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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: bitt

Banana Republic


81 posted on 08/15/2022 8:18:01 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bitt

Mistake? Horseshit! Intentional thug criminal avtivity. Just like the rest of this administration. It csnt police or investigate itself.

War crime tribunals? Someday, maybe, if we ever win.


82 posted on 08/15/2022 8:18:58 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: bitt

what about the lingerie?


83 posted on 08/15/2022 8:19:04 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: Paladin2

FB-Gone!


84 posted on 08/15/2022 8:19:28 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: bitt

and this was the FIB “A”team out of
dc? Incompetent or liars, hmmm....


85 posted on 08/15/2022 8:21:22 PM PDT by rolling_stone (N'T DI)
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To: madison10

“Help themselves to some good vintages?”

Trump does not drink. They were sniffing Melania’s underwear; maybe trying it on.


86 posted on 08/15/2022 8:23:52 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: BobL

LOL. With that orange mane...


87 posted on 08/15/2022 8:26:00 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: lee martell

I think I’ll go down to Macy’s tomorrow and overcollect some jewelry and expensive perfume.


88 posted on 08/15/2022 8:26:18 PM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: bitt

In other news, men barricaded just outside a major US city,
and admittedly having robbed a major bank of $42 million
dollars, has offered to return $2 million as a negotiation
for a free pass on the $40 million still in their possession.

Evidently, the DOJ will consider it seriously.

(fictitious of course, but that is what the FBI is asking)

“Just forget what we did.”


89 posted on 08/15/2022 8:28:14 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: BobL

In the first Flint movie Our Man Flint, James Coburn knocked out a guy in the men’s room, put him in a stall with a roll of toilet paper visible on the floor. He turned his own suit coat inside out, put shoe polish on his face and hands, tied a towel around his head and ran out shooting into the ceiling and yelling Arab phrases and got away from the enemies tailing him.

Imagine Trump with either a shaved head or dark hair. Or with the cork style blackface in the Al Jolson era. Whatever works.


90 posted on 08/15/2022 8:28:21 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Husker24

RE: implicating FBI....

So not planting false evidence in the place, removing genuine anti-FBI evidence and destroying it elsewhere.

That makes a lot of sense. Good points.


91 posted on 08/15/2022 8:30:32 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Kevin in California

You never know what you’ll find in a hamper, under all the dirty linen.

During Prohibition, that’s where my father-in- law hid his bathtub gin.


92 posted on 08/15/2022 8:31:24 PM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: bitt
former senior FBI executive said it was surprising that agents collected evidence outside the scope of the warrant

To quote a geezer: C'mon, man.

Does he really believe we think he is shocked----shocked---the FBI did something over the top to Trump?

93 posted on 08/15/2022 8:32:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: bitt

Ah yes, “over-collecting”. So if I go to the bank for a hundred bucks, stick a gun in the teller’s face, and walk off with a thousand I’m just “over-withdrawing”.


94 posted on 08/15/2022 8:33:03 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: bitt

The FBI a**holes should return everything, with an apology, and then be arrested. Scumbags!


95 posted on 08/15/2022 8:33:12 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Beowulf9

He already had one of those...Rudy Guiliani.

We know how that worked out.


96 posted on 08/15/2022 8:34:11 PM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: plain talk; BobL
I was thinking more of "My Cousin Vinny" when Joe Pesci and Maurisa Tormei pull into the little town:

"Oh yeah. You blend."

97 posted on 08/15/2022 8:34:59 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: bitt

When they grabbed all the passports at Mar-A-Lago did one say he worked as a representative of Universal Exports?


98 posted on 08/15/2022 8:35:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Fai Mao

That is right, I forgot. I was thinking about what he might have served guests, but that is a dry household

I do not know how Trump watched the ransacking without breaking the screen. I would have been hard pressed.


99 posted on 08/15/2022 8:37:35 PM PDT by madison10
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To: rlmorel

Good one.


100 posted on 08/15/2022 8:39:56 PM PDT by plain talk
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