DOJ Erroneously Provides Jack Smith Report to Individual It Is Suing
The Justice Department said the disclosure was accidental as it faces a trial over a prosecutor’s earlier email of the same hidden report.
- On Thursday, the Department of Justice admitted to accidentally sending former special counsel Jack Smith's sealed Volume II report to the defense team of Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, a former prosecutor accused of stealing the document.
- DOJ officials provided discovery materials on flash drives to Lineberger's lawyers on June 3, 2026, and the defense team discovered the secret report embedded within the electronic files on June 9, 2026.
- Defense counsel promptly notified the Government, deleted all downloaded materials, and returned the flash drives; the DOJ acknowledged the 'professionalism and candor of defense counsel in remedying this inadvertent inclusion.'
- A joint notice regarding the breach was filed with U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who had previously barred the department from releasing the report outside the agency.
- Ironically, Lineberger faces charges for stealing the very report now accidentally disclosed by the DOJ, while the underlying classified-documents case against Trump remains dismissed by Cannon.
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Trump DOJ Leaks Sealed Jack Smith Report in Massive Bungle
President Donald Trump‘s Department of Justice admitted a massive legal bungle this week, acknowledging it sent the second part of former special counsel Jack Smith‘s sealed final report to the person they’ve sued for leaking it. Former federal prosecutor Carmen Lineberger was indicted in federal court in Florida in May, accused of emailing the report to herself. Lineberger, 62, allegedly labeled the email “Chocolate cake recipe.pdf,” according …
Turns Out The Best Way To Leak The Smith Report Was To Just Ask The DOJ
The DOJ accidentally handed over the sealed second volume of Jack Smith's classified-documents report to lawyers for Carmen Lineberger — the woman they're currently prosecuting for allegedly stealing that exact report by emailing it to herself disguised as a cake recipe. According to a legal filing published Thursday, it happened during a routine discovery handoff on flash drives in early June. Lineberger's attorneys found three unfamiliar docu…
DOJ accidentally hands Jack Smith's secret Trump report to person they're prosecuting
In one of the more astonishing legal blunders of the year, the Justice Department accidentally handed over the still-secret second volume of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s classified documents case, to the defense lawyers representing the very person accused of stealing it. According to a court filing released Thursday, DOJ prosecutors mistakenly included the sealed report in discovery materials sent last month to a…
DOJ Accidentally Releases Sealed Jack Smith Report
Raw Story reports: The Justice Department accidentally released former special counsel Jack Smith’s sealed report on President Donald Trump to lawyers for the former prosecutor accused of stealing it. Volume II includes Jack Smith’s evidence in his case to prove Trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office — the report Trump has fought to keep secret. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed judge who dismissed the un…
DOJ scrambles after accidentally releasing sealed Jack Smith report on Trump
The Justice Department accidentally released former special counsel Jack Smith's sealed report on President Donald Trump to lawyers for the former prosecutor accused of stealing it.Volume II includes Jack Smith's evidence in his case to prove Trump mishandled classified documents after leaving offic...
DOJ tells Judge Cannon it accidentally disclosed secret Jack Smith documents
The Justice Department made a huge mistake this week; it was forced to confess in a court filing to Judge Eileen Cannon in Florida. For years, the second volume of his full report on the investigations of President Donald Trump has been hidden from public view. One DOJ prosecutor is on trial for emailing the volume to her own private email. Now, the same DOJ that is trying a case against the woman for emailing it to herself has emailed it to her…
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