Remember this photo?

Well, it was staged. Those cover sheets were not found with the documents. The FBI provided them and placed them over the documents for the photo, apparently.
The DOJ's Doctored Crime Scene Photo of Mar-a-Lago Raid (declassified.live)

Well, it was staged. Those cover sheets were not found with the documents. The FBI provided them and placed them over the documents for the photo, apparently.
The DOJ's Doctored Crime Scene Photo of Mar-a-Lago Raid (declassified.live)
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New court filings in Special Counsel Jack Smith's espionage and obstruction case against Trump and two co-defendants conclusively demonstrate that the government used the cover sheets to deceive the public as well as the court. The photo was a stunt, and one that adds more fuel to this dumpster-fire case.
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Classified cover sheets were not "recovered" in the container, contrary to Bratt's declaration to the court. In fact, after being busted recently by defense attorneys for mishandling evidence in the case, Bratt had to fess up about how the cover sheets actually ended up on the documents.
Here is Bratt's new version of the story, where he finally admits a critical detail that he failed to disclose in his August 2022 filing:
"[If] the investigative team found a document with classification markings, it removed the document, segregated it, and replaced it with a placeholder sheet. The investigative team used classified cover sheets for that purpose."
But before the official cover sheets were used as placeholder, agents apparently used them as props. FBI agents took it upon themselves to paperclip the sheets to documentssomething evident given the uniform nature of how each cover sheet is clipped to each file in the photolaid them on the floor, and snapped a picture for political posterity.