It simply makes sense. The legislative oversight group known as the “Gang of Eight” want to see the documents confiscated by the DOJ National Security Division from the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The reason and motives are simple.
If Donald Trump has evidence of the corruption in the Trump-Russia collusion fabrication and targeting effort, there would be evidence of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) participating in joint-effort with the DOJ and FBI. When the FBI launched their 2016 targeting operation against candidate Donald Trump, it was the SSCI who coordinated with them.
[Current 2022 Gang of Eight Group]
First the report from Politico:
The group of congressional leaders charged with reviewing the most sensitive intelligence information has asked the Biden administration for access to the documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s private residence in Florida, according to two people with direct knowledge of the request.
The inquiry from the so-called “Gang of 8” comes as lawmakers from both parties seek to learn more about the unprecedented investigation into the former president. And it suggests that Congress is unwilling to be a bystander in the political and legal fallout following the FBI’s Aug. 8 search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.
It follows a similar request from Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Vice Chair Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who asked the nation’s top intelligence official to draw up an assessment of possible national-security risks related to Trump’s handling of the sensitive documents.
The Gang of 8 includes the top two congressional leaders in each chamber — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy — as well as the top Democrat and Republican on the House and Senate intelligence committees.
A spokesperson for the Senate Intelligence Committee declined to comment. A representative for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence also declined to comment. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for a Gang of 8 member indicated that a specific request hadn’t been signed onto by all eight lawmakers but acknowledged that congressional oversight is ongoing. (read more)
When the Trump targeting operation began in 2015/2016, Dianne Feinstein was the Vice Chair of the SSCI, and her lead staffer was Dan Jones. You might remember that Jones left the committee to coordinate anti-Trump efforts outside government and work as a liaison back to the committee. The Chair of the SSCI was Richar Burr.
After Trump’s surprising 2016 victory, Feinstein stepped down to allow Senator Mark Warner to become Vice-Chair, thereby putting Warner on the Gang-of-Eight in January of 2017.
Senator Warner was then responsible for: (a) continuing the attacks and investigation of Trump; (b) covering up the prior work done by the SSCI to target Trump; and (c) working to appoint a special counsel in order to mitigate the risk, while throwing a bag over the prior activity.
When the FBI came under scrutiny (ex. FISA warrant), the corrupt actors within the DOJ and FBI collaborated *ONLY* with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). The same DOJ and FBI stonewalled the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) which was then led by Chairman Devin Nunes.
The corrupt entities in the DOJ/FBI would only work with the SSCI not the HPSCI, because it was the SSCI who was working hand in glove with them on the targeting operation. That’s why the SSCI, Mark Warner Vice-Chair with Security Director James Wolfe, was given a copy of the Carter Page FISA application on March 17, 2017. At the exact same time the DOJ and FBI were blocking the House intelligence committee from seeing it.
Senator Mark Warner wanted the FISA application as a tool to leak to the media as part of the effort to help the DOJ get Andrew Weissmann and Robert Mueller installed as the special counsel. Weissmann/Mueller would be the cover-up and continued targeting group.
Mark Warner and James Wolfe received the FISA on March 17, 2017, from the FBI (carried by agent Brian Dugan). Shortly after 4:00pm on March 17th, Warner and Wolfe then leaked the FISA application to the media (Ali Watkins). Two days later FBI Director James Comey testified before the House committee (March 20) publicly admitting for the first time that President Trump was under investigation.
These days in March 2017 became the narrative opening for the leaked FISA to support the installation of a special counsel a few weeks later. All of it carefully coordinated.
The background collusion and assist motive was also why SSCI vice-chair Mark Warner was covertly in contact with Adam Waldman (2017), the lawyer for Chris Steele, while continuing to operate the parallel Trump targeting and DOJ/FBI cover-up operation from the SSCI. Warner’s skill at this process is why Feinstein abdicated her chair to him at the beginning of Trump’s term.
If the Gang of Eight is currently trying to see what documents President Trump held in Mar-a-Lago, what they are really trying to see is what evidence President Trump has against them.
Watch carefully now….
Watch how the DOJ-NSD and FBI respond to the Gang of Eight. If they follow the pattern, then Main Justice will likely support legislative oversight only through the SSCI.
