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Louis Patrick Gray III (July 18, 1916 – July 6, 2005) was acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from May 3, 1972, to April 27, 1973. During this time, the FBI was in charge of the initial investigation into the burglaries that sparked the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon. Gray was nominated as permanent Director by Nixon on February 15, 1973, but failed to win Senate confirmation.[3] He resigned as Acting FBI director on April 27, 1973, after he admitted to destroying documents that had come from convicted Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt's safe—documents received on June 28, 1972, 11 days after the Watergate burglary, and given to Gray by White House counsel John Dean.[4]

Gray remained publicly silent about the Watergate scandal for 32 years, speaking to the press only once, near the end of his life; this was shortly after Gray's direct subordinate at the FBI, FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt, revealed himself to have been the secret source to The Washington Post known as "Deep Throat".
Early life and education

Gray was born on July 18, 1916, in St. Louis, Missouri, the eldest son of Louis Patrick Gray Jr., a Texas railroad worker. He worked three jobs while attending schools in St. Louis and Houston, Texas, graduating from St. Thomas High School in 1932, at the age of 16 (having skipped two grades). Gray initially attended Rice University; however, his true goal was to be admitted to the United States Naval Academy. He was finally admitted to the Naval Academy in 1936 and he immediately dropped out of Rice University in his senior year so he could attend.

At the time, however, Gray could not afford the bus or train fare to Annapolis, so he hired on as an apprentice seaman on a tramp steamer out of Galveston. During the journey to Philadelphia (the closest the steamer could get him to Maryland), Gray taught calculus to the ship's captain, a Bulgarian named Frank Solis, in return for basic lessons in navigation. Once in Philadelphia, Gray hitchhiked to Annapolis.[5]

Once at the academy, Gray walked onto the football team as the starting quarterback, played varsity lacrosse and boxed as a light heavyweight. In 1940, Gray received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Naval Academy.
Naval career

The United States Navy commissioned Gray as a line officer, and he served through five submarine war patrols in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II. He suffered a ruptured appendix at the start of his sixth patrol and was unable to get to a hospital for 17 days, an ordeal that should have killed him.[6] In 1945, Gray visited Beatrice Castle Kirk (1923–2019), the widow of his Naval Academy classmate, Lieutenant Commander Edward Emmet DeGarmo (1917–1945). They were married in 1946. He adopted her two sons, Alan and Ed; and they had two of their own, Patrick and Stephen.[6]

In 1949, Gray received a Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University Law School, where he edited the law review and became a member of the Order of the Coif. He was admitted to practice before the Washington, D.C., Bar in 1949; later, he was admitted to practice law by the Connecticut State Bar, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the United States courts of appeals, the United States Court of Claims, and the Supreme Court of the United States.[7]

By 1960, Gray's achievements in the Navy included commanding the U.S.S. Tiru (SS-416) and two other submarines on war patrols during the Korean War; earning the rank of captain two years before he was legally allowed to be paid for it; and serving as congressional liaison officer for the United States Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Chief of Naval Operations. He indicated his desire to retire from the Navy, but Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke told him, "If you stay, you'll have my job some day."[6] He did not stay, but joined a Connecticut law firm in 1961.
Department of Justice

In 1969, Gray returned to the federal government and worked under the Nixon administration in several different positions. In 1970, President Nixon appointed him as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division in the Department of Justice. In 1972, Gray was nominated to be Deputy Attorney General, but before he could be confirmed by the full United States Senate his nomination was withdrawn.
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Instead, President Nixon designated him as Acting Director of the FBI after the death of J. Edgar Hoover. Gray served for less than a year. Day-to-day operational command of the Bureau remained with Associate Director Mark Felt.
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On June 17, 1972, just six weeks after Gray took office at the FBI, five men were arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex in Washington, D.C.

Gray first learned of the Watergate break-ins on June 17 from Wes Grapp, the Special Agent in Charge of the Los Angeles field office. Gray immediately called Mark Felt, his second in command. At the time, Felt only had limited information, remaining unclear as to whether it was a burglary or bombing attempt.[8]

Felt had more information the next day, when he informed Gray that the burglars had connections to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP), that one burglar (McCord) was head of security for the committee, and that at least one listening device had been found. Gray recalled the conversation concluding with the exchange:

"Are you absolutely certain that we have jurisdiction?" I asked.

"I'm sure of it," he [Felt] answered.

"Just check it and be absolutely certain," I ordered. "And then investigate it to the hilt with no holds barred."[9]

On the same day, June 18, 1972, Gray also met later-identified Watergate conspirator Fred LaRue in California. The two discussed Watergate, according to LaRue, and made arrangements to meet again back in Washington, D.C.[10] In his own memoir, Gray relates the LaRue meeting as a chance encounter at a hotel swimming pool and quotes their entire Watergate-related conversation:

"The Watergate thing is a hell of a thing," he said.

"You bet it is, Fred," I answered. "We're going to investigate the hell out of it."

That was all either of us said about it.[11]

For the first six months of the investigation, Gray remained heavily involved. It was only when it became apparent that the White House was involved that Gray recused himself from the investigation and handed control over to Mark Felt.[12]
Cover-up

On June 23, 1972, White House Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman and President Nixon held one of the infamous "smoking gun" conversations in which they conspired to use the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to block the FBI investigation into the money trail leading from the Watergate burglars to the Committee to Re-elect the President, which would constitute hard evidence that Committee members were involved in the planning of the burglaries.

According to Gray, this plan was first put into action when he had a meeting with Vernon Walters, then deputy director of the CIA, in which he quotes Walters as falsely saying, "If the investigation gets pushed further south of the border… it could trespass onto some of our covert projects. Since you've got these five men under arrest, it will be best to taper the matter off here." This conversation implicitly stated that the FBI should not interview Manuel Ogarrio and Kenneth Dahlberg, individuals connected with the money used to fund the Watergate burglars.[13]

This would later be backed up by the Director of the CIA, Richard Helms, when he specifically told Gray that Karl Wagner and John Caswell should also not be interviewed, as they were, he stated, active CIA agents at the time.[14]

The basis for such a request came from a long-standing understanding between the CIA and the FBI that they would not reveal each other's informants. This effort by the White House and the CIA succeeded in delaying the interviews of both Ogarrio and Dahlberg for a little more than one week, at which point Gray and his senior FBI staff, including Mark Felt, Charlie Bates, and Bob Kunkel, decided that, due to the increasing importance of these individuals in the investigation, they needed a written request from the CIA not to interview them, which would have to state in greater detail the reasons for not interviewing these individuals. Once the decision was made, Gray called Vernon Walters and demanded that written request the next morning, or he would order the interviews to go forth.[15]

The next morning, Vernon Walters arrived and delivered a three-page memorandum, marked "SECRET", that did not ask the FBI to hold off on the interviews. The meeting concluded with Walters suggesting to Gray that he should warn the President that some members of the White House staff were hindering the FBI's investigation. After the conversation, Gray ordered the interviews to proceed immediately.[16]

Ultimately, the CIA cover-up delayed the FBI investigation no more than two weeks.

While not active in any Watergate activities per se, Gray was aware through his dealings with John Dean that the White House was concerned about what might be discovered from a full-field FBI investigation and explored what he could do to limit the investigation or shift it away from the Bureau's jurisdiction.[17] As Dean wrote in his Watergate memoir "Blind Ambition," he used Gray as a shill knowing that "we could count on Pat Gray to keep the Hunt material from becoming public, and he did not disappoint us."[18] In fact, even though he thought of this as a political not criminal situation and that he was ultimately serving the President as the "nation's chief law enforcement officer," Gray would come dangerously close to collusion because he chose to be useful to the White House without asking the hard questions. Dean goes on to say, "I met Pat Gray secretly at his home in southwest Washington. We were both apprehensive about the meeting as we walked to a park and sat down on a bench overlooking the Potomac, discussing my request to obtain FBI 302s and AirTels on the Watergate investigation."[18]
Felt and the search for the source

The Nixon White House tapes reveal that Bob Haldeman told Nixon that Felt was the source of leaks of confidential information contained in the FBI's investigation to various members of the press, including Bob Woodward of The Washington Post. Gray claimed that he resisted five separate demands from the White House to fire Felt, stating that he believed Felt's assurances that he was not the source. Eventually, Gray demanded to know who was claiming Felt to be leaking. Attorney general Richard Kleindienst told Gray that Roswell Gilpatric, former deputy secretary of defense under John F. Kennedy and now outside general counsel to Time, had told John Mitchell that Felt was leaking to Sandy Smith of Time magazine.[19][20]

After Felt admitted in the May 2005 Vanity Fair article that he lied to Gray about leaking to the press, Gray claimed that Felt's bitterness at being passed over was the cause of his decision to leak to Time, The Washington Post, and others.[21]
Confirmation hearings

In 1973, Gray was nominated as Hoover's permanent successor as head of the FBI. This action by President Nixon confounded many, coming at a time when revelations of involvement by Nixon administration officials in the Watergate scandal were coming to the forefront. Under Gray's direction, the FBI had been accused of mishandling the investigation into the break-in, doing a cursory job and refusing to investigate the possible involvement of administration officials. Gray's Senate confirmation hearing was to become the Senate's first opportunity to ask pertinent questions about the Watergate investigation.

