On Wednesday, a federal judge ordered additional information be released from a June 24 FBI affidavit to justify the search of former President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8.
The newly released portions reveal that the Biden Department of Justice subpoenaed the Trump Organization with a demand for video from the Mar-a-Lago surveillance system cameras located near where the seized documents were stored.
The affidavit, sworn on Aug. 5, demanded The Trump Organization surrender approximately six months of footage, from Jan. 10, 2022, to June 24, 2022.
“Any and all surveillance records, videos, images, photographs, and/or CCTV from internal cameras located on ground floor (basement) -[REDACTED]- on the Mar-a-Lago property located at 1100 S Ocean Blvd. Palm Beach, FL 33480 from the time period of January 10, 2022 to present,” the partially unredacted section read.
This demand is followed by the acknowledgment that, “On July 6, 2022, in response to this subpoena, representatives of the Trump Organization provided a hard drive to FBI agents.” The rest of that section and the next five sections of the affidavit are completely redacted.
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The new information reveals nothing about the content of the footage turned over to the FBI. The heading of the section containing the demand for the footage is also redacted.
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The cleared redactions also revealed the classification markings of some of the documents seized as, “HCS, SI and FISA,” CNN reported.
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Documents marked “HCS” refer to “HUMINT” or human intelligence sources, such as covert and official intelligence agents and informants. “SI” or “special intelligence” is for communications intelligence, such as intercepted signals. “FISA” refers to the “Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act” and wiretaps within the U.S. used for counterintelligence, according to the Center for Development of Security Excellence.
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