The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch moved quickly to uncover the political roots of the FBI’s raid on the bedroom of former President Donald Trump, filing a lawsuit in federal court to unseal the search warrant materials. (RELATED: AG Garland Confirms He ‘Personally Approved’ Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant)
“The Biden administration’s raid on President Trump’s home is an outrageous, reckless and unprecedented abuse of power. And the American people have an urgent right to know how it happened and who is responsible,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
In its motion Judicial Watch states:
Judicial Watch is investigating the potential politicization of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice and whether the FBI and the Justice Department are abusing their law enforcement powers to harass a likely future political opponent of President Biden.
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The public has an urgent and substantial interest in understanding the predicate for the execution of the unprecedented search warrant of the private residence of a former president and likely future political opponent…. [N]o official explanation or information has been released about the search. As of the filing of this motion, the public record consists solely of speculation and inuendo. In short, the historical presumption of access to warrant materials vastly outweighs any interest the government may have in keeping the materials under seal.
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Given the political context, and the highly unusual action of executing a search warrant at the residence of a former President and likely future political opponent, it is essential that the public understands as soon as possible the basis for the government’s action. Any government interest in securing the identities of witnesses and confidential sources, if any, may be addressed by appropriate redactions from the search warrant affidavit.
The FBI’s history of politicized attacks on Trump, some even unlawful, gives even many Trump critics reason to demand to see justification for the raid. (RELATED: FBI Director Breaks Silence Following Mar-a-Lago Raid)
Judicial Watch has been among the most active and successful watchdogs exposing Deep State corruption.
In a statement announcing the lawsuit, Judicial Watch noted the long history of attacks on Trump, outside the law, carried out by the Justice Department and FBI, noting:
Recently, Judicial Watch sued the DOJ for records ordered declassified and released by President Trump the day before he left office. The records relate to “Crossfire Hurricane,” the controversial spy operation against President Trump, his 2016 presidential campaign, and other Trump associates, and have yet to be made public by the Biden administration.
In May 2020, Judicial Watch litigation uncovered the “electronic communication” (EC) that officially launched the counterintelligence investigation, termed “Crossfire Hurricane,” of President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The document was written by Strzok.
In March 2019 Judicial Watch released heavily redacted records from the DOJ that reveal Bruce Ohr remained in regular contact with former British spy and Fusion GPS contractor Christopher Steele after Steele was terminated by the FBI in November 2016 for revealing to the media his position as an FBI confidential informant.
In August 2019, Judicial Watch uncovered “302” report material from FBI interviews with Bruce Ohr, showing that in November 2016, Ohr said that “reporting on Trump’s ties to Russia were going to the Clinton Campaign” and “Jon Winer at the U.S. State Department and the FBI.” The documents also showed that Ohr knew that Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson and others were “talking to Victoria Nuland at the U.S. State Department.” (A Form 302 is used by FBI agents to summarize the interviews that they conduct and contains information from the notes taken during the interview.)
In August 2018, the Justice Department (DOJ) admitted in a court filing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants. Judicial Watch litigation also uncovered the secret FISA warrants that confirmed the FBI and DOJ misled the courts in withholding the material information that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC were behind the “intelligence” used to persuade the courts to approve the FISA warrants that targeted the Trump team.
Also, in August of that year, Judicial Watch discovered FBI records about Christopher Steele, the former British spy, hired with Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funds, who authored the infamous dossier targeting President Trump during the presidential campaign. The documents show that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” (CHS) after he disclosed his relationship with the FBI to a third party. The documents show at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016 and document that he was admonished for unspecified reasons in February 2016.
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All this is very simple: Mr. Garland is getting even for not being allowed to be named to SCOTUS by the Republican Party under the Obama administration. That’s the clue Judicial Watch must pursue in this case.
I really don’t understand ‘why’ journalists who post here, haven’t asked the question, “Why are they still trying to destroy an ex-president? Answer? Do you not understand the REAL Deep State?
Oh I know that most of the leadership of the American Democratic party, and surprisingly a lot of the GOP elite (like ALL RINO’s) are members OF the Deep State, but it seems nobody is catching on to the fact that the real Deep State is not just in America, it’s a worldwide organization that knows if Trump gets in the chair again, he can stop their world wide takeover! They are DESPERATELY trying to keep him out of their way. In fact they have already stated if this FBI false raid and false trial pressures don’t work, the next thing is assassination! Right now, they are desperately trying to get rid of our guns! Americans and their “rights to arms” are standing in the way of what they want to do, and that is one world government through the corrupt UN.
We know some of the members, because they’re not hiding it! Gates? Gates has made it no secret that he believes in de-population, teams with a WW2 criminal George Soros, but surprising other prominent members are George Bush, and his family! Of course Obama and his henchmen like
Eric Holder, and Lynch!
We’ve GOT to wake up to the fact that we are under attack, and if Trump survives to get elected, it will become open war on us from the UN! Trump tried to get us out of the UN, but the Deep State operatives stopped it!
As a journalist, Donny Ferguson, you need to find out everything the United Nations Agenda 21 is, and what it does to us and other countries that are richer than most!
Study it, relate it to what Biden’s administration is doing (EV’s that are not earth friendly is a biggie) and when the ‘due date’ for Agenda 21 is! (Hint? Biden’s 9 years or 2030!)