Agree that no knock warrants are and should be reserved in the least for those who may try to destroy evidence...A couple of months ag, the news revealed Cohens
congressional testimony was requested by the Special Counsel and then he was charged in court that Friday for lying to congress.
Roger Stones congressional testimony was requested as well, but no charges came right away. CNN stalked the court where the grand jury resided, on Thursdays since then, looking for a hint of the Special Counsel pre filings for a Friday indictment....
all of Mueller`s indictments come on Friday, since the beginning of him charging people.
the Thursday before Stone`s Friday indictment, special counsel filed a sealed indictment in the court for Friday... Everyone thought it could be for Roger Stone.... The arrest they had been waiting for since his congressional testimony had been requested.
CNN had a LOCAL reporter who lived in Stone's area, stake out his house, not the big guns from CNN headquarters... A local guy... After the sealed filings by the SC on Thursday...
this is not out of the realm of reality, except to those convinced in their own heads, of a conspiracy, or a leak.
Who arrived a full hour ahead of time so that his cameraman could set up for the shot. In other words they were tipped off by the fbi, yet another in a long line of actions that shows them to be an out of control, corrupt organization.
sealed indictments filed are sealed so that the arrest or sealed search warrant can be executed without the alleged peep knowing, and given a chance to destroy evidence, and are served at the crack of dawn. That is the general protocol....
They served Manafort's sealed search warrant the same time, right before the crack of dawn.
it is not out of the norm to expect the sealed indictment and search warrant to be served to Roger Stone that friday, before the rooster crows imo. Sending a LOCAL reporter with his camera man to the stone residence, before the crack of dawn is not far fetched, again...imo. Especially if you've been following the Russia\Trump campaign investigation closely, as I have been doing.
Corsi, Don jr, and Kushner's homes are probably being staked out as well.... Any of them are likely next...
No knock Warrant Services, as you just described are reserved for DANGEROUS felons, and spies who might be able to destroy valuable evidence, and clearly, now political opponents so long as you are allied against the "ruling political class".
You had best be very careful what you are wishing for here Care, this way leads to madness and revolution. These are the tactics of tyrants. Not the USA.
A judge must agree with Law Enforcement that there is probable cause to suspect such... Roger Stone's emails, with the threats he made to others involved, for not lying for him to the investigators, put that 'possible' willingness to destroy evidence in to the 'probable' willingness to destroy evidence category imho.
The guns seemed excessive to me, but that very well may be the standard protocol for such type searches, as I heard experts say on the news?? Seems like that protocol should be reviewed... because it did seem unnecessary...
But this could simply be a, ''better safe than sorry'' protocol???
No Knock was used on both Michael Cohen and on Paul Manafort as well... no leaks to the press on those warrants...
Mueller would never in a million gazillion years have his people leak such a no knock search to the press. He and his team have leaked nothing, zero, zip... they are not about to play foolish now, and leak this to CNN ahead of time, and make all of these questions swirl around about him and his team leaking.... he is way way way, smarter than that.... it is likely, just as I described, CNN took an educated guess, that the sealed indictment/warrant filed in the court the afternoon before the raid, was for roger Stone...
Or if there was a leaker to CNN, maybe it was someone at the courthouse.... but if that were the case you would think CNN would send down one of their top rate news reporters, instead of using a temp' 2nd hand reporter and cameraman, from Miami...
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