The all too familiar David Laufman says it out loud, but few will pay attention. “That’s what this is. It- just because [the DOJ-NSD justification for the raid on Trump] implicates classified information to me, doesn’t seem to give a platform for the House Intelligence Committee to intrude at this time,” Laufman says.
In the aftermath of 9-11 the U.S. government created the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct surveillance of “domestic threats,” the American people. When Barack Obama and Eric Holder stepped in a few years later, they created the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD). This division specializes in weaponizing surveillance against their political enemies. The DOJ-NSD had no inspector general oversight and operates within Main Justice, but above the law. Essentially, they use the justification of ‘national security‘ to defend the Fourth Branch of Government, the permanent surveillance state. {Go Deep}
David Laufman was the former head of the DOJ-NSD and he specialized in the targeting process. Laufman was a primary player in the defense of Hillary Clinton against accusations of ‘national security violations’ as a result of her classified personal email use. Laufman sat in on, guided and shaped the FBI interview Hillary Clinton. Additionally, David Laufman is one of Christine Blasey-Ford’s Rehoboth “beach friends,” as outlined in the Judge Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.
When Blasey-Ford said she wrote the letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein accusing Brett Kavanaugh of college rape, she was with a bunch of “beach friends” including former FBI public information officer Monica McLean who actually wrote the letter. When investigators began digging into the background of the letter construct, McLean came under legal scrutiny. McLean hired beach friend David Laufman to shield her from legal trouble and represent her legal interests. David Laufman then worked together with another former DOJ lawyer, Michael Bromwich, who represented Christine Blasey-Ford. That’s the network.
Fast forward to 2022. All network indications reflect that David Laufman, similar in effort to former DOJ-NSD head Mary McCord (Schiff congressional impeachment team), is one of the primary Lawfare agents currently guiding, mapping and counseling the use of the DOJ-NSD to continue the targeting of Donald Trump. Laufman provides the legal strategies for the people within the current DOJ-NSD to follow. In addition to being a familiar face on MSNBC, we should consider David Laufman the outside agent providing guidance to Main Justice intent.
In this CBS interview, David Laufman is questioned about the role of congressional oversight in the DOJ/FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. Pay close attention to what David Laufman says, because he essentially admits the quiet part. There’s no role for any oversight, any check and balance in the system, because the DOJ-NSD operates above the law. [Transcript] – WATCH:
ED O’KEEFE: Now for a more detailed look at all of the legal problems swirling around former President Donald Trump. We’re joined by Rikki Klieman, criminal defense lawyer and a CBS News legal analyst. And here in Washington, David Laufman, former chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence and export control section. Great to have both of you with us. David, I want to begin with you. You’re the former head of the division of the Justice Department that’s now led by a guy named Jay Bratt who argued in court this week regarding the potential release of this affidavit, that it may quote, “chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance may be sought as this investigation progresses, as well as in other high profile investigations.” You agree with his assessment?
FORMER CHIEF OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE DAVID LAUFMAN: Based on my experience with the Department of Justice, that’s absolutely correct. Especially in the early stages of an investigation, the Justice Department and the FBI want to do everything they can to protect the integrity and confidential law enforcement actions that are being taken.
ED O’KEEFE: Do you have any sense then, do you expect he’s going to release at least part of this or a redacted version?
LAUFMAN: I think the Justice Department knows it has to come back to the court with a reasonable proposal. The judge signaled pretty clearly that he wants to release some facets of this affidavit. And I think the Department and the FBI are now trying to come to grips with what they can live with- with regard to public disclosures. And there are some portions of the affidavit that I think they’ll be willing to make public.
ED O’KEEFE: You just heard Congressman Turner of Ohio talking about the possibility of the Intelligence Committee getting read into the details of this at some point. There is bipartisan agreement that they’ve got to hear something from the Justice Department. It’s just a question of when and what exactly and how much. But in your view, is there a requirement for the Justice Department and FBI to do that at all?
LAUFMAN: I mean, there’s no requirement. Look, I mean, there’s- this- there are sometimes classic collisions between two coordinate branches of government; does seem to be premature for Congress to be sticking its nose into an ongoing criminal investigation. That’s what this is. It- just because it implicates classified information to me, doesn’t seem to give a platform for the House Intelligence Committee to intrude at this time.
