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(Breitbart) Former President Donald Trump’s legal team blasted the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI for scattering documents seized from Mar-a-Lago across the floor “for dramatic effect” in its latest court filing on Wednesday. (snip)

Trump’s legal team also cautioned that the DOJ would leak parts of its investigation to the media. “Left unchecked, the DOJ will impugn, leak, and publicize selective aspects of their investigation with no recourse for Movant but to somehow trust the self-restraint of currently unchecked investigators,” wrote Trump’s attorneys.

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(Breitbart) Top House Republicans are concerned that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s unwillingness to provide certain information about the Mar-a-Lago raid to Congress through “transparent” channels will result in the public gleaning information only through Democrat leaks to the media.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was the first to raise the issue, noting in a letter last week that a Justice Department offer to meet with a “narrow group” in Congress “mimics initial engagements by the Obama Administration during the Russia collusion hoax investigation.”

Leaks that came from the DOJ and elected Democrats who were briefed on select information. So, what do we get now? Here’s the Washington Post

Files seized at Mar-a-Lago include material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities
Some of the documents seized on Aug. 8 detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them.

Of course the piece is behind the paywall, hence, other outlets are covering the WaPo screed

(Newsweek) Former President Donald Trump may have declassified a document about another country’s nuclear defense capabilities—if he is correct that material stored at Mar-a-Lago was declassified.

A document about a foreign government’s defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was among material stored at Trump’s Florida residence, according to The Washington Post.

The newspaper reported late on Tuesday that material discussing the nuclear-defense readiness of a foreign government was among documents seized by the FBI during the August 8 raid at Mar-a-Lago, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.

Some of the documents seized were so sensitive than many national security officials would not be able to access them without special clearance obtained from the president, the cabinet or near-cabinet-level officials.

Sources did not tell The Washington Post which country the document related to or where it had been stored at Mar-a-Lago. More than 100 classified documents were seized from Mar-a-Lago on August 8.

So, lots of innuendo, it’s all anonymous sources, so no one can verify the veracity, and all about the FBI/DOJ being pissy about a special master being appointed.

Christopher Kise, a lawyer for Trump, criticized leaks about the investigation in comments to The Washington Post published on Tuesday.

Kise said that “the damage to public confidence in the integrity of the system simply cannot be underestimated. The responsible course of action here would be for someone —anyone—in the Government to exercise leadership and control.”

“The Court has provided a sensible path forward which does not include the selective leak of unverifiable and misleading information. There is no reason to deviate from that path if the goal is, as it should be, to find a rational solution to document storage issues which have needlessly spiraled out of control,” he said.

But, this isn’t about a rational solution. There was no reason for this big dawn raid, which included tossing his wife and child’s rooms. Heck, the FBI knew where the documents were being kept, and they weren’t in Melania’s closet. Making a big show of it, coming in with military grade weapons and kevlar vests, it was all for show.