relevant, and that they can start looking on. so the train s left the station. the investigative team has this. anything now that impedes the investigative team from moving forward is an unnecessary delay. when you talk about special access documents, what type of documents are you referring to? well, i mean, i m not trying to be over dramatic, even a discussion of the nature of special access programs becomes problematic. that s how sensitive they are. it s project-oriented. it could be long-term research that the government s doing on some incredibly sensitive technology. it could be the next iteration of a nuclear program or submarine. it could be a new weapons plan that s being worked on. it could be a new effort to insert people in a certain terrorist organization. we just done know, but we know it s time sensitive. it s the most limited access you can get, and you get briefed in and out. i ll give you an example. in my fbi career, there was a
standing. in other words, they re not his documents, so he can not seek this judicial remedy because the documents don t belong to him, and really, you know, they ticked off point after point after point as to why trump s demand for a special master is likely to go nowhere. i think the final one was a practical one. they said we have reviewed all of the documents already, so a judge appointing a special master would sort of be like closing the barn door after the horse has already left the barn. and so, frank, what does it say that fbi agents and justice department attorneys actually needed additional clearance to look at some of the documents they found at the house. yeah, this is significant. it jumped out at me. these are counter intelligence agents, and counter intelligence national security officials from doj. they would have had, because of their position, many of the clearances available to the highest cleared people in the government.
all the documents already were sent back to you, and they find in a matter of hours, hundreds of them. yeah, potentially there are, jose, and what i will say, it s a tricky area of the law when you re dealing with on the one hand, a defendant s 6th amendment right to counsel and on the other hand, the suggestion or some evidence that shows that that counsel may be compromised. indeed, may have criminal exposure for something that attorney did during the course of the representation of the client. it s a tricky area, but it s one that we have to wade into as prosecutors every now and then. and the bottom line is, you can t have full, zealous, representation as a defendant, as a client from a lawyer who may have criminal exposure themselves. why? because now that lawyer s loyalties are going to be split between zealously representing their client and trying to keep themselves out of hot water, and
special access program that i had to be polygraphed to get read into and i had to get polygraphed to get read out of. glenn, are there legal repercussions, trump, and maybe even his legal team will need to worry about? and i have the document here. you know, one of the things that it mentions, and i ll read it to you. it says, notwithstanding counsel s representation on june 3rd that materials from the white house were only located in the storage room, classified documents were found in both the storage room and in the former president s office, and then adding the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the quote diligent search that the former president s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform calls into serious question the representations made on june 3rd certification and casts doubt on the extent of cooperation. so are there some legal ramifications to the president s counsel for having said, look,
general and the former fbi director for counterintelligence so we have the team all assembled. one thing that most likely what are the things we most likely will learn, not sources and methods. some of the classifications potentially. we already know some of this from reporting how top-secret some of these things were, special access documents. but perhaps we ll learn the time frame. how long it has taken for the national archives to get what they were legitimately seeking from any president, all presidents up until now from the former president when he left the white house and how many attempts at cooperation there were to de bunk the narrative from trump world that there was no cooperation and this was a completely unexpected, unwarranted, and illegal search? absolutely. one thing just to point out is magistrate judge reinhart did issue the order unsealing the necessary documents and then