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Some are given a green light to do whatever necessary, even if unlawful actions are performed along the way.
And then they are protected.
This is a furtherance of that protection (almost always in the name of national security).
If the material is handed over, we have a precedent which the Dems may not like going forward.
THE CORRUPTION: Congressional leaders from both parties, the outgoing president (including some staff), the DOJ, the FBI, the Intel agencies, the DC administrative courts, DC government careerists, media propagandists, Hollywood, corporations, banks, etc. — all slimy, slithering, self-interest preserving pieces of excrement conspired together.
Illegal and unconstitutional…
hit after hit after hit—-
and he is still standing.
He is still fighting.
Damn them to hell for perverting the rule of law, the free election process, the will of the people, and for the unrelenting torture of a true American hero.
They’re basically trying to hide evidence from John Durham.
More likely they are feeding it to Durham. Evidence presented by a special counsel is sealed under a grand jury and forever buried from daylight.
Durham’s job, as his career shows, has always been to protect DC, not expose DC.
John who? I’d expect the true identity of Jack the Ripper to be revealed before we hear from Durham.
I’D say Durham is possible on their side. Who takes this long to investigate a true criminal?
Could be Durham is playing this as closely as possible with Pr. Trump, but at a LONG distance….Durham also knows a lot. But he might have to let Pr. Trump do the hard Public work.
Do you actually trust any of these clowns?
I do not trust gerbils
Sure, let’s muddy the waters and get these other marauders involved! Sarcasm intended.
Anything for the pompous, perfumed princes to become involved. Oversight is just another way to seem relevant and concerned.
This is totally outrageous…wow..what right do they have to see his papers? Totally outrageous…
Absolutely right! As of yet nobody has established in a court of law the right to hold or seize possession of papers which current case law dictates are the legal property of Donald Trump, and Donald Trump alone.
That is one of the major defects of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, i.e. DOJ erroneously claimed a right to the papers without first litigating that issue in a court of law.
Garland did not seek an opinion from DOJ’s own Office of Legal Counsel because DOJ policy is not permitted to act against that opinion. Thus he acted cravenly on his own authority so as to circumvent the obvious fact that DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel would have stated that the President of the United States has valid legal claims to the ownership of those papers according to current judicial precedents.
Rumors are now circulating that Biden was behind the illegal search and seizure, the claim being that, as the current President, he can act to re-classify documents that had already been declassified by President Trump.
Well, that’s quite worthy and fitting of the nitwit Biden and his two-bit, Banana Republic justice. Fortunately, ex-post facto laws or orders are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States which Joe Biden, in spite of mouthing phony and sanctimonious reverence for the document over his blowhard forty years, has apparently never understood.
I don’t believe a Judge in the US anywhere, at any any level except Thomas and Alito have given the U.S. Constitution more than a passing glance.
The US Supreme Court has a mission to accomplish and the Constitution is in their way.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/15/from-bureaucrat-hack-to-grand-jury-witch-hunt-the-dojs-trump-raid-smells-like-spygate/
Old stinky Joe can’t remember to tie his shoes. He’s not the president. He is an actor. A very bad actor.
Why would we trust the Gang of Eight!
Just another bunch of Elite Politicians looking to add another century to their seats of power and money as Senators at the taxpayers’s expense.
No one cares about Americans any longer it’s all about what’s in it for me…..especially their “DONORS”
In the hand-shaking photo of Warner and Comey, Warner appears to be a nail-biter. Hmmm. Oh for more close-ups of these traitors!! What could we tell from them besides what we already know?
Based on Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s Ruling in Bill Clinton Case, FBI Broke the Law When It Stole President Trump’s Documents at Mar-a-Lago
“Under the statutory scheme established by the PRA, the decision to segregate personal materials from Presidential records is made by the President, during the President’s term and in his sole discretion,” Jackson wrote in her March 2012 decision, which was never appealed.
“Since the President is completely entrusted with the management and even the disposal of Presidential records during his time in office, it would be difficult for this Court to conclude that Congress intended that he would have less authority to do what he pleases with what he considers to be his personal records,” she added.
