Posted on 09/02/2022 11:56:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
It does not appear the feds are willing to return these items. The Court or a Special Master should order them returned.
The search warrant in the Mar-a-Lago Raid was so overly broad that it allowed the feds to rummage through vast areas of the complex and to seize almost anything in sight.
That reading of the warrant is confirmed now that the Judge has unsealed the Investigative Team Status Review And Detailed Inventory that the Court had required under its prior Preliminary Order.
The investigative team status report as of August 30, reflects, among other things:
As of the date of this filing, the investigative team has completed a preliminary review of the materials seized pursuant to the search warrant executed on August 8, 2022, with the exception of any potentially attorney-client privileged materials that, pursuant to the filter protocols set forth in the search warrant affidavit, have not been provided to the investigative team. The documents bearing classification markings that were seized during the execution of the search warrant have been segregated from the remainder of the seized materials and are being separately stored in accordance with the appropriate procedures governing the security of classified material….
That said, the government can confirm for the Court that the investigative team has already examined every item seized ( other than materials that remain subject to the filter protocols), even as its investigation and further review continues….
In other words, the feds reviewed everything seized, with potentially privileged documents reviewed by a Privilege Review Team.
Attached to the report was the detailed inventory required to be filed per court order. It’s not very detailed, it doesn’t tell us what any of it was about. For example, were the classified document pertaining the Crossfire Hurricane, the feds investigation of the Trump campaign, which Trump previously declassified just before leaving office.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct the following:
Section 1. Declassification and Release. At my request, on December 30, 2020, the Department of Justice provided the White House with a binder of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Portions of the documents in the binder have remained classified and have not been released to the Congress or the public. I requested the documents so that a declassification review could be performed and so I could determine to what extent materials in the binder should be released in unclassified form.
I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible. In response, and as part of the iterative process of the declassification review, under a cover letter dated January 17, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation noted its continuing objection to any further declassification of the materials in the binder and also, on the basis of a review that included Intelligence Community equities, identified the passages that it believed it was most crucial to keep from public disclosure. I have determined to accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI in that January 17 submission.
I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the binder. This is my final determination under the declassification review and I have directed the Attorney General to implement the redactions proposed in the FBI’s January 17 submission and return to the White House an appropriately redacted copy….
Here are some of the non-classified items seized as described on the inventory sheet [repeat descriptions mean multiple such items were located in different boxes]:
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US Government Documents/Photographs without Classification Markings [numerous similar entries throughout the inventory]
99 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between O 1/2017- 10/2018
Documents from Office
Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 01/2020- 11/2020
68 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 10/2015- 05/2017
1 Article of Clothing/Gift Item
1 Book
91 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 01/2019- 09/2020
1 Article of Clothing/Gift Item
30 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 10/2008- 12/2019
3 Articles of Clothing/Gift Items
1 Book
116 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 06/2019- 08/2020
39 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 01/2017- 03/2020
62 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 09/2018 -08/2019
1 Article of Clothing/Gift Items
65 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 10/2016-11/2018
2 Books
76 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 11!2017-12/2017
67 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 7/2016 – 3/2017
5 Articles of Clothing/Gift Items
4 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 01/2018- 12/2019
1 Book
53 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 05/2016 – 01/2020
5 Articles of Clothing/Gift Items
121 MagazinesMewspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 08/2017-12/2017
2 MagazinesMewspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated 11/2020
109 MagazinesMewspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 06/2020 – 10/2020
67 MagazinesMewspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media’dated between 11/2016- 06/2018
1 Book
1 MagazinesMewspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated circa 2018
76 MagazinesMewspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 10/2016- 11/2017
8 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 12/2017 – 3/2020
1 Article of Clothing/Gift Items
1 Book
1 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 07/2016 – 9/2020
1 Article of Clothing/Gift Items
23 Books
2 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 2/2017 – 3/2017
1 Article of Clothing/Gift Items
1 Book
86 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 10/1995 – 05/2019
29 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 05/2020 – 09/2020
111 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 06/2015 – 04/2019
94 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 02/2008 – 04/2020
1 Book
88 US Government Documents/Photographs without Classification Markings
83 Magazines/Newspapers/Press Articles and Other Printed Media dated between 02/2017 – 02/2018
1 Book
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Based on this and prior filings, it does not appear the feds are willing to return these items. The Court or a Special Master should order them returned.
We will have a new post when the Judge rules on the motion to appoint a special master.
Maybe they took boxes of magazines and t shirts in order to make a bigger impression ...they probably could find anything of substance and realized how silly they would look to the press if they just carried out nothing.
Maybe they think he hid something between the pages. Wonder who gets to look through each page of all those magazines.
Those magazines and news articles and clothes would fill a lot of boxes. So, if we subtract those, how many boxes did the FBI really get ?
Maybe they took boxes of magazines and t shirts in order to make a bigger impression ...they probably could NOT find anything of substance and realized how silly they would look to the press if they just carried out nothing.
I want to know how many agents now have Melania’s dresses in their closet.
I want to know how many agents now have Melania’s dresses in their closet.
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Me too!!!
They plan on erasing or changing all history regarding Trump Presidency.
Oh good night! This is outrageous! I knew the FBI was corrupt, but this stupid and petty? Thank Heaven for that judge.
I know I should be laughing at the FBI, but I’m still seething. How dare they? Is there a single honorable agent
left among them? I want to believe there is, but ... time for the FBI to go, or be cleaned out from top to bottom. Not during the Biden misadministration, of course. We’ll have to wait.
Grrrrrr!
They need them for the staged ops.
Yep.
This has been going on for years now and I think Americans have had enough.
Anyone joining the FBI as a career at this point in time knows full well what kind of organization they are and want to partake in that crap.
By what legal authority did they seize these things?
“The requirement that warrants shall particularly describe the things to be seized makes general searches under them impossible and prevents the seizure of one thing under a warrant describing another. As to what is to be taken, nothing is left to the discretion of the officer executing the warrant.”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-4/particularity-requirement
So did the warrant specify clothing, magazine cuttings, books, etc? Seriously? What right had these goons to take them? This is beyond outrageous!
I don’t claims to be any legal eagle. Can anyone who understands these things better than I explain how they could have legally seized these items?
FIB and other government agencies only recruit sociopaths or innocents who can be made sociopaths. To get to the 7th floor, only psychopaths are allowed. I’m sorry if that’s your offspring or other relatives. Your family failed.
Has anyone pointed out that all the items the FBI took were totally safe until the FBI came along?
How many of the First Lady’s panties were seized?
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