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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: MRadtke
Trump had better check his returned passport for implanted bugs or other data gathering devices. Just saying.

Heck, his whole house.

121 posted on 08/15/2022 10:19:29 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: bitt
Defund this fascist bureau of wretched idiocy and impeach all involved with this outrageous unconditional episode.
122 posted on 08/15/2022 10:20:55 PM PDT by Chgogal (Uncle Brandon wants your money.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yup. THAT is a big issue. Trump needs to sue Wray.


123 posted on 08/15/2022 10:40:30 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I’m sure they didn’t look at them, at all./sarc


124 posted on 08/15/2022 10:41:08 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Lazamataz
........BAD THINGS MUST HAPPEN TO THE DOJ


125 posted on 08/15/2022 10:42:44 PM PDT by SpokeshaveReturns (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: bitt

Good thing they didn’t simply confiscate valuables

They would offer to give ‘em back minus processing fee of 25%

Did it to me


126 posted on 08/15/2022 10:42:46 PM PDT by wardaddy (Lawyers guns and money……I lived it…. Now I'm old…. I have wonderful children)
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To: bitt

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.


127 posted on 08/15/2022 11:34:41 PM PDT by Dragonspirit (CNN is the enemy. Ashli Babbitt is the hero.)
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To: Lumper20

sure as shit aren’t our federal employees.

Democrats Hitmen and grunts.


128 posted on 08/16/2022 12:10:22 AM PDT by SPDSHDW (Buy JHP ammo, Level 3/4 armor and rifles. Won’t be able to for much longer, and we’re gonna need em)
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To: bitt

Over collecting is now what the FBI/DOJ calls a “dirty/defective warrant”???.


129 posted on 08/16/2022 12:53:06 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: bitt
FBI agents may also have mistakenly collected privileged documents and plan to return those.

Mistakenly my Aunt Fannie's fanny.

You screwed the pooch Garland. I hope it costs you dearly.

130 posted on 08/16/2022 2:15:00 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: bitt

“Overcollected”, which means they stole documents, digitized them, and scoured them for use later.


131 posted on 08/16/2022 2:19:15 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: bitt

They are looking for damming evidence that will crush them and all involved where they stand


132 posted on 08/16/2022 3:50:31 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: bitt

Trump needs to get his family safe.


133 posted on 08/16/2022 3:51:14 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: bitt

“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.


134 posted on 08/16/2022 3:54:23 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: bitt

Is Panty Wrayd going to return Melania’s dainties?


135 posted on 08/16/2022 3:56:03 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: Kevin in California

They Wray-did Melania’s dirty clothes hamper.


Panty Wrayd


136 posted on 08/16/2022 4:01:29 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Steely Tom; ckilmer
“OVER-COLLECTING EVIDENCE” = UNCONSTITUTIONAL RAID<<<

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.


137 posted on 08/16/2022 4:02:20 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️𓊹 𓌃 "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️)
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To: cuz1961

Lame.


138 posted on 08/16/2022 4:09:15 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: MRadtke

The article said passports, not passport. I didn’t know one could have more than one passport unless dual citizenship or an expired one.


139 posted on 08/16/2022 4:12:39 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question authority)
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To: MRadtke

The article said passports, not passport. I didn’t know one could have more than one passport unless dual citizenship or an expired one.


140 posted on 08/16/2022 4:12:39 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question authority)
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