Posted: 15th August 2022
By John Mecklin | August 13, 2022
Mar-a-Lago in March 2019. Photo credit: The White House
In an unprecedented turn in American national security affairs, FBI agents seized 11 caches of classified documents—some of them at extremely high levels of classification—from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, documents unveiled in federal court on Friday showed. At the request of the Justice Department, a federal court unsealed a search warrant and related documents indicating that the search of Mar-a-Lago was predicated on the possibility that three laws had been violated: the Espionage Act; a statute that prohibits the unauthorized taking or destruction of government records; and an obstruction of justice law.