Read it and, please, try to comprehend that the only reasons to want to reveal what's in the affidavit are to sabotage the case, expose sources, methods and witnesses.
Imagine that The FBI is closing in on Hunter or Clinton and it SHOULD make sense to you; make you feel real good too.
DOJ opposes making public details in Mar-a-Lago search warrant's probable cause affidavit
Source: CNN
(CNN) The Justice Department is opposing the release of details in an affidavit that lays out the argument that investigators made to a federal magistrate judge explaining the probable cause it had to search former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last week.
In their new filing arguing for some continued secrecy, the Justice Department made clear the seriousness of the ongoing criminal investigation, saying it "implicates highly classified materials."
"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," the Justice Department wrote.
"The fact that this investigation implicates highly classified materials further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the investigation and exacerbates the potential harm if information is disclosed to the public prematurely or improperly."
Media organizations including CNN had asked for the affidavit to be unsealed after the search last week at Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, club and residence. The Justice Department said in its filing that disclosing the affidavit details "at this juncture" would "cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation."
"The redactions necessary to mitigate harms to the integrity of the investigation would be so extensive as to render the remaining unsealed text devoid of meaningful content, and the release of such a redacted version would not serve any public interest," the Justice Department stated.
NN, joined by The Washington Post, NBC News and Scripps, asked the judge last week to unseal all documents -- including any probable cause affidavits -- connected to the FBI search.
hap0206, Your unjustified attempts to create warrant equivalence is as laughable as your attempt to distance yourself from Trump and his enablers. You have consistently opposed our critiques of Trump, before and since his 2016 campaign. All of our positions on Trump were justified then and even more validated since. You have sat in opposition to every one. The asshole continues to be an overly self-centered narcissistic ego-maniac. The asshole continues to be interested basically in only power and money as instruments to complement his control of his world. The asshole has always seen himself as above the rule of law.
"Oh and by , and bye the way— Mexican stand off on the warrant Repubs want to know what was in application for the warrant Dems want to know how he got the top secret intelligence Interesting times we live in"
There in no standoff on the warrant. It was essentially properly arrived at. It was essentially properly executed.
You, in years as a loyal little GOP toady, have consistently questioned the integrity of law enforcement people doing their jobs if you saw them acting against your political interests. In this latest case, from the beginning
Why bring Mexico into it. Actually, there is no American stand-off on the warrant. Properly arrived at and properly executed. That's the situation there.
Now your people, of course, want law enforcement to compromise themselves and their ongoing operational integrity by dressing an unreasonable demand - the unsealing of the affidavit now - as a search for the truth.
Search warrants are rarely unsealed. Here’s why. The search warrant and “returns” filed in raid of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate will reveal little about the basis of the intrusion. Brendan J. Lyons Aug. 12, 2022 Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 3:09 p.m. [...] Are the affidavits in support of search warrants ever unsealed?
Yes, but rarely while an investigation is ongoing — such as in the Justice Department’s probe of former President Donald J. Trump. The affidavits normally may be unsealed when there has been an indictment or a law enforcement agency has concluded its investigation and no charges were filed. In 2012, the Times Union successfully petitioned a U.S. magistrate .. https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Records-detail-FBI-s-interest-in-Sweeney-and-2673467.php .. to unseal search warrant affidavits that had been filed in connection with the search of the offices of a lobbyist and former New York GOP chairman — an investigation that did not result in any charges.
Will the affidavit in support of the search warrant used to raid Mar-A-Lago be unsealed?
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