[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Unless crimes were committed in the copying or moving of the docs, it looks like a case of the FBI using brute force to protect the elites. Some have suggested that the white hats are executing a clever deception.

[Doogle]

It’s the Clinton way.....

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I read this morning some investigation is going on with regards to the crime family, read it right here on Freep.

Here it is....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3710945/posts

[ZULU]

This is an ongoing series of chilling violations of basic American rights by unelected faceless burearaucrats

The ENTIRE FBI needs to be dismantled and individuals involved in this AND PRIOR outrages arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned.
Tell me again about the “average honest agent in the street”.
He does not exist.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[mindburglar]

Would be nice to see someone set a trap for these stasi scumbags. Will make them all think twice about pulling this bullshit.

Just following orders is not a defense for violating a person’s constitutional rights.

[Aevery_Freeman]

At the risk of being repetitious, “How does our current situation differ materially from a Police State?”

[savedbygrace]

We keep hearing about how the vast majority of FBI agents are good guys who are not Deep State.

Apparently, all 16 of these agents are NOT among those.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Whistleblower advocates across the political spectrum condemned an FBI raid on the home of a recognized whistleblower who reported potential wrongdoing surrounding the Clinton Foundation, the Uranium One deal and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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This action just highlights the question, "WHY NO PROSECUTION OF THE CLINTONS"?

[Flick Lives]

“This isn’t how we should be treating whistleblowers who are coming forward with information about high level wrongdoing,” he told TheDCNF. “It sends a very strong message that you will be treated as a criminal even though what you’re trying to do is expose crime or a potential crime.”

Hello. That's the entire point of the illegal raid by the FBI. This whistleblower will end up in jail, or dead, or both at the hands of the corrupt FBI.

[eyeamok]

“When law enforcement officers intentionally mislead a court to obtain a search warrant, they are entering a realm of malfeasance that harms not just the individual or entity whose property is raided, destroyed and confiscated, they also harm the judiciary itself by depriving it of its efficacy as the guardian of Americans’ civil rights,”

And it should carry an Automatic 25 years to Life Prison Sentence and 100% Civil Asset Forfeiture for all those involved.

[Maris Crane]

It would not surprise me one bit to find that the scary raid was ordered by none other than...Christopher Wray.

And I will personally apologize to Director Wray if I am wrong. As if he would care about my apology.

[ExpatCanuck]

The white hats comment is an interesting take on this. Maybe the original documents were deleted by the black hats and the whistle blower has copies and the white hats wanted to get them before the black hats destroyed them and got rid of the whistle blower. We’ll have to see how this plays out.

[IamConservative]

Hard to get a read on this story. Did the guy steal government docs? Is the FBI establishing chain of custody? Is the FBI doing the bidding of the Clintons?

[Tom Bombadil]

Part of me wonders that if the Clinton foundation investigation is really underway in a form that could result in a trial, then maybe this raid might not be to criminalize the whistle blower but to solidify evidence provenance and reliability. Such a trial would be bigger than WWIII, and any prosecutor would want to own all of the chips before starting it.

[OftheOhio]

Nick Schwellenbach, the investigations director for the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group is the one who needs his office raided by the FBI. Does he have “For Official Use Only” material in his possession or how about classified, proprietary, bidding information. The man is a democrat operative from my past experience. How is it possible anyone outside of government is allowed to possess FOUO material. Do your job FBI.

[SERKIT]

Occam’s Razor would lead one to think that a raid (involuntary production of evidence) on a whistle-blower would only be done to discredit the person who voluntarily came forward, or punish the person for simply stepping forward.

[JGPhila]

In order to execute the search, the FBI had to allege probable cause to believe evidence of a crime would be found. Since this person is a whistleblower, it is hard to figure out what that might be, unless it is of the often used “false statement” variety. But, I imagine the creative department of the FBI thought of something. What concerns me is whether in the course of the search the FBI comes across other evidence “in plain view” related to other crimes not specified in the Affidavit of Probable Cause. If so, this evidence can be used to protect those in DOJ/FBI implicated in Uranium One to undercut the credibility of the whistleblower.