If the Archives wants to challenge a decision, that agency and the attorney general can initiate an enforcement mechanism under the law, but it is a civil procedure and has no criminal penalty, she noted.
As Tom Fitton, who lost that case, notes, in that case, the government was defending the matter that Clinton didn’t have to turn over the tapes.
But now the government is going after Trump, with an overly broad warrant suggested they had the right to look for and grab any document made during his presidency. The government’s attitude turns on a dime because it’s Trump.
Corrupt Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s ruling may now help the man she has been after over the past five years. She must be sick.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/based-corrupt-judge-amy-berman-jacksons-ruling-bill-clinton-case-fbi-broke-law-stole-president-trumps-documents-mar-lago/
Good point, Sir, but that earlier ruling was for a democrat. There are different laws for non-democrats, don’t you know (I hesitate to call PDJT a “republican”).
Great post sir. You nailed it.
None of the above are acceptable.
I seriously doubt that Trump has any friend’s on the Gang of Eight.
Obviously not….they are vetted and selected by the IC.
It is clear that we need term limits for Congress, Judges, and people that serve in Government. A limit of time for the job and a limit of total time working in government no matter if elected or serving in some other job such as a Senator’s lead staffer.
Perhaps we should go back to a time when their seat on the floor doubled as their desk and they had to do their own work.
Think of the money we’d save.
Maximum employed time by USG–10 years, pay scale 65% of median income of US persons regularly employed, + health insurance paid directly to employee, + retirement funds to the employees choice of retirement program,,,,all based on the 65% as above.
Upon leaving employment, the individual shall not contract with, or work for a company, that provides products to the USG for a period of 15 yrs.
That will take care of the civil service. You got to vote out the politicians regularly.
It would be great if a Republican was allowed to be on the gang of 8.
You need to read the article again!
Where exactly are these boxes of documents today? FBI field office in Florida or did they fly them to Washington? What building are they in and who are the personnel poring through them now? Are ALL these individuals cleared to review these “highest level” secret documents? Were the documents safer in Trumps basement under lock and key rather than passed around to every beaurocrat that has a bone to pick with Trump?
The evil eight all need to be voted out? We also need term limits, otherwise we’ll never be able to get rid of all the evil swamp creatures.
They will never vote to limit themselves. They voted to deny themselves the ability to trade in the stock market(s) on inside information while allowing family, friends to do use inside information to trade for them.
Gang of eight or group of corrupt idiots. Letting them see the docs is a front to allow for uncontested leaks to the media pre election. The release of the warrant will list what they have and can discredit all the fake information that will not leak bit pour out of the merry band of dc corrupt money launderers. Why else do they hide behind the patriot act and “counter intelligence”! Thank you Bush!!
Didn’t Devin Nunez come across this information, and couldn’t get it declassified. Trumps ODNIs just should have done a Snowden and dump as much information, then let let God and the Devil sort it out.
Great analysis. The question is if Trump is elected wouldn’t the uniparty insure that in coordination with our corrupt judicial system that these traitors and thier criminal co consipators never face justice?
Then what?
If he is elected again will he be allowed in the WH? Will Pelousi and Mitch and Shumer let him into DC at all? If elected again will the Junta continue to occupy the WH and ignore him?
What we have here is 8 DC insider feral cats that scurry about covering each other’s shit with the masterful ability to maintain staying power as the nation rots to its very foundation from either their action or inaction while becoming wealthy and bankrupting middle america
Let’s face it, the DOJ has made copies and shared with others. The ‘briefing’ gives Congress the cover to start leaking whatever narrative it is to support their cause du jour, currently the J6 Committee. They will milk it for whatever they can get out of it, even to fabricate stuff that is not included. We have seen this play out before.
They have absolutely no more right to the documents than do the DOJ or FBI! Period and end of story!
More evidence that all three branches of government are complicit.
… kick his door down… just grab all his documents… just pass them on for all to see in the state apparatus and biparty Congress swamp…
… this, in the United States of America!!!???
I hope PDJT has it all on CCTV and shows it on pay per view. The whole world would like to see it. He could finance his campaign and ALL THE OTHER AMERICA FIRST candidates for a long time.