New revelations are emerging about the investigation that led the FBI to search the mansion of former President Donald Trump. According to ‘The New York Times’, the federal police found during the operation a empty folder quarantine that were marked as classified informationwhich generates new doubts about the possibility that part of the extracted material has disappeared and the Government has not been able to recover it.
In addition to the empty folders, the FBI has recovered other 48 folders also empty with sensitive information that, according to the mark it bore, should be returned “to the secretary or military aide.” All this has been included in the inventory of the material found during the search and whose publication has been authorized by Judge Aileen Cannon, a document that also specifies that the possession of these documents by the former investigation president constituted a “criminal investigation.”
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The inventory released this Friday denounces the poor storage conditions of the documents, which were being kept carelessly in boxes or containers. In total, during the search of the Florida residence, the FBI recovered 18 documents marked as “top secret”, 54 classified as “secret”, 31 as “confidential” and more than 11,000 unclassified.
The list also confirms the presence in the house of Mar-a-Lago (Florida) of more than 40 empty folders that did have the label of being classified. It is unknown what its content was and where it is today, according to NBC News.
The authorities have not warned so far of the possible loss of secret information and, among the aspects that must be determined now, is if at any time the national security of the United States could be in danger.
Trump has denounced a political persecution after the August 8 registrationjudicially claimed from the FBI on suspicion that the former president’s entourage had not delivered all the potentially classified material in the tycoon’s possession.
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The conflict started in May, when the National Archives were unable to get Trump to accept the return of the papers despite long negotiations with the former White House leader. As a result of this refusal, the Department of Justice issued an official request, which caused Trump’s lawyers to give up some of the texts, assuring the investigators that there were no more documents to return. The prosecutors in the case claim that the search at Mar-e-Lago is nothing more than an episode of an ongoing investigation with “criminal” implications.
The FBI located in the Trump mansion in August more than 10,000 documents and images of the Government that did not show any type of marking that they were classified, according to the Department of Justice.