Keeping top- secret information safe at Mar-a-Lago was discussed by experts.
The club has seen a lot of security issues.
According to a former US intelligence officer, securing Mar-a-Lago was a challenge.
The former intelligence officer said that Mar-a-Lago is a nightmare for keeping state secrets.
The search was part of an FBI investigation into whether former President Donald Trump violated three federal laws when he moved boxes of materials from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.
In a legal filing, the FBI said there was a mixture of confidential, secret, and top- secret records there.
The FBI search was claimed to be politically motivated.
Intelligence officials were concerned about the location of the materials at the Palm Beach home, where Trump has racked up a number of eyebrow raising national security incidents.
The investigators told Trump to put a lock on the basement room where the documents were kept.
An unnamed former US intelligence officer said that it was a nightmare for handling highly classified information. It is a nightmare.
Aki Peritz is a former CIA counterterrorism analyst.
Peritz told CNN that Mar-a-Lago has been porous since Trump declared his candidacy.
If you were an intelligence service that was friendly or unfriendly, they would be focused on this porous place.
During his presidency, Mar-a-Lago was the site of many security breeches.
When Trump hosted the Japanese Prime Minister at the club, he casually mentioned the news of a North Korean missile test in front of a group of people.
The incident signaled to spies that it would be easier to eavesdrop on the president, according to a defense-policy expert.
In a rare public statement, the Secret Service explained that it had no control over who could visit Mar-a-Lago.
A Chinese woman carrying a device for detecting hidden cameras and a device for storing data was seen as a spy by the club. The name on her passport was partially matching that of a club member, so she got in.
On Friday, Trump claimed that all the documents at Mar-a-Lago were declassified. It can take months to declassify documents.
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