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Report: Merrick Garland Waited Weeks to Approve Warrant for Mar-a-Lago Search
Breitbart ^ | 16Aug | Husebo

Posted on 08/16/2022 1:58:42 PM PDT by qaz123

Attorney General Merrick Garland reportedly waited weeks to approve the search warrant of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago private residence.

While the establishment media suggested “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items the FBI” sought in the raid of Mar-a-Lago, it took weeks for Garland to make up his mind on whether to approve the warrant, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday

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KEYWORDS: didyousearch; garland; mal; trump; warrant
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Okay...if true, yet another glaring problem with this warrant and operation. And, again, if true this coming from a guy they wanted on SCOTUS and is now AG. Amazing. If this were a Republican AG, liberal lawyers would be marching on DC with pitch forks and torches.

Legal Definition of a Stale Search Warrant .... Should law enforcement wait too long after issuance of a search warrant to make the actual search, the warrant may become stale. Defendants may challenge a stale search warrant as insufficient to show probable cause; a successful challenge of this kind will render the evidence seized inadmissible in court.......https://legalbeagle.com/6552269-legal-definition-stale-search-warrant.html

Stale Search Warrants: “Probable cause, with time, dissipates” .... In a recent SC Supreme Court case, State v. Simmons, the court analyzed a search warrant for a computer in regards to child pornography. The “supporting affidavit was based on information from November 2013” and the search warrant was obtained June 2014 (seven months later).....https://www.everydayevidence.org/post/stale-search-warrants-probable-cause-with-time-dissipates

Tucker v. Florida – Stale Information in a Search Warrant .... In a criminal investigation, if law enforcement waits too long following the issuance of a search warrant to make an actual search or if they wait to long to act on certain information pertaining to a criminal act, the warrant or information could be deemed “stale.”

That means even if the warrant was valid or the information was sufficient to establish probable cause, a defendant may challenge this evidence if the delay was unreasonable, and therefore no longer supported by probable cause.

Most courts agree that warrants are stale 10 days after they are issued, but there are often subjective factors the court may consider.

https://www.fortlauderdalecriminalattorneyblog.com/tucker_v_florida_stale_informa/

And the 'staleness' doesn't apply to the signing of a search warrant, it also applies to the information contained in the affidavit and when the warrant was drafted. If the "documents" sought were so vital to the national interest and to the security of the United States, then why wait? Forget about the 18 months. Forget about the fact that they knew what was there and advised the President to put another lock on the SCIF or safe, which he complied with. Why wait for weeks?

We'll never know because, once again, the Keystone Cops are at it again and they have no idea what they're doing.

1 posted on 08/16/2022 1:58:42 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: qaz123

Trump is alleged to have had weapons of mass destruction in his house - yet it took Garland two weeks to decide to protect the nation from a nuclear threat?

Something doesn’t add up.


2 posted on 08/16/2022 2:04:27 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: qaz123

The strategerists have been working from a list about 10 pages long for 7 years. Action-items roll out every week throughout that duration. They’ve been timed especially to coincide with bad news for the dimowits. This magnum opus followed immediately after DJT’s magnificent showing in AZ. That was a signal event in this midterm cycle, showing the real President’s real strength. So they tried to nuke him this time.

They bit the shark, as we’re going to see day by day.


3 posted on 08/16/2022 2:06:20 PM PDT by Migraine ( )
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To: qaz123

It was just SO urgent.


4 posted on 08/16/2022 2:06:23 PM PDT by cld51860 (We’re doomed.)
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To: jeffersondem

Didn’t they wait so that they could find a cooperative judge?


5 posted on 08/16/2022 2:07:10 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: qaz123

He waited weeks because it had to be coordinated with Trump, the AG, Wray, Congress, POTUS, and certain pro Trump media pundits all being out of town. It took a supercomputer at NSA to come up with just the right time.


6 posted on 08/16/2022 2:08:02 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Fill your lamps!)
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To: jeffersondem

The article said “weeks”, w/o giving a number; but certainly more than two, I’d say.


7 posted on 08/16/2022 2:10:27 PM PDT by Migraine ( )
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To: qaz123

In short, the DoJ is going about the Reinhard Heydrich/Heinrich Himmler method of “creating evidence.” 🤦‍♂️😒😑🙄


8 posted on 08/16/2022 2:11:46 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: cld51860

Probably waiting for Tucker to go on vacation.


9 posted on 08/16/2022 2:11:49 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: fhayek

That was my thought.


