In a review of the MAL case today WaPo brings this to mind again:
The Justice Department official who toured the room in June wrote an email to Corcoran five days later to complain it did not meet the law’s requirements.
“As I previously indicated to you, Mar-a-Lago does not include a secure location authorized for the storage of classified information,” wrote Jay Bratt, the Justice Department’s Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, according to court documents. “As such, it appears that since the time classified documents were removed from the secure facilities at the White House and moved to Mar-a-Lago on or around January 20, 2021, they have not been handled in an appropriate manner or stored in an appropriate location.”
Bratt asked that the storage room “be secured” and that all boxes moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago “be preserved in that room in their current condition until further notice.”
Has the government's story not changed? Just this week Mr. Bratt argued before Judge Cannon against appointment of a special master that 45th was not entitled to one because the docs were not his, he shouldn't have had them in the first place at MAL. But here, in June, Bratt did not dispute rightful possession, he was concerned only with how they were secured.
