The Department of Justice wants all the classified records back

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There is a new blog post entitled, “A requiem for roadkill.”

Leslie Jamison, “The Bear’s Kiss,” New York Review, October 20, 2022, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/10/20/the-bears-kiss-in-the-eye-of-the-wild/


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Fig. 1. Department of Justice photograph of seized materials, reportedly partially redacted, via the Washington Post, August 31, 2022, public domain.[1]

In a late-breaking story, the Department of Justice has asked Donald Trump’s lawyers to have him return any classified materials he still possesses.[2]

It is not clear what steps the Justice Department might take to retrieve any material it thinks Mr. Trump still holds.

And it is not known whether the Justice Department has gathered new evidence that Mr. Trump has held onto government material even after the court-authorized search in August of his private club and residence in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, and 18 months of previous efforts by the federal government to convince the former president to return what he had taken on leaving office.[3]

It appears that while divided, Trump’s legal team will resist the request.[4]

Michael S. Schmidt, Maggie Haberman, and Katie Benner, “Justice Dept. Is Said to Believe Trump Has More Documents,” New York Times, October 6, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/politics/trump-white-house-documents-lawyers.html


  1. [1]Devlin Barrett, “Justice Dept. says Trump team may have hidden, moved classified papers,” Washington Post, August 31, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/31/trump-documents-removed-storage-room/
  2. [2]Michael S. Schmidt, Maggie Haberman, and Katie Benner, “Justice Dept. Is Said to Believe Trump Has More Documents,” New York Times, October 6, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/politics/trump-white-house-documents-lawyers.html
  3. [3]Michael S. Schmidt, Maggie Haberman, and Katie Benner, “Justice Dept. Is Said to Believe Trump Has More Documents,” New York Times, October 6, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/politics/trump-white-house-documents-lawyers.html
  4. [4]Michael S. Schmidt, Maggie Haberman, and Katie Benner, “Justice Dept. Is Said to Believe Trump Has More Documents,” New York Times, October 6, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/politics/trump-white-house-documents-lawyers.html

2 thoughts on “The Department of Justice wants all the classified records back

  • October 7, 2022 at 10:14
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    The essential problem is still here: DoJ is compromising with trump about classified papers when, in fact, NONE of the papers are “his” in the first place. That sorry excuse for a human being is incorrigible & depraved. That trump was not stopped in his tracts decades ago is a condemnation of USA society & our jurisprudence.

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    • October 7, 2022 at 10:45
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      I think an important comparison here is with the cases of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Reality Winner: We see no such ‘kid gloves’ in the handling of their cases. Donald Trump is the beneficiary of entirely undue deference and that he is so only confirms the double standard in our system of injustice, belying Merrick Garland’s claim that “no one is about the law.”

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