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<blockquote data-quote="728ups" data-source="post: 5410359" data-attributes="member: 33372">The Irony of the Special MAtser that tRump demanded ( and is being billed $500 an hour for the services) isn&#039;t putting up with the lunacy and BS that tRump loves to spout.&nbsp; Judge Dearie doesn&#039;t buy the fact that tRump declassified the documents as his lawyers wont testify under oath that he indeed declassified them. I wish his lawyers would quote tRump&#039;s statement that the President can declassify them just by thinking about itThe special master appointed to review documents federal agents <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-mar-lago-search-warrant-property-receipt-show-agents-found-trove-rcna42793" target="_blank">seized</a> at former President Donald Trump&#039;s Florida estate appeared doubtful Tuesday about Trump&#039;s contention that he had declassified the various top secret and other highly sensitive documents found there.The special master, Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie of New York, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-attorneys-dont-want-disclose-mar-lago-documents-claims-declassif-rcna48461" target="_blank">had asked</a> Trump&#039;s attorneys for more information about which of the over 100 sensitive documents federal agents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach might have been declassified. Trump&#039;s attorneys had <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-attorneys-dont-want-disclose-mar-lago-documents-claims-declassif-rcna48461" target="_blank">told the judge in a letter </a>Monday night that they didn&#039;t want to disclose the information yet because it could force them to prematurely &quot;disclose a defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment.&quot;At a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, Dearie noted that the case is a civil dispute, not a criminal one, but said he was taking the government&#039;s concerns about national security seriously.&quot;Let&#039;s not belittle the fact that we are dealing with at least potentially legitimately classified information. The government has a very strong obligation, as do all of us, to see to it that that information doesn&#039;t get in the wrong hands,&quot; said Dearie, a former judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court whom President Ronald Reagan appointed to the New York federal court.&quot;While Trump&#039;s filing claimed neither side had provided a showing that the documents are classified, Dearie said the government had presented &quot;prima facie evidence&quot; that the documents are, because they bear classification markings.&quot;As far as I&#039;m concerned, that&#039;s the end of it,&quot; Dearie said, unless Trump&#039;s team has some evidence to the contrary.Trump has claimed on social media that he declassified all the records he had, but his lawyers have yet to formally make that argument in any sworn court filings.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/special-master-mar-lago-case-appears-skeptical-trump-declassification-rcna48606[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="728ups, post: 5410359, member: 33372"] The Irony of the Special MAtser that tRump demanded ( and is being billed $500 an hour for the services) isn't putting up with the lunacy and BS that tRump loves to spout. Judge Dearie doesn't buy the fact that tRump declassified the documents as his lawyers wont testify under oath that he indeed declassified them. I wish his lawyers would quote tRump's statement that the President can declassify them just by thinking about it The special master appointed to review documents federal agents [URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-mar-lago-search-warrant-property-receipt-show-agents-found-trove-rcna42793']seized[/URL] at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate appeared doubtful Tuesday about Trump's contention that he had declassified the various top secret and other highly sensitive documents found there. The special master, Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie of New York, [URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-attorneys-dont-want-disclose-mar-lago-documents-claims-declassif-rcna48461']had asked[/URL] Trump's attorneys for more information about which of the over 100 sensitive documents federal agents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach might have been declassified. Trump's attorneys had [URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-attorneys-dont-want-disclose-mar-lago-documents-claims-declassif-rcna48461']told the judge in a letter [/URL]Monday night that they didn't want to disclose the information yet because it could force them to prematurely "disclose a defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment." At a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, Dearie noted that the case is a civil dispute, not a criminal one, but said he was taking the government's concerns about national security seriously. "Let's not belittle the fact that we are dealing with at least potentially legitimately classified information. The government has a very strong obligation, as do all of us, to see to it that that information doesn't get in the wrong hands," said Dearie, a former judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court whom President Ronald Reagan appointed to the New York federal court." While Trump's filing claimed neither side had provided a showing that the documents are classified, Dearie said the government had presented "prima facie evidence" that the documents are, because they bear classification markings. "As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of it," Dearie said, unless Trump's team has some evidence to the contrary. Trump has claimed on social media that he declassified all the records he had, but his lawyers have yet to formally make that argument in any sworn court filings. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/special-master-mar-lago-case-appears-skeptical-trump-declassification-rcna48606[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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