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Did Merrick Garland have to approve this Trump raid, or can the FBI move on its own? Did the FBI move on its own? (vanity)
self | 8-9-2022

Posted on 08/09/2022 9:53:59 AM PDT by dennisw

Did Merrick Garland have to approve this Trump raid, or can the FBI move on its own? Did the FBI move on its own? My take is that this raid had to be approved by the DOJ, meaning Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Your input is appreciated!


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1 posted on 08/09/2022 9:53:59 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

ACTION NOW

Republican House members MUST shut down the House until they call up DOJ and FBI on hearings.

Biden doesn’t get his stinking bill.
Nothing gets done. Nothing.

Call congress (202) 224-3121
for the U.S. House switchboard operator.


File a public records request in seeking communications records between Biden, Susan Rice, Obama, Soros’ Open Society Foundation in connection with Fbi persecution of Trump.

Request
“all calendar entries,
phone messages,
text messages,
emails,
encrypted app chats,
letter correspondence,
and long-distance toll records”
with Chinese, cartels, Doj, Irs
made from August on.


2 posted on 08/09/2022 9:55:03 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES....GOD DISPOSES.)
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To: dennisw

This came from the Oval Office or very close to it. IMHO.


3 posted on 08/09/2022 9:55:41 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Liz

“..Republican House members MUST shut down the House until they call up DOJ and FBI on hearings....”

^THIS^
Shut it down....Nada, nothing and keep it down until these POSs are dealt with.


4 posted on 08/09/2022 9:58:02 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: lgjhn23

Show your cojones pubbies.


5 posted on 08/09/2022 9:59:05 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES....GOD DISPOSES.)
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To: dennisw

Merrick Garland knew and approved. Biden will deny knowledge, but he also knew, as did Obama and his political entourage.


6 posted on 08/09/2022 9:59:20 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: dennisw
Just watched Alan Dershowitz on Newsmax.

he said that permission for this raid would have come from the very top.

Assume he means Biden - or whoever is really running the country.

7 posted on 08/09/2022 10:00:19 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: dennisw

Ask Peter Strozk?


8 posted on 08/09/2022 10:01:43 AM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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To: dennisw

Don’t ask the question about Garland. We need to accuse Biden, Garland, the FBI, the Jan 6th commission and all enemies through association. We fight to destroy them all. Our means cannot be limited to seemingly rational actions and questions. Skip the questions and go directly to accusations. Then demonize every leftist establishment figure. This is a war using rhetoric. There is little room for logic at this point. We simply need to understand what rhetoric is believable to the largest number of voters.


9 posted on 08/09/2022 10:01:50 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: dennisw

Regardless of whether the FBI was required to have Garland’s approval, it is hard to believe that the FBI would act in such a precedent-shattering manner without notifying Garland.


10 posted on 08/09/2022 10:01:56 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: dennisw

Dan Bongino, who worked in LE, said this had to originate outside the FBI. Merrick Garland would have to sign off on such a politically sensitive case.


11 posted on 08/09/2022 10:01:58 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Churchillspirit

Doesn’t Biden have Covid still?

Maybe they were planting some new biological contaminant in the toilets.


12 posted on 08/09/2022 10:02:35 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: dennisw

No former president’s resident was raided without blessings from the top—and very top.


13 posted on 08/09/2022 10:02:49 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Liz

Yep. These guys had better have a response so strong that there will be no escaping the consequences.

Make no mistake, this is THE moment in history. If there is only tepid responses - and no clear action - then the country’s fate will be sealed, and the Republican Party will demonstrate they are nothing. Worthless. Less than worthless. Culpable. Participants. Traitors.


14 posted on 08/09/2022 10:03:12 AM PDT by Obadiah (Finishing is better than starting.)
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Everything the FBI does, search and arrest warrants, has a DOJ lawyer present in all of it. In fact, most, if not all, of the time an AUSA drafts all the paperwork and then they and the agent present it to a judge.

This is completely different than how the ‘real police’ do things. Where the cop gets on a computer and drafts a warrant, then goes before a judge. They, in most cases, don’t have the help of an attorney from the DAs office. They, as I did, can have someone to call for advice or input, but their paperwork isn’t being drafted by a lawyer.

And, any raids they do, they have to have an “operational order” that has to be approved by higher ups in DC. These things are like books. Everyone involved. Their jobs on the site. Nearest hospitals and routes.

One of the reasons that the Feds have so many task forces set up with local cops is because the cops don’t have to jump through all those hoops. It could take days before a federal search warrant and op order get signed and approved. A local cop can write a search warrant on the trunk of a car, I did it, run it up to the courthouse and get it signed. Their co-workers could start executing the warrant as they’re on their way back to the scene. And the Feds just say they were supporting the local guys and if the case rises to a certain level, the US Attorney’s office will pick it up and prosecute.


15 posted on 08/09/2022 10:03:37 AM PDT by qaz123
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This wasn’t FBI-rogue. It was approved EVERY step of the way. All the way to Biden. An action like this against a former President could not happen without his or his office’s approval. They are all lying if they say they didn’t know anything.


16 posted on 08/09/2022 10:04:01 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: packagingguy

There is no doubt in my mind that Merrick Garland, in close contact with Obama and Eric Holder, signed off on this.


17 posted on 08/09/2022 10:05:01 AM PDT by Obadiah (Finishing is better than starting.)
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The FBI might very well have pulled this schumer on their own if it was any other private American citizen, but with a former president? No way. FJB might have been kept in the dark, but Garland and the White House sure has hell knew it!!


18 posted on 08/09/2022 10:05:05 AM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
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To: dennisw

Trump needs to file a lawsuit arguing the criminal enterprises inside government are trying to protect themselves thru intimidation, violating his liberties.


19 posted on 08/09/2022 10:05:08 AM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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Just have to know that he approved it as a big Up-Yours to the President for not letting him be on the SCOTUS.


20 posted on 08/09/2022 10:05:36 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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