The Washington Post is reporting that there was a heated debate in the Justice Department over the decision to raid Mar-a-Lago in July 2022. The senior FBI agents objected that they believe that a consensual search was possible without the necessity of a raid. It was main Justice officials who overruled them and insisted on the raid. What is most striking about the account is that FBI agents were raising the very concerns that some of us voiced after the unprecedented raid on the home of a former president.
The Post describes a “tense showdown” a week before the raid. Jay Bratt, Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) of the National Security Division, joined other Justice officials to demand a raid. He was accompanied to the FBI by Assistant Attorney General Matt Olsen as well as two counterintelligence officials, George Toscas and Alan E. Kohler Jr.
Toscas previously worked on the Crossfire Hurricane and Clinton email investigations. He reportedly pushed for a raid.
The FBI pushed back hard, according to the Post. Steven M. D’Antuono, then the head of the FBI Washington field office was running the investigation and said that he considered the raid to be unnecessary and overkill. He wanted to arrange a consensual search. He reportedly even refused to conduct the raid without a direct order.
D’Antuono wanted to reach out to Trump’s lawyer, Evan Corcoran, who is a former Justice Department prosecutor to arrange the search. Reportedly, the objections angered Bratt and the meeting became loud and heated.
Notably, the Post reports that D’Antuono “also questioned why the search would target presidential records as well as classified records, particularly because the May subpoena had only sought the latter.” It quotes him as objecting “we are not the presidential records police.”
Finally, D’Antuono reportedly demanded to know if Trump was officially the subject of the criminal investigation. As head of the FBI investigation, that was a telling question. Bratt reportedly replied “What does that matter?”
It mattered a great deal. A number of us expressed surprise later that presidential records were such a focus of a criminal indictment. Presidential record disputes are ordinarily administrative or civil matters. It turns out that the FBI itself shared that unease.
While it took long negotiations, the Trump team had previously turned over boxes of material to the National Archives. In January of that year, they returned 15 boxes of government records, including 184 classified documents consisting of 700 pages. The Trump team had also agreed to give the FBI access to the storage room and complied with directions on adding security to the room.
When classified documents were found by both Biden and Pence after the Trump raid, they were also not subject to search warrants but allowed to have counsel look for additional classified material. In all three cases, the FBI seemed to approach the controversies as collection rather than criminal efforts.
However, Bratt and the other main Justice officials were unwilling to seek a consensual raid and maintained that the Trump team might move to hide or destroy evidence. Such actions would, of course, constitute serious federal crimes.
The fact is that highly classified documents were found at Mar-a-Lago and past representations made by counsel were later challenged by the FBI as false. The Justice Department told the court that it believes that there was an effort to obstruct their investigation.
What is striking about the report is the preference, yet again, for the Justice Department to take the DEFCON 1 option over other alternatives in a matter involving Trump. If D’Antuono was allowed to seek a consensual search, any refusal would have largely blunted any later objections. Yet, the FBI General Counsel Jason Jones (who replaced the controversial James Baker at the Bureau) followed his predecessor’s more aggressive approach.
The report will only deepen the unease over how the Justice Department will handle the classified document controversy. Since the raid, President Joe Biden and former Vice President Michael Pence were both found to have classified material in their private homes. In the case of Biden, some of these documents go back over a decade to his time as a senator and were found in multiple locations from a university center office to his personal library to his garage.
While special counsels are investigating Trump and Biden on the matters, the ultimate decision will rest with Attorney General Merrick Garland who must decide if prosecution is in the public interest. Few people want to see Biden, Pence, and Trump indicted. Indeed, the Justice Department maintains that it cannot indict a sitting president like Biden. To prosecute only Trump for such unlawful possession would cause a public uproar.
