The former intelligence officer said that Mar-A-Lago is a nightmare for keeping state secrets.
The FBI searched the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump as part of a probe into whether he violated federal laws by moving top secret information from the White House to his private club.
In a legal filing, the FBI said there was a mixture of confidential, secret, and top secret records at the site.
The FBI search was politicized according to Trump supporters.
Intelligence officials were concerned about the location of the materials at the Palm Beach home, where Trump has racked up a number of eyebrow raising incidents over national security.
The investigators told Trump to put a lock on the basement room where the documents were kept.
An unnamed former US intelligence officer said that it was a nightmare for handling highly classified information. It is a nightmare.
The 126-room club is an obvious target according to Aki Peritz.
Peritz said that Mar-a-Lago has been porous since Trump declared his candidacy.
If you were an intelligence service that was friendly or unfriendly, they would be focused on this porous place.
During his presidency, Mar-a-Lago was the site of many security breeches.
When Trump hosted the Japanese Prime Minister at the club, he casually mentioned the news of a North Korean missile test in front of a group of people.
The incident signaled to spies that it would be easier to eavesdrop on the president, according to a defense policy expert.
The Secret Service had to clarify in a rare public statement that they had no control over who could visit Mar-a-Lago.
A Chinese woman carrying a device for detecting hidden cameras and a device for storing data was seen as a spy by the club's management. The name on her passport was partially matching that of a club member, so she got in.
Jim Himes, a member of the Intelligence Committee, said that Trump's claim that the documents at Mar-a-Lago were declassified is baloney. It can take months to declassify documents.
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