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Former President Donald Trump is now requesting a copy of the warrant used to justify the raid at his Mar-a-Lago residence. According to a reports, Trump and his legal team are likely to seek a court order forcing the FBI and the Justice Department to provide him with a copy as well as the affidavit.
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: network dude
What they are stating it that they did not have access to all. And 12 or so more boxes were hidden and obtained this week.
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: network dude
That has not been claimed by anyone except who, Eric? His attorneys know what they were seeking, what they found, and what crime that is believed to have occurred. Hence the distraction from them not releasing the warrant on their own. Monday a request by outside sources goes before the court to unseal it.
JONATHAN TURLEY: The more we learn, the more confusing this gets. What did they possibly tell Reinhardt? Did they relay this history to the magistrate? That, according to these sources, that the president had cooperated. I mean, the idea that he was subject to a subpoena, complied with a subpoena, didn't challenge it, voluntarily showed the storage room to the agents, followed their advice, secured it to meet their demands. All of that is hardly a basis for saying now we need to send in 40 FBI agents on a nighttime raid. I mean, if the subpoena worked the first time, then presumably a second subpoena would work the second time if there were remaining documents that were not gathered up in the first collection. What we have to find out is the details.
Garland has stressed repeatedly in public statements that the Justice Department speaks within the boundaries of court filings. Customarily in a criminal case, a search warrant and inventory of items seized would only become public after the Justice Department files charges in court — an event that may never come to pass with respect to Trump and his handling of classified documents.
"This matter is one of utmost public interest, involving the actions of current and former government officials," the Times' lawyers added. "President Trump decried the search as an 'assault that could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries,' asserted agents 'even broke into my safe,' and otherwise publicly challenged the validity of the search and governmental action."
Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart, who approved the search warrant, ordered the Justice Department to respond by August 15.
Trump himself, presumably, has a copy of the warrant and the inventory. And he could wave it around and say, 'Here's what they were looking for, and here's what they took.' But it seems that he would do that if it suited his purposes, and he's not doing that."
MSNBC
Among them is a desire to "protect the person under investigation" from the taint of a criminal inquiry that might never result in charges, said Barb McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor and former US attorney in Detroit.
originally posted by: frogs453
It's being reported that there was a grand jury subpoena in June. Which was when the Counterintelligence team went down there to get documents. Some were returned. After speaking with people at MAL it was determined that there were more that were not turned over. Hence a search warrant this time around. They also requested surveillance footage to see who has been accessing the materials.
So they tried to get all the materials in February, June and finally got them with the search warrant in August.
The FBI search at Mar-a-Lago this week came months after federal investigators served an earlier grand jury subpoena and took away sensitive national security documents from former President Donald Trump's property during a June meeting
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, people familiar with the matter tell CNN.
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: network dude
They found documents he didn't turn over and that were obviously not with the rest of them. After months of requests and a subpoena. If a subpoena won't make you turn over everything, what will? And they can't search with a subpoena. If he says, all the stuff is right here, they can't go looking for what is hidden. That's why they needed the warrant. He may say he was complying, but they had a belief he was lying, which he was, because they definitely found items this week.
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: network dude
They found documents he didn't turn over and that were obviously not with the rest of them. After months of requests and a subpoena. If a subpoena won't make you turn over everything, what will? And they can't search with a subpoena. If he says, all the stuff is right here, they can't go looking for what is hidden. That's why they needed the warrant. He may say he was complying, but they had a belief he was lying, which he was, because they definitely found items this week.
(C) Receipt. The officer executing the warrant must give a copy of the warrant and a receipt for the property taken to the person from whom, or from whose premises, the property was taken or leave a copy of the warrant and receipt at the place where the officer took the property.
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: shooterbrody
So because there were no leaks this is false? How about you wait and see the evidence. Maybe instead of "sky screaming" They did what they were supposed to do. Got info from his staff, Surveillance tapes of who may have been accessing the classified info he didn't return, and then listed what crimes they suspect in an affidavit, took it to the judge and then performed a search and recovered the items.
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: CriticalStinker
Is very clear we are now officially a communist country, and the FBI is the new gestapo working for the communist democrats.
Jesus Christ! A leftist who still pretends that "legal" things matter. FFS!