Quote:Department of Justice officials believe the FBI acted improperly by collecting materials outside of the scope stipulated in the search warrant authorization during its raid on former President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, according to a new report.

“For the first time we have confirmation that the FBI and the Justice Department believes it over-collected evidence when it was at Mar-a-Lago, meaning it collected evidence not covered by the search warrant,” John Solomon, editor-in-chief of Just The News, said on “Hannity” in an interview on the report.

“I have confirmed from two different sources that the Justice Department called President Trump’s defense lawyers today confirming that they did take his three passports,” Solomon said. “They are making arrangements to send it back saying they are obligated to return it it’s outside the scope of the subpoena. They have also informed Trump defense lawyers, the Justice Department has, over the last few days that there’s likely privileged materials that the FBI collected that now have to be segregated and returned to the president.”

“Those privileges could be attorney-client privilege or more likely, executive privilege,” he added. “Now this is remarkable. I talked to a lot have FBI people today who told me this warrant was already remarkably broad, can basically go in and get anything that looked like a presidential record, to then collect something like a passport which most agents can recognize quickly, or privileged documents, raised concerns amongst career FBI officials.”

A DOJ official told Just The News late on Monday that the FBI acted “outside the scope” of the search warrant by seizing Donald Trump’s passports during the raid.

“Three passports. Privileged documents. A file on a presidential pardon,” the report reads. “As evidence surfaces about what FBI agents seized during the raid of former President Donald Trump’s estate in Mar-a-Lago, new questions about the real focus of the investigation and new avenues for legal challenges are bubbling to the surface.”

“The Justice Department informed Trump’s team Monday that agents gathered the former president’s passports and are obligated to return them, and that officials are also reviewing seized materials that may be covered by various privileges, ” the report added. “DOJ has designated a process for separating materials that could be covered by executive privilege or attorney client privilege and hopes to return such memos to Trump within a couple of weeks, the sources said.”

As reported earlier, the FBI search warrant was already overly broad and encompassed: “Any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021.”

Now, it looks like the FBI raided Donald Trump’s home and sought to go through all of his private documents to determine if any classified materials were there. Since Trump already had a ‘standing order’ that all of the documents that went to Mar-a-Lago were to be considered declassified, and he had already been cooperating with the authorities on the National Archives’ request, it is looking increasingly like the entire operation was a fishing expedition in the wake of the failed January 6 partisan committee hearings.

Since Attorney General Merrick Garland waited weeks to ‘personally authorize’ the FBI raid, and the bureau took days after the search warrant was authorized to execute it, there is no plausible reason to believe there was an urgent need to violate two centuries of presidential decorum and the rule of law. The Biden administration appears to be responsible for one of the greatest travesties and affronts to its institutions in American history. The Department of Justice will have effectively admitted it when it returns Donald Trump’s passports and privileged documents.

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Anyone going to be shocked if this is just the tip of the iceberg. I think most of us know it was always a fishing expedition. Two predictions----they didnt find anything that is going to help them in their "get Trump" witch hunt----and #2----my guess is there is behavior on the security video of the search that is extremely bad for the FBI. Im wondering if the cameras in there also record sound.

Shocked face....


Hang these clowns by their toenails

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(08-16-2022 07:02 PM)maximus Wrote:  Shocked face....


Hang these clowns by their toenails

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Tuck's rippin' 'em a new one on the Whitmer charade ....

thanks, 0bama ... somewhere in between those jugears, ewe made this all possible...

There was a time when I would have said they cannot be that stupid.

Since Attorney General Merrick Garland waited weeks to ‘personally authorize’ the FBI raid, and the bureau took days after the search warrant was authorized to execute it, there is no plausible reason to believe there was an urgent need to violate two centuries of presidential decorum and the rule of law. The Biden administration appears to be responsible for one of the greatest travesties and affronts to its institutions in American history. The Department of Justice will have effectively admitted it when it returns Donald Trump’s passports and privileged documents.

So, as most of us on the right have articulated, this was an unprecedented snatch and grab RAID on an ex-President's home by the allegedly professional FBI on an order given by the wimp Garland at DOJ, who is still angry over being denied a SC opportunity. And the FBI exceeded its authority.....what a shock.

The entire Biden* Administration is corrupt to their bone marrow. The unbridled hatred of Trump drives those idiots absolutely insane.

A special note of thanks to McTurtle who screws up a lot of stuff but he ACED that denial of Garland of a chance at the SC.

Not mentioned in the article: consequences for this serious procedural breach and violation of rights.

But, of course, what am I saying? Consequences never apply to progressives, nor to their Brownshirt enforcers.

When it's that obvious to everyone...

Rogue Federal Government.

(08-17-2022 05:28 AM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  Not mentioned in the article: consequences for this serious procedural breach and violation of rights.

But, of course, what am I saying? Consequences never apply to progressives, nor to their Brownshirt enforcers.

Exactly right. While it may be frowned on in the court of public opinion no one involved will suffer for one minute.

(08-17-2022 05:44 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  When it's that obvious to everyone...

Rogue Federal Government.