During the confirmation hearing, Gray defended his bureau's investigation. During questioning, he volunteered that he had provided copies of some of the files on the investigation to White House Counsel John Dean, who had told Gray he was conducting an investigation for the President.[22] Gray testified that before turning over the files to Dean, he had been advised by the FBI's own legal counsel that he was required by law to comply with Dean's order. He confirmed that the FBI investigation supported claims made by The Washington Post and other sources, about dirty tricks committed and funded by the Committee to Re-Elect the President, and in particular, activities of questionable legality committed by Donald Segretti. The White House had for months steadfastly denied any involvement in such activities.

During the hearings, Gray testified that Dean had "probably lied" to the FBI,[23] increasing the suspicions of many of a cover-up. The Nixon administration was so angered by this statement that John Ehrlichman told John Dean that Gray should be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind."
Destruction of documents and resignation from the FBI

On June 21, 1972, Gray met with John Dean and John Ehrlichman in Ehrlichman's office. During this meeting, Gray was handed several envelopes full of documents from the personal safe of E. Howard Hunt. Dean instructed Gray, in the presence of John Ehrlichman, that the documents were "national security documents. These should never see the light of day."[24] Dean further repeatedly told Gray that the documents were not Watergate-related.

Six months later, Gray said he finally looked at the papers as he burned them in a Connecticut fireplace. "The first set of papers in there were false top-secret cables indicating that the Kennedy administration had much to do with the assassination of the Vietnamese president (Diem)," Gray said. "The second set of papers in there were letters purportedly written by Senator Kennedy involving some of his peccadilloes, if you will."[4]

After learning from Ehrlichman that John Dean was cooperating with the U.S. attorney and would be revealing to him what happened on June 21, Gray told his staunchest congressional supporter, Senator Lowell Weicker, so that he might be prepared for that revelation. As a result, Senator Weicker leaked this revelation to some chosen reporters.[25]

Following this revelation, Gray was forced to resign from the FBI on April 27, 1973.[26]
Legal struggles

For the next eight years, Gray defended his actions as Acting Director of the FBI, testifying before five federal grand juries and four committees of Congress.[27]

On October 7, 1975, the Watergate Special Prosecutor informed Gray that the last Watergate-related investigation of him had been formally closed.[28] Gray was never indicted in relation to Watergate, but the scandal dogged him afterwards.

In 1978, Gray was indicted, along with Assistant Director Edward Miller, for allegedly having approved illegal break-ins during the Nixon administration. Gray vehemently denied the charges, which were dropped in 1980. Felt and Miller, who had approved the illegal break-ins during the tenures of four separate FBI directors, including Hoover, Gray, William Ruckelshaus, and Clarence M. Kelley, were convicted and later pardoned by President Ronald Reagan. Exonerated by the Department of Justice after a two-year investigation,[29][30][31] Gray returned to his law practice in Connecticut.
Later life

After his time in Washington, Gray returned to practicing law at the firm of Suisman, Shapiro, Wool, Brennan, Gray & Greenberg (SSWBGG) in New London, Connecticut.[32]

In a 2005 Vanity Fair article,[33] Deputy Director Mark Felt claimed to be Deep Throat, the infamous source of leaks to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.[34] Woodward, Bernstein, and Post executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee confirmed the claim.[35][36] Gray spoke about the Watergate scandal for the first time in 32 years on June 26, 2005, ten days before his death from pancreatic cancer. He told ABC's This Week that he was in "total shock, total disbelief" when asked about Felt's claim. "It was like I was hit with a tremendous sledgehammer."[37]

Gray died on July 6, 2005.[38] He was working on his memoirs with his stepson Edward Gray, using his extensive and never-released personal Watergate files. His stepson finished the book In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate,[39] which disputes the claim that Felt was Deep Throat, citing Woodward's own notes and other evidence as proof that Deep Throat was a fictional composite made up of several Woodward sources, only one of whom was Felt.[40]
Gray and the New York Times

In 2009, Bob Phelps, a former editor of The New York Times, and Robert M. Smith, a former reporter for the Times, claimed that they had received information from Gray that would have allowed the Times to break the Watergate story before The Washington Post, but they failed to act upon it.[41]

In August 1972, Gray and Smith had lunch. According to Smith, during this lunch Gray mentioned details of Donald Segretti and John Mitchell's involvement in the Watergate burglaries. Smith quotes Gray:

"[Gray] told me about a guy who burned his palm, and about Donald Segretti (by name).

And when he intimated over the entrée that the wrongdoing went further, I leaned back against the wall on my inside banquette and looked at him in frank astonishment.

"The attorney general?" I asked.

He nodded.

I paused.

"The president?" I asked.

He looked me in the eye without denial—or any comment. In other words, confirmation.[42]

After the lunch, Smith reportedly rushed to his editor, Phelps, with the story, but it amounted to nothing. Smith left his job the next day for Yale Law School, and Phelps lost track of the story while covering the 1972 Republican Convention.

However, while only Gray and Smith knew exactly what was said at that lunch, Gray's son, Edward, denies that his father could have implicated either the Attorney General or the President, stating:

The truth is that at the time of this luncheon—as my father testified multiple times under oath—neither he nor anyone else in the FBI had any evidence whatsoever that the president was involved.[43]

Gray goes on to point out that at the time of this lunch the Attorney General was Richard Kleindienst, who was never implicated in any of the Watergate scandals. Even if Smith meant that he was talking about John Mitchell, the former Attorney General, Gray further points out that no one (outside of the conspirators) knew of Mitchell's involvement until the following April, when John Dean admitted as much to special prosecutors.[43]
Documents

Gray was a meticulous record-keeper, which is most easily evidenced by the 40 boxes of personal records he took with him from his year with the FBI.[44] The archive would grow even after Gray left the FBI as a direct result of the legal proceedings in which he was forced to take part in the years to follow.

This archive has become what is undoubtedly the "most complete set of Watergate investigative records outside the government."[45]
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Notes

Kessler, Ronald (2003). The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI. Macmillan. p. 29. ISBN 0-312-98977-6.
Gray, L. Patrick (March 3, 2009). In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0805089189. "He [L. Patrick Gray III] was a lifelong Republican, but Richard Nixon considered him a threat"
NYT1 1973
Page 3 of 3 (June 26, 2005). "Page 3: 'Deep Throat's' Ex-Boss Shocked by Revelation - ABC News". Abcnews.go.com. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
Gray III & Gray 2008, pp. xix–xx
Gray III & Gray 2008, p. xx
FBI 2008
Gray III & Gray 2008, p. 59
Gray III & Gray 2008, p. 60
Emery 1995, p. 157
Gray III & Gray 2008, pp. 60–61
Gray III & Gray 2008, p. 65
Gray III & Gray 2008, p. 72
USG 1974, p. 463
Gray III & Gray 2008, pp. 85–87
Gray III & Gray 2008, pp. 88–89
Haldeman, H.R., The Haldeman Diaries, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994, 474-75.
Dean, John, Blind Ambition, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976, 122.
Gray III & Gray 2008, p. 133
The claim by Gray that Roswell Gilpatric had informed John Mitchell about Felt being the leaker was called "far-fetched" by the deceased Gilpatric's son, John. John Gilpatric told The New York Times that his father never mentioned knowing John Mitchell. However, a tape in the Oval Office has Nixon telling Gray that the source for this accusation was "a lawyer... for Time." For more on this question, see Roswell Gilpatric
Gray III & Gray 2008, p. 280
Sussman 1974, pp. 165–166
Sussman 1974, p. 173
Gray III & Gray 2008, pp. 81–82
Gray III & Gray 2008, pp. 238–243
Sullivan, Patricia. "Watergate-Era FBI Chief L. Patrick Gray III Dies at 88", Washington Post (July 7, 2005): "Mr. Gray, a Nixon loyalist often described as a political naif, finally was forced to resign April 27, 1973...."
Gray III & Gray 2008, p. xxi
Gray III & Gray 2008, p. 267
Gray III & Gray 2008, pp. 265–267
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UPI (December 30, 1980). "Exonerated Gray says he'll sue government". The Bulletin. Retrieved March 31, 2010.[permanent dead link]
Purdum, Todd S. (July 7, 2005). "L. Patrick Gray III, Who Led the F.B.I. During Watergate, Dies at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
O'Connor 2005
"W. Mark Felt Reveals Himself as Deep Throat, Ends Years of Post-Watergate Speculation". Vanity Fair. October 17, 2006.
Woodward, Bob. The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat, Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-8715-0
"The Watergate Story | Deep Throat Revealed - The Washington Post". The Washington Post.
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Stout, David (March 9, 2008). "Ex-F.B.I. Chief's Book Revisits Watergate". The New York Times.
Gray III & Gray 2008, pp. 289–302
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References

