(CNN) A newly unsealed version of the affidavit that federal investigators used to secure a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago revealed some previously unknown details about the classified materials that former President Donald Trump gave to the Justice Department under subpoena in June.
The less-redacted version of the previously released affidavit was unsealed Tuesday by a federal judge in Florida.
It was previously known that Trump's lawyers provided one envelope to investigators, which contained 38 unique documents with classification markings, according to court filings. But the newly lifted redactions in the search warrant affidavit indicate that some of those classified files contained markings for "HCS, SI and FISA," according to court filings made public on Tuesday.
These classification markings indicate that the documents were connected to extremely sensitive government programs. "HCS" refers to human sources, or spies, that often work with the CIA. "SI" refers to signals intercepts that are typically handled by the National Security Agency. And "FISA" refers to domestic surveillance and wiretaps related to counterintelligence.
These new revelations confirm for the first time that documents related to these sensitive programs were returned to the US government as part of the June subpoena. Previous court filings indicated that when Trump voluntarily returned 15 boxes of materials to the National Archives in January, they contained 184 classified documents, including some with the same HCS, SI and FISA labels, as well as other classification markings.
fotofiend on September 13rd, 2022 at 23:02 UTC »
So in other words, Trump knew that he had these classified docs and before returning the first batch, went through and cherry picked stuff that he wanted to keep because he thought he was going to pull a quick one on NARA.
So again, the big looming question is: what the holy fuck was he planning on (or has he already) done with those documents? Information on our spies and information intercepted from other nations. That sounds an awful lot like something that enemies of our nation might like to get their hands on.
llahlahkje on September 13rd, 2022 at 21:55 UTC »
Trump stole intel on our human sources that work with the CIA.
Jared Kushner got a $2 billion dollar investment for something he is in no way qualified to do from the Saudis.
Last October the CIA put out a cable that indicated CIA sources were being eliminated at an alarming rate.
But I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Beckles28nz on September 13rd, 2022 at 21:35 UTC »