I realize this isn’t a court case, but during discovery in a court case, there’s this weird tactic that lawyers sometimes use. You see, they have to provide the opposing counsel with all of the relevant documents, but they also know that the information in the documents can only be used if the opposing counsel can actually find the information.
So, they will send every document that even might have a shred of relevance, and “accidentally” include a lot more, in order to overload the opposing side with so much documentation that they’d have to hire a team of people to go through it.
I suspect that the Justice Department is doing this for multiple reasons. First, and most boringly, it may simply be that they are required by law to send the documents, even if they believe that Congress already has them.
Second, they may be working on Trump’s behalf to slow down the process, and pretend to comply. In all of Trump’s trials, one of his primary tactics was to delay as much as possible. Trump has learned that justice delayed is justice denied, but with the wrong slant.
Third, they may be working on Trump’s behalf to bury the evidence in a mountain of unimportant information in the hopes that the interesting parts will be harder to find, similar to overloading the opposition during discovery in a court case.
Fourth, they may be working on Trump’s behalf to send all of this data, as a political spin maneuver. They can say, “Of course most of this data is a repeat. We haven’t been holding out that much. We don’t have very much evidence at all.”
I realize this isn’t a court case, but during discovery in a court case, there’s this weird tactic that lawyers sometimes use. You see, they have to provide the opposing counsel with all of the relevant documents, but they also know that the information in the documents can only be used if the opposing counsel can actually find the information.
So, they will send every document that even might have a shred of relevance, and “accidentally” include a lot more, in order to overload the opposing side with so much documentation that they’d have to hire a team of people to go through it.
I suspect that the Justice Department is doing this for multiple reasons. First, and most boringly, it may simply be that they are required by law to send the documents, even if they believe that Congress already has them.
Second, they may be working on Trump’s behalf to slow down the process, and pretend to comply. In all of Trump’s trials, one of his primary tactics was to delay as much as possible. Trump has learned that justice delayed is justice denied, but with the wrong slant.
Third, they may be working on Trump’s behalf to bury the evidence in a mountain of unimportant information in the hopes that the interesting parts will be harder to find, similar to overloading the opposition during discovery in a court case.
Fourth, they may be working on Trump’s behalf to send all of this data, as a political spin maneuver. They can say, “Of course most of this data is a repeat. We haven’t been holding out that much. We don’t have very much evidence at all.”