[AMV] #1005 Release the warrants! Oh wait, don't release the warrants!

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Op donderdag 18 augustus 2022 18:02 schreef fliert het volgende:
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Ook zo benieuwd hoe de extremen hierop gaan reageren? O, belasting ontduiking moet kunnen?

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Op donderdag 18 augustus 2022 18:02 schreef fliert het volgende:
Ook zo benieuwd hoe de extremen hierop gaan reageren? O, belasting ontduiking moet kunnen?

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Op donderdag 18 augustus 2022 18:02 schreef fliert het volgende:
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Ook zo benieuwd hoe de extremen hierop gaan reageren? O, belasting ontduiking moet kunnen?

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Op donderdag 18 augustus 2022 22:49 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Draadje van 10 tweets. Interesting: all the time ahead:
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Op donderdag 18 augustus 2022 18:02 schreef fliert het volgende:
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Ook zo benieuwd hoe de extremen hierop gaan reageren? O, belasting ontduiking moet kunnen?

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Op maandag 15 augustus 2022 23:17 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Ow in juli beweerde Kash Patel (die namens Trump bemiddelde met het Nationaal Archief) nog dat het 'declassificeringsproces' gestopt is door 'cronies'

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En nu beweren ze dat er een 'standing order' van kracht was dat alle stukken die Trump meejatte vrijgegeven zijn. Erg geloofwaardig!

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As this article was going to press, ABC News published a report that weeks before the Mar-a-Lago search, former President Donald Trump’s associate Kash Patel “vowed to retrieve classified documents from the National Archives and publish them on his website.”

If that scheme involved Trump himself and the Mar-a-Lago documents, it could have significant legal implications for the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigation. Any plan to release the documents could potentially trigger specific elements of the Espionage Act and other criminal statutes designed with the core purpose of preventing unlawful dissemination of classified and other sensitive government documents. As I discuss below, credible evidence of such a plan also would likely factor into the Justice Department’s decision on whether to bring criminal charges.

The ABC News report is based on an interview Patel gave in June. However, Just Security has collected six other interviews and statements in which Patel discussed and elaborated on this plan. The excerpts of each of those are appended below.

The June interview may be among the most innocuous. It suggested Patel would go to the National Archives to obtain the documents. Likewise, in another interview on July 4, Patel suggested his plan was to pressure the Archives to release materials in their possession. Less innocuous and far more incriminating, however, are other interviews in which Patel more explicitly discussed an effort to release documents housed at Mar-a-Lago.

Patel is no ordinary aide to Trump. During the Trump administration, he served as Deputy Assistant to the President, a job he reportedly “landed after Fox News host Sean Hannity took him to meet Trump in the Oval.” After the November 2020 elections, Patel was dispatched to the Defense Department as chief of staff to the acting defense secretary where, among other activities, he reportedly pursued the idea that Italian military satellites had been used to turn votes to Joe Biden in the presidential election, according to Jonathan Karl’s book and the House Select Committee hearings. Since leaving office, Patel has joined the board of directors for the former president’s media company, Trump Media & Technology Group. On June 19, 2022, Trump sent a letter to the National Archives designating Patel as one of the former president’s “representatives for access to Presidential records of my administration.” Patel claims to have been in the room when then-President Trump verbally declassified documents. He has often made other statements in right-wing interviews that anticipate and put forward Trump’s specific claims of innocence about the Mar-a-Lago documents.

The Dissemination Plan
When news of the Mar-a-Lago documents began heating up in May 2022, Patel spoke with right-wing media outlets about Trump’s objectives in retaining these documents. He began laying out the defense that the documents had been “declassified,” and specifically identified Trump’s goal to release the information publicly. He described the content of the documents to include matters related to the Russia investigation (Crossfire Hurricane), but also a much broader range of issues.

