Ex-CIA chief endorses executing leakers of nuclear techniques right after Trump raid bombshell

Daniel Chaitin

August 11, 10:14 PM August 11, 10:56 PM

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden responded approvingly to a tweet talking about executions for all those who spill nuclear insider secrets after it was documented that FBI agents have been exploring for categorised files linked to nuclear weapons throughout their raid of previous President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago vacation resort.

A tweet Thursday night from presidential historian and NBC contributor Michael Beschloss would make no point out of Trump but did refer to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a pair convicted of espionage for their job in sharing atomic secrets with the Soviet Union. "Rosenbergs ended up convicted for giving U.S. nuclear tricks to Moscow, and were executed June 1953," he reported, together with a photograph.

Hayden replied, "Sounds about proper."

Sources told the Washington Put up that these types of classified information was among the goods agents glance for in the look for but declined to converse about any other resources that may have been sought. It stays unclear no matter whether they observed any nuclear files. The report said the Justice Section and FBI declined to comment. Trump promises he has been cooperating with investigators wanting for paperwork and decried the raid as becoming politically enthusiastic.

Trump lawyer Christina Bobb forged question on there staying nuclear information at Mar-a-Lago but could not say for specific when pressed Thursday evening by Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "I have not especially spoken to the president about what nuclear resources might or could not have been in there. I do not believe there had been any in there," she said, noting that Trump's lawful crew has been extensive in obtaining paperwork to hand over to the Biden administration.

Hayden, a retired 4-star Air Pressure typical who served as director of the National Safety Agency and later on the CIA below previous Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020. "If you can find one more expression for President Trump, I do not know what occurs to The usa. Reality is genuinely vital but specifically in intelligence. President Trump does not treatment about info," Hayden, who suffers from aphasia as a end result of a stroke in 2018, reported in an advert from Republican Voters Versus Trump.

Hayden is also one particular of the previous intelligence officials who signed an October 2020 letter baselessly claiming Russian involvement in the Hunter Biden notebook tales that popped up in the closing weeks of the presidential election cycle. Hayden, who is also founder of the Hayden Heart at George Mason College, did not provide remark when asked by the Washington Examiner for a report released in April.