Delaying Trump investigation risks 'harm to our national security': DOJ and top intelligence officials

Any delay into the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and the records he kept at Mar-a-Lago could put America's national security at risk, according to the Justice Department.

The DOJ made the claim in the wake of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed federal judge, granting the former president’s request for a special master to review evidence seized during the raid independently.

The DOJ claimed that pausing the FBI’s criminal investigation while separately continuing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s damage assessment was essentially impossible.

The DOJ’s motion was filed by Matthew Olsen, the assistant attorney general for the National Security Division, Jay Bratt, the chief of the DOJ’s counterintelligence and export control section, and Juan Antonio Gonzalez, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.