The Justice Department was criticized by a lawyer for former President Donald Trump for opposing the appointment of a special master to examine records taken from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
It is a "fair question," according to former federal prosecutor James Trusty, to wonder if the Justice Department is concealing something as it conducts a criminal investigation into Trump's use of data after leaving office. Mark Levin, a Fox News anchor, was listening to Trusty.
Trump, DOJ Submit Special Master Nominees
Despite opposition from the Justice Department, US District Judge Aileen Cannon accepted Trump's request for a special master. Since then, both parties have made recommendations for how to proceed, including nominees, access, and the speed of the third-party evaluation. Despite opposition from the Justice Department, US District Judge Aileen Cannon accepted Trump's request for a special master. Since then, both parties have made recommendations for how to proceed, including nominees, access, and the speed of the third-party evaluation.
The Florida judge was requested to issue an emergency order allowing investigators to continue using classified material while the appeal is pending after the Justice Department announced it would appeal the decision granting an independent review. This request was made due to national security concerns. While the special master review is going on, the Justice Department has been told to halt using any confiscated materials in its criminal probe.
Trusty stated that an overarching theme is the Justice Department adopting a position that it should not be questioned and queried what the agency might be afraid of, despite Trump's claims that he did nothing wrong and is unfairly singled out for prosecution, as per Washington Examiner.
The US government and former President Trump's legal team have both put out candidates to serve as an objective special master to look through the records the FBI obtained during its historic raid on Mar-a-Lago last month, but the two sides are at odds over the position's scope.
On Friday, the Justice Department provided the names of two justices who had retired. The first judge, Barbara Jones, presided over federal cases involving Rudy Giuliani and Michael Cohen while sitting on the federal court in Manhattan. The second, Thomas Griffith, is a former judge for the District of Columbia's federal appeals court.
One retired judge, Raymond Dearie, who was formerly the chief federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York, and a well-known Florida attorney, Paul Huck, Jr., were the candidates put out by the Trump campaign.
Both parties had until Friday to submit potential applicants for the position of a special master, as well as suggestions for the person's remit and the timetable for his or her work, to US District Judge Aileen Cannon, according to Fox News.
Democrat Insists Importance of Mar-a-Lago Raid Briefing to Senate
The Intelligence Committee needs to be informed of the damage assessment of the items taken from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home during the FBI raid last month, Senator Mark Warner stated on Sunday. Senator Warner, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, stated that in some circumstances, the poorly stored and managed sensitive information could be a matter of life or death.
He insisted that his panel receiving a briefing on the damage assessment is important. Inventory records show that thousands of documents were removed from the former president's Florida home, and many of them had classification labels, some of them up to the highest level of secret information.
One of the remaining active bipartisan committees in the entire Congress, according to Warner, is the Senate Intelligence Committee, Daily Mail reported.
