Late yesterday the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) filed another motion in federal court urging Judge Cannon not to allow the special master to review documents they alone determine to be “classified.” [pdf of motion Here]
The DOJ-NSD, officially the Trump targeting division, is frantic that an outside reviewer would be granted access to oversee the DOJ/IC unilateral determinations of the documents, even if…. [watch the goal posts moving now]… those documents were previously declassified by President Trump.
Yes, even if the documents were declassified (they were), the DOJ is apoplectic that someone would be allowed to see them. Their reason?… “sources and methods” might be exposed.
The DOJ-NSD is claiming the Intelligence Community (IC) is the real authority here, not the President of the United States. It is a rather remarkable position to take.
You might even find yourself wondering by what constitutional authority does anyone in the IC bureaucracy determine whether a president’s declassification of documents was legit? The President has the power to declassify; however, according to the position of the DOJ-NSD, the president must defer to them. :::spit::: Hopefully Judge Cannon sees this for what it is.
However, all of that said, the serendipitous revelation of the FBI hiring Christopher Steele’s source, Igor Danchenko, as a Confidential Human Source (CHS) for three years (March 2017 through Oct 2020) helps to explain the current level of the DOJ-NSD apoplexy, in this motion.
Danchenko was labeled by the corrupt FBI as a Confidential Human Source specifically to shield him (and them) from scrutiny that could be applied by any oversight or inquiry. In essence Danchenko became shielded by the same “sources and methods” scheme the DOJ-NSD is now worried about retaining in the Mar-a-Lago documents.
As the DOJ-NSD now moves the goal posts to say, ‘yeah, so what if Trump declassified the documents – we still don’t like it, and he might reveal our sources and methods,’ we begin to get a more fulsome perspective on the reason for the Mar-a-Lago raid.
President Trump declassified the documents showing the corrupt DOJ and FBI targeting operation of him. The corrupt DOJ and FBI went and took back the evidence against them in the Mar-a-Lago raid and now says no one should be allowed to see it.
Everything is becoming increasingly transparent.
Overlay the Durham probe and you discover, the govt people responsible for illegally targeting Trump are the same govt people responsible for investigating the illegal Trump targeting.
We keep watching….
And I sill say that they did not get what they really wanted. The empty safe is the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
And why they are running around the country now with warrants to seize cell phones, etc from PT supporters.
My guess is they’re searching for clues – maybe hoping he told someone where the things they want are located. However, apparently they can get the phone records from the carriers so either they couldn’t for some reason or they want to put on a show to intimidate. But of course this is just a wild guess.
Our government – for us all to see what they have become. They are really evil bastards.
think encrypted apps, deleted messages etc.
I thought the nsa had all phone records.
Me too..but then why are they running all over the country grabbing cell phones?
Agree with you, Scarlett, about optics. They want us ALL to be AFRAID. Therefore, the henchmen.
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And THAT must be a very large pile of data to search and no small feat.
Maybe they should enlist SD to sort it for them !!!
Ha.
I think what we witnessed and are witnessing is the communist takeover of the USA, we are trying to get out from under it by using the system. Thank the SCOTUS for letting it advance. But here we are, I trust in God, and the Constitution. And of course my fellow Americans, “Treepers” to my ignorant brother and sister in law.
Simple – those are just more fascist jackbooted thug bullying & intimidation tactics. They’re ramping up efforts to scare people away from associating with and/or supporting President Trump.
Real MAGA people won’t be intimidated by their 3rd world tactics
You are correct the real MAGA people will not be intimidated.
It is the independents, moderates, and disillusioned Democrats they want to keep away from PDJT.
I’m still waiting on VP Pence getting the raid! Strange how all the people that surrounded Trump get raided except him.
You forgot the /s.
😉
IMHO, bad dog is incorrect, or at best only partially correct.
This wasn’t exactly a game of “capture the flag”; the Govt already HAS the originals of all the documents, and PDJT, having declassified them (as the DOJ now concedes) could have made numerous copies, and secreted them everywhere, as many have suggested.
As has been pointed out, PDJT has HAD these copies for a YEAR, the issue is him being able to RELEASE them.
as for Phflipper, I believe you and many are conflating two seperate operations, and this may be an error.
