Posted on 08/26/2022 2:18:49 PM PDT by conservative98
Like the Russia collusion FISA warrants before it, the FBI search warrant for Donald Trump's Florida estate relied on multiple news media reports from outlets such as Breitbart and CBS to justify its unprecedented request to raid a former president's home.
For instance, the bureau relied on a local CBS report to establish that Trump had moved boxes suspected to contain documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago in mid-January 2021, just before he left office, according to the partially redacted FBI affidavit made public by a court Friday.
"According to a CBS Miami article titled 'Moving Tucks Spotted At Mar-a-Lago,' published Monday, January 18, 2021, at least two moving trucks were observed at the PREMISES on January 18, 2021," the memo related.
Another citation referred to a Breitbart article from May in which former Trump adviser Kash Patel was quoted as saying he did not believe documents found at Mar-a-Lago and returned to the National Archives and Records Administration were classified. The citation refers to Trump as "FPOTUS," meaning former president.
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The use of news articles to support a search warrant is allowed in some circumstances, but the FBI's use of news stories in seeking the Russia FISA, or Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, warrants against Trump adviser Carter Page was sharply criticized by the Justice Department's internal watchdog.
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They’re making up their own law as they go along
Rumor, innuendo, speculation, fiction and tom foolery.
Warrant approved!
FBI: Hey, if you can’t trust the national news media, who can you trust? They do all the legwork and we waltz in and put the cuffs on, after teargas and tossing their homes.
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Guys, look, I predicted this would be the case.
They create the story with their sisters in Media, then use the article they generated as Probable cause.
The other thing is - I guarantee you they went to the FISA again and they have surveillance on Trump and everyone he speaks to in a 12 month period.
This is the same gameplay.
Moving trucks-that is supposed to be suspicious and/or sinister? Since pres Trump was moving all their personal stuff all the way from DC to Florida at the time, I doubt all that stuff would fit into his personal cars/limos/SUVs-so how else does it get to Florida-FedEx?
CBS...wasn’t that Dan “forged document” Rather’s company?
Sounds like Nancy Pelosi’s “wrap-up smear”, as she describes it.
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Rusty, I watched that a couple days ago. I was amazed that she described that tactic with such glee.
I was disgusted as everyone should be.
The FBI leaks allegations of legal violations to the press. The press prints it. The FBI goes “wow”, and says, “We better investigate.” The mob in action.
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Did the trucks read “Dominoes Pizza Delivery”?
Our 'intelligence' people have chosen a side - the one against the American people and the people's right to chose their own leaders.
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