The FBI team that seized documents from former president Donald Trump’s resort improperly viewed communications between Trump and an attorney, violating attorney-client privilege for a third time, lawyers for Trump said in a new filing.
The filter process set up by the government to try to prevent FBI agents from viewing privileged materials has already failed twice, the government has acknowledged. On Sept. 26, government officials informed Trump lawyers of a third failure, the lawyers said in a new filing lodged in the U.S. court in southern Florida.
FBI agents viewed an email which they sent to the Privilege Review Team, a team that was supposed to filter out all potentially privileged materials before agents were able to view any….