The Trump search case judge doesn't get the national security stakes

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“It is impossible to square [Cannon's] two rulings,” says Jamie Gorelick, a former deputy attorney general. She's clearly right.

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Opinion | The Trump search case judge doesn’t get the national security stakes
Halting a criminal investigation could interfere with making a damage assessment, national security lawyers say.
7:05 PM · Sep 6, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/06/judge-cannon-mar-a-lago-trump-search-damage-assessment/

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Okay, Judge Aileen Cannon, you’ve got me stumped: How can the U.S. government conduct a national-security damage assessment about possibly leaked classified documents if FBI criminal investigators can’t look at the documents or interview witnesses to figure out who might have had access to the material?

The Justice Department should ask Cannon, a federal district court judge in Florida, to clarify her order issued Monday in the Mar-a-Lago search case — and pronto. Because, as written, it is pulling in two directions at once, on a matter of potentially grave danger to national security.

The contradictions are screamingly obvious in the final pages of her order: “The Government is TEMPORARILY ENJOINED from further review and use of any of the materials seized from [former president Donald Trump’s] residence … pending resolution of the special master’s review process determined by this Court.” However, the judge added, “The Government may continue to review and use the materials seized for purposes of intelligence classification and national-security assessments.”

Huh? That sounds like saying you can pound a nail, but you can’t use a hammer. Yet Cannon, a Trump appointee, insists that “a temporary injunction on the Government’s use of the seized materials for investigative purposes — but not [the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s] national security assessment — is appropriate and equitable to uphold the value of the special master review.”

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[RockRaven]

1. It's not that she doesn't GET IT. She doesn't CARE.

These Federalist Society pukes are not jurists. They are political operatives. Full stop.

[crickets]

3. 👆👆

[brush]

2. Word salady. The in-over-her-head judge blew it.

Worthy of Sarah Palin.