FBI raids Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

[Rick Plant]

FBI investigated threats against law enforcement from Trump supporters after Mar-a-Lago search: report

In the days after they conducted a search for classified documents at Donald Trump's Palm Beach resort, federal agents examined social media for possible threats against the agency and issued internal warnings about potential armed protests carried out by Trump supporters, Bloomberg reports.

Intelligence officers at the Federal Protective Service called for increased patrols and security around government properties and instructed law enforcement officers to remain in a “heightened state of vigilance at this time.” The FPS is a government agency tasked with protecting federal buildings.

“An attack on a federal facility can occur in a variety of ways and is only limited to the imagination of the individual(s) who are planning, coordinating and executing the attack,” the FPS said in an Aug. 10 bulletin -- two days after the Mar-a-Lago search.

According to Bloomberg's Jason Leopold, the potential for violence in the wake of the FBI's search shows the ripple effect such actions have across Trumpworld.

"On Aug. 10, Richard Cline, FPS’s principal deputy director, sent an email to Randolph 'Tex' Alles, a top DHS official, along with intelligence details 'reporting a spike in expressed social media threats against the FBI and to a lesser extent, other government and law enforcement agencies following the August 8, 2022 execution of a federal search warrant at the Florida residence of former President Trump,'" Bloomberg's report stated.

"Earlier that day, an FPS intelligence officer flagged a comment left on the far-right website The Gateway Pundit that said, 'Target practice using FBI agents who have not quit. This raid should be every agent’s last warning shot. It is absolutely not worth working in the FBI. Don’t heed the warning is your own death sentence.'"

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supporters-fbi-threats/

[Rick Plant]

A week ago, a federal judge issued a bizarre, incoherent, unenforceable, and brazenly corrupt ruling in favor of Donald Trump’s request for a special master. This week the DOJ fired back with a motion that cleverly reframed the probe in such a manner that made it almost impossible for the judge to stick to her guns.

Now the judge is asking both sides to weigh in on a partial stay of her own ruling, which would allow the DOJ to move forward in the way that it needs to, without having to take the time to appeal her ruling to a higher court and get it struck down.

One legal expert appeared on MSNBC and characterized the judge’s move as a “white flag” of surrender, as the judge tries to get out from under her own bizarre ruling. Another legal expert on the same panel pointed out that if Trump wants to contest this partial stay, he’ll have to claim in court that he had a standing order to declassify all documents – something that could come back to bite him later:

Now the judge is asking both sides to weigh in on a partial stay of her own ruling, which would allow the DOJ to move forward in the way that it needs to, without having to take the time to appeal her ruling to a higher court and get it struck down.

One legal expert appeared on MSNBC and characterized the judge’s move as a “white flag” of surrender, as the judge tries to get out from under her own bizarre ruling. Another legal expert on the same panel pointed out that if Trump wants to contest this partial stay, he’ll have to claim in court that he had a standing order to declassify all documents – something that could come back to bite him later:

Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1568253165426085888

[Rick Plant]

Trump lawyer may be stripped of 'attorney-client privilege' over Mar-a-Lago obstruction: legal expert



Buried in a profile of Donald Trump attorney Christina Bobb, one legal expert suggested she and the former president may find that the legal protections afforded by the attorney-client privilege may be stripped away from them due to accusations she may have assisted in obstructing the DOJ.

Detailing Bobb's quick rise from OAN host to currently being part of a team of lawyers defending the former president's attempt to hoard highly sensitive government documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Business Insider's Sophia Ankel wrote that Bobb's signing of documents that all materials had been handed back to the government when they had not, has put her in the DOJ's crosshairs.

According to the report, "In a legal filing last month, the DOJ alleged that Bobb and Evan Corcoran, another Trump lawyer, misled prosecutors by saying they had handed over all classified documents from Mar-a-Lago."

