Emergency Edition: About That Mar-a-Lago Warrant

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🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Friday afternoon, the federal court in Florida, acting at the Justice Department’s request, unsealed the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago that the FBI had executed earlier in the week. There was a lot of interesting information in it: How many bathrooms are there at Mar-a-Lago? How many TS/SCI documents did the FBI seize from the resort? Which European head of state had various documents about him lying around at Mar-a-Lago?

For an emergency version of the Lawfare Podcast, Benjamin Wittes sat down to talk it all through with Pete Strzok, a former FBI counterintelligence agent who has executed his share of warrants; Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic; and Alex Wellerstein, historian of nuclear weapons and secrets.

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0:29.0	So one of the categories that stuck out to me is being both important to Trump
0:37.0	and the kind of thing he would get in a lot of briefings is foreign intelligence.
0:43.0	So things about North Korea, things about Iran.
0:45.0	These are two topics that are very important to Trump about nuclear weapons
0:49.0	that he has all sorts of complicated feelings on, especially with North Korea.
0:54.0	And I kept wondering if that is the kind of category where it's not necessarily a document
1:02.0	about nuclear secrets, but it could be a document about foreign intelligence
1:10.0	about a nuclear weapons program.
1:12.0	I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast August 13th, 2022.
1:20.0	It's an emergency podcast. We don't do a lot of them anymore, but Friday afternoon,
1:26.0	the federal court in Florida, acting at the Justice Department's request,
1:31.0	unsealed the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago that the FBI had executed earlier in the week.
1:39.0	There was a lot of interesting information in it.
1:42.0	How many bathrooms are there at Mar-a-Lago, for example,
1:46.0	how many TSSCI documents did the FBI seized from the resort?
1:51.0	Which European head of state had various documents about him lying around at Mar-a-Lago?
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