I think the the intimidation attacks against MAGA are NOT the same as the MAL raid; they are a result of the enemy seeing MAGA victories in primaries.
This shows them massive expenditures, and ballot fraud are NOT enough to overcome MAGA in the primaries, and hence won’t overcome MAGAin the general, so they need “something else”.
Hence, in a variation of the “insurrection narrative” they are desperately trying to work up a lawfare narrative; there was a CONSPIRACY to illegitimately undermine the 2020 election, by advancing the legal theory that Pence and Congress could reject electors, choose alternate electors, etc.
Arrests and initiating prosecutions which will ultimately be unsuccessful (but not until after the midterms) both hamstrings MAGA organising efforts, and another false narrative as a manufactured Oct surprise.
It is an act of sheerest desperation, and like every previous lawfare move, has little chance of long term ‘success’.
Well, to the point the DOJ-NSD, etc. already have their originating documents, yes.
To the MAL raid, and subsequent arguing in court trying to stop the declass of those docs, doing sure has opened themselves up to massive failure as some judge could call their bluff. Plus, the Constitution is not favoring their position they have ultimate authority.
Big risk on their part even doing the MAL raid. IMHO, thus very dumb on their part, and as you point out, it will fail.
I agree to the intimidation tactics are just that, intimidation. I might suggest these tactics are the result of their realization the MAL raid was not the best move, stupid actually. I’m not purposefully conflating the two. I do not view their several operations as independent of one another but an all-inclusive bull in a china shop approach to steamroll over everyone.
Primaries are just that, primaries. We have a long way to go. We will see what happens in the general election. Then we will see what happens afterward. I do stand on this, winning the general election in a MAGA direction is yet a long way from ending this national horror show. Those who win need to be ready for the biggest all-out political/legal pounding they will take and must give out.
The insurrection narrative is a fail, too.
Be well. And, God Bless the USA for the righteous goodness she truly can become, again.
The DOJ wouldn’t get these questionable warrants without a complicitly corrupt judiciary and judges who are biased idealogues to go along.
Biased ideologues, or perhaps simply corrupt. Money is not the only way to bribe people. Prestigious, high promotions for self, family and allies goes a long way in reminding folks on which side their bread is buttered.
Probably blackmail and not just the person DS needs to do the deed but the ones close to him/her. Epstein wasn’t a one time fluke.
Would have been better if the safe contained an 800 pound gorilla.
A really, really angry 800 pound gorilla.
Yes! Exactly!
Lol!
Then one would think they would raid Bedminster and Trump Tower since
he has been at both? or are they afraid of the back lash to that.
Maybe the safe was empty was a euphemism for what we wanted wasn’t in the safe. And was actually a handwritten note saying, I caught you all!
After all, the VSGPDT does have a touch of a showman in him. 🙂
♥️♥️♥️ Please let there have been a camera on to capture the moment. I would buy tickets to that “Show!”
Or maybe the note simply said, “You’re fired!”
Ooo, I like that!
I would love to see Merrick “Mitto” Garland in an 800-pound gorilla costume being romanced by an actual 800-pound gorilla as in the end of “Trading Places”.
It would be so fitting as the character in the movie “Trading Places” who winds up on the train in the gorilla suit was the detective working for the Duke brothers who set up Akroyd’s character with fake evidence plus obtaining “top secret” info re orange juice prices by nefarious means – a real low character, using the law to destroy an innocent person and also make a lot of money (n the Commodities Market, betting on the price of orange juice).
“Without Fear or Favor”
“ Their was gold in the walls. “
There sure was!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2019/02/19/how-long-before-we-hear-about-fbi-recordings-in-the-white-house/
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
(Who watches the watchers?)
Looks like President Trump is going to take them to the woodshed.
Rather them taken to the gallows.
It’s called protection from scrutiny by outsiders of illegal/Unconstitutional “sources and methods”!!!! If laws are broken but completely unknown by any outside the circle of criminals and no one else has any evidence there can’t even be a circumstantial case brought! Very clever almost too clever!!!
Yes.
You see DOJ, the President has TOTAL authority to declassify anything and everything.
