DOJ urges judge to keep Trump search warrant affidavit sealed to protect national security investigation
"hap0206, Your unjustified attempts to create warrant equivalence is as laughable as your attempt to distance yourself from Trump and his enablers. [...] 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."
Related: 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 https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169691185
Published Mon, Aug 15 20225:54 PM EDTUpdated Mon, Aug 15 20228:27 PM EDT
Kevin Breuninger @KevinWilliamB
Key Points
* Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump asked a judge not to unseal a key document related to the FBI’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
* The search warrant affidavit contains “highly sensitive information” that could compromise the “ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security,” they wrote in a court filing.
* The warrant and property receipt, unsealed last week, indicated that the agents were looking for materials related to three criminal statutes, one of which was part of the Espionage Act.
VIDEO 03:33 - Justice Dept. fights to keep Trump search warrant affidavit sealed
Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump .. https://www.cnbc.com/donald-trump/ .. asked a judge Monday not to unseal a key document related to the FBI’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, saying it contains “highly sensitive information” that could compromise the national security probe.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said last week that he personally approved the warrant, and that he supported its disclosure in light of the “substantial public interest in this matter.”
But the Department of Justice on Monday pushed back on calls to release the affidavit supporting the search warrant, saying it “presents a very different set of considerations.”
“There remain compelling reasons, including to protect the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security, that support keeping the affidavit sealed, the federal prosecutors wrote in a filing in U.S. District Court in Florida.
The affidavit contains “critically important and detailed investigative facts,” they argued in the filing, which was signed by Jay Bratt, head of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section of the DOJ’s National Security Division.
Those facts include “highly sensitive information about witnesses, including witnesses interviewed by the government; specific investigative techniques; and information required by law to be kept under seal” in accordance with the federal rules, the prosecutors wrote.
“If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps,” the filing said.
“In addition, information about witnesses is particularly sensitive given the high-profile nature of this matter and the risk that the revelation of witness identities would impact their willingness to cooperate with the investigation,” the prosecutors wrote.
They also said they considered whether to release a heavily-redacted version of the affidavit, but concluded that “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.”
The search warrant and property receipt, unsealed Friday, shed much light on the search of Trump’s home, while at the same time raising more questions about the federal investigation into the former president.
The documents showed the FBI seized 20 boxes of items and other materials, including multiple sets of documents marked top secret and classified. The warrant indicates that the agents were looking for materials related to three criminal statutes, one of which was part of the Espionage Act.
Earlier Monday, Trump wrote on his social media platform that the FBI had taken three of his passports — including one that was expired — during the raid.
Gosh, did not know about the Trump vs Clinton law suit -- hope you enjoy the commentary as much as I did ======== https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169702776 [the part on the judge] The choice of going to federal magistrate Bruce Reinhart for the Mar-a-Lago warrant sure looks crude and desperate. Only weeks ago, he was presiding over the Trump v Clinton lawsuit. How did that even happen, given Mr. Reinhart’s role defending Jeffrey Epstein’s associates — many of them Clinton-connected — in the 2007 sex-trafficking case? And only after the spectacularly weird act of switching sides from the federal prosecution team to Epstein’s defense team. Not to mention Mr. Reinhart’s record of public statements denouncing Mr. Trump. There are twenty-five other magistrates who rotate their duties in the Southern District of Florida, why pick him?
It all shapes up as a systematic effort to obstruct justice by the US Department of Justice. They’ve been doing it consistently since 2016 in all matters pertaining to Mr. Trump, and it is a big reason that the country is now viciously coming apart. This is just a continuation of the same seditious treachery that went on with James Comey releasing his classified interview memo concerning Mr. Trump to The New York Times via his attorney friend from Columbia University, Daniel Richman; and the ensuing dishonest Mueller investigation the leak provoked; and the Crossfire Hurricane operation run by Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, and Rod Rosenstein; and the illegal entrapment and prosecution of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn; and the serial misrepresentations to the FISA court; and the illegal coordinated maneuvers in impeachment #1 between Rep. Adam Schiff, ICIG Michael Atkinson, the National Security Council, and CIA-agent Eric Ciaramella posing as a “whistleblower”; and more recently, the mischief around the FBI’s conjured-up Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping scheme; and the FBI’s role in turning the January 6, 2020, election protests into a riot at the US Capitol.
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