Yet, some of us have long said that Trump’s greatest threat was the obstruction allegations out of Mar-a-Lago. One of his lawyers is reportedly cooperating with prosecutors. Those allegations do distinguish the Trump case, but it was also undermined by the Biden and Pence matters. In both cases, the FBI was also told that counsel or staff also conducted searches and found no additional documents before further discoveries were made. That does not mean that Trump’s conduct could not be found to be knowing and more culpable. That case will have to be made with undeniable clarity and evidence.
Garland may face this tough call within the year. Polls indicate a deepening distrust of the government and the Justice Department in particular. A fifth of Americans now view the government as the greatest threat facing the nation. Fifty percent of Americans only trust the FBI “some of the time” or “hardly ever.” These polls are consistent on roughly half of the country expressing distrust in the FBI. What is truly shocking is that 53% in one poll agreed with the statement that the FBI acts like “Biden’s Gestapo.”
I have previously testified that these views are unfair to the many agents who put their lives at risk to protect us and the rule of law. However, this deep distrust is only worsening as we head into what could prove the most divisive and potentially explosive election in modern history. Of course, Garland could channel Bratt’s reported approach and just say “what does it matter?” But it matters a lot if Garland is concerned about the public accepting that justice rather than politics is being done.
Jonathan: So what else is in the news? Elon Musk claims to be a “free speech absolutist” and you applauded him when he took over Twitter. Well, Musk is now being put to the test re his commitment to “free speech”. He has been pushing the conspiracy theory that Covid-19 originated in a Wuhan bio-lab–a theory you have also pushed. Chinese state media have now demanded that Musk stop using Twitter to spread what they call a debunked theory.
How could the Chinese carry out their demands? Twitter is already officially blocked in China. But China has other ways to put pressure on Musk. Tesla is heavily dependent on a Chinese manufacturing hub–GigaShanghai that builds 750,000 vehicles per year. It produces Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y that are shipped to Europe. Unlike Tesla’s plants in the US Musk depends on a pool of low-paid workers in China who regularly 12 hour days. So China is telling Musk: “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you!”. Tesla is already facing severe economic problems. It’s stock value has dropped dramatically so being denied access to Chinese manufacturing capacity would have a crippling affect on Tesla.
So the Q is whether Musk will stand up to the Chinese or bow to their demands? No doubt you will urge Musk to stand up for “free speech”. But in the end, I suspect Musk will do what is in his economic interest. Tesla is his main cash cow so when that major source of revenue is threatened the CEO will probably tell you: “Sorry, Jonathan, business is business”.
Take deep breath. We have relieved you of your hall monitor duties so you can get some well deserved rest.
Dennis:
Elon Musk is not record saying that he is not, actually, a free speech absolutist.
The lab leak origin is not a conspiracy theory. It’s actually accepted by various government officials and entities.
List of those who accept that Covid originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology:
1. FBI chief Christopher Wray
2. The DOE (https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/mccaul-on-report-corroborating-his-investigation-concluding-covid-19-pandemic-originated-at-wuhan-lab/)
3. Dr Kristian Andersen of the viral genomics lab Scripps Research advised Dr Fauci on 1/31/20 that SARS-CoV2 was engineered before the pandemic was official declared. Fauci told him to move away from the lab leak origin to dissuade “conspiracy theories”, even though that’s where the data led. This was while Fauci publicly denied there was evidence of gain of function in the virus. Also while denying the US paid for gain of function research.
The list goes on, but the US government now accepts that the lab leak theory is likely. This is after those who put forth this theory were accused of xenophobia and racism, through the propaganda of the CCP.
“. . . the conspiracy theory that Covid-19 originated in a Wuhan bio-lab . . .”
Apparently you didn’t get the memo. Your handlers have dropped that talking point. Time to refresh.
There is zero trust for anyone who’s paid attention and I think that includes you, Turley
When do criminals at FBI raid Dear Leader Obasturd’s various enclaves? He’s no doubt got Top Secret communications with Soros and Xi stored away in half-a-dozen States and DC. Oh, wait a minute, I forgot, Black Presidents are exemot from State and Federal laws as well as US Constitution. Never mind…
Buuuulllllllshittttttttt. There was no disagreement or concern. Don’t believe a darn thing comes from the gov.
