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Why did the FBI have to go in more than once? [1]

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Date: 2022-08-23

The evolving news about Lie-a-Lago is now focused on the most recent visit. Earlier today, I read an opinion about DoJ’s handling of this ongoing law enforcement travesty. It expressed head shaking wonder about treating the Ex President with “Kid Gloves”. Then just now I saw this and was sickened by it all.

Earlier this year, federal law enforcement officials asked former President Donald Trump to better secure the storage room at his Mar-a-Lago resort where he was keeping presidential records -- and his staff complied by putting a padlock on the storage room door. However, the Wall Street Journal reports that when FBI agents searched the resort earlier this month, they found national security documents outside of the designated area that Trump said he had secured. Specifically, writes the Journal, agents "found highly sensitive and classified documents lying in unsecure places outside the storage room."

Underline by me. I don’t get this. They go in and assume they have it all? Why did they leave any presidential records there in the first place?

So looking a little deeper I found this. Chuck Rosenberg has always sounded a bit overly sure of himself, but here, he misses his mark with fuzzy allegiance.

The New York Times reported that agents swooped into the former president's home after receiving some documents in January and then others in June, but law enforcement expert Chuck Rosenberg told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" how the timeline explained the sense of urgency displayed by investigators but raised new questions about Trump's handling of those documents. "The thing that continues to concern me, if you're acting in good faith, is what took so long, and why is it coming back in batches?" he added. "I don't blame the FBI or Department of Justice one bit for trying to get this stuff back. It's a problem to have it in your basement."

Emphasis by me. If you don’t blame the FBI for trying to get their stuff back, shouldn’t you at least go ahead and put blame on the FBI for not aggressively going after the records in the first place? So yes, new questions about Trump’s handling of the docs have been raised, but the focus should equally raise new questions about the FBI.

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