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US Justice Department Appeals Freeze On Review Of Seized Trump Documents
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US Justice Department Appeals Freeze On Review Of Seized Trump Documents

[ad_1] Donald Trump accused the FBI and Justice department of a "document hoax".Washington: The US Justice Department said Thursday it was appealing a Florida judge's order to freeze access to thousands of documents, including top secret files, seized from former president Donald Trump's home.The department said the order Monday by federal court Judge Aileen Cannon to sequester all the documents for review by an independent "special master" hindered its ability to conduct criminal investigation related to Trump's possession of the classified documents.It asked Cannon to set aside her freeze on just over 100 classified documents seized in the August 8 raid on Trump's Florida home and to keep them from the hands of any special master named to examine the seized materials.The papers are par...
Donald Trump, US Government At Loggerheads In Court Over Seized Documents
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Donald Trump, US Government At Loggerheads In Court Over Seized Documents

[ad_1] Last month in August, Trump's Florida-based Mar-a-Lago searched by FBI in document investigation.West Palm Beach, United States: An increasingly high-stakes standoff between Donald Trump and US federal investigators landed in court Thursday, after days of headline-grabbing revelations surrounding highly classified documents seized by the FBI from the former president's Florida home.Trump is asking that an outside party be named to reassess the government's screening of the sensitive documents to determine if any were protected by government secrecy protocols or were "highly personal information" that should be returned.A federal court in Florida said Thursday it would issue a ruling at an unspecified future time on the request, which has significantly upped the ante in the case, p...