“In consultation with the Department of Justice, ODNI continues to review the classification of the relevant materials and assess the potential risk to national security that would arise from disclosure of the relevant documents,” an ODNI spokesperson said. The damage assessment is a long-term analytical product that will study what the risk to US national security would be if the material stored at Mar-a-Lago were exposed. The classification review is designed to examine each document to ensure that its classification markings are up to date. The emergency intervention by the three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, two of whom were nominated by Trump, overturned the court’s order on those documents that had hindered the work of federal investigators and signaled a sharp rebuke of the Trump team. they try to suggest without evidence that the materials were somehow declassified. The appellate judges found that the federal government and national security could be harmed by halting its investigation, and the Trump team did not have sufficient grounds to review potentially classified records. The court also did not challenge the Justice Department’s finding that it could not separate its intelligence review of the documents from its criminal investigation. Trump’s options to block the criminal investigation are now dim, with one of his only options being an emergency petition to the Supreme Court. CNN’s Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed contributed to this report.