Gute: Buuuulllllllshittttttttt. There was no disagreement or concern. Don’t believe a darn thing comes from the gov.
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You may be right. They seem to be rushing for the exits from embarrassingly stupid and corrupt stances they held in the past. Witness Wray’s recent thought that his guy/gals/and others thought the virus was a lab escape long ago. How long before someone says, “I always believed the experimental vaccine was risky!” Believe nothing they say.
The DOJ and FBI are corrupt beyond remedy.
There are plans for a giant, new FBI building, probably something like the Castra Praetoria in Ancient Rome.
Instead of the Brutalist architecture so popular with government they should plan something refined. The building at 84 Foch Avenue in Paris looks nice and would be appropriate.
Better yet, no new building, turn off the A/C in the current one, and fire all of them.
More Turley paid tripe. Especially rich: “What is most striking about the account is that FBI agents were raising the very concerns that some of us voiced after the unprecedented raid on the home of a former president.” The pig cheated his way into our White House because that’s the only way he could get in–by cheating and lying, something he’s famous for and has done all of his life. He stole classified documents, resisted returning them, lied about returning all of them and forced the NARA to get a search warrant. He fomented an insurrection that resulted in millions of dollars of damage to our symbol of democracy, hundreds of Capitol Police were injured, 5 people died, all while the hog basked in the glory of the adulation of his fans and his power over them. He did nothing to stop the insurrection for over 3 hours, during which time he knew his fans were hunting down the VP with the intention of lynching him because he wouldn’t cave to his demands to refuse the certified election results–something he had no power to do. He still lies about his vainglorious “landslide victory being stolen by a rigged election”. And…Turley believes this hog deserves the respect accorded to a “former president”–multiple chances to return documents he stole that are classified? Respect is earned, Turley—not conferred by cheating your way into office and then mucking up the economy, public health, deregulating everything and alienating our allies. And, the DOJ was right–Trump wouldn’t have returned the documents because he can never be wrong, he wanted them to show off how powerful he believed himself to be. As Forrest Gump would say: “presidential is as presidential does”. The pig has neither the altruism, patriotism, moralilty or intelligence to be a POTUS. He’s just a narcissist who demands power, glory and adulation and will cheat, lie and do anything necessary to get it–and the Republicans are his enablers.
Meanwhile, Republicans continue the revenge tour, revealing what utter losers they really are–Ted Cruz–what a joke and what a fool he made of himself by confronting Merrick Garland with the false claim that the photo of Trump’s MAL office with classified papers strewn all over he floor was “leaked” to the press–it was part of Court pleadings–a response filed in public court. That white trash hag from Georgia made a fool of herself by accusing Biden of bearing responsibility for the Fentanyl deaths of 2 teenagers–both of whom died while the hog was in office. Then, she put on a little show of accusing a GA official of overlooking nonexistent election fraud, and talked over him when he tried to correct her lies–which is what they were-lies. Trump lost Georgia by 11,779 votes, based on multiple recounts and investigations that proved this to be true. But, MTG sill lies about it, claiming that thousands of “dead people” voted–which isn’t true.. Does Turley condemn her for continuing to lie? Then, there’s Hawley and Kennedy–the worst actors I’ve ever seen–trying to prove they are tough guys with their false accusations. Hey Turley: why don’t you comment about McCarthy handing over thousands of hours of security footage only to your employer–which has been conclusively proven to lie to its fans–which will disclose where the security cameras are located–useful information for the next insurrection when Trump loses a third time? To whom have they sold or given this information? McCarthy had to sell his soul for the Speaker’s Gavel, and this is obviously part of the price. How pathetic.
Classic Gigi. Maybe it is a satire.
You need help before your head explodes from TDS. Wow, you poor hateful soul.
