The FBI recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during its August 8 search at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, as well as 48 empty folders labelled as “classified,” according to court records that were unsealed on ...
The unsealing by US District Judge Aileen Cannon in West Palm Beach came one day after she heard oral arguments by Trump's attorneys and the Justice Department's top two counterintelligence prosecutors over whether she should appoint a special master to conduct a privilege review of the seized materials at Trump's request.
“I think at this stage, since they've already gone through the documents I think it's a waste of time” to have a special master, Barr said in an interview on Fox News. He added, “I frankly am sceptical of this claim that 'I declassified everything.' Because frankly I think it's highly improbable and second, if he sort of stood over scores of boxes not really knowing what was in them and said 'I hereby declassify everything in here,' that would be such an abuse, show such recklessness that it's almost worse than taking the documents.”
“Top secret” is the highest classification level, reserved for the country's most closely held secrets. The Justice Department's criminal investigation could be potentially put on pause if Cannon agrees to appoint a special master to come in and conduct an independent third-party review of the seized records.
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