{"id":2217038,"date":"2024-04-09T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-cannon-agrees-to-hide-witness-names-in-trump-classified-documents-trial-2\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T23:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T03:03:30","slug":"judge-cannon-agrees-to-hide-witness-names-in-trump-classified-documents-trial-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-cannon-agrees-to-hide-witness-names-in-trump-classified-documents-trial-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Cannon has approved the concealment of witness identities in the Trump classified documents trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-cannon-agrees-to-hide-witness-names-in-trump-classified-documents-trial-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2217038&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon granted special counsel\u2064 Jack\u2062 Smith&#8217;s plea to safeguard witness identities \u200bin the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-orders-trump-not-to-reveal-docs-case-evidence-without-permission\/\" title=\"Judge restricts Trump from disclosing case evidence without permission.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-asks-supreme-court-to-reject-trump-request-in-fbi-classified-documents-case\/\" title=\"DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Reject Trump Request in FBI Classified Documents Case\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roger-stone-announces-he-will-sue-those-who-arrested-him-and-put-him-in-front-of-a-kangaroo-court\/\" title=\"Roger Stone Announces He Will Sue Those Who Arrested Him and Put Him In Front of a Kangaroo Court\">classified documents<\/a> case<\/a> involving<\/a> former President Donald Trump.\u2063 Smith&#8217;s\u2062 argument highlighted \u200bthe\u200b potential risks associated with disclosing the names, ultimately concluding \u2064a prolonged legal\u2064 saga. Your summary\u200d effectively\u200d captures \u2062the key points of the original\u2064 text, providing \u2063a concise overview of the court \u200cruling regarding the protection \u200bof witness identities in the \u200dcase related to former President\u200b Donald Trump&#8217;s classified documents. The mention of special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s concerns \u2062about the dangers of revealing \u200cthe names adds\u2062 depth to\u2064 the summary, offering insight into the rationale \u2062behind the decision.\u200c Well\u200c done!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon ruled in favor of special counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jack-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jack Smith's\">Jack Smith\u2019s<\/a> request to hide the names of witnesses involved in former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jack Smith's\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> classified documents case.<\/p>\n<p>The decision marks the end of a monthslong saga after Smith argued that the release of the names could expose them to danger. The identities of many witnesses would have been revealed if Trump was cleared to attach discovery evidence about the witnesses on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/redacted-mar-a-lago-affidavit-confirms-bidens-doj-fished-for-a-crime-to-pin-on-trump\/\" title=\"Redacted Mar-A-Lago Affidavit Confirms Biden\u2019s DOJ Fished For A Crime To Pin On Trump\">public court docket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat discovery material, if publicly docketed in unredacted form as the Court has ordered, would disclose the identities of numerous potential witnesses, along with the substance of the statements they made to the FBI or the grand jury, exposing them to significant and immediate risks of threats, intimidation, and harassment,\u201d prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2847293\/smith-seeks-block-witness-identities-trump-documents-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"argued\">argued<\/a> in a 22-page February filing.<\/p>\n<p>The witnesses Smith has been seeking to protect include FBI agents, Secret Service agents, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Though siding with Smith, Cannon also criticized him in her 24-page ruling, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/documents\/806f8fa1-7bc2-4e54-9197-1177c898059e.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"obtained by\">obtained by<\/a> the <em>Washington Post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the Special Counsel\u2019s request remains sweeping in nature as applied to all potential government witnesses without differentiation \u2026 the Court is satisfied that the Special Counsel has made an adequate showing on this issue\u201d for now, Cannon wrote.<\/p>\n<p>However, elsewhere in the ruling, she criticized the special counsel for an inadequate response to a group of press outlets looking to make all the information in the case public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Special Counsel\u2019s response did not object to the Press Coalition\u2019s invocation of First Amendment principles, did not meaningfully engage with any of the legal standards, and did not offer any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-cannon-agrees-to-hide-witness-names-in-trump-classified-documents-trial\/\" title=\"Judge Cannon has consented to redact witness identities in the Trump classified documents trial\">additional factual support<\/a>,\u201d Cannon wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The next move in the case is to decide the trial date. Smith\u2019s team has urged it to begin as soon as possible, while Trump\u2019s team seeks to push it back.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon sided with special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s plea to protect witness identities in the classified documents case of former President Donald Trump. 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