re: Trump lawyers object to verifying list of property seized from Florida estate Mar-A-Lago

Yep.

More MAL raid news today.

If you go watch the Weissmann video clip they criticize Trump's lawyers for the vendor stuff.

Trump Mar-a-Lago court filing reveals almost 200,000 pages of documents were found

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"Plaintiff respectfully suggests that Your Honor and the parties will be best served by having the retained vendor convey a supportable timeframe for scanning roughly 200,000 pages into a platform," Trump's lawyers wrote. "It would be better to base deadlines on actual data and not wistful claims by the Government."

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Another objection by Trump's legal team to the document review process was Dearie’s request that they verify the government's list of material seized from Mar-a-Lago.

Roughly 100 documents confiscated from Mar-a-Lago during the Aug. 8 search and seizure bore classified markings, according to court documents. Material collected ranged from "CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET information," according to an affidavit for the raid.

The DOJ is investigating possible violations of the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice. But Trump has vehemently denied wrongdoing, publicly declaring that a president can declassify material "even by thinking about it." Notably, his legal team previously conceded that "it would be appropriate for the special master to possess a Top Secret/SCI security clearance" to review the documents.

Dearie, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, was one of two individuals Trump's legal team suggested as a special master. The FBI has conceded that its in-house "Privilege Review Team" has found a “limited set” of materials, which may include privileged material, in the trove of documents from Mar-a-Lago.

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This is quite strange the 11th circuit never said Trump could not review the classified TS documents.

They said that the ODNI can still review them. (Which they said was complete weeks ago)

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"The verification required by Plaintiff of the Detailed Property Inventory is a condition precedent to the document categorization and privilege review. The Special Master needs to know that he is reviewing all of the materials seized from Mara-Lago on August 8, 2022 — and no additional materials — before he categorizes the seized documents and adjudicates privilege claims," the DOJ said in the filing.

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