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That doesn't bode well for our security!
WASHINGTON FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trumps Florida home last month found empty folders marked with classified banners, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public by the Justice Department on Friday.
The inventory reveals in general terms the contents of 33 boxes taken from an office and a storage room at Mar-a-Lago during the Aug. 8 search. Though the inventory does not describe any of the documents, it shows the extent to which classified information including material at the top-secret level was kept in boxes and containers at the home and commingled among newspapers, magazines, clothing and other personal items.
The Justice Department has said there was no secure space at Mar-a-Lago for such sensitive government secrets, and has opened a criminal investigation focused on their retention there and on what it says were efforts in the last several months to obstruct that probe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/empty-folders-among-items-found-in-fbi-search-of-trump-home/2022/09/02/57295e02-2ace-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)I have an idea: The FBI should ask Trump for a list of all documents he "declassified" and took with him to Mar-a-Lago.
jcgoldie
(11,651 posts)Pretty sure one would need to search Al-Yamamah Palace Riyadh where the Saudi royal family lives.
lapfog_1
(29,226 posts)those folders contained something... and every sheet of printed material would have also have the classification noted in large block letters - usually in color... can't be missed.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)These aren't random pieces of paper no one keeps up with we're talking about here.
Brother Buzz
(36,469 posts)At least three of the boxes had these empty folders - Fingerprint them, Baby!
agingdem
(7,860 posts)now Garland has to raid (not just a search and seize) MAL with the full force of the DOJ..FBI,US Marshall's Service, counterintelligence..
FalloutShelter
(11,879 posts)there was more than one search warrant on the court docket and that only one was executed. I've been trying to find that tweet, but she is so prolific, it is way down stream. Anyone else see this?
tblue37
(65,490 posts)Link to tweet
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Hugo Lowell
@hugolowell
NEW: Unsealed detailed inventory of what FBI seized from Trumps office includes:
7 TOP SECRET marked docs
43 Empty CLASSIFIED folders
28 Empty Return to Staff Sec/Mil. Aid folders
26 Magazines/Press Articles 1/2020-11/2020
99 Magazines/Press Articles 1/2017-10/2018
oregonjen
(3,341 posts)His comments on LOD last night were very curt and serious. This mornings tweet shows it as well. Anyone notice that?
Ptah
(33,044 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)Why keep empty folders after youve sold the contents? Shred or burn.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)Is he that big of a hoarder?
central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)Like a serial killer keeping rings from his victims
herding cats
(19,568 posts)At this point it's as good as any other one.
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)BTK kept trophies from his victims.
yorkster
(1,506 posts)A few would be bad enough - 43? Yikes.
Of course, they'll be able to find the matching docs for those empty folders, right?
MagickMuffin
(15,958 posts)They SOLD our country out! NONE of them should be allowed to walk free any longer. The longer they are out and about the more damage they are doing to our country.
And his party is just groovy with how things are.
DISGUSTING BIGGLY!
getagrip_already
(14,838 posts)Just curious.