New details about the documents seized from former President’s Donald Trump were made public on Oct. 3.
Among them: the two initial instances of investigators viewing potentially sensitive material.
The Department of Justice used what’s called a Privilege Review Team to look over all the materials in Mar-a-Lago in August and separate any materials that may be protected, including by attorney-client privilege. The government previously disclosed that on two occasions, workers not on the review team came upon materials that had not been separated.
Benjamin Hawk, an attorney who helps lead the team, has said that the first instance was when investigators saw the top of a letterhead contained the name of a firm, and that the second instance involved a document “that could potentially include privileged information.”…