The DOJ has filed a response to the motion by President Trump for the court to appoint a special master to review the seized material from the DOJ/FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. [Court pdf Here] Additionally, the outside government Lawfare group has filed an amicus brief supporting the DOJ-NSD position [Amici court pdf Here]
Essentially the position of the DOJ boils down to… They have already reviewed the material. Yes, there was attorney-client privilege material seized; but they swear the internal team segregated the legally confidential material and the DOJ investigators & prosecutors didn’t see it – double pinkie swear, yer honor.
Additionally, in a nice lawfare maneuver, the DOJ claims President Trump never formally evoked ‘executive privilege‘ on any material at Mar-a-Lago; therefore, despite his position as a former President, he was/is legally considered an ordinary citizen for the purpose of raiding his home to seize material the government considers vital to national security.
To complement the created DOJ narrative for media consumption, and to assist the media effort for direct distribution of the DOJ position, Main Justice released a picture as an example of the documents seized. The DOJ literally staged and created this photo for media to use, then released it in the court filing. Slick lawfare:
The cover sheets are essentially non sequitur as they do not necessarily describe or affirm the nature of the documented material underneath. “HCS-P/SI/TK” looks all officially looming; however, it doesn’t necessarily mean any of the information is classified as HCS (HUMINT Control System, or human intelligence), SI (special intelligence), or TK (talent keyhole), or SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information), aka the silos.
One word or paragraph could be considered ‘special intelligence’. Example “FISA” or “FISC”. You might remember our prior discussions that every document that contains the designation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, FISA or FISC, literally those words or abbreviations, is considered classified special intelligence.
Example (as above): Someone might write “the Carter Page FISA application” on a government document. That document is now considered ‘special intelligence‘. That’s how each silo inside the agencies of government keep a cloud over information.
It was not that long ago when the classification rules stated you could not ever publicly use the words “FISA Court,” without running afoul of the rules governing classified special intelligence. Yes, that’s correct, until about three years ago it was a violation of law to even discuss what took place in the FISA court process.
As a result, take the cover letter designations with a grain of salt. The covers are essentially useless for the purpose of understanding what material might be underneath. However, for the purpose of creating an optic, which helps drive a narrative, the oh-so super special cover values are priceless.
Moving beyond the filings, the DOJ narrative engineering is particularly noteworthy. By framing the material seized in such a manner as most people will never understand what the designations mean, Main Justice lays the foundation for the media to obfuscate, portray and define the potential of the evidence.
This is lawfare narrative engineering at its best. It is also very easy to see what comes next because this is a rodeo very familiar to those who watched the media push the DOJ and FBI manufactured stories around the Trump-Russia and Trump/Russia-obstruction cases before.
Just like the examples from 2016 (FBI leaks), 2017 (FBI/DOJ leaks), 2018 (Weissmann/Mueller leaks) and throughout the impeachment constructs (Nadler/Schiff committee leaks), this coordinated Main Justice effort is all done via public consumption of misleading articles produced by allied media working to promote the political interests of the DOJ.
As a result, screaming headlines of “Trump Held National Security Documents“,… and “Intelligence Community now Conducting Risk Assessments“…. and “ODNI Now Launching an Investigation of Classified Documents Found in Mar-a-Lago“…. etc are sure to follow.
Today the focus of media will be pushing the “Top Secret Classified Documents Detailed in DOJ Filing” aspect, hence the photograph becomes a key part of the narrative engineering value. However, within a few media cycles, the narrative will switch to The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines, briefing congress on the documents.
DNI Avril Haines will be the next phase, triggered to assist the emphasis of Main Justice and Lawfare. All of this is coordinated and planned in advance. None of the timing or sequencing is accidental. The best reference was the prior deployment of the same process throughout 2018 (DOJ Weissmann/Mueller) leading up to the midterm election.
Last point. As to the actual nature of the material in the photograph staged by the DOJ for media use, many of the documents you see in the picture are transcripts from the 2018 House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) investigation and witness testimony. Again, the cover sheets are a moot point. You might remember Representative Doug Collins releasing the witness transcripts (Bruce Ohr, etc) to the public.
