A federal judge is set to hear arguments Thursday afternoon over whether to appoint an outside party to review the materials seized by the FBI during the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home
to obtain what prosecutors said were more than 300 classified documents that Mr. Trump took to Mar-a-Lago when he left office. FBI agents obtained around 100 of those, including three found in desks in the former president’s office, only afterDepartment officials have also said a third party’s work would partly duplicate the work of an in-house team that has already set aside, and have expressed concern that the appointment would delay their inquiry.
A heavily redacted affidavit released by the Justice Department Friday says boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago early this year contained over 184 classified documents and there was “probable cause to believe that additional documents” containing classified national defense information remained. Photo: Jim Bourg/Reuters—typically a retired judge who reviews evidence to determine whether it is protected—but that the hearing would guide her final decision.
Arguing for the government will be Jay Bratt, chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence and export control section, a longtime career prosecutor with deep national-security experience. was removed but didn’t describe the subjects of those documents. Judge Cannon asked prosecutors to provide such a list under seal, and in a footnote in the Tuesday filing prosecutors said they were prepared to unseal that list.Senate Judiciary Committee, saying government records had been concealed and removed from the Palm Beach estate as investigators sought to retrieve them, and that Mr. Trump’s team misled them about what material was still there.
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