You have something deeply, and concerningly wrong with you…you seriously need to verify your information before spewing so many lies in one single post….you are one truly sad, insanely misinformed, crushingly naïve, and small minded human.
Anonymous: name just ONE lie in what I wrote.
There are always lies. I quit even scanning your low IQ spiel
“More Turley paid tripe.”
It’s Turley’s opinion. You might not agree, but since he is recognized as an expert across the community of lawyers and professors, calling it tripe makes you sound like the ignoramus you are. Your entire rant is that way, but you asked for only one lie, which I provided. I should say it is not quite a lie, but rather blatant stupidity on your part.
NUTCHACHACHA, the very personification of tripe, oh, and dependence and parasitism. May we end welfare and affirmative action yet, Your Highnessette, or do you still need it to persist?
Moron.
Taxpayers want to know what’s really going on in the FBI field office.
The good professor may wish to clarify that when the public is polled on trustworthiness of the FBI and other Intelligence Communities the responses are almost always referring to so-called ‘leadership’ of those agencies, not necessarily rank and file members. There’s a clear distinction to be made between those who make the orders and those who carry them out. The public clearly sees the politics being played by IC leadership and can give the rank and file folks a lot of leeway and like the professor, the benefit of the doubt, since they’re not the one(s) ordering the raids of only Presidents they don’t like.
“After he left office, Donald Trump ordered his chief of staff to leak classified information to the press about an FBI agent and other adversaries. Experts believe that may be a felony.”
https://murraywaas.substack.com/p/exclusive-after-he-left-office-donald
So leaking classified information to the press is now going to be prosecuted? When will Adam Schiff be charged?
. Experts believe that may be a felony.”
Why didn’t they charge Comey when he had his friend leak classified information.?
We know with the Russia Ruse, both the Doj and the FBI had designated leakers, assigned to leak to the press.
Legislation regarding classified material is unconstitutional.
Classification, declassification and archiving of material is solely a function of the executive branch.
No branch of government or private citizen may adhere to enemies of the U.S.
The legislative branch has no power to pass legislation which usurps the power of the executive branch.
The judicial branch must support the Constitution.and exert its power of Judicial Review.
The singular American failure continues to be the Supreme Court.
The Congress and Senate are derelict in their duty to impeach and convict high-criminal Justices who usurp power and deny the dominion of the Constitution.
Jonathan: It’s really no big surprise that there was disagreement between the FBI leadership and DOJ prosecutors over whether to conduct a surprise raid on Mar-a-Lago. After the “Crossfire” debacle the FBI was was fearful that if the search of Trump’s residence turned up nothing the Bureau would have egg on its face. But D’Antuono’s trust in Trump’s lawyer, Evan Concoran, to turn over all classified docs was misplaced and ultimately prosecutors prevailed by showing the FBI leadership that Trump was still holding classified docs. The surprise search of Mar-a-Lago proved that. But D’Antuono did get something. The search was conducted while Trump was out of town and the agents who conducted the search did not wear the typical “FBI” jackets. So the disagreements within the FBI/DOJ over the search of Trump’s residence are a distraction. Such disagreements happen all the time and are not remarkable. What was remarkable about this case was it involved the unannounced search of a former president’s home and that’s why the FBI was over cautious.
And it is erroneous for you to conflate the Trump, Biden and Pence cases. Biden and Pence voluntarily agreed to FBI searches while Trump obstructed at every turn. But you say “few people want to see Biden, Pence and Trump indicted”. That’s true only with respect to Biden and Pence–not Trump. The Quinipiac poll shows that among Republicans fewer than 10% say that Trump should be charged. But overall 50% of those polled thought Trump should be prosecuted. And two-thirds thought Pres. Biden should not. Not quite the results you claim.
No doubt if Special Counsel Jack Smith and Garland ultimately decide to charge Trump for illegally holding top secret docs and obstruction that decision will be controversial. But if the fair and equal treatment of those that violate the law, without “fear or favor”, means anything it means no one is above the law–not even a former president.
