the florida property. for context, here s what the post says about what the documents found are typically handled. some of the seized documents u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. only the president, some members of his cabinet or near-cabinet level officials to know details of these special access programs and details of such classified operations require special clearances on a need to know basis and not just top secret clearance. records that deal with such programs are kept under lock and key almost always in a secret, compartmentalized facility with a designated control officer on keep careful tabs on their location, but despite the fact that these documents are normally, typically out of reach, totally inaccessible to all, but a teeny, tiny handful of top government officials and kept in the most highly secure facilities that the u.s. government has ever created, these documents were sitting
down claims by trump s attorney that this was a case about records that belonged to trump saying that the documents were not his to have. for her part, judge kennan is at times inclined to order a review of documents into a a special master. quote, justice department attorneys repeatedly pleaded with cannon not to interrupt their ongoing criminal probe that the search warrant excused on august 8th was clearly valid and authorized to obtain evidence of three significant federal crimes. cannon said she was concerned about a couple of instances in which the investigative team had flagged potentially privileged material that was not screened out during the initial review of records. that s the team that was assigned to prevent such occurrences. judge cannon did say that she would unseal a more detailed list by agents at mar-a-lago meaning that we could learn a whole lot more about that extraordinary search. while we await, it is important to put it in broader context. new york
with congress who wants an update and the repeated attempts and the squirrelling away in a plastic folder. it s not even clear that was an appropriate package for classified material and if they handed the lies over the thorough search that meant in their view that the material had been turned over and the fact that it was still there. what do you see sort of building on the part of doj and law enforcement? first off, they ve been very clear about the time line that they represent. the level of detail as far as e vents that led up to it and they have the letters from both and now that that s public, that s something we can easily digest and assess every single day. that s number one. number two, it appears that they did try to give them the benefit of the doubt. a smart lady pointed on that and this wasn t on documents and
questionable tactics in his job as a lobbyist, you want him to testify before the senate committee. he ll be invited to testify as well and we ll want to seek any documents he has. he has said publicly, that the russian lawyer gave a plastic folder of information to donald jr. or the other participants there. i think of even greater significance is, what happened before this meeting, what are they referring to when they say russian efforts to help president trump. that sounds like preexisting work, we ll also want to know what happened after this meeting as follow-up.