:: who ordered and for what reason did the FBI invade the house of the whistleblower ::
Common sense and Socratic logic tell us that this type of order to the FB_ would have necessarily passed by C. Wray, especially if the initial request came from Mueller.
Wray is a Trump appointee making ME think that that the request did NOT come from Mueller and that the documentation being handed to Congress might be used as leverage with Comey and/or Lynch testimony.
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“The bureau raided my client to seize what he legally gave Congress about the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One,” the whistleblower’s lawyer, Michael Socarras, told TheDCNF, noting that he considered the FBI’s raid to be an “outrageous disregard” of whistleblower protections.
The raid was permitted by a court order signed on Nov. 15 by federal magistrate Stephanie A. Gallagher in the U.S. District Court for Baltimore and obtained by TheDCNF.
“For the bureau to show up at Mr. Cain’s home suggesting that those same documents are stolen federal property, and then proceed to seize copies of the same documents after being told at the house door that he is a legally protected whistleblower who gave them to Congress, is an outrageous disregard of the law,” he continued.
“I cannot believe the Bureau informed the federal magistrate who approved the search warrant that they wanted to search the home of an FBI whistleblower to seize the information that he confidentially disclosed to the IG and Congress,” Socarras told TheDCNF.
The whistleblower act is intended to protect whistleblowers within the intelligence community, which includes the FBI.”
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/29/fbi-whistleblower-clinton-uranium/
“the documentation being handed to Congress might be used as leverage with Comey and/or Lynch testimony.”
Perhaps my wording was confusing so let me clarify.
1. The whistleblower had already given the documents to Horowitz and to Congress willingly. This part addresses your comment above.
2. The raid of the house was afterwards. This is what I was concerned about. One other fact that the article mentions is that the whistleblower status was ignored by the FBI.
Who ordered the raid and why was the raid necessary are the key questions. I do not know if it is Mueller (that would be huge if it were - which is one reason that I am asking this question) but if it was it would probably not go through Wray. I do believe Mueller uses FBI resources (e.g. the raid on Manafort’s home). He requires a court order to conduct the raid.
Wray is a Trump appointee making ME think that that the request did NOT come from Mueller and that the documentation being handed to Congress might be used as leverage with Comey and/or Lynch testimony.
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I like this scenario.