Former DOJ national security chief says that Trump likely violated the Espionage Act and a separate federal statute

[WelfareQueen]

The Espionage Act has a specific provision that relates to gross negligence of handling of documents.

The full interview has a lot of interesting insights.

“There's a variety of different possible crimes, but I think the two that are probably worth focusing the most on are 18 USC 2071. This really applies to any federal government employee who, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys public records, right? Records that are public records. Another potential crime is actually under the Espionage Act, which is 18 USC 793. And that actually has provisions that apply to essentially the mishandling through gross negligence, permitting documents to be removed from their proper place, or to be lost, stolen, or destroyed. There's also conspiracy provisions within that 18 USC 793. But certainly gross negligence could be proved by willfulness, because that would be even beyond gross negligence.”

One other important point she makes is that the FBI would have good reason to believe evidence is still there.

“It's a very overt step for the FBI to actually execute a search warrant that signals to the whole world that they had probable cause — that a federal judge agreed with — to believe that the evidence of a crime would be located in the premises to be searched at the time it was searched. So it couldn't be, "We thought the stuff was there a year ago, but not now." It would have to be probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime exists in that location at that time. And that means that the Department of Justice, probably at the highest levels, probably all the way up to the attorney general, agreed that this was a step that was not only legally supportable, but also important to take.”

FBI warrant for search of Trump home may involve suspected violations of Espionage Act, former chief of DOJ national security says

The former chief of the Justice Department’s national security division said Tuesday that the FBI warrant for the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., suggests prosecutors believe they have probable cause that there may have been violations of the World War I-era...

www.yahoo.com

You're talking about Hillary, right?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Lol umm okay so Hillary is guilty but Trump gets a pass?

Ummm. Hillary got a pass, dumbass.

 

[easyt65]

Well here we go, allegations Trump DID stuff to justify a witch hunt that eventually doesn't prove anything. This is the third blasted time Dems have done this.

Fail, rinse, repeat
Fail, rinse, repeat
Fail, rinse, repeat
Fail.....

 

[Billy000]

You have it backwards, Dumbass.

So Hillary gets a pass and Trump doesn’t?

 

[Leo123]

The Espionage Act has a specific provision that relates to gross negligence of handling of documents.

The full interview has a lot of interesting insights.

“There's a variety of different possible crimes, but I think the two that are probably worth focusing the most on are 18 USC 2071. This really applies to any federal government employee who, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys public records, right? Records that are public records. Another potential crime is actually under the Espionage Act, which is 18 USC 793. And that actually has provisions that apply to essentially the mishandling through gross negligence, permitting documents to be removed from their proper place, or to be lost, stolen, or destroyed. There's also conspiracy provisions within that 18 USC 793. But certainly gross negligence could be proved by willfulness, because that would be even beyond gross negligence.”

One other important point she makes is that the FBI would have good reason to believe evidence is still there.

“It's a very overt step for the FBI to actually execute a search warrant that signals to the whole world that they had probable cause — that a federal judge agreed with — to believe that the evidence of a crime would be located in the premises to be searched at the time it was searched. So it couldn't be, "We thought the stuff was there a year ago, but not now." It would have to be probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime exists in that location at that time. And that means that the Department of Justice, probably at the highest levels, probably all the way up to the attorney general, agreed that this was a step that was not only legally supportable, but also important to take.”

FBI warrant for search of Trump home may involve suspected violations of Espionage Act, former chief of DOJ national security says

The former chief of the Justice Department’s national security division said Tuesday that the FBI warrant for the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., suggests prosecutors believe they have probable cause that there may have been violations of the World War I-era...

www.yahoo.com

When is Obama going to get the same FBI anal exam?

The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

Obama admin spent $36M on lawsuits to keep info secret

A new analysis says the administration that much in its final year defending its refusal to turn over federal records under FOIA

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Billy000]

Ummm. Hillary got a pass, dumbass.

Trump’s FBI appointee decided to do nothing about Hillary huh?

 

[whitehall]

You gotta consider putting Mary McCord and Yahoo news under indictment if the WW1 vintage Sedition act is still viable.

 

[MagicMike]

If you care about Trump being charged, you should also want Hillary charged.

False equivalency.
Not the same.

 

[Nostra]

Trump’s FBI appointee decided to do nothing about Hillary huh?

Barry Hussein holdover, Simp.

7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
In office September 4, 2013 – May 9, 2017
President	Barack Obama

 

[excalibur]

No reasonable prosecutor would pursue charges.

But Merrick Garland and the political hack Biden appointed as US Attorney in DC don't care. Their TDS has exploded inside their heads.

 

[MagicMike]

Trump placed his trust in a lot of lying, seditious, charlatans didn't he?

Everyone from Birx to Comey to Wray turned out to be lying, undermi ing, treasonous pieces of fecal matter....

But he only hires the best.
Remember?

