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Feds oppose unsealing affidavit for Mar-a-Lago warrant
The Associated Press ^
| August 15, 2022
| By MICHAEL BALSAMO
Posted on 08/15/2022 2:55:56 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday rebuffed efforts to make public the affidavit supporting the search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida, saying the investigation “implicates highly classified material” and the document contains sensitive information about witnesses.
The government’s opposition came in response to court filings by several news organizations, including The Associated Press, seeking to unseal the underlying affidavit the Justice Department submitted when it asked for the warrant to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month.
The court filing — from Juan Antonio Gonzalez, the U.S. attorney in Miami, and Jay Bratt, a top Justice Department national security official — argues that making the affidavit public would “cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation.”
The document, the prosecutors say, details “highly sensitive information about witnesses,” including people who have been interviewed by the government, and contains confidential grand jury information.
The government told a federal magistrate judge that prosecutors believe some additional records, including the cover sheet for the warrant and the government’s request to seal the documents, should now be made public.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cockroachesscatter; deepstate; doj; election2022; fbi; maralago; maralagoraid; stasiraid; witchhunt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Who cares what the Feds want? They are criminals.
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posted on
08/15/2022 2:57:31 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: Oldeconomybuyer
feds talk out of both sides of their mouth.
first they said they would make public if trump ok’d
now they say they won’t make public.
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posted on
08/15/2022 2:57:48 PM PDT
by
thinden
(buckle up.....)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The FBI, once again, has a false affidavit, which renders the warrant useless.
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posted on
08/15/2022 2:59:00 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(No Arm up! They have!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Without justification, the raid was no more than an FBI sanctioned burglary.
Just keep voting and pretend it matters.
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posted on
08/15/2022 2:59:56 PM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(ArticleVBlog.com)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The FBI knows it would expose yet another criminal fabricated scheme to frame Trump.
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:00:26 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(FJB and the corrupt FBI)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Of course they don't want it unsealed.
It probably says: 'Look for anything might be construed as incriminating, even if you have to place it yourself.'
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:00:57 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Confidential?, like all the client and executive privilege documents the FBI took? The FBI is a bunch of criminals.
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:02:10 PM PDT
by
D Rider
( )
To: D Rider
This way they can selectively release what they see as damaging to the press, and prevents Trump from defending himself in public.
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:03:32 PM PDT
by
gswilder
To: Oldeconomybuyer
They don’t want to be caught yet again falsifying a warrant request.
I don’t blame them!
Bunch of fourth grade level thinkers here.
“Oh! My dog ate the warrant request.”
“Sorry Miss Pennel.”
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:04:43 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Release the affidavit now! It’s not the country’s problem that the DOJ/FBI doesn’t have probable cause. RELEASE THE AFFIDAVIT NOW!
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:05:45 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Uncle Brandon wants your money.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Let me think? What were the lefties saying (not here) but at other sites? Release the affidavit if you have nothing to hide. Right? That’s what they were saying to Trump about the warrant, until he released it, of course. Then they complained because he released it.
So DOJ! If you have nothing to hide, release the affidavit.
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:07:33 PM PDT
by
CFW
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:08:22 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
As an indication of how this has blown up in their faces, George Will is even calling it a bamboozle.
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:08:26 PM PDT
by
EliRoom8
To: Oldeconomybuyer
And (snort) make sure you get that orange rat fink’s passport too! That’ll REALLY make him mad! (Snicker!!!)
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:11:47 PM PDT
by
Shady
(The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The devil is in the details.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Ongoing criminal investigation”
Does this Cuban a&&hole realize how insane he sounds?
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:14:15 PM PDT
by
Regulator
(It's fraud, Jim)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
...and the document contains sensitive information about witnesses.THAT is why it isn't being released.
Cassidy Hutchinson sure gets around. /sarcasm
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:19:04 PM PDT
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If the search warrant affidavit was revealed to the public, the DOJ Lawfare tribe targeting Trump – within the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD), could not keep the benefit of selective leaks to their media stenographers. It would be more difficult to frame the narrative. [DOJ Filing pdf HERE]
WASHINGTON DC – “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,” U.S. Attorney Juan Gonzalez and Justice Department counterintelligence chief Jay Bratt said in a filing urging the continued secrecy of the affidavit.
“The fact that this investigation implicates highly classified materials further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the investigation and exacerbates the potential for harm if information is disclosed to the public prematurely or improperly,” the DOJ officials wrote.
On Thursday August 11th, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the justice department was committed to transparency in order to retain their integrity with the American public. On Monday August 15th, Attorney General Garland asked the court to keep the records sealed. The six-year pattern continues….
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posted on
08/15/2022 3:21:56 PM PDT
by
Bratch
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