FBI Did NOT Disclose Trump’s Jan. 19, 2021 Declassification Order Of Russiagate Documents To The Federal Magistrate Judge In Warrant Affidavit
The federal warrant affidavit the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) relied on to search former President Donald Trump’s residence in Palm Beach, Fla., Mar-a-Lago — at least its redacted version — bears no mention of a Jan. 19, 2021 declassification order by Trump of documents related to the Justice Department’s investigation of Trump that falsely accused him and his 2016 presidential campaign of being Russian agents.
This key omission — along with several pages of redactions — raises significant questions about whether the FBI fully disclosed all information relevant to the search warrant to the federal magistrate judge, Bruce Reinhart, before the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, including any relevant exculpatory information, especially any and all information that Trump had declassified these materials before ever he left office, that almost certainly would have leaned against issuing the warrant.
Either that, or there is the unlikely event Reinhart let the FBI redact information about Trump’s Jan. 19, 2021 declassification order, even though its public information available on Archives.gov and should have been disclosed in the public interest.
In the declassification memorandum, entitled, “Memorandum on Declassification of Certain Materials Related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,” Trump outlined what materials he had requested for declassification from the Crossfire Hurricane investigation: “At my request, on December 30, 2020, the Department of Justice provided the White House with a binder of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Portions of the documents in the binder have remained classified and have not been released to the Congress or the public. I requested the documents so that a declassification review could be performed and so I could determine to what extent materials in the binder should be released in unclassified form. I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible.”
No doubt now that the fbir was not looking for top secret papers, but instead were looking to cover their sorry asses
This key omission — along with several pages of redactions — raises significant questions about whether the FBI fully disclosed all information relevant to the search warrant to the federal magistrate judge, Bruce Reinhart, before the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, including any relevant exculpatory information, especially any and all information that Trump had declassified these materials before ever he left office, that almost certainly would have leaned against issuing the warrant.
Either that, or there is the unlikely event Reinhart let the FBI redact information about Trump’s Jan. 19, 2021 declassification order, even though its public information available on Archives.gov and should have been disclosed in the public interest.
In the declassification memorandum, entitled, “Memorandum on Declassification of Certain Materials Related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,” Trump outlined what materials he had requested for declassification from the Crossfire Hurricane investigation: “At my request, on December 30, 2020, the Department of Justice provided the White House with a binder of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Portions of the documents in the binder have remained classified and have not been released to the Congress or the public. I requested the documents so that a declassification review could be performed and so I could determine to what extent materials in the binder should be released in unclassified form. I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible.”
No doubt now that the fbir was not looking for top secret papers, but instead were looking to cover their sorry asses
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