(CNN)White House officials saidthat thetranches of classified documentswere taken byformer President Donald Trump 'sFlorida home contained several documents intended to be viewed only at secure government facilities, CNN found.
As more information has come to light since FBI agents combed through the former president's private residence, current administration officials have questioned what Mr. I became more and more concerned about whether the information was being kept in basement storage facilities. At Mar-a-Lago -- US intelligence sources and methods could be at risk.
"There are deep concerns," a senior government official told CNN.
Intelligence officials have also expressed concern about what Trump may have taken, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Intelligence agency representatives have had discussions in recent months with the Justice Department, the Congressional Intelligence Committee, and the National Archives about the possible loss of classified documents, the sources said.
Asked if he needed to be briefed on the impact, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klein insisted the president would keep his distance.
"One of the reasons why Joe Biden was elected president is that he promised not to interfere, as his predecessor did in an investigation conducted by the Justice Department." ',' he told his CNN's Don Lemon.
Not knowing exactly what the materials taken from Mar-a-Lago were, the authorities thwarted the country's spy agency by compromising how they gathered information. We have expressed concerns internally about whether the information found at Mar-a-Lago could provoke tensions with our allies, and about its potential diplomatic repercussions.
The Justice Department took 11 sets of classified documents from Trump's home, according to documents unsealed by a judge last week. Inventories indicate that some of the recovered material was marked as "Top Secret/SCI", which is one of the highest levels of classification. The issues recovered by the FBI include materials on French President Emmanuel Macron, which have also raised concerns within the White House.
The French Embassy in Washington said the White House The White House also declined to comment on internal concerns about classified information brought into Mar-a-Lago.
as president Biden has previously expressed concerns about Trump's handling of classified information.Early in his presidency, he took the unprecedented step of cutting off access to Trump's information briefings.
"What's the point in giving him an intelligence briefing?" Biden said in a February 2021 interview with CBS News.
Biden aides have previously questioned whether Trump would be able to reveal sensitive or confidential information he learned during his presidency in speeches and interviews.
