The FBI sought to locate classified documents related to nuclear weapons, among other things, when agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., this week, people familiar with the investigation told The Washington Post .
The people did not offer additional details to the Post about “what kind of information agents were looking for” or whether any such documents were recovered, according to the newspaper.
The revelation adds key context to the Justice Department’s extraordinary decision to search the home of a former president.
As CNN previously reported, the criminal investigation began with concerns about missing documents raised by the National Archives, which were referred to the Justice Department when they discovered highly sensitive documents among materials recovered from Mar-a-Lago in January.
The 15 boxes contained some materials that were part of special access programs (SAP), a classification that includes protocols to significantly limit who would have access to the information, according to a source familiar with what the Archives discovered in the boxes. That led to FBI interviews with assistant grand jury subpoenas for this week’s court-authorized search and seizure of documents.
Although Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to share specific details about the investigation, he said Thursday that he “personally approved” the decision to seek a warrant to search Trump’s Florida home.
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