Mar-a-Lago Raid Affidavit Released: Here's What The Documents Contained Based on FBI Agent
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has finally released the heavily-redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit that Judge Bruce Reinhart signed off earlier this week.
In the Mar-a-Lago affidavit posted, the FBI agent, whose name was redacted for safety purposes, sheds new light on the actual contents of the documents.
Citing the recently publicized letter that the National Archives made available this week, the Mar-a-Lago affidavit is what AP News considered the most detailed description to date of how the highly classified documents were stored in Trump's mansion in Florida.
What Do the Mar-a-Lago Documents Contain Based on the FBI?
After Judge Bruce Reinhart approved the unsealing of the heavily-redacted Mar-a-Lago affidavit earlier this week, the FBI finally released it earlier today.
An unnamed FBI agent sworn off the affidavit disclosed what media outlets consider the most detailed description to date.
Staying true to what the National Archives has revealed this week, the FBI agent has affirmed that they had reviewed 184 government documents from the 15 boxes that Trump returned this January to the NARA.
As reported by Reuters, the documents were classified with the following labels, 25 were marked "top-secret," 92 were labeled as "secret," and 67 docs were marked "confidential." Based on his training and experience, the FBI agent claims that classified documents like these "typically contain national defense information." The documents were also reported to have contained handwritten notes, undetermined when they were made.
The affidavit also pointed out that the recovered January documents contained "intelligence information derived from clandestine human sources," which political analyst Lisa Rubin described as "spies" in a CBS News article.
The gravity of how confidential and sensitive the documents in Trump's household does not stop there. Aside from the "top-secret," "secret," and "confidential" markings, the documents were also labeled with abbreviations.
Still based on the FBI agent accounts, the documents retrieved last January contained "HCS, FISA, ORCON, NOFORN, and SI" markings.
CNN defined these markings accordingly. Documents containing HCS were about spies or human sources working for the CIA. FISA-marked documents are foreign surveillance intelligence, including wiretaps.
ORCON documents are also found, which needed approval from the originator before sharing them. NOFORN, on the other hand, is information that could not be shared with any allies, including foreign allies, without permission. Lastly, SI documents are Special Intelligence docs that the National Security Agency usually handles.
Because of this information, the FBI had probable cause to believe that there were more documents with this information that remained on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago, hence the search.
Reports also reveal that the important documents were "mixed in" with other irrelavant papers, including personal correspondences, newspapers, and even magazines.
Currently, the FBI and the DOJ are still pushing through with the investigation, which many experts believe would lead to Donald Trump's possible indictment for violating the Espionage Act, among many other statutes.
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Written by: Ivan Korrs
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