an area where the lack of experience of the judge may become a problem in terms of her not handling large cases in the course of her career, either as a prosecutor or as a judge, is this idea that this case somehow involves voluminous discovery. it doesn t. i have handled numerous cases that involve luminous discovery, where we are dealing with terabytes of information from hard drives, email accounts. this is just not such a case. section, where there are kinds of cases are handled all the time. and ron, from 20 years ago, was a case involving a voluminous discovery. and so what stood out to me is this idea that this might be a
it doesn t. i have handled numerous cases that involve luminous discovery, where we are dealing with terabytes of information from hard drives, email accounts. this is just not such a case. section, where there are kinds of cases are handled all the time. enron, from 20 years ago, was a case involving a voluminous discovery. and so what stood out to me is this idea that this might be a case where the judge agrees with the defense that this somehow needs extra time because it involves so much evidence. i think if you have only done sort of small, routine drug
ultimately, the security clearance issue will be a cause for delay. the judge already has met with someone called the classified information security officer. this is an individual who is supposed to help shepherd classified documents through this process. the court has already said to the defendants, tell me who your councils are so we can expedite a security clearance. ultimately, it is an interim clearance, it is sort of temporary. by the fbi and the appropriate parties will move mountains to make sure they get the process, so there will be delay. i really don t expect the security clearance will be a cause of significant delay. what i m hearing from you, the takeaway here, right, we are moving excuses or obstacles to a speedy trial. one is moving quickly on discovery, the luminous discovery, we are ready to go, making sure the classified process doesn t slow things down. it seems like what you are saying is there is no reason it has to, so that they can get all their ducks in a r
that the department of justice is ready to go. they will not be the cause of delay. i suspect that what we are going to hear as soon as there is a an initial hearing with the court is that they are ready to bring this case this year, in addition to quickly providing the discovery. it s not just that they provide, it s what they provide. this is the most sensitive work, it appears to be the most sensitive and critical evidence. one other point, they didn t just provide the evidence, and they provided, as they, say the keys to the evidence. they are trying to facilitate the defendants review of the information so there is also on that end. let s just stay on this. point i think this is crucial. not being the source of delay. if you are ever engaged in a process that is dragging out and you don t want to drag, out the one thing you want to do is be the person in the group or the collaboration or whatever who is not the person hanging it up, not the person who has an under responded
get rid of this whole thing, so that he can declare himself above the law. but given his very recent history, it seems pretty clear jacks mitt is committed to not letting that happen. brandon van grack is a former member of robert mueller s special counsel team. security division, he joins me now. it s good to have you on. let s talk about this first step of the discovery turnover. the first thing i want to focus on is just the timeline, right? obviously trials, complicated trials particularly can take a very long time to come about. often, that is not just because one side is delaying and one side isn t. there s a lot of work to do. people are was this a particularly quick turnover of discovery evidence from the prosecutors office? or is this fairly standard, this timeframe? it was both quick and