Attorney General Merrick Garland—whom Barack Obama tried to name to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the late Antonin Scalia in 2016—yesterday asked Federal Judge Bruce Reinhart, Ghislaine Maxwell’s and Jeffrey Epstein’s pal, to unseal the Mar-a-Lago raid warrant and supporting documents. Reinhart ordered the Department of Justice to ascertain former President Donald Trump’s stance on it, but Trump had already made clear on his social media platform that he wanted the warrant and documents made public.
The next step by Garland, who had just claimed the DOJ “only speaks in court,” was evidently to cause a DOJ leak of wild claims to today’s Washington Post and to its usual scandal partner in the Anglosphere, the London Guardian. The leak, from the eternal “two persons familiar with the matter,” was that Trump was going to reveal U.S. nuclear weapons secrets. Now this, and not yesterday’s alleged worries of the National Archives, compelled the DOJ to act.
The Post Aug. 12 article, “Trump Mar-a-Lago Search Goes Nuclear,” includes: “Material about nuclear weapons is especially sensitive and usually restricted to a small number of government officials, experts said. Publicizing details about U.S. weapons could provide an intelligence road map to adversaries seeking to build ways of countering those systems. And other countries might view exposing their nuclear secrets as a threat, experts said.” (A super-hypothetical prize might be given to any Post reader who could explain that last sentence.)
