The nuclear documents
Post Reports
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🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The newly unsealed search warrant for Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home lists potential crimes, including violating the Espionage Act. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the FBI was also looking for classified documents about nuclear weapons.
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On Friday afternoon, a judge unsealed the search warrant for the FBI’s search on former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. The warrant revealed the FBI went there looking for evidence of crimes, including mishandling defense information and the destruction of records. The receipt of what the agents seized includes four sets of top-secret documents, and seven other sets of classified information.
But the day before, The Washington Post learned that classified documents related to nuclear weapons were among the items the FBI sought in the raid. Intelligence and national security reporter Shane Harris explains what type of information could be in these documents and why experts and the Justice Department are so concerned about it falling into the wrong hands.
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| 0:31.4 | This afternoon, just before 4pm, a federal judge unsealed the warrant that was used to search |
| 0:37.4 | the home of former president Donald Trump. |
| 0:40.5 | What was in the search warrant was pretty eye-opening. |
| 0:44.2 | The FBI agents who went to Mar-a-Lago on Monday were looking for evidence of crimes, which |
| 0:49.0 | included violating the part of the SB&AJ Act about the destruction or concealment of government |
| 0:54.5 | records. |
| 0:55.9 | We also now know that the FBI seized four sets of top secret documents. |
| 1:01.5 | They also found seven other sets of less secret, but still classified information. |
| 1:07.0 | The inventory noted some weird details. |
| 1:09.2 | For example, the documents included information about the president of France. |
| 1:13.7 | But the list of items taken did not go into detail. |
| 1:18.2 | So now we are left with a question. |
| 1:20.9 | What else was in those documents? |
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| 1:31.1 | I'm Martine Powers. |
| 1:32.9 | It's Friday, August 12. |
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