Biographical entry, St. Thomas High School Hall of Honor, archived from the original on May 12, 2008, retrieved July 2, 2008
Emery, Fred (1995), Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-684-81323-8
Directors, Then and Now, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, archived from the original on August 13, 2008, retrieved August 7, 2008
Gray III, L. Patrick; Gray, Ed (2008), In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate, Times Books/Henry Holt, ISBN 978-0-8050-8256-2
O'Connor, John D. (July 2005), "I'm the Guy They Called Deep Throat", Vanity Fair, retrieved July 2, 2008
Simeone, John; Jacobs, David (2003), Complete Idiot's Guide to the FBI, Alpha Books (published 2002), ISBN 0-02-864400-X
Theoharis, Athan G. (2000), The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide, New York: Checkmark Books, ISBN 0-8160-4228-4
Woodward, Bob (2005), The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-7432-8715-0
Sussman, Barry (1974), The Great Cover-up: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, ISBN 0-690-00729-9
United States Congress, House Committee on the Judiciary (1974), Statement of information : hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, second session, pursuant to H. Res. 803, a resolution authorizing and directing the Committee on the Judiciary to investigate whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America. May–June 1974 (Book II), U.S. Government Printing Office
Johnston, David (June 27, 2005), "Ex-F.B.I. Chief Calls Deep Throat's Unmasking a Shock", New York Times, retrieved March 21, 2009
Rugaber, Walter (April 28, 1973), "A Sudden Decision: Chief Resigns After Citing Reports He Destroyed Files", New York Times, retrieved March 21, 2009
Crewdson, John (April 6, 1973), "Nixon Withdraws Gray Nomination as F.B.I. Director", New York Times, retrieved March 21, 2009
Perez-Pena, Richard (May 24, 2009), "2 Ex-Timesmen Say They Had a Tip on Watergate First", New York Times, retrieved May 31, 2009
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Gray, Edward (May 28, 2009), "Taking Issue", American Journalism Review, retrieved June 1, 2009
"Court Clears ex-FBI Chief", The Chicago Tribune, December 12, 1980

External links

Louis Patrick Gray, III, www.fbi.gov.
L. Patrick Gray, Deep Throat's Boss at F.B.I., Dies at 88. New York Times, July 6, 2005.
Ex-F.B.I. Chief Calls Deep Throat's Unmasking a Shock. New York Times, June 27, 2005.
'Deep Throat's' Ex-Boss Shocked by Revelation. ABC News This Week, June 26, 2005.
Obituary. Seattle Times, July 7, 2005.
White House Tapes relating to FBI. National Security Archives, July 2, 2008.
Biographical entry. St. Thomas High School Hall of Honor, July 2, 2008.
Ed Gray on "Morning Joe." MSNBC, March 7, 2008.
Ex-F.B.I. Chief's Book Revisits Watergate New York Times, March 9, 2008.
In Nixon's Web: Watergate and the FBI
Gray in Black and White Archived June 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. The American Spectator, June 2008.

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By Terry A. Hurlbut
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has now become a campaign issue in Midterms. Their raid on the Trump club called Mar-A-Lago has highlighted how dangerous a federal law-enforcement and counter-espionage agency can be. The FBI literally could have done no worse, except for randomly “rounding up the usual suspects.” (And when they seized a U.S. Congressman’s cellphone while he was traveling, they came close to that.) The campaign talk has gone far beyond haling its Director and the Attorney General before the green table. It has even gone beyond such generalities as “Abolish the FBI.” Now, for the first time, we hear of concrete measures that Republican gubernatorial candidates have proposed. Those proposals strike at the heart of how much authority the federal government was ever supposed to have.
Latest developments on the FBI raid on Trump
Concerning the Trump raid, we now know what the FBI was looking for. On July 31, 2016, the FBI began to investigate whether then-Candidate Donald J. Trump took direction or aid from Russia. They gave their investigation the code name Crossfire Hurricane, after a 2012 movie. The best surviving report on this for public consumption comes from a site calling itself Just Security. The worthies at Just Security deny that the FBI “had it in” for Trump. But they admit that Crossfire Hurricane included a dark comedy of errors. Just Security ended by saying that Crossfire Hurricane was not up to the usual standards the public has come to expect from a storied, celebrated agency like the FBI. (More on how the FBI got its “storied, celebrated” reputation below.)
That investigation wrapped up in 2017. More to the point: on January 19, 2021, President Trump declassified all material relating to Operation Crossfire Hurricane. But the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland refused to carry this through. Indeed the willful disobedience of orders began before Garland assumed office (March 11, 2021). That alone lends credence to Trump’s allegation that a “Deep State” exists.
And on Monday evening, August 8, 2022, the FBI laid on its raid to recover, as they thought, all remaining copies of Crossfire Hurricane documents. As cover for this, they prevailed upon Judge Bruce E. Reinhart to approve a search warrant looking for “classified and national security” documents that belong to the National Archives.
How the FBI turned a warrant into a writ of assistance
Recall again: a writ of assistance is a general search warrant that allows its holder to search anywhere and everywhere for anything and everything the authorities don’t think the target of the search ought to have. In contrast, in the United States, search warrants must describe particularly the places and objects of any search. Indeed, naming an address does not suffice. The warrant must not only designate a building but name the rooms in the building that law-enforcement officers may search.
Furthermore, courts must exclude any evidence that law enforcement obtains by searching without a warrant, or beyond its terms. This Exclusionary Rule dates back to 1914 and has several supporting precedents. They include:
• Weeks v. United States (1914),
• Byars v. United States (1927), and
• Janis v. United States (1976).
Bear this in mind as you read these fresh details of how the FBI behaved. They entered the house and ordered several of Trump’s attorneys to leave. One agent showed Lawyer Christina Bobb the search warrant – from ten feet away. Then the agents ordered Trump’s household staff to turn off the house surveillance system.
The staff did not obey that order. And according to one of Trump’s sons, Eric, the surveillance system captured several agents clearly exceeding the warrant. For ten hours they searched every room in the house, even rifling the wardrobe of Trump’s wife Melania. So even if the warrant is valid, the FBI treated it like a writ of assistance.
Why are the supporting documents under seal?
We also learn the most likely reason the supporting affidavit and other documents for the warrant remain under seal. The information could have come from a spy among Trump’s household staff. Newsweek cites two “Senior Government Officials” as their sources for this revelation. Those same anonymous sources said the FBI laid on the raid when they knew Trump would not be in residence. That way, Trump wouldn’t be able to publish lurid photographs of movie-scene encounters with FBI agents acting like KGB agents.
They didn’t count on Trump finding out about it and breaking the news himself. Which he can do, because he has built a Twitter competitor he calls Truth Social.
“What a spectacular backfire!” cries one of those SGOs. The rest of what he said is unimportant. Newsweek and its sources can deny as they please that this raid had a political motive. But their denials ring hollow in the face of the FBI getting a warrant of dubious cause, then acting as if they had a writ of assistance instead of a valid Fourth Amendment compliant search warrant.
We also have this from Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Sperry, through another Twitter user who screencapped his tweets before Twitter suspended his account.
https://twitter.com/anaelena12345/status/1557086561979834369
Sperry notes that three senior Justice Department officials who took briefings on the raid, had definite conflicts of interest. The conflicts go back mainly to Crossfire Hurricane. Furthermore,
CNN is admonishing its reporters not to call the FBI raid of Trump’s home a “raid.”
Efforts to unseal the warrant
As above, Judge Bruce Reinhart has lately identified himself as the judge who approved the warrant. Why he kept the warrant and supporting affidavit under seal, no one has yet revealed. But Judicial Watch and the Albany Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) have each filed a motion to unseal these documents. The report comes from The Epoch Times, which also quoted Judge Reinhart’s order to respond:
On or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on August 15, 2022, the Government shall file a Response to the Motion to Unseal. The response may be filed ex parte and under seal as necessary to avoid disclosing matters already under seal. In that event, the Government shall file a redacted Response in the public record. If it chooses, the Government may file a consolidated Response to all Motions to Seal.
Raising the cry to abolish the FBI
Calls to abolish the FBI are nothing new. More to the point, Bill Hansmann, writing in The American Thinker, sounded such a call in October of 2021. He cites an article in The American Spectator on this subject from November of 2017.
Hansmann makes two points. First is that the FBI is not the “humble, hard-working” agency everyone thought it was, if it ever was. The FBI’s first director, J. Edgar Hoover, carefully built that reputation. He had the cooperation of Hollywood, to the extent that absolutely anyone planning a movie project featuring the FBI had to run the script and other supporting information through Hoover’s office. Hoover also had the willing participation of television producer Quinn Martin, who created the memorable and long-running series everyone remembers. (The FBI, prod. Quinn Martin, with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Philip Abbott, Stephen Brooks, and William Reynolds; Warner Bros. Television, 1965-74.)
J. Edgar Hoover served the longest as Director of the agency. His secret: he had “the dirt” on all of official Washington. So he laid on them an ultimatum: leave me and my agency alone, or I take you down. But Hoover never played political favorites; he terrorized everyone equally. (And could do that because Washington, D.C. has always been a corrupt city.)
His death in 1972 affected the Bureau worse than the death of Charles de Gaulle affected France’s Fifth Republic. Two years later, the Quinn Martin series played its finale.
Further history
Hoover had a number of favorite targets, and his Bureau attacked them assiduously. Communists, both internal and external (especially Soviet, Warsaw Pact, and Chinese spies), were his top targets. In fact he wrote a book, Masters of Deceit, pouring out his rage against Communism and Communists. His other targets, in decreasing order of probable importance, were bank robbers, kidnappers-for-ransom, and organized crime syndicates.
The ability of the FBI to recover ransoms, and kidnap victims, became near-perfect. But that Quinn Martin series might have made people think that anyone might be subject to kidnap for ransom. Not true, of course – rich families are where the money is, or was in Hoover’s day. But Hoover and Martin took pains to make sure all Americans would sympathize with the kidnap victims and never with the kidnappers. That became part of the larger narrative: if the FBI comes after you, you must have done something wrong.
That’s how J. Edgar Hoover could get away with operations like COINTELPRO, which targeted student demonstrators and anyone else whom Hoover suspected of sympathizing with Communists. The targets did little to engender the sympathies of anyone but the most die-hard Bolshevik ideologues and political theorists. But that did not change the fact that COINTELPRO was illegal. The Trump raid shows that the worm has turned. The FBI now treats patriotic Americans the way it treated the Communist Party in the Sixties and Seventies.
Concrete proposals against the FBI
And with the Trump raid we now see the first concrete proposals, going beyond the white-paper and talking-point stage. Florida State Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R-32nd) made the first such proposal hours after the raid.
https://twitter.com/AnthonySabatini/status/1556805568207196160
He demanded an emergency legislative session to “sever all ties with the DOJ immediately.” With this proposal he showed that he means business:
Any FBI agent conducting law enforcement functions outside the purview of our State should be arrested upon sight.
Presumably he means not to permit the Bureau to do law enforcement outside of federal government reservations or buildings. Bank robbery? That becomes a State beef. Same with kidnap or organized crime. And “interstate transportation of stolen property/motor vehicles/whatever”? Let the Florida State Police chase that down within Florida’s borders.
Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake (R-Ariz.) wants to sue the federal government under the Tenth Amendment.
https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1556808739281203200
The Tenth Amendment reads:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The Constitution delegates a very narrow list of law-enforcement powers to Congress. They include dealing with minting or printing counterfeit coin or currency, crime on the high seas, or crimes in places where Congress has “exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever.” That includes Washington, D.C., and any federal reservation or installation. Outside those areas, Congress has no authority. It follows then that the FBI should not exist.
Further concrete proposals
Another gubernatorial candidate, Dan Cox (R-Md.), goes further. The Baltimore Sun has this tweet about a small part of what Cox has been saying lately:
https://twitter.com/BaltSunBrk/status/1557120205649858560
Cox evidently said this in a fundraising email to Maryland residents:
As governor, I will use the 9th and 10th Amendments, the Maryland Constitution and Declaration of Rights, the [Maryland State Police] and Maryland Guard to stand against all rogue actions of this out-of-control tyrannical Biden administration with fierce tenacity. Our children, families, and loved ones and the freedom we cherish and is our birthright as Americans demand we oppose these criminal acts of this current administration.
The Ninth amendment reads:
The enumeration in this Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed as to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Obviously Cox’s declaration goes farther than a call to abolish the FBI. But the FBI clearly is his first target.
Cox, Lake, Sabatini, and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), should he take up Sabatini’s suggestion, would have widespread sympathy. This tweet gives the strongest indication of this:
https://twitter.com/JakeBequette91/status/1556802528926486540
I’m hearing lots of Republicans talk about winning the midterms. I’d rather hear red state governors talk about expelling federal agents from their state borders.
A post-FBI America
What would a post-FBI America look like? To answer that, we look at history. Interstate crime was never a serious issue in the days of horse. Even horses could not transport large quantities of stolen bullion – or kidnap victims – very far.
The railroads changed everything. Rail transport by its nature is more interstate than intra-state. And as railroads crossed the Wild West, bandits, chiefly attacking freight trains and occasional gold shipments attached to passenger trains, became a problem.
Real problems attract real solutions, and the new interstate crime problem was no different. Allan Pinkerton, who came to the United States from Scotland in 1842, founded the National Detective Agency that bears his name in 1850. Many staples of police procedure, including the mug shot and the “rogues’ gallery,” began as Pinkerton innovations. So before the FBI had its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Pinkerton’s had its Rogues’ Gallery. Pinkerton’s also claims credit for keeping Abraham Lincoln alive as the War Between the States began.
Pinkerton’s still exists, even if the FBI, as the 800 pound gorilla, took most of its “business” away from it. So Pinkerton’s could easily provide all the legitimate protections for which interstate shippers – and banks, and bullion houses, and rich families – now rely on the FBI.
But the illegitimate activities, and 9th and 10th amendment violations, would stop. That would include treating American patriots, and concerned parents, as enemies of the state.
Link to:
The article:
https://cnav.news/2022/08/11/foundation/constitution/fbi-step-aside/

