Posted on 08/27/2022 6:23:24 PM PDT by bitt
A Florida judge filed an order Saturday noting that the court plans to appoint a special master to oversee judicial interactions with plaintiff former President Trump.
“The Court hereby provides notice of its preliminary intent to appoint a special master in this case,” wrote District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was nominated by Trump during his time as president.
The order fulfills earlier requests by Trump for the court to appoint a special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents before the FBI is able to review them.
Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday to block the FBI from reviewing the documents that it seized in its raid of his home earlier this month.
Cannon declared that a hearing on the motion to appoint a special master will take place on Thursday, after the defense lawyers file their response.
She also required that Trump respond to the response of the defense before the hearing next week.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Special Master? Is there a Special Servant/Slave to complete the picture?
I will give you an example. Suppose a criminal lawyer is murdered. The police want to investigate but the late lawyer has a lot of information about his clients that those clients do not want the police looking at. The court system appoints a special master who is supposed to separate legitimate evidence about the murder from other records, recordings, videos , etc. that would incriminate, make a legal defense difficult, or embarrass those innocent of the murder.
“Preliminary intent to appoint a special master” means it hasn’t been done yet. This judge just put the Bidet Regime on notice that it might happen, so they are certain to be making copies of everything so they can continue to search through privileged documents at their leisure. The DoJ is running out the clock while this judge writes about her intent.
> “It’s a little late for that now.”
Maybe not.
Raid was August 8.
Trump filed lawsuit to block on August 22.
Boxes were taken to FBI offices in DC, earliest August 9.
Inventory, scanning, printing would likely take into week starting Monday August 15.
Preparation for review likely completed around Friday August 19 in which review teams would be assigned beginning Monday August 22, same day Trump lawsuit to block was filed.
Pending a lawsuit, most attorneys will halt casework as it’s wasteful and any knowledge gained barred from introducing in court.
One thing I can believe for sure, Trump’s legal team busted their rears to get that blocking lawsuit filed by August 22.
Paper documents still exist mainly for the purpose of legal proceedings. In fact, paper was invented 2,000 years ago for that purpose. The FIB raiding Trump's paper document storage is all about fighting Trump's lawsuits. The FIB has long operated as a lawless criminal organization.
It's unlikely any White House paper documents still exist as single copies. Trump may have kept a few paper originals, but it is unlikely there aren't digital copies of everything.
Fedzilla is very afraid of Trump, a credible threat to their lucrative monopoly on violence. It's not that Fedzilla doesn't already have copies of all the documents; it's that it doesn't want Trump to also have them.
Hillary, bill, Obama, no. Where is the raid on their residence
A Florida judge filed an order Saturday noting that the court plans to appoint a special master to oversee judicial interactions with plaintiff former President Trump. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Lets hope she does not change her mind over the next few weeks, like they often do after receiving a “Come to Jesus” call from the Obamoid Fascists in the West Wing.
Thanks, that is the best explanation I’ve seen and now it makes sense.
Awesome! Thank you
In most cases, but sometimes we hear reports of the feds "accidentally" destroying or losing records. In government and law, original documents are held to be "best evidence," for example if you apply for a drivers license and bring a phone with a snapshot of your birth certificate, DMV will probably tell you to go get an official paper copy from the state, unless you are an illegal alien.
“But if Trump declassified them all, does that apply?”
If they are sure the whole thing is declassified. As I read into this at one time Trump was supposed to have declassified the documents involved...maybe. Were documents added to it not declassified? It was also said that Biden reclassified some or all of the documents that Trump had downgraded.
That’s sketchy also as if the documents he had declassified were in his possession, the archives would have known and would have demanded a recovery of them upon reclassification. That might have happened but the media can’t be trusted as they failed to mention that between the time Trump declassified the documents and Biden put them back in the corral, Trump is not doing anything illegal.
