Frank Figliuzzi was an assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI.
The MSNBC contributor said on "Deadline: White House" that it was too slow. Before the FBI gets their hands on this, you have a January to May time frame.
Each page is marked and numbered if you have handled a lot of top secret documents.
If authorities had looked earlier, they could have found missing materials that could have jeopardized live sources.
He said that the FBI didn't get their hands on it quickly. I will argue again. They went in quickly with the search warrant. You have been lied to at that point when you show up physically. I came in with a warrant.
I would say that the government messed up.
According to the New York Times, the federal government has recovered more than 300 classified documents from Trump's Florida resort.
The National Archives received about 150 documents in January. Archives officials referred the matter to the Justice Department because of the sensitive nature of the material.
The Justice Department believed there were more documents at Mar-a-Lago after opening their investigation. They had to come back in May.
Department officials went to the Palm Beach compound in June to get the remaining materials. According to the Times, Trump's aides turned over a few dozen documents, but after further investigation, they found more at the property.
The FBI left with 26 more boxes after they searched the compound. The search warrant states that Trump is being investigated for possibly violating the Espionage Act.
The article was first published on HuffPost.