I have a couple of questions about prosecution resources.

[Ptah]

What staffing is required to review 13,000 documents?

Do individual prosecutors have staff that follows them from position to position? i.e. does Jack Smith have staff that have been with him throughout his career?

[ancianita]

1. I'll tell you what I've learned.

Before I say how many lawyers it takes, where do you get this 13,000 documents number from? Just wondering.

Individual prosecutors can have staff; all DOJ lawyers likely have basic staff. The way I understand things, Jack Smith will have the staff that's been investigating the Jan 6 cases. Which is a lot.

Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monaco (second to Garland) hired at least 80 more lawyers since April, but announced in March that they were looking to hire 131. There's been no news that I know of about what the total staff number are right now. She's been the one to apprise Jack Smith of everything.

[Ptah]

2. Thanks.

The conflict over the special master began just weeks after the FBI’s search, when Trump sued in federal court in Florida seeking the appointment of an independent arbiter to review the roughly 13,000 documents the Justice Department says were taken from the home.


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-appeals-court-halts-special-master-review-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-documents

I'm just wondering if a particular career prosecutor might have assistants that were with them for years through several appointments.

[ancianita]

3. YW.

Ah. Okay. The stolen government documents. I see. Can you link that? Because I heard hundreds, but I don't recall that high a number.

ALSO, there is the electors investigation, the seditious conspiracy investigation, along with the stolen docs (which the National Archives and 3 letter agencies have records of), AND a number of other investigations around aiding and abetting, (inner circle and congress people) and accessories after the fact (continued purveyors of the Big Lie), with thousands more kinds of evidence like public comms, phone transcripts, wire transfer records, texts, memos, film footage, etc.

All of which takes an army of DOJ lawyers to sift through (which they mostly have) and case build from.

[Ptah]

4. I'm wondering how large the army of DOJ lawyers might be.

100?

1000?

457?

[ancianita]

5. I already gave you the latest estimate that I knew.

But you can read up on the eight divisions of the DOJ, then look up numbers of lawyers in the Criminal and National Security Divisions, which are likely the ones handling Jan 6 cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice

Also go to justice.gov and look up "About" to get an organizational look.

An army is what the DOJ has -- it's the largest law office on the planet, with over 9,200 lawyers.