WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday rebuffed efforts to make public the affidavit supporting the search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida, saying the investigation “implicates highly classified material” and the document contains sensitive information about witnesses. ...including people who have been interviewed by the government, and contains confidential grand jury information.
The government’s opposition came in response to court filings by several news organizations, including The Associated Press, seeking to unseal the underlying affidavit the Justice Department submitted when it asked for the warrant to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month....
A property receipt unsealed Friday showed the FBI seized 11 sets of classified documents, with some not only marked top secret but also “sensitive compartmented information,” a special category meant to protect the nation’s most important secrets that if revealed publicly could cause “exceptionally grave” damage to U.S. interests. The court records did not provide specific details about information the documents might contain.
Good for DOJ, bullshit by the news organizations, including AP, who are trying to get it unsealed. In this instance the integrity of this sensitive investigation, the incomparable security classification given the documents the press wants to make public (!), witness protection, and grand jury secrecy militate decisively against the public's right to know and I am extremely confident that a judge will so rule.