“The biggest piece of the puzzle as to why FBI agents raided Donald Trump’s residence” at Mar-a-Lago was made public on Friday August 26: the written pleading to justify the search, summarizes the Washington Post.
“In its complete form”this court document, written before the August 8 search of Mr. Trump’s Florida residence and “usually sealed”, “explains exactly what FBI agents thought was hidden [sur place] and what crimes may have been committed”, adds the newspaper. But the version the Justice Department released was largely to protect the investigation. On 38 pages, “24 are completely or partially blackened”raise it Wall Street Journal.
We learn in particular that the American federal investigators obtained a warrant to search the property of Mar-a-Lago of the former American president by reporting a series of highly confidential documents that they had already obtained there, note Politico.
More than 184 classified documents had already been recovered
According to this text, the boxes recovered from Mr. Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago earlier this year contained more than 184 classified documents, including 25 bearing the mention “top secret”92 mention “secret” and 67 mention “confidential” – the lowest level of national security classification, accurate Politico. Some of these documents contained information from “from human sources”. And others contained “handwritten notes” de M. Trump.
Also according to the court document, the officials of the national archives agency, responsible for recording presidential activities for history, had then discovered that some of these “highly confidential documents were not sorted, were mixed with other documents and were not identified appropriately”.
Prosecutors also added in another court document released Friday that the ongoing criminal investigation into government documents hidden at Trump’s Florida home has involved “a significant number of civilian witnesses” whose security could be compromised if their identity were revealed.