Files Seized From Trump Are Part of Espionage Act Inquiry

NYTimes ^ | 08/13/2022

[devane617]

Federal agents removed top secret documents when they searched former President Donald J. Trump’s Florida residence on Monday as part of an investigation into possible violations of the Espionage Act and other laws, according to a search warrant made public on Friday.

F.B.I. agents seized 11 sets of documents in all, including some marked as “classified/TS/SCI” — shorthand for “top secret/sensitive compartmented information,” according to an inventory of the materials seized in the search. Information categorized in that fashion is meant to be viewed only in a secure government facility.

It was the latest stunning revelation from the series of investigations swirling around his efforts to retain power after his election loss, his business practices and, in this case, his handling of government material that he took with him when he left the White House.

[combat_boots]

Did they take the mattress tags? There is writing on them

Or exit signs?

[midwest_hiker]

Up next on CNN, Trump kills, cooks, and eats puppies. Film at 11.

[PghBaldy]

Could the Founders have imagined a future time when Congress and various Federal employees persecuted an innocent candidate and President as recent history shows? Going on seven years? What is the proper corrective to this ongoing tyranny?

[Eagles6]

This was all stuff boxed up by the GSA and sent to Florida.

I, seriously, doubt that President Trump even knew what was in them.

The feds had been down there, months ago and went through everything.

Now this?

[RoseofTexas]

Scot Adams absolutely knocks it out of the ballpark! Wash spin and repeat! Same old tactics as the FAKE RUSSIAN HOAX by the swamp and mediavomits! The 🐍 head needs to be eliminated! It’s past time we need to protest everyday at these POS homes!!! Peaceful of course.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays

· 13h We've learned so much about how Fake News is manufactured.

Anonymous sources

Wrap-up Smear

Schiff-in-a-SCIF (I saw it but you can't)

Use AI to hide opposing narratives on social media

List of Liars (experts)

Laundry List persuasion

Truth emerges, too late

[InterceptPoint]

SCIF. I have had access to a sensitive compartmented intelligence facility in both a contractor facility and a government facility. So a SCIF could be established in a former president’s home.
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You may be right about that. It would be free of sensors, have a combination lock on the door that, when opened, requires the notification of some security authority and a key pad to get entrance once it was opened. The opposite process when it is closed.

I’m not sure who would be the security authority in this case.

[Right Wing Vegan]

They PLANTED SOME STUFF....Count on it.

Maybe. It's definitely a scary moment.

[odawg]

“...as part of an investigation into possible violations of the Espionage Act and other laws, according to a search warrant made public on Friday.”

In other words, posit a crime out of thin air and then the SEARCH becomes evidence.

[pas]

So sensitive that someone is leaking that it exists?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Crossfire Hurricane II.

[Liz]

Memorandum on Declassification of Certain Materials
Related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation

LAW & JUSTICE Issued on: January 19, 2021
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

SUBJECT: Declassification of Certain Materials Related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation

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.

My decision to declassify materials within the binder is subject to the limits identified above and does not extend to materials that must be protected from disclosure pursuant to orders of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and does not require the disclosure of certain personally identifiable information or any other materials that must be protected from disclosure under applicable law. Accordingly, at my direction, the Attorney General has conducted an appropriate review to ensure that materials provided in the binder may be disclosed by the White House in accordance with applicable law.

Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(d) The Attorney General is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

DONALD J. TRUMP

[Liz]

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[1Old Pro]

This is all politics, dems going nuclear. Bad for the country

[1Old Pro]

This is all politics, dems going nuclear. Bad for the country

[keat]

I read it, it’s basically j.o. material for your average progressive.

[lastchance]

The NYT knows their readers will not be able to make that distinction.

[Huskrrrr]

It was the latest stunning revelation.....

that is soon to become the latest nothing burger.

[bigdaddy45]

You can’t have it both ways. Did they plant stuff? Or did Trumps edict that anything he brought to Maro Lago was automatically declassified apply?

[Ann Archy]

I only said that they PLANTED stuff that Trump didn’t bring there. How hard is that to understand?

[eyesopenandsee]

#6 If there were any justice left in this world 👍