Ex-official who investigated Hillary Clinton's emails said the documents recovered by the FBI at Trump's Mar-a-Lago were particularly 'stunning' and 'egregious'

The documents the FBI retrieved from Mar-a-Lago were "particularly stunning and particularly egregious" according to a former Justice Department official.

The FBI searched Donald Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, home and seized 11 sets of classified documents from the former president. The Espionage Act is one of the laws being investigated by the DOJ.

One of the sets of Top Secret information was designated as Sensitive Compartmented Information, which is the highest level of sensitivity a classified document can receive.

David Laufman was the former chief of the Department of Justice's counterintelligence division.

Executive order 13526 states that the release of Top Secret information can cause grave damage to national security.

There is no evidence that the documents found in Trump's home were classified.

Laufman told CNN that he was not surprised that the former President was holding on to top secret government papers because he had a "consistent disregard for the protection of classified information and disregard for the Intelligence Committee throughout his presidency."

It is shocking to me having overseen prosecutions of multiple defendants under provisions of Espionage Act, to see that same statute leveled as a basis for a search warrant executed on the home of a former president.

The government's investigation into the former President was vindicated by the discovery of the documents, according to Laufman.

Laufman said that it was not certain whether the investigation would turn into a criminal prosecution.