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Now turning to perhaps the most problematic issue for Jack Smith and Jay Bratt, his lead prosecutor.

This is from court transcript of April 12 hearing. Cannon (who probably already knew the real answer) asked Bratt about the condition of the seized boxes.

This is not true:

Recently Mr. Woodward, Mr. Murrell, Mr. Irving, went to the FBI's Washington field office in D.C. and reviewed the boxes that were seized by the FBI –

THE COURT: Are the boxes in their original, intact form as seized?

MR. BRATT: They are, with one exception; and that is that the classified documents have been removed and placeholders have been put in the documents.

But in conjunction with their visit a couple of weeks ago, we prepared for them a chart that lists all the boxes that

had classified documents in them, and which classified

JK;Jack Smith confessed as much in yesterday's filing. He would not have but for Nauta's attorney busting DOJ for tampering with evidence.

JK: Defense building evidence to support motion to dismiss on prosecutorial misconduct–which is pending before Cannon.

1. Location of Classified Documents Within Each Box: Since the boxes were seized and stored, appropriate personnel have had access to the boxes for several reasons, including to comply with orders issued by this Court in the civil proceedings noted above, for investigative purposes, and to facilitate the defendants' review of the boxes. The

inventories and scans created during the civil proceedings were later produced in discovery in this criminal case.Because these inventories and scans were created close in time to the seizure of the documents, they are the best evidence available of the order the documents were in when seized. That said, there are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans.?

There are several possible explanations, including the above-described

instances in which the boxes were accessed, as well as the size and shape of certain items in the boxes possibly leading to movement of items. For example, the boxes contain items smaller than standard paper such as index cards, books, and stationary, which shift easily when the boxes are carried, especially because many of the boxes are not full. Regardless of the explanation, as discussed below, where precisely within a box a classified document was stored at Mar-a-Lago does not bear in any way on Nauta's ability to file a CIPA Section 5 notice.

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JK: This is even more stunning by Smith.

JK:Setting aside the FBI high-tailed it out of southern FLA to conduct the investigationwithin the confines of the corrupt Washington FBI field office,Smith admits DOJ cannot be sure every place holder corresponds with the correct document.

1. Processing the Boxes After Seizure: All seized boxes were stored overnight at the FBI field office in Miami and flown back to Washington, D.C., the next day. A D.C.-based filter team reviewed any boxes potentially containing privileged materials and provided contents to the investigative team on a rolling basis, as the filter team resolved any privilege issues. The documents with classification markings were secured in areas approved for their storage, and since then the boxes have been stored at two Washington Field Office ("WFO) locations that could only be accessed by individuals assigned to this case. After the boxes were brought to WFO, the FBI created an index to correlate the documents with classification markings to codes (e.g., document "bb) and labeled the classified cover sheets in the boxes with the codes for the seized documents. The FBI also generally replaced the handwritten sheets with classified cover sheets annotated with the index code, but regardless, any handwritten sheets that currently remain in the boxes do not represent additional classified documents they were just not removed when the classified cover sheets with the index code were added. ==In many but not all instances, the FBI was able to determine which document with

classification markings corresponded to a particular placeholder sheet.==

JK: This is an answer todefense accusations that incriminating files do not correspond with FBI index of evidence.

JK: And look at that FBI slip sheet–what a shoddy operation conducted by sloppy investigators bc they have zero accountability.

Following defense counsel's review of the physical boxes, the unclassified scans of the contents of the boxes, and the documents produced in classified discovery,defense counsel has learned that the cross-reference provided by the Special Counsel's Office does not contain accurate information. For example, Box A-15 is a box seized from the Storage Room and is identified by the FBI as Item 10. The FBI Index indicates that the classified documents removed from the box (and where a cover sheet was inserted in its place) appear in the order listed below. The contents of the unclassified discovery pertaining to Box A-15 begins at USA-00340924, with the first inserted at the second page of the scan, or Bates labeled USA-00340925:

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>>20819418

This is why troopers were called to UVA

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Lot more Red states

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Collin Rugg

Blasting Born in the USA while waving USA flags.

