Alan DiCenzo
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FIRST EVER FBI RAID ON AN EX- PRESIDENT
Some almost random comments:
Well, first, this is SO obviously about keeping Trump out of the hands of American VOTERS, who should be the ones to decide if he should be President again (If he even decides to run in 2024). But on that score, I think it is certain to fail, because of what we all know about our legal system: Even if they bring charges against him immediately, the wealth of legal delays and blockages available to T will mean that a legal case and conviction could not possibly reach fruition until AFTER T is re-elected and already serving again as President.
Second the problem of anti-T bias and unequal application of the law has made a total mockery of DOJ and the FBI. Just think D Trump H Clinton B Clinton H Biden J Biden S Berger etc., etc., ad infinitum and ad nauseum. This inequality will create major problems, including legal challenges, which will make it impossible for J Biden, AG Garland, the DOJ and the FBI to carry out any meaningful prosecution of T, AT LEAST IF the institutions which make America America and guard our freedoms (?), principally the courts now, continue to act as institutions of integrity, truth and equal application of the law.
Next, T had complete declassification authority when he left the WH, just as does every President, and you can NOT prosecute someone or claim obstruction of justice when there is no possible crime. Nixon said it’s not illegal if the President does it. If he meant that generally, we know how wrong he was. But he was 100% right in one sense: The President has absolute authority to control classification, to classify and declassify any document or documents he/she might wish to, so at the very least it’s HEAVILY debatable whether a President could ever be charge with anything for taking home whatever documents he/she wished when leaving the WH.
Then, what about this “terrifying security risk” if T kept in his home SCI and “higher” docs including even info which could endanger the identities and lives of some of our clandestine personnel abroad or at home (e.g., Mafia and Cartel protected witnesses), and that some of these docs were casually “mixed” with unclassified, etc., docs? Are you SERIOUS? This is at Mar A Lago, a heavily guarded compound where the President always has Secret Service protection and other secure institutions for the rest of his life. And back when there was clearly open and cooperative negotiation with NARA, T even conversed with and offered for them to take any docs they wished and all they “wished” was for him to install a safer lock on the door of a room where this stuff was stored. Then he got raided with no warning. REALLY?
If I were a Chinese or Russian operative, MAL would be one of the LAST places where I’d ever try to get my hands on classified info. I’d much rather go after those 33,000 H Clinton emails, already hacked and stolen by Russia, or the classified server she maintained, completely illegally, and again already hacked by the Russians, etc.. Come on, man. MAL, that’s ridiculous.
And do ANY of us believe, even in the corners of our mind, that T took this stuff home specifically by intention with full awareness that he was taking home extremely “dangerous” spy into, etc.? Really? You can pretty much almost call it a fact that no T personal awareness and involvement was involved here at all. Staffers and other pack all this stuff up, under the general direction of someone like T; some of these staffers might even have been NARA employees. Come on man! Are you serious? NO charges against T will have the least staying power in light of these considerations.
Finally, assuming even that somehow T DID deliberately chose “sources and methods” docs to take home, then what does that mean? If that is even true (and we still have SO much more to learn), then apart from Presidential declassification authority, I am unable at this point to see a good reason for taking such information home and keeping it. This does NOT mean there could NOT be such a good reason. I just don’t see it in my mind’s eye at the moment. IF that even ever becomes an issue, THEN HOW could it ever go anywhere, unless we take EVERY ex-President in modern times, “raid” or negotiate a “visit,” and check all their holdings for perhaps similarly classified information. Again, under “equal” justice, how can there be this obsession with T until we know if this is what EVERY President did when they left office, for whatever reasons? For example, didn’t I hear B Clinton kept MILLIONS of pages of such info, not thousands like T. Come on man.
Well, there’s SO much to learn. There are SO many very concerning Q about why DOJ/FBI did what they did in the WAY that they did it. Why raid after all that apparent communication and cooperation? Why not use one of the many “lesser” alternatives, such as subpoeanas (Can some human being actually SPELL that word?) or notices of intent to come and search and remove docs; it could all have been worked out amicably and so routinely and peacefully. This wrangling has taken place every time a President left office. Was T so difficult that these universal methods could no longer be applied with him? We didn’t see any raids on H Clinton, B Clinton, S Berger, etc., and their situations appear MUCH more risky to me, plus that had no declassification powers. There are SO many other ways. Then, why wait 18 months if this is so terrible, and then wait as much as 2 weeks after the warrant, and then still wait over the weekend before actually raiding? Come on man. Listen to what your NOSE is telling you. Does your nose work?
My guess is that if they tell T about these “dangerous” sources, etc., docs, he would answer simply, “Oh really, you found those? Please, take them back immediately; I don’t need them and didn’t even know about them.” Come on man. Use your common (?) sense.
But, after all this, YES, there is still the possibility (NOT a PROBABILITY IMO) that when (or IF) this finally plays out all the way, I will come to regard T as a truly guilty man who behaved in ways truly unacceptable to me, obviously intentionally illegal and obviously showing a blatant disregard for the well-being and security of the country he appears to love, and says he loves. Time will tell. Right now, Sat 27 Aug 022, 1010 am, I plan to still vote for him in 2024 if he will run. Let’s see what happens…..
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