ED O’KEEFE: Because it could unspool in a way where the information you share with them is leaked. And then, the investigation’s compromised. Its ability to have a fair trial will be compromised.
LAUFMAN: I think they’re trying to create a kind of a carnival atmosphere under the patina of the exercise of Congress’s constitutional authority to conduct investigations.
ED O’KEEFE: Rikki, to you. Allen Weisselberg, the former longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, this past week pleaded guilty to 15 counts of fraud and tax evasion as part of the scheme to receive more than $1.7 million in off-the-books perks and compensation from the Trump Organization. Important to point out the former president hasn’t been charged as part of this civil case. But based on what you know about this case, what we’ve seen so far, is there any legal risk at this point to a member of the Trump family?
CBS NEWS LEGAL ANALYST RIKKI KLIEMAN: There is hardly any legal risk because of the fact that the plea of Alan Weisselberg is against the Trump Organization, which really means the Trump Corporation and the Trump Payroll Corporation. It had to do with the fact that he received perks to, as you say, $1.7 million over a period of years. The plea bargain seems abundantly clear. He is testifying against entities, not people.
ED O’KEEFE: And there’s been so much focus in the past two weeks on the Mar-a-Lago operation, this Weisselberg guilty plea this past week, but I know you believe that it’s what’s going down in Georgia that is potentially most legally risky for the former president. Correct?
KLIEMAN: There is no doubt in my mind that the most risk to the former president is in fact the Georgia investigation. And one of the reasons I say that is because it has intensified in terms of the number of witnesses that the district attorney is calling before this special, investigative grand jury. But also the fact that should not be overlooked is that Donald Trump has hired one of the best criminal defense lawyers in the country in the person of Drew Findling. Drew Findling was a past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is based in Atlanta. He knows how to work within the system ethically and properly and he’s fierce. So when we look at this particular situation, Rudy Giuliani called to testify last week. We have no idea nor should we have any idea in a secret proceeding what he said or if he took the Fifth Amendment at any point in time. This week, Lindsey Graham is set to testify on Tuesday, unless the 11th circuit issues a stay and buys into his argument that his phone calls involving this election in 2020 and the results when he wanted, allegedly, to say that they should look into the mail in ballots, and perhaps there were many of the mailing ballots that had faulty signatures and his communications with Donald Trump would be the focus of this particular special grand jury. And that he wants to say, well, no, that was within my duties within the Speech and Debate Clause. We’re going to see what the 11th circuit has to say about that. But I expect Lindsey Graham is going to have to testify. This grand jury is investigative only. They can issue a report that would tell the district attorney at a later point in time, whether or not she does have reason to indict probable cause to indict any of the players, including Donald Trump.
ED O’KEEFE: And, David Laufman, in terms of the operation of Mar-a-Lago at this point, how concerned should any current or former staff of the former president there be concerned about legal exposure?
LAUFMAN: Well, I think any- any individuals who were involved in removing classified information from the White House in the waning moments of the Trump administration, taking them to Mar-a-Lago, knowingly keeping them there to play certain unauthorized to be, has potential criminal jeopardy depending on all the facts and circumstances that investigation uncovers. One of the statutes referenced in the search warrant is the Espionage Act and at issue in principle is a provision that makes it a crime to willfully retain National Defense Information. And the fact that these were highly classified documents as high as top secret code word makes it pretty clear to me the president has potential jeopardy here, compounded by what appeared to be deliberate misrepresentations by the president or his team, to the government about whether classified information remained at Mar-a-Lago and hence, the obstruction statute reference in the search warrant.
ED O’KEEFE: Ricky, you’ve been at this for a long time tracking legal cases of all sorts all across the country. Have you ever seen anyone facing more than a dozen legal, civil, congressional investigations at one time? And what is it like being an attorney for someone like that, when they have competing, compounding legal concerns and interests?
KLIEMAN: I have never seen this many investigations happening all at the same time. Some in greater stages, some in lesser stages. But if you are an attorney for Donald Trump, you are well advised to separate each one and decide where you’re going to devote your energies. Donald Trump, it appears, has been hiring lawyers from different places. So one lawyer does not have all of the responsibility. But this is not a good time for Donald Trump, at least if he thinks that everything is coming in upon him. However, we also know that Donald Trump enjoys the chaos and we will see what happens in terms of his decision if he is going to run or not in 2024.