So, you can take your compelling need for secrecy and place it where the sun doesn’t shine!
President Trump may have suspected at the beginning of his term that the Deep State was corrupt, but did not fathom the depth of the criminality which runs through the every root and branch of the clearly Stasi-like bureaucratic institutions.
By the end of his first term, there can be no doubt he understood. And in so knowing, he acted…constitutionally and accordingly. One can almost smell the panic emanating from those departments which sought to take him down, but failed.
I pray this judge smells it as well. And amongst a sea of compromised or political actors within the judiciary, remembers her oath…and also acts accordingly.
I’m reasonably sure Trump knew the depth.
What you see as mistakes and resistance in the Trump administration isn’t quite that. Just as Trump’s “failed law suit” seemed like a fail, Sundance correctly identified this “failure” as a means of keeping the information in circulation and beyond the ability of the DOJ-NSD/FBI to hide from the people.
Winning the suit wasn’t the purpose or goal because he knew it couldn’t work in the first place. But as a way of getting the evidence into his lawyers hands? It worked perfectly. And the DOJ-NSD raided his home in response.
I don’t understand why lawfare and the uniparty did not anticipate thecurrent scenario years ago. Trump has been saying he caught them all for a number of years now. What did they think would happen?
Surely, they would have a better defense for the current situation. Did they expect and rely on a corrupt court system to bail them out? Maybe. And maybe they still have some drastic options going well beyond threats.
This is so big. Bigger than anything the nation has faced before. Desperate times.
Would you believe they think Trump is not as smart as they think they are?
lawfare doesnt care as long as Trump doesn’t win in 2024. Everything else, win or lose, is designed to keep on the offense, smearing him, making him pay legal fees endlessly, etc.
Lawfare=nuisance lawsuits perpetually.
Yes, Daniel. I read the article you reference and understood it perfectly. I wasn’t speaking of the recent lawsuit.
And I must respectfully disagree.
The evidence for me started when Dan Coates notified him only a couple of days in that he was being monitored, thus the move almost immediately to Bedminster.
This not to say he was unaware of the corruption. He is not a naive man. But he is a deeply patriotic man, and I suspect he might have supposed like minded people in the government actually existed. It is clear such do not.
The rot runs so deep, I’m not sure where one would start to root it out, even if that were possible…given the jealously guarded powers all within the Fourth Branch feel entitled to.
So I stand by my opinion. Mr Trump is one term wiser, and I do believe he suspected that even out of office, they would come after him. And so made the appropriate constitutional arrangements for the documents he legally and constitutionally declassified, which included their safety.
Clearly the reprehensible FBI raid didn’t produce what was looked for. Thus the almost frantic totalitarian seizures of phones etc from allies and it seems anyone who rubbed shoulders with him.
That’s my view at any rate.
Yes, the “Gold behind the walls” referred to in a Time Magazine article…
“TIME – […] But few rooms have changed so much so fast as his dining room, where he often eats his lunch amid stacks of newspapers and briefing sheets. A few weeks back, the President ordered a gutting of the room. “We found gold behind the walls, which I always knew. Renovations are grand,” he says, boasting that contractors from the General Services Administration resurfaced the walls and redid the moldings in two days. “Remember how hard they worked? They wanted to make me happy.””
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2019/02/19/how-long-before-we-hear-about-fbi-recordings-in-the-white-house/
Thank you for the link, CZ.
History will show one of Trump’s greatest accomplishments as President was to expose to anyone with an open mind, and a willingness to observe, the breadth of the corruption within the DC den of thieves. Up until his presidency the vast majority of people were convinced there’s a democrat and republican party in Washington, each with their own ideals and good intentions on how to best serve the people. How wrong we were. Now we all can see how the democrat party, and the republican wing of the democrat party, are just two sides of the same corruption coin that only exist to serve themselves, and they do it all at our expense. I’m not so sure our nation can survive such treason from within (Cicero said no nation can) but at least in the post Trump world we can face this enemy with our eyes open, and not go down without a fight.
This I absolutely agree with, resolute. Perhaps his lasting legacy was to start the unpleasant task of mucking out this particular Augean stable, filled, as I once said, with what stables are filled with.
