WASHINGTON — The FBI recovered documents that had been labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to court documents released Friday, after a federal judge unsealed the warrant that authorized the unprecedented search this week. a week.
A property receipt unsealed by the court shows FBI agents took 11 sets of classified records from the mansion during a search Monday.
The seized records include some designated not only as top secret but as “sensitive classified information,” a special category designed to protect the nation’s most important secrets that, if disclosed publicly, could cause “extremely serious” damage to US interests. Court records do not provide specific details about the information the documents may contain.
The warrant said federal agents were investigating potential violations of three different federal laws, including one governing the collection, transfer or loss of defense information under the Espionage Act. The other laws address the concealment, mutilation, or removal of records and the destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations.
The receipt also shows federal agents collected other potential presidential records, including the pardon order for Trump ally Roger Stone, a “leather box of documents” and information about “the president of France.” A folder with photographs, a handwritten note, “other classified documents” and “other confidential documents” were also seized during the search.
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