Until such care is taken, Trump argues, investigators should be barred from reviewing the documents and seized materials any further. Last week, prosecutors notified Trump's legal team that passports belonging to the former president had, they say, been swept up in the raid and were subsequently returned after being detected by such filter teams, a law enforcement source confirmed.īut Trump's legal team argues in its motion for a special master that "erely 'adequate' safeguards are not acceptable when the matter at hand involves not only the constitutional rights of President Trump, but also the preservation of executive privilege."
Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.Ĭharles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesĬBS News has learned filter teams have examined, and continue to examine, the documents seized to ensure that anything that should not be in the government's possession is returned. The Times also reported Monday that the government has recovered over 300 documents with classified markings from Trump since the end of his presidency, including the January material, records provided by Trump aides in June and what the FBI seized in early August from Mar-a-Lago. It has not been disclosed what types of documents these were. The New York Times first reported the number of classified documents in that first batch.
Monday's filing does not address any reasoning for Trump's bringing the documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago in the first place, and does not refute investigators' contentions that some of the boxes the FBI seized contained documents related to national security information.Īround 150 classified documents were found in the batch of material that Trump initially returned in January, according to one source familiar with the retrieval and another who is close to Trump.
Trump's lawsuit filed Monday calls the search warrant "overbroad" and alleges investigators took "presumptively privileged" documents created during his time in office and as such, "it is unreasonable to allow the prosecutorial team to review them without meaningful safeguards."