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In reply to the discussion: This was just reported on MSNBC. [View all]Ponietz
(4,226 posts)rather that fetid gaping hole is as follows:
Legal experts are blasting the Federal Bureau of Investigation after a bombshell Washington Post exclusive report reveals some FBI agents were afraid to raid Mar-a-Lago and some wanted to simply shut down the criminal investigation, delaying for months the retrieval of classified documents that Donald Trump had unlawfully retained and refusal to return.
Months of disputes between Justice Department prosecutors and FBI agents over how best to try to recover classified documents from Donald Trumps Mar-a-Lago Club and residence led to a tense showdown near the end of July last year, The Post reports.
Prosecutors ultimately prevailed in that dispute, and the FBI conducted an unprecedented raid on Aug. 8, recovering more than 100 classified items, among them a document describing a foreign governments military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities.
Two senior FBI officials wanted to ask Trumps permission to go to Mar-a-Lago to search the ex-presidents resort and residence, despite having video evidence that appeared to show a trove of presidential documents being moved from a storage room after Trump was directed to return the items, including classified documents, that had been taken from the White House.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217690654
Even effective prosecutors cannot use evidence produced by dirty cops, and a dirty cop knows many ways to tank a good case
muck up the chain of custody, fail to mirandize, omit details, and so on. They know the elements of the crime and the proof necessary to convict. Wray is the issue not Garland.