It also eschews the heated criticism Trump has leveled at BRUCE REINHART, the magistrate judge who authorized the search. It also makes no mention of Trump’s claims to have declassified the material. 8 search and in previous visits by investigators. “It makes no mention of the hundreds of pages of classified documents recovered during the Aug. Meanwhile, Trump’s lawyers on Friday also submitted a renewed pitch for an independent review of the materials recovered at Mar-a-Lago, Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein write. Fun read: “‘Mutilated by rats,’ burned, trashed: 200 years of presidential papers lost,” by WaPo’s Ronald Shafer Read along: “The affidavit behind the FBI's search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, annotated,” by CNN’s Zachary Wolf, Sean O'Key and Christopher Hickey Very helpful timeline: “Inside the 20-Month Fight to Get Trump to Return Presidential Material,” by NYT’s Luke Broadwater, Katie Benner and Maggie Haberman That’s just one example of the work we’re doing to create safer connections. That’s nearly 60 times the population of Washington, D.C. Over 40 million people use Facebook Privacy Checkup each month. Still waiting: AP’s Jill Colvin and Nomaan Merchant note that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence thus far “has not responded to calls from Congress for a damage assessment.” Senate Intelligence Chair MARK WARNER (D-Va.) re-upped his request for one following Friday’s release.įacebook is taking action to keep its platform safe And just about anything having to do with a related investigation or potential subjects or targets is usually cut from these kinds of releases, Sharman said.” “Also, statements made by witnesses or informants can be redacted. What exactly is missing from the docs: “ JACK SHARMAN, a corporate litigator who has been involved in numerous government investigations, said affidavits that get publicly released are usually protective of confidential informants as well as personal identifying information of the informants, or of law enforcement agents, given the threats to law enforcement from some Trump supporters,” WaPo’s Amber Phillips writes. What shocked investigators: “gents were most alarmed to discover that many of the materials included the highest national security restrictions, requiring they be held in controlled government storage facilities, and barring them from ever being shared with foreign governments, to protect ‘clandestine human sources,’ or informants employed by the intelligence community to collect information around the world,” NYT’s Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman write. Trump or his close associates that is as much or even more serious.” Much of the focus since the investigation began has centered on the Espionage Act, but Savage writes that “by some measures, the crime of obstruction is a threat to Mr. The threat of obstruction: Among prosecutors’ reasons for so heavily redacting the documents was a section that “made clear that they feared the former president and his allies might take any opportunity to intimidate witnesses or otherwise illegally obstruct their investigation,” NYT’s Charlie Savage writes. And while they were filled with substantial redactions, additional reporting over the last 24 hours has helped explain why that is. On Friday, we got a snapshot of the Justice Department’s documents that led to the FBI search of DONALD TRUMP’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Nitrado server.Obstruction has emerged as a new threat to Donald Trump and his team after the Justice Department released heavily redacted documents regarding the search of Mar-a-Lago.