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US Justice Dept asks court to unseal search warrant for Mar-a-Lago raid
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IANS | 12 Aug, 2022
The
US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a motion to unseal the search
warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence earlier
this week.
Attorney General Merrick Garland made the
announcement on Thursday after Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
agents raided the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday,
reports Xinhua news agency.
Addressing the press at the DOJ
headquarter, Garland said he personally "approved the decision to seek a
search warrant in this matter".
"The Department does not take such a decision lightly," he said.
"Where
possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an
alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is
undertaken."
Trump and his allies have denounced the operation as
a political attack orchestrated by Democrats while calling out the FBI
and the DOJ.
Garland responded to the criticism by saying that
the attacks on the "professionalism" of their agents and prosecutors
have been "unfounded".
The raid was said to have involved
classified materials that Trump allegedly took with him from the White
House to Mar-a-Lago, when he left office in January 2021.
The
Presidential Records Act requires that all records created by Presidents
be turned over to the National Archives at the end of their
administrations.
Some of the Trump presidential records received
by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) included
paper records that had been torn up by Trump, according to the federal
agency.
In January, the NARA also arranged for the transport from
the Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives of 15 boxes that contained
presidential records.
Shortly later, news emerged that the DOJ
had been asked to investigate Trump's handling of White House records
and whether he violated the Presidential Records Act and other laws
related to classified information.
Amid the Mar-a-Lago raid on Monday, Trump issued a statement, saying that it was "not necessary or appropriate".
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