How Trump’s Search Worked, with Nifty Graphic
This graphic shows what we know about how the Trump search was conducted so far.
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Trump’s Latest Tirade Proves Any Temporary Restraining Order May Come Too Late
The news that the FBI returned three of Trump’s passports doesn’t mean they’re using a filter team. It means that at least for some of the seized material, the FBI is making scope determinations.
The ABCs (and Provisions e, f, and g) of the Espionage Act
The CFR guidelines regarding standards for storing classified information not only dictate what type of lock one must used, but it also requires that someone inspect the Secret information stored in non-compliant closets every 4 hours, which may be why DOJ subpoenaed Trump for his surveillance footage.
Trump’s Timid (Non-Legal) Complaints about Attorney-Client Privilege
Trump is complaining that a subset of the boxes seized from his golf resort include privileged materials. But his complaints are remarkably week, and haven’t been accompanied by any legal challenge on an unsealed docket.
18 USC 793e in the Time of Shadow Brokers and Donald Trump
The investigation of Donald Trump under the Espionage Act should be compared not with the example of Sandy Berger and David Petraues, but with Nghia Pho and Hal Martin, whose actions contributed to devastating global cyberattacks by malicious actors.
Obstruction: The Two-Receipt Search of the Former President’s Golf Resort
The big secret Trump was keeping this week was not, as I thought, that he is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act, but instead that because he refused to turn over classified documents the Archives knew he had, he gave FBI urgent reason to come and also get evidence he obstructed other investigations.
Trump’s Stolen Documents
Here’s the warrant.
John Solomon and Kash Patel May Be Implicated in the FBI’s Trump-Related Espionage Act Investigation
If Donald Trump let Kash Patel and John Solomon sort through boxes that–the FBI discovered–included Top Secret documents, Trump may have additional liability under the Espionage Act.
Three Ways Merrick Garland and DOJ Spoke of Trump as if He Might Be Indicted
Twice in his short 500-word statement yesterday, Merrick Garland used language that admits the possibility that the former President might be indicted.
The Legal and Political Significance of Nuclear Document[s] Trump Is Suspected to Have Stolen
The report that the FBI suspected Trump of stealing a document or documents pertaining to nuclear weapons may not entice a supine press. But perhaps Marco Rubio’s rank hypocrisy about the seriousness of such issues will.
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