Trump may threaten to reveal state secrets to manipulate legal proceedings if he's indicted: reporte

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25. I think they are saying that his lawyers could put the prosecution in a bind....

By not releasing highly classified docs into evidence, that will hamper the ability of the doj to prosecute the case.

"You are trying to prosecute me for something you won't produce for cross examination, therefore....".

That is where greymail comes from. It's a catch 22 that could help a defendent.

But there are low level docs there as well, classified confidential. That material isn't dangerous, but could have information the gov't doesn't want public (like personnel records - could be stroch records for example). It wouldn't be the end of the world to use it, but could have privacy implications to an innocent third party. Those details could be redacted though.