Cohen Offices and Home Raided by NY Office of FBI

Posted by Tina

Trumps lawyer, Michael Cohen, has been given the same thug treatment afforded Trumps former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, treatment usually reserved for drug dealers and mafia thugs…

Robert Mueller apparently passed information he uncovered during his “Russia probe” to the New York office of the FBI which proceeded to obtain FISA warrants to raid Michael Cohen’s office, his home, and a Park Avenue hotel where he’s been staying. Meuller is required to turn any information unrelated to his probe over to Rod Rosenstein. Once again the law may have been severely bent in the relentless pursuit to drive Trump from office.

FISA warrants are only issued when a crime is suspected. As far as I know, there isn’t a law against creating a contractual agreement among adults, so information regarding the Stormy Daniels soap opera can’t be all they were hoping to find in what appears to be an extension of a very long and suspect witch hunt. Concerns that campaign finance laws were broken is the excuse that’s been given but wishful thinking is not evidence so they better damn well have provide evidence of an actual crime.

Cohen’s attorney responded today:

“Today the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients,” Ryan said in a press release Monday afternoon.

“I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.”

Ryan called the warrants “completely inappropriate and unnecessary,” saying they “resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney client communications between a lawyer and his clients.”

Alan Dershowitz expressed grave concerns for attorney client privilege after hearing about the raid:

“This is a very dangerous day today for lawyer-client relations” … Dershowitz, who has drawn the ire of Democrats for defending Trump, said Mueller’s move is also dangerous because it gives the FBI the option of deciding what information seized from Cohen to pursue.

“I tell [clients] on my word of honor that what you tell me is sacrosanct,” he said. “And now they say, just based on probable cause … they can burst into the office, grab all the computers, and then give it to another FBI agent and say, ‘You’re the firewall. We want you now to read all these confidential communications, tell us which ones we can get and which ones we can’t get.'”

“If this were Hillary Clinton being investigated and they went into her lawyer’s office, the ACLU would be on every television station in America, jumping up and down,” he added.

“The deafening silence from the ACLU and civil libertarians about the intrusion into the lawyer-client confidentiality is really appalling,” Dershowitz said.

The famed law professor said Mueller’s move will only convince more people not to cooperate and said he believes Mueller has “lost perspective” in the case.

Who will step forward to reign in the out of control biased agents and lawyers running this political sham? It looks like no one will. America will not stand if those who are meant to serve the people are allowed to run open loop in a political targeting game. I sure hope the American people are as fed up with this as I am and will send a loud clear message to the corrupt political party that’s responsible.

Related National Review article from December 2017, “Yes, Investigate the Investigators”

Amen to that!