That makes sense.
Any way you slice it, their bungling of the evidence renders it inadmissible because of the exculpatory evidence that was lost AND because the chain of custody for individual documents has not been documented and certified.
I would think these are “mistakes” that entry-level investigators would not even make. Seems almost as if they were deliberate and necessary because they planted the “evidence” themselves.
These "mistakes," if they are mistakes as you suggest, are a direct result of Jack Smith appealing Judge Cannon's ruling in favor of a Special Master to first review the documents to separate out the classified documents.
Smith appealed the ruling because he wanted to speed up the case and felt the Special Master would slow things down too much for his schedule. Cannon ruled that Smith must stop reviewing the documents until after the Special Master first reviewed the documents. Smith appealed and had Cannon's order overturned.
And this was the eventual result.
-PJ