Seized Documents From Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home Had Sensitive Information

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents seized many documents during a raid at Donald Trump’s Florida resort last month. And now in a leak from the Department of Justice (DOJ), a report on Tuesday disclosed information about top secret documents that were reportedly among the files that were seized.

The Washington Post cited sources “familiar with the search," and said that the documents had information about a foreign government’s military defenses and nuclear capabilities. They can only be viewed by a select group of top officials.

The news comes after Trump’s legal team won a request for a special master to review the documents.

The sources did not reveal the foreign government that was described in the highly sensitive documents. There was no indication whether the foreign government was friendly or hostile to America.

But the report is said to have heightened concerns about the more than 100 classified documents that were found at the Florida property and hundreds of others recovered from Mar-a-Lago. Some of them reportedly detail top-secret U.S. operations that even senior national security officers were not aware of. The President, some cabinet members and a couple dozen of other U.S. government employees were only authorized to view some special-access programs that were detailed in the documents. Those sensitive documents should have been kept in a secure compound with a control officer checking them, and not in Trump's private club under unknown security.

According to a DOJ affidavit, of the 184 classified documents recovered, 92 were labeled secret, 25 were marked top secret, and another 67 were confidential, reported New York Post. The documents is now off limits to the U.S. government as U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon allowed Trump’s request for a third party to review them Monday.

Al Jazeera reported that the DOJ is investigating the former President for removing U.S. government documents from the White House after he left office in January last year and keeping them in Florida. Trump and his allies have denied any wrongdoing. They said that some documents might have been inadvertently removed from the White House. Some claimed that Trump had already declassified the documents.