Rich Welsh| On Monday, I did a story about why the FBI and the intelligence community are so afraid of the documents they seized during their raid on former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago estate.
The raid was a pretext to get the Spygate documents in Trump’s possession that would hold them culpable for the crimes they committed during the 2016 presidential election.
Isn’t it odd that the leaks have suddenly dried up? The FBI and the DOJ leak like a sieve against what they consider “enemies” with “unacceptable views” that normally turn out to be conservatives or Trump supporters exclusively. Every leak is a felony and a fireable offense, but no one is ever held accountable. Believe me, the greatest law enforcement agency in the world could find the leakers if they wanted to but they don’t.
The belief of the rogue agents at the FBI is “It’s illegal to leak sensitive information… unless they deserve it.”
Remember when the raid first happened nearly a week ago when the misinformation news media was all over the place with conspiracy theories? First, they said there were classified documents at Mar-a-Lago that Trump stole from the national Archives. When that didn’t fly after they found out that Trump declassified the documents, the DOJ said there were nuclear documents. They said that for a couple of reasons. First, to get the idiots in the news media to act outraged because it was nuclear documents! “My God, is Trump going to sell nuclear secrets to the Russians?” The other reason they said they believe “nuclear” documents were in Melania’s wardrobe and elsewhere was because nuclear classified documents are the only type of classified documents that the president cannot declassify on his own. So by claiming they thought there were nuclear documents, when they knew there were not, it gave them the Okie Dokie (in their minds) to raid the home of the immediate former President of the United States and grab everything they could get their hands on.
The DOJ and/or the FBI leaked those BS stories to the media, but they’re not leaking now. Why not?
The Left’s past actions to protect themselves and their authoritarian movement always have a way of coming back to haunt them. For example, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned the Democrats when former Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) was the Senate Majority Leader and he put into place rules that are now referred to as “The Nuclear Option” that allowed the Democrats to avoid a filibuster when trying to push through radical leftist judges onto the federal bench, that they would rue the day if they did it because one day the Republicans would be in control of the Senate and they would use the exact same rules. Reid went ahead and pushed the rules through, and McConnell’s warning happened. Enter, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, the three Trump nominees who McConnell got onto the Supreme Court, and who were the reason why Roe v Wade was ultimately overturned. But I digress.
After former President Bill Clinton left the White House, he kept some audio tapes in a sock drawer in his home. Seriously.
There was a court case over those tapes called Judicial Watch v. National Archives and Records Administration and it involved Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, trying to compel the National Archives to seize hours of audio recordings that Clinton made during his presidency with historian Taylor Branch.
I can just imagine what was on those tapes. “Hey, baby, you wanna check out this closet over here in the Oval Office?” and possibly some incriminating evidence was on those tapes as well.
Uber leftist Democrat-supporting, Obama-nominated Judge Amy Berman Jackson got the case, and she dismissed Judicial Watch’s case by determining that there was no provision in the Presidential Records Act to force the National Archives to seize records from a former president. Wait, what?
From investigative journalist, the great John Solomon, at Just the News:
But Jackson’s ruling — along with the Justice Department’s arguments that preceded it — made some other sweeping declarations that have more direct relevance to the FBI’s decision to seize handwritten notes and files Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago. The most relevant is that a president’s discretion on what are personal vs. official records is far-reaching and solely his, as is his ability to declassify or destroy records at will.
“Under the statutory scheme established by the PRA, the decision to segregate personal materials from Presidential records is made by the President, during the President’s term and in his sole discretion,” Jackson wrote in her March 2012 decision, which was never appealed.
“Since the President is completely entrusted with the management and even the disposal of Presidential records during his time in office, it would be difficult for this Court to conclude that Congress intended that he would have less authority to do what he pleases with what he considers to be his personal records,” she added.
And guess what? No one ever appealed Jackson’s ruling.
From the ruling:
“The Court will grant the motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b)(1) because plaintiff’s claim is not redressable. NARA does not have the authority to designate materials as “Presidential records,” NARA does not have the tapes in question, and NARA lacks any right, duty, or means to seize control of them. In other words, there has been no showing that a remedy would be available to redress plaintiff’s alleged injury even if the Court agreed with plaintiff’s characterization of the materials. Since plaintiff is completely unable to identify anything the Court could order the agency to do that the agency has any power, much less, a mandatory duty, to do, the case must be dismissed.”
WOW!
So this means that a federal judge made a ruling in 2012 that the National Archives doesn’t have the authority to decide what materials are considered “Presidential records,” and that National Archives “lacks any right, duty or means to seize control of them.”
The judge said that a president’s discretion to declare records as “personal” is far-reaching and unchallengeable.
The National Archivist had to know this. It’s their job, for goodness’ sake. So, then why did the National Archivist ask the FBI to go seize the documents at Trump’s home? Or did the National Archivist really reach out to the FBI? Did the FBI tell the National Archivist to reach out to the FBI to get that ball rolling? These are questions that need to be asked and answered.
That ruling, that was never appealed, means that the FBI knew that the documents that Trump claimed were his by declassifying them and storing them in a secure storage room on his home property did not belong to the National Archives. They had no legal reason for being there which is why they didn’t release the search warrant right away, which I believe was a fill-in-the-blanks warrant to be filled in after the fact to make the warrant match what they found and where they found it on the Trump property.
We already know the FBI lies and fabricates “evidence.” Just look at everything the FBI has done to Trump and his family since 2015 when he came down the escalator to announce he was running.
Go back and read my story from Monday, where I claim that the FBI was desperate to get their hands on documents that Trump had that incriminates the FBI and the intelligence community for the crimes they committed during and after the 2016 presidential election by spying on Donald Trump’s campaign and then vigorously attempting to push a Russian collusion hoax on him that documents in Trump’s possession prove they knew the “evidence” the FBI used to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the campaign and Trump, were fake from the very beginning.
They know he must have backup copies since Trump gave a standing order as president that the documents he was taking Mar-a-Lago were all declassified.
Read the judge’s ruling in full below:
So Hillary Clinton is responsible for starting this whole thing when she paid for the phony Steele dossier that was used in the Russian collusion hoax just to get her illegal private email server off the front pages of the media news cycle.
The FBI pushed the Russia Russia Russia hoax for over two-and-a-half years on the Trump administration.
And it is now Bill Clinton who unwittingly is the reason the FBI and DOJ have some explaining to do, given that the entire reason for the search at Trump’s home was bogus and possibly illegal. At least, we know it allegedly violated a federal court ruling.
I would love it if a whistleblower came forward and testified that the original search warrant, that the DOJ and FBI refused to give a copy of to Trump’s lawyers, who were there at Mar-a-Lago during the raid, really had “nuclear documents” on the list of search targets. I’m willing to bet they did not.
Nothing will happen to anyone in the FBI or the DOJ over this egregious and unprecedented action taken against Trump because of how corrupt both entities have become under the Biden presidency. We’ll just have to settle for cosmic justice in the fact that we know what they did was corrupt and wrong and they know we know it.