Where is there evidence that Corcoran was being purposefully deceptive? As Turley notes, in the Biden/Pence cases, “the FBI was also told that counsel or staff also conducted searches and found no additional documents before further discoveries were made.”
In addition, you write: “After the “Crossfire” debacle the FBI was was fearful that if the search of Trump’s residence turned up nothing the Bureau would have egg on its face.”
No. I think the F.B.I. probably thought there more documents to be found there and that they would be found. Rather, after the “Crossfire” debacle, they were fearful of using a method that did not need to be used.
Dennis – you write ” . . prosecutors prevailed by showing the FBI leadership that Trump was still holding classified docs.” It is likely that the FBI knew that classified documents were at MAL. The FBI visited MAL and saw the boxes of documents there. Some of the documents already turned over to the Archivist were classified. But so what? They were not being sold off to foreign powers. They were safer there than in the hands of the DOJ, which leaked contents of some of the documents to the press as soon as they got hold of them. If Trump categorically rejected turning over the documents, then there might have been a justification for a raid. But, unlike Hillary Clinton before him, he was being co-operative with the Archivist and DOJ while still asserting his legal rights. A former President has a right to protect his office.
edwardmahl: Apparently, you didn’t read the WP article. It says: “Some of those FBI field agents wanted to shutter the criminal investigation altogether in early June, after Trump’s legal team [Concoran and Cristina Bobb] asserted a diligent search had been conducted and all classified records had been turned over,…”.Bobb’s statement was false. That apparently did not occur to the FBI. The WP article goes on: “Some FBI field agents then argued to prosecutors that they were inclined to believe Trump and his team had delivered everything the government sought to protect and said the bureau should close down its criminal investigation”. Jason Jones, the FBI’s GC agreed with prosecutors there was probable for a search warrant. But that was after the DOJ presented a lot of evidence that Trump was still hiding material at MAL .D’Antuono, head of the FBI office in DC, agreed but insisted he could persuade Corcoran, Trump’s attorney, to a search without a warrant. So, where does that leave your argument that “it’s likely that the FBI knew that classified documents were at MAL”? Full of holes!
As to your false claim that the top secret docs found during the search “were safer there [at MAL] than in the hands of the DOJ”–you can’t be serious? The FBI photos of the top secret docs were found all over Trump’s office–a place open to anyone visiting MAL. Do you really believe Trump’s office was “safer”, protected under government protocols for the safe-keeping and protection of top secret docs? If you do you are living in an alt universe!
Even more bizarre is your claim that Trump “was being co-operative with the archivists and DOJ while still asserting his legal rights”. Trump ignored NARA’s many requests for return of official records. He ignored subpoenas arguing all the material “belongs to me”. Trump obstructed every effort to return the docs. He agreed to return a few docs but held onto others. That’s a violation of the law. And a former president has no “right to protect his office” when it contains classified top secret governments. That’s the part you choose to ignore!
Well, there you go. Dennis McIntyre in a nutshell, as he chastises other commenters with, “Apparently, you didn’t read the WP article. It says….”
Well shiver me timbers. Dennis McIntyre now admits that the crossfire investigation was a fiasco. This coming from Mr. RussiaGate himself. Before today when did Mr. McIntyre say that crossfire hurricane was a fiasco. Now Dennis is admitting that the crossfire investigation turned up nothing. Dennis has been telling us for many months that RussiaGate was the real deal. Dennis says that the FBI didn’t want to have egg on its face for a second time. Professor Turley’s point is that the force used by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago was unnecessary and he compares it to the FBI handling Biden with kid gloves. Dennis, thanks for finally admitting that the FBI acted with malice in crossfire. We appreciate that your original acts of dishonesty have now been acknowledged.
