this about the massive tranche of classified documents that were in trump s possession and have been ever since he left office in january 2021. they write this, quote, the extent to which such a large number of hailey sensitive documents remained at mar-a-lago for months, even as the department sought the return of all material that should have been left in government custody when trump left office suggested to officials that the former president or his aides have been cavalier in handling it, not fully forthcoming with investigators or both. the first batch of documents 15 boxes in total retrieved in january reportedly contained 150 classified documents, and the national archives relayed to trump s team just how sensitive these documents were in their may letter, telling trump s attorneys those boxes contained 700 pages of classified materials, some of them with the highest levels of classification possible. which suggests that they contain some of the government s most ferv
georgia where there was no court case, no court authorization for this to be distributed. a meteorologist, a former dating seduction coach, people who the trump campaign and their, you know, advocates thought could be hackers or at least have enough computer expertise to look at this and to try to put out a narrative. and they now have it, and we are going to have a lot of tough questions to ask going forward of how this could be used. we can say already that some of the bits and pieces of this information have shown up in symposiums and documentaries by mike lindell of my pillow. we can now begin to trace back where some of the bits and pieces of voting machine information has been out there, where this has been coming from the last two years. aaron, can you explain for people what the data is? is it the code? is it the results? is it personal information? now, to a degree, we can. to a degree, we can t.
this guys wife has fled back to pakistan. she s now been indicted. it s not clear whether they return to this country. how do these people end up with running basically computers of people on the most sensitive. and apparently didn t have much computer periods. mcdonald s, coupled the brothers running a car dealership. their computer expertise, and it s actually out to be a national scandal. this is bad at the democratic national committee s is who s outsourced the computers set of key members of congress to a very bizarre family that does not withstand the moments. i ll ask you a key follow-up question. up to 80 offices may have been compromised by i.t. workers. the evidence is overwhelming in the article.
where the individual who hacked is held responsible and prosecuted and other individuals who maybe didn t have computer expertise or were not hands-on were pulled in as being found to have cause to have been involved in the crime at a conspiracy for coordination level? sure. it happens frequently under these types of statutes that you have individuals who may not have expertise themselves in computer hacking but were effectively accomplices to the crime. the cfaa, computer fraud and abuse act, like other federal criminal statutes, would apply to those who aided, assisted, supported, encouraged or were part of a conspiracy to engage in the underlying offense. so with respect to the trump campaign itself, for example, a lot of questions have been raised regarding roger stone, who had communications, apparently, with guccifer 2.0, who is widely believed to be a russian hacker or a persona created by the russian
numbers and e-mail addresses. ferizi used this twitter handle, called the director. the fbi says he regularly communicated with isis members and was offering his computer expertise to them. among those he passed information to was this man, hussein, an isis hacker and propagandaist, who was killed in i u.s. air strike in august and hussein and other members of the so-called cyber caliphate posted some of the military members information on the internet. they called it a kill list. malaysian police say they arrested ferizi about a month ago, after being alerted by the fbi. the u.s. will seek his extradition back to this area. evan perez reporting live for us this morning. thank you. to texas where flames are threatening more than 150 homes. a state of disaster has been declared in one county as a wildfire rages. the hidden pines fire now burning 4400 acres. 38 structures have been destroyed, most homes.