DOJ Admits They Reviewed and May Have Taken ‘Limited’ Amount of Attorney-Client Privileged Docs in Trump Raid

August 29, 2022

The Department of Justice has admitted that they may have taken a “limited” amount of documents protected by attorney-client privilege when they raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.

In a filing on Monday, U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez wrote that their team reviewed and “identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information.”

Judge Aileen M. Cannon of the Southern District of Florida announced her “preliminary intent to appoint a special master” on Saturday after a request was made by Trump’s legal team.

Two days later, the DOJ said that the review was conducted before the court issued a preliminary order to appoint a special master to do it.

“[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, according to a report from Fox News.

According to the report, the DOJ also said that they and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence “are currently facilitating a classification review of materials recovered pursuant to the search” and that “ODNI is also leading an intelligence community assessment of the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of these materials.”

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