Even though those House Intel and House Judiciary transcripts were released to the public, the cover sheets designate how the agencies view the testimony therein. Something can be a public record and still labeled “special intelligence,” that’s just the nature of this ridiculous classification system – or what I call the silo value.
It is likely that Mary McCord is working closely with Norm Eisen (red tie), and perhaps even Barry Berk (blue tie) on these collective efforts. It’s just how they roll.
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Now that is quite odd, I must say!
I’m a surfer on the East Coast; so I study and track storms and weather.
Having this few storms is not really that odd .
The last few years with more storms have been the anomaly.
Manufactured evidence.
Constitutional Law Expert Jonathan Turley Responds to DOJ’s Release of Staged Photo of ‘Classified’ Documents Strewn Over the Floor at Mar-a-Lago
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/constitutional-law-expert-jonathan-turley-responds-dojs-release-staged-photo-classified-documents-strewn-floor-mar-lago/
I’d like to see him be the Special Master. He’s a lib but he seems to be fair
Not a bad idea.
I don’t see how the false declaration doesn’t go uncharged/punished. What in the world were they doing?
Jim Rickards thinks Trump will be indicted tomorrow..thus the reason for Biden’s address to the nation.
If he’s right then the left is just trying to get MAGA nation to rise up and riot so they can initiate martial law and suspend elections. Thus the reason for Biden’s comments yesterday about gun toting MAGA people.
It’s going to get really really ugly now.
There is another post where the DOJ said they won;t make any decision(moves)
till after the midterms so as not to be seen as interferring)
None of that would shock me.
If there are “riots”, odds are that the perps will have matching glowie outfits and will carry tiki torches.
If this is true and the grand jury indicts President Trump what happens if after the indictment the warrant is thrown out by a Federal Court stating it was too general and in violation of the 4th Amendment? Does the indictment stand?
It will get “really ugly now”,…ONLY if we “take the bait” and respond to their actions, the way they hope we will.
Having thoroughly ‘hashed out’ all the LEGAL ramifications here and in our “Alt media”, realising they have NO CASE, realising this is JUST like all the previous and untimately unsuccessful attempts, hopefully WE will simply not take the bait.
I remain skeptical they will actually indict PDJT, or put him in cuffs.
But if they do, that STILL would not emotionally trigger me to do something so bone-headedly counter productive as to “take up arms” ,…as it would clearly be playing right into their hands.
They want to destroy America, THEY want to depopulate the World, and THEY want to destroy all of us.
Initiating a “Civil war” enables them to accomplish all their goals, and is the opposite of MAGA.
So “as for me” so long as PDJT Breathes,,my ammo box stays closed.
Who is this Jim guy?
I guess nobody knows.
IMO China Joe couldn’t put a coherent sentence together, much less make a real speech of his own.
But he thinks that he’s the president. LOL
Oooh! “a picture if PDJT ‘flipping a bird’!
Excellent!
Thank you!
So they are actually want me to believe the Government of the United States have “classified” documents in folders with names such as “HILARY CLINTON BLEACBIT”, ” TRUMP WON I KNOW IT YOU KNOW IT THEY KNOW IT” and “OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE’? It would be funny if these people were not straight out of the pit of hell.
I heard that a couple of RINOs from the Bush and Romney orbit filed an amicus brief with the DOJ. They are so transparent.
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Kash Patel on FBI Trump RAID photo release: “It is STAGED!”
“It is STAGED. These are NOT classified documents. They are trying this case in the court of public opinion because they don’t want Trump to run in 2024. This raid is continuing to BACKFIRE.”
(Video linked)…
Cont….
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Kash Patel IMPLODES entire Regime’s pre-emptive coup on Trump over PRIVILEGED documents:
“These are personal records… They are shielded from EVER being disclosed and they are within their rights and the law to have them.”
