Our sources say the thief — whom they say is a man — was caught on surveillance video pulling up to the agent’s driveway in an Uber at around 3 AM Thursday.
The video shows the man make a beeline for the agent’s car, removing a backpack with the computer inside and then walking off. As we reported, the hard drive contained Trump Tower floor plans and evacuation protocols, but the agency insists there was no classified info inside.
Probably not US government surveillance (since they would have all that intel already), (unless the deep state wanted to ruin this agent for some reason, or this was a Red-Team). But targeting a specific item like that could mean surveillance, and surveillance implies professionalism. If that was a very professional operation doing it (such as if the agent had vital intel and this was in support of a real assassination attempt), you would have to assume they had rented/picked up a house with a sightline to the agent’s car, for use as an observation post. They would also have vehicles following the agent home, alerting the observation post to get ready as the agent got home. That observation post would have noted a tendency to not fully unpack the car predictably.
They would probably have tossed the car one night, while the observation post verified in real time that the target and her family were asleep, and not about to surprise them. They couldn’t take anything, because that might have been noted. You wouldn’t want the surveillance video showing you running back to the house next door. But you could produce a full inventory, as well as maybe hardwire in some tech, without creating any incident to make the target review the surveillance video. Then, they could note what was left in the car when the agent got home. Of course, when they decided to grab it they needed to use a car to hide responsibility.
It could have just been a lucky grab, but I would immediately look at all the houses nearby for any actors residing in them who might be hostile to the President. If that Uber was ordered with a stolen phone of course, then they might have a problem, at least with a professional operation targeting them.
Given the danger President Trump presents to the deep state, it is even possible this could be a sham operation, run by Deep State behind the scenes using some fedguv assets. It could be designed to create a storyline for why a future false flag attack on President Trump (probably by an American militia full of NRA members and military vets) would have intelligence needed to carry it out. I’ll believe anything these days.
If I was Secret Service, I would sweep that entire neighborhood for any off-the-books surveillance by other agencies too, and if any were identified, I’d blackmail them into giving up what they knew with threat of exposure. You never know what can be operating in your theater under the radar these days, that might capture some intel you need purely by chance, and prove of use to you.
God bless President Trump.
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I’d look at the agent who had the laptop stolen. I have some loose familiarity with security training protocols for the feds. We were told in no uncertain terms that sensitive items (laptops, documents, whatever) should never be left unsecured.
Leaving the laptop in a car, outside, overnight, where it could be accessed with relative ease is either gross incompetence or willful cooperation with the thief. Combine that with the fact that the thief appeared to know exactly what he was looking for. This might not be a matter of surveillance, so much as treason by the agent herself. Plus, consider this. It was stolen at 3 a.m., in the middle of the night, when she could conveniently “not notice” it was missing until morning. This gave the thief several hours to work the machine before it could be wiped remotely. Very disturbing all around.
Interesting thought.
USSS are ridiculously undisciplined cowboys. They are notorious pussy-hound clowns in the DC Metro area. The All the Kings Men days are far, far behind them.
There is a reason Trump kept his private team as his body security.
I have to wonder about the agent himself. Who leaves a notebook in the car? My notebook is my life! It has everything on it. If I take it away from home (rare), it NEVER leaves my side. I would NEVER leave it my car. IMHO this is either gross negligence or some sort of complicit act.
True. But speaking from experience, lately I have been loading my car up with tech before each trip, and then stripping it all out afterward, as well as lots of other stuff on each trip. If you do not have an active threat you are aware of, it is tough to maintain that discipline every day, every time. I think our brain is literally not designed to do it, as a way of adapting our behavior to the threat level we face, and optimizing our efficiency. So if there is enough stuff, anyone could end up cutting corners. My guess is this agent had a ton of weapons, body armor, comm tech, intel tech, and other stuff she had to carry with her, and it all took a few trips in and out before each trip and after. That can get really temping to just leave some of it to cut the effort, both at night and the next morning, especially if you have not noticed any threat targeting you. All it takes is one time, and you will do it every time.
I would assume she locked the car, meaning they had keyless entry scanned and spoofed it. More here than meets the eye.
The laptop was reported to also have info on the Hillary emails on it.
This was an inside job to provide plausible deniability for the eventual leak. “It must have come from that stolen laptop.”
Interesting hypothesis.
This is why Zuckerberg keeps trying to buy all the houses within a mile of his. Did he do something to really piss someone off? Knowing his type, probably.
These laptops are encrypted if there is any sanity left among the security professionals. It will essentially be a brick or useless other than for software reinstall. It is speculated that a lot of common thefts involve taxicab services for convenient runs to better merchandise to steal. Use a stolen or burner phone to uber to a wealthy area, steal, walk a few blocks and then uber home to urban shithole. Sometimes things are face-value simple. A good takeaway here is to encrypt your tech and have a backup system. Additionally I keep some loss leaders out in the open at the house and office. They work and are encrypted, but are not mission critical. This along with some other ready stuff to steal removes the reason for the thief to hunt for valuables which have their own hiding places. A robbery cop once told me that if they get an easy good score, they will be gentlemanly and not trash the place and even close the door behind them. It is just business. Have 1K on the mantle, some cheap gold stuff, pills in the med cabinet, and they are set.
BTW: Leaving something to be stolen is a great way of leaving false information.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/us/politics/secret-service-white-house.html?_r=0
Seems like this vital institution has been allowed to degenerate. The old question: through ineptitude or by design?