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Records Suggest A Backbench Bureaucrat’s Partisan Grievance Spurred The FBI’s Nakedly Political Raid On Trump
The Federalist ^ | 08/15/2022 | Margot Cleveland

Posted on 08/15/2022 8:48:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 08/15/2022 8:48:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

As Sen Schumer threatened prior to Trump’s election:

Schumer: Intelligence Agencies ‘Have Six Ways From Sunday Of Getting Back At You’

https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/27/schumer-intelligence-agencies-have-six-ways-from-sunday-of-getting-back-at-you/


2 posted on 08/15/2022 8:54:44 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback for how the election & Covid was handled.)
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No it was from the top not a backbencher.


3 posted on 08/15/2022 8:56:53 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: SeekAndFind
Ferriero said. The retired archivist then explained how he remembered “watching the Trumps leave the White House and getting off in the helicopter that day, and someone carrying a white banker box, and saying to myself, ‘What the hell’s in that box?’”

One problem. Here is the footage of Trump et al departing the WH and arriving in Palm Beach on Jan 20, 2021.

There is no white banker's box to be seen.

4 posted on 08/15/2022 9:20:11 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: SeekAndFind
Finally, some facts instead of conjecture.

Has anybody checked to make sure the Obama Foundation kept its promise to digitize his records by August 31, 2021? I’ve read that not a single page had been digitized in the 5 years since he left office.

I’ve also read that NARA “controls” the warehouse in Hoffman Estates, but according to this article, the Obama Foundation rented a private facility in 2016. When exactly did they give NARA a key...and who is providing security for the facility?

You’d think some enterprising investigative journalist would dig deeper into this situation. I guess there’s not many of those ppl left these days. And if there are, they’d like to live to an old age. 🤬

5 posted on 08/15/2022 9:20:28 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: SeekAndFind
Maybe the search took ten hours because they were looking for copies, digital or otherwise, of documents which had already been returned. Such as the documents relating to Crossfire Hurricane which Trump declassified at the last minute but never released.

memorandum declassification-certain-materials-related-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/

To catch the big fish you need the right bait.

6 posted on 08/15/2022 9:20:45 PM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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Just like Vindman was used to get Trump..

This Never Trumper was just used as an IN.

They don’t care about this petty Librarian, they needed a pre-text.

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7 posted on 08/15/2022 9:34:16 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: SeekAndFind

Then, after a “confidential human source” reportedly told the FBI that Trump continued to hide classified documents, even providing “the location of those documents,” according to “two senior government officials,” the DOJ moved to obtain the search warrant.

Since when is it standard procedure for the FBI to plant informants in the household of former presidents they don’t like?


8 posted on 08/15/2022 9:36:37 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: SeekAndFind

“if these people realize what’s in this building they’re passing, we’re at risk here.”
Somebody has a very oversized opinion of they’re role in this world.


9 posted on 08/15/2022 9:36:45 PM PDT by TooBusy
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To: SeekAndFind

https://www.businessofgovernment.org/sites/default/files/Conversation%20with%20David%20Ferriero.pdf

Key quote: “At the end of an administration, actually during the inaugural ceremony, my staff is in the White House grabbing the records and transferring them to temporary storage for the next presidential library. This describes the basic record-keeping piece of our mission.”

Guess his team dropped the ball here, lol.


10 posted on 08/15/2022 9:48:05 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: SeekAndFind

Blaming the innocent Trump to cover up the guilty Clintons’ steal in 2001. Bill and Hillary left the White House with a moving van full of stuff that had to be returned six months later, because Bill and Hillary are failed people. Blaming Trump for stealing stuff from the White House is silly and everyone knows it.


11 posted on 08/15/2022 9:48:43 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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Good catch!


12 posted on 08/15/2022 9:48:55 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: DoodleBob

There is, however, a white Dunkin Donut box carried in upright position such as not to smear the confections within.


13 posted on 08/15/2022 9:49:20 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Seek refuge in Christ. He is your sword and shield.)
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To: SeekAndFind

From the article:

“The only difference between the Hoffman Estates’ storage of the Obama presidential records that began in 2016 and the Mar-a-Lago storage of Trump’s presidential records was that the documents were technically within the possession of NARA. But even though the documents were legally the property of NARA, Obama still had the right to access the records, including the classified documents.”

That’s no small difference, though. If I have someone else’s property in my house and that person or organization did not give me permission to keep it there, most courts would say that I had broken the law. Some might even have the impertinence to call me a thief.

“So if upon receiving the 15 boxes of documents back from Trump, NARA had legitimate concerns about the security of Mar-a-Lago — a strange worry to hold given that the Secret Service must safeguard the location to protect Trump and his family — a bureaucracy committed to the country and safeguarding her artifacts would have worked to arrange for the documents to be preserved under the auspices of NARA control in a location chosen by Trump, as it had done with Obama.”

The Secret Service is sworn to protect Trump and his family. Protecting documents might be outside their area of expertise.

“Given these problems with the underlying legal theories, targeting a political enemy and former president of the United States with a search warrant represents an unforgivable lapse in judgment.”

What I find amazing is that Wray, a Trump appointee, not only turned out to be a Deep State member all along but that of all the judges he could have gone to for a search warrant he managed to find another Deep State member. A MAGA judge wouldn’t even have listened to the evidence before throwing him out.


14 posted on 08/15/2022 9:50:53 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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ANYONE that has been in DC for ANY period of time is a swamp creature Wray is no different Wray was recommended by Christy what the hell would you expect??


15 posted on 08/15/2022 9:58:49 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Hmmm, I might test that theory. Go on vacation to DC and see how long it takes me to defend Biden’s crimes as fake news and witch hunts from the right.


16 posted on 08/15/2022 10:04:13 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

The emphasis on espionage has one person’s paw prints all over
this.

Who wants to run for office, and has an avalanche of espionage
all over her?

Look no farther folks. She’s got nothing to do these days, but
sit there thinking up devious plans for her public hacks.

She hoped to nullify any attempt by Trump to address her
activities, with his own problems. Oops, hasn’t happened!


17 posted on 08/15/2022 10:10:58 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: NoLibZone

Great piece. Touches all the bases and distills it down to its core. A pissed off librarian who wanted his overdue books back
and so the Biden administration opens a grand jury investigation and sends 30 FBI agents to spend 9 hours rousting the lender’s house. This fishing charade makes the fanciful Democrat narrative of 4 years of Russia, Russia, Russia sound almost rational. They only wiretapped him on that one. They didn’t raid his residence and take his property. Shameful.


20 posted on 08/15/2022 10:24:35 PM PDT by chuckee
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