empty. and two dozen additional documents marked either confidential, secret, or top secret. again, all of that was in one box. all told, fbi agents recovered over 10,000 government documents during their search at mar-a-lago. the filing also demonstrates just how carelessly the former president tweeted the classified government documents the tee went with after leaving office. the 43 empty folders beg the question, what was inside? where is it now? and here s where we need to stop for a moment because this involves a political figure, so there is a tendency to cover it like a political story. but this is actually a crime story. so what we need is a crime show fame to put us in the right frame of mind. all right, here s the scene. long forsman goes into a florida country club, finds thousands of stolen documents. some folders that used to hold those documents are empty. what documents or in those folders? where did they go? well, the current store you d start, with what s t
office. the 43 empty folders beg the question, what was inside? where is it now? and here s where we need to stop for a moment because this involves a political figure, so there is a tendency to cover it like a political story. but this is actually a crime story. so what we need is a crime show fame to put us in the right frame of mind. all right, here s the scene. long forsman goes into a florida country club, finds thousands of stolen documents. some folders that used to hold those documents are empty. all right, here s the scene. long forsman goes into a florida country club, finds thousands of stolen documents. some folders that used to hold those documents are empty. what documents or in those folders? where did they go? well, the current store you d start, with what s the motive? the fbi isn t going into retweet paper clips. paper clips have no value. so what s it worth? and to whom? and if you didn t know that, you would say, let s start with a guy who owns the pla
damaging to the country. i m glad to see the results of that poll, because in many ways, not vindicates merrick garland s strategy of quite patients, keeping his head down, doing the right thing, having the right justice department uphold the rule rule of law. and hoping that the american people, overtime, will observe that and get it. it looks like that s being off. the david cay johnston, you literally spent a lot of time sifting through documents about donald trump, trying to get questions answered in the minutiae of the printed world, or the ledger. what question is on your mind now? what do you want answered, given what you know about the search at mar-a-lago, and it was taken, what do you want to know? well, four days after the search warrant was executed, i was the first person to say, we need to be concerned with donald sold or intended to sell, or tried in some way to take these government secrets, particularly human intelligence and benefit from them
in many ways, not vindicates merrick garland s strategy of quite patients, keeping his head down, doing the right thing, having the right justice department uphold the rule rule of law. and hoping that the american people, overtime, will observe that and get it. it looks like that s being off. the david cay johnston, you literally spent a lot of time sifting through documents about donald trump, trying to get questions answered in the minutiae of the printed world, or the ledger. what question is on your mind now? what do you want answered, given what you know about the search at mar-a-lago, and it was taken, what do you want to know? well, four days after the search warrant was executed, i was the first person to say, we need to be concerned with donald sold or intended to sell, or tried in some way to take these government secrets, particularly human intelligence and benefit from them personally. and donald would have in his mind no trouble doing that whatsoever. that because tha