Top-Secret Label in Warrant Hints at Sensitivity of Trump Papers
- FBI searched Trump’s home in Florida for classified material
- Former president says documents at issue had been declassified
Former US President Donald Trump
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Documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home bore the US government’s highest top-secret rating, underscoring the sensitive nature of the material he took with him after leaving office.
Court documents unsealed Friday showed that FBI agents seized one box -- marked 2A -- containing “Various classified/TS/SCI documents. That’s shorthand for “Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information,” the sort of information that the government normally requires to be read only in a protected room by people with high-level security clearances.