The DOJ accidentally handed over the sealed second volume of Jack Smith’s classified-documents report to lawyers for Carmen Lineberger — the woman they’re currently prosecuting for allegedly stealing that exact report by emailing it to herself disguised as a cake recipe.
According to a legal filing published Thursday, it happened during a routine discovery handoff on flash drives in early June. Lineberger’s attorneys found three unfamiliar documents, flagged them to the government, and once DOJ lawyers confirmed what they were, the defense team stopped reading, deleted the files, and returned the drives — playing it a lot straighter than the DOJ apparently did.
Here’s the kicker: this is the same report Trump successfully fought to keep sealed after winning the 2024 election, and the same case that Judge Aileen Cannon tossed on shaky grounds before it ever reached trial. So the government spent over a year making sure the public never saw this thing, then just mailed it all willy-nilly to a defendant’s lawyers by mistake.
Via The New Republic:
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