Team Biden’s bid to keep Mar-a-Lago raid affidavit sealed is rejected
The judge that approved the Mar-a-Lago search warrant rejected the government’s argument to keep the related affidavit sealed. Judge Bruce Reinhart held to the August 25, 2022, deadline for the government to propose redactions. Donald Trump has requested that the entire affidavit be unsealed, with no reactions.
From the Post-Millennial:
“The Government argues that even requiring it to redact portions of the Affidavit that could not reveal agent identities or investigative sources and methods imposes an undue burden on its resources and sets a precedent that could be disruptive and burdensome in future cases,” wrote Reinhart. “I do not need to reach the question of whether, in some other case, these concerns could justify denying public access; they very well might.”
He continued: “Particularly given the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former President’s residence, the Government has not yet shown that these administrative concerns are sufficient to justify sealing.”
Reinhart said that he gave the Department of Justice an “opportunity to propose redaction” last week, giving the Biden regime a deadline of Thursday, August 25.
“Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that by the deadline, the Government shall file under seal a submission addressing possible redactions and providing any additional evidence or legal argument that the Government believes relevant to the pending Motions to Unseal,” the motion says.
Reinhart said on Thursday that the entire affidavit should not be kept under seal despite claims by the DOJ that the release would jeopardize future steps in the investigation.
“Reinhart will then review those redactions and determine how best to proceed — whether to accept the recommendations from government prosecutors or perform his own redactions instead,” reports Fox News.
The Post Millennial has the article here.
Democracy Dies In Darkness. Let the sun shine in.
From H.A.I.R.
Facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes
Singing our space songs on a spider web sitar
Life is around you and in you
Answer for Timothy Leary, dearie
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Was going to say hair today gone tomoro but the 5th Dimension is still around.
This:
I don’t always envision a carpet bombing of a crowd of people until they’re mulch, but when I do it’s because I’m watching that dumb clip of Hair.
I have more contempt for the ‘peace at any cost’ than the ‘war for any reason’ folks. Greed is easy to excuse, being a pussy is not.
Hey, it was a movie and “deep”… but, as Curtis LeMay said about war: “You’ve got to kill people, and when you’ve killed enough they stop fighting.” (And Patton: “No dumb bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”)
Generally I think censorship is abhorrent, but practically those cops would’ve gotten beers and stogies on me.
Dirty hippies carry diseases.
I think they had the right idea then.
I’ll bet there is no such document and never was.
And I’ll take that bet.
The same judge who approved the warrant is now going to release a non-existent affidavit that very warrant was based on? That’s your theory?
I bet it does exist — but the judge is a rat fleeing a sinking ship.
The Plea Bargain Dollar Store Judge did not do an Epstein over the Crimson Donkey/Pink Rino Files, nothing to see here!
Sounds like this judge is covering himself and throwing the stooges that came before him to the wolves. I’m imagining –
…”they” came before the judge with a request for a warrant that was pretty flimsy. Judge made a huge mistake granting it
…”they” then justified the raid by referring to the “legal warrant which they got because a judge agreed with the justification”. Judge said, oh no you don’t. If what was sought/found and the justification for it wasn’t what you said, that’s not on me.
…”they” are in a panic their b.s. will now be exposed.
Was going to say almost the same as your comment popped up while I was looking at the screen. Joyce Kauffman on WFTL 850 AM radio, Florida mentioned basicaly the same thing around 45 minutes on her show.
Thats 45 minutes ago on my above response
Spot on OAM. Ya nailed it! And some wonder why we love and respect you so much. Them plasticized scrawny Sunday Gunz Girlz ain’t got nothing on you. Give us a real woman, that is soft, curvy, can think, and cooks…any/every.damn.day.
I gots some smashed taters, butteredmilk cat heads, and a skillet of gravy to go with that fried chicken.
One of these days KoB, there’s going to be a knock on your door. Have you seen what is going on in my state? And I just got a notice from the tax man for an 11.6% increase in my property tax!
