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Author: TheCrow   Date: 8/12/2022 5:01:47 PM  +4/-1  

Where are 'conservatives' slobbering to get after "liberal traitors"?

Why did The Donald have classified documents in his home? 

Items removed from Mar-a-Lago included files marked as top secret and meant to be viewed only in secure government facilities, according to a copy of the warrant. 

 
Former President Donald J. Trump leaving Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday.
Former President Donald J. Trump leaving Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday.Credit...Brittainy Newman for The New York Times
 

A list of documents removed from former President Donald J. Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, includes materials marked as top secret and meant to be viewed only in secure government facilities, according to a copy of the warrant obtained by The New York Times.

Federal agents who executed the warrant did so to investigate potential crimes associated with violations of the Espionage Act, which outlaws the unauthorized retention of national security information that could harm the United States or aid a foreign adversary; a federal law that makes it a crime to destroy or conceal a document to obstruct a government investigation; and another statute associated with unlawful removal of government materials.

Sections of the warrant and an accompanying inventory were reported earlier in the The Wall Street Journal on Friday. The search on Monday seized 11 sets of documents in all, including some marked as “classified/TS/SCI” documents — shorthand for “top secret/sensitive compartmented information,” according to the report.

In total, agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents. Included in the manifest were also files pertaining to the pardon of Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime associate of Mr. Trump, and material about President Emmanuel Macron of France.

The inventory, which accompanied a warrant issued by a federal judge, were released as part of the Justice Department’s efforts to make the warrant and some supporting materials public.

Calls and texts sent to Mr. Trump’s lawyers were not immediately returned.

The warrant appears to have given agents fairly broad latitude in searching for materials deemed to be improperly stored at Mar-a-Lago, allowing access to “the 45 Office” and “all storage rooms and all other rooms or areas” on the premises that might be used to store documents.

Mr. Trump had announced late Thursday that he supported the Justice Department’s legal effort to release the search warrant executed at his residence in Mar-a-Lago — with bravado and the suggestion that it was somehow his idea in the first place.

“Release the documents now!” he said amid a flurry of revelations about the investigation into his handling of White House documents, including some involving what one person briefed on the matter said were highly sensitive national security materials.

Mr. Trump’s legal team had until 3 p.m. Eastern on Friday to officially respond to the Justice Department about whether he had any objection to the release of the search warrant and an inventory of items taken by federal agents during the search of his Florida home on Monday.

Mr. Trump had also been free to make them public himself.

On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, tensely reading from a teleprompter, announced the department had asked Judge Bruce Reinhart, a magistrate in the Southern District of Florida to unseal the warrant, a short document with limited information. But, as importantly, he also asked to make public key supporting documents which include the items F.B.I. agents were looking for on Monday, and what they ultimately carted away in sealed envelopes that were placed in boxes.

The most informative and sensitive document, an affidavit detailing the “probable cause” evidence that prompted Judge Reinhart to approve the search, will not be released now, or probably ever, department officials said on Thursday.


 
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