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Government Corruption
Judge Orders Department of Justice to Respond to Requests to Unseal FBI's Trump Warrant
2022-08-11
[THEEPOCHTIMES] The Justice Department has to respond to motions to unseal a warrant that triggered the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s Mar-a-Lago home, according to a magistrate judge who reportedly approved the search.

Judicial Watch and the Albany Times Union newspaper filed a motion to unseal the document earlier this week, which was granted by a judge in the case.

"On or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on August 15, 2022, the Government shall file a Response to the Motion to Unseal," wrote U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart on Wednesday afternoon, referring to the Department of Justice.
The same judge who signed off on the search warrant. Remorse? Ass covering? Need to conform publicly to peer expectations?
"The response may be filed ex parte and under seal as necessary to avoid disclosing matters already under seal. In that event, the Government shall file a redacted Response in the public record. If it chooses, the Government may file a consolidated Response to all Motions to Seal," he wrote.

Neither the FBI nor Justice Department has issued public comments about the raid, which was first confirmed by Trump on Monday evening.

The FBI declined to comment when contacted by The Epoch Times, and the Justice Department has not responded to several requests for comment.

As for the White House, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of propity....
 was not aware of the raid before Trump’s announcement. Her claim was refuted by Trump on his social media platform, Truth Social.

"What I can tell you definitively and for sure, he was not aware of this," Jean-Pierre said of Biden. "Nobody at the White House was. Nobody was given a heads up and we did not know about what happened yesterday."

Related, courtesy of Skidmark: the Daily Mail has the usual including a timeline of contacts about the documents
Posted by:Fred

#13  Trump’s lawyer said they showed her the warrant after a minute of her demands but would not give her a copy so the warrant will not be redacted. She says the probable cause portion was sealed so that is the route Garland will go - release the worthless warrant. Then they will all start the chorus claiming transparency.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-08-11 20:27  

#12  What I can tell you definitively and for sure, he was not aware of this," Jean-Pierre said of Biden.

And how is Dorf Brandon today? Harris not aware either, nobody position her for success?

I did not say sucksex, you cheeky monkeypox.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-08-11 18:19  

#11  Ref #10: Supports my theory that there has been, and still is a clandestine element within the DoJ and Bureau solely dedicated to the War On Trump (WOT). The only thing we do not have now is the unclassifed code name.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-08-11 16:24  

#10  Excepts from CTH just posted:

"Today, Attorney General Merrick Garland stated publicly the DOJ has filed a court motion to unseal the search warrant and the property seizure report; however, they would not release the probable cause affidavit."

"Notice the DOJ filing is from the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD).

The DOJ-NSD, was created by AG Eric Holder as the epicenter of DOJ political activity. The DOJ-NSD held no inspector general oversight; it is a subsidiary targeting mechanism within the DOJ that originates issues related to the FISA court and other issues of “national security”, which allows Main Justice to have a star chamber of secret operations away from oversight or public scrutiny.

The original Trump-Russia targeting was triggered from within the DOJ-NSD. The Carter Page FISA warrant, and all subsequent activity connected to the FISA court, come from the DOJ-NSD.

It is the combination of the DOJ-NSD and FBI Counterintelligence Unit, where we find every person and operation connected to the political targeting operations of Main Justice. Domestic political targeting is done within this subsidiary branch of the justice dept."
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-08-11 15:56  

#9  They'll just redact everything but "of", "the" and "and".
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2022-08-11 12:14  

#8   the Government shall file a redacted Response in the public record

Yeah. That's all we need to know. It'll be like Eric Holder's response to demands for information on Fast and Furious...which is to say, no response at all.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-08-11 12:12  

#7  She is as believable as Sargent Shultz. They had hoed that we would assume that Trump is guilty. We have, instead, assumed the FBI is guilty based on a preponderance of evidence and five years of experience. They did fool Rob Reiner again, though.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-08-11 12:12  

#6  Wouldn't surprise me he didn't know. Why would anyone tell him? They don't underestimate Joe's ability to ....
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2022-08-11 08:49  

#5  ...except when he hears the music of the ice cream truck.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-11 08:46  

#4  He’s not aware of anything...
Posted by: Glenmore    2022-08-11 07:56  

#3  What I can tell you definitively and for sure, he was not aware of this," Jean-Pierre said of Biden.

Bitch could pass any lie detector test, talking like that.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-08-11 02:43  

#2  Appointed to his current position in 2018, Reinhart, who is believed to have signed the sealed FBI warrant, recused himself in June from a lawsuit between Trump and Hillary Clinton because of 'personal bias.'

Evidently Reinhart has fully recovered from his 'personal bias.'

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-08-11 02:37  

#1  Can they file ‘No’ as their response?
Posted by: Glenmore    2022-08-11 01:59  

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