Informing Congress of government documents still held by Trump aides

The US National Archives told Congress Sunday that some White House employees under former President Donald Trump still keep presidential records that are government property.

"We are aware that everything we are supposed to have is not," said Acting Chair Debra Stedel Wall to Democratic Representative Caroline Maloney, who chairs the House Oversight Committee.

The letter dated Friday and published by the American media on Saturday night did not reveal the names of the White House employees involved.

However, it indicated that some of the employees used private individual accounts for e-mail messages on official missions, and did not return these messages in implementation of legal requirements.

In her letter, Wall indicated that the National Archives, which is charged with keeping government records, would discuss with the Department of Justice the possibility of taking legal measures to "restore records taken in violation of the law."

Wall's letter, which was sent in response to Maloney's request for an update on the legal dispute over sensitive materials Trump took from the White House, did not indicate whether the former president had returned those documents in full.

She referred Wall Maloney to the Department of Justice "in light of the investigation it is conducting."

After repeated attempts by the federal government to recover all the documents he took, and his lawyers insisting that all the documents were returned, FBI agents searched Trump's Florida home and recovered more than 10,000 documents, many of them classified or top secret.

Trump stressed the private nature of many of these documents or his enjoyment of presidential or legal privileges sponsored by the lawyer-client relationship that authorizes him to possess them, and he resorted to the court to restore them.

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