Further more, how far down the chain can compartmental information be classified to? If they were compartmental, almost the highest classification we have, then information within them will still be classified at some level possibly top secret or compartmental. A high level classification doesn’t just go away like brushing dirt off your sleeve. Yet The Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) allowed possibly top top to get out of their control into a compromised area. And every inch they traveled was in a compromised area out side storage.
As far as I can figure, there are a lot of people that compromised our security at the highest level and how many more screwups like this have they accomplished, intentional or not adds to the mix? Who gets to fall on their sword for this dog and pony show?
The person that is going to review these documents will have to be given blanket authority and that is very unusual as classifications, besides the need for level, is also limited to topic, need to know. If the president’s birthdate is confidential, and I have a clearance level to see it, do I have the need to know where he was born as that would be on the document to verify the date? And they can’t call the review a fact finding because you can’t get an open clearance to cover everything as the topic of the documents is not in question but they still are classified for their content that could be mixed with other information I don’t have a need to know. I might have a need to know if they are classified at the level they are, but to find that I have to delve into information that I can’t legally see to determine that is more than questionable. Catch 22.
I’m asking a lot of questions that can’t be known until someone figures out a way to do what they want even if it means ignoring policy or regulation. And that’s been done before...see Hilary’s pif that was empty of documents she was supposed to sign and nothing happened there because she “didn’t do it on purpose.”
So everything is not a forgivable accident? One person can create a disclosure of some of the most secret information the US has and spend her time in the Hamptons. But another can have his home searched and hammered into a congressional trial for the exact same thing, even less wrong as he had the right to the information legally. Here’s your sign.
wy69
“Does Bruce the Epstein Lawyer/judge have clearance?”
Everyone has a clearance of some level classified below sensitive. But you notice that Epstein is no longer with us. So his clearance, no matter what it was, is now void. He was permanently and completely declassified.
wy69
So if Reinhart does not have such clearance, nevertheless he is going to continue to be the judge in the Trump “espionage” case, but we can expect the DOJ to object to Judge Cannon being the special master because she doesn’t have clearance? Which reminds me, the FBI never raided Hillary and Hunter.
“So if Reinhart does not have such clearance, nevertheless he is going to continue to be the judge in the Trump “espionage” case...”
And that was my point. They can get a clearance for the judge but a compartmented level is going to take some time...in theory. Every little stone is supposed to be turned over looking for anything they can find from financial to public actions.
It took almost 8 months to get mine and a lot of people called me asking what they were doing. This is not a secret clearance that is easily pencil whipped. But it could happen that way the Biden administration works.
“Which reminds me, the FBI never raided Hillary and Hunter.”
Hilary was raided in a way as she was forced to turn over government computer programs as hse was a direcxt employee of the federal government. Hunter Biden is NOT (nor has he ever been) a member of the Biden-Harris administration and the closest he was to needing a clearance was when working for the contractor that was working in the commerce department as Executive Director, E-Commerce Policy studying agency lobbying and major donor profiles. So unless the department said he needed a level, he wouldn’t.
Think of it this way: if they are looking for brand X, information that he shouldn’t have and is way up the chain of clearance, then that they can look into. But if they run into information that is top secret and he can have, then they can’t investigate it for discovery because they don’t have a need to know about it. So how are they going to determine if it was illegal to possess if they are not allowed to look at it?
Like circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel...
wy69
Meanwhile, the FBI/DOJ leadership has no good angel perched on its shoulder saying, “Please don’t selectively leak anything (true or false) to the partisan media that would make Trump look bad. That would be WRONG.” They would have another creature whispering “We have to stop Orange Hitler by any means, illegal, unethical, whatever.”
I can remember when fairness and presumption of innocence existed in the judicial process. But not if Garland is Beria and the courts don't stop him.
“I can remember when fairness and presumption of innocence existed in the judicial process.”
You and I go back a ways I guess. Presumption of innocents went out the door when it was determined it is not illegal if they didn’t catch them. And in too many cases, when they were turned loose because the judge had a agenda.
wy69
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