Adding that "Experts said the filing could build a legal case that Bobb and Corcoran obstructed the government's investigation, and urged both lawyers to get lawyers of their own," Ankel spoke with attorney and national security expert Bradley Moss who claimed she has major legal problems in her future.

"Bobb certainly, at a minimum, is a material-fact witness in the context of the government's inquiry into possible obstruction and efforts to conceal the records located at Mar-a-Lago," he explained.

"It is not out of the realm of possibility that the government ... will at least seek a court order compelling her to testify before the grand jury, citing the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege.," he elaborated.

As for Bobb's continuing appearances on Fox News defending Trump on his Mar-a-Lago document problems, Moss added, "She should stay off of TV at this point, as [she] is only making the situation worse."

Read More Here: https://www.businessinsider.com/christina-bobb-profile-trump-lawyer-former-oan-presenter-2022-9

[Rick Plant]

The DOJ left a 'tantalizing' warning in their Trump-appointed judge appeal: former FBI official



According to the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, when the Department of Justice appealed Judge Ailleen Cannon's decision on appointing a special master, they left a clue that there are more issues to be resolved.

Speaking with host Alex Witt, former agent Frank Figliuzzi called the legal notation "tantalizing."

Prompting Figliuzzi about the empty files that have DOJ officials concerned, Witt asked, "The DOJ filing says that the FBI is responsible for finding out if they are lost or compromised. Frank, how significant is that?"

'Yeah I mean, just as important as what they found is what they didn't find and the question is of where is it," he replied. "Because as you said, they've got 40-some odd empty folders marked classified and you've got to figure out whether that simply means that the documents were taken out of those folders and intermingled amongst personal belongings and other records, or whether they were truly, truly missing."

"And, again, that is linked to the risk review and the criminal case and even -- very kind of tantalizing -- the DOJ says in their, filing 'look, judge, your ruling is actually stopping us, impeding us is the word they used, from finding documents, other classified documents. which could be out there, even in other places.'"

"So this raises the possibility that they suspect those empty folders, those contents, might have ended up somewhere else," he elaborated. "And the question of somewhere else is why they need to get the investigation back up and running."

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[Rick Plant]

Warner wants damage assessment from intel community over Trump documents

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says the intelligence community needs to provide a damage assessment of the classified material found at former President Donald Trump's home in Florida.

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[Rick Plant]

Criminal Donald is now a private citizen who stole top secret classified information and stashed them at his residence in Florida. The DOJ has every right to look at the documents he stole.         

Trump attorneys object to DOJ's request to continue reviewing classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-attorneys-object-to-do-js-request-to-continue-reviewing-classified-documents-seized-from-mar-a-lago-164207927.html

[Rick Plant]

Feds claim there are no documents on record that apply to a so-called Trump 'declassification order'

Former President Donald Trump and his allies have claimed multiple times that there was a kind of "declassification order" on many of the documents that he took from the White House back to his country club in Florida.

In an interview with the Fox network, Trump said that while he was in office he "often took documents, including classified documents, to the residence" and "had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them."

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton said that while he was there there was nothing of the sort going on, and that the idea of a standing declassification order is "almost certainly a lie."

ACLU lawyer Matthew Segal noted last week that colleagues sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the National Geospatial-intelligence agency requesting any documents pertaining to an "alleged declassification standing order, any written transmittal of the alleged declassification stand order from the executive office of the president of the United States to NGA, including by letter, memoranda, or email, all records created by NGA that were declassified pursuant to the alleged declassification standing order" up until Jan. 20, 2021.

The same request was also sent to the Department of Homeland Security. Both came back with the same answer.

On Sept. 8, Segal cited the letter from the NGA saying "Our extensive search of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency records failed to identify any documents in our files that are responsive to your request."

Monday, the Department of Homeland Security returned the information explaining, "We conducted a comprehensive search of files within The Office of the Executive Secretary (ESEC) and the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) for records that would be responsive to your request. Unfortunately, we were unable to locate or identify and responsive records."

https://www.rawstory.com/did-trump-declassify-docs/