“It’s information that Trump felt spoke to matters regarding everything from Russiagate to the Ukraine impeachment fiasco to major national security matters of great public importance — anything the president felt the American people had a right to know is in there and more,” Patel told Bretbart on May 5. He also said, “Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves.”

That same day, Patel spoke with a right-wing video show and discussed Trump’s goal of “transparency” in releasing such information. He said:

“Part of that transparency comes in the form of, you know, providing the American public with information that should never have been classified or kept from them in the first place. And what he did was on his way out of the White House, he declassified — made available to every American citizen in the world — large volumes of information relating, not just to Russiagate, but to national security matters, to the Ukraine impeachment, to his impeachment one, impeachment two.”

All things that deep-staters, as you know, Buck, in government go in there and get their hands on and classify ’cause they don’t want the truth to get out ’cause it’s gonna make Trump look good ’cause he always supported the truth and the facts. And that’s what we have here is a whole slew of documents and information that President Trump wanted to put out.”

“We’re hoping to get this information out soon,” he added.

In the June 21, 2022 interview covered by ABC News, Patel spoke about using his official status as Trump’s representative to the National Archives to obtain and release the documents. He said, “Now that I am now officially a representative for Donald Trump at the National Archives, I’m going to march down there — I’ve never told anyone this, because it just happened, and I’m going to identify every single document that they blocked from being declassified at the National Archives and we are going to start putting that information out next week.” It is notable that Patel promised to start putting out the information, even though his interviews were replete with references to the National Archives opposing such a move.

In a July 4 interview for another far-right media show, Patel referred to pressing the National Archives for documents on the Russia investigation to “be released because they are already declassified.” Referring to the Russia investigation, he said “the American public has only seen sixty percent of what we’ve been able to see;” “Why won’t they release the other forty percent? … So I am going to continue that work at the National Archives, I apologize I can’t get it declassified overnight, but I’m on it.” At varying points in the interview, Patel appeared to maintain the line that the information was already declassified and at other times admit it was not.

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Op donderdag 18 augustus 2022 23:41 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:

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Als ik mediabiasfactcheck zo lees, of een beetje google, is dit niet bepaald een beste bron.

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Op vrijdag 19 augustus 2022 03:00 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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Oops. Al weer in de fout!? Het is dan een RT via een bron, die ik wel vertrouwde. En dan bewaar ik het draadje voordat het verdwijnt en post het dan zonder check verder. Dan moet ik mijn leven beteren.
Dank voor de correctie.

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A document unsealed Thursday, which offered specifics about the crimes the Justice Department is investigating, including "willful retention of national defense information," sharpens the focus on former President Donald Trump as a possible subject of the criminal probe, several legal experts told CNN.

US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart on Thursday released several procedural court documents related to the FBI's search of Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. The newly unsealed document was part of the application for the warrant and was among several largely procedural documents the judge unsealed Thursday.

Previously, the search warrant documents only listed the federal statutes, including the broad law known as the Espionage Act. And the documents released so far have made clear that Trump and others around him face potential legal exposure, including for possible obstruction of justice.

But the specific language on "willful retention" could point to the role of the former President, who would have been authorized to possess national defense documents while in office but not once he decamped to his private club and residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

In the filings, prosecutors also argued that they needed to keep secret their search warrant paperwork before the search last Monday, "because the integrity of the ongoing investigation might be compromised, and evidence might be destroyed."

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Op vrijdag 19 augustus 2022 04:47 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Federale rechter heeft de uitvoering van Florida's Stop WOKE Act (en DeSantis' paradepaardje) geschorst:

Uit draadje:

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Op vrijdag 19 augustus 2022 04:56 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:

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Kan het nog aangevochten worden in hoger beroep of is deze uitspraak definitief?

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Op vrijdag 19 augustus 2022 05:05 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Dat zal best wel. Mss wil Trump's SC daar uiteindelijk wel een uitspraak over gaan doen

Oh dit is alleen het tijdelijke stopzetten in afwachting van een rechtszaak

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