 

[Oddball]

The Espionage Act has a specific provision that relates to gross negligence of handling of documents.

The full interview has a lot of interesting insights.

“There's a variety of different possible crimes, but I think the two that are probably worth focusing the most on are 18 USC 2071. This really applies to any federal government employee who, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys public records, right? Records that are public records. Another potential crime is actually under the Espionage Act, which is 18 USC 793. And that actually has provisions that apply to essentially the mishandling through gross negligence, permitting documents to be removed from their proper place, or to be lost, stolen, or destroyed. There's also conspiracy provisions within that 18 USC 793. But certainly gross negligence could be proved by willfulness, because that would be even beyond gross negligence.”

One other important point she makes is that the FBI would have good reason to believe evidence is still there.

“It's a very overt step for the FBI to actually execute a search warrant that signals to the whole world that they had probable cause — that a federal judge agreed with — to believe that the evidence of a crime would be located in the premises to be searched at the time it was searched. So it couldn't be, "We thought the stuff was there a year ago, but not now." It would have to be probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime exists in that location at that time. And that means that the Department of Justice, probably at the highest levels, probably all the way up to the attorney general, agreed that this was a step that was not only legally supportable, but also important to take.”

FBI warrant for search of Trump home may involve suspected violations of Espionage Act, former chief of DOJ national security says

The former chief of the Justice Department’s national security division said Tuesday that the FBI warrant for the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., suggests prosecutors believe they have probable cause that there may have been violations of the World War I-era...

www.yahoo.com

WE GOTTEEM NOW!, chapter 98,736.

 

[excalibur]

False equivalency.
Not the same.

Worse. Trump was President, thus he was the intelligence service and could see anything and everything he wanted. No one cares if he had some with him after he left office except the lynch mob Democrats.

Hillary was just a Cabinet member whose home-brew server was hacked (or she allowed it to be hacked). Who also used unsafe phones while traveling abroad and Comey said, yeah, most likely they got into them too.

 

[MisterBeale]

‎Skullduggery: The Mar-a-Lago Raid (w/ Mary McCord & Dana Milbank) on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Skullduggery, Ep The Mar-a-Lago Raid (w/ Mary McCord & Dana Milbank) - Aug 9, 2022

podcasts.apple.com

 

[easyt65]

But he only hires the best.
Remember?

And he was duped by some of the best, lying, seditious traitors in US history.

 

[Billy000]

Barry Hussein holdover, Simp.

7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
In office September 4, 2013 – May 9, 2017
President	Barack Obama

Lol obviously I’m referring to the one appointed in 2017. Derp!

 

[Nostra]

Lol obviously I’m referring to the one appointed in 2017. Derp!

He was appointed in 2013, Simp.

 

[1srelluc]

by Michael Isikoff.......Are you fucking kidding me?

A September 23, 2016 Yahoo News article written by Isikoff was cited by federal authorities in a FISA warrant application in order to justify the surveillance of Carter Page, who was alleged to have a connection to Russian authorities during the 2016 presidential campaign.

 

[Billy000]

He was appointed in 2013, Simp.

Oh really? So you’re saying that Trump didn’t fire Comey and replace him in 2017? Yeah he definitely could have gone after Hillary if the evidence was there. There was certainly no expired statute of limitations at that point.

 

[OKTexas]

The Espionage Act has a specific provision that relates to gross negligence of handling of documents.

The full interview has a lot of interesting insights.

“There's a variety of different possible crimes, but I think the two that are probably worth focusing the most on are 18 USC 2071. This really applies to any federal government employee who, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys public records, right? Records that are public records. Another potential crime is actually under the Espionage Act, which is 18 USC 793. And that actually has provisions that apply to essentially the mishandling through gross negligence, permitting documents to be removed from their proper place, or to be lost, stolen, or destroyed. There's also conspiracy provisions within that 18 USC 793. But certainly gross negligence could be proved by willfulness, because that would be even beyond gross negligence.”

One other important point she makes is that the FBI would have good reason to believe evidence is still there.

“It's a very overt step for the FBI to actually execute a search warrant that signals to the whole world that they had probable cause — that a federal judge agreed with — to believe that the evidence of a crime would be located in the premises to be searched at the time it was searched. So it couldn't be, "We thought the stuff was there a year ago, but not now." It would have to be probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime exists in that location at that time. And that means that the Department of Justice, probably at the highest levels, probably all the way up to the attorney general, agreed that this was a step that was not only legally supportable, but also important to take.”

FBI warrant for search of Trump home may involve suspected violations of Espionage Act, former chief of DOJ national security says

The former chief of the Justice Department’s national security division said Tuesday that the FBI warrant for the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., suggests prosecutors believe they have probable cause that there may have been violations of the World War I-era...

www.yahoo.com

Don't even need to watch the interview to know the interviewee doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. How do I know? The POTUS is not a federal government employee. So any other crap he spewed is probably just as unreliable.

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