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Revelation of secret Obama-era program casts doubt on stated reason for Trump Mar-a-Lago raid
Fox News ^ | May 23, 2024 | Emma Colton

Posted on 05/26/2024 6:32:20 AM PDT by Twotone

A purportedly never-before-seen Department of Defense memo from the Obama era appears to indicate the federal government already may have had original copies of the documents seized at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida in 2022, raising serious questions about the pretext for the raid, Fox News Digital has exclusively learned.

America First Legal (AFL), a conservative legal group, released Thursday what it says is a newly unearthed memo from the Obama administration Department of Defense "confirming the government may have already had originals of the alleged classified documents involved in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s sham prosecution against President Trump."

The document, titled Memorandum of Understanding Entered into by Presidential Information Technology Community Entities, is from 2015, and followed an October 2014 Russian breach of the Executive Office of the President’s network. Then-President Barack Obama took executive action to create the Presidential Information Technology Community (PITC) to better protect the executive branch from such attacks, according to AFL.

The PITC, which includes representatives from federal agencies such as the Department of Defense and Homeland Security, effectively established that the president controls information he receives through the PITC network.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afl; maralagoraid; obama; obamanation; pitc; trump; trumppersecution
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1 posted on 05/26/2024 6:32:20 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

BTTT


2 posted on 05/26/2024 6:33:23 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Is “original copies” an oxymoron? Just asking for a friend.


3 posted on 05/26/2024 7:20:28 AM PDT by printhead (.)
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To: Twotone

If they have gone this far, they will go a lot further.

This has gone way, way beyond courts and juries, judges and laws.


4 posted on 05/26/2024 7:28:10 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; Vaduz; null and void; ...

FTA-——America First Legal (AFL), a conservative legal group, released Thursday what it says is a newly unearthed memo from the Obama administration Department of Defense “confirming the government may have already had originals of the alleged classified documents involved in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s sham prosecution against President Trump.”


5 posted on 05/26/2024 7:33:51 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: Twotone

so Trump should be in the clear? Jackie boy in trouble?


6 posted on 05/26/2024 7:44:08 AM PDT by blueyon (God, is who we need)
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To: Twotone

Newly unearthed memo from the Obama administration Department of Defense “confirming the government may have already had originals of the alleged classified documents.

Sounds like the set up was planed from the first day Trump spoke about running for president.

Time to drag Obama into court for some answers if not the democrats will keep using the scam.


7 posted on 05/26/2024 7:55:24 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Liz

Thank you. This is all so disgusting.


8 posted on 05/26/2024 8:30:39 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: blueyon

They’re electronically.managed. Records management files the files in a cloud, on servers.


9 posted on 05/26/2024 8:36:09 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: Twotone

Obozo is scared that Biden will lose in Nov and he will lose control.


10 posted on 05/26/2024 8:40:15 AM PDT by chopperk (are)
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To: Twotone

Evidently the whole country is going with the government narrative, taking what it says at face value the stated reason — that he raid was over classified documents.

The real reason has been carefully concealed.

Here in Louisiana, Huey P Long was assassinated when someone fired off a gun in front of Long and his bodyguards let fly with machine guns, evidently. Long was shot and died a few hours later.

The FBI may have been hoping for a chance for someone to fire a gun, start off a cascade of return fire, and assasssinate Trump, accidentally, as it were, in the crossfire.

That may sound wild, but who would ever think that a former president, just out of office, would have his residence invaded by gun wielding FBI with orders to use lethal force just over documents that had been declassified. That is extremely third world.

The knowledge Trump gained from four years as President is much more sensitive than any document at his residence.


11 posted on 05/26/2024 8:51:35 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Jim Noble; Vaduz
If they have gone this far, they will go a lot further.

Even at the street level, the stolen election should have been obvious. It was pulled off in a Mafia in-your-face manner by the entire corrupted D party with barely a whimper from the political party in opposition. Coercion, intimidation? At this point it doesn't seem possible there is anything they would hesitate to attempt.

Time to drag Obama into court for some answers if not the democrats will keep using the scam.

Unfortunately, we may be way beyond simply "dragging Obama" into court. For what, using Biden as a puppet?

Who is it that will do the dragging, the DOJ, the FBI? If so directed by a R president how much effort are they going to put into the action?

How many Rino's, and coerced R's will rise with the D's in opposition to such directive, once again presenting the threat of impeachment?

Hillary is quite accurately projecting when she claims if Trump is elected again we will not have future elections.

Sorry to sound like a pessimist, but we face a steep hill. How many of us are able at this moment to jump on a plane and walk to the top of Mt. Fuji, or are even willing to?

12 posted on 05/26/2024 8:54:27 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Cert's of States allowing noncitizens to vote for fed offices should not be accepted on Jan 6, 2025.)
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To: odawg

I don’t think DJT was there, and I’d like to think the Feebs are at least competent enough to know that he wasn’t there.


13 posted on 05/26/2024 9:08:51 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

He wasn’t there but they were certainly given directives in the use of lethal force protocol and planned for him to be there.


14 posted on 05/26/2024 9:50:14 AM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg

Any time a Fed shows up with a firearm, I’d assume that lethal force has been authorized.


15 posted on 05/26/2024 10:01:20 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: odawg

I thought I read back when it happened that they waited until DJT wasn’t there.


16 posted on 05/26/2024 10:07:13 AM PDT by Aria
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To: combat_boots
"They’re electronically.managed."

Unless they were wiped, "like with a cloth"...

17 posted on 05/26/2024 10:08:15 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: odawg

(The FBI may have been hoping for a chance for someone to fire a gun, start off a cascade of return fire, and assasssinate Trump)

Same scenario happened to Bobby Kennedy Sr. in that hotel.


18 posted on 05/26/2024 10:14:28 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: gundog

“Any time a Fed shows up with a firearm, I’d assume that lethal force has been authorized.”

Any time? How many times does the FBI raid the home of a former president and future president.

You mean that circumstance doesn’t enter their minds, or that they are organically incapable of fine-tuning their methods to accomodate those circumstances? There is a distinction between Trump, and say, a drug dealer, a distinction that will endure forever.


19 posted on 05/26/2024 10:46:14 AM PDT by odawg
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To: frog in a pot

Dragging Obama” into court. For what.

The papers were ordered when he was president pre set up was to insure if Trump did get elected there would be a easy set up to make sure he never won again.
Trials trials trials ensue
Many on the R side need to understand they can and will be next the democrats are power hungry they want total control of the country and were part of it too comrade.


20 posted on 05/26/2024 1:22:50 PM PDT by Vaduz
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