The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is working with the Justice Department to determine if the trove of classified documents that Donald Trump brought with him to Mar-a-Lago posed any threats to national security.
President Donald Trump walks towards the White House residence. Drew Angerer poses for a picture.
The Director of National Intelligence is working with the Justice Department to assess the damage caused by the improper storage of information.
The review of the Mar-a-Lago situation is unrelated to the Justice Department investigation.
The intelligence probe does not interfere with the DOJ's ongoing criminal investigation, according to a letter written by the author to the two congressmen.
Among the documents stored at Mar-a-Lago were those that could endanger human sources. It's important that the IC move quickly to assess the damage done.
Federal agents raided Mar-a-Lago on August 8 and recovered 20 boxes of records that Trump may have wrongly taken with him to his private residence. There were at least 25 "top secret" marked documents within 15 boxes of records Trump willingly turned over to the National Archives in February. The documents were safe at Trump's resort home, despite the fact that he claimed the raid was politically motivated.
The DOJ is looking into whether there were violations of the Espionage Act.
Here's what the DOJ says in the redacted Mar-A-Lago search affidavit.
The search warrant in the FBI's Trump Mar-A-Lago raid was not made public.
The FBI is investigating whether Trump violated three statutes.
Trump said that FBI agents searched Mar-A-Lago in an "unannounced raid".
The national security ramifications of Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents are being assessed by Intel officials.
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