Carrie Johnson:
Well, it certainly means there's going to be some elements of delay, right?
The DOJ says it already reviewed these materials using a special process. It took between two and three weeks to review materials for possible attorney-client privilege. It came up with something like 500 pages out of 11,000 that could be implicated. DOJ says, we don't need to do all of this again.
But the judge has disagreed. So that process, once a master is appointed, could take two or three weeks or longer, not factoring in possible appeals and other legal wrangling. This investigation is in its early stages. And we don't know how long it's going to take.
But, certainly, DOJ doesn't want a lot of meddling as it tries to find out what happened here and also tries to assess the national security risk to having some of these materials at a resort in Florida, when the government believes they should have belonged in secure, compartmented facilities controlled by the U.S. government.
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