Just one question-what are “buttered milk cat heads”?
Hand made biscuits, Ma’am. Called so for ingredients and size. About as Southern as one may get.
Biscuits made with butter milk and buttered. ’bout the size of a cat’s head with little “ears” formed when you place them hand patted rascals out on the baking sheet. Pro tip on The Colonel’s (Original) Recipe. Part of the secret was using a pressure cooker and putting the finished product on a wire rack/tray for draining purposes. Back yonder we could run up to 24 pots on the line, pumping fresh shortening thru pipes, 12 minutes from drop in/cap to done. Spot on about the “wait for the temp to come back up”. Critical step there. Mother’s Day 1971 I cooked 3800+ birds. Company one day record for a long time. Met Col Sanders several times, he and I cooked/made gravy together. Good Old Man. He loved the stores but hated KFC Nat Mngt and JY Brown.
C’mon, I’ll leave the light on for ya. Need be, I’ll come and get ya. It’s only ’bout 850 miles/13 hours.
🎶 “Been driving all night, my hands wet on the wheel…🎶
SWAMP
That chart is incomplete. Where are the lawyers?
Are they not the bottom feeders?
https://youtu.be/uG3uea-Hvy4
Slightly below the bottom feeders.
https://youtu.be/cd_EEFI0PqQ
Leaving sh*t behind despite cooperation and having the Archives go through stuff already isn’t “probable cause” for a raid.
DoJ will just use one of those CIA black highlighters to do their redactions.
You might be able to read a page number at the bottom when they’re done
Waiting for TAH’s legal scholar top chime in…
Most assuredly that is not I, but I do have a good fallback.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
More damn “shall” statements- those are so hard to refute. It’s almost like they were written that way for a reason.
Until the left knows the pronouns of “shall” and the definition of “is” and what effects it has on climate changing gender, we will never really know if they know the reason.
Don’t really care. See how they had to weasel-word after the “shall” by adding “unless” or other non-existent phrases like “Good and Substantial?”
Justice Tony said it.
I have empirical evidence that proves to all of you that ORANGE MAN BAD!!! It’s do damning that I can’t show it to you… you have to trust me on this!
Trust but verify(Thanks, Mr Raygun), the remote viewing team will get right on that after checking the magic eight ball.
If the affidavit says that Trump went tinkle on a Russian prostitute I may, for reals, actually die laughing.
The judge did say you won’t understand any of it due to redactions. At least he will make for sure it will.
Can’t the judge read the unredacted affidavit and decide if doj is telling the the truth or just blowing smoke?
The affidavit might well state “a confidential source, a member of the ex-president’s staff, who served as [REDACTED] was present when TS/SCI documents were placed in cardboard boxes and shipped to the ex-president’s estate, and who wishes to be remain anonymous, provided a statement, subject to the penalties of perjury and filing of a false law enforcement report, that such documents were not returned to the National Archives and/or the Department of Defense upon request, and that as of [DATE] were still present in Room XX, Xth floor, of the ex-president’s estate.”
“This (FBI) agent has confirmed that the affiant was in fact in position [REDACTED] and had frequent close contact with the ex-president, as demonstrated by the following calendar entries [REDACTED]. Further, personal interviews with the Secret Service detail assigned to protect the ex-president has confirmed that there is a Room XX on the Xth floor, used for storage of boxes.”
That will get you a search warrant.
The more I hear about this, the more the idea there will be no ‘push’ from this situation curses my brain.
Either the pResident violated a private citizen’s civil rights, worthy of impeachment, or PDJT is a “treasonous asshat”, possibly indictable to a lesser offense, but still…
Talk about willfully, and gleefully imo, walking straight the fuck into a lose-lose situation: evidence we have a criminal state, or proof of a criminal state.
First, no, it wasn’t rejected. The judge just asked them to see if there is anything they could release after redactions.
Second, if you read the court record you would know that Trump’s team didn’t even file papers for it to be unsealed. It was a PR stunt and the judge called their bluff.