Trump’s memo declassifying the Crossfire Hurricane material:
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-declassification-certain-materials-related-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/

Discussion of the Weeks Doctrine (search and seizure):
https://law.jrank.org/pages/23955/Weeks-v-United-States-Silver-Platter-Doctrine.html

Paul Sperry’s tweets about conflicted FBI officials:
https://twitter.com/anaelena12345/status/1557086561979834369

Tweets about concrete measures against the FBI:
https://twitter.com/AnthonySabatini/status/1556805568207196160
https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1556808739281203200
https://twitter.com/BaltSunBrk/status/1557120205649858560
https://twitter.com/JakeBequette91/status/1556802528926486540

Pinkerton’s history:
https://pinkerton.com/our-story/history

Conservative News and Views:
https://cnav.news/

The CNAV Store:
https://cnav.store/

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‘Special’ service: Declassified Guantanamo court filing suggests some 9/11 hijackers were CIA agents
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Some 9/11 Hijackers Were CIA Agents, Declassified Court Filing Suggests

By Jamie White

A declassified court filing has appeared to confirm what Infowars has long ago reported: the 9/11 attacks were perpetrated in part by U.S. government assets.

A court filing from the Guantanamo Military Commission, the court considering the cases of defendants accused of carrying out the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, reveal that the CIA was closely monitoring two of the hijackers, and may have even recruited them before they flew planes into the World Trade Center buildings.

Canestraro Declaration Date… by yourNEWS Media

The filing was originally published in July 2021 but was heavily redacted. Now a “unexpurgated” copy has been provided by independent researchers, according to RT’s Felix Livshitz.

The document details DEA veteran Don Canestraro’s investigation of potential Saudi government involvement in the 9/11 attacks, conducted at the request of the defendants’ lawyers.

Canesraro and numerous FBI agents in the investigation appear to conclude that the CIA obstructed official investigations ostensibly to conceal its infiltration of Al Qaeda.

From RT:

An explosive court filing from the Guantanamo Military Commission – a court considering the cases of defendants accused of carrying out the “9/11” terrorist attacks on New York – has seemingly confirmed the unthinkable.

The document was originally published via a Guantanamo Bay court docket, but while public, it was completely redacted. Independent researchers obtained an unexpurgated copy. It is an account by the Commission’s lead investigator, DEA veteran Don Canestraro, of his personal probe of potential Saudi government involvement in the 9/11 attacks, conducted at the request of the defendants’ lawyers.

Two of the hijackers were being closely monitored by the CIA and may, wittingly or not, have been recruited by Langley long before they flew planes into the World Trade Center buildings.
The story of two men

Of the great many enduring mysteries of the 9/11 attacks still unresolved over two decades later, perhaps the biggest and gravest relate to the activities of Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar in the 18 months leading up to that fateful day. The pair traveled to the US on multi-entry visas in January 2000, despite having repeatedly been flagged by the CIA and NSA previously as likely Al Qaeda terrorists.

Mere days before their arrival, they attended an Al Qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur, during which key details of the 9/11 attacks are likely to have been discussed and agreed. The meeting was secretly photographed and videotaped by Malaysian authorities at the direct request of the CIA’s Alec Station, a special unit set up to track Osama bin Laden, although oddly, no audio was captured.

Still, this background should’ve been sufficient to prevent Hazmi and Midhar from entering the US – or at least enough for the FBI to be informed of their presence in the country. As it was, they were admitted for a six-month period at Los Angeles International airport without incident, and Bureau representatives within Alec Station were blocked from sharing this information with their superiors by the CIA.

“We’ve got to tell the Bureau about this. These guys clearly are bad. One of them, at least, has a multiple-entry visa to the US. We’ve got to tell the FBI,” Mark Rossini, a member of Alec Station, has recalled discussing with his colleagues. “[But the CIA] said to me, ‘No, it’s not the FBI’s case, not the FBI’s jurisdiction.’”

Immediately upon arrival, Hazmi and Midhar encountered a Saudi national residing in California named Omar al-Bayoumi in an airport restaurant. Over the next two weeks, he helped them find an apartment in San Diego, co-signed their lease, gave them $1,500 towards their rent, and introduced them to Anwar al-Awlaki, an imam at a local mosque. Al-Awlaki was killed in a US drone strike in Yemen in 2011.

