Posted on 09/14/2022 8:05:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
Lawyers for the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed a new motion that again seeks a stay in a judge’s order appointing a special master to review documents that were seized during last month’s FBI raid targeting former President Donald Trump’s residence.
In the latest filing, DOJ prosecutors said that they want a “limited” yet “critical” stay of the order so as to continue their review of certain documents. They argue that the materials could potentially “jeopardize national security.”
“These records are at the core of the government’s investigation, and the government’s inability to review and use them significantly constrains its investigation,” the DOJ wrote to Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee. “The compelled disclosure of records marked as classified to a special master further harms the Executive Branch’s interest in limiting access to such materials absent any valid purpose served by their review.”
Tuesday evening’s filing was issued largely in response to a motion issued by lawyers from Trump earlier this week. His lawyers argued against the DOJ’s request for a stay in Cannon’s order last week approving a special master.
The DOJ lawyers argue that they don’t want possession of all the documents but are seeking “a stay only as to a discrete set of just over 100 records marked as classified—that is, records that were specifically sought by a prior grand jury subpoena, whose unauthorized retention may constitute a crime.”
“[Trump] instead references other seized records that contain personal information or could be subject to attorney-client privilege, none of which are at issue in this stay motion,” the DOJ also wrote. “As to the records marked as classified, Plaintiff asserts that the government has not ‘proven’ their classification status.”
SIGN UP FOR NTD DAILY What you need to know, summarized in one email. Stay informed with accurate news you can trust. Enter your email By registering for the newsletter, you agree to the Privacy Policy. Intelligence Review Also in the filing, the DOJ asserts that the 17-agency Intelligence Community led by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has to determine whether Trump’s declassification of those materials was a legitimate order. In public statements, Trump and members of his team have said he declassified a range of materials while he was still president and has indicated that the records taken by the FBI were declassified by him.
In Cannon’s ruling last week, she wrote that the Intelligence Community, which includes the FBI, can continue its review of the materials that were seized from Trump’s home.
GettyImages-1383962587 Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 10, 2022 in Washington. The committee held a hearing on worldwide threats. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) “For obvious reasons, the Intelligence Community would have a compelling need to understand which formerly-classified records have now been declassified,” said the DOJ on Tuesday. That includes “why and how” those documents were declassified as well as the “impact of any such declassification,” they wrote.
A day prior, one of Trump’s lawyers, former federal prosecutor Chris Kise, suggested in Monday’s filing (pdf) that the DOJ doesn’t want a special master to review the documents because it would expose malfeasance at the agency.
“The very purpose of a special master is to serve as a neutral third party, with appropriate authorization, reviewing documents to facilitate resolution of the parties’ disagreements,” he wrote.
“In opposing any neutral review of the seized materials, the Government seeks to block a reasonable first step towards restoring order from chaos and increasing public confidence in the integrity of the process,” the filing continued, adding, “A special master is not an agent for either President Trump or the Government.”
Both parties on Sept. 9 each proposed different names of candidates who could serve in the role of a special master—an independent third party who would assist the judge in the legal dispute. Cannon wrote that the yet-to-be-named individual would be tasked with overseeing and reviewing the documents.
From The Epoch Times
There is nothing, NOTHING in any of those so-called secret documents that could damage our nation if disclosed. Damage to crooked politicians perhaps. Show it all. Let the chips fall where they may. Enough of this Nazi Gestapo crap!
If these were one-of-a-kind documents....they might have a remote chance of doing this. But these are just copies of a digital product. It’s a lousy case to present...thinking the judge will be ultra-stupid.
Here we go!
The FISA warrant, signed by the Special Master when he was a FISC judge specifically* references Danchenko (Paid Informant) as sufficient reason to issue a warrant authorizing surveillance on a SITTING PRESIDENT.
* By the nature of the FISC, sources cannot be hidden from the deciding (or extending) Judge.
Thems the rules.
They argue that the materials could potentially “jeopardize national security.”
They are really dangerous creeps aren’t they? And they seem to want desperately to be able to leak these documents to the press before the election. This is really out of control. None of this should be going on before the election.
Here’s the DOJ problem...They let him keep the records and simply said an additional lock was necessary. In other words....they effectively...set him up.
If the special master has a top secret clearance and a need to know, what’s the problem?
Crossfire hurricane?
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FIB needs to keep something so they have the means to plant evidence as needed. If the Special Master has it all, the FIB can’t control the narrative.
Nothing they are saying makes any sense and they are being really aggressive this whole thing is a scandal.
These records were sitting in a Box for 2 years. They now have the records. They are claiming that if they don’t look at the records immediately somehow national security is compromised?
It seems to me they desperately want to keep those records away from the court.
Exactly so.......................
they desperately want to keep those records away from the PUBLIC.......................
Most likely Crossfire-Hurricane and Russiagate documents that would expose the FBI and DoJ as the lowlife scum that they are.
Just because a record is declassified doesn’t mean it no longer requires safe storage. A declassified record may still contain information covered by additional restrictions that would require continued withholding of information from disclosure.
The records that Trump declassified from compartmental most likely contained sensitive information that needed safe guarding. But this is why it was so important to observe the pictures the DOJ took at the house with these documents just spread on the floor in plain site.
I could not find anything that said what these documents were removed from so I have to assume that since they most likely were filed in some type of order and stored, they most likely were stored in the scif (sensitive compartmented information facility) that was located in Trumps home designed to handle sensitive information. Which means the DOJ, by entering the home and violating OPSEC (operations security) by displaying these documents in the presence of people that did not have a need to know or possibly the clearance since they were looking for compartmental information and allowing these picture, redacted or not, to reach the outside world.
The Trump home, with the scif, and dealing with sensitive information that was within his clearance, they just don’t go away with a past president as they are in the chain for leadership, then he could store this type of info in his home with a scif easily.
There is a lot more to this than some minor mistakes by the DOJ and a special master would clear them up in about 15 minutes. And he/she would have the clearance and the need to know.
wy69
Additionally, if it not abundantly clear, there are many judges that approve warrants without probable cause and lack specificity. Those judges need to be removed from the bench and disbarred.
They want to spirit away documents Trump has/had on the FBI’s collusion in the “Russian collusion” hoax, on what they knew was Russian disinformation.
FIB needs to keep something so they have the means to plant evidence as needed.
This.
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Damage to crooked politicians
Looks to be the case to many working to hard to long to get the papers.
From the time he entered office until he left it they left many dots to be connected.
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