator]

Trump is a billionaire. Why would he need to sell secrets? The money he would make is chump change and these fools can't grasp that fact. He could give them away and it would be no skin off his teeth.

DUpipo can't grasp figures like a billion dollars and thus can't understand how much that really is.

[DefiantSix]

Trump is a billionaire. Why would he need to sell secrets? The money he would make is chump change and these fools can't grasp that fact. He could give them away and it would be no skin off his teeth.

DUpipo can't grasp figures like a billion dollars and thus can't understand how much that really is.

Worse, the money it would cost somebody like Russia to buy state secrets at The Donald's rates could almost certainly be better spent paying scientists and engineers and statesmen (not all state secrets are technical ones, right HilLIARy???) to come up with them independently. Probably cost at least half as much.