It's a story that leaps off the pages of a high-stakes thriller. A binder laden with top secret intelligence files on Russia vanishes without a trace from the White House. The binder contained raw data pertaining to Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election, including intensely sensitive intelligence methods and sources. This is the same key information that served as the foundation for the U.S. government's assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin endeavored to assist Trump in winning the 2016 election.
The binder's disappearance resulted in such high alarm among intelligence officials that Senate Intelligence Committee leadership was briefed on the matter last year. It's worth noting that upon investigation, this missing binder was not among the classified items found in last year's search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
