Prosecutors searched email accounts belonging to Jeffrey Clark, the former assistant attorney general for natural resources who tried and failed to become acting attorney general in the last days of the Trump administration. Also searched were email accounts belonging to Ken Klukowski, a Clark deputy, and John Eastman, the right-wing attorney who helped lead Trump’s legal effort to reverse the 2020 election result.
But, according to a telling footnote, the filter team focused its initial efforts on any emails to or from Perry’s email address.
“The filter team has prioritized and expedited review of any email exchanges involving scott@patriotsforperry. com, which is presumptively used by U.S. Congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania,” the judge wrote.
The Clark records appear to largely concern a draft outline of an autobiography that the former DOJ attorney was working on.
The outline purportedly follows Clark from, as he described it, “a young deplorable in Philadelphia,” to the pinnacle of his career: winter 2020, when he showed Trump a letter that, if appointed AG, he would send to Georgia advising it that the DOJ had determined fraud rendered the election in the state inconclusive.
Clark, Howell suggested, tried unsuccessfully to shield his drafts as privileged, to keep them away from the prying eyes of federal investigators.
All drafts, she wrote, contained a line noting that “[n]one of this outline reveals privileged information.”
