Attorney General Merrick Garland to name special counsel to oversee Trump documents investigation, aspects of Jan. 6 probe.
By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel on Friday to oversee the Justice Department's investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate as well as key aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6 insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.
A senior Justice Department official disclosed the appointment on Friday but did not reveal the identity of the special counsel. Garland was expected to provide more details later in the afternoon.This story will be updated. In total, the boxes were found to contain 184 documents with classified markings, including 67 marked confidential, 92 secret and 25 top secret. Agents who inspected the boxes also found special markings suggesting they included information from highly sensitive human sources or the collection of electronic"signals" authorized by a court under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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