NEW: In urging Judge Aileen Cannon to reconsider two orders that would, among other things, reveal the names of two dozen people who have participated in the Mar a Lago investigation, the Special Counsel's office filed a document available to Cannon and only Cannon. 1/
Specifically, the document -- in Smith's description -- "describes in some detail threats that have been made over social media to a prospective Government witness and the surrounding circumstances" & that "those threats are the subject of an ongoing federal investigation." 2/ 
Especially given the existence of that other investigation, you might therefore understand why the Special Counsel's office does not want that information shared with anyone, let alone Trump's counsel. 3/
But today, having reviewed the document at issue, Cannon ordered Smith's team to hand it over to Team Trump, finding an "insufficient basis to deviate from the adversarial process." 4/
If information about an ongoing federal investigation into threats to a prosecution witness is not worthy of an ex parte, under seal filing, I don't know what is. 5/
And the fact that this latest directive forcing disclosure was made in the context of Smith's motion for Cannon's reconsideration of two more extensive orders also forcing premature disclosure of investigative details and witness identities is mind boggling. 6/
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