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Today, a Brooklyn-based Secret Service agent learned what those of us without security clearance have known for years: Dont leave a laptop in your car if you dont want it to be stolen.

Law enforcement sources told both ABC and The New York Daily News on Friday that a laptop containing private informationincluding the floor plans for Trump Tower and information on the criminal investigation against Hilary Clintons use of a private email serverwas stolen from a Secret Service agents car.

This is how the Daily News described the crime:

The thief stepped out of a car, possibly an Uber, on a street in Bath Beach and stole the laptop from the agents vehicle, which was parked in the driveway of her home.

He was then seen on video walking away from the scene with a backpack.

The agent reported the laptop contained floor plans for Trump Tower, evacuation protocols and information regarding the investigation of Hillary Clintons private email server.

The agent also told investigators that while nothing about the White House or foreign leaders is stored on the laptop, the information on there could compromise national security.

Despite reports that the Secret Service is privately FREAKING and scrambling like mad, however, the agency is totally not panicking over this. Like, not at all.

In addition to telling ABC that the laptop can be wiped remotely, the agency assured the public in a statement that Secret Service issued laptops contain multiple layers of security including full disk encryption and are not permitted to contain classified information.

Im trying to reconcile how not having classified information on a laptop and having information that could compromise national security can exist in the same timeline, but the Secret Service says its no big deal, its all fine. Everything is just fine.

[The New York Daily News]

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