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The Washington Post just published a story with two notable details. One is merely atmospheric. Some of the documents recovered from Trump’s Florida villa were so highly classified that none of the people involved in the investigation were allowed to look at them. “Only the president, some members of his Cabinet or a near-Cabinet-level official could authorize other government officials to know details of these special-access programs,” says the Post.
The other detail is more interesting. One of the documents found in the FBI search described “a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities.”
We can do some basic process of elimination. There are nine more or less known nuclear powers: the United States, the UK, France, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. We can strike the US from the list since it’s a foreign nation.
There’s really no more information here beside what I just quoted. But in general, I think that sort of intelligence is most prized when it’s about a friendly or allied government. That’s certainly not an absolute. And maybe my reasoning is off. But it’s about a friendly government that the U.S. is really going to have deep insights into. If that’s the case we’re really talking about the UK, France and Israel. Pakistan and India aren’t adversaries. But they’re not comparable in terms of military to military cooperation, intelligence sharing or potential joint operations. For my money, the interest in that kind of information would be most focused on Israel. But that’s just speculation.
I would think all three of those countries are uneasy about this revelation.
