Ex-white house aide Kash Patel presses view Trump broadly declassified documents

Kash Patel, a former White House and Pentagon aide, is informally advising the Trump team’s legal response to the Mar-a-Lago events. (Photo: AFP) — Kash Patel, a former White House and Pentagon aide, is informally advising the Trump team’s legal response to the Mar-a-Lago events. (Photo: AFP)

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6 min read . Updated: 22 Aug 2022, 06:28 PM IST Alex Leary, The Wall Street Journal

FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search renews scrutiny of how sensitive material can be made public

WASHINGTON : In May, former Trump administration official Kash Patel, as part of a lengthy scuffle with the National Archives, asserted that documents stored at Mar-a-Lago marked as classified had in fact been declassified by President Donald Trump as he left office in January 2021.