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Aileen Cannon Orders Government to Share Classified Information with Trump's Counsel
https://emptywheel.net/2022/09/15/aileen-cannon-orders-government-to-share-classified-information-with-trumps-unclear-counsel/
Her order and her workflow utterly and completely conflict on this point. And in either case, the order is unprecedented.
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Aileen Cannon Orders Government to Share Classified Information with Trump's Counsel - emptywheel
Aileen Cannon is now dictating that the government clear Trump's counsel.
4:38 PM · Sep 15, 2022
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/09/15/aileen-cannon-orders-government-to-share-classified-information-with-trumps-unclear-counsel/
Ill have a lot more to say about Judge Aileen Cannons order blowing off National Security in favor of Trumps half-assed claims of being a victim. Her order is a radical assault on national security and rule of law.
But for the moment, I want to look at this part of her work flow order.
Make available for inspection by Plaintiffs counsel, with controlled access conditions (including necessary clearance requirements) and under the supervision of the Special Master, the documents marked as classified and the papers attached to such documents; and
It orders the government to make the classified documents stolen by Trump available to his attorneys, including Evan Corcoran, who is either a witness or a subject of this investigation. None are known to be cleared. Aside from Jim Trusty, its not clear how quickly any of them can be cleared.
In her order, she claims this involves sharing only with the Special Master, Raymond Dearie.
The Government also presents the argument, in passing, that making the full scope of the seized materials available to the Special Master would itself create irreparable harm [ECF No. 69 p. 18]. Insofar as the Government argues that disclosure to a Special Master of documents marked as classified necessarily creates an irreparable injury because the special master process in this case is unnecessary, the Court disagrees for the reasons previously stated. Separately, to the extent the Government appears to suggest that it would suffer independent irreparable harm from review of the documents by the Courts designee with appropriate clearances and controlled access, that argument is meritless
But these are completely contradictory. One document says the government must share classified information with Trumps people. The other document says, its only Raymond Dearie, dont worry your little heads.
And she just waves her hands and says the government must share this stuff, including necessary clearance requirements, without acknowledging that she doesnt get to decide that. If the government says that none of Trumps lawyers can be cleared, they get to say that (again, I expect fewer concerns about Trusty, but major concerns about Corcoran).
Thats par for the course of this order.
*the end*
VMA131Marine
(4,145 posts)Its clear that she was appointed specifically to be Trumps judge.
choie
(4,111 posts)review classified documents when they don't have clearance to do so?
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Baitball Blogger
(46,753 posts)She's bought or totally out of her league.
Nevilledog
(51,170 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,718 posts)They probably can't even understand. That's treason.
gab13by13
(21,379 posts)Corcoran was actually the lawyer who wrote the document that Babb signed.
ultralite001
(894 posts)That is all...
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)what any Republican would do and ignore it. Continue the investigation and tell the corrupt judge to F off.
wishstar
(5,271 posts)It's one thing for Special Master Dearie who has security clearances already to look at everything but totally outrageous and unworkable to order that Trump's lawyers have full access. That's nuts and I'm sure never before allowed in any case involving such documents with national security concerns.