Special Master Has a Simple Test That May Be Disaster for Trump

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6. just as pointed.... but another slapdown

He was asked by a tfg lawyer about starting the process for security clearances.

He said he had considered it, but if the lawyers had a need to know, they would know.

"Need to know" is a term applied to access. It isn't ordered by a judge. It is an operational need required by the team owning the document.

Lawyers don't have a need to know what is in specific documents to defend their clients because the contents won't be presented in court. A stand in proxy description will be used. The courts have procedures for that.

They are there to prevent a defendant from blackmailing the state by making them reveal secrets in court. So they use stand ins.

Not even the prosecutors would know exactly what was in the docs. They would use the same descriptions the defense would get.