{"id":46847,"date":"2022-08-17T06:18:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=46847"},"modified":"2022-08-17T06:18:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:18:59","slug":"where-is-the-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=46847","title":{"rendered":"Where Is The Transparency?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, The Hill<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n

The Justice Department on Monday told a federal judge that releasing the law enforcement affidavit used to obtain a search warrant for former President Trump\u2019s home would jeopardize an ongoing investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors submitted a court filing opposing any efforts to unseal the document laying out probable cause for the search. The filing came just days after they agreed to release a copy of the warrant itself as well as a receipt listing the materials that were seized during the search of Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe affidavit supporting the search warrant presents a very different set of considerations,\u201d the filing reads. \u201cThere remain compelling reasons, including to protect the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security, that support keeping the affidavit sealed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prosecutors typically submit affidavits from law enforcement officials when seeking a judge\u2019s authorization for a search warrant. These documents are meant to provide an overview of evidence collected during an investigation that would support the probable cause needed to obtain a warrant under the Fourth Amendment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The court filing submitted Monday \u2014 which was signed by Jay Bratt, the head of the DOJ\u2019s counterintelligence office, and Juan Antonio Gonzalez, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida \u2014 argued that disclosing the affidavit used to secure the Mar-a-Lago warrant would cause \u201csignificant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hate to be cynical (but I am getting good at it), but I translated that as ‘give us more time–we are trying to invent some evidence.’ The term ‘ongoing investigation’ is always used when the Justice Department is avoiding transparency.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

They argued that revealing sensitive information about the investigation could also affect law enforcement\u2019s ability to secure cooperation from potential witnesses and risk revealing identifying details about any witnesses who are already working with investigators.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not the Justice Department of a free country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, The Hill reported the following: The Justice Department on Monday told a federal judge that releasing the law enforcement affidavit used to obtain a search warrant for former President Trump\u2019s home would jeopardize an ongoing investigation. Federal prosecutors … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15639,269,15640,15612,5566,9533],"class_list":["post-46847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-affidavid","tag-justice-department","tag-ongoing-investigation","tag-raid-on-mar-a-lago","tag-search-warrant","tag-the-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46848,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46847\/revisions\/46848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}