FBI Reportedly Seized Attorney-Client Privileged Docs During Mar-a-Lago Raid
Contrary to normal procedure, also reportedly is objecting to appointment of a special magistrate to oversee its review....
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Contrary to normal procedure, also reportedly is objecting to appointment of a special magistrate to oversee its review....
This is a replay of the Russia Collusion hysteria, where media competed with one another for "scoops" to generate clicks and social media sociopaths competed for Twitter followers....
The scope of the warrant and material seized strongly suggest that securing highly sensitive documents that could damage national security was not the only goal, and appears to be a pretext for a wholesale rummaging through former President and likely candidate Trump's files....
The inventory does not give any indication what the records were, other than that some were marked as having high classifications. What also is clear is this was a wholesale rummaging through Trump's office. They even seized a lot of boxes of documents that had...
As I warned when this started: "Be very suspicious of anything you hear in the media attributable to anonymous sources. The supposed leaks from unidentified persons supposedly with knowledge are either FBI/DOJ whispering in the ear of reporter-scribes which may or may not reflect reality...
Whatever it was, it probably had nothing to do with retrieving records claimed by the National Archives. The mystery Search Warrant is now subject to motions to unseal by Judicial Watch and others....
There's obviously a full-on DOJ-FBI effort to get Trump on something. That's part of what's happening here. But there's probably a lot that we don't know about how that is going to happen. I think we'll find out right after the midterms....
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