Empty folders with classified banners were among items at MAL.

[herding cats]

Link to tweet

BREAKING: this is actually a stunning revelation. This is the newly unsealed more detailed inventory.

That doesn't bode well for our security!

Empty folders among items found in FBI search of Trump home

WASHINGTON — FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month found empty folders marked with classified banners, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public by the Justice Department on Friday.

The inventory reveals in general terms the contents of 33 boxes taken from an office and a storage room at Mar-a-Lago during the Aug. 8 search. Though the inventory does not describe any of the documents, it shows the extent to which classified information — including material at the top-secret level — was kept in boxes and containers at the home and commingled among newspapers, magazines, clothing and other personal items.

The Justice Department has said there was no secure space at Mar-a-Lago for such sensitive government secrets, and has opened a criminal investigation focused on their retention there and on what it says were efforts in the last several months to obstruct that probe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/empty-folders-among-items-found-in-fbi-search-of-trump-home/2022/09/02/57295e02-2ace-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html

[DetlefK]

1. Sounds good enough for me for a search-warrant at Trump's other homes.

I have an idea: The FBI should ask Trump for a list of all documents he "declassified" and took with him to Mar-a-Lago.

[jcgoldie]

17. won't find them there

Pretty sure one would need to search Al-Yamamah Palace Riyadh where the Saudi royal family lives.

[lapfog_1]

2. nope

those folders contained something... and every sheet of printed material would have also have the classification noted in large block letters - usually in color... can't be missed.

[herding cats]

18. They have to know what's missing.

These aren't random pieces of paper no one keeps up with we're talking about here.

[Brother Buzz]

3. 2 Empty Folders Labeled Marked "Return to Staff Secretary/Military Aide''

At least three of the boxes had these empty folders - Fingerprint them, Baby!

[agingdem]

4. where are the documents?

now Garland has to raid (not just a search and seize) MAL with the full force of the DOJ..FBI,US Marshall's Service, counterintelligence..

[FalloutShelter]

10. Not sure but I think Marcy Wheeler said that

there was more than one search warrant on the court docket and that only one was executed. I've been trying to find that tweet, but she is so prolific, it is way down stream. Anyone else see this?

[tblue37]

5. Andrew Weissmann tweet:

Link to tweet

Text

BREAKING: It’s the empty classified folders that are of most concern. Where are the contents? Trump has not addressed that at all in all his bluster and obfuscation. What were you doing with these?

Hugo Lowell
@hugolowell

NEW: Unsealed detailed inventory of what FBI seized from Trump’s office includes:
— 7 TOP SECRET marked docs
— 43 Empty CLASSIFIED folders
— 28 Empty Return to Staff Sec/Mil. Aid folders
— 26 Magazines/Press Articles 1/2020-11/2020
— 99 Magazines/Press Articles 1/2017-10/2018

[oregonjen]

12. Andrew Weissmann is getting increasingly angry which is nice to see

His comments on LOD last night were very curt and serious. This morning’s tweet shows it as well. Anyone notice that?

[Ptah]

6. Full image:

[herding cats]

9. Thanks!

[Ptah]

20. .

[central scrutinizer]

7. Moron

Why keep empty folders after you’ve sold the contents? Shred or burn.

[herding cats]

8. It seemed pretty idiotic to me, too.

Is he that big of a hoarder?

[central scrutinizer]

11. Maybe they were trophies?

Like a serial killer keeping rings from his victims

[herding cats]

14. That's a fair enough guess.

At this point it's as good as any other one.

[fightforfreedom]

16. Yes, I have been comparing Trump to the BTK killer.

BTK kept trophies from his victims.

[yorkster]

13. OK. Now I'm even "nervouser".

A few would be bad enough - 43? Yikes.


Of course, they'll be able to find the matching docs for those empty folders, right?

[MagickMuffin]

15. Time to interrogate him behind locked doors along with the rest of the family

They SOLD our country out! NONE of them should be allowed to walk free any longer. The longer they are out and about the more damage they are doing to our country.

And his party is just groovy with how things are.


DISGUSTING BIGGLY!

[getagrip_already]

19. aren't the republicans fans of waterboarding?

Just curious.