If this were to be released it would show in much more clear terms how guilty Trump likely is.
The only value it provides to Trump is the potential to identify how many informants he has around him.
Every excuse he has made so far has been debunked or shown to be nonsense. Some excuses were even admissions of guilt.
And with over 300 classified documents found after his team filed an affidavit saying there were no more National Security documents at Mar a Lago he is fucked.
And that 300 is the current count. It is likely over 700. They are still going through and cataloguing the boxes of documents that Trump stole and then LIED about still having.
Riddle me this, oh wise one:
When the FBI was going through the documents, why didn’t they take the classified items then? Why did they recommended a better lock on the storage facility? If these documents are as volatile as they’re saying, then isn’t the FBI complicit by NOT removing them?
A couple of things…:
“When the FBI was going through the documents, why didn’t they take the classified items then?”
-They did, along with what has been declared to be protected materials under attorney-client privileged items, AND the (former)-President’s passports. (very not legal)
“Why did they recommended a better lock on the storage facility?”
-The They here is a different ‘they‘ from the FiB (Archivist link). (National Archives may as well be functionaries of the swamp, evidently)
“If these documents are as volatile as they’re saying, then isn’t the FBI complicit by NOT removing them?”
-Perhaps. Them FiB dicks have no idea what was declassed and a bunch of wonks with a thousand hours would give you a bevy of opinions on what is, and what ain’t, ‘Seeecrit’. (Without the warrant, a trial, ‘experts’, and an impartial jury NOT in a star chamber, we’ll never know!!)
Pure shit show.
Thanks for the clarification, it still adds up to a vindictive dog and pony show. It’s nowhere near anything Justice related.
Last night, John Solomon posted NARA’s letters to Trump’s attorneys on his website. Politico has an article, with links to the letters, here:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/23/national-archives-letter-trump-security-00053250
In short, there were a lot of classified documents, and the Trump team seemed to at best slow-walk their return and their cooperation, and more likely were improperly cavalier about their handling.
Virtually any of us would be in trouble for that.
(crocodile tears and emphatically-performative handwringing aside…)
IF there was special access info there, not only did they know it was there, they’ve known since 20JAN21. No doubt.
So just now it was an issue?
Until they give a great reason, not just a ‘good nuff’ as implied, everydamnthing about this stinks. Bigly.
It’s your Constitution too, jussayin.
At this point, what difference does it make?
Want to know how I know you didn’t read the article?
There was a long-running process of trying to get these documents back. They were engaged throughout 2021 to get the first set of documents back, in January of 2022, which included SAP and TS/SCI material.
The only reason it’s taken so long to reach this step is because they exhausted -and documented- all the other previous efforts.
So, no, it was always an issue – but after a year and a half of asking nicely and being blown off, showing great deference to Trump because he is a former POTUS, they now escalated things, because NARA was not getting the cooperation warranted (see what I did there?) for this kind of material.
You don’t think delaying returning highly classified material for over a year and a half is a great reason to see this as an ‘issue’?
Are YOU the alpha-beta boi in my ‘puter?!
This explains muchly… (I quoted the
articlepropaganda piece, fuckface)Don’t you think his lawyers, with full knowledge of the situation, what was seanced into Fuck You Material and why it was important to hold onto or covet like his life depended on it?
Besides, it was Joe that authorized this intro into Banana Republic territory. Keep lauding the failures of personal property’s sanctity, Authoritarian Bitch.
-or- PDJT is guilty (but pressing X to doubt).
(You don’t read statements so good yourself, btws https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=129630&cpage=1#comment-3439489 )
It hasn’t been an issue in the past. Why is it now? What changed?
What has changed is Democrats in general, Nancy Pelosi in particular stating the Donald Trump in particular, and anybody of his kind in general, will not be allowed to hold the office of President.
Who is to say the current administration didn’t reclassify that which had been declassified to make it a criminal activity.
I wouldn’t put it past the m’fers
to do just that
Sorry OAM, please excuse my abbreviated language.