Donald Trump’s former campaign lawyer is furious after his personal information and social security number were made public as part of this week’s release of unredacted JFK assassination files.
“It’s absolutely outrageous. It’s sloppy, unprofessional,” Joseph diGenova, a long-time Trump supporter who formerly served as the president’s lawyer on the campaign trail, told The Washington Post.
“It not only means identity theft, but I’ve had threats against me,” diGenova said. “In the past, I’ve had to report real threats against me to the FBI. There are dangerous nuts out there.”
More than 60,000 documents related to the assassination of former president John F. Kennedy were released by the Trump administration on Tuesday, the vast majority of which were unredacted.
Included in the document dump were the social security numbers of around 200 former congressional staffers and others, according to the Post, including 100 members of the Senate Church Committee established in 1975 to investigate abuses of authority by American intelligence services such as the CIA and FBI.
Many of the individuals mentioned in the documents are still alive, including 80-year-old diGenova, who served on the committee in the 1970s.
“It makes sense that my name is in there,” he told the Post, “but the other sensitive stuff — it’s like a first-grade, elementary-level rule of security to redact things like that.”
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