Seymour Flops
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FBI found 184 classified documents in boxes returned by Trump, redacted affidavit says, prompting search
The affidavit used to justify the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago says that the FBI found 25 documents marked “top secret” among 15 boxes Trump gave back to the National Archives earlier this year.
www.nbcnews.com
A couple of things from the NBC reporting of this:
The judge who had recused himself in an earlier case about Trump, because he knew he was too biased for any ruling he made to be legitimate said this:
Reinhart approved the warrant that allowed federal agents to search Trump’s Florida property Aug. 8 after determining that the affidavit provided probable cause. He reiterated earlier this week that he found “probable cause that evidence of multiple federal crimes would be found” at Mar-a-Lago and that he “was — and am — satisfied that the facts sworn by the affiant are reliable.”
Given the FBI's recent and fulsome history of lying and falsifying documents to get anti-Trump warrants, how can the judge reasonably be satisfied that the facts sworn by an FBI agent are reliable?
The 36-page affidavit, much of which was heavily redacted, said that in mid-May, FBI agents conducted a preliminary review of the contents of 15 boxes Trump returned to the National Archives from his Florida property in January, and "identified documents with classification markings in fourteen of the FIFTEEN BOXES."
The affidavit said that agents found 184 unique documents that had classification markings. It stated that 25 documents were marked as "TOP SECRET," 67 documents marked as "confidential" and 92 marked "secret." According to the affidavit, agents observed markings denoting various control systems designed to protect various types of sensitive information, including markings that designate intelligence gathered by "clandestine human sources," such as a report by a CIA officer or someone who works for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
So, this action was taken against Trump because he (allegedly) returned documents with classification markings. I guess Hillary was smart to use that Bleachbit and those hammers instead of returning the emails.
