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DOJ admits to over-collecting evidence in raid, offers to return Trump passports
justthenews.com ^ | 8/15/2022 | john solomon

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.


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To: Round Earther

exactly

they were not in a box of documents


41 posted on 08/15/2022 7:29:49 PM PDT by joshua c (where did my tagline go?)
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To: Whatever Works

Your screen name seems to be the FBI’s new motto.


42 posted on 08/15/2022 7:30:23 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: bitt

Sounds like they are inciting patriotic Americans to violence.


43 posted on 08/15/2022 7:30:39 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: bitt

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mnhdqGAYYWU

1m 9s


44 posted on 08/15/2022 7:30:55 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Steely Tom

“Fruit of the Poison Tree” is a perfect summary of the FIB’s pillaging of Mar-a-lago.


45 posted on 08/15/2022 7:31:20 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: joshua c

but they are keeping the dirty panties from the hamper

they have already been sent to delaware

..........
A well needed laugh right there ....thanks


46 posted on 08/15/2022 7:31:45 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: bitt

FBI agents may also have mistakenly collected privileged documents ….

No mistake…..they were there before the big raid.


47 posted on 08/15/2022 7:32:18 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: bitt
Thanks for thread!

Trump got em red-handed!
Sorry crooks!

48 posted on 08/15/2022 7:32:50 PM PDT by djstex ( (All I Have to say.... Trump Was Right About Everything))
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To: Lazamataz

You are right. Our FEDERAL employees have trashed the USA we grew up in.


49 posted on 08/15/2022 7:34:42 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: sasquatch
"They cannot return passports; he’s a flight risk. /s

I'm surprised they didn't confiscate his plane. That's probably next on the list.

50 posted on 08/15/2022 7:35:25 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: bitt

I’ll bet they didn’t find anything they can use.


51 posted on 08/15/2022 7:36:20 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: bitt
"Overcollect"?

It was theft, pure and simple. They knew they were passports and took them anyway.

52 posted on 08/15/2022 7:37:03 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: All
"FBI agents may also have mistakenly collected privileged documents...

Mistakenly. Yeah, Right. Purely an accident.

We aren't ALL as stupid as you jackbooted thugs wish we are.

53 posted on 08/15/2022 7:37:16 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: sasquatch

Incoherent Trump haters were literally saying that on twitter today.


54 posted on 08/15/2022 7:38:01 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: bitt

I’m sure the FBI has copied the attorney-client privileged documents and they now reside in a file for future use.


55 posted on 08/15/2022 7:38:53 PM PDT by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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To: bitt

Thieves


56 posted on 08/15/2022 7:39:30 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Lazamataz
Absolutely.

It's TIME to #Restore the Constitution!

It's TIME to #DownSize DC!

It's TIME to eliminate entire Rogue/Unconstitutional Departments, including their SWAT Teams.

Restore the Constitution!Size DC!

57 posted on 08/15/2022 7:39:47 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Chewbarkah

I hope the entire once-respected DoJ is pleased that whatever credibility they still had has been spent making Liz Chaney feel better about Donald Trump saying mean things about her and her daddy.


58 posted on 08/15/2022 7:41:34 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: bitt

“We can return his passports (current and old) now that we’ve checked to see if he went to Epstein Island. Nothing there, DAMN!”

“Overcollecting - It’s What We Do” Is that the new motto for the 87,000 new IRS agents?


59 posted on 08/15/2022 7:42:36 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: bitt

Fing scumbags.


60 posted on 08/15/2022 7:43:27 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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