Posted by Tina
Despite the fact that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been cooperating in the Russia Probe conducted by Special Counsel Mueller a warrant was obtained in July and an early morning raid on his personal residence was conducted by the FBI:
Federal agents reportedly appeared at Manafort’s home without advance warning two weeks ago, in the predawn hours on Wednesday, July 26, the day after he met voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee. The WaPo reports that the served search warrant was “wide-ranging and FBI agents working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III departed the home with various records.”
The raid came as Manafort has been voluntarily producing documents to congressional committees investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. The search warrant indicates investigators may have argued to a federal judge they had reason to believe Manafort could not be trusted to turn over all records in response to a grand jury subpoena.
It could also have been intended to send a message to President Trump’s former campaign chairman that he should not expect gentle treatment or legal courtesies from Mueller’s team.
Among the documents taken were materials Manafort had already provided to Congress, WaPo’s sources said. “If the FBI wanted the documents, they could just ask [Manafort] and he would have turned them over,” said one adviser close to the White House. Clearly, the intention was different.
As ABC adds, the Trump campaign sent over more than 20,000 pages of documents to the committee last Wednesday, which was the deadline to submit documents, and Manafort handed over about 400 pages, including his foreign-advocacy paperwork, on the same day, according to the spokesperson. Additionally, Trump Jr. submitted about 250 pages on Friday.
He could have avoided the trauma to his family had he only been as shrewd as Lois Lerner or, better yet, Hillary Clinton…a little BleachBit, a few (30,000) deeted emails, smashed phones, and loads of snarky vagueries:
“What, like with a cloth or something?”
“Those messages disappear all by themselves.”
“No more secrecy. No more zone of privacy. After all, what good did that do for me?”
The White House wouldn’t have been hacked “had they been using my server.”
“Maybe the heat is getting to everybody.”
Whether or not this investigation leads to criminal prosecution the double standard gets stinkier and stinkier!
A “warrent”?
Thank you Carl…that would be a “warrant.” My bad. I’ll be sure to fix that!
But hey, we can be friendly, nice of you to drop by even if it’s just to correct me.
LOL…I notice I also spelled deleted, “deeted”…’spose it could be my Rheumatoid Arthritis?
A co-operating witness is not usually subjected to a pre-dawn raid.
And, having served on a grand jury such as Mueller has convened, the notion that a “grand jury could be used to indict a ham sandwich” is absolutely true.
Gonna have to wait and see . . . . .
Right on J!
FOX News interviewed one of Trumps lawyers:
Why do you believe he is cooperating?
“Why do you believe he is cooperating?”
Stupid question. Why do you think the lawyer is a liar?
Dowd said Manafort already was looking to cooperate with congressional committees and said the special counsel never requested the materials from Manafort.
Dowd also said agents seized “privileged and confidential materials prepared for Mr. Manafort by his counsel to aid him in his cooperation with the Congressional committees,” adding: “Thus, it appears the Search Warrant here was obtained by a gross abuse of the judicial process by the Special Counsel’s office. In addition, given the obvious unlawful deficiencies, this extraordinary invasive tool was employed for its shock value to try to intimidate Mr. Manafort and bring him to his needs [knees?]. These methods are normally found and employed in Russia not America.”
Hummm, heard this morning a judge ordered the State Dept. to turn over Benghazi emails from Hillary and her staff after it was learned the dept’s. server was never searched during the congressional investigation by Trey Gowdy.
Will they use a hammer or bleach-byte to cover up more evidence?
Oh, and the judge was an Obama appointee. Could justice finally be served?
Peggy I can’t keep up with everything that’s going on these days. But we certainly can surmise that investigations into Hillary’s many corrupt and incompetent practices were sloppy and/or purposely insufficient.
The <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/federal-judge-orders-state-department-search-clintons-benghazi-emails/Freebeacon reports:
An opposing opinion is that “searching other employees’ accounts would set a bad precedent…” Good grief! Haven’t there been enough “bad precedents” set by Hillary herself and those who supposedly investigated? They didn’t bother to put her or her staff under oath. They kept the investigation very narrow so as to avoid the discomfort (embarrasement) of a full investigation that might fully reveal the criminality going on under Obama and Hillary.
And FINALLY, Taxifornia has been added to the Judicial Watch list of states who need to clean up their voter rolls or get sued!
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-warns-california-clean-voter-registration-lists-face-federal-lawsuit/