FBI seized documents on Iran’s missile program and US intelligence targeting China during attack on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago contain information about Iran’s missile program and intelligence work targeting China
The Washington Post reported on Friday about the contents of the Aug. 8 search of the property of former President Donald Trump in Florida.
If this information seeps out, people helping U.S. intelligence could be put at risk and methods of collection could be exposed, experts say.
Sources told The Post that the classified documents related to Iran and China were among the most sensitive found when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago in August.
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The contents of the classified documents recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate included information about Iran’s missile program and intelligence work targeting China, The Washington Post reported Friday.
If this information were to seep out, experts told The Post, people helping U.S. intelligence could be put at risk and methods of collection could be exposed. The US could also face retaliation from enemies.
Sources told The Post that the classified documents related to Iran and China are among the most sensitive found when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8.
The contents of the classified documents recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate contained information about Iran’s missile program and intelligence work targeting China, The Washington Post reported Friday.
Authorities stand outside Mar-a-Lago, the residence of former President Donald Trump, amid reports that the FBI issued a search warrant on Aug. 8 as part of a document investigation
Former President Donald Trump has made a number of defenses as to why the information has reached his Florida club and home, including that a president can declassify information “even by thinking about it.”
The Washington Post had reported in August that some documents related to another country’s nuclear capabilities, but the newspaper’s sources declined to say whether Iran or China were the countries involved.
Trump denied the report on Truth Social.
“Nuclear weapons issue is a hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a hoax, two charges were a hoax, the Mueller investigation was a hoax and much more. The same sleazy people involved,” he wrote.
Officials at the National Archives began recovering data from Trump last year, pointing out in a letter that correspondence between the former president and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was missing.
In all, more than 300 documents recovered from Trump were found to have been classified.
About 13,000 documents were taken from the August 8 raid, including 103 classified and 18 top secret.
Before that, the National Archives and Records Administration voluntarily obtained a cache of documents removed from the White House, including 184 classified documents and 25 that were top secret.
And in June, Trump representatives responded to a subpoena by returning 38 classified documents.
Trump has put forward a number of defenses as to why the classified information reached his Florida club and member home, located in the Tony Palm Beach.
Among them, the ex-president said a president can declassify information “even by thinking about it.”
“No other president has been harassed and persecuted as we have,” Trump said, falsely suggesting that other ex-presidents ran off with a wealth of documents.
He also lashed out at the Archives, calling it a “seriously radical left” entity that is “awake and broken.”
The National Archives staff consists of archivists, librarians, curators and other archivists.
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