{"id":49500,"date":"2023-03-03T10:35:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49500"},"modified":"2023-03-03T10:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:35:47","slug":"when-cooler-heads-dont-prevail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49500","title":{"rendered":"When Cooler Heads Don’t Prevail"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, Red State<\/a> posted an article about the raid on Mar-a-Lago. The Red State article heavily quotes an article from The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post reports:<\/p>\n

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Months of disputes between Justice Department prosecutors and FBI agents over how best to try to recover classified documents from Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago Club and residence led to a tense showdown near the end of July last year, according to four people familiar with the discussions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Prosecutors argued that new evidence suggested Trump was knowingly concealing secret documents at his Palm Beach, Fla., home and urged the FBI to conduct a surprise raid at the property. But two senior FBI officials who would be in charge of leading the search resisted the plan as too combative and proposed instead to seek Trump\u2019s permission to search his property, according to the four people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prosecutors ultimately prevailed in that dispute, one of several previously unreported clashes in a tense tug of war between two arms of the Justice Department over how aggressively to pursue a criminal investigation of a former president. The FBI conducted an unprecedented raid on Aug. 8, recovering more than 100 classified items, among them a document describing<\/a> a foreign government\u2019s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

First of all, I question the list The Washington Post is providing. Has that information ever been made public?<\/p>\n

Red State notes:<\/p>\n

The FBI was criticized by both sides during those debacles\u2014Hillary almost had a coronary in 2016 over then-FBI Director James Comey\u2019s handling of her illegal server<\/a> which contained classified information. Yet, her home was never raided, and she never faced charges. It doesn\u2019t take a partisan to point out that there seem to be two systems of justice at play here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article at Red State concludes:<\/p>\n

As we all know, the FBI\u2019s concerns fell on deaf ears, and the raid went ahead as planned. The fact that there was such internal division within the DOJ shows that the surprise offensive was always politicized and heavy-handed. Merrick Garland has repeatedly shown in his term that he values politics over justice, and he will continue to act that way till he\u2019s called to account.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are currently two systems of justice in America. I am not sure how much longer that will last before it becomes a major problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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