An edited version of the statement of the warrant to search a property of former US President Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago was released Friday following orders from a federal judge. THE CNN is parsing the document now.
The statement was presented by the Justice Department when it requested the operation earlier this month.
It explains why investigators believed there was probable cause for the crimes to have been committed and the material that FBI agents expected to find in the residence.
Reiterating what prosecutors previously said as to why the warrant statement should be kept secret, the legal document points out that its details would provide a “roadmap” for the investigation and that revealing “this information could impact the government’s search for relevant evidence.” ”.
“Furthermore, revealing this information could seriously harm the government as it seeks more information from witnesses,” the document said, before going into another paragraph that is redacted.
“These concerns are particularly compelling in this case,” the document says, at the beginning of another redacted paragraph that the document said was “explained in the statement.”
“In sum, the government has well-founded concerns that steps could be taken to thwart or otherwise interfere with this investigation if the facts in the statement are released prematurely,” the document said.
The public release comes a day after US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the Department of Justice to release a redacted version of the deposition. The wordings in the document released on Friday were proposed by the Department of Justice and accepted by Reinhart.
Federal prosecutors said the redactions were necessary to protect cooperating witnesses and keep grand jury information secret.
Here are the four main points of justification:
- To “determine how documents with classification markings and records were removed from the White House (or any other authorized location for the storage of classified materials) and proceeded to be stored at Mar-a-Lago”;
- To “determine whether the storage sites at Mar-a-Lago were authorized sites for the storage of classified information”;
- To “determine whether any additional confidential documents or records may have been stored at an unauthorized location in Mar-a-Lago or other unknown location, and whether they remain in any location”;
- To “identify any person(s) who may have removed or retained classified information without authorization and/or in an unauthorized space”;
Read the full document (in English):
Marshall Cohen of CNN contributed to this report
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