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.
So theft is now over-collecting. And don’t forget to send back Melania’s lingerie. These people are that sick.
Not going to happen Laz, you expect OUR SIDE to do a damn thing except fire off a strongly worded letter!!
The FBI believe they can trample on the POTUS Constitutional rights, and sleep well at night? They’re nuts.
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It was clear - they just wanted an IN.
I said it that day.
This was like the Lies to get the FISAs, which they most likely got here, and it’s sealed and the target is unaware, obviously.
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Bongino said they didn’t let the lawyer in because she knew exactly where the documents in the warrant were located. This way they can go on a fishing expedition and take everything. Probably Russia hoax documents that implicate the FBI and DOJ.
“Sorry about that. Why don’t you come down to the station and we can get everything straightened out.”
Passports. Got it he has a red (official) passport therefore he is commie spy. They finally got him (s)
“OVER-COLLECTING EVIDENCE” = UNCONSTITUTIONAL RAID
nope....trump has used the media on THEM..HA
They Wray-did Melania’s dirty clothes hamper.
Ok guys, take whatever you want to take. We just won't tell anyone your names otherwise they might sue you. Or if there was truly a Justice Department they might want to throw you in jail.
Perhaps “over-collecting” is SOP.
DOJ CONFESSES to over-collecting evidence in raid, offers to return Trump passports.
Barbara Boxer wording.
“Yep, he can go to a Third World country, blend-in, and no one will be able to find him.‘
Yeah Trump would blend in in a 3rd world country like Marcus Brody in Raiders of the Lost Ark. LOL
Fruit Of The Poison Tree.
A concept we won't be hearing about from the MSM-Democrats.
“And the fact that a judge signed off on it is very troubling,” [Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton] added.”
It’s very troubling that the DoJ determined when the regular magistrate would be away so that they could pretend it was “just chance” when an extreme anti-Trump Democrat was brought in to grant their warrant. It’s very troubling that the government planted a story in the Wall Street Journal to push the “just chance” narrative, and the WSJ ran it.
Trump had better check his returned passport for implanted bugs or other data gathering devices. Just saying.
Sue the pants off them. They were on a fishing expedition plain and simple.
So not only did you raid the house of a former President of the United States, you ransacked the place for everything that wasn’t f-ing nailed down, did I get that right?
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