In fact, such progress was he making two years into his term, my feeling is that something was needed to either slow it down or stop it completely for the last two.
And so we saw Covid and the hijacking of our liberties and a ratcheting up of the powers of the subterranean evil which infests every corner of government.
All the good he did for us economically has been turned off at the tap. But there is nothing that the foul creatures in charge now can do to rebury what they’ve been up to for, it seems, decades. That’s now out in the open. And as you so rightly say, that in the long run will be Mr Trump’s greatest accomplishment.
It’s funny because an Obama executive order actually outlawed the concealment of damaging information by using “classification” as a shield against the truth.
I agree.
Actually, they are inadvertently speaking the truth; the documents, taken in total reveal in detail the sources and methods they used to attempt to subvert the will of the people, and drive a duly elected POTUS that was a direct threat to them, from office.
And anyone NOT involved in the plot, anyone INDEPENDANT, reading the docs would inevitably see that.
Hence, their position that no one can see the docs, because they would see “sources and methods” is absolutely accurate.
This is obvious, even in their FILINGS, and I am confident the Judge sees this.
I agree! My question now is when the “special master” reviews the documents and hopefully figures out what we all ready know that there is evidence of criminality by DOJ/FBI as an officer of the court are they required to disclose it? Or does the special master just review the documents for classification status?
I simple terms, it’s called unlawful searches and seizures, a fundamental constitutional right.
Trump was in VA. At a golf course w/o clubs. I think he is ready to pounce.
I don’t think PDJT has to worry about calling Sticks to ship his bag.
“Overlay the Durham probe and you discover, the govt people responsible for illegally targeting Trump are the same govt people responsible for investigating the illegal Trump targeting”.
Brilliant! I hope Judge Cannon reads TCTH.
I hope Judge Cannon reads TCTH.
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Send her the full article.
Retired Magistrate here: No! You can’t send her anything; that would give the DOJ more ammunition for saying that she should recuse herself due to outside influence.
When I was on the bench I would get letters addressed to me all the time about certain cases. My bailiff would intercept the letters and send a form letter back to the sender that I could not read any ex parte (one sided without a hearing) letters regarding a case.
Just by reading the most recent pleading of the DOJ, Judge Cannon should have all the information she needs if she follows the law; so far she has.
Thank you, Marcia!
Where/what does a judge do, these days, if threatened?
Who could they possibly turn to with this corruption everywhere?
Retired Magistrate here: Unfortunately, it comes with the territory. When I was on the bench I would get threats regarding certain cases. Several times I would get a call at home from the Sheriff’s Department telling me about a threat and that I needed to take this one seriously. I took it seriously and prepared myself accordingly.
👍🏼
Think about what happened re; Justice Thomas’ wife. Even an appearance of inappropriate influence can cause damage.
Let’s hope Judge Cannon sees that the Justice Department is only concerned about its own criminality and trying to cover its tracks.
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
Dear Honorable Judge Aileen Cannon,
In hopes that you are frequenting the Treehouse to see how MANY Americans REALLY feel,
Please go SCORCHED EARTH against the corrupt DOJ, FBI and IC in your decision.
Love,
We The People
Their sources are contrived.
Their methods are unconstitutional.
No, not a secret.
Lol–well said!
The suspense is, yawn……
killing me.
What are they afraid will be exposed? Their made up sources and their questionable methods.
Well surprise, surprise. The NY Times is reporting that Durham will end the special council inquiry and issue a final report later this year. Thus the timing of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, as the institutionally corrupt DOJ/FBI were about to lose their cover. It’s all one continual sham, just as Sundance has said all along.
Post- election no doubt.
Efff them, they hide behind “sources and methods” because of their usurpation of the Constitution’s guards against they unreasonable searches they do.
Add “sources and methods” to “classified” as things that need to go away. Only a few things need to be classified.
Oh, and they admit he has the power to declassify (which he obviously did at the time). So the crime is having legally declassified documents that a new executive doesn’t want you to have, effff JoeBama!!
We know about their swamp-“methods”
and some of their
fake-“sources”
– ha!
Sources…NYT and WaPo and a few paid snitches
Methods…Secret Police tactics.
