by Geoff Earle at Daily Mail
- DOJ released heavily redacted affidavit Friday that justified warrant for Mar-a-Lago raid
- Affidavit stated 14 out of the 15 boxes retrieved from the Florida home earlier in the year had classified information
- In total, Trump had 184 classified documents, 67 confidential and 25 top secret returned to National Archives
- FBI feared ‘clandestine human sources’ information was unprotected
- DNI Avril Haines told lawmakers her office would conduct assessment
- Justice Department also to be involved
- Redacted materials reveal contours of obstruction probe
- Biden is spending the weekend in Wilmington after bombshell release
- On Saturday evening Judge Aileen Cannon revealed her intent
- She told Justice Department to respond with a ‘more detailed’ receipt of what agents retrieved from Trump’s club
- Trump-appointed judge wants a response to Trump’s request by Tuesday
A ‘filter team’ of FBI agents poring over 15 boxes of material seized from Mar-a-Lago has already completed its review of material that may involve attorney client privilege, and told a judge they would provide a more fulsome review of the material they removed.
That material, however, will remain under seal, following a federal district judge’s ‘preliminary intent’ to grant former President Donald Trump‘s request for a ‘special master’ to go through the documents.
‘The Privilege Review Team … identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,’ the government wrote US District Judge Eileen Cannon in response to her weekend order.
The team has ‘completed its review of those materials,…
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