How Secure Are U.S. Nuclear Weapon Secrets? Former CIA Director Explains

John Brennan, former C.I.A. director, talks about the extreme level of security that is applied to the United States' nuclear secrets, and stringent limits on access to them. 

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[samiaint]

This information sounds like it is worth a lot of money to an adversarial country.

[kiwinewz]

The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 further specified that anyone
who: communicates, transmits, or discloses…… any document,
writing, sketch, photograph, plan, model, instrument,
appliance, note, or information involving or incorporating
restricted data.. to any individual or person, or attempts or
conspires to any of the foregoing, with intent to injure the
United States or with intent to secure an advantage to any
foreign nation, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by
death or imprisonment for life.

[stratostatic]

Now do people understand why Donald being so friendly with dictators was a concern?!.

[utubevk]

Two things that organized crime /Mafia bosses and criminal minds almost always practice is taking the 5th and collecting material for blackmailing their rivals.

[chambielion]

I remember on the news a few years ago about Mar-a-Lago security under scrutiny after a Chinese woman was arrested for trespassing . She was deported after serving her sentence

[starexplorers]

The more John Brennan speaks the more it seems this is closer to the realm of espionage.

[MarkTubeG]

If these docs are as sensitive as this guy suggests, all of Trump's and his families assets must be identified and seized.

[jeffreyblue]

Time to seize Donnie’s passport. Let’s go Garland!

[williamtell]

We have been working on the assumption that the US president can be trusted not to be treasonous. Obviously, that assumption was wrong.

[Cristoforo]

This is what happens when you put the safety and security of an entire nation in the hands of bozo the clown

[SpockvsMcCoy]

Why are Presidents leaving office allowed to remove anything without security verification?

[gevowavemagnet]

Trump knew what he had and was willing to share it with the highest bidder.

[canttouchthis]

Is this why Trump was playing golf with the Saudis last week ?

Trump says he only wanted the "lunch" codes, not the "launch" codes. Now that makes sense!

[laurenopferman]

He wanted to use them as bargaining chips for foreign business deals.

[BlueJazzBoyNZ]

Eric Trump in 2014: ‘We have all the funding we need out of Russia’
Yeah no risk to the US there...

[MarkTubeG]

And just what was Jared doing overseas that was worth the billions he came home with?

[DesperateHorse]

The dollar value of such secrets, who knows? Only a criminal would steal such things

[davismiller]

If nuclear secrets are involved, Barking Yam must immediately be taken into custody and held in solitary confinement until his very public trial.

[jazolisauce]

I worked in 2 different missile fields when I was in the Air Force. This is huge that these materials where not under security measures for this long. Lock this traitor up! There are former military in Leavenworth for taking less from this sector of government security. Super scary.