No parts of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit should’ve been publicly released
The release was a dramatic departure from the normal secrecy afforded an affidavit supporting a search warrant application and put the investigation into Trump at risk.
UPDATE (Aug. 26, 2022, 4:20 p.m. ET): This story has been updated throughout to reflect that a copy of the redacted FBI affidavit used to justify a search of Mar-a-Lago has been released.
On Friday afternoon, the Justice Department unsealed a redacted version of the affidavit that supported the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The move came the day after Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart approved the release.
It’s an outcome that should have been avoided.
Even this partial disclosure of the affidavit is an extraordinary blunder. Such an order is a dramatic and ill-conceived departure from the normal secrecy afforded an affidavit supporting a search warrant application, especially at an early stage of an investigation.
During a hearing last week, the government had vehemently argued against the release of any parts of the affidavit. The hearing occurred after news organizations, including NBC News, asked for its release.
In response to the news organizations’ request, government lawyers stated in a court filing before the hearing that publicly releasing the affidavit “is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps“ and affect the willingness of future witnesses to cooperate.
On Monday, Reinhart released a written order explicitly acknowledging the strength of the government’s arguments.
In it, he admitted that, first, any disclosure might increase the risk that the FBI special agent who signed the affidavit and other witnesses could be identified via social media. Second, the government’s claim that disclosure would reveal sources and methods used by investigators made sense. And his third reason should appeal to even the most ardent Trump supporter: The affidavit describes the physical premises of Mar-a-Lago; this information could make the Secret Service’s job of protecting Trump more difficult.
Reinhart seemed to validate arguments that would justify a decision to deny even a partial release of the affidavit. But here we are now, with the public reading what should’ve been kept under wraps.
Unsurprisingly, the situation presented government lawyers with a conundrum.
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