While we are celebrating the demise of one Rhino, other bits of information continue to trickle out of DC about the Mar-A-Lago raid. Conjecture: Why this could be bad for the FBI: if they had something it would have leaked by now. Why this could be bad for Trump: they are putting a case together and have gone silent.
The leaks that have been trickling out, passports, and who ordered the raid, are coming in bits and pieces as if they are trying to hide something. N
ow this is playing into it as people start to put pieces together.
"In congressional
testimony this month, Wray confirmed that "a number of" former Crossfire Hurricane team members are still employed at the bureau while undergoing disciplinary review. In the meantime,
Wray has walled off the former Russiagate investigators only from participating in FISA wiretap applications, according to the sources." This is according to sources, but I think we have given up on real journalism these days and have to piece things together on our own. If true this also is not a good sign for the FBI's raid.
There is another part of the article tucked away I found interesting as well. "FBI agents took numerous boxes and containers of documents and other material, including
several binders of photos and even
three passports held by the former president." Both of these where not listed as items taken by the FBI. We knew about the passports now we add photos. The FBI is not improving its standing with this.
"All told, dozens of boxes and containers were removed from Trump's residence, very few of which actually contained classified information, the sources said." Anther part that is plausible, based on the number of boxes removed and the number of times classified was listed, those numbers did not match.
Now enter another name, of Laufman who was involved in the Trump investigation and the article credits him as the mastermind of the use of the espionage act of 1917 against trump. He shows up this last weekend, and what does he say, that documents completely validates the government's position to raid. But he pulls the punch. Why, you finally have him, right!
"Laufman has been a key source for stories by the Washington Post, CNN, and other outlets.
On CNN, for instance, he claimed the documents seized from Trump's storage were "particularly stunning and particularly egregious," and their discovery "c
ompletely validates the government's investigation" into the former president – though he quickly added, "
Whether this investigation transforms into an outright criminal prosecution remains to be seen.""
One more thing from the article:
"Former federal prosecutor and
Trump administration official Kash Patel said the FBI may have a personal interest – and a potential conflict – in seizing the records stored by Trump.
He noted that Trump in October 2020
authorized the declassification of all the investigative records generated from the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane as well as the Clinton email investigation, codenamed "Midyear Exam," and he said that t
he FBI may have confiscated some of those records in its raid, ensuring they won't be made public."
It is entirely possible the FBI is on thin ice, and its getting thinner.
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