Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower in New York City a day after FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago home. (Photo by Reuters)
Palm Beach, August 12 (RHC)-- According to a new report, the recent raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the Florida residence of Donald Trump was a search for classified documents pertaining to nuclear weapons.
The story published in Washington Post, citing informed sources and experts, said the search underscores the concern among government officials about the types of information located at Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach club where Trump lives, and the danger of it falling into wrong hands.
The report quotes experts as saying that material about nuclear weapons is "especially sensitive and usually restricted to a small number of government officials," adding that publicizing details about them could "provide an intelligence roadmap to adversaries seeking to build ways of countering those systems."
"If that is true, it would suggest that material residing unlawfully at Mar-a-Lago may have been classified at the highest classification level," David Laufman, the former chief of the Justice Department's counterintelligence section, which investigates leaks of classified information, is quoted as saying in the report.
"So if the FBI and the Department of Justice believed there were top secret materials still at Mar-a-Lago, that would lend itself to greater 'hair-on-fire' motivation to recover that material as quickly as possible," Laufman said. American judicial officials have said that more details of this investigation will be made available to the public in the coming days.
Some lawyers, while publishing a motion seeking to unseal the search warrant in this case, said the public’s "clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing.”
Media reports suggest the FBI’s action is part of a US Justice Department investigation into Trump's removal of official records to his Florida estate while leaving the White House following the end of his presidential term early last year.
