Justice Department makes redacted Mar-a-Lago documents public

[BumRushDaShow]

Last edited Fri Aug 26, 2022, 01:22 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: ABC News

The Justice Department on Friday made public the redacted affidavit that supported the search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. After reviewing the DOJ's proposed redactions Thursday, a magistrate judge had ordered the redacted affidavit filed in the public docket by noon Friday.

A coalition of news organizations, including ABC News, had argued that the release was in the public interest. The FBI special agent tasked with writing the affidavit supporting the search of Mar-a-Lago writes that as a result of their ongoing criminal investigation they had "probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified [National Defense Information] or that are Presidential records subject to record retention requirements currently remain at [Mar a Lago]."

"There is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at [Mar a Lago]," the affidavit continues. The redacted affidavit is a total of 32 pages with an attachment, including a May 25 letter signed by former President Trump's lawyer Evan Corcoran outlining what is described as Trump's authorities regarding presidential records. The unredacted portions of the affidavit put on display the timeline of the Justice Department's investigation leading up to their unprecedented move to search the residence of a former president.

It was kicked off, according to the affidavit, after a special agent for the National Archives' inspector general sent a criminal referral to DOJ revealing that the 15 boxes handed over by Trump's team in January revealed "highly classified records" intermingled with otherwise innocuous documents. The affidavit goes on to outline further interactions between NARA and Trump's team to secure the return of records that were improperly taken from the White House.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-department-makes-redacted-mar-lago-documents-public/story?id=88889157

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They are trickling it out. Apparently PACER crashed at noon.

File referenced in the above (PDF) memo - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.98.0_1.pdf

AFFIDAVIT (viewer) - https://www.scribd.com/document/589355980/gov-uscourts-flsd-617854-102-1 (can be downloaded)

PDF link - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22267187/affidavit-mal.pdf

Original article -

The Justice Department on Friday made public redacted documents related to the the affidavit that supported the search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

After reviewing the DOJ's proposed redactions Thursday, a magistrate judge had ordered the redacted affidavit filed in the public docket by noon Friday.

A coalition of news organizations, including ABC News, had argued that the release was in the public interest.

[Novara]

1. Uh oh.

All of it is bad, but Trump having documents derived from human intelligence (i.e. spies) floating around Mar-a-Lago is about the worst imaginable offense in this space.

Link to tweet

[Cha]

21. TY!

[867-5309.]

2. TFG will now complain it's heavily redacted

By calling for things to be released, he gives the illusion (to morons) he wants transparency.

[Lonestarblue]

7. All Trump really wanted was the names of witnesses who cooperated with the FBI.

And especially the name of the person who ratted him out so he could sic his supporters on them. After all, dead witnesses can’t testify at a trial.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

12. Morons b morons, not really relevant what such think, or why!

[BlueIdaho]

3. TFGs very bad year is about to get worse.

The whole world is about to learn that TFGs obsession with power was far greater than his “patriotism.” BOHICA Fatso.

[KS Toronado]

4. Court just said "We're not telling tRump jack shit"

[Bayard]

5. Alrighty then

He's cooked. They found exactly what they were looking for there.

[Novara]

6. ARREST HIM NOW

A major point here: The FBI found documents marked "HCS," which refers to clandestine human sources who risk their lives to provide information to the US government.

Link to tweet

Every single covert operative named in those documents has to be considered compromised at this point.

[PSPS]

8. Well, so much for that "NOFORN" classification. That was ignored for years.

[CrispyQ]

11. Look at him, so full of himself, thinking he's one of the big dogs now,

when in reality he's just their dupe.

[Probatim]

13. And those two knew how to ingratiate themselves with that prick.

Anyone with a lick of sense can see what happened in that meeting.

Trunt probably said - here's how powerful I am, wanna see who's working in Kyiv? And they were all "shocked" he could do something like that.

[ffr]

18. When you're famous, they just let me do it.

TREASON!

[Justice matters.]

17. The orange traitor is having a secret meeting with war criminals...

To show them top secret documents endangering covert agents's lives.

Lock him up!

[FoxNewsSucks]

27. Not just showing them,

that blue binder in the hands of the spy on the right is probably just the first delivery of copies obtained from MF45.

[iluvtennis]

9. Thank you for the links. Just downloaded the PDF and getting ready to read it.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. You're welcome!

They were releasing the judge's memo and DOJ's memo and finally got the thing in a viewer (various sources had it in their own embedded viewers) and I found where there was just a PDF.

[ffr]

14. A MUST READ!!!

Based on the following facts, there is probable cause to believe that the locations to be searched at the PREMISES contain evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation of 18 U.S.C $$ 793(e), 1519, or 2071

Under 18 U.S.C $$ 793(e), “whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document...or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted” or attempts to do or causes the same “to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it” shall be fined or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

We must demand a more thorough investigation of the 2016/2017 backchannel server at Trump Tower when Trump began receiving PDBs after the 2016 election.

The GOP is complicit in TREASON.

[Cha]

23. Mahalo, ffr!

[ffr]

25. ;)

To think, going all the way back to the backchannel server at Trump Tower, what secrets were shared with foreign nationals.

I can only hope that there are thorough investigations of all of TFG's and his Axis of Evil allies, to determine the extent his fruits of crimes have caused our great nation.

[usaf-vet]

15. I skimmed the PDF. Most were and will be Greek to me, but the redactions tell me TFG is not having..

.... a good day.

He is going to be pissed. Hide the ketchup!!!!

[Talitha]

29. "Hide the ketchup!!!!"

Haha, nice touch!

[mercuryblues]

16. I knew you would have this posted.

Thank You!

[BumRushDaShow]

19. LOL

You're welcome!

I was refreshing piles of tabs of news sources - print and broadcast - to find one who had something that wasn't a "live update" version.

[mercuryblues]

20. to be honest

I haven't been able to read past #FPOTUS

[FoxNewsSucks]

28. That'll piss him off

But maybe he can take a little comfort in getting this page completely redacted.




I noticed they went ahead and blacked that word out also in the final version.

[twodogsbarking]

22. Whining coming soon from The Orange Blob.

[Cha]

24. Mahalo, BRDS!

[BumRushDaShow]

26. Was waiting and refreshing for this!

And most welcome!!!