In fact, it suggests officials may not have received an answer. Though it contains significant new details on the investigation, the Justice Department filing does not resolve a core question that has driven public fascination with the investigation - why Trump held onto the documents after he left the White House and why he and his team resisted repeated efforts to give them back. Beside them sits a cardboard box filled with gold-framed pictures, including a Time magazine cover. The photo shows the cover pages of a smattering of paperclip-bound classified documents - some marked as 'TOP SECRET//SCI' with bright yellow borders, and one marked as 'SECRET//SCI' with a rust-colored border - along with whited-out pages, splayed out on a carpet at Mar-a-Lago. It also included a picture of some of the seized documents bearing clear classification markings, perhaps as a way to rebut suggestions that whoever packed them or was handling them could have easily failed to appreciate their sensitive nature.

The timeline laid out by the Justice Department made clear that the extraordinary search of Mar-a-Lago came only after other efforts to retrieve the records had failed, and that it resulted from law enforcement suspicion that additional documents remained inside the property despite assurances by Trump representatives that a 'diligent search' had accounted for all of the material. National After Mar-a-Lago, officials are analyzing the potential damage to national security It shows how investigators conducting a criminal probe have focused not just on why the records were improperly stored there, but also on the question of whether the Trump team intentionally misled them about the continued, and unlawful, presence of the top secret documents. The filing offers yet another indication of the sheer volume of classified records retrieved from Mar-a-Lago. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago and found classified documents stashed in Trump's office, according to a filing that lays out the most detailed chronology to date of months of strained interactions between Justice Department officials and Trump representatives over the discovery of government secrets.

The FBI also seized 33 boxes containing more than 100 classified records during its Aug. WASHINGTON - The Justice Department said Tuesday that classified documents were 'likely concealed and removed' from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an effort to obstruct the federal investigation into the discovery of the government records. 8 search by the FBI of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. 30, 2022, and redacted by in part by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the Aug. This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on Aug.

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