Motives.
“There are no heroes in this drama,” Andrew McCarthy wrote last night at National Review, but there are certainly a few missed opportunities for some. Late yesterday, a federal judge ordered a special master to review all materials seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago to protect any privileged documents from review by criminal investigators.
This froze the document review, but not the investigation itself:
The problem arises from the broad seizure of materials from Mar-a-Lago, permissible under the warrant sought and granted by the Department of Justice. McCarthy has pointed out this issue a number of times in the context of motive for the DoJ. He has been convinced that the issue of mishandling classified materials is either a pretext for a wider investigation or perhaps the investigation is a pretext to just get the materials back. Either way, the search and seizure trawled a lot of documents held in the storage areas back to the DoJ, including a significant amount that might be privileged as attorney-client communications.
