US Justice Department releases document justifying search for Trump home; Government concerns that witnesses will face physical threats | Globalism

Among the justifications for exposing “secret human resources” (ie spies and informants) and that Trump took more than 700 pages from White House (see below).

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Of the 32-page document, 23 pages were tightly censored, and 11 were completely hidden. This was done to protect the investigation, which was not yet completed.

The disclosure revealed some new details about the classified documents Trump kept at his Mar-a-Lago home until January of this year, from handwritten notes by the president to information on national intelligence sources.

It also demonstrated the efforts of Trump’s representatives to prove that he had the authority to declassify the documents.

According to the American media, even with the censored paragraphs, the following can be learned:

• Former President Trump took more than 700 pages of classified documents, including some documents related to the most secret US intelligence operations;
• Prior to the search and seizure, the US government was already trying to recover some documents that Trump could not have taken from the White House, and even managed to obtain some of these papers;
• The current administration feared that eventually publishing the contents of the documents that Trump took to his residence would endanger his “secret human resources” (ie spies and informants);
• There are “a significant number of civilian witnesses” who have learned that Trump smuggled White House documents to his Mar-a-Lago residence.
• For the Department of Justice, there was potential reason to believe there was evidence that Trump was obstructing justice.

The identity of some witnesses must be protected: “First and foremost, the government must protect the identity of witnesses at this point in the investigation and ensure their safety,” said two attorneys from the Ministry of Justice.

These witnesses, if their identities are revealed, are subject to retaliation, intimidation or harassment – including physical threats; The Justice Department said the risks are not hypothetical in this case.

Message from Trump’s lawyer

A letter was also released from Trump’s defense attorney, Evan Corcoran, who wrote to the department on May 25 to file a complaint about the Justice Department’s investigation.

• The newspaper says that the documents that Trump took from the White House were classified
• Justice issued an injunction that motivated the FBI operation of the Trump home; The former president has top-secret documents

The disclosure was already expected, as follows: A Thursday’s US court rulingand may shed more light on the evidence that justified the unprecedented research – After leaving the presidency, Trump took more than hundreds of classified and state-owned documents from the White House..

The Department of Justice – the equivalent of the Department of Justice – has opposed such disclosure, which, for the agency, jeopardizes an ongoing criminal investigation, as well as disclosure of witness information and the dissemination of investigative techniques.

On August 8, to recover part of these papers, he FBI He conducted a search and seizure at Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, which the former president himself revealed.

Trump posted a text on the Truth Social, on his social network: “Ad hidden in many parts! Nothing mentions the word ‘nuclear’, a complete PR stunt by the FBI and the Department of Justice. Trump said the judge should not have allowed” the intrusion of His house. The judge is accused of hating him.

What is known about the operation?

On the night of August 8, former US President Donald Trump published a memo in which he claimed that a group of FBI agents was carrying out an operation at his home in Mar-a-Lago.

It wasn’t a forced break-in, as the FBI had informed the Secret Service, which protects the former president, prior to his arrival, according to NBC. Inside, they spent hours searching the house. They even opened a safe.

The search warrant authorized FBI agents to seize materials from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence to investigate crimes related to the Espionage Act, which prohibits the unauthorized retention of national security information that could harm the United States or help an adversary.

Along with the arrest warrant, an inventory of what the FBI seized in Mar-a-Lago was released: 11 sets of classified documents, including four highly classified and three that were classified.

Why did the FBI do this operation?

The statement should contain important information about why the FBI executed a search warrant in Mar-a-Lago on August 8, but what was taken is already known: 11 sets of classified documents, including the most classified information.

The documents also showed that the FBI was investigating “deliberate withholding of national defense information,” concealment or deletion of government records, and obstruction of a federal investigation.

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