“Also, statements made by witnesses or informants can be redacted. What exactly is missing from the docs: “ JACK SHARMAN, a corporate litigator who has been involved in numerous government investigations, said affidavits that get publicly released are usually protective of confidential informants as well as personal identifying information of the informants, or of law enforcement agents, given the threats to law enforcement from some Trump supporters,” WaPo’s Amber Phillips writes. What shocked investigators: “gents were most alarmed to discover that many of the materials included the highest national security restrictions, requiring they be held in controlled government storage facilities, and barring them from ever being shared with foreign governments, to protect ‘clandestine human sources,’ or informants employed by the intelligence community to collect information around the world,” NYT’s Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman write. Trump or his close associates that is as much or even more serious.” Much of the focus since the investigation began has centered on the Espionage Act, but Savage writes that “by some measures, the crime of obstruction is a threat to Mr. The threat of obstruction: Among prosecutors’ reasons for so heavily redacting the documents was a section that “made clear that they feared the former president and his allies might take any opportunity to intimidate witnesses or otherwise illegally obstruct their investigation,” NYT’s Charlie Savage writes. And while they were filled with substantial redactions, additional reporting over the last 24 hours has helped explain why that is. On Friday, we got a snapshot of the Justice Department’s documents that led to the FBI search of DONALD TRUMP’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Obstruction has emerged as a new threat to Donald Trump and his team after the Justice Department released heavily redacted documents regarding the search of Mar-a-Lago.