The Next Chapter of the FBI's Trump Raid Saga Just Dropped: Biden DOJ has declared that Trump’s ‘special master’ request to review seized documents in the FBI raid should be denied on national security grounds.

Townhall ^ | 08/31/2022 | Matt Vespa

[SeekAndFind]

Of course this development would drop late at night. The Biden Department of Justice has declared that Donald Trump’s ‘special master’ request to review the documents the FBI seized in their August 8 raid of Mar-a-Lago should be denied on national security grounds. You heard that right; the Justice Department thinks that reviewing the letters to Trump from Kim Jong-un would endanger us irreparably. The cocktail napkins have nuclear codes on them. Photographs of state dinners would lead to nuclear war, and the dinner menus could reveal who killed John F. Kennedy. At least this development has a tinge of entertainment value. The most recent updates have been grounded in email exchanges between lawyers that didn’t show any criminal or prevaricating intent on behalf of Trump’s lawyers. There was no smoking gun. And now, if anyone but us, the DOJ, review the documents we took in an unlawful search, it’s a national security risk. Last weekend, a judge announced her preliminary intent to appoint a special master to review the records, which the DOJ also said was unnecessary since they had analyzed them:

The Justice Department said Tuesday night that appointing a special master "is unnecessary and would significantly harm important governmental interests, including national security interests."

The Justice Department attempted to bolster its case to the court by including an FBI photo showing documents and "classified cover sheets recovered from a container" in former President Donald Trump's "45 office," a reference to Trump’s being the 45th president. The photo shows documents marked “secret,” “top secret” and “SCI” — which stands for highly classified “sensitive compartmented information.”

In its late-night court filing, the Justice Department said that some of the documents seized were so sensitive and classified that FBI agents and Justice Department attorneys needed additional security clearances to review them.  (NBC News)

The Justice Department didn’t find anything to corroborate the Left’s nonsensical conspiracy theories about Trump regarding the January 6 riot, the Russian collusion hoax, or his tax returns. They got nothing—we would have heard something by now, given how leak-prone the DOJ and FBI have become on anything Trump-related. The latest legal salvo also points to a total lack of care inside the DOJ regarding public opinion. They seem content that a significant chunk of the country thinks they executed a politically motivated search warrant to benefit the Democratic Party. The stench of banana republicanism has reached the rafters.

Also, all that talk about Justice Department employees being apolitical, professional, and loyal public servants that Attorney General Merrick Garland babbled about during his mortifying presser got hurled into the furnace. They’re cornered, have nowhere to go, and are doubling down hard because these so-called classified documents are probably not all that sensitive. They’re not nuclear secrets. It’s the classic example of the government overclassifying documents, which Mike Davis, a former law clerk to Neil Gorsuch, alluded to in the wake of this raid. We also know that federal agents absconded with records that shouldn’t have been taken, like those protected under attorney-client privilege.

And again, classified documents are not an issue here. Trump was the president. He can declassify any record with absolute authority. The media is trying to make this seem like a Hillary Clinton-like story. It’s not. She did mishandle classified information since she was never president, had an email server that was not authorized or secured from which she transmitted classified information as secretary of state, and destroyed 33,000 emails under federal subpoena. Hillary’s communications set-up was designed to circumvent public records regulations. She also destroyed government-issued blackberries with hammers and bleached her servers. Yet, there was no FBI raid. There should have been, but Hillary’s a Democrat.

This isn’t an apples-to-apples story concerning the handling of sensitive materials. Suggesting that makes this even more humiliating for the media, who appear to have surrendered trying to get Trump on Russian collusion or his taxes. It’s now shoveling out nothing burger stories about how the president somehow doesn’t ever handle or view classified information and doesn’t have the authority to declassify such materials. That’s simply not based on reality or the law.  

1. President Trump had the constitutional power to declassify whatever he wanted.

2. And the statutory power to keep personal copies of his presidential records.

3. It's legally impossible for Trump to obstruct the Biden DOJ's (political) "investigation" into these non-crimes.


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[Chode]

there is no fall back position, there’s no rally point, there is no LZ... we’re on our own. #FJB

[pepsionice]

It sounds like no one can read them....even super-secret cleared people.

Maybe a good question for Biden’s next press conference...if he was cleared himself to read the Trump documents?

[Lucky2]

Trump’s got something really big on all of them if the deep state is this scared. #FJB

[Dr. Franklin]

The Bidet Regime’s DoJ now argues national security prevents justice for the return of the legitimate presidents personal records. WOW! If the judge accepts this bogus argument, it may be 2A time.

[silent majority rising]

Biden can’t even read them. Of course, though, he can’t read anything unless it on a teleprompter.

[BenLurkin]

A threat to the Democrat Party is NOT a threat to national security.

Quite the opposite really.

[ConservativeInPA]

The DOJ and FBI digs their hole deeper every day. The solution is dawning on more people everyday.

[freeandfreezing]

It sounds like no one can read them....even super-secret cleared people.

You are right. If there isn't a judge who can be appointed as the special master to look at the documents then there isn't a judge who can take whatever case the DOJ is trying to invent. And there isn't a jury either.

This just sounds like a Deep State attempt to gather up documents which make them look bad. They will claim that they all should be shredded and burned since they are too secret for anyone to see.

[Billthedrill]

It was the impeachment proceedings that got the Dems so used to secret testimony by secret witnesses in secret places that was too secret to release but trust us, Trump’s guilty. At this point “we got a secret that you can’t have” is Beltway Normal.

[Skywise]

So they’re resurrecting Russia-gate to cover their own lies.

This is high treason.

[1Old Pro]

Who running the DOJ now? They are acting like a 16 year old girl who didn’t get picked prom queen.

[BuckeyeGOP]

Before this raid I thought an indictment of Trump was a desperate long shot by the Feds. Now with this illegal raid and Joe Biden referring to MAGA as facists...the writing is on the wall regarding an idictment...it will happen. All that’s left to wonder about is when and what kind of backlash will occur.

Frightening times we are living in.

[Howie66]

As if nobody saw this coming.

Stolen Elections come at a very high price and bring with them dire consequences.

And if you think that voting in November is a slam dunk, then you haven’t been paying attention. The bastards got away with throwing our votes into the crapper before and nothing has happened to discourage them from doing it again.

[T.B. Yoits]

I disagree there should be a special master reviewing the FBI raid; there should be at least two special masters.

Trust no one, especially one the DOJ approves of.

[Bubba_Leroy]

So 30 FBI agents and countless DOJ employees going through the documents is no problem, but a court ordered independent master reviewing the documents would be a national security threat.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Shielding the deep state from EVENTUAL CRIMINAL PROSECUTION and NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT for their TRUMP-RUSSIA COLLUSION HOAX is NOT "national security".

[liberalh8ter]

So PDJT could never face a trial because the subject matter would be so super secret it couldn't even be discussed? What Country are we in again?

[plain talk]

DOJ can do pretty much whatever they want I guess. trump can sue etc which would take forever and courts may or may not even touch it.

[OHPatriot]

Democrats are begging for an insurrection which they think they can and want too squash unmercifully. It would be orgasmic for them.

Problem is, what they will get is an insurgency where EVERY last Democrat will become a legitimate target. Taliban fought against the US military this way for 20 years. Who’s running Afghanistan today?