Exactly.
Their sources and methods are corrupt and deserving of a good airing.
Inspiring to see this level of commitment to hiding Democrat corruption–correction!–protecting national security.
Probably should not limit the corruption (“national security”) to the Democrats alone or even significantly. The Anti-American party includes a lot of those claiming to be Republicans as well. The agencies and offices that enable this to take place were established under a “Republican” administration. There have been several points since then when the Do Nothing Party was in a position to reign in the 4ht branch. At best the “Republicans” have been aiding and abetting the Anti-Americans. At worst the “Republicans” must be considered full blown members of the Anti-American Party by the Pro-American People.
Sources: Their corrupt selves.
Methods: Violate every norm, method, rule, procedure, protection, law and the Constitution. Turn the DOJ/FBI into the GESTAPO/STASI.
Throughout Russia Gate, every time the house investigators succeeded in getting further redactions declassified, we would see the exact same things. No sources needing protection. No methods needing hiding. Just an illegal coverup of official misbehavior.
Flak is heaviest when you’re directly over the target.
I am an Independent-Libertarian and President Donald John Trump is my WEAPON!!! America(First) Hispanics for ULTRA MAGA & Trump 2024!!! Let’s Go Judge Cannon!!!
Public scrutiny of sources and methods is not more damaging than DOJ gone wild.
Since those documents were declassified there was nothing stopping Trump’s lawyers from making copies in order to mark up what documents go where within the context of the RICO lawsuit that was filed last March, right? They would have had to have them with them in order to number the evidence, seems to me. I’m betting the FBI and DOJ-NSD figured that out along the way.
As the SM is supposed to, AT A MINIMUM, view all the documents and detirmine which are A/C, and which are not (and possibly also detirmine which are classified and which not) seems they MUST then provide a LIST to the Judge of documents the DOJ must return to PDJT.
And I find it hard to see how the DOJ can succesfully argue that such a list be sealed by the Court.
I really think the DOJ will ultimately fight them allowing the SM to see the documents, all the way to SCOTUS.
THEY will make it their “hill to die on”; after all, they have nothing to lose, at this point, by fighting it all the way.
“Contempt of court”? WHO cares?
That’s how dirty these people are. They’ve been this dirty for a hundred years. We just didn’t know the depths of their depravity.
It wasn’t until we put Trump to the task that a clearer picture of the malevolence of the permanent bureaucracy emerged.
Now they’re flaunting and admitting their hatred and disgust for their “little” people they used as props to further their aspirations for wealth and power.
We need a real opposition party to defend against this internal attack on the Republic.
don’t federal judges have automatic life time security clearance?
Now that they know what he has, panic has set in.
Their sources are untrustworthy and their methods illegal. It’s no wonder why they would not want them divulged.
If the Judge says no that the Special Master gets to see all, watch for a suspicious dumpster fire to hide the evidence from everyone. If the information is that damning that they had to steal it to hide it then nobody is going to want to be ‘the guy’ that let it see daylight. Lives could be at stake…theirs!
Very good point. Oops! We accidentally wiped 32 iphones by entering the wrong password 10 times over the course of 3 hours. And we accidentally wiped all our drives with bleachbit. And we accidentally threw all the paper files on a barbecue grill at an event where we were posing as suburban dads.
Isn’t it amazing that now matter how fast and far technology advances in saving and storing records, it still manages be lost or damaged?
This is sooooooo freakin’ obvious to all but the most blue-pilled / indoctrinated observers.
Old sayings about “they protest too loudly” come to mind….
Also the patient gets the most agitated and screams the loudest when you’re pressing on their most painfully sensitive area….
And these moves/countermoves by DOJ/NSD are rapid fire. Quite a contrast from the Mueller,Durham,Hunter pace.
I don’t have any experience with a female federal judge but do have a lifetime of experiences with women in different capacities and the one common button I learned you don’t push is trying to bully them into doing something. Praying for Judge Cannon’s safety.
“The plenary Constitutional power to declassify (Navy v. Eagan) really sux” when you have something to hide.
Especially when that “something to hide” consists of your so-called “sources and methods.”