ED O’KEEFE: We sure will. Rikki Kleiman, CBS News legal analyst, David Laufman, former Justice Department official, thank you both for being here. And we’ll be right back. (link)
I’m just going to leave this right here; J.E. Dyer does a great job of showing how Laufman, etal are lying over and over and over again and again…
She reinforces Sundance :
https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/pinglet-on-new-theme-that-trump-was-hoarding-documents-about-russiagate/#more-7036
She’s a good writer
Direct and to the point
Excellent find!
Another way to put the Sundance headline
Sith Lord LauFman positions his LawFare Death Star at Mar-A-Lago and the Rebel Alliance.
It’s highly unsatisfactory for us to keep asking “who’s REALLY running the gummint behind puppet Biden” and only ever coming up with Obama, Soroos, Rice, etc as answers
So I took great pleasure in this very clear explanation by Sundance (below).
“Laufman … is one of the primary Lawfare agents currently guiding, mapping and counseling the use of the DOJ-NSD to continue the targeting of Donald Trump.
“Laufman provides the legal strategies for the people within the current DOJ-NSD to follow …”
One head of the Hydra. You know how to defeat a Hydra, don’t you?
Lopp off the head.
Guillotine is the tool of choice
Nope, when you lopp off the head it just grows back…you have to cauterize it!
In the case of Gov Alphabet agencies you must fire all of the leadership down to dishwasher and reconstitute only constitutional responsibilities and authority.
“does seem to be premature for Congress to be sticking its nose into an ongoing criminal investigation. That’s what this is. It- just because it implicates classified information to me, doesn’t seem to give a platform for the House Intelligence Committee to intrude at this time.”
This clown is this arrogant because he has gotten away with what he and his Lawfare crowd have done for years.
I highly doubt any Democrat on the committee or off will call him out for this.
Did he make that argument to shut down the SSCI (that caused Stone’s indictment and threatened Don Jr with indictment) when the Mueller Inquisition was going on? Remember special counsels can only be appointed to investigate criminal matters.
Just another good reason for disbanding the FBI and starting over with a clean slate.
I’m not sure that will remedy the situation, but it will at least slow things down for a bit.
Mom always used to warn me about people with a one-track mind.
he’s among the first who has ‘to go’ if this formerly great country is to survive another rigged ‘election’
No government agency…let alone a police agency….should operate without oversight.
The GOP better grow a yuuge pair to cut out this cancer upon the Republic.
No one is safe.
I believe the GOP to be one of those cancer cells. There is no way our country could get to this disastrous condition without the collaboration of both parties.
Term limits would have prevented the damage those political parties have inflicted upon our country.
Absolutely! Either return the original, constitutional parity between executive branch and legislative branch by MAKING BOTH BRANCHES TERM-LIMITED or repeal the destabilizing 22nd Amendment that term-limited only the president of the United States.
The reasons should be self-evident, i.e. the 22nd Amendment was a demotion of the presidency IN RELATION to the indefinite terms of the legislature where nefarious alliances can form to subvert the presidency by myriad schemes and strategies.
To have gone against the original concept of balance between coequal branches in the constitution was simply dumb, and carried out, in my opinion, with malicious intent against the best interest of the United States.
Another malign result is that the long-serving judiciary and the long-serving legislature, as elder statesmen, consider themselves to be peers and guardians of the Nation’s security and wellbeing, and, in that sense, senior to the President, whom they view much as one would a contract employee, and chances are the latter will never be at that same table when the elders gather to discuss their long-term goals, which are usually, by the way, to weaken the president’s effectiveness to the detriment of the Nation but to the great, personal benefit of the elder statesmen. DUH!
The original, coequal balance must be restored soon!
Comey said it. We didn’t believe him. He said Republicans were involved.
There is NO WAY that Comey and his fellow traitors and insurrectionists would have done what they did had Ryan and McConnell and Bush and McCain Not assured them that they would protect them.
Additional evidence is that Durham has not gone after ONE federal bureaucrat. Not one. He has focused on people he claims lied to and misled the FBI. No wonder they were not convicted. The FBI was not lied to. It was a co-conspirator.