In the wake of 9/11, Bayoumi unsurprisingly became a subject of interest in an FBI probe of potential Saudi involvement in the attacks, known as Operation Encore. In a 2003 interview with investigators in Riyadh, he claimed his meeting with Hazmi and Midhar was a coincidence – he heard them speaking Arabic, realized they couldn’t speak English, and decided to assist them out of charity.

The Bureau reached a very different conclusion – Bayoumi was a Saudi intelligence operative and part of a wider militant Wahhabist network in the US, which handled a myriad of potential and actual terrorists, and monitored the activities of anti-Riyadh dissidents abroad. What’s more, Encore judged there to be a 50/50 chance he had advanced knowledge of the 9/11 attacks before they happened, and so did the Saudi government.
Why was it hidden?

Those bombshell facts remained hidden from public view until March 2022, when a trove of FBI documents was declassified at the request of the White House. The newly released Guantanamo Military Commission filing sheds even further light on Bayoumi’s contact with Hazmi and Midhar – and in turn, the CIA’s keen interest in them, their activities throughout their stay in the US, and refusal to disclose their presence to the FBI until late August 2001.

The filing is an account by the Commission’s lead investigator, DEA veteran Don Canestraro, of his personal probe of potential Saudi government involvement in the 9/11 attacks, conducted at the request of the defendants’ lawyers. Based on a review of classified information held by, and interviews with representatives of, the FBI and Pentagon, the content strongly suggests that the CIA obstructed official investigations to conceal its penetration of Al Qaeda.

That’s the judgment of four separate, unnamed FBI agents interviewed by Canestraro who worked on investigations into the 9/11 attacks. The most incendiary charges were leveled by a Bureau agent referred to in his report as ‘CS-23’, who had “extensive knowledge of counterterrorism and counterintelligence matters.”

CS-23 recounted how the CIA repeatedly lied and stonewalled the FBI in its investigations into Bayoumi. For example, while Agency officials claimed to possess no files on him when asked by Operation Encore representatives, CS-23 knew for a fact this was a “falsehood,” and the CIA maintained several operational files on Bayoumi, amounting to an extensive paper trail.

Furthermore, CS-23 was certain that the CIA used its liaison relationship with the Saudi intelligence services to attempt to recruit Hazmi and Midhar, and circumvent laws prohibiting the Agency from conducting spying operations on US soil, by using Riyadh as a go between.

This account was backed up by another FBI investigator, ‘CS-3,’ who further claims that Bayoumi setting up bank accounts and renting an apartment for the two hijackers in San Diego “was done at the behest of the CIA.” Any information provided to Bayoumi would then be fed back to Alec Station.

CS-3 felt it odd that this CIA unit, situated in the US and staffed by analysts, was involved in recruiting Al Qaeda operatives, as such work is typically the responsibility of case officers trained in covert operations based overseas. ‘CS-IO’ concurred that this arrangement was “highly unusual,” and made it “nearly impossible for [Alec] Station to develop informants inside of Al Qaeda from its base several thousand miles from the countries where Al Qaeda was suspected of operating.”

Despite such tantalizing leads, CS-23 claims senior FBI officials suppressed further investigations into the CIA’s relationship with Bayoumi and the recruitment of Hazmi and Midhar, and Bureau representatives testifying before the joint Senate and Congressional inquiry into 9/11 were instructed not to reveal the full extent of Saudi involvement with Al-Qaeda.

For their part, CS-3 stated that before they and their colleagues were interviewed by the joint inquiry, CIA officials within Alec Station told them not to cooperate fully with investigators and they were looking to “hang someone” for 9/11.

Canestraro does not make any conclusions as to why the CIA concealed vital information from the FBI prior to the attacks, which potentially could have prevented their execution, and why the Bureau subsequently played along with the Agency’s coverup. Although one answer is provided by the unusual nature of Alec Station’s setup.

Namely, that far from infiltrating an Al Qaeda cell to avert terrorism, the Agency was seeking to influence and direct its activities in order to cause terrorism, outside standard recruitment channels. Having stumbled upon such a monstrous connivance, the FBI would’ve known well to leave the entire subject well alone.

When a member of the CIA’s Alex Station suggested informing the FBI about the two hijackers obtaining visas to the U.S., he was shut down.

“We’ve got to tell the Bureau about this. These guys clearly are bad. One of them, at least, has a multiple-entry visa to the US. We’ve got to tell the FBI,” Mark Rossini, a member of Alec Station, recalled telling his colleagues. “[But the CIA] said to me, ‘No, it’s not the FBI’s case, not the FBI’s jurisdiction.’”

The FBI agents in the files claimed the CIA also concealed information from the bureau about the two hijackers’ main U.S. contact, Omar al-Bayoumi, who was under FBI investigation.

Additionally, they believe the CIA used Saudi Arabia as a go-between to recruit the two hijackers’ in order to circumvent laws forbidding the Agency from conducting spy operations on U.S. soil.

Though the lead investigator Canestraro doesn’t assert the reason behind the CIA’s decision to withhold information from the FBI that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks, the nature of the CIA’s clandestine Alec Station suggests nefarious motives.

“Canestraro does not make any conclusions as to why the CIA concealed vital information from the FBI prior to the attacks, which potentially could have prevented their execution, and why the Bureau subsequently played along with the Agency’s coverup. Although one answer is provided by the unusual nature of Alec Station’s setup,” Livshitz wrote.

“Namely, that far from infiltrating an Al Qaeda cell to avert terrorism, the Agency was seeking to influence and direct its activities in order to cause terrorism, outside standard recruitment channels. Having stumbled upon such a monstrous connivance, the FBI would’ve known well to leave the entire subject well alone.”

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"They pointed guns at my children" - Ben Bergquam Interviews VICTIM of Whitmer's Fake Kidnapping Plot

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TGP ARTICLE: ‘The FBI Set Everything Up… They Wrote the Script – and WHITMER WAS IN ON IT!’ — Victim in Alleged FBI Plot to Kidnap Michigan Democrat Gov. Whitmer Breaks Silence in Must-See Interview!

Eric Molitor, a victim in the alleged FBI plot to kidnap Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer, broke his silence during a Trump rally held at Van Andel Arena.

Speaking with Real America’s Voice reporter Ben Bergquam, Molitor claimed that the FBI orchestrated the entire plot and even duped people into participating.

“The FBI set everything up. They drove people, they paid for everything. They wrote the script,” Molitor said. He alleged that Governor Whitmer herself decided the best time for the operation in collaboration with the FBI and state police.

“Governor Whitmer herself opened her scheduling book and decided with the FBI and state police when to be the best time for the daytime ride, the nighttime ride. Then they duped people into it. We even have proof of them telling people, ‘Get as many people in the trucks as possible, and don’t tell them what you’re doing until they’re already on the road.’ It was 100% set up. Governor Whitmer, if they can do it to nobody like me, they will come after everybody else,” Molitor added.

Molitor was among those implicated in the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer. He claimed that he was tricked into participating in what he believed was a civil defense force activity against Antifa and BLM in his local area.

Ben Bergquam: Let me ask your part in this without getting… I don’t know if you’re still going through the legal battles on it.

Eric Molitor: I quit it, man. I quit it. This is one of those things. She’s still out there pushing this as if it was a legitimate thing that there was a kidnap plot against her that she set up with the FBI.

Ben Bergquam: Walk me through what actually happened that night.

Eric Molitor: Oh, my gosh, man. I didn’t go on what’s known as the nighttime Ride. I was duped into the daytime ride, and Oh, my gosh. Again, there’s so much that goes into it. Anyways, I had set up a civil defense force for my area in Wexford, Cadillac City, because Antifa and BLM were coming up there.

Through this process, I had met Adam Fox, who lived down here in Grand Rapids, actually. After a while, he got me a job in private security, which was really awesome. I thought that stuff was really cool. He actually is a good guy, by the way. The FBI, the government has lied about this man who’s still in prison.

Anyways, he got a hold of me and asked me if I wanted to go for a ride. I asked, “Yeah, what do you have in mind?” I’m thinking it’s this good stuff that we got going on.

Nothing was said about the Governor or anything like that. Anyways, him and Dan Chappel, the original FBI informant there, another lying person right there, he came up to pick me up, him and Adam Fox. We get all the way up to Elk Rapids, which was an hour away from my house. Nothing was talked about. It was a truck with three men. We talked about women, alcohol, guns, like Americans do.

Anyways, we get up to Elk Rapids, and they said, ‘Her cottage.’ I’m still not putting it together. I’m thinking maybe the Antifa BLM is trying to hold up it at a private residence instead of doing these hotels and motels that we heard about.

Ben Bergquam: You guys were more doing security or what?

Eric Molitor: I was. I thought that we were. When we got up there, and I’m already in a truck with people 100 miles away from my house, then they started talking about Whitmer’s Cottage, and right there, dude, my heart sunk. I didn’t know if I was going to make out of that situation alive. I had no idea what was going on.

