{"id":1628847,"date":"2022-08-31T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T01:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628847"},"modified":"2022-08-31T21:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T01:34:42","slug":"newly-released-mar-a-lago-image-was-fbi-photo-op-former-trump-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newly-released-mar-a-lago-image-was-fbi-photo-op-former-trump-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Released Mar-a-Lago Image Was FBI \u2018Photo Op\u2019: Former Trump Aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnewly-released-mar-a-lago-image-was-fbi-photo-op-former-trump-aide%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628847&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The federal authorities had staged a \u201cphoto op\u201d with the newly disclosed photograph showing documents with classified markings at former President Donald Trump\u2019s Florida resort, alleged ex-White House aide Kash Patel.<\/p>\n<p>The image, captured on Aug. 8 during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a>\u2019s raid of Mar-a-Lago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/newly-disclosed-photograph-shows-documents-marked-classified-at-trumps-mar-a-lago_4701250.html\">showed<\/a> six documents labeled as \u201ctop secret\u201d and several marked as \u201csecret\u201d spread across the carpet in Trump\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertain of the documents had colored cover sheets indicating their classification status,\u201d said lawyers for the Justice Department (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-doj\">DOJ<\/a>) in a brief filed on Aug. 30, in which they urged against granting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/judge-signals-intent-to-back-trumps-request-for-mar-a-lago-special-master_4693601.html\">Trump\u2019s motion<\/a> for a special master; a neutral outsider who would review the seized Mar-a-Lago materials and sift out potentially privileged documents. The lawyers said that even the FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ attorneys reviewing the documents had to request additional clearances to review some of the documents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/documents-at-mar-a-lago.jpg\"><\/a> Documents at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 8, 2022. (FBI) <\/p>\n<p>But Patel, former chief of staff to the Acting Secretary of Defense under the Trump administration who has worked at the National Security Council, said that merely seeing the cover sheets amounts to little significance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI and DOJ staged a photo op with cover sheets that say material is classified or not. And the cover sheet\u2014just so we\u2019re clear\u2014government agencies use those all the time,\u201d he said during a weekly appearance on EpochTV program Kash\u2019s Corner on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cover sheets themselves are not classified, even when the cover sheet says top secret,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s a cover sheet. It\u2019s supposed to be on top of documents that are classified, and what the President has publicly contended is that those documents at Mar a Lago were already declassified by him as the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly said he declassified the materials he kept, which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal authorities had staged a \u201cphoto op\u201d with the newly disclosed photograph showing documents with classified markings at former President Donald Trump\u2019s Florida resort, alleged ex-White House aide Kash Patel. The image, captured on Aug. 8 during the FBI\u2019s raid of Mar-a-Lago, showed six documents labeled as \u201ctop secret\u201d and several marked as \u201csecret\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1317,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}