Cont…
I think all of this is to scare people into submission. And at this point what can law abiding patriots do? People don’t realize that we had a coup during the 2020 election. I watched everything pertaining to the election and I could not believe that Joe Biden would be installed, but he was. Our elected officials do nothing except for a few but what can they do? Patriots are rotting in prison and there is nothing we can do about it. We have no power. I’m not ready to give up, but what can we do? I want car rallies, boat rallies, people in the streets demanding our country back. Until we just say no, nothing will happen. God bless our country and our patriots!
Bad plan then. People who didn’t roll over or stopped playing the covid game, aren’t going to play this one either or be scared into submission.
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Kash Patel’s advice to Donald Trump after Regime FBI caught STAGING evidence at Mar-a-Lago raid is the best thing you’ll hear today:
“Let them continue to keep making mistakes… Start fighting these in the court of law… Their own documents will EXPOSE their corruption.”
(Video linked in tweet)…
Cont….
So classified documents are now a HUGE concern but not so much when the Hildebeest was so careless with them. The hypocrisy is just stunning.
I wish one of those useless govt. bureaucrats would earn their salary and produce a report that accurately depicted how much taxpayer money the corrupt alphabet agencies have squandered in their vendettas against PDJT. It’s utterly infuriating. They are determined to get him on SOMETHING (“Show me the man, I’ll show you the crime”). Perhaps there’s a video floating around out there somewhere that catches the MAGA King tossing a gum wrapper to the ground. I wonder if that would satisfy them because I think that’s the worst they’re going to find.
Hilly should be in jail for using a private server instead of a .Gov server.
The reason why is too obvious IMO.
Her crimes won’t show up on any FOIA search, because she didn’t use a gubmint server.
Maybe they can read?
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-07/Meadows%20Memo%20to%20AG%20re%20Declassification%20of%20FBI%20Binder.01.20.2021.pdf
THEY ARE ALL IN the SAME PIT… McCord Practiced as a Lawyer in THE SAME COURT ROOM as Her Husband was HELPING the JUDGE. He Has NOW MOVED to the Supreme Court Offices.
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How can they use Mary McCord on anything related to President Trump?
Actual notes from FBI officials, never turned over. Making it clear that Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok knew — before Crossfire Hurricane was opened in July 2016— that the Trump-Russia story was full of lies paid for by the DNC and Hillary’s campaign. So what did Mary McCord do when she found out in September and October 2016 when she attended numerous briefings related to Crossfire Hurricane? Or, when she heard President Barack Obama approved of a statement by the U.S. intelligence community in October 2016 accusing Russia of stealing emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC)? What she should have done was to contact the court and move to recuse herself. Instead, it would appear she became complicit.
The best way to convict “is with their own documentation,” Patel observed. As in, follow the money. That’s how Durham connected the Clinton campaign with the Perkins Coie attorneys and Fusion GPS. Last week we learned that Durham will be using as evidence the actual notes from FBI officials, which, Patel reminds us, were subpoenaed by the Intel Committee long ago but never turned over. These make it clear that Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok knew — before Crossfire Hurricane was opened — that the Trump-Russia story was full of lies paid for by the DNC and Hillary’s campaign.
https://stream.org/michael-sussmann-on-trial-day-1/
The Bard was right: First, kill all the lawyers.
I can hardly wait until I see how Main Justice and Lawfare Group will explain why the FBI is holding underwear from President Trump’s wife? Maybe we can get this in an 8 by 10 glossy.
DNI Avril Haines will be the next phase, triggered to assist the emphasis of Main Justice and Lawfare. All of this is coordinated and planned in advance. None of the timing or sequencing is accidental. The best reference was the prior deployment of the same process throughout 2018 (DOJ Weissmann/Mueller) leading up to the midterm election.
I think that should be “Maim” Justice
Robert Barnes response to the DOJ’s brief is a must read (from Viva/Barnes.Locals.com):
“They finally got him! Drumpf is going down! Even a few on the right think so. The media story is Trump caught lying to Feds by hiding documents from a grand jury subpoena. Problem? Media story is the lie.
A federal grand jury in DC issued a subpoena to the records custodian of the organization of the Office of Donald Trump for any records “marked” classified. They did not issue a subpoena to Trump. There is a reason for that: they wanted to avoid Trump contesting the subpoena on personal privilege grounds, including the 1st Amendment for selective prosecution, the 5th Amendment right not to be a witness against oneself, and the Presidential privilege he continues to enjoy after he is no longer President.
