The Department of Justice identified “a set of materials” during the search for documents at Mar-a-Lago that could contain material covered by attorney-client privilege and is in the process of addressing privilege disputes, revealed in a court file.
According to federal prosecutors, they have already completed a review of the materials.
Furthermore, the team is following the process of continuing the procedures established in an affidavit detailing the reasons for the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s house “to address possible privilege disputes, if there were,” said Miami federal prosecutor Juan Antonio González and Jay Bratt, the Justice Department’s top counterintelligence official.
The Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of Intelligence (ODNI) are also conducting a classification review of materials recovered by the FBI.
“As the Director of National Intelligence reported to Congress, ODNI is also leading an evaluation of the intelligence community regarding the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of these materials,” González and Bratt told the court.
A federal judge ordered the redacted release of 38 pages used to justify the FBI’s search warrant for Mar-a-Lago. The Federal Bureau explained that the National Archives and Records Administration determined that boxes they collected from The house contained “highly classified documents interspersed with other records.”
In the affidavit it says that within 15 boxes found are found 184 documents you mark including 92 marked as “confidential”, 92 marked as “secret” and 25 marked “top secret,” the FBI said.
The agents who made an initial review of the boxes also found documents marked “HCS” or HUMINT Control System, which according to the statement is “designed to protect intelligence information derived from sources clandestine human rights”.
The former Republican president criticized the raid on his Florida home, claiming without evidence that it was an attack for political reasons by Mr. the Department of Justice before a possible presidential campaign of 2024.
In addition, he assured that some of the Documents seized by the FBI are covered by attorney-client privilege and he asked Judge Aileen Cannon to appoint a “special master” to review the seized records.
In a preliminary order, the judge said that her “preliminary intention is to appoint a special teacher” in response to the tycoon’s request, although her decision has not been final. She scheduled a hearing for next Thursday in Florida.
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