Categories
Uncategorized

Warrant Release: “Miscellaneous Top Secret Documents” part of inventory on Trump documents found during Mar-a-Lago search

Update 4:55 p.m. ET:  Former Solicitor General Neal Katyal notes on MSNBC that one of the laws cited in 18 US Code § 1519 relates to destroying or altering documents that are evidence of the crime obstructing a government operation.  Katyal points out that the search of Mar-a-Lago may also have been done to uncover what wasn’t there, i.e., what was destroyed to cover up something like, say, disrupting a session of Congress designated to certify the electors from the 2020 election.

Update 4:18 p.m. ET:  First online PDF found.  Read the warrant and the receipt for property here.

Update 3:58 p.m. ET:. I just need a second to process the fact that a former President of the United States was being investigated under the Espionage Act, which by statute must mean he was looking to illegally alter or steer US policies to benefit a foreign government–and that’s the GOOD scenario.  The BAD scenario is he was an active agent of a foreign government, passing them information.

Update 3:32 p.m. ET:  Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart didn’t just give the FBI a search warrant; he basically gave them a no-knock warrant (for a rich suburb and imposing political figure) according to the warrant text:  the FBI did not have to notify Trump or his lawyers for fear that doing so would allow for the destruction of evidence.

Update 3:27 p.m. ET:  Another file found on the inventory referred to “miscellaneous TS/SCI documents.”  TS/SCI stands for “Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information,” perhaps the highest, most protected level of classification in the US intelligence community.

Update 3:22 p.m. ET:  The warrant specifies the search was for materials pertaining to the violation of three federal laws:  the Espionage Act (18 U.S. Code § 793), § 1519 relating to destroying evidence of the crime obstructing a government operation, and §  2071, which covers the unlawful removal of documents.

Original 3:14 p.m. ET:  The inventory of the warrant released by the Southern District of Florida federal court shows FBI agents catalogued a number of files that specify they held Top Secret or classified material, the New York Times reports.

According to Charles Savage of the Times, files list on the inventory show two entries marked “Miscellaneous Top Secret Documents,” two entries for “Miscellaneous Secret Documents,” and, for the lowest level, one entry for “Miscellaneous Confidential Documents” and another marked “Confidential Document.”

Created by potrace 1.16, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2019

Republicans hope “fraud” the new “affordability” with healthcare

4 hours ago

Fox News edits out the “Praise be to Allah” part

11 hours ago

“Open the Fuckin Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell”: Increasingly insane autocrat’s Easter message of non-peace

12 hours ago

Second missing US F-15 crew member rescued

21 hours ago

Amazon hits marketplace sellers with 3.5 percent fuel surcharge

1 day ago

Orange Ayatollah now almost literally saying “Allahu akbar” online

1 day ago

Maduro autographs Tekashi 6ix9ine’s toy SpongeBob

1 day ago

Fox News locked in on desperate race to find missing pilot

1 day ago

President displays his concern for still-missing downed F-15 pilot

2 days ago

Villager opposed to other Villager’s Trump restroom naming plan

2 days ago

Pentagon chapel kind of officially exiles Catholics on Good Friday

2 days ago

Justice Department lawyer wastes perfectly good picture frame

2 days ago

Rescuers bring back one of two F-15 crew members

2 days ago

WINNING: Multinational company hiring 60,000 in Trump economy

2 days ago

Everything is awesome

2 days ago

ICE arrests Palestine-born leader of Milwaukee Islamic community

2 days ago

Iranians shoot down USAF F-15

2 days ago

Slobbery tryst gets awkward when other man’s name comes up

2 days ago

Man who knows he’s a fraud charged with recognizing it in others

3 days ago

Regime budget increases both death abroad and suffering at home

3 days ago

Fox News reports Trump hasn’t actually ended DEI

3 days ago

Chinese drug trafficking suspect extradited from US back home

3 days ago

Myanmar transitions from military dictatorship to uncivic autocracy

3 days ago

Swalwell says Bondi never tipped him off, Trump an idiot

3 days ago

Petey Pee Pants fires Army chief of staff in middle of war

3 days ago

WATCH LIVE: Tornado streamer apparently closing in on tornado

3 days ago

Delaware cops find “possible human skull” along creek in woods

3 days ago

“For the record, the DOW was under 50,000”

3 days ago

Pam Bondi officially fired, Trump confirms

3 days ago

RonAnon warns Supreme Court will “create millions” of bad voters

3 days ago

President celebrates his supplicants doing the “leading” for him, expresses hope opposing ICE murders will cost Dems in midterms

3 days ago

Byron Noem’s fake boobs were an “open secret” in White House

3 days ago

Fox Couchman incensed TV libs won’t give Trump “any credibility”

3 days ago

West Texas crude almost at $110 a barrel

4 days ago

Tulsi may be the next one headed to unemployment line: report

4 days ago

Markwayne pauses warehouse acquisitions for ICE gulags

4 days ago

Pete was able to close one eye long enough to type this

4 days ago

Trump grabs Kuntz for Southern Florida district court nomination

4 days ago

Pam Bondi may be flushed down the golden toilet soon: CNN

4 days ago

Mental train wreck declares victory over Iran or some shit: Live

4 days ago

Indiana Bud Light truck joyrider was also over the legal limit

4 days ago

WATCH LIVE: Artemis II launches translunar orbit mission

4 days ago

Border Patrol chief accused of preferring Asian, Latina prostitutes

4 days ago

Lawyer says quadruple amputee killed friend in self-defense

4 days ago

Former Real Housewives star spills on doing time with Ghislaine

4 days ago

DC mayor announces new rodent control initiative, and no…

4 days ago

Frau Ingraham’s message just slightly more subtle than her chyron

4 days ago

Save the Krill activists plow ship into trawler off Antarctica

4 days ago

Egyptians used slave toil efficiently to build pyramids: study

4 days ago

Deeply frustrated fan vents on internet as team crumbles on field

4 days ago

x
x
x
x
x
x