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Commentary: Why we’re drowning in a ‘tsunami’ of government secrets

While the eyes of journalists, Congress and the public are on the Department of Justice investigation of the classified documents that former President Donald Trump removed from the White House, a recent report about a different critical issue of government secrecy has gone unnoticed.

Los Angeles Times

Noah Feldman: Do ‘Trump judges’ exist? We’re about to find out

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Start circling the wagons. That’s the message a federal district judge is sending to other Trump-appointed judges by allowing a special master to review the documents seized from a Mar-A-Lago safe. By suggesting that former president Donald Trump might be able to invoke executive privilege after leaving…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The special master order for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents is perverse and potentially disastrous

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s order requiring the appointment of a special master to sift through the property seized in the search of Mar-a-Lago has found few defenders. Its tendentious factual account and muddled legal reasoning are easy to denigrate.

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Sen. Richard Burr avoided loss, made money on ‘well-timed’ stock deal, court records show

RALEIGH, N.C. — Court records released Tuesday reveal that U.S. Sen. Richard Burr avoided an estimated $87,000 in losses and gained more than $164,000 due to his “well-timed” stock sales at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tribune News Service

Trump praises ‘courage and guts’ after federal judge agrees to special master in top secret document review

Former President Donald Trump appeared to praise a federal judge Monday for agreeing to his demand for a special master in the investigation into mishandling of top secret documents.

Tribune News Service

Trump says US is ‘broken’ because FBI never searched Joe or Hunter Biden’s homes

Former president is marking Labor Day by airing a string of unhinged grievances about the man who defeated him nearly two years ago

The Independent UK

Trump-appointed judge blocks FBI from using evidence seized at Mar-a-Lago and orders special master review

Although the Justice Department can appeal the ruling, as long as it in place it will protect Donald Trump from being indicted for any crime based on evidence found during the search of his home

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Donald Trump picked a fight with the National Archives. It may be the end of him

The National Archives is responsible for collecting, cataloguing and storing all federal government records. It takes its job very seriously, reports Richard Hall

The Independent UK

Trump dug his own hole: He's in deep

Trump and his lawyers keep making things worse, and he's now the DOJ's target: The irony is dark, but delicious

Salon

Donald Trump picked a fight with the National Archives. It may be the end of him

The National Archives is responsible for collecting, cataloguing and storing all federal government records. It takes its job very seriously, reports Richard Hall

The Independent UK

Bill Barr defends FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago: ‘They were being jerked around’

Bill Barr strongly defended the Department of Justice’s handling of the top secret documents case against former President Donald Trump, saying that the feds were being “jerked around.”

Tribune News Service

‘A white nationalist pyramid scheme’: how Patriot Front recruits young members

The rightwing group’s workings resemble a media production company more than a classic neo-Nazi group, researchers say

The Guardian - US

Kevin McCarthy backs Trump hoarding top secret papers, calling FBI search an ‘assault on democracy’

Republican leader in House frames the FBI raid as a partisan attack

The Independent UK

US judge hints she may grant Trump request for Mar-a-Lago ‘special master’

Aileen Cannon does not make formal ruling but appears inclined to appoint official to determine which materials can be used in DoJ investigation

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The Independent UK

Greenvale public inquiry ‘not appropriate’ while prosecutions pursued, says Long

Three teenagers died in a fatal crush at the Greenvale Hotel in Co Tyrone while queuing for a disco in March 2019.

The Independent UK

Donald Trump rages at DOJ for making him appear ‘like a slob’ in raid photos

“They put them there in a messy fashion. And then they took a picture and they released to the public,” said the former president

Salon

Trump's DOJ response "full of nonsense"

"This is another PR filing, not a serious one," said ex-Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann

Daily Mirror

Donald Trump resort raid prompted by FBI belief he had hid classified documents

Donald Trump now faces a criminal investigation for illegal removal of government records and possible charges of obstruction of justice and violation of the Espionage Act

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The Independent UK

Trump legal team says classified records ‘no cause for alarm’ in bizarre filing

Legal experts contacted by The Independent described the court filing by Mr Trump’s lawyers as ‘total bulls***’, ‘gibberish’, and containing ‘nothing coherent’

The Independent UK

‘We’re gonna blind ourselves’: Ex-intel officials say Trump’s document hoarding could ruin years of work

Intelligence experts say efforts to mitigate damage from Mr Trump’s hoarding of classified documents at his Florida home could bring down years-long efforts to cultivate intelligence sources. Andrew Feinberg reports

The Conversation

Trump faces possible obstruction of justice charges for concealing classified government documents – 2 important things to know about what this means

A court filing by the Justice Department just minutes before midnight on Aug. 30, 2022, was a sharply worded attack on former President Donald Trump’s request for a so-called “special master” – a neutral arbiter – to review the documents the FBI seized at his estate, Mar-a-Lago, earlier in the…

The Independent UK

Top takeaways from the DOJ’s most recent court filing in the Mar-a-Lago documents probe

A Tuesday court filing by the Department of Justice shows former president Donald Trump and his legal team facing significant peril

The Independent UK

FBI agents needed special clearance to view Mar-a-Lago documents, DoJ says

Agents and lawyers ‘conducting the review required additional clearances before they were permitted to review certain documents,’ DoJ says in court filing

The Independent UK

Trump claims FBI agents ‘threw’ classified documents ‘all over the floor’ to frame him after DOJ reveals more evidence in filing

Mr Trump is still claiming to have declassified documents that show no evidence of having been declassified

Los Angeles Times

Trump legal team responds to Justice Department, says storage of government documents is no ‘cause for alarm’

WASHINGTON — The storage of sensitive government documents at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida “should have never been cause for alarm,” his lawyers argued in a court filing Wednesday.

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