Trump re-submits request for 'special master' in Mar-a-Lago FBI raid case
Former US President Donald Trump has re-submitted a request for an appointment of a "special master" to review the evidence in Mar-a-Lago FBI raid case.
Earlier this week, Trump's legal team had requested that the court assigned to his case appoint a "special master" to review evidence to ensure the Justice Department returns any documents that were unnecessarily seized by the authorities during the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida two weeks ago.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge on the case, identified several shortcomings in Trump's request for a "special master" to oversee the FBI's review of the evidence seized from Mar-a-Lago.
In response, Trump's team on Friday submitted a new completed request for a "special master" to review the evidence seized, pointing to some additional legal discussion of case law that they claimed supported Trump's first request and removed the initial shortcomings.
In related news, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Friday said the redacted FBI affidavit used to justify a search warrant on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence pointed out that some of the country’s “most sensitive intelligence” was mishandled.
The heavily redacted FBI affidavit, which was made public on Friday, revealed that 184 classified documents were found at Trump’s Florida residence in the first review of boxes recovered by the National Archives.
“It appears, based on the affidavit unsealed this morning, that among the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were some of our most sensitive intelligence, which is one reason the Senate Intelligence Committee has requested, on a bipartisan basis, a damage assessment of any national security threat posed by the mishandling of this information,” Warner wrote in a statement on Friday, shortly after the affidavit was unsealed.
“The Department of Justice investigation must be allowed to proceed without interference,” he insisted.
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