Prosecutors Have Possible Reason for "Breach of Espionage Law"

FBI seizes top-secret documents from Trump's home

• Trump's house was searched in Florida.

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• List of documents confiscated from Trump's home.

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The US Department of Justice announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who searched the home of former US President Donald Trump in Florida last week, confiscated 11 sets of classified documents, including some that were classified as highly classified. While also revealing that prosecutors have probable reason to believe that Trump may have violated the Espionage Act.

The documents were revealed days after FBI agents searched Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, on an order approved by a federal judge.

Trump said, in a statement on his social media platform, that the records in question had been "declassified" and placed in a "secure storage".

"They didn't need to take anything," added the Republican businessman-turned-politician.

They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and storming Mar-a-Lago.”

The Justice Department said in its search request, which was granted by Judge Bruce Reinhart, that it had probable cause to believe that Trump may have violated the Federal Espionage Act prohibiting the acquisition or transmission of national defense information.

The department added that it had concerns that he may have violated several other laws related to mishandling of government records, including one that criminalizes attempting to conceal or destroy government documents regardless of whether they are classified.

A list of items confiscated from Trump's home showed FBI agents seizing about 20 boxes of documents, folders of photos, a handwritten memo and an executive order using Trump's ally Roger Stone.

Yesterday, Trump denied a Washington Post report that FBI agents were looking for documents related to nuclear weapons when they searched his Florida home, and Trump said on social media: "The nuclear weapons issue is a hoax."

The search of Trump's home on Monday represents a significant escalation in one of the many investigations he faces in his time in office and in his private business.

The Attorney General, Merrick Garland, had announced that he had requested the publication of the search warrant that he had personally approved, and had requested that the warrant be published due to the public interest nature of the matter, and had given Trump and his agents until Friday afternoon to object to the publication, which they did not do.

• 20 boxes of documents, photo folders and a handwritten note included in the confiscations.

Secret information

A report published by Agence France-Presse mentioned several situations in which former US President Donald Trump disclosed secret information during his tenure as president of the United States. In April 2017, Trump informed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, that Two US nuclear submarines are located off the coast of North Korea, boasting "great firepower," according to the transcript of the call released by the Philippines.

The US Department of Defense (the Pentagon) rarely discloses the locations of its submarines, which are essential to the US strategic defense force.

In a 2019 interview, Trump spoke to writer Bob Woodward about America's unknown nuclear capabilities, which was either inaccurate flaunting information or highly classified information. We have equipment that the Russian and Chinese presidents have never heard of.”

After the leader of the terrorist organization ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in an American operation in Syria in October 2019, Trump revealed, in the context of bragging about the attack, many details that the Pentagon usually retains, such as the number of helicopters that participated, and how Special Forces elements entered al-Baghdadi’s residence, He also revealed that the United States obtained intelligence information through the use of phones and the Internet by "ISIS".

"The information could contribute to counter-engineering of US intelligence tactics by the enemy," former Special Operations Commander Michael Nagata told Politico.

In July 2018, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats made no secret of his surprise during the Aspen Security Forum when the presenter leading the conversation told him that the White House had tweeted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had received an invitation to visit Washington. that?".

Coats stated that he was not informed of the substance of a two-hour discussion between Trump and the Russian president three days before that, and said: "I don't know what happened in that meeting."

Trump has publicly disclosed some classified information.

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