“The court erred in granting extraordinary relief based on unsubstantiated possibilities,” the government lawyers wrote. Prosecutors said the judge cited court papers from Trump’s lawyers that suggested the former president could have declassified the documents marked as classified, but those legal briefs stopped short of claiming Trump did so. The government’s Friday filing at times directly took issue with Cannon’s prior decisions in the case. If Cannon’s ruling stands, experts said, it would likely stall the Justice Department investigation involving those classified records.ĭelaying the review of the classified documents, which it argues are government property, “impedes the government’s efforts to protect the nation’s security”, the Justice Department said. There were roughly 100 classified documents among the 11,000 records gathered in the FBI’s court-approved August 8 search at the former president’s home. The government’s motion comes after US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday rejected the same requests from the Justice Department.Ĭannon, whom Trump appointed to the bench in 2020, said she would tell Senior US Judge Raymond Dearie, who is filling the role of a “ special master” in the case, to prioritise the classified records in his review, which she set a November 30 deadline to complete. Trump appointees make up six of the 11 active judges on the court. The Justice Department must now convince the Atlanta-based appeals court, with a conservative majority, to take its side in the records probe. The department also asked that a third party be appointed to examine all the records taken in the FBI raid at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach after his presidency ended.Īfter the unprecedented search of the former president’s property last month, the Justice Department said it is investigating the illegal retention of government records – some marked as highly classified, including “top secret” – as well as obstruction of a federal probe. Read more about the release in our blog Spies, Social Climbers, and Suspicious Stories.Ĭlick here to find out more about previous MI5 releases.Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4 US judge sides with Trump, keeps document review on pause list 2 of 4 US Justice Department agrees to Trump pick for ‘special master’ list 3 of 4 Trump lawyers reject Justice Department probe as ‘misguided’ list 4 of 4 Can Trump be prosecuted for keeping national security documents? end of list Thirteen files relate to John Vassall, the British civil servant who was jailed for spying for the Soviet Union, likely under threat of blackmail, and another selection of files on the Krogers, the suburban couple implicated in the Portland spy ring. There are also files on several people with links to the Cambridge spy ring, including Fred Warner, Jack Hewit, Victor and Tess Rothschild, and Goronwy Rees. They include Evgenyi Ivanov, the Soviet intelligence officer at the centre of the controversy, and Stephen Ward, the osteopath and portrait artist who was well connected with people of influence, before being tried and found guilty of living off immoral earnings. Many of the files concern individuals involved in the Profumo Affair. Personal files include individuals classed as Cold War-era Soviet intelligence officers, agents and suspected agents, right wing extremists who came to the attention of MI5, and other individuals of Security Service enquiry.Īll the files in the release will be available to download from Discovery, our catalogue. The records cover a range of subjects predominantly from the 1960s and 1970s although there are some from earlier years. Today we have made available to the public 147 previously top secret files from the Security Service, or MI5.
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