During the mid-1960s I was employed at Explosive Technology (ET) an R&D company in Fairfield, California with Security-based contracts awarded from NASA and the Department of Defense. ET, designated as a SECRET facility, was located on the grounds of a dismantled Nike missile station. Employees were either granted SECRET or CONFIDENTIAL Clearances.

My SECRET Clearance included responsibility as Assistant Security Officer, protecting the CONFIDENTIAL and SECRET documents secured in a combination-locked single drawer filing cabinet next to my desk. A cardboard sleeve with the word LOCKED rested in the cabinet’s handle and if the cabinet was not locked, on the other side of the card, was the word OPENED. I was authorized to record the names of employees (also with clearances) whenever they requested access to any document. Each document inside the cabinet was listed in a log with a number that tracked the activity of any specific document when handled and/or read by a cleared employee.

On occasion we were visited by a DOD Security Inspector who would review my log’s register or question me about anything pertaining to the classified documents under ET’s control. We were not authorized to declassify any document; however on some visits the Inspector ordered me to declassify an item which he then instructed me to burn and record its demise next to its title in the register.

If I had ever left a classified document on my desk, I would’ve been fired on the spot!

A FAILED KINGMAKER

Yesterday, August 3 #TFG appeared in US Federal Court, Washington, DC. Also yesterday I finished reading the #Indictment detailing the allegations filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith, United States Department of Justice in the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida. The #Indictment is against former president Donald J. Trump and his personal aide, Waltine Nauta. Wow, what a read!

From the first page to the last, the #Indictment depicts the perfidious activity in words and photographs of #TFG and his flunky shuffling highly classified documents around as if engrossed in a game of musical chairs. Some of the images in the #Indictment displayed boxes stacked on boxes, with some lids rumpled and torn. I gasped in anger viewing those photographs; and infuriated when reading the #Indictment which listed documents marked either:

CONFIDENTIAL//SECRET//TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN //SPECIALHANDLING//ORCON

If you’re curious about those acronyms, google them. I shudder imagining the “visitors” who had possibly walked or roamed throughout the halls and rooms of Mar-a-Lago and out of curiosity, opened then rummaged through any of those boxes containing highly classified documents.

#TFG has been charged with 37 Counts that fall under Sections of U.S.C. 18. All of them are related to Concealing, Withholding, Obstructing, Conspiring, Making False Statements and Retaining National Defense Information associated with Classified Documents.

Waltine Nauta’s Counts also fall under Sections of U.S.C. 18: Concealing, Withholding, Scheming, Conspiring and Making False Statements. Prison time for Nauta and/or #TFG Counts is 20 years each; a few are 5 years. And each Count carries hefty fines.

Please Dear Followers, download the #Indictment. It’s a good read and will take about an hour out of your day.

WHAT IS RULE 53?

The talking heads on cable have begun discussing the #TFG possibly never spending one day in prison and the need to televise his trial. Unfortunately Federal trials are not allowed to be televised. Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure prohibits the photographing or broadcasting of judicial proceedings in criminal cases in Federal courts.

Only *John Roberts*  Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, can lift the Rule, allowing this trial to be seen by all of America.

Time to petition Chief Justice John Roberts!

Stay #Woke because this will be The Trial to #SaveAmericanDemocracy.