The legal system is very careful about keeping secret what it has decided should be secret and making public what it can to facilitate understanding of what’s transpired. But sometimes mistakes are made, and things that should be in the first category — secret — end up in the second.
This week, a document related to the ongoing legal battle between former president Donald Trump and the federal government was made public in exactly that way. The document, a detailed list of material seized by the FBI when it searched Mar-a-Lago in August, is marked with a bright red “SEALED” stamp. But, for a brief moment, it was published publicly, and Bloomberg News’s Zoe Tillman managed to grab a copy.
The list includes two batches of documents, about five dozen in total. What’s included are about 520 pages of documents that the government believed should be screened for privilege by the special master assigned to the case. The government broke the documents into two groups. The first was material that related to Trump’s tenure as president, labeled Exhibit A. The second was material that appeared to be subject to attorney-client privilege. It’s marked Exhibit B.
Reviewing the list itself, though, we get a good sense of the breadth of information that was present at Mar-a-Lago. There are documents related to grants of clemency, to endorsements, to legal fights, to policy proposals. At times, the documents are cryptic. We’ve done our best to clarify where we can, but we might not have...
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