FBI tampering with Mar A Lago evidence?

[LordBrownTrout]

Lol,

 

[LordBrownTrout]

 

[LordBrownTrout]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/07/trump-classified-documents-trial-postponed-indefinitely.html

 

[Delldude]

The big issue which will slow the trial down even more is sorting out the classified documents to be used in court.....I bet 90 days.

 

[Nostra]

Lol,

LordBrownTrout this deserves its own thread.

 

[Delldude]

Even greater revelations over the infamous doc pic and Jack Smith:

New disclosures in Special Counsel Jack Smith's espionage case against Donald Trump reveal the FBI tampered with evidence to create the infamous photo--and DOJ has lied about it for nearly two years.​

Apparently this pic has been doctored from original seized evidence, according to the author.

It is the picture that launched a thousand pearl-clutching articles.

A few weeks after the armed FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, the Department of Justice released a stunning photograph depicting alleged contraband seized from Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate that day; the image showed colored sheets representing scary classification levels attached to files purportedly discovered in Trump’s private office.
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At the time, even regime-friendly mouthpieces questioned the need and optics of the raid; the photo helped juice the DOJ’s justification for the storming of Trump’s castle.

“[The] question of whether Trump had classified material with him at his Mar-a-Lago resort has captured the public’s attention. The photo published by the government appears to answer that question quite affirmatively,” Washington Post resident fact checker Philip Bump wrote on August 31, 2022.
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The New York Times insisted the photo was consistent with how the FBI handles criminal investigations. “[It] is standard practice for the F.B.I. to take evidentiary pictures of materials recovered in a search to ensure that items are properly cataloged and accounted for. Files or documents are not tossed around randomly, even though they might appear that way; they are usually splayed out so they can be separately identified by their markings,” reporters Glenn Thrush and Adam Goldman wrote on August 31, 2022.

Except…that is not what happened.
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New court filings in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s espionage and obstruction case against Trump and two co-defendants conclusively demonstrate that the government used the cover sheets to deceive the public as well as the court. The photo was a stunt, and one that adds more fuel to this dumpster-fire case.
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“[Thirteen] boxes or containers contained documents with classification markings, and in all, over one hundred unique documents with classification markings…were seized. Certain of the documents had colored cover sheets indicating their classification status. (Emphasis added.) See, e.g., Attachment F (redacted FBI photograph of certain documents and classified cover sheets recovered from a container in the ‘45 office’).”

The DOJ’s clever wordsmithing, however, did not accurately describe the origin of the cover sheets. In what must be considered not only an act of doctoring evidence but willfully misleading the American people into believing the former president is a criminal and threat to national security, agents involved in the raid attached the cover sheets to at least seven files to stage the photo.
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Here is Bratt’s new version of the story, where he finally admits a critical detail that he failed to disclose in his August 2022 filing:

“[If] the investigative team found a document with classification markings, it removed the document, segregated it, and replaced it with a placeholder sheet. The investigative team used classified cover sheets for that purpose.”

But before the official cover sheets were used as placeholder, agents apparently used them as props. FBI agents took it upon themselves to paperclip the sheets to documents—something evident given the uniform nature of how each cover sheet is clipped to each file in the photo—laid them on the floor, and snapped a picture for political posterity.
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But now defense attorneys claim, and the special counsel concedes, that some placeholders do not match the relevant document. “Following defense counsel’s review of the physical boxes…and the documents produced in classified discovery, defense counsel has learned that the cross-reference provided by the Special Counsel’s Office does not contain accurate information,” attorneys representing Trump’s co-defendant Waltine Nauta wrote in a May 1 motion.
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In other words, in their zeal to stage a phony photo using official classified cover sheets, FBI agents might have failed to accurately match the placeholder sheet with the appropriate document. This is a potentially case-blowing mistake, particularly if the document in question is one of the 34 records that represents the basis of espionage charges against Trump.
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And there is another issue in connection with the cover sheets. Defense attorneys also noted that in at least one instance, the location of the cover sheet in the physical box didn’t match the FBI’s accounting. “[The] sheet…does not appear for several hundreds of pages later than the FBI Index indicated it would. Defense counsel’s review of these materials calls into question the likelihood that the contents of the physical boxes remains (sic) the same as when they were seized by the FBI on August 8, 2022.”

The DOJ's Doctored Crime Scene Photo of Mar-a-Lago Raid

New disclosures in Special Counsel Jack Smith's espionage case against Donald Trump reveal the FBI tampered with evidence to create the infamous photo--and DOJ has lied about it for nearly two years.

www.declassified.live

 

[HikerGuy83]

Just a technicality.

 

[Delldude]

The House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack said otherwise.
And where is your link to back up this claim that The FBI said I am full of BS?

I read Chris Wray's J6 testimony...............nowhere in it did he say anything about an organized plot to commit insurrection.

So where is your link that the J6 Communists said otherwise?

Just a technicality.

Not in any legal sense, only in your mind.

Exclusive: FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated - sources​

WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack, opens new tab on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.

Exclusive: FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated - sources

The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.

www.reuters.com

 

[MagicMike]

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I read Chris Wray's J6 testimony...............nowhere in it did he say anything about an organized plot to commit insurrection.

So where is your link that the J6 Communists said otherwise?


Not in any legal sense, only in your mind.

Exclusive: FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated - sources​

WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack, opens new tab on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.

Exclusive: FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated - sources

The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.

www.reuters.com

It was an insurrection.

 

[Delldude]

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It was an insurrection.

Then prove it.

 

[MagicMike]

Then prove it.

 

[Delldude]

That's not proof............

 

[Catsnmeters]

You should buy a dictionary, you're incorrect. And what of your baseless claim of Trump 'selling to the enemy'?


Swing and a miss...............why didn't DOJ charge ONE person with insurrection then?

While I agree with you, which is why I always say it was seditious conspiracy, not an insurrection; it begs a simple question...

Do you believe it's possible for an insurrection to have occured if it is successful?

 

[Delldude]

Do you believe it's possible for an insurrection to have occured if it is successful?

It would need to be very well organized to be successful.

 

[Catsnmeters]

It would need to be very well organized to be successful.

It wouldn't have to be but regardless, at that point, who would charge someone with insurrection?

 

[Delldude]

It wouldn't have to be but regardless, at that point, who would charge someone with insurrection?

FBI, who do you think?

 

[Catsnmeters]

FBI, who do you think?

The FBI would be under control of the group whose insurrection was successful.

You think they would charge their own people with insurrection?

 

[Delldude]

The FBI would be under control of the group whose insurrection was successful.

It would depend on who has the keys to the armed forces.

 

[Catsnmeters]

It would depend on who has the keys to the armed forces.

The leader of the successful insurrection would have the keys.

 

[Delldude]

The leader of the successful insurrection would have the keys.

You don't know that. You're assuming the entire government would submit to an insurrection. That is usually a wrong assumption.