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.
Heck, his whole house.
Yup. THAT is a big issue. Trump needs to sue Wray.
I’m sure they didn’t look at them, at all./sarc
Good thing they didn’t simply confiscate valuables
They would offer to give ‘em back minus processing fee of 25%
Did it to me
It was intentional. They did it to get access to the information on those documents which you can guarantee they will log and share with Democrat operatives.
It’s the same reason they took peoples cell phones. They want to see who they are calling and what they are saying so that they can counter act it on behalf of their Democrat masters.
sure as shit aren’t our federal employees.
Democrats Hitmen and grunts.
Over collecting is now what the FBI/DOJ calls a “dirty/defective warrant”???.
Mistakenly my Aunt Fannie's fanny.
You screwed the pooch Garland. I hope it costs you dearly.
“Overcollected”, which means they stole documents, digitized them, and scoured them for use later.
They are looking for damming evidence that will crush them and all involved where they stand
Trump needs to get his family safe.
“will be returned in the next two weeks”
That’s mighty white of them. Only two weeks to return stuff had had no right to steal.
Is Panty Wrayd going to return Melania’s dainties?
They Wray-did Melania’s dirty clothes hamper.
Panty Wrayd
Fruit Of The Poison Tree.
In the fullness of time, even a hyper-analyzed verse will make simple, plain sense:
Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
People started FIB-ing and soon enough, an entire world was built upon lies.
Lame.
The article said passports, not passport. I didn’t know one could have more than one passport unless dual citizenship or an expired one.
The article said passports, not passport. I didn’t know one could have more than one passport unless dual citizenship or an expired one.
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