BT, agree but with one caveot… Only applying term limits to the elected folks leaves the unelected bureaucrats to do what they want. The term limits (suggest 2 term limits) should apply to ALL gov’t employees.
MAGA/SA!
N, really bad news… Pelosi & McConnell allowed this filth to get in place so the Rep party is right in there with the Dem party. A thorough fire cleaning of Congress & this unelected 4th arm of gov’t is going to be necessary (i.e., not one of those in these agencies nor Pelosi/McConnel/etc. should be allowed to remain after this treason they’ve committed).
MAGA/SA!
It’s really hard to decide who is more evil, trash like this lawfare maggot or the MSM garbage that plays along with them
Ther MSM doesn’t just play along. Many are active participants in the ongoing destruction of traditional American values. The irony is if they ever get the uncivilWar that they have been actively pushing for, they will be among the first casualties.
It’s a joint effort:
•RATS are evil
•RINOS are their enablers
•Lawfare writes the scripts, questions & answers
•Media regurgitates the fake news as created by the above players
Be a shame if an R-controlled Congress zeroed-out funding for the NSD in particular, and even the DOJ in general.
Baseline budgeting and government funding via irregular procedures since 2007 (as described by Sundance a few days ago) ensures that nothing EVER gets zeroed-out.
*sigh*
Lawful budgeting: another item for the encyclopedia-length to-do list.
7 critical points:
that’s all I got for tonight.
God Bless America
ah yes and one more, number 8:
is there ANY secret fisa surveillance warrant that was used or any surveillance under any other legal framework to spy on President Trump, any of his staff and employees, at MAL or any “about” business that led the DOJ to then go to the Florida federal court to gain the search and seizure warrant? How would we know, and why isn’t anyone asking this question? If we are to believe that the DOJ is reluctant to unredact the entire affidavit (tradecraft, methods, and sources and presumably to protect otherwise innocent people who appear in the affidavit), one of those “concerns” may very well be that a FISA or FISA-LIKE order was achieved to AGAIN spy in President Trump. And as with the original beginning of this coup, it would be most certain to assume the predicate to gain such a surveillance was built on complete fabrications. The difference being that the DOJ seems to have learned some lessons and did not leak the FISA order to the media (as they did with carter page).
summary: this entire coup has been a very organized conspiracy and these corruptors are using ALL the tools at their dispose to continue to persecute a duly elected President of the United States.
Some may have lost their nerves when evaluating “our prospects” at this point.
I have not.
I look at these events in terms of what they mean to the over-arching paradigm of the current revolution.
from pain comes action. The state MUST force itself upon the people in a hostile oppressive set of events.
it is ONLY FROM THIS PAIN that THE PEOPLE find the nerves and the organization needed to throw off these overlords.
be unafraid. The corrupt state has no power over you, unless you concede in surrendering it.
challenge accepted.
God Bless America
I have seen Ratcliffe discussing the “classified/de-classified” information. He says it’s a witch hunt.
Like Cross Fire Hurricaine you will never find out what the predicate events were to trigger the investigation and as to Mira Lago the raid. They will fight to the death, leak like crazy, bribe judges and destroy evidence to prevent that from happening because there was no and there is no facts to support what they did and they know it.
That is the most made up phony interview I have ever seen. I kept thinking of the song “Pretending “.
DJT, the most investigated man in history.
From the movie Chinatow with edits “Forget it Wvvet, this is CBS”.
Bidenomics & Vilification of Trump
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They always say NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!
Is that Brian Stelter with glasses and a toupe?
Wokestapo
No different than watching how the sausage is made.
I am still waiting for a video to surface of the era Blasey-Ford voice.
I am still waiting for ANY conservative journalist to ambush interview Blakey-Ford to see if she still talks like a ditz. Can a youthful female reporter just sneak into one of taped lectures at Palo Alto College. You would have thought that she would been interviewed by her gushing MSM supporters to blab about Kavanaugh in light of the overturning of Roe or his near assassination (which would have happened if not for the 2 federal marshalls walking on the sidewalk near his home) just like the way Woodward/Bernstein/Dean are always piping up whenever there is a GOP presidential “scandal”
Laufman seems to be a very dangerous man.
