FBI Claims: Was Looking For Classified Nuclear Secrets During Mar-a-Lago Raid: Leak

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FBI Was Looking For Classified Nuclear Secrets During Mar-a-Lago Raid: Leak

BY TYLER DURDEN

THURSDAY, AUG 11, 2022 - 08:33 PM

The FBI was looking for 'classified documents relating to nuclear weapons,' among other things, during its Monday raid at former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, WaPo reports, citing 'people familiar with the investigation.'

So - we're to believe that the FBI took several boxes from Trump in June, told him to put a bigger lock, and then two months later realized 'oh -- he might have nuclear secrets' - justifying the raid.

The leakers did not offer additional details.

Material about nuclear weapons is especially sensitive and usually restricted to a small number of government officials, experts said. Publicizing details about U.S. weapons could provide an intelligence road map to adversaries seeking to build ways of countering those systems. And other countries might view exposing their nuclear secrets as a threat, experts said.

One former Justice Department official, who in the past oversaw investigations of leaks of classified information, said the type of top-secret information described by the people familiar with the probe would probably cause authorities to try to move as quickly as possible to recover sensitive documents that could cause grave harm to U.S. security. -Washington Post

"If the FBI and the Department of Justice believed there were top secret materials still at Mar-a-Lago, that would lend itself to greater ‘hair-on-fire’ motivation to recover that material as quickly as possible," said David Laufman, the former chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence section.

So we assume the narrative will now be that Trump leaked, or could have leaked, nuclear secrets to Putin - which justified "authorities to try to move as quickly as possible to recover sensitive documents" in the name of national security.

Right...

House Judiciary GOP @JudiciaryGOP

So hours after Merrick Garland says that DOJ only speaks through its filings in court, they go out and leak this story to the Washington Post.

Katherine Doyle @katiadoyl

FBI agents searching Trump’s Mar-a-Lago sought classified documents relating to nuclear weapons, sources told the Washington Post https://t.co/Ewau5l12Y4

Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed during a brief Thursday speech that he personally approved the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, and that the DOJ has asked a federal court to unseal the document.

Greg Price @greg_price11

Garland: "I personally approved" the Mar-a-Lago raid.

“Just now, the Justice Department has filed a motion in the Southern District of Florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt relating to a court approved search that the FBI conducted earlier this week," Garland said.

T. Becket Adams @BecketAdams

well that was fast.

T. Becket Adams @BecketAdams

35 min wait for: 1. doj will unseal the warrant and property receipt barring an objection from trump 2. garland personally approved the raid 3. stop being mean to the FBI 4. that's all, folks

Trump allies have suggested that the warrant was politically motivated, while Trump himself said on Truth Social on Wednesday that the FBI may have planted evidence.

Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow

It's no accident or coincidence that the grand juries involved in Jan. 6 and the National Archives are under the control of the same United States attorney in Washington, D.C., Matthew Graves, who is an Obama-Biden leftist, as is his wife.

The raid is connected to an investigation on whether Trump unlawfully retained presidential records - including classified materials, following his departure from office in January 2021.

Joe Gabriel Simonson @SaysSimonson

garland will not take any questions but you can learn more when his staff leaks to the new york times and cnn

Mollie @MZHemingway

Kind of crazy to think that Merrick Garland may have posed less of a threat to the republic as a Supreme Court justice than as an incompetent, vindictive, corrupt AG.

(Merrick Garland was Obama’s pick for Supreme Court Justice …. Garland was not qualified for the Supreme Court, the Attorney General position was Garland’s booby prize after being rejected by the Supreme Court.)

According to US Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez from the Southern District of Florida, "The public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing" the warrant.

Jay I. Bratt, the Justice Department’s chief for Counterintelligence and Export Control Section National Security Division, co-signed the document.

According to the four-page motion, a judge signed and approved of the search warrant on Aug. 5, the Friday before the search was executed. The Justice Department also seeks to reveal the property receipt listing the seized items and filed today with the court.

Shortly after the government’s filing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart set a speedy pace to determine whether Trump opposes unsealing. -Law & Crime

"On or before 3:00 p.m. Eastern time on August 12, 2022, the United States shall file a certificate of conferral advising whether former President Trump opposes the Government’s motion to unseal,"

Jacqui Heinrich @JacquiHeinrich

THREAD: A federal law enforcement source tells me probable cause for search warrant ‘very likely’ came from a secret service member.

Jacqui Heinrich @JacquiHeinrich

FROM MY SOURCE To obtain a criminal search warrant, the government must identify 1) the specific item to be seized; 2) the specific location of that item; and 3) that specific item is at that specific location at that precise moment.

Jacqui Heinrich @JacquiHeinrich

This evidence is typically obtained in one of two ways: 1) a Title 3 wiretap intercepting conversations and/or 2) a well-placed source giving real-time information to law enforcement.

Jacqui Heinrich @JacquiHeinrich

At Mar-a-Lago, Trump is surrounded by 2 types of people: 1) political loyalists 2) law enforcement officers in the Secret Service Only the LE officers would have an ethical and/or legal duty to report observations of criminal conduct to fellow law enforcement officers.

Jacqui Heinrich @JacquiHeinrich

Therefore, it would seem more likely than not that the probable cause for the search warrant was based on information provided by the President’s Secret Service security detail.

Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD

"You're goddamn right I ordered the Code Red!"

US Attorney General Merrick Garland will make a statement to the media at 2:30 pm ET on Thursday, following the FBI's Monday raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Garland has found himself in the crosshairs of conservatives, who claim that the establishment has once again 'weaponized' the DOJ against Donald Trump.

Watch live:

Sen. Rand Paul and other conservatives have called for an investigation.

"And if it warrants it, there’s going to have to be a look at whether or not the attorney general has misused his office for political purposes. Have they gone after a political opponent? I mean, this is beyond the pale," he told Fox News on Wednesday. "No one would have ever imagined before that we would be using or one political party would be using the FBI to attack their political opponents."

… Well, did they find nuclear secrets? If not, did they plant nuclear secrets ….. or are FBI secret police agents with machine guns ready for “pre-dawn” raids on Trump’s homes in Manhattan and Bedminster next?

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Meanwhile, Hunter Biden is smoking crack and kicking back with some more foreign hookers in the White House.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-ag-merrick-garland-makes-statement-following-trump-raid