A letter seen by Archyde.com said US intelligence agencies will assess the potential national security risks from the discovery of materials recovered during an Aug. 8 search of former US President Donald Trump’s Florida residence.
The letter dated Friday, dated Friday, from Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney also said the Department of Justice and National Intelligence were “working together to facilitate a classification review” of materials, including those recovered during inspection.
Schiff and Maloney said in a joint statement that they were satisfied that the government was “assessing the damage caused by the improper storage of classified documents in Mar-a-Lago,” referring to the Trump House.
And on Friday, the US judiciary published a judicial document outlining the reasons for the federal police to search the home of former President Donald Trump in Florida, the content of which was largely revised in favor of the investigation.
Federal Judge Bruce Reinhart had ordered the Department of Justice to release this essential document that is supposed to detail the reasons that led to the investigation of Donald Trump, citing the public interest in the unprecedented raid on the home of a former US president.
On August 8, the FBI raided Donald Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Lago residence and confiscated boxes of classified documents that the Republican had not returned after leaving the White House despite repeated requests.
Donald Trump, who intends to run for the presidential elections of 2024, has long criticized this process, which he sees as an example of the “wild campaign” targeting him.