Unfortunately for all of you, The President™ possesses that very power – granted to him by the Constitution as affirmed by the SCOTUS – and he has now elected to use it.
The Law describes exactly one “proper way forward” in a situation exactly like this one, and this course is called: a “special master.” (The DOJ has in fact used this – has routinely called for this – in fairly-recent cases in the past.) The Honorable Court enjoins an objective, and properly-cleared, third party to evaluate the materials in question on The Court’s behalf, in order to properly inform its future decisions and actions.
Neither party should object to this. So … why is
DOJLawfare now up in arms? Of course we all know the answer . . .“Inquiring minds want to know …”
Let the record also show that “whatever the Special Master may find” will not immediately be made known to the public – only to the Honorable Court. Any legitimate concerns, should there actually be any, can therefore be handled by the mechanism of redaction, at the appropriate time.
“The necessity of redaction” has never been disputed – and Trump in his various memos has been careful to acknowledge that. You’re entitled to have “your name, your address, and so on” to be held from public scrutiny. But redaction, when it comes, is entirely sufficient to protect any legitimate concerns of “disclosure,” and has nothing to do with the activities of a Special Master. Nor the legitimacy of appointing and using one in a case like this, which is “entirely settled law.”
The Special Master is, by design, entitled to see everything – and, to disclose nothing. This is precisely why this special and very-privileged legal office exists.
Exactly, Mike. Things are just getting warmed up for this chapter and there is much yet to come. We’ll avoid chicken-counting, etc., but my oh my, the abject panic is revealing….and delicious!
I especially like the ” arousing disgust” part.
fulsome (adj.)
mid-13c., “abundant, plentiful,” Middle English compound of ful “full” (see full (adj.)) + -som “to a considerable degree” (see -some (1)). Perhaps a case of ironic understatement. Sense extended to “plump, well-fed” (mid-14c.), then “arousing disgust” (similar to the feeling of having over-eaten), late 14c. Via the sense of “causing nausea” it came to be used of language, “offensive to taste or good manners” (early 15c.); especially “excessively flattering” (1660s). Since the 1960s, however, it commonly has been used in its original, favorable sense, especially in fulsome praise. Related: Fulsomely; fulsomeness.
Dot Gov’s heads would explode if POTUS 45 revealed that after declassifying the documents, he made multiple copies and distributed them out of campus as insurance……
I keep my copies in my sock drawer.
Sources:
Joseph Misfud
Stefan Halper
Azra Turk
Methods:
Misfud, Halper, and Turk coordinated cooperation.
Another of their much-vaunted “methods”:
Make up something.
Leak it to Pravda media.
Use the Pravda media reports as “evidence” for your “warrants.”
Method = Playbook
“The DOJ-NSD is claiming the Intelligence Community (IC) is the real authority here, not the President of the United States. It is a rather remarkable position to take.”
That is what Robert Barnes says too. He says that the IC’s struggle with Trump is over who rules — the President of the United States or the administrative state.
Also, Barnes repeatedly asserts what should be obvious. The DOJ/FBI/CIA/etc. are executive branch entities. They derive their authorities from the President.
I don’t know about you, but the more the system is exposed the weaker they who run it look.
A scrawny bunch of spoilt brats, intemperate wannabes and lapdogs to their masters.
They have a veneer, but not much else.
Good call, Johnny.
The shock and awe of their audacious acts is waning fast.
With every “new” action there is a “positive” reaction against the IC/plotters
Well, there is this area that for some reason is called “New (still) England”, isn’t there?
Indeed. England has had their fingers on our affairs ever since they lost to a baby country. Couldn’t stomach it. I wonder how much the Rothschilds lost in our war of independence. Must have been plenty to by constantly biting at the heels of the USA. Their anger resembles the middle eastern mindset of no forgiveness.
Jeez, just assign a special master and get on with it already.
Prediction: By day’s end to meet DOJ’s Thursday threat, Judge Cannon will appoint a Special Master & direct him to review 100 marked classified documents within 15 days of them being provided.
The Judge should charge the FBI, DOJ and NSD under RICO.
Well, there certainly does appear to have been a long running criminal conspiracy, and it deprived both PDJT and the American people of their rightful property.
