So what is going on here? It is something about whether the attorney-client privilege was waived in a bribery-for-Presidential-pardon scheme. The president is obviously Trump. Who is attempting to get the pardon? Unknown. We do know that the Department of Justice (FBI?) raided an office (apparently an attorney's office) and seized about 50 digital devices, including iPhones, laptops and USB thumb drives. The government claims that these are not protected by attorney-client privilege because all of them were viewed by someone who was not an attorney. The DOJ is trying to decide whether to charge someone with a crime, and they want the information sealed because no one has been charged yet.
See also https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/01/politics/presidential-pardon-justice-department/index.html
I just think it is weird seeing page after page of fully redacted lines.
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