US Intelligence assessing if Trump-held documents endangered security

United States intelligence will assess whether the security of the country could have been endangered by the top-secret documents that former President Donald Trump) stored without authorization in his Mar-a-Lago residence, reported the newspaper Politico and the+ CNN network on Saturday

According to these media, the director of US intelligence, Avril Haines, sent a letter to a group of legislators to inform them that her office will carry out “an evaluation” of the risks to the security of the United States that could have resulted from the disclosure of the documents held by Trump.

Until now, it is unknown why the former president had these documents in Mar-a-Lago (Florida) and who had access to their content.

This is the first time that United States intelligence admits the possibility that the security of the country has been endangered by the files that Trump had in his Florida mansion and that were recovered by the FBI during a search on August 8. August.

The information that the Department of Justice has made public so far shows that Trump and his entourage could be being investigated for three crimes: obstruction of justice, destruction of documents, and violation of the espionage law, which carry prison sentences.

According to Politico and CNN, Haines sent the letter Friday and it was addressed to the chair of the House Government Oversight Committee, Carolyn Maloney, and to the chair of the House intelligence committee, Adam Schiff.

In a statement, Maloney and Schiff applauded the decision by US intelligence to open an investigation to assess possible damage to the country’s security and called for the investigation to proceed quickly.

The announcement about the investigation coincides with the publication Friday by order of a judge that served to justify the FBI’s search of Trump’s mansion in Mar-a-Lago.

The version that was released had practically half of the content redacted, so the juiciest details of the FBI investigation remain unknown.

However, the report does reveal that the FBI feared that Trump’s withholding of documents could jeopardize the identity of informants and other sources working with the US government.

Trump reacted to the publication of the statement with ridicule, in an attempt to downplay it.