It’s almost laughable that the DOJ-NSD relies on the good old “for obvious reasons” argument against revealing the IC’s sources and methods pertaining to Crossfire Hurricane.
It’s precisely their sources and methods that are at issue. And the only “obvious” reason for keeping them secret is to conceal the IC’s wrongdoing.
Methods and sources? Lying, and paying “sources” within the Clinton campaign.
So essentially they themselves are the sources and methods they’re trying to protect.
D*ckwad Judge Sullivan appointed as Special Master in 3, 2, 1 …
In other news, SC Justice John Roberts smiles and nods approvingly.
The government declares itself a higher authority that Commander In Chief when it comes to declassification. So much for “civilian leadership”. The hubris of these people.
Maybe it is time the WORLD sees that the FBI ‘sources and methods are bunk!
How many times have they hidden key evidence behind the S&M designation?
Perhaps the government has a sadomasochistic relationship with We the People…
Perhaps?
The DOJ-NSD, staffed by unelected bureaucrats with no authority or power given by the Constitution, wants this judge to side with them over the duly elected President of the United States to protect the un-Constitutional sources and methods they’re using to destroy said President??? Have I got that right?
I :::spit::: along with you Sundance.
Surely most of Americans are 100% disgusted with our Federal government.
It would be glorious if we could get enough MAGA in the federal government to go scorched earth on the lawbreakers.
I bet every 3 letter agency in cooperation with “big tech” and whatever other sources they can exploit are going through Judge Cannon and her immediate families entire lives, online and offline, trying to come up with anything to use against her to control her decision.
Tell me, someone –
what “Sources and Methods” are illustrated by a photo of folders on the carpet in a room at Mar-A-Lago – next to them, a Bankers Box where we can see facing out a framed “Time” magazine cover –
the DOJ/FBI put that photo out into the public, themselves – and it was supposed to show classified info found at Mar-A-Lago – but why include the Bankers Box with the framed “Time” magazine cover?
They themselves demonstrated their own incompetence and over-reaching.
I promise you this is why they are raiding people in Trump orbit. If Trump distributed them, they want to track down every copy that may have been shared or re-shared if their text messages indicate they were.
This is pure desperation. While I hate to see it happen to anyone, watching the reaction of these people formerly trusted by the public to carry weapons in the name of justice hang themselves is very entertaining.
The Judge should now simply – once again – adhere to the very-obvious legal principles. A very clear way forward, impervious(?) to subsequent appeals. Obviously neutral, level-handed, and professional.
“The appointment of a properly-cleared and objective Special Master” is precisely what the Law calls for in cases like this. (As FBI/DOJ perfectly well knows …)
There is no legitimate basis for objection due to “disclosure” of anything-at-all, since the Special Master reports only to the Honorable Court under conditions of secrecy/seal. Nothing will be revealed to the public. Therefore, no possible “information position” held by either party will be compromised.
Which is precisely why the concept of a “Special Master” exists. Because the legal Office of “Master” is, indeed, “Special.”
I havent had time to look through the various filings, but based on what SD highlighted, it would seem the DOJ is purposely conflating PDJT’s authority and ability to declassify documents with his claiming various privileges such as executive and attorney client, in an effort to confuse the court.
it’s all kinda hilarious. As remarked a week or two ago, the case has devolved from Orange Man is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to Orange Man held three documents in a desk drawer that may or not be declassified (if they were, we can assume the DOJ would have leaked that already).
We can assume that those three documents are:
the recipe for cold fusion; Kim’s netflix password; and a 1 hour martinizing receipt from a dry cleaners at the DMV Korea.
Intelligence Community – the more we see of this community the more they look like an Idiot Community.
It’s high time to delegitimize the “national security” excuse for concealing information from the public. Eliminating the government’s privilege of keeping secrets would do far less damage to America’s defense posture than maintaining the privilege is doing to the body politic.
They still have “in the nations best interest” and “for the common good” to fall back on. The right of the People to know every single thing the government the people instituted is doing far out weighs the government’s right to know anything about what the people are doing.
Since the Durham indictment of ‘IGRO’, the documents that the DOJ wants back and no one can read them are known because John Solomon just published them.