A redacted version of the FBI affidavit that convinced a judge to approve a search warrant for former President Trump's Florida home says authorities found 184 classified documents in an initial review of boxes recovered from the Mar-a-Lago resort just a few months after Trump left office.
Among the 184 documents were 25 that contained top secret information, including intelligence gathered from "clandestine human sources" — information prohibited from being shared with foreign governments — and material obtained by monitoring "foreign communications signals," according to information that was disclosed in the affidavit.
The judge-ordered release of the highly-anticipated 28-page document briefly crashed the federal Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system as reporters and others sought online access.
While much of the affidavit was redacted for security and investigative purposes, it still provides clues into the ongoing investigation involving the former president. It notes that authorities believed "evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed" would be found at Mar-a-Lago in the raid earlier this month.
Entirely redacted is a section on why the government thought additional "classified [national defense information]" was being held at Mar-a-Lago.
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