The custodian who responded provided the documents in the custody of the entity subpoenaed, and certified under oath he had done so. The Feds raided and seized documents marked classified. (Cover sheets shown, which don’t prove much of anything.) Thus, people jumped to the conclusion the Feds have Trump dead to rights. (Of note, all these problems stem from Trump’s lawyers continually cooperating with the Feds rather than telling them to screw off, like they should have. Trump’s unilateral, non-reviewable power to declassify records and call them personal, not Presidential Records, was grounds to ignore the Archives, and object throughout to the DOJ. Instead, Trump complied, and problems ensued.)
But let’s get to what most folks are missing. First, Trump was never subpoenaed, and never responded to the subpoena. Second, the documents seized were not seized from the entity; the documents seized were from Trump’s personal residence. As such, there is no conflict between the custodian’s certification and the documents seized. I highly doubt a records custodian lied; he gave over what existed in the physical custody of the entity subpoenaed. Remember, the documents seized were seized at a different time and from a personal residence. Trump was also under no obligation to store the documents in that particular entity. After all, Clinton stored such documents in a sock drawer and Obama stored them in an unsecure storage locker.
One final addendum: the Feds putting this information in their opposition to a motion for special master shows even they know they don’t have a credible case. The issue isn’t even relevant to opposing a special master. The only reason to do it is to fight back against Trump in the court of public opinion. Doing so weakens their chance to ever bring a criminal case, because it makes such information public to potential targets (remember, they hid this info in the redactions of the disclosed warrant just a few days ago). That is a sign they won’t bring a case on the grounds, not a sign that they will.
Real upshot: Deep State obsessed with getting back whatever documents Trump has, and their continued aggressiveness suggests they didn’t get what they were looking for. The safe was still empty.”
I’ve had secret & Top secret/SCI clearances and the doc that is center of this pic that is labled “Secret / SCI” is bullshit. There is NO SUCH THING AS “Secret / SCI”. There is “Top Secret / SCI”. They can’t even staged a photo w/out “F”ing it up
First thing I noticed.. “huh, never seen one of those before, how would that even possible?”
How about their raid on that doctor who molested all those girls?
Trump FBI raid: Former president’s team responds to DOJ argument against ‘special master’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-fbi-raid-former-presidents-team-responds-doj-argument-against-special-master
Trump slams DOJ’s filing opposing ‘special master,’ allegation he tried to ‘obstruct’ probe: ‘I Declassified!’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-slams-dojs-filing-opposing-special-master-allegation-tried-obstruct-probe-declassified
These sick bastard federal keystone cop pieces of 💩!
We see you!
Stop!
God, please let the states rip the treasonous power away from this federal monster and the freak D.C. Dr. Frankensteins who created it.
The treachery multiplies by the day.
AG Merrick “Mitto” Garland had better investigate the how and why regarding that framed “Time” magazine cover which is seen in the Bankers Box in this photo.
Doesn’t it make the entire raid for “classified” material – maybe nuclear classified material- illegitimate? They confiscated THAT particular item which does not appear to be “classified” to any normal, intelligent person –
and THEN to take a picture with that IN the picture totally negates any seriousness or rightness of the entire raid –
why on earth would they take that off the wall – was the agent going to meet a buddy for dinner, maybe a member of Congress appearing in the cover picture and to whom information was to be leaked – the FBI agent thought that would make a great gift? Or maybe it was for a sweetheart.
It does not make sense, it does not compute, it does not scan.
Here is another possibility – perhaps the agent who took the photo is actually a whistleblower and appalled at the arrogance and law-breaking of the DOJ and FBI, he kind of nudged that box into the picture.
The Lawfare people are as gruesomely cavalier about it as the DOJ and did not see a problem with that framed “Time” magazine cover in the picture.
Myopic evil.
To me, this reeks of desperation as at least half of America refuses to buy what they are selling.
Looks like someone’s child was using the documents as a coloring book.