Everything we know about the Mar-a-Lago search

The FBI seized 11 sets of classified documents in its search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last Monday, including some ​​labeled "Top Secret," per court documents unsealed by a federal judge on Friday.

The judge also unsealed the FBI’s search warrant, which revealed the agency was looking for evidence of possible violations of the Espionage Act, as well as laws against removing government records and obstructing justice.

• More specifically, Trump is being investigated for potentially violating Section 793 of the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime to remove or misuse information related to national defense.

📑📦 More deets… There are three basic levels of classification for US government documents.

1. Confidential – likely to cause “damage” to national security if leaked.
2. Secret – likely to cause “serious damage” to national security if leaked.
3. Top Secret – likely to cause “exceptionally grave damage” to national security if leaked. A subset of Top Secret known as TS/SCI (sensitive compartmented information) is reserved for documents that can only be read in a secure government facility.

Per newly-unsealed property receipts, the FBI agents at Mar-a-Lago discovered three sets of confidential documents, three groups of secret documents, four sets of top-secret documents, and one group of files marked “TS/SCI.”

• The Washington Post reported late Thursday that the FBI was looking for “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons,” though neither the warrant nor inventory list specifically mentioned nuclear weapons or programs.

📝 Trump’s response: The former president published an official statement late Friday, saying the documents in question were declassified under a “standing order” allowing him to take sensitive materials to his residence at night to keep working.

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