Mar-a-Lago raid

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We now know the FBI search of Trump’s estate was premised on an investigation of three potential offenses.  One of those possible charges had been widely predicted: it pertains to the concealment or removal of official documents. Another covers the destruction, alteration or concealment of records “with the intent to impede, obstruct or influence” an investigation — an intriguing charge given the number of other probes directed at Trump.  The biggest shock came with the inclusion of a third possible offense under section 793 of Title 18 of the U.S. Criminal Code. The language of the statute is complicated, but its main thrust is that it is a criminal offense for someone to misuse, mishandle or fail to guard national security information that they believe “could be to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.”

The Memo: What the latest dramatic twists mean in the Trump-FBI saga | The Hill

The FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents while conducting the search of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.  The Journal reviewed a three-page list of items that FBI agents took from the Palm Beach, Fla., property on Monday, revealing that they took about 20 boxes of items, binders of photos, a handwritten note and Trump’s grant of clemency to his former adviser Roger Stone, who was convicted in 2019 of lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstruction of an official proceeding.  The list refers to one set of documents as “Various classified/TS/SCI documents,” meaning top secret/sensitive compartmentalized information. It states that FBI agents acquired four sets of top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents.

FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents in Trump search: report | The Hill

• Three possible crimes
  
• 11 sets of classified documents found
  
• SCI documents can only be read in a special vault, they have no business being at Mar-o-lago