This is how the most highly classified documents were stored at Mar a Lago

I read tonight's DOJ court filing so you don't have to

This is a photograph attached to the DOJ court filing in response to Trump’s request for a special master to review the documents the FBI seized from Mar a Lago. The photo was taken by the FBI on August 8, the day they searched Trump’s resort and residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Let’s take a close look at this amazing photograph.

It is known that classified documents were found by the FBI in a locked storage room, in the personal quarters of Trump at Mar a Lago, and in his office located just off the Main Ballroom. Note the elaborate designs on the carpet in the photo. I don’t know this for certain, because I haven’t been to Mar a Lago to inspect the premises, but it is highly unlikely that a storage room, even at Trump’s lavish resort, would be carpeted. That means the photo was likely taken either in Trump’s residence or in his office. I think it shows the floor of Trump’s office for this reason: There are two drawer-pulls shown in the photo on the left. Granted, the fluted drawers they dangle from are pretty fancy, but hey, this is Trump’s office, not yours or mine.

So what we’re looking at is a photo that the FBI takes every time they search a home or office or the premises of a suspect in order to establish how they found the items they seize and that the items, if they are produced as evidence at some later date, can be shown to be in the same condition they were in when they were seized.

If this is Trump’s office, the photo shows how the former president “stored” the highly classified documents found by the FBI. There are five folders marked “Top Secret/SCI,” the highest classification a secret document can be given by the government. They are the folders with yellow borders at the top right of the photo. The folder in the foreground is marked “Secret/SCI,” a slightly lower classification, but still significant because the “SCI” means Sensitive Compartmented Information, and by law, it must be handled using specific access control systems authorized by the Director of National Intelligence.