The classified documents that the FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago on August 8 included information about a foreign nation's nuclear capabilities, according to a Washington Post report citing "people familiar with the matter." The Post adds that "some of the seized documents detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them." The trove of more than 100 classified documents included material with markings so restrictive that FBI agents needed additional clearances to examine them.
Trump lawyer Christopher Kise condemned leaks about the nature of the purloined documents, saying they "continue with no respect for the process" or "any regard for the real truth," which "does not serve well the interests of justice." This week a federal judge in Miami approved Trump's request that a special master be appointed to review the documents with an eye toward material that might be covered by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege. Kise said "there is no reason to deviate from that path if the goal is, as it should be, to find a rational solution to document storage issues which have needlessly spiraled out of control."