Yet they will continue to push until it blows up in their faces and then wonder why our citizenry turned on them.

Strongly worded letters will be written.

Strongly worded

No heads will roll.. Offenders will be reprimanded and promoted to higher positions.

So, the source is John Solomon, and two anonymous sources of his?

Anyway, perhaps some of our lawyers here can weigh in, but there are exceptions for taking things in plain view that are not in the warrant. Additionally, what's the repercussion if some stuff not in the warrant or criminally related were seized? From what I'm reading, those things are just excluded and can't be used directly or to point to some other potential crime. So the items would just be returned.

(08-17-2022 07:21 AM)gdunn Wrote:  No heads will roll.. Offenders will be reprimanded and promoted to higher positions.

Right...you back the blue, don't you?

There's mountains of precedence of how things like this, if true, are handled. I would venture that in most all of them, the officers on scene aren't blamed and the items are just returned. It's probably pretty hard to prove that any officer were acting criminally.

(08-17-2022 07:23 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  So, the source is John Solomon, and two anonymous sources of his?

Anyway, perhaps some of our lawyers here can weigh in, but there are exceptions for taking things in plain view that are not in the warrant. Additionally, what's the repercussion if some stuff not in the warrant or criminally related were seized? From what I'm reading, those things are just excluded and can't be used directly or to point to some other potential crime. So the items would just be returned.

I am one of the last people to offer up a #henceDJT comment. But the nonchalance of your post, much like hah-hah the attitude being displayed of most every other America-hating progressive, yields exactly that outcome.

And, speaking frankly Tom, I sometimes wonder if that is not exactly what you want. That you aren't some kind of Trump plant - - with a mission to displace any kind of rational discussion with irrational emotion.

(08-17-2022 07:26 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(08-17-2022 07:21 AM)gdunn Wrote:  No heads will roll.. Offenders will be reprimanded and promoted to higher positions.

Right...you back the blue, don't you?

There's mountains of precedence of how things like this, if true, are handled. I would venture that in most all of them, the officers on scene aren't blamed and the items are just returned. It's probably pretty hard to prove that any officer were acting criminally.

Me backing the blue and supporting something that was possibly un-Constitutional are two different things, you trying to paint them as the same thing is absurd. While I support Law Enforcement, I also feel the need to call out things when it's done wrong. You should try it sometime instead of acting smug like nothing you've done is wrong.

And Tom, FBI agents are not called officers, they're called agents. And if these agents did what they're told I'm not upset, the ones I was referring to was the ones giving the orders.

Back to ignoreland.

(08-17-2022 07:23 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  So, the source is John Solomon, and two anonymous sources of his?

Anyway, perhaps some of our lawyers here can weigh in, but there are exceptions for taking things in plain view that are not in the warrant. Additionally, what's the repercussion if some stuff not in the warrant or criminally related were seized? From what I'm reading, those things are just excluded and can't be used directly or to point to some other potential crime. So the items would just be returned.

Keeping this for the next time you post an article from an obscure source that is using sources that are not named.

Can someone explain what Trump's passports have to do with national security in a raid that was supposed to be for only classified documents?

We're not stupid. This was a Jan. 6 fishing trip.

(08-17-2022 08:02 AM)gdunn Wrote:  

(08-17-2022 07:23 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  So, the source is John Solomon, and two anonymous sources of his?

Anyway, perhaps some of our lawyers here can weigh in, but there are exceptions for taking things in plain view that are not in the warrant. Additionally, what's the repercussion if some stuff not in the warrant or criminally related were seized? From what I'm reading, those things are just excluded and can't be used directly or to point to some other potential crime. So the items would just be returned.

Keeping this for the next time you post an article from an obscure source that is using sources that are not named.

Yes, I thought of the exact same thing as you gdunn, after reading his post. His statement was full of double standards - i.e. rules for thee, but not for me. Of course, we all know that if it wasn't for double standards, the Democrats (i.e. LeftwingTom) wouldn't have any standards at all.

I'd challenge LeftwingTom to refute the statements made by John Solomon. If nothing else, that's how the Democrats always roll. They routinely put out statements as being factual and force the Republicans to prove those statements wrong. So far it appears that Solomon is on point with his comments.

(08-17-2022 08:02 AM)gdunn Wrote:  

(08-17-2022 07:26 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(08-17-2022 07:21 AM)gdunn Wrote:  No heads will roll.. Offenders will be reprimanded and promoted to higher positions.

Right...you back the blue, don't you?

There's mountains of precedence of how things like this, if true, are handled. I would venture that in most all of them, the officers on scene aren't blamed and the items are just returned. It's probably pretty hard to prove that any officer were acting criminally.

Me backing the blue and supporting something that was possibly un-Constitutional are two different things, you trying to paint them as the same thing is absurd. While I support Law Enforcement, I also feel the need to call out things when it's done wrong. You should try it sometime instead of acting smug like nothing you've done is wrong.

And Tom, FBI agents are not called officers, they're called agents. And if these agents did what they're told I'm not upset, the ones I was referring to was the ones giving the orders.

Back to ignoreland.

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