Eliminate the DIJ-NSD if they are accountable to no one.
This is what we get when we allow our “creatures” to create their own “creatures”. Abdicating our responsibility, as stipulated in the Constitution, has resulted in a system out of control. As we stated in the preamble: ” We The People, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the united States. We can’t do it without our Grand Juries and constitutional militias, which were taken from us 160 years ago. It is time to reestablish justice by doing our duty. Only we can enforce the Constitution, not our elected “creatures”. As a collective sovereign, we are the ” boss” and they are the “employees”. Time to get to work.
He’s lying, he knows it, and what’s more, he knows WE know it.
Lest we forget, their claim that the DOJ-NSD is immune from any internal oversight or Congressional investigation is the result of a self-serving legal opinion this same DOJ itself authored.
(The CTH documented that years ago.)
JPK, well We The People allowed the unelected “Intelligence” branch to be put in place, WTP now rescind that. All of it. They were to be temporary. So we give them their walking papers. Those that give up a little liberty for a little security shall have neither.
MAGA/SA!
President Trump vs FBI/DOJ
The president can declassify anything he wants in any manner he wants per the Supreme Court
Argued December 2, 1987
Decided February 23, 1988
484 U.S. 518
Syllabus
Title 5 U.S.C. Ch. 75, provides a “two-track” system for undertaking “adverse actions” against certain Government employees. An employee removed for “cause,” §§ 7511-7514, has a right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board (Board), § 7513(d), that includes a hearing. The Board reviews such removals under a preponderance of the evidence standard. § 7701. An employee is also subject to summary removal based on national security concerns. Such a removal is not appealable to the Board, but the employee has certain specified procedural rights, including a hearing by an agency authority. § 7532. Respondent was removed from his laborer’s job at a submarine facility after the Navy denied him a required security clearance. Without a security clearance, respondent was not eligible for any job at the facility. Upon respondent’s appeal of his removal under § 7513(d), the Board’s presiding official reversed the Navy’s decision, holding that the Board had the authority to review the merits of the underlying security clearance determination and that the Navy had failed to show that it reached a reasonable and warranted decision on this question. The full Board reversed and sustained the Navy’s removal action, but the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded, holding that, since the Navy had chosen to remove respondent under § 7512 rather than § 7532, review under § 7513 applied, including review of the merits of the underlying security clearance determination.
Held: In an appeal pursuant to § 7513, the Board does not have authority to review the substance of an underlying security clearance determination in the course of reviewing an adverse action. Pp. 484 U. S. 526-534.
(a) The grant or denial of security clearance to a particular employee is a sensitive and inherently discretionary judgment call that is committed by law to the appropriate Executive Branch agency having the necessary expertise in protecting classified information. It is not reasonably possible for an outside, nonexpert body to review the substance of such a judgment, and such review cannot be presumed merely because the statute does not expressly preclude it. Pp. 484 U. S. 526-530.
(b) The statute’s express language and structure confirm that it does not confer broad authority on the Board to review security clearance determinations. A clearance denial is not one of the enumerated “adverse actions” that are subject to Board review, and nothing in the
Page 484 U. S. 519
Act directs or empowers the Board to go beyond determining whether “cause” for a denial existed, whether in fact clearance was denied, and whether transfer to a nonsensitive position was feasible. The application of § 7701’s preponderance of the evidence standard to security clearance determinations would inevitably alter the “clearly consistent with the interests of the national security” standard normally applied in making such determinations, and would involve the Board in second-guessing an agency’s national security determinations, a result that it is extremely unlikely Congress intended. Respondent’s argument that the availability of the alternative § 7532 summary removal procedure compels a conclusion of reviewability, since an anomalous situation would otherwise exist whereby the more “drastic” § 7532 remedy would actually entitle a removed employee to greater procedural protections — particularly to a preremoval trial-type hearing — than would § 7513, is unpersuasive. Section 7532 provides a procedure that is harsh and drastic both for the employee and for the agency head, who must act personally in suspending and removing the employee, and removal thereunder, even as envisioned by respondent, would not have amounted to “more” procedural protection than respondent received under § 7513. The procedures under the two sections are not anomalous, but merely different. Pp. 484 U. S. 530-534.
