Posted on 09/21/2022 7:44:46 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Judge Raymond Dearie, the “special master” appointed to review the ‘classified’ documents seized from Mar-a-Lago blasted Trump’s lawyers at Tuesday’s preliminary conference.
Judge Dearie was one of the FISA judges who signed the warrant to spy on Carter Page without cause. ...... Snip......
On Tuesday Judge Dearie repeatedly asked Trump’s lawyers to prove the former president declassified the documents stored at Mar-a-Lago, “You can’t have your cake and eat it,” the judge said according to Politico.
In a new filing Trump’s lawyers argued that the DOJ has never actually proven the documents it claims are classified are actually classified.
“The District Court denied the Government’s stay request, noting it was not inclined to hastily adopt the Government’s contention that the approximately 100 purportedly “classified” documents were, in fact, classified, and that President Trump could not possibly have a possessory interest in any of them.” Trump’s lawyers wrote in the 40-page filing
Politico reported:
The senior federal judge tasked with reviewing the materials seized by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate sharply questioned the former president’s attorneys Tuesday during their first hearing before his courtroom.
Judge Raymond Dearie pushed Trump’s lawyers repeatedly for refusing to back up the former president’s claim that he declassified the highly sensitive national security-related records discovered in his residence.
“You can’t have your cake and eat it,” said Dearie, the “special master” picked by U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to vet Trump’s effort to reclaim the materials taken by federal investigators.
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Seems Trump will never learn his lesson
You don’t need a SCIF to hold declassified documents. And he doesn’t need a paper trail either… this is because his statement that he did so is legally sufficient and fully within his constitutional authority. The government has to B prove he DIDN’T declassify with a wave of the arm.
If they charge him, his fully sufficient defense is “I saw it and declassified it”.
The government cannot prove otherwise.
The sorority rules for declassification and handling are for the minions and worker bees, but a president is not constrained by them. He has plenary power in that area.
Exactly. They are trying to trap him by making him provide a list of what he declassified and comparing out to what they stole. That would also give the FBI a perfect opportunity to slip one in that wasn’t on his list. It doesn’t work that way.
It’s JEFF SESSIONS ALL OVER AGAIN.
This is so sad. If this Dearie guy continues like this, Judge Cannon should remove him for bias and use the Fisa approval as a good reason.
I hope we FIGHT BACK and get this jerk outta there.
OMG, I was just thinking about Rogers.
The ONE LIT CANDLE IN A SEA OF DARKNESS.
What a wonderful man. He should be thanked by all for being the one TRUE American at the beginning of the witch hunt.
You’re completely right. It indeed is Jeff Sessions all over again.
The SCIF would be used for documents that he did not declassify. I’m betting he has some.
As to his “wave of the hand” declassification I simply don’t agree that he needs no proof. At the minimum he needs witnesses.
What if he decided to declassify the documents, declared them declassified and nobody was present. And then nobody was tasked to start the official declassification process and the remarking of the documents. There is no way anyone could dispute that or confirm it. It would just be Trump’s word.
Even if this would fly in court, which I doubt, it is so unnecessary. Trump had the power to declassify these documents and should not have that left that very important task to the last minute.
“The SCIF would be used for documents that he did not declassify. I’m betting he has some.”
There is no SCIF big enough in the world for the documents the government classifies. Over 9,000,000 a year are considered classified and too dangerous for American citizens to view. Multiply this 9,000,000 by decades to understand the scope of documents.
They say sunshine is the best disinfectant, well we live in one of the darkest countries in the world. Hell, you can’t even get a non-blackout document for the 1947 Roswell incident. Over 80-year-old document and still considered to sensitive for Americans’ eyes.
These documents are likely nothing burgers but we are stupid as a people to view them.
This sudden kingly view of the presidency by people is scary, but predictable. Their man can do no wrong, so don’t dare question it.
It makes zero sense that Trump (hey fools - substitute Biden, or Klintoon, or Uhbama in there) can just collect document/info and declare it unclassified incognito. Never mind the wisdom of some one person being able to magically decide the numerous submarine secrets are OK to blab out in the open.
Lots of these people never worked with classified.
Dangerous believing in this absolute monarchist drivel.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too when the FBI steals your cake.
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