Posted on 08/30/2022 10:22:21 PM PDT by RandFan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Tuesday it had uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into the discovery of classified documents at Donald Trump’s Florida estate, saying “government records were likely concealed and removed” from a storage room even after the former president’s representatives had assured officials that they’d thoroughly searched the property.
The FBI also seized 33 boxes containing more than 100 classified records during its Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago and found three classified documents stashed in office drawers, according to a filing that lays out the most detailed chronology to date of stained interactions between Justice Department officials and Trump representatives over the discovery of government secrets.
Tuesday night’s filing included a photo showing the cover pages of a smattering of paperclip-bound classified documents — some marked as “TOP SECRET//SCI” with bright yellow borders, and one marked as “SECRET//SCI” with a rust-colored border — along with whited-out pages, splayed out on a carpet at Mar-a-Lago. Beside them sits a cardboard box filled with gold-framed pictures, including a Time Magazine cover.
The filing offers yet another indication of the sheer volume of classified records retrieved from Mar-a-Lago. It shows how investigators conducting a criminal probe have focused not just on why the records were improperly stored there, but also on the question of whether the Trump team intentionally misled them about the continued, and unlawful, presence of government secrets.
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No offense, but why did you post that link to me? Has nothing to do with what I asked. I know what a SCIF is. I asked why doesn’t Trump have one.
Actually, it’s semantics. “Evidence” is not “proof.”
I am assuming that some documents are so vital and important that their location is tracked. (I will admit that I’ve never worked in a situation where such a process exists. I do, however, believe that this is a distinct possibility.)
So (hypothetically), if NARA has a record of the existence of a particular document, and then they find that they don’t HAVE the document, they can look at the tracking. If the tracking shows that the document was taken by a particular person, that would be “evidence” that said person has the document.
If the document is found in said person’s possession, that is “proof.”
I meant by “weasel words”: “probably,” “likely,” etc. I would not be surprised if they were tempted to use such tracking in some kind of argument to convince a court that Trump was guilty of something. But I think their immediate goal is to suck the air out of the room, thereby changing the subject from Biden disasters.
On what charges?
Same as Trumps would be fine.
So far, over 6,000 bodies have been recovered from the tragic Dulles flight that ended up so near the Eternal Flame at Arlington.
Director vows to keep digging until the truth is finally exposed.
Ya gotta identify them first.
I did not know what it was, so I looked it up.
I had no one to post to OTHER than you; since you had referred to it.
That they may have something.
It’s not the AP.
They just write what they are told to write. It’s DOJ that is selectively leaking from the affidavit they insist on keeping secret, to prepare their future jury to believe their version of the facts.
It’s amazingly corrupt, but you have to give them this - they know what power is, and how to use it.
In this case...THE MESSENGER IS COMPLICIT.
They know what they are doing.
No problem.
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