The clever tactic here is that it may not matter if they gain access to the records or not. That's less important than it seems. All they have to do is plant

The clever tactic here is that it may not matter if they gain access to the records or not. That's less important than it seems. All they have to do is plant a seed of doubt in the jurors. That's the step that's going to make this all rather crazy. I could claim my classified phone records put me on the other side of the country, whether it's true or false. It'll still create that doubt, and the gov't will deny the records exist either way.