10 posted on 08/16/2022 2:11:55 PM PDT by bwest
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Timeline. It was Jan 6th case building


11 posted on 08/16/2022 2:13:31 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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He had to get the timing right for the midterm elections. He did not want to jumpp too early and have the affect to wear off before the election.


12 posted on 08/16/2022 2:14:46 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (AL)
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To: jeffersondem

And the nuclear code/secrets stuff is absolutely laughable.

The President doesn’t have the launch codes. He, his Cabinet have authenticators to prove who they are, even though they’ll be directly in front of an Air Force officer that is carrying the football. The Air Force and Navy have the codes.

If anyone thinks that the Chinese don’t already have everything they need, you need to look at their next generation fighter. Feel free to detail the external differences between their jet and the F35. I’ll wait.

And millions, on both sides of the aisle, continue to fall for the propaganda.


13 posted on 08/16/2022 2:16:24 PM PDT by qaz123
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They knew they were going to pull this scam but held it until the magic 90 days from the mid-terms to make it more effective.

Mar-a-lago raid, August 8th

Mid-terms, November 8th


14 posted on 08/16/2022 2:16:37 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: qaz123

Last Monday Congress was out of session until September 6th, so no investigative committee can be convened for nearly a month at least. Also, there is a convention or a law (not sure which) that prohibits interference with the conduct of elections 90 days before an election occurs. August 8 was 91 days before midterms. The affidavit on which the warrant was based is “secret,” and nobody can compel Garland to reveal it, at least for quite awhile, as far as I understand. The search warrant is overly broad, but still did not appear to suggest they could search anywhere on the premises. The safe required, according to one of the legal experts, a separate warrant, but was broken into, anyway. The date of the search is the most favorable date they could get, politically. But we don’t know if its political, right?


15 posted on 08/16/2022 2:17:25 PM PDT by Missouri gal
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I doubt this was about urgency. My money is on Garland working a schedule backwards from November.

If the search was approved for last week, that must mean that it sets in motion a series of events that will culminate just in time for the mid-term election for maximum effect for Democrats.

-PJ

16 posted on 08/16/2022 2:17:42 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Migraine

This magnum opus followed immediately after DJT’s magnificent showing in AZ.....and isn’t that where he spoke publicly about his EO concerning Schedule F?

Some on here have said that the Schedule F thing won’t amount to much. Doesn’t cover all that many employees. Maybe. Maybe not.

One thing it does do is fire warning shots across everyone’s bow that this gravy train is coming to an end.

Can’t fire everyone? OK. I’ll just push, with the public’s help, to start downsizing, cutting budgets, eliminating positions, redirecting funds, etc etc etc. Forcing the admin folks onto the street since there’s been a hiring freeze.


17 posted on 08/16/2022 2:20:13 PM PDT by qaz123
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Obviously, they were waiting to see how much clout Trump had over the primaries. They saw the writing on the wall, which isn’t good for them in November, so they struck to bring him down. Totally political move which will hopefully backfire on them BIG TIME!


18 posted on 08/16/2022 2:21:00 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: Missouri gal

Great insight.

I’m wondering, if they were after anything in the SCIF, the SCIF being funded by the federal government, that the federal government has a requirement that they have to know passcodes and/or combinations. Kind of like your company’s IT guy having a master password to get into your company computer, etc. and the company having filters, etc, so they can see your search histories.

Lets just say, for arguments sake, that he did have some sensitive items in there, they knew about them(as they apparently did and told him to install another lock), and something happens. They need to get in the safe and there’s some sort of protocol. I’m thinking they wouldn’t need to bring a safe-cracker. That somewhere, someone had the combo or some other means of getting into the safe.

More questions, more stonewalling, more questions, more incompetence and lies exposed, more questions.


19 posted on 08/16/2022 2:26:51 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Prince of Space

Alaska will be very interesting.

The country will soon find out just how honest or 100000% corrupt the Alaskan political machine is.

They proved to be dirty as hell 12 years ago when she lost her primary but, miraculously won with write-in ballots. Most of which were completely illegible.

We shall see.

If Tshibaka wins, heads will collectively start exploding in DC. The level of their desperation will reach new levels, never thought of.

Hope is SS detail is legit. They’re going to have to be.

If I were him, I’d be reaching out to some retired Delta and CIF Company guys to augment the security around Mar A Lago and his place in Jersey.


20 posted on 08/16/2022 2:30:44 PM PDT by qaz123
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