Thinkitthrough: Shiver MY timbers! What alternate universe do you live in? What “force” was used by the FBI to search Mar-a-Lago? None. It was truly conducted with “kid gloves”. The SS was alerted ahead of time. No doors were broken down, no guns were pointed at the people at Trump’s residence. In contrast Biden invited the FBI to search his former offices and his residence. Same with Mike Pence. After the search of Mar-a-Lago Trump claimed it was “illegal” and demanded all the recovered docs be returned to him be cause he erroneously claimed “they belong to me”. Have you heard Biden or Pence make similar claims?
And I have never made any claims about “Crossfire”. I only mentioned it because it is referenced in the WP article as a reason FBI agents didn’t want to conduct a search of Mar-a-Lago. Read the article before you draw unwarranted assumptions. The search of Mar-a-Lago was necessary because Trump held onto docs he was not entitled to! That’s why the Trumpster is in so much legal jeopardy. Had he just returned everything when requested by NARA we wouldn’t be having this discussion. You are the one being dishonest for refusing to acknowledge the obvious!
Presidents don’t work for the National Archivist and are not required to follow his orders. Clinton refused to turn over to NARA tape recordings of convesations with an historian, his refusal was vindicated by current Supreme Court Justice Jackson, who wrote: “NARA does not have the authority to designate materials as “Presidential records,” NARA does not have the tapes in question, and NARA lacks any right, duty, or means to seize control of them.” Judicial Watch vs NARA, 845 F.Supp.2d 288 (2012). Obama has gone even further. Without almost no public or journalistic outcry, he has refused to turn over ANY Presidential Records to NARA, insisting on the right to physically possess those documents and digitize them under his own control. His control means that they will sanitized to flatter Obama. “Classified documents” were sent by the Obama Foundation to NARA , but Obama decided what was sent. As far as I know, no independent person has ever reviewed Obama’s documents to determine which were classified.
edwardmahl: The NARA website states: “The Presidential Records Act [1978] changed the legal status of Presidential and Vice Presidential material. Under the PRA, the official records of the President and his staff are owned by the United States, not by the President”. So what do you mean that the “Presidents don’t work don’t work for the National Archivist and are not not required to follow his orders”? Of course, a President doesn’t “work” for the Archivist but he is governed and subject to the PRA and is required to turn over all president records to NARA at the end of his administration.
And you completely misread the case you cite. In Judicial Watch v. NARA the plaintiffs sought access to audiotapes of conversations between Pres. Clinton and historian Taylor Branch who was preparing an oral history of Clinton’s years in the WH. Branch recorded 79 audiotapes. Judge Jackson ruled the audiotapes were “personal records” and not subject to the PRA and Clinton did have possession the audiotapes. And Judge Jackson was sitting on the District Court for DC, not the Supreme Court. You got both the law and the facts wrong in the Judicial Watch case! As you may recall Trump went to court to try to keep possession of the material seized by the FBI. In early Dec. the US Court of Appels for the 11th Circuit ruled against Trump. He had no legal right to the official records. After a review of the material “personal records” were returned to Trump.
As to the Obama presidential records, as you know the former president is building a presidential library. On its website NARA states. “NARA assumed exclusive legal and physical custody of Obama Presidential records…and NARA moved approximately 30 million pages of unclassified records to a NARA facility in the Chicago area…former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the Presidential records…”. So it is not true Obama “refused to turn over ANY Presidential Records to NARA”. NARA has exclusive control and custody of Obama’s Presidential records and it digitize them–not Obama.
I don’t how you can misstate the law and the facts so badly. Perhaps, it’s because you want to justify Trump’s claim over the presidential records he tried to prevent NARA/DOJ from keeping–because you erroneously believe Trump’s claim those records “belong to me”. They don’t. So you contort the law and the facts by falsely claiming Obama did the same thing. He didn’t. Once again, you have struck out and we are sending back to the farm team!
Never underestimate laziness and incompetence as an explanation for all things Washington. Of course, Washington people tend to be full of themselves and so they often don’t consider that as an explanation — including and regarding someone they consider an opponent or adversary.
