Monday, August 29, 2022

Why Bother Now?

 Former President Donald Trump is asking for a special master to appointed by the Court to go through his documents to make sure that his presidential privilege is protected.

But, the FBI tells the Court that they have already been through the documents.  They appointed a team of agents not associated with the investigation to sift through the documents, looking for privileged communications.  They found a few.

"[T]he Privilege Review Team … identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information, completed its review of those materials, and is in the process of following the procedures set forth in paragraph 84 of the search warrant affidavit to address potential privilege disputes, if any," the DOJ filing said. Those procedures included asking the court to make a determination on potentially privileged material, asking Trump's team if they are asserting privilege, or acting on its own and keeping the material away from investigators.

They found privileged documents, and they didn't run them through a copy machine?  You believe that, right?  On, yeah, I believe that the FBI is completely trustworthy.  I wonder how long it will be before those very documents get leaked to a friendly news outlet?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Its honestly unbelievable yhat people still try defending the agency still. "There are good people there..." who should have quit or turned whistle-blower on the crooked ones, but they didn't, so I guess they aren't so good, eh?

Old NFO said...

Yeah, right...