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  • Re: Biden signed off on FBI review of Trump records

    From Nevermind@21:1/5 to In reply to "Johnny" who on Wed Aug 24 13:13:19 2022
    In reply to "Johnny" who wrote the following:

    By Bill Mears
    Published August 23, 2022

    The Biden White House, at the request of the Justice Department, signed
    off to have the FBI and the intelligence community examine hundreds of
    pages of classified documents former President Trump turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), a newly-surfaced government letter reveals.

    Debra Wall, NARA's acting head, penned a letter to Trump attorney Evan Corcoran May 10 revealing federal officials had been negotiating for
    months with the Trump team over whether federal law enforcement and intelligence officials should be allowed to conduct a national security review or whether the material should be shielded under Trump’s
    purported assertion of executive privilege.

    The letter, posted Tuesday on the NARA website, indicates the Biden administration did not believe a former president could assert
    executive privilege over material that, by law, had to be turned over
    to NARA.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ biden-signed-off-fbi-review-trump-records-national-archives-letter-reveals

    They don't believe? That doesn't sound like legal talk to me.

    Shouldn't they know for sure what they are doing is legal before they
    raid a former president's house?

    Read the news. Red flags were flying in a blizzard over Trump's actions. The National Archive gave Trump repeated oppotunities to return the highly
    classified data that he stole. The government decided that despite the optics and precedent, they had to put America first.

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  • From Johnny@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 24 07:47:22 2022
    By Bill Mears
    Published August 23, 2022

    The Biden White House, at the request of the Justice Department, signed
    off to have the FBI and the intelligence community examine hundreds of
    pages of classified documents former President Trump turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), a newly-surfaced government letter reveals.

    Debra Wall, NARA's acting head, penned a letter to Trump attorney Evan
    Corcoran May 10 revealing federal officials had been negotiating for
    months with the Trump team over whether federal law enforcement and intelligence officials should be allowed to conduct a national security
    review or whether the material should be shielded under Trump’s
    purported assertion of executive privilege.

    The letter, posted Tuesday on the NARA website, indicates the Biden administration did not believe a former president could assert
    executive privilege over material that, by law, had to be turned over
    to NARA.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-signed-off-fbi-review-trump-records-national-archives-letter-reveals

    They don't believe? That doesn't sound like legal talk to me.

    Shouldn't they know for sure what they are doing is legal before they
    raid a former president's house?

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