{"id":1685034,"date":"2022-10-12T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T13:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1685034"},"modified":"2022-10-12T10:33:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T14:33:33","slug":"national-archives-withholding-most-records-related-to-fbi-raid-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-archives-withholding-most-records-related-to-fbi-raid-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"National Archives Withholding Most Records Related to FBI Raid of Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago: Watchdog"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fnational-archives-withholding-most-records-related-to-fbi-raid-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-watchdog%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=1685034&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>A government agency is withholding many records related to the FBI\u2019s raid of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s home, a watchdog says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-judicial-watch\">Judicial Watch<\/a> is seeking records related to the\u00a0National Archives and Records Administration\u2019s referral to the Department of Justice of Trump\u2019s records management procedures, and records related to the retrieval of the materials stored at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>The archives, known as NARA, identified 1,612 responsive records but told Judicial Watch in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23130298-nara-letters-to-judicial-watch\">letters<\/a> made public on Oct. 11 that it will release just 65 of them.<\/p>\n<p>The rest are shielded from disclosure by various exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), NARA said, such as an exemption that allows agencies to withhold inter-agency and intra-agency records.<\/p>\n<p>That exemption \u201cwas asserted to protect NARA\u2019s deliberations with Trump\u2019s representatives, Congress, and other federal agencies,\u201d Jodi Foor, a deputy archivist, told Judicial Watch. \u201cRelease would have a chilling effect on those deliberations,\u00a0inhibiting the relationships and cooperation needed for compliance with the Presidential Records Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The withholding of so many records shows the Biden administration \u201cis in cover-up mode\u201d over the raid, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Archives pretends to be concerned to public access to public information while unlawfully ignoring FOIA law and using a myriad of excuses to hide records about its manufactured dispute over the Trump records,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>NARA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Boxes Transferred, Referral<\/p>\n<p>Trump transferred 15 boxes of documents to NARA in January.<\/p>\n<p>NARA made a referral\u00a0to the Department of Justice, the FBI\u2019s parent agency, in February after finding documents with classified markings among the boxes transferred from Mar-a-Lago to the archives, former Archivist David Ferriero has said.<\/p>\n<p>FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago in August. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/search-warrant-affidavit-for-trumps-mar-a-lago-home-released_4690865.html\">an affidavit<\/a> attesting to the need for a search warrant, an FBI agent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A government agency is withholding many records related to the FBI\u2019s raid of former President Donald Trump\u2019s home, a watchdog says. Judicial Watch is seeking records related to the\u00a0National Archives and Records Administration\u2019s referral to the Department of Justice of Trump\u2019s records management procedures, and records related to the retrieval of the materials stored at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":1894847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/national-archives-withholding-most-records-related-to-fbi-raid-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-watchdog_4791060.html","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685034","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}