{"id":130146,"date":"2022-08-27T15:40:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T10:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/officials-release-affidavit-that-prompted-fbi-search-of-mar-a-lago\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T15:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T10:10:54","slug":"officials-release-an-affidavit-resulting-in-a-fbi-search-of-mar-a-lago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/officials-release-an-affidavit-resulting-in-a-fbi-search-of-mar-a-lago\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials Release An Affidavit Resulting in a FBI Search of Mar-a-Lago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The Justice Department has released a redacted search warrant affidavit that prompted\u00a0the FBI search of former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Mar-a-Lago Search warrant Affidavit<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u00a0argued in federal court that there was \u201cprobable cause to believe\u201dThat classified national defense information was kept at the Palm Beach property in an \u201cunauthorized location,\u201dAccording to the 38-page affidavit. They also alleged\u00a0there was &#8220;probable\u00a0cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials opened the criminal probe after the National Archives and Records Administration had referred to the Justice Department regarding 15 boxes of Mar-a-Lago records. \u201chighly classified documents intermingled with other records,\u201dAccording to the affidavit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Justice Department, there are &#8220;184 unique documents bearing classification markings, including 67 documents marked as confidential, 92 documents marked as secret, and 25 documents marked as top secret.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A legal brief explaining the proposed redactions to the affidavit was also released Friday, revealing that officials were primarily concerned about protecting the identities of \u201ca number of civilian witnesses\u201d and \u201cthe integrity of the ongoing investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notice of Filing Redacted Memorandum<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department initially tried to block the release of the 38-page affidavit, but instead proposed redactions to U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who ordered its release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t do anything wrong. It is a disgrace for our country. Our country is in disgrace.&#8221; Trump said on\u00a0a radio show.<\/p>\n<h2><strong bis_size=\"{\" x=\"\"><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department has released a redacted search warrant affidavit that prompted\u00a0the FBI search of former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida earlier this month. Mar-a-Lago Search warrant Affidavit The FBI\u00a0argued in federal court that there was \u201cprobable cause to believe\u201dThat classified national defense information was kept at the Palm Beach property in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3266],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130147,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130146\/revisions\/130147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}