This part of the article is either extremely poorly written or intentionally misleading.
It’s unclear if he’s referring to The NY Times article in this sentence, but that’s the leak he refers to originally so I assume it is. He’s provided no other sources. Bad writing to leave such ambitiously. Maybe that’s the point. Moving on.
It’s also unclear who is the “he” is in the sentence that says “he then went through the boxes”. The most logical person to think the “he” is Jay Bratt, since Bratt was the subject of the previous sentence.
But that’s a huge problem for two reasons.
One, The NY Times article doesn’t say Bratt went through the boxes. It says that Corocon went through the boxes. This is what it says: “Mr. Corcoran went through the boxes himself to identify classified material beforehand, according to two people familiar with his efforts”.
Since this article is from August 2022, there was a lot Turley didn’t know that we now know. Bratt was specifically prevented from looking in the boxes by Trump’s lawyers on that meeting. The DoJ said so in their response to Trump’s lawsuit:
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This raises a few questions. Is Turley that careless or is he being dishonest? Did Turley actually think the DoJ looked through the boxes and if so where did he get that information? Not from The NY Times, that’s for sure.
Your assertion that the DoJ was allowed to look and take whatever they wanted to is plainly false.