A humiliating blow that just might undercut the entire concept of the raid!
Just like there was no "good" reason for Merrick Garland to bypass his own Office of Legal Counsel, there was no "good" reason for him to deny a request for a Special Master. The only "reason" in both cases would be to avoid scrutiny and to allow the FBI unfettered access to materials that otherwise should not have been taken. If this was all an honest deal and there were no nefarious intentions by the DOJ or FBI, then they should welcome a Special Master.
If the Judge follows through with the appointment (and this would be tough to take back at this point) then the documents that have already been reviewed will likely be taken back from the FBI and would (in theory) not be allowed to be used in any sort of future legal action if the Special Master decides that the documents were not part of what they should have been taking.
Al that being said, he FBI has been scouring through these documents already for quite some time. I am guessing this has been pretty much a 24-7 effort since they took the documents. For no other reason than to avoid having a Special Master take the documents if one was appointed. Garland probably knew he would eventually lose on this issue as there was little legal reasoning for not assigning one.
So if there was something big that the FBI had found, we would already know about it. I mean there has been literally no effort from anyone to keep anything secret on this one. The FBI and DOJ have been leaking like sieves. Down to the number of classified documents found in each search (all which should be ironically sort of internally classified information). If there was something gathered outside of these classified documents that was harmful to Trump, the NY Time and WaPo would already be reporting it.
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If he gets it it will have zero authority to get the uncensored indictment from the Department of Justice.
It is just another stunt get his supporters happy.
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And. Trump claimed that the newly released redacted affidavit the FBI submitted in court to obtain the warrant for the search raised “more questions than answers.”
His website is collapsing.
CNN:
Cannon said at the end of the order that it should not be construed as her final decision on the matter.
On Friday, Trump responded to Cannon's request that he elaborate on his request for the special master by pointing to some additional legal discussion of case law that he said supported his request.
Cannon had identified several shortcomings in his Monday filing requesting more oversight.
Reverend...
Do you have a real point?
I hope you are NOT suggesting that it would be wrong for the judge to assign a neutral third party judge assigned special master to oversee this?
Why on god's green earth would you suggest this sort of transparency and oversight would ever be bad? Most ever single (non-far-left-crazy) believes that the DOJ should have ordered one themselves.
I would remind you that the judge herself has not yet decided on whether she will grant this. Why not?
Do you have a real point for that?
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