She did so after giving both the prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers the opportunity to lodge any objections to the documents’ release.
The judge also released a status report the department filed under seal about its investigative team’s review of the evidence so far.Ĭannon at a hearing on Thursday indicated she intended to release the documents. The president will read the material, make whatever use of it he wishes, then return it to that aide for appropriate handling.ĭOJ status report cites ‘ongoing investigation’
The inventory also references dozens of folders that are marked as “Return to Staff Secretary/Military Aide.” Typically, when the president needs to access materials for a briefing, a military aide or other staff member assigned to the White House is responsible for safeguarding those materials. And one of the sources noted that the National Archives this spring informed the Justice Department that the records it recovered from Mar-a-Lago in January included classified material that was “unfoldered, intermixed with other records and otherwise unproperly identified.” There are supposed to be records kept of what classified information goes to the president. Still, investigators may be able to piece together some contextual clues, according to the same sources. William Barr, on Fox, says there's no legitimate reason for classified docs to be at Mar-a-Lago and doubts Trump declassified
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US Attorney General Bill Barr holds a news conference to provide an update on the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on the 32nd anniversary of the attack, at the Department of Justice Decemin Washington, DC.
In other words, without more information about how these folders were marked – including whether they included any kind of tracking or control number – it’s unclear how easy it would be to determine their past contents. Akin to finding cover sheets, which are often laying around in classified environments and in and of themselves not an issue.” “Putting a cover sheet on a folder and carrying it with multiple docs inside is often done. “Empty folders raise questions, but were they empty and without descriptive info?” this person said. In some instances, these folders have a tracking number, two of the sources said, although such cases are rare.Įx-prosecutor identifies a big concern after learning what FBI found in Trump's homeįor some current and former intelligence officials, the empty folders were an alarming signal that unknown classified information may go unaccounted for by federal investigators, who may have a difficult time piecing together what information those folders previously contained – much less what happened to it.īut because those folders are often reused, one source familiar with these kinds of documents cautioned that merely finding an empty folder is not necessarily an indication that any of the information it previously contained has been mishandled. Those kinds of folders are designed to intentionally obscure their contents and are often reused, according to multiple sources familiar with White House procedures for handling classified information.
There were more than 48 empty folders with a “classified” banner and 42 empty folders marked to return to the staff secretary or a military aide, DOJ said. The court filing also provided a breakdown of the type of markings on the classified material taken from Mar-a-Lago, including 18 documents marked top secret, 54 documents marked secret and 31 documents marked confidential.Īmong the documents the FBI seized were dozens of empty folders that carried “classified” banners, according to the inventory. Several other boxes detailed in the inventory contained documents marked as classified stored with press clippings, as well as with articles of clothing and gifts.
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