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The DOJ’s opposition to the special master exposes a nefarious motive
American Thinker ^ | 10 Sep, 2022 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 09/10/2022 4:31:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Understood correctly, it strongly indicates that the DOJ’s raid on Mar-a-Lago was to destroy information embarrassing to Biden, Obama, and the Deep State.

When the federal judge ordered a special master to review the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago to determine whether the FBI possessed documents subject to “attorney-client and/or executive privilege” claims, I considered it a Pyrrhic victory because the DOJ had already reviewed all the documents. I was more interested in whether the DOJ insisted that the appointed special master have security clearance to review for classified or top-secret material. Failing to do so would be a giveaway that the whole “classified information” claim was a scam.

On Thursday, however, the DOJ went one step further and did something that, to my mind, strongly indicates that its raid on Mar-a-Lago was intended to obtain and protect information that would be embarrassing to Obama, Biden, and the Deep State. Instead of complying with the court’s order to submit the names of special masters, it fought back against a special master entirely by filing a motion stating that, unless the trial court reversed its order, it required that the court enter a state pending an appeal to the 11th Circuit.

The claimed reason is that the order, to the extent it affects allegedly “classified” material compromises national security:

[T]his motion is limited to the Order’s directives with respect to the seized classified records [fn. omitted] because those aspects of the Order will cause the most immediate and serious harms to the government and the public.

There are two problems with this request. First, it cannot be said often enough that the materials in Trump’s possession by definition are not classified. The President of the United States of America has plenary power regarding document classification, something that overrides completely any bureaucrat’s

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: corruption; doj

1 posted on 09/10/2022 4:31:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I hope Trump’s lawyers kept copies of any Russiagate documents.


2 posted on 09/10/2022 4:31:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I hope they have copies of everything.


3 posted on 09/10/2022 4:35:33 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Lee'sGhost

I hope the FBI has the copies.


4 posted on 09/10/2022 4:38:10 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Lee'sGhost

You know that the DOJ has already destroyed Russiagate documents if they found any.


5 posted on 09/10/2022 4:39:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber; Liz; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; BenLurkin; Kaslin; Lazamataz; LS

These WERE the copies of Hillary Obama’s Rice’s Russiagate documents and sources.


6 posted on 09/10/2022 4:41:20 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: MtnClimber

The DOJ nefarious? Naw.


7 posted on 09/10/2022 4:42:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: MtnClimber

At this point everything is speculation and conjecture. The Special Master is a great step but then again the DOJ and FBI could provide whatever they want for review and say this is what we took.... We’ll never know since they lie there ass off.


8 posted on 09/10/2022 4:43:20 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: MtnClimber

More detail from Judicial Watch; one of the best summations on the subject:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m0lcbeowk&feature=youtu.be

I


9 posted on 09/10/2022 5:01:11 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: MtnClimber

Photos of all Russiagate Hoax evidentiary docs, to thumb drives, distributed as a “dead-man switch.”

You can bet that Don Jr and Eric among others have them, with specific deployment instructions.

Activated and released across all alt-right media the day Trump is handcuffed and perp-walked ala Bannon.

You know that the DOJ/FBI Gestapo have to be considering this angle, because they are now whining that they didn’t find everything they were after at MAL.


10 posted on 09/10/2022 5:23:31 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber

Wow? Those names (Obama, Clinton, Biden) keep popping up? It’s almost as though they, along with a multitude of enablers, were orchestrating a coup against the government of the United States?


11 posted on 09/10/2022 5:25:19 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; maddog55; Hostage

Please see #10. Thoughts?


12 posted on 09/10/2022 5:25:38 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

That’s a good guess, except it leaves them open to a charge obstruction and conspiracy if ever questioned. My money is on DT taking a shovel to a private spot next to the 18th green.

“Two men can keep a secret, if one of them is dead.”

b.franklin


13 posted on 09/10/2022 6:15:46 AM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: Travis McGee

Speculation and Conjecture.. no one knows but hopefully true.


14 posted on 09/10/2022 6:32:22 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: MtnClimber

I expect that before long we’ll hear of the FBI raiding Trump Tower, and Bedminster. We know that all this is a huge fishing trip looking for something, anything, they can pin on him, and they won’t be above planting evidence either. They reek of desperation. This isn’t the actions of a confident regime that received 81 MILLION votes, this is the action of a regime that knows that it cheated to win and doesn’t want to be exposed as liars and cheaters but wants to hold on to power at all costs.


15 posted on 09/10/2022 6:34:21 AM PDT by euram
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To: MtnClimber

Just heard on pathetic NPR that ‘obstruction’ is what the corrupt doj is going for....and, DUM DUM DUMMMMM... some of the envelopes are empty. You know Don Jr., Eric, Stephen Miller, Cash Patel, etc., advised to have the Russiagate stuff on thumbdrives and in a non raidable place. I’m guessing Epstein crap, too.


16 posted on 09/10/2022 6:38:41 AM PDT by Pigsley (I)
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To: Travis McGee

As reported, they (DOJ occupiers) didn’t find all they were looking for.

Makes sense critical information was backed up with instructions.

Crossfire Hurricane documents were fully declassified January 19, 2020 by signed WH memorandum. I posted a copy of the memorandum on FR.

DJT knows what he’s doing. He has the proof on them. What he doesn’t have is a court system of judges and lawyers that are reliable. So the future is full of Appeals which can take years. Only option to cut it short is winning the Midterms.

The Midterms are vital to the survival of the United States. Nothing matters more now.


17 posted on 09/10/2022 7:03:46 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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