If you can convince yourself of a conspiracy theory equally as absurd a QAnon in believing that Trump colluded with Russia to steal an election, then you can convince yourself that general overall incompetence and laziness is instead due to nefarious deliberate actions.
There is no basis for a belief that Corcoran is a bad actor. There is a basis to believe that Trump, who is incompetent and disorganized, has a staff that is equally so.
“I have previously testified that these views are unfair to the many agents who put their lives at risk to protect us and the rule of law.”
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True enough but you judge the Hekawi by Chief Wild Eagle and not Indian Crazy Cat. Here’s their measured response to a “balloon incident.”
Seems like all of a sudden the FBI is scrambling to throw others under the bus. A couple of days ago Wray claimed “Yeah, we thought it was a lab leak all the time.” Now this.
But nothing is changed. If an FBI puke comes up beside you at the Hatteras Lighthouse at dawn on 3/21 or 9/21 and asks you which way is east, take the fifth.
Naw, just point up!
This is just the tip of the berg disclosure. More disclosures are forthcoming and you will see rioting and chaos. The loss of rule of law corruption and stench is just too deep.
“The FBI pushed back hard,”
Who cares? What they needed to do was say no. That is what moral and ethical people do. Were the Nazis absolved from guilt because their political leaders told them to kill millions of Jews? Do people stand in the street naked like clowns because their leaders told them to do so?
Is the FBI filled with dummies that have no brains? The actions demonstrate a dictatorship is taking control.
” Reportedly, the objections angered Bratt and the meeting became loud and heated.”
Of course it became loud and heated. DOJ Nazis gonna Nazi
This information was obviously leaked to the Post by an FBI whistleblower. There must have been great gnashing of teeth by the editors of the Post about whether or not to release this story. Damn it if we don’t release this story and it comes out later they’ll accuse us of doing what we’ve been doing all along. This further proves that there are FBI agents who still have a conscience. Unfortunately they’re not in leadership positions at the FBI.
“D’Antuono wanted to reach out to Trump’s lawyer, Evan Corcoran, who is a former Justice Department prosecutor to arrange the search.”
Corcoran had Bobb sign a false declaration that a thorough search had been conducted and no documents responsive to the subpoena remained. Why D’Antuono would trust Corcoran is bizarre.
How we know that the search was not “thorough”? Biden and Pence both had documents show up after searches that had been described as “thorough”. (Hillary Clinton’s billing records showed up in a closet some months after she had conducted a “thorough” search.) The documents which were recently found by Trump’s people and disclosed to the DOJ were apparently moved off-site by an aide and returned later. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/politics/trump-classified-documents-maralago-eluded-fbi/index.html Thus, Corcoran could not have discovered them.
We know that the search wasn’t thorough because it failed to find hundreds of documents that were found in the FBI search, including some sitting in Trump’s desk drawer and in a leather bound box in his office.
“Biden and Pence both had documents show up after searches that had been described as “thorough”.”
Do produce the sworn statement about it. Here’s the sworn statement from Bobb:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22272913-220830-exhibits#document/p16/a2144462
What is meant by the word “ thorough” and what were they supposed to be looking for. Do you have the exact description of what they were looking for? If we are talking about classified documents then one has to first ascertain they were classified. So far that hasn’t been done.
You are full of hot air.
I trust the government and all of its branches zero percent of the time. I am thoroughly disgusted by their conduct over the last 6 years. There is no justice, just raw political power. And I thought the federal judge I argued before in Puerto Rico was a “problem” as I needed the First Circuit to reverse his unbelievable ruling. He is nothing compared to what we have witnessed with the Russia garbage, TDS and the censorship regime.
nucken futs. This is what is teaching our kids. Yet, our top law enforcement agencies are no better. At least Randi Weingarten doesn’t hide her Nazi-like rants proclaiming loudly how they are after our children to program them. Adolph Hitler had SS officers to protect his grooming of children. DOJ, FBI and Joseph Biden protect the Nazis Randi Weingarten and their sycophant clones