Special Master to Review DOJ Evidence

| September 5, 2022

Special Master: A representative of the court appointed to hear a case involving difficult or specialized issues.

Small wonder Garland’s misnamed Department of Justice reacted like a vampire to holy water at the idea. They’re already down one. US District Judge Aileen Cannon has made public a more detailed inventory of items seized during the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Largo. What a list it is.

Innocuous items as the former president’s clothing, as well as magazine and newspaper clippings he kept.

11,179 government documents and photographs seized that bear no classification markings.

54 documents removed marked “SECRET,” 31 labeled “CONFIDENTIAL” and another 18 stamped “TOP SECRET.”

Agents also took 48 empty folders labeled “CLASSIFIED” with another 42 empty folders labeled “Return to Staff Secretary/Military Aide.”

It’s not clear why empty folders were taken. Fishing expedition? That part of the affidavit was redacted, Citizen.

Now this. Federal prosecutors claimed an in-house review had already taken place and only a small subset of the documents had attorney-client or executive privilege. Further scrutiny was unnecessary.

Judge Cannon disagreed.

Federal judge orders appointment of special master to review seized Trump records

Special master will review records seized in FBI raid of Trump’s home

Brooke SingmanBy Brooke Singman , David Spunt , Bill Mears , Tyler Olson | Fox News

A federal judge ordered Monday that an independent special master be appointed to review the records seized by the FBI during its raid of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and ordered the Justice Department stop its own review of the material for investigative purposes.

U.S. District Judge from the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen M. Cannon ordered that the special master be appointed to “review the seized property, manage assertions of privilege and make recommendations thereon, and evaluate claims for return of property.”

“The Court hereby authorizes the appointment of a special master to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege,” the order states.

Fox News first reported last month that FBI agents seized boxes containing records covered by attorney-client privilege and potentially executive privilege during the raid.

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This new twist has a couple effects, both Progs went a long way to avoid. It brings the astringent effect of sunlight to the rot in the DOJ, and it completely blows their timeline by dragging the whole debacle well past the mid-term elections.

Take our victories as they come.

Category: Government Incompetence, Schadenfreude

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11B-Mailclerk

It took them less than 48 hours to scan every document. Big hopper fed scanners can glow through a shockingly huge pile in minutes.

Now how do you force them to delete all the privileged items?

You dont.

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

You can get anything you want….

at Alice’s restaurant.

Eggs

Exceptin Alice

Thunderstixx

“I put that envelope under that pile of garbage”…

Old Arty Sgt

With keeping Trump’s lawyers out of the room and not leaving a copy of the search warrant, I really don’t see how any of this will end up in court. Who’s to say anything wasn’t planted. If Donald Trump, base on the evidence found, is guilty, then arrest him. That will not be done. Cause it’s all political. If it’s all sensitive information and needs to be acted upon NOW, then arrest him. If anything the Democrats will wait until maybe the end of Oct. All BS.

5JC

Some people don’t get arrested right away. A Grand Jury indictment will be the first arrest they see.

CDR D

Anything actionable likely WAS planted. After all, this is the same bunch of goons who:

* Pushed Russia collusion hoax
* Spied on law-abiding Americans
* Lied to FISA court
* Ignored Hillary’s server escapades
* Ignored Biden Family criminal activity
* Persecuted journalists at Project Veritas 
* Treats J6 trespassers like terrorists
* Goes after PTA moms…

My guess is they were really after anything that could stain their integrity (as if they had any to begin with), and secondarily frame Trump with anything, something they’ve been trying to do since 2015.

Fyrfighter

 ordered the Justice Department stop its own review of the material for investigative purposes.

Any bets on that happening?? Yeah, didn’t think so.. Department of Injustice will just go ahead with violating the law as they have in previous examples.

KoB

How much more sunlight is needed to see the rot inside the DOJ? I think that even Ray Charles can see it.

Odie

Stevie wonder, Helen Keller as well.

timactual

What category do those three passports fall under—TOP SECRET, CLASSIFIED, or TOP SECRET / SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION ?

USMC Steve

I have dealt with a whoooole bunch of classified material, and I never saw a classified passport. Because there are none. It is simply a travel document. If it were classified, you could not show it to anyone.

Skivvy Stacker

I wonder if they’ve turned up all those classified, Top Secret, President’s Eyes Only DD214s we’ve been told about by all those alleged posers we have so unfairly targeted over the years…. 🤔 

jeff LPH 3 63-66

One has to remember that the DOJ?FBI is the new Gestapo arm working for the Fuhrer Herr Biden and could do anything they wish to do

NDHoosier

A Special Master is needed because the Dept. of InJustice is full of Special Bastards.

A Proud Infidel®™

This kind of shit used to only happen in dictatorships.

Berliner

What about all of Melania’s clothes they “examined”. Of that I wonder how much went “missing” for “forensic examination”.

Thunderstixx

I hope that a fore3nsic examination of any and all garments touched by those agents was performed.
Let’s face it, they went through Melania’s lingerie and I can just imagine what one of those fux would do with it.
I wonder how many agents took samples of that home…
This whole thing is to divert attention from the actual biggest story of the last century, the Epstein Chronicles.
That list of people from the elite class of the world must be huge and must have the names and fetishes of several super higher ups in our world…

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

And of those SECRET and TOP SECRET documents, how many had been previously declassified by PDJT EO? (I.e., invalidating the cover)

5JC

If ever a case called for a Special Master this would be the one. A former president, complicated rules, laws and evidence, the DOJ seizing documents covered by privilege and a huge ball of politics during a mid term election.

This isn’t just a hot mess it’s literally radioactive. Garland must have been blinded by stars in his eyes or somebody leaned on him really hard to get him to go down this path.

Hate_me

It’s a post-Modern Dreyfus Affair.

SFC (R) Blizz

It’s amazing what people will do when they know there is no consequences for their actions. Let’s say the Special Master decides all documents and materials must be returned to Trump. #1 – We know that the documents will never be returned no matter what the judge says. #2 – Nothing will happen to anyone in the DOJ or FBI over the incident.

5JC

the FBI and the DOJ being in violation of a a judicial order would be an interesting thing. It sure would play hell with the idea of their consent decrees.

USMC Steve

This might make it more complicated to railroad the guy if someone not in the crooked circle of mistrust the FBI runs gets to see stuff. I suspect they will simply make inconvenient evidence disappear as they have done multiple times in the past. No one hits up the Feebs for obstruction of justice.