Kessler, 78, author of The Secrets of the FBI and other nonfiction books about the White House, the CIA and the Secret Service, appeared on Fox News on Thursday. “The level of classification that we’re talking about here for these documents, beyond Top Secret, beyond Sensitive Compartmented, could very well include plans to counterattack against Russia in the event of a nuclear attack,” Kessler said. . “This is something that is part of the football program … where the President chooses options from these documents on how to respond, he has to respond within 20 minutes to prevent the annihilation of the United States. And that is one element that could be in these documents,” he added. “Now, there are CIA infiltrations of foreign embassies, foreign leaders like Putin, as well as recruiting spies overseas,” Kessler said. “Well, we’re talking about incredibly valuable secrets that the Russians, of course, would be after.” “The Russians would be trying to infiltrate Mar-a-Lago day and night and very likely recruited spies to get these documents,” he said. After sitting stonewalled during his guest’s comments, Waters interjected to try to play down the threat Mr. Kessler had made: “You’re saying they could be there. We have no idea if it’s there or not, and we’ll never know. And at this point… you can’t trust these guys, because they lie and plant proof of life.” “Everyone was asked to leave the facility, they wanted to be left alone, with no witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, I hope not, ‘planting,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Aug. 10, with no evidence. Trump’s lawyers, Christina Bobb and Alina Haba, have made similar baseless claims, arguing that his lawyers were unable to monitor the raid. But Ms. Bob and Eric Trump later revealed that Trump and other members of the Trump family watched the raid unfold in real time on surveillance footage from New York after the lawyer refused a law enforcement request to turn off the security cameras at the private Florida club. Former New York federal prosecutor Sarah Krissoff said it is standard practice for the FBI to clear an area to be investigated by its agents to ensure it is safe and there will be no interference, according to Bloomberg.
