The unsealed affidavit was made public shortly after the noon deadline set by US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who approved the warrant that led to the Aug. In Trump’s chaotic final days of office, reports emerged of the Oval Office and White House residence being awash with boxes and piles of documents scattered messily throughout. “A lot of classified records” were found tossed in boxes with stacks of newspapers, articles, photos, presidential correspondence and personal records, according to the affidavit. The FBI agent added that a storage room, residential suite and the “45 Office” within Mar-a-Lago were “not currently authorized locations for the storage of classified information.” The document also pointed to the DOJ’s concerns that the classified materials Trump took with him when he left the White House had “not been handled in an appropriate manner or stored in an appropriate location.” The FBI claimed it had “probable cause to believe evidence of obstruction would be found” at Mar-a-Lago – meaning that Trump could allegedly be hiding some government documents, according to the affidavit. The agent added that several of the documents contained what appeared to be Trump’s “handwritten notes.” “Based on my training and experience, I know that documents classified at these levels typically contain NDI,” the FBI agent wrote in the affidavit, referring to the acronym for National Defense Information. 8 raid on Mar-a-Lago has sparked a political firestorm, one that the heavy redactions to the affidavit will likely not resolve. Of the 184 classified documents retrieved, 25 were marked as top secret, 92 were labeled secret and another 67 were confidential, the affidavit says. The affidavit also suggests that some of the classified documents may have contained highly sensitive information about how spies collect information on foreign targets. Some of the documents were marked “HCS,” an abbreviation for the HUMINT Control System, which refers to highly classified government measures used to “protect intelligence information derived from clandestine human sources” - aka spies. 8 raid was warranted after agents had discovered classified materials in 14 of the 15 boxes that the National Archives and Records Administration had retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in January. The FBI claimed in the affidavit, which sought a judge’s permission for a search warrant, that the Aug. The heavily redacted, 38-page affidavit, which was finally released by the Justice Department early Friday afternoon, offers the most detailed description yet of the records uncovered from Trump’s estate amid a federal probe into whether he allegedly illegally handled classified documents. The FBI sought to justify its controversial raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate after claiming 184 classified documents, many of them top secret, were allegedly mixed in with a mess of newspapers and personal correspondence at his private club for more than a year, according to an affidavit unsealed Friday.
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