Posted on 12/19/2025 1:14:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The public unveiling of the Biden administration’s lawfare campaign against a past president and political rival came on Aug. 8, 2022, the day the FBI descended on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in search of classified documents. It was a shocking moment, the first time in history federal law-enforcement had acted against a former president. More shocking: It didn’t have to be that way. The Justice Department insisted on it.
That’s the disturbing information contained in emails released this week by the Senate Judiciary Committee. In missives spanning the summer of 2022, FBI officials expressed alarm and forcefully pushed back against a DOJ-driven search warrant and raid. The FBI highlighted legal and evidentiary weaknesses, noted offers of cooperation, proposed numerous better avenues. The DOJ ignored or overruled it all, drooling over a prosecution.
A June 1 FBI Washington field office summary shows, for starters, that the department appears to have sucker-punched the Trump team. It had contacted a Trump attorney “requesting the return of any classified documents” by May 24. When that deadline passed, it immediately moved to a search warrant.
Yet “one complicating factor,” the summary explains, was that the attorney had written back to the department on May 25, “claiming that the DOJ had told him the return date was flexible” and that only on deadline day itself had the department “notified him that the return date was not going to be extended.” The Trump lawyer had meanwhile suggested they “try to reach an accommodation.”
“In light of this,” the FBI asked the DOJ to take the “reasonable” route, “to negotiate the return of any classified documents.” The memo reports the department’s response: It was “adamant that no accommodation would be given and that they would not reach out to the attorney.”
The FBI’s other giant concern? It didn’t...
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
In 2022, internal FBI emails—recently released by the Senate Judiciary Committee—reveal that FBI officials strongly opposed the Department of Justice's push for a search warrant at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence over classified documents.
FBI personnel from the Washington Field Office repeatedly expressed doubts about establishing probable cause, describing the evidence as single-source, uncorroborated, potentially dated, and lacking development on culpability for mishandling. They questioned whether new facts justified a warrant and warned that weeks spent pursuing one were counterproductive to the goal of quickly recovering documents.
Despite these concerns, DOJ officials insisted probable cause existed, rejected accommodations, and overruled FBI recommendations for less intrusive alternatives. These included:
The DOJ proceeded with the warrant, leading to the August 8, 2022, FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, which recovered over 300 documents with classified markings. The ensuing prosecution was ultimately dismissed.
The emails suggest the raid and criminal case could have been avoided through negotiation or cooperation, approaches the DOJ declined to pursue.
Just damn.
Where are the SWAT raids against these communist, criminal perps? Remember the SWAT raids where Trump supporters got shot on their doorsteps? Where are those SWAT raids now?
Some prison Bubba needs to raid Jack Smith’s private chambers.
It would be nice to see just one person arrested for something, but doesn’t look like that’s ever going to happen. Without accountability there will be no end to the Democrat lawfare, political persecutions, and abuses of power.
So many sources of aggravation.
Article later: FBI Brought Props To Stage Infamous Trump Crime Scene ...
Trump lawyers already said several times they would continue to supply any requested documents as required by warrants and requests. No one was refusing access. No need to barge into the home to get them.
Agents pulled out drawers and tossed clothing and framed photos on the floor and stepped on them.
All to hurt Trump’s reputation with voters.
And CNN, MS Now and PBS still say Trump was in the wrong.
I want the media people to suffer, not just the FBI people at fault.
Photo....
Gee, almost as many boxes as the ones Joe Biden had illegally in his garage and home without the authority as VP to declassify any of them, which Trump could do as the President.
Oh, wait, there aren’t any photos of boxes in a raid on Joe Biden’s home. It was hands off.
Injustice.
Damn! How many panties does Melania need?
The MSM media were accomplices in the fraud. If the Feds will do nothing then there is only Citizens Arrest. Sure they would not be convicted in DC, but resisting arrest has consequences too.
"That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!"
This is when he eats the spinach, and proceeds to destroy his enemy. I wonder whether I will live to see it happen here.
This make Garland much bigger villain than Wray. Totally ruthless and unprincipled, and crooked. And he almost became a SC justice.
“...in search of classified documents...”
They went in to find documents that were in question to them as to their level of classification. That was always their intent so it was a fishing trip at best.
wy69
The President decides what’s classified, not administrative state clerks.
Pretty sad the only scalp we have is a state judge from Wisconsin. Given the number available
RE:... If the Feds will do nothing then there is only Citizens Arrest.
Precedents for citizen’s arrest in Mayberry.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QzlSVm7HFtw
I don’t see her as being much of a scalp since she’s just a DEI Trump hater. What I really want to see is people held accountable for abuses of power, corruption, lawfare and misappropriations. I’m not seeing any real determination thus far to do that. Very disappointing.
“And he almost became a SC justice.”
Obama had a long game plan, and Garland was part of that plan...
“The President decides what’s classified, not administrative state clerks.”
Factually, he can’t just say a document is declassified. There is a process he has to go through to get a document downgraded. This may a little long, but it is the process and it tkes a long time to get it through the chain.
The President has the authority under the Constitution to declassify, in the public interest, documents that originated in any department or agency of the executive branch. But he can’t do it by himself. Declassification in the public interest may result from a favorable decision by an originating agency following a Mandatory Declassification Review. This also includes the POTUS.
According to E.O. 13526, cases involving declassification in the public interest must be: “referred to the [originating] agency head or the senior agency official. That official will determine ... whether the public interest in disclosure outweighs the damage to the national security that might reasonably be expected from disclosure.”
Requests for declassification can also be made to the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB). The Public Interest Declassification Act of 2000 (Title VII of P.L. 106-567) established the PIDB to provide advice to the President and other senior national security officials “on the systematic, thorough, coordinated, and comprehensive identification, collection, review for declassification, and release to Congress, interested agencies, and the public of declassified records and materials ... that are of archival value, including records and materials of extraordinary public interest.” The PIDB meets monthly to make recommendations on declassification of records to the President, who makes a final decision.
In making its recommendations, the PIDB included input from Congress “made by the committee of jurisdiction or by a member of the committee of jurisdiction, to declassify certain records, to evaluate the proper classification of certain records, or to reconsider a declination to declassify specific records” (50 U.S.C. §3355a(b)(5)).But without the determination of the PIDP, no one can declassify a document on their own.
And the interesting part is that is that high-level elected officials like the President, Vice President, and Members of Congress generally don’t need formal security clearances; their election or appointment grants them inherent access to classified info, but their staff do get clearances, and some state/local officials can get them through specific FBI programs for “need-to-know”.
wy69
We are both disappointed in the lack of results
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