802 F.2d 1563, reversed.
BLACKMUN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which REHNQUIST, C.J., and STEVENS, O’CONNOR, and SCALIA, JJ., joined. WHITE, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which BRENNAN and MARSHALL, JJ., joined, post, p. 484 U. S. 534. KENNEDY, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Page 484 U. S. 520
They poisoned the affidavit by including “classified information”? That’s not what should be done. The affidavit should only contain the basic information for the warrant because that information is ALWAYS shared with the defense. Yet another dirty trick.
Trump is happy. I’m guessing Trump somehow triggered this raid and they took the bait. What’s more, if this material is to be used by his attorneys in the RICO suit filed in Florida (a suit which has strangely been taken up by the DOJ… is that even a thing? If he files a law suit against named individuals, why is this ANY sort of thing in which the government should be involved?).
Seems to me as Trump has clearly declassified the relevant information and seems to be using this information in his civil law suit against named individuals, wouldn’t he already have given copies of these relevant documents to his lawyers? It would seem likely and appropriate that he did.
So even as they cleared out his document storage, his lawyers already have what they need to do their work.
Why is Trump happy? Because they are destroying themselves while trying to destroy him.
Re. Laufman and the Hillary server ‘investigation’, I’ve posted this here before…reading between the lines of Strzok Page texts here is very edifying. Note the last text here that Strzok sends about ‘best outcome’.
2016-02-24 23:57:51Page He is I just got off the phone with him. He told me about wrap.
2016-02-24 23:59:51Strzok I’m talking to him now.
2016-02-25 00:06:26Page Yup. Though truthfully, I’m not sure I understand what the problem is.
2016-02-25 00:15:04Strzok Sorry still on phone. Issue is if Laufman makes himself one of the two DoJ, do I send the two case agents or insert myself. Andy told Bill send the best two. And what “best” means isn’t clear to me in this context.
2016-02-25 00:15:28Page Best means best. It’s not a trick.
2016-02-25 00:15:52Page If Laufman does that, then that’s doj’s loss. And I think warrants a call to his superiors.
2016-02-25 01:00:20Strzok Hi, just leaving. Trisha is still there (or at least her car is). Saw —redacted— leaving, too, though be didn’t see me —redacted—
2016-02-25 01:02:07Strzok We talked about it, but “best” was not in terms of agents (though that’s whay I wrote). It’s about what the best outcome is. —redacted—
President Trump should file a Rule 41(g)
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if the government violates 18 U.S.C. § 983(a)(1)(A)(i) by choosing an administrative or nonjudicial forfeiture, but not sending a written notice of seizure to the interested parties within 60 days of the taking; or
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Isn’t the Fed saying that the property belongs to the US government?
Claiming that house belongs to you, does not make it so. Claiming that the property belongs to you does not it make so. Claims are not law.
After declassification and under the law, the President was free to release these documents to the public, burn the documents or give them out as prizes without approval from anyone.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 20, 2021
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
FROM: The Chief of Staff _S
SUBJECT: Privacy Act Review of Certain Declassified
Materials Related to the FBI’s Crossfire
Hurricane Investigation
By Memorandum dated January 19, 2021, the President
declassified certain materials related the Federal Bureau of
Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. The
President’s Memorandum specifically stated: “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.” (emphasis added). Based on directions provided
to the Department of Justice and our understanding that a review
for protecting privacy interests had been conducted by the
Department of Justice and that additional redactions to protect
privacy interests had been applied to the materials, the
President also stated: “[A]t 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.” ~
We understand that the Office of Legal Counsel has advised that
the Privacy Act does not apply to the white House and thus would
not apply to any disclosure of documents by the White House.
Nevertheless, we do not intend to disclose materials that would
violate the standards of the Privacy Act and, in particular,
materials the disclosure of which would constitute “an
unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” Accordingly, I am
returning the bulk of the binder of declassified documents to
the Department of Justice (including all that appear to have a
potential to raise privacy concerns) with the instruction that
the Department must expeditiously conduct a Privacy Act review
under the standards that the Department of Justice would
normally apply, redact material appropriately, and release the
remaining material with redactions applied.
