Posted on 08/24/2022 5:19:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Biden administration sicced the FBI on 15 boxes containing classified information that the National Archives retrieved from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year — escalating the investigation of former President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling secret government information, a newly published letter reveals.
The May 10 missive by Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall to Trump attorney Evan Corcoran — published late Monday by JustTheNews — confirms that the White House counsel’s office, “affirming a request from the Department of Justice supported by an FBI letterhead memorandum,” asked the National Archives on April 11 to “provide the FBI access to the 15 boxes for its review within seven days.”
In response, according to Wall, Trump’s legal team sought to delay the disclosure until April 29.
On that date, JustTheNews reported, Corcoran wrote to National Archives general counsel Gary Stern requesting the handover be further held up “until we have had the opportunity to review the documents and to consult with President Donald J. Trump so that he may personally make any decision to assert a claim of constitutionally based privilege.”
In the May 10 letter, Wall rejected that claim, writing that Supreme Court precedent “strongly suggests that a former President may not successfully assert executive privilege ‘against the very Executive Branch in whose name the privilege is invoked.'”
Wall added that the Justice Department “has advised me that there is no precedent for an assertion of executive privilege by a former President against an incumbent President to prevent the latter from obtaining … Presidential records belonging to the Federal Government where ‘such records contain information that is needed for the conduct of current business of the incumbent President’s office and that is not otherwise available.'”
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Biden has been caught in a big flat lie. He is the man behind this hunt.
WE knew that from the get-go!...................
Actually, biden was wondering why there are a bunch of boxes laying around?
He’s also wondering when he gets to go on a vacation?
Payback for talking about hunter. He is doing exactly what he accused trump of doing. The difference is that Biden actually gave the order, Trump groused in public but never gave it. Also - he has a complicit doj/fbi
So if Trump gets re-elected or Desantis, they can order an FBI raid on Obama and gather every document he has?
The white house and doj are acting like they have unlimited power forever. We’ll see about that.
There had been a notion that the fifteen boxes in question actually CONTAINED any “classified” information. This was never a given, and in fact, perhaps all the documents marked with some level of classification, including those with sensitive compartmented information (SCI) had, at some previous point in time, been declassified.
But witch hunt it was, and “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!”
It ain’t paranoia if they really are picking on you.
The FBI has become Biden’s Gestapo with the job of investigating and harassing his political opposition.
Because it's outrageous and no administration had ever dared to enter such waters before this current administration.
Yup. Re-elected Trump needs to go Wyatt Earp on ALL of the prior Dem presidential records: "You tell them I'm coming, and Hell's coming with me."
They should raid Hawaii and find that damn birth certificate. Let nothing stand in their way. It's either there, or it isn't.
The Republicants will do nothing. It is all one big sewer.
I doubt that Biden called in anybody. He is a classic case of “Chauncey the Gardener” from the Peter Sellers movie “Being There”. He doesn’t say anything but is being given credit for making strategic moves for the liberal Deep State.
Agree. Pubbies preach heal, Dems rip out your heart / soul in their a
Quest for power and control
Yep. Biden sure did lie, but who is behind him pulling the levers?
Something tells me that request would get slow walked for at least 4 years
Hopefully they are freaking out over what was discovered. Hopefully it was discovered that they really do have it all and nothing can stop the consequences.
Agree. Pubbies preach heal, Dems rip out your heart / soul in their a
Quest for power and control
Bump!
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