Posted on 08/11/2022 10:59:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
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The highly suspicious FBI raid on President Donald J. Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, exposes some long-anticipated details about the country’s top law enforcement agency that show the FBI is a danger to freedom and liberty.
Reports from Wednesday set the tone for exposing the FBI’s real motives for the raid on Trump, reminding readers about Trump’s declassification of a binder of documents on January 19th, 2021, which contains hundreds of pages about the Crossfire Hurricane scandal and the Russia hoax.
Two different DOJ Attorney Generals have defied President Trump’s direct lawful order to publish the documents in the Federal Register: Attorney Generals William J. Barr, and Merrick Garland.
“The DOJ had already made redactions to protect sources & methods, and returned the binder back to the White House. But the corrupt FBI also wanted to hide names. So at the last minute, the DOJ demanded the binder comply with the 1974 Privacy Act. The Act requires any “agency” that releases records to also hide personal or identifiable name information. The DOJ knew this Act doesn’t apply to the White House, it was a stall tactic. The courts decided this 22 years ago that the Privacy Act was based around FOIA requests, and the White House is not an agency,” Hoft reported.
Trump’s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, gave the binder back to the DOJ, along with this memo on Jan. 20, 2021:
The message is quite clear about what is expected and reads:
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SUBJECT: Declassification of Certain Materials Related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct the following:
Section 1. Declassification and Release. At my request, on December 30, 2020, the Department of Justice provided the White House with a binder of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Portions of the documents in the binder have remained classified and have not been released to the Congress or the public. I requested the documents so that a declassification review could be performed and so I could determine to what extent materials in the binder should be released in unclassified form.
I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible. In response, and as part of the iterative process of the declassification review, under a cover letter dated January 17, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation noted its continuing objection to any further declassification of the materials in the binder and also, on the basis of a review that included Intelligence Community equities, identified the passages that it believed it was most crucial to keep from public disclosure. I have determined to accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI in that January 17 submission.
I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the binder. This is my final determination under the declassification review and I have directed the Attorney General to implement the redactions proposed in the FBI’s January 17 submission and return to the White House an appropriately redacted copy.
My decision to declassify materials within the binder is subject to the limits identified above and does not extend to materials that must be protected from disclosure pursuant to orders of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and does not require the disclosure of certain personally identifiable information or any other materials that must be protected from disclosure under applicable law. Accordingly, at my direction, the Attorney General has conducted an appropriate review to ensure that materials provided in the binder may be disclosed by the White House in accordance with applicable law.
Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(d) The Attorney General is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
DONALD J. TRUMP
“Meadows foolishly expected this would take 3-4 days,” Hoft reported along with another memo from Meadows demanding the release of the documents.
“Just the News recently obtained the Meadows memo from the National Archives, who also denied having a copy of the declassified binder,” Hoft reported.
“Meadows admits in interviews various agency’s often stalled or defied Trump’s orders.
Meadows knew better than to rely on the DOJ to release this damaging binder after they left the White House. He should have released the binder to the public himself. But in doing so, there was a chance he would become a target of the DOJ and FBI. The memorandum below is what Mr. Meadows sent to the DOJ Attorney General on January 20th, 2021,” Just the News reported.
Investigative reporter Paul Sperry, who was reporting on the conflict, mysteriously had his Twitter account taken down on Monday.
Zero Hedge reported about the Sperry mystery:
Twitter has suspended journalist Paul Sperry after he made several tweets about this week’s FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, where they spent up to 9 hours rifling through the former president’s private office, Melania Trump’s wardrobe, and eventually took 12 boxes of material…
Sperry: “DEVELOPING: Investigators reportedly met back in June w Trump & his lawyers in Mar-a-Lago storage rm to survey docs & things seemed copasetic but then FBI raids weeks later. Speculation on Hill FBI had PERSONAL stake & searching for classified docs related to its #Spygate scandal.”
THIS...IS WHAT I WAS THINKING.
No wonder they were bent out of shape.
I hope this turns out to be true
This sounds like right wing misinformation. Let’s wait for more objective reports.
I hope this blows up in the FBI’s faces.
I think it already has
The milf panty sniffers ransacked Melania’s clothes and made off with some underwear.
They’ve acted like serial rapists
They were going after docs that would show Barak ordered it.
I heard they hung her pantys in a tree like the mexican rape cartels,,,
Why do I have a gut feeling that Trump had Every page...back and front...photographed...and those are sacked away and only his sons know where.
This was a repeat of Watergate. That is what we all witnessed: they wanted to know what Trump knew. They couldn’t do a midnight burglary since Mar-a-Lago has security cameras, so they tried to hide it underneath an FBI raid.
So,when a right wing task force raids a joe.. hillary..nancy ..or chuck’s place..just be sure the hand picked jusge states that the warrant is a classified secret?
Also, don’t forget the the doj or President Trump need be bothered with answering a bunch of questions.
I thought that it could be Hillary/0bama/Brandon Spygate information, Hunter/Ukraine info or Faucci/China/COVID incriminating information. If either is true then the FIB has become, at the least, an accomplice after the fact.
Would be cool if Trump had some fake doc’s in what the Feebs took; make them run with it, then show them up at the J6 committee.
Hidden in a bunker under the 10th hole at Bedminster.
Cemetery portion would all be considered hallowed ground...NO DIGGING...
I wonder how the cemetery portion is owned.
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