Posted on 08/15/2022 7:02:08 PM PDT by bitt
A Justice Department lawyer Monday asked Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart to keep sealed the affidavit included with the warrant the FBI used to raid former President Donald Trump's Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, last week, arguing its public release would compromise the investigation.
Reinhart is the judge who approved the FBI's warrant for the raid and later ordered the DOJ to respond to a suit seeking the public release of the warrant. While the warrant ultimately became public, the affidavit remains sealed. The DOJ argues that releasing the document would reveal too many details about the investigation and undercut its efforts.
"If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps," the Department asserted, according to Spectrum News. "In addition, information about witnesses is particularly sensitive given the high-profile nature of this matter and the risk that the revelation of witness identities would impact their willingness to cooperate with the investigation."
"Disclosure of the government’s affidavit at this stage would also likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance may be sought as this investigation progresses, as well as in other high-profile investigations," they went on. "The fact that this investigation implicates highly classified materials further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the investigation and exacerbates the potential for harm if information is disclosed to the public prematurely or improperly."
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Guilty
Which means what they did was illegal. Time for some perp walks and President Trump isn’t one of them.
There is no way this corrupt judge is going to release the affidavit. Hopefully they can appeal to a competent judge.
I get the feeling the FBI can’t stand the light of day.
If there wasn’t a history of the FBI submitting false affidavits to judges in the past regarding Trump, they might have a little more credibility. But there is a history of this.
Of course they did.
“Reinhart is the judge who approved the FBI’s warrant”
And used to work with Epstein.
This is what DIRTY people do
The run coverup hide and lie just like a good libtard
Let’s turn on the lights and watch these RATS scurry.
The swamp is GUILTY AND MUST BE DISMANTLED!! Man if that’s not a giveaway! If they had something they could’ve immediately put Trump on notice but instead they’re going to drag it all the way until after November. And then they’re going to claim oh Oopsie we made a mistake we’re sorry we had better that information we were taken for a ride etc. etc. but you see they will never ever apologize. The swamp and the rats never apologize but the Republicans are Notorious for quickly apologizing on their knees! POS wimps!
Yes, because they took tons of stuff and rampaged through many places they had no right to be. They are common criminals with fancy badges.
I just wish one FBI WHISTLEBLOWER would release the affadavit
to FOX!
Duuuuuh
Media and Congressional Committees need to ask Judge Reinhart for the precise date and time he became aware of this search warrant request, and whether he communicated with anyone about it before he found himself in charge of the request.
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