Following this incident, Molitor was arrested during a family get-together where law enforcement allegedly pointed guns at his children. He now faces charges of material support for terrorism due to a video he was asked to take during the ride and felony firearms because he had his sidearm with him.

When asked about his current legal situation, Molitor said he had quit fighting it. He expressed frustration that Governor Whitmer continues to portray the alleged plot as a legitimate threat against her life.

Molitor ended the interview with a call to action, urging citizens to contact their representatives and form civil groups in their communities. He emphasized the importance of understanding how the system works and being active in holding it accountable.

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“If they can do it to nobody like me, they will come after everybody else,” Molitor warned.
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JUST IN – A victim of the FBI plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer speaks out:

“The FBI set everything up. They drove people; they paid for everything. They wrote the script.” pic.twitter.com/qeaQRUP8pJ

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 20, 2024

Last year, The Gateway Pundit reported that Eric Molitor, twin brothers William and Michael Null, were acquitted by an Antrim County, Michigan, jury on charges of providing material support for a terrorist act and illegally possessing firearms. The three men faced up to 20 years in prison for their alleged crimes.

Eric Molitor cried in court after the verdict was read.

The entire plot was hatched, planned, paid for, and executed by paid FBI informants.

The FBI informants pushed the violent plans to kidnap Whitmer. It was all a setup.

In an October 2020 press conference, the FBI announced it had thwarted a plot by a so-called “right-wing militia” to kidnap and kill Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

The Whitmer kidnapping plot was in the media 24/7 and used to bludgeon Trump with just a few weeks to go until Election Day.

The FBI used at least 12 informants in the Michigan Whitmer kidnapping case.

The case, which we now know was comprised of virtually all FBI agents and informants, took another devastating hit in August.

Michael Hills, an attorney for Brandon Caserta, one of the six defendants, produced text messages showing an FBI field agent telling an informant to lie, frame an innocent man and delete text messages.

One female FBI agent admitted during testimony that she slept in the same hotel room, and the same bed, during a training weekend with FBI target Barry Croft. She went the extra mile to get her man!

And… she also smoked pot with him.

The female FBI agent told the court, “Sometimes informants have to play along.”

Out of the 14 men initially accused in the plot, nine were convicted or pleaded guilty, while five were ultimately acquitted.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/fbi-set-everything-up-they-wrote-script-whitmer/

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Trump home raided – are we next?

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Trump home raided – are we next?
By Terry A. Hurlbut
Last night the FBI crossed a historical line no one ever accused even J. Edgar Hoover of crossing. They raided the home of a former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. A coherent narrative explaining this raid has taken overnight to manifest itself. But we now have reason to suspect the FBI was looking for certain archivable documents Trump took to his home. Some of these documents might be classified. But even someone who once worked for the FBI calls this a de minimis violation that cannot justify this raid. This represents the political weaponization of law enforcement. The American people know it and will not tolerate it.
About the Trump raid
For reportage on the raid, CNAV has chosen conservative and some independent sources. Mainstream media sources have discredited themselves totally, and CNAV recommends that no one trust them on this story.
The Daily Wire has the most complete report on the Trump raid and the reasons for it. They cite The New York Times as saying the FBI were looking for
material that Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, after he left the White House.
He stands accused of delaying the return of “more than a dozen boxes of material to the National Archives.” Some, not all, of these documents were “classified national security information.”
What they actually could have been, were the kind of evidence Trump will need upon his return to the White House (whenever that might be), to identify certain persons who have perverted the missions of federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. He would then classify them as “Schedule F” employees – staff in “positions of confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, and policy-advocating character.” Then he could fire the lot of them.
So the FBI would have one obvious motive to lay on such a raid. It now becomes a desperate attempt to forestall seeing a bunch of their agents, and those of other agencies, fired.
A second motive
But the FBI had a second motive. Marc Elias, one of Hillary Clinton’s lawyers, gave the game away. In a brazen and likely impulsive tweet, he said the FBI could nail Trump on Title 18 USC Section 2071.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1556794749377454080
Under it, anyone trying to conceal or destroy any sort of federal record, would face a fine and imprisonment. But this is they key penalty the Deep State wanted to impose:
[The offender] shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
So now we have the more important motive: to disbar Trump legally from running for President again. It would also disqualify him from returning to the Presidency under any conceivable circumstances.
This falls in line with the statement by Dr. Steven Turley in an hour-long YouTube livestream on the Trump raid. He called the Trump raid a desperate measure and suggested it would not work as intended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_O8YWLFL5s
Chris Swecker, former Assistant Director of the FBI (and a 24-year careerist with that agency), told Fox and Friends he could think of no reasonable explanation for the raid. Any violation that did occur with respect to National Archives property would have been de minimis at worst. It would never justify a raid on a former President’s home, something the FBI has never done before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikd6f3Np_k0
Trump speaks about the raid
The Independent, a UK organ, carried the full text of a statement President Trump made about the raid:
These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before. After I working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don't want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections.
Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those Countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. They even broke into my safe! What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee? Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.
A history of political persecution and selective application of the law
The political persecution of President Donald J. Trump has been going on for years, with the now fully debunked Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, Impeachment Hoax 11, Impeachment Hoax #2, and so much more, it just never ends, it is political targeting at the highest level!
Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 E-mails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable. She even took antique furniture, and other items from the White House.
I stood up to America’s bureaucratic corruption, I restored power to the people, and truly delivered for our Country, like we have never seen before. The establishment hated it. Now, as they watch my endorsed candidates win big victories, and see my dominance in all polls, they are trying to stop me, and the Republican Party, once more. The lawlessness, political persecution, and Witch Hunt must be exposed and stopped.
I will continue to fight for the Great American People!
Trump himself posted an image of this statement on his Truth Social platform. He followed this up with a three-minute video about the raid, that plays like a political advertisement. He uploaded this video to Rumble but, unfortunately, kept it private, thus making it unplayable elsewhere than on Truth Social.
The Western Journal also quoted the statement, if not in whole.
Swift and angry reaction
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) furiously called the raid
another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves.
https://twitter.com/RonDeSantisFL/status/1556803433939755010
To further his point, he cited the Inflation Reduction Act. That Act adds 87,000 agents to the ranks of the Internal Revenue Service.
Christine Dolan at Creative Destruction Media asserts (as Chris Swecker would agree) that Attorney General Merrick Garland and current FBI Director Christopher Wray would both have to have authorized it in writing. Swecker said that in his 24 years with the Bureau, no earlier Director would ever have authorized such a raid.
The Blaze reported that Trump was at his Trump Tower apartment in Manhattan at the time of the raid. They also had this tweet by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), taking issue with Trump calling the raid “prosecutorial misconduct.”
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1556780963249631232
“Prosecutors don’t approve warrants,” he said. Evidently he forgot that only a de minimis violation was even alleged, or he believes that, as far as Donald Trump is concerned, no violation of the law is de minimis.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Minority Leader, released a statement that The Epoch Times repeated.
https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1556807790433271809
I’ve seen enough.
The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization.
When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned.
Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.
Can Trump and the rest of us trust all expressions of support?
Those are fighting words. They are indeed the strongest fighting words that Kevin McCarthy has ever authored. But CNAV cannot trust him to follow through, given his earlier record of middle-of-the-road-ism. They would be more credible coming from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). Hours before the Trump Raid, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) urged Jordan to challenge McCarthy for the Speakership after Midterms.
Jordan serves as the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee. Last night he called on its Chairman to hale General Garland and Director Wray before the green table.
https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1556827987785486337
What was on the warrant, what were you really doing, [and] what were you looking for? Why not talk to President Trump and have him give the information you’re after? We deserve answers now, and this Friday would be a good time.
[Rep.] Jerry Nadler [D-N.Y.]: call up Christopher Wray, call up Merrick Garland, bring them in front of the House Judiciary Committee, so we ask them the questions that the American people deserve the answers to.
Unfortunately, given who Jerrold Nadler is, and his Party affiliation, that is not going to happen. This is called “exhaustion of remedies” and “embarrassment of the nominal officer-in-charge.”
Suspicious behavior
The Democrats might have lost the last respect Erick-Woods Erickson might have been willing to accord them. Erick-Woods Erickson is a Never-Trumper who maintains to this day that nothing untoward happened with the Election of 2020. This morning he began by disclaiming any commentary that “the Republic is at an end.” But then he hinted darkly that the Democrats might have bypassed the usual way to get a search warrant.
Democrats have a long history of ignoring precedents they set.
Then he reminded everyone that Trump “used an expanded” Barack Obama’s precedents.
For eight years, I warned Democrats they were setting precedents their Republican successors would not just use but expand.
Consequently, Hunter Biden probably should just go on and burn down his house and all his belongings today.
Again, that echoes another aphorism by “Doctor Steve”: Mutual Assured Destruction. In other words, look out, Democrats! Next year, it’s your turn. Especially since
Merrick Garland has just energized the base of the Republican Party and probably inspired Trump 2024 to get off the ground with a fundraising spectacular.
Erickson wonders about something else. Why wasn’t Senator Charles M. Schumer (D-N.Y.) bally-hoo-ing about the Trump raid when Rachel Maddow interviewed him last night? Why did he hem, haw, and clearly Not Want to Talk About It?
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1556850089720745984
Maybe, says Erickson, because Senator Schumer knows that what the FBI did was poor judgment, if not flat-out wrong.
Other reaction – and ground pounding
Dan Bongino reacted more explicitly, and in barnyard terms, too. And evidently he did it before the voice-delay censors could clip it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lgE8mz6OiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-XDIbpcMLQ
This morning, Todd Starnes suggested a state of war now exists between the Deep State and the American public.
This is the same Justice Department that authorized FBI agents to investigate law-abiding parents. The alleged crimes were complaining about school board policies regarding critical race and LGBT grooming.
The same Justice Department that is targeting law-abiding gun owners. The same government agency who refused to protect the homes of Supreme Court justices.
The Democrats have turned the FBI into a Soviet-style state police — a jack-booted goon squad targeting every freedom-loving, America First patriot.
Several Trump supporters living in and near Palm Beach streamed toward Mar-A-Lago to picket and heckle the FBI.
https://twitter.com/cbenavidesTV/status/1556802919919505408
https://twitter.com/cbenavidesTV/status/1556818624433868801
https://twitter.com/cbenavidesTV/status/1556832133653708803
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) reminded everyone starkly that, now that this has happened to Trump, it could happen to anyone.
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1556845893332205569
Fact and fiction about the Trump raid
Under the Presidential Records Act, Presidents must turn over most records to the National Archives when they leave office. U.S. Archivist David Ferriero has been in touch with Trump all last year, seeking the return of 15 boxes of documents. According to The Epoch Times, the Archives got those boxes back in January. But Christina Bobb, an attorney for Trump, says the FBI “seized paper” last night. How much paper, she won’t say – and neither will anyone else.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has three magistrate judges in the Palm Beach area. One, Bruce Reinhart, approved several warrants on August 5. But the warrant applications, supporting affidavits, and so on, are under seal. It might or might not be significant that Judge Reinhart was once an attorney representing staff and pilots for the notorious Jeffrey Epstein. Nor is this to say that these were the warrants the FBI had.
Another magistrate judge, William Matthewman, granted one search warrant yesterday (August 8). That application and supporting documents are also under seal. The third magistrate judge, Ryon McCabe, had no search warrant applications on August 5 or 8.
CNAV does not conclude that any of these magistrate judges issued the warrant or warrants the FBI had. The evidence for Judge Reinhart or Judge Matthewman granting the warrant(s) is inconclusive. And even if they did, sealing the supporting affidavits is suspicious in and of itself.
Now you know why we need guns!
Recall also Justice Steven G. Breyer’s dissent in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. He practically demanded that the American people show just cause why State and local governments (especially city governments) should not confiscate firearms from all who choose to reside therein. Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor joined in that dissent.
Well, former Justice Breyer, and Kagan and Sotomayor JJ, last night the FBI gave us that just cause! This goes to another point by “Doctor Steve” in his hour-long livestream. The one reason why the phrase banana republic does not – yet – apply to the United States, is the Second Amendment. That applies even after what happened at Mar-A-Lago.
It’s all very well for Nancy Pelosi, the (likely outgoing) Speaker of the House, to say this raid proves that “no one is above the law.” But that does not create a precedent for a raid on a former President’s house where none exists.
Now Trump will win
More to the point, far from diminishing Trump in the eyes of the American public, this raid has made him an almost literal martyr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xihogWC-f38
Strictly speaking, one need not die to be a martyr. A martyr is a witness – or one whose maltreatment, whether that includes putting-to-death or not, bears witness to the evil behind the maltreatment. This raid has indeed borne witness to the evil of this administration. The only ones cheering it, are Democrats – and the most prominent among them are remarkably subdued. Even Nancy Pelosi is not exactly cackling gleefully about it. Neither is Chuck Schumer. Mightn’t they have begun to worry that the Republicans will target them in a similar manner? Actually, Republicans wouldn’t necessarily raid the homes of Barack Obama or the Clintons. (They wouldn’t consider Jimmy Carter worth bothering about.) But they might lay on a few other raids, for which they have the thing likely missing here: probable cause.
Yesterday CNAV said that what Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s might be to the Democratic base, the Inflation Reducation Act would be to the Republican base. After last night, that is no longer correct. The FBI raid on the Trump mansion will displace the Inflation Reduction Act as the force galvanizing the Republican base. And it will be an order of magnitude more powerful.
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04:46

