On Monday, the FBI executed a court-authorized search warrant at Trump’s Florida home and removed around 20 boxes of documents, including “various classified TS/SCI documents,” according to a written inventory. That translates to top secret/sensitive compartmented information, a highly classified category of government secrets, and top-secret papers. The National Archives first recovered 15 boxes and documents, mementos and classified information belonging to the U.S. government in January of this year from Mar-a-Lago before the matter was referred to the Justice Department. AdvertisementAn unauthorized disclosure of classified information or U.S. weapons could provide helpful information to adversaries seeking to build ways of countering U.S. nuclear systems. The former president disclosed highly classified intelligence to Russian officials in 2017 that jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.

Source: CNN August 13, 2022 22:18 UTC