A government agency is withholding many records related to the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s home, a watchdog says.
Judicial Watch is seeking records related to the National Archives and Records Administration’s referral to the Department of Justice of Trump’s records management procedures, and records related to the retrieval of the materials stored at Mar-a-Lago.
The archives, known as NARA, identified 1,612 responsive records but told Judicial Watch in letters made public on Oct. 11 that it will release just 65 of them.
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….