EXPOSED: FBI-Russia Collusion Cover-Up

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It would sound like a joke, if it weren’t for the fact that this is no laughing matter. The infamous Russian source of the infamous Steele dossier was on the FBI payroll until 2020.

Almost a year ago, we reported that the main Steele dossier source had been arrested by the Department of Justice:

"The Department of Justice arrested Igor Danchenko who is responsible for lying to the FBI over the claims that he made that contributed to Christopher Steele’s dossier. The dossier basically claimed that Donald Trump was working for the Russians, when really it appears that it was the Clinton campaign colluding with a Russian national the entire time."

At the time we asked how the FBI could miss this? Well, now we know that it was no mistake. The FBI was paying the Russian asset.

You read that right, as absurd as it sounds. Newly unsealed documents in the filing by Special Counsel John Durham have now revealed that a suspected Russian asset Igor Danchenko was paid by the Deep State FBI to verify the Steele dossier, the main source presented to a FISA judge to obtain a warrant to spy on members of the Trump campaign.

As reported:

"Igor Danchenko, a primary contributor to the Steele dossier, was hired by the FBI as a confidential informant in 2017, Special Counsel John Durham revealed in a new court filing . . . The new filing reveals the FBI hired Danchenko as a confidential informant in March 2017 after having interviewed him about his work on the dossier months earlier. Danchenko is accused of having made false statements regarding the sources of some information that he provided to a U.K. investigative firm in 2017 that was later passed to the FBI."

So let me get this straight, the FBI was already investigating this guy for essentially being a Russian spy, and then said Igor, you’re our kind of guy, a BAD guy and hired him to act as their own asset. Danchenko remained on the FBI’s payroll, which don’t forget is funded by your tax dollars, through 2020 – in other words essentially through the next election cycle. Oh yeah, and then he was charged in 2021 for lying to the FBI. You cannot make this up.

None of this information was disclosed during the Mueller investigation of President Trump regarding alleged Russian collusion? And some wonder why people talk about bias and corruption running rampant on the Left. As my dad points out:

"Nobody was made aware of this during the course of the Mueller probe. Are you going to tell me Bob Mueller and his team didn’t know about this? That this was false? They never should’ve opened Crossfire Hurricane, but it should have been closed immediately. And this just shows you how it reeks."

ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell called out the Deep State FBI for its incompetence and corruption:

"Let’s be very clear, Dachenko was hired and paid by the FBI while the FBI absolutely knew that he was a liar. They knew that he had lied so many times that they couldn’t trust him, but yet they paid him. Now you ask why would the FBI retain someone that they don’t trust, and I can’t answer that. What I can tell you is that FBI agents rank and file, DOJ officials rank and file, all knew that the Steele dossier was filled with fake news. That Steele himself was compromised and paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign. And that Danchenko was the source of the Steele dossier and he was not a credible source. Everybody knew that he was a liar. The FBI continued to pay him. Someone in the Senate has got to go crazy with oversight. This is an outrage. American taxpayers, we’re paying a liar."

This is just further evidence that Crossfire Hurricane was a circus sideshow meant to ruin an Administration based on personal bias and vendettas, and everyone involved needs to be exposed and held accountable. Deep State operatives entrenched in the FBI and DOJ must be ferreted out for the sake of our constitutional republic.

Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes further in depth analysis of this bombshell revelation about the FBI, as well as discussion with Ric Grenell regarding pressing issues that you won’t hear about in the mainstream media.

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5D AGO
A horrible thing that took place yesterday at Mar-a-Lago. We are no better than a third world country, a banana republic. It is a continuation of Russia, Russia, Russia, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax # 2, the no collusion Mueller Report, and more. To make matters worse it is all, in my opinion, a coordinated attack with Radical Left Democrat state & local D.A.’s & A.G.’s.

Biden knew all about this, just like he knew all about Hunter’s “deals.”

What took place yesterday, and long before, was an unprecedented infringement of the rights of every American citizen. Scam after Scam, year after year, it is all the Radical Left Democrats really know, it is their lifeblood - they have no shame. Our Country is paying a very big price!!!

4D
Joe Kent just won an incredible race against all odds in Washington State. Importantly, he knocked out yet another impeacher, Jaime Herrera Beutler, who so stupidly played right into the hands of the Democrats.

Joe is a wonderful guy, who bravely served our Country as a Green Beret. He has a truly bright future.

Congratulations, Joe!

The FBI and others from the Federal Government would not let anyone, including my lawyers, be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged and otherwise looked at during the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, “planting.” Why did they STRONGLY insist on having nobody watching them, everybody out? Obama and Clinton were never “raided,” despite big disputes!

At the very plush, beautiful, and expensive A.G.’s office. Nice working conditions, as people are being murdered all over New York - and she spends her time and effort on trying to “get Trump.”