Yes, I read it here already
I do not understand why the Trump team has not raised at the trial the fact that the NSD, Who signed off on this warrant, have already been implicated in a vendetta against Trump and submitting false information to obtain warrants. Surely a conflict of interest so obvious should raise the issue of transparency to the first position of priority.
Trump never seems to take an aggressive defense that exposes the details of this seditious conspiracy against him. Trump should be calling names of those engage in these crimes.
To me it appears that Trump always seems to be playing along with the rules of the game rather than throw out all the rules. It’s not enough for him to say that it’s a political witch hunt he needs to bring the details to the people.
Also, I think he made a big mistake with that last minute declassification memo whereby he left the remainder of the process up to the next president. I think he should’ve been tackling this issue and making it public at the very outset of his presidency. I think he wanted to keep the information to himself as leverage rather than bringing the people in on it when he still had executive power.
As it stands now Biden can simply reclassify the evidence because he is now the president.
For all we know, Biden has already determined that all the evidence that President Trump wanted declassified should remain classified.
After all, he is now president and the process was never finished And he now has the power to declassify or to reclassify.
If the goal is to keep all the evidence hidden and get it back from Trump then they have already accomplished that so that even if they don’t indict or prosecute him they can still keep the evidence classified. Trump should’ve declassified publicly early in his presidency. He should’ve told the public exactly what they have been doing . What was the purpose of the January 2021 memo which basically reiterated what he had already done before?
Laufman is the Alex Jones of the left.
Not even CNN or MSNBC would give this slimeball credibility. CBS is the worst and Laufman is an evil human being. He was behind the Kavanauh operation.
Was it also inappropriate for SSCI to investigate Russian collusion during the Mueller”criminal” investigation as you recall special counsel is only authorized for a criminal investigation.
This will be their claim that Congress is obstructing their criminal investigation of Trump even though it was OK with regards to Russia collusion. Actually woud’t Laufman’s position support shutting down the 1/6/2021 Inquisition “because their is a criminal investigation going on.
But CBS will never points out the lack of logic of the progressive fascists.
THIS IS why you deal with it purely as a budget matter. You don’t whine and cry and thrash about objecting to their fascist actions. You gut them and I mean GUT them. Cut DOJ and FBI budgets by 50% and shut down the government if necessary to maintain those cuts. Can’t argue obstruction if the House wants to make the government more efficient and save money.
Well hell, let’s just abolish congress and let all the alphabet agencies run things. They do now anyway. We could save over 100 million dollars a year in salaries and bennies paid to these do nothings.
First: FBI goes political starting with Hoover. Then: Bush creates another domestic agency to compensate for an ineffectual one. Obama adds “national security division.” Why not address the perceived gap with existing staff?
Laufman is a swamp creature of the first degree.
Wasn’t it him that Shelia Jackson-Lee handed an envelope to after Two door Ford’s “testimony” ?
These Agencies no longer concede to Congressional oversight.
Comey didn’t with Trump-Russia and look where that got us!
And Comey still not shamed or prosecuted?
Makes you wonder who gave him
The green light, no?
Well, guess the Constitution wasn’t a required class to this “person”. The Constitution trumps ALL other law in the U.S.
These DOJ NSD folks ARE employees of We The People & their pay/benefits come out of our pockets (as well as from NGOs & other countries). This is why it is imparitive we ALL get out & vote ON vote day in person & view ALL the drop boxes. WTP ARE coming for their sorry butts &, as a minimum they’ll be looking for new jobs & not allowed to take gov’t benefits. NO ONE is above the law in the U.S. including the unelected 4th branch of the gov’t. We must get rid of this ENTIRE unelected 4th branch of our gov’t. Time to kill their employment contracts & banish them to an uninhabited island/put them down, as appropriate after their public trial.
MAGA/SA!
Sunday Talks, David Laufman Says Congress Has No Right to Oversight Over DOJ National Security Division, All Political Weaponization by Main Justice NSD is Above the Law
NSD is an enemy of the Republic. All employees of this division should be treated as such, and any action to remove and destroy them is ok in my book.
This was done previously with regard to the Russia fraud case, Trump was not permitted to access information of his accusers…It is being done to the Jan 6 prisoners….this is just another LAWFARE scam by a failing DOJ
So by this logic arrest everyone come Jan 2025, and give no disclosure due to ongoing investigation. Hope this POS rots in prison.