Boomerang? DOJ admission it over-collected evidence in Trump raid creates new legal drama

If there are things that were seized during the search warrant, and it turns out that those things did not fall into the purview of the judge's order, then under rules of evidentiary procedure, they cannot be used in the court of law if and when charges are filed.

This is why there is a second team at the FBI that analyzes the evidence collected during the search warrant to determine what is in the purview of the judge's order and what is not. Professionally, they may notify the attorneys of what document or documents there are. If it is only passports, nothing there the FBI cannot obtain by other means, especially if he traveled abroad prior to being President. That application for security clearances would have him state when he was abroad for the past 15 years along with a whole bunch of other information. And the FBI can obtain those quite easily through the NARA.

 

Thanks for posting this. I found it to be a very interesting read.

 

That is absolutely true. However, the agents have the information and knowledge in their heads and can use it downstream if they choose. You cannot put the genie back into the bottle. It is just more cumbersome as I said.

 

The Feds Go Too Far

"It is important to know how far to go when going too far."

In "the still-unfolding aftermath of the FBI’s raid on President Trump’s residence in Palm Beach on August 8, everyone instantly knew that the swaggering agency had gone too far."

"The FBI clearly underestimated the public’s reaction to their unprecedented violation of a former president’s privacy. According to a recent poll, more than 50 percent of likely voters agree with the statement “there is a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI that are using the FBI as Joe Biden’s personal Gestapo.”'

That's what happens when you go too far.

Was it worth it?

"Garland and Wray don’t know the answer to that question yet. They are holding their breath. It’s been worth it in the past. The Russian collusion delusion? That was made up out of whole cloth to destroy Donald Trump. The utterly fictitious nature of the gambit was eventually revealed, but so slowly and in such piecemeal fashion that the damage to the agency, and to the regime generally, was minimal. Even the people guilty of crimes—Andrew McCabe, Kevin Clinesmith, Michael Sussmann, and others—all walked."

"Clinesmith actually altered an email in order to open a FISA investigation on Carter Page, thereby providing the Feds with a backdoor into the nerve center of the entire Trump campaign. The original email said that Page was a CIA asset. Clinesmith inserted the word “not,” thus providing the specious grounds for the whole Trump-is-a-Putin-Puppet meme. He got probation (!) and was last in the news, page B-78, when his license to practice law was quietly restored. "

'“FBI” is understood to stand for “Federal Bureau of Intimidation.”'

When the GOP sweep into power they need to cut the FBI budget.