Posted on 08/15/2022 7:13:10 PM PDT by bitt
FBI agents may also have mistakenly collected privileged documents and plan to return those.
In an acknowledgment the FBI over-collected evidence during the Mar-a-Lago raid, the Justice Department informed Donald Trump's team Monday that agents seized the former president's passports and are obligated to return them, Just the News has learned.
The department was making plans Monday evening to return the passports and has also alerted defense lawyers the FBI may have obtained materials covered by various privileges that will be returned in the next two weeks, two sources told Just the News.
DOJ has designated a process for separating materials that could be covered by executive privilege or attorney client privilege, the sources said.
"Occasionally a warrant collection can grab things outside the scope authorized by the court and the department is now following a procedure we would for any person affected this way," one official said Monday night.
The sources spoke only on the condition of anonymity because the communications between the two sides are confidential.
The revelation came as Trump lawyers are discussing whether to go to court to demand a special legal officer be designated to review Trump evidence that was seized that was outside the scope of the warrant.
A former senior FBI executive said it was surprising that agents collected evidence outside the scope of the warrant because it was already worded unusually broad, unlike most warrants he said during his tenure.
"Trump’s attorneys could have a runway to argue the scope of the search is overly broad," retired Assistant FBI Director Kevin Brock said. "Search warrants normally require a level of specificity that seems to be missing in this warrant. Specificity is important in order to protect 4th Amendment rights from exuberant government overreach designed to find whatever they can."
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, whose conservative watchdog regularly sues the government to release documents and is seeking to compel release of documents in the Trump search, said the government's first court filings appear to describe an overly broad search that went far beyond classified records.
"They were engaged in a fishing expedition, and the warrant itself wasn’t about classified information, though it mentioned it," Fitton told Just the News. "It talked about all sort of other documents. It basically gave the FBI carte blanc to anything they wanted from the Trump home.
"And the fact that a judge signed off on it is very troubling," he added.
Do they get to keep Melania’s undies?
Even worse, he could BUY it!
Deep State will reap the rewards of this fiasco tomorrow, when Liz Cheney goes down in flames.
Will they have to return her old man’s bribe?
They’ll return the documents after they are copied and sent to the dnc to glean any embarrassing information from them
TRUMP: This is the best anonymous country. It's a beautiful anonymous country. They say I fit in here better than any other anonymous person they have ever seen. In the history of anonymous people in an anonymous country, they have never seen anyone be as anonymous as I am! Your anonymity is beautiful-just a beautiful thing, they tell me. Nobody would even see me, better than nobody has ever never been seen-ever.
.....spent a little more time around Melania’s clothing than was normal......
“LOL. Yep, he can go to a Third World country . . .”
Isn’t the U.S. like them in many ways these days?
It won’t happen, but the ENTIRETY of DOJ, FBI, IRS, DHS, EPA, and NEA needs to be ended.
As well, all DOD flag officers and officers, and the top 5 echelons of IC leadership need to be replaced with hard core God lovjng, liberty loving, Bible believing, US and World History Context literate, and Constitutionally literate people.
That's what I was thinking too, but of course Liz Cheney and company will get copies.
And all guilty of subversion and treason hunger shot according to law, and all felons convicted and sent to Guantanamo.
And all guilty of subversion and treason must be hung or shot according to law, and all felons convicted and sent to Guantanamo.
I think we all know how that will turn out.
If you take a ‘5 Finger Discount’, somebody will need to tell the Security Guard it’s time to get off Tik-Tok and even her Smartphone.
“Occasionally a warrant collection can grab things outside the scope authorized by the court and the department is now following a procedure we would for any person affected this way,” one official said Monday night.
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I grow even more furious at their lies. The FBI must be shuttered. It’s corrupt to the core.
And stolen soiled panties!
“I would claim that cash, jewelry, and other valuables were also missing.”
Melania’s?
Didn’t Trump request a special counsel or something to vet any documents in question and he was refused?
“over collecting”??????
Just wow……..
Nothing like jargon to try to make yourself appear innocent when you screwed up big time.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were anyways.
Probably the DUmmies.
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