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Holding the Ex-President Accountable for Abuse of U.S. Secrets

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Frank Snepp
Aug 19, 2022
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[Donald Trump has already inflicted “irreparable harm” on the nation’s security by making a mockery of official secrecy and worse, says former CIA officer Frank Snepp. In prosecuting Snepp decades ago the U.S. government argued, and the Supreme Court agreed, that someone causing even the appearance of  disarray in the government’s control over its secre…

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Frank Snepp, a former top CIA analyst, now a Peabody-Award winning journalist, specializes in national security issues. His CIA memoir, Decent Interval, triggered a landmark US Supreme Court ruling.
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