3D
STOP COMMUNISM IN OUR COUNTRY!

What happened to the 30 million pages of documents taken from the White House to Chicago by Barack Hussein Obama? He refused to give them back! What is going on? This act was strongly at odds with NARA. Will they be breaking into Obama’s “mansion” in Martha’s Vineyard?

I continue to ask, what happened to the 33 Million pages of documents taken to Chicago by President Obama? The Fake News Media refuses to talk about that. They want it CANCELED!

My attorneys and representatives were cooperating fully, and very good relationships had been established. The government could have had whatever they wanted, if we had it. They asked us to put an additional lock on a certain area - DONE! Everything was fine, better than that of most previous Presidents, and then, out of nowhere and with no warning, Mar-a-Lago was raided, at 6:30 in the morning, by VERY large numbers of agents, and even “safecrackers.” They got way ahead of themselves. Crazy!

….Just learned that agents went through the First Lady’s closets and rummaged through her clothing and personal items. Surprisingly, left area in a relative mess. Wow!

WITCH HUNT!

Does anybody really believe that Joe Biden and the White House knew NOTHING about this great embarrassment to our Country - the biggest story since the Afghanistan catastrophe? I don’t think so!

Why does Fox put them on? The perverts of the Lincoln Project were “run out of town” after it was learned that they did some really “bad stuff.” Perversion anyone? Now they have re-emerged with a different but similar name. Keep these sicko’s off television!

2D
Not only will I not oppose the release of documents related to the unAmerican, unwarranted, and unnecessary raid and break-in of my home in Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago, I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents, even though they have been drawn up by radical left Democrats and possible future political opponents, who have a strong and powerful vested interest in attacking me, much as they have done for the last 6 years…

…My poll numbers are the strongest they have ever been, fundraising by the Republican Party is breaking all records, and midterm elections are fast approaching. This unprecedented political weaponization of law enforcement is inappropriate and highly unethical. The world is watching as our Country is being brought to a new low, not only on our border, crime, economy, energy, national security, and so much more, but also with respect to our sacred elections!

Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax, the Mueller investigation was a Hoax, and much more. Same sleazy people involved. Why wouldn’t the FBI allow the inspection of areas at Mar-a-Lago with our lawyer’s, or others, present. Made them wait outside in the heat, wouldn’t let them get even close - said “ABSOLUTELY NOT.” Planting information anyone? Reminds me of a Christofer Steele Dossier!

Democrats in Congress should strongly VOTE AGAINST THE BIGGEST GREEN NEW FAKE DEAL BILL IN HISTORY, which is about to be rammed down the throats of Americans. Those Dems voting against this massive tax hike will be legends - actually be able to win again. Should be called the Inflation Expansion Act. Adds 87,000 gun carrying IRS Agents to cajole and harass you and your family. Call your Democrat Congressmen & women - tell them NOT to vote for this killer. Republicans are 100% against!

167 and 6 on Endorsements this cycle. This includes many who didn’t have a chance of getting elected. Most of the “Impeachers” are gone or going. Crazy Liz Cheney, who rarely leaves Virginia, will be shown the door by the great people of Wyoming next Tuesday. The Unselect Committee is a T.V. ratings “BOMB.” Only the Adam “Shifty” Schitt family is watching!

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President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!
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Number one, it was all declassified. Number two, they didn’t need to “seize” anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago. It was in secured storage, with an additional lock put on as per their request...

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…They could have had it anytime they wanted—and that includes LONG ago. ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK. The bigger problem is, what are they going to do with the 33 million pages of documents, many of which are classified, that President Obama took to Chicago?
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1D
Like all of the other Hoaxes and Scams that they’ve used to try and silence the voice of a vast majority of the American People, I have TRUTH on my side, and when you have TRUTH, you will ultimately be victorious!

Just received the strongest poll numbers I have ever gotten, and the largest amount of campaign contributions from the “people.” The public gets the “Scam,” but this time much earlier than all of the others!

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

21H
The “White House” just announced that it had NO KNOWLEDGE of the early morning RAID on Mar-a-Lago, or the break in of Melania’s closets, my safe’s, or the secured and locked storage area where unclassified documents were safely held, and which the FBI knew of, was shown, and made recommendations that another lock be added (which they cracked, but not with the safecracker that they brought with them!). Does ANYBODY really believe that the White House didn’t know about this? WITCH HUNT!

The RAID was Politics, the Midterm Elections, and 2024. It’s another form of Election CHEATING - That’s all the Radical Left Democrats know what to do. They use the FBI & DOJ to try and dirty up their opponents, but the people of our Country are wise to them like never before. Be careful what you wish for!

8H
The FBI has a long and unrelenting history of being corrupt. Just look back to the days of J. Edgar Hoover. In the modern era, nothing has changed except that it has gotten far worse. Look at Comey, McCabe, Strzok and lover Lisa Page. Check out the brilliantly written but damning I.G. Reports. See what they were willing to do in order to get Crooked Hillary Clinton elected (they failed), and got caught! They spied on my campaign, pushed the FAKE Dossier, and illegally used the FISA Court…..

….The Inspector General said the FBI acted with “gross incompetence and negligence.” I was fully vindicated in the Russia, Russia, Russia SCAM, the “No Collusion” Mueller Investigation, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and all else. NOW THEY RAID MY HOME, ban my lawyers and, without any witnesses allowed, break the lock that they asked us to install on the storage area that we showed them early on, which held papers that they could have had months ago for the asking, and without…..

….the ridiculous political grandstanding of a “break in” to a very storied, important, and high visibility place, just before the Midterm Elections. The whole World was watching as the FBI rummaged through the house, including the former First Lady’s closets (and clothing!), alone and unchecked. They even demanded that the security cameras be turned off (we refused), but there was no way of knowing if what they took was legitimate, or was there a “plant?” This was, after all, the FBI!

Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged “attorney-client” material, and also “executive” privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken. By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. Thank you!

5H AGO
Just left a large gathering of people and all they could talk about was the complete and total stranglehold that the Radical Left Democrats have over the DOJ & FBI. It shouldn’t be that way. Nobody goes after BLM, ANTIFA, or the rest, despite murder, beatings, and burning down large sections of cities, a very unfair double standard. They definitely won’t attack the home of a former Democrat President, nor should they. It is all so out of control, great simmering anger!

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President Trump offered Obama $5 Million to Produce Birth Certificate, Passports, College Records.
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Barak Hussein Obama Regime Tapped then Hacked Trump, his Team. Note: Fox Fired Lou Dobbs.
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25 Million Votes For Hillary Clinton ‘Completely Fake’ She Lost Popular Vote
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Presidential historian Doug Wead to Lou Dobbs: Deep State Attempted Coup d’état of President Trump.
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Young President Trump on Discrimination Against White People
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"EQUITY" MEANS INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE
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Allie of CRTV Made a New Election 'AD' for Democrats
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=HesdUzeQypQ

Dr. Alan Keyes calls Barak Hussein Obama a Radical BabyKilling Marxist!
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=js6aEB4GQUQ

PHILIP GIRALDI CIA ANALYST
https://www.unz.com/author/philip-giraldi/

LARRY C JOHNSON IS A VETERAN OF THE CIA AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT’S OFFICE OF COUNTER TERRORISM

Did Donald Trump Bait the FBI?
https://sonar21.com/did-donald-trump-bait-the-fbi/

Clarifying the System and Authorities to Classify Information–Trump Followed the Law
https://sonar21.com/clarifying-the-system-and-authorities-to-classify-information-trump-followed-the-law/

I suspect the bulk of the readers of this blog have never held a clearance, much less a Top Secret SI TK Gamma with SAPs. In fact, my use of acronyms such as “SI” or “TK” probably has you scratching your head. Understanding the system is key for you to realize that Donald Trump has broken no law and that this latest claim accusing him of illegally taking and storing classified it total bullshit. It is the tactic of desperate men and women eager to put an end to Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign for the Presidency.

Understanding Why the Deep State Is Terrified of trump’s Documents
https://sonar21.com/understanding-why-the-deep-state-is-terrified-of-trumps-documents/
Let me start by suggesting you read the excellent, comprehensive analysis by Sundance at The Conservative Tree House.
I can sum up the Trump documents very succinctly–the documents show that there was a coordinated effort by the CIA, the FBI and DOD starting in the summer of 2015 to interfere in the 2016 election. Part of this effort involved using NSA produced intelligence. Oliver Stone’s movie, Snowden, has a scene that accurately describes what NSA was collecting and how it could be used:

SNOWDEN (2016) by Oliver Stone Full Movie
The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.
https://odysee.com/@stpierrs:f/Snowden-(2016):b
https://odysee.com/@karloscelticum:4/Snowden.2016.1080p-dual-cast:5

What Was in The Trump Documents Creating Such Fear in DOJ and FBI
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/11/part-4-what-was-in-the-trump-documents-creating-such-fear-in-doj-and-fbi/

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Why Woke Globalists Must stop Trump at All Costs, President’s statements on Mar-a-Lago Raid.

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