Good times at University of Chicago.

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>>20819476

It’s nice to see, they say gen Z is the most patriotic generation since the 1980s

Tom Fitton

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EVIDENCE TAMPERING? Biden DOJ/Jack Smith just admitted they messed with boxes supposedly containing "classified" documents they seized from Trump and can't be sure the order or placement of the documents as originally found has been maintained – which is contrary to what they assured the court!

Footnote 3: The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel

previously understood and represented to the Court. See, e.g., 4/12/24 Hearing Tr. at 65

(Government responding to the Court’s question of whether the boxes were “in their original, intact

form as seized” by stating “[t]hey are, with one exception; and that is that the classified documents

have been removed and placeholders have been put in the documents”

And here is an admission of the FBI completely screwing with the classified documents:

"After the boxes were brought to WFO, the FBI created an index to correlate the documents with classification markings to codes (e.g., document “bb”) and labeled the classified cover sheets in the boxes with the codes for the seized documents. The FBI alsogenerallyreplaced the handwritten sheets with classified cover sheets annotated with the index code, but regardless, any handwritten sheets that currently remain in the boxes do not represent additional classified documents—they were just not removed when the classified cover sheets with the index code were added.In many but not all instances, the FBI was able to determine which document with classification markings corresponded to a particular placeholder sheet."

Yet more reason to throw out this sham prosecution.

https://courtlistener.com/docket/67490070/522/united-states-v-trump/

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Link to all docs released by Judge Cannon:

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https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1786543300247241201

>>20819741

Politico does backflips to downplay tampering by FBI.Pretty obvious cover up

Prosecutors: Docs in boxes seized from Mar-a-Lago were inadvertently jumbled

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team acknowledged mischaracterizing the issue at a recent hearing in the Trump classified documents case, but said the reordering was not significant.

By JOSH GERSTEIN and KYLE CHENEY

05/03/2024 05:54 PM EDT

Updated: 05/03/2024 07:58 PM EDT

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team acknowledged Friday that some evidence in the prosecution of former President Donald Trump for hoarding classified documents at his Florida home may not be in the same sequence FBI agents found it when they swept into the Mar-a-Lago compound with a search warrant in August 2022.

The concession from prosecutors in a court filing Friday afternoon came after attorneys for one of Trump’s co-defendants asked for a delay in the case because the defense lawyers were having trouble determining precisely where particular documents had come from in the 33 boxes the FBI seized almost two years ago.

In their filing, prosecutors acknowledged the government had previously — and incorrectly — told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that the boxes remained “in their original, intact form as seized,” other than a decision to replace classified documents with placeholder sheets.

That depiction, the prosecutors conceded, is “inconsistent” with their current understanding that some of the documents are not now in the same order as they appear in digital scans of the records that were made in the fall of 2022 after Cannon ordered an unusual process to review whether the FBI may have seized legally privileged records.

“There are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans,” prosecutors wrote, adding in a footnote: “The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court.”

Prosecutors claim the discrepancies in the sequence of the records is of no significance to the criminal case filed in June 2023. Smith’s lawyers say the apparent jumble took place despite various precautions, including having an FBI agent present while an outside vendor scanned the documents so that Trump’s attorneys could see what was seized. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ultimately halted the review Cannon ordered.

Prosecutors also said the act of moving the boxes might have caused the apparent shifts because of “the size and shape of certain items,” but they did not say if that could account for all the instances where documents appear to be out of the original order.

“For example, the boxes contain items smaller than standard paper such as index cards, books, and stationary [sic], which shift easily when the boxes are carried, especially because many of the boxes are not full,” prosecutors Jay Bratt, Julie Edelstein and David Harbach wrote.

Smith’s team revealed in the filing that FBI agents carried printed “classified cover sheets” during the Aug. 8, 2022, search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and used them to replace any classified documents they discovered in cardboard Bankers Boxes that littered the former president’s residence.

“The investigative team used classified cover sheets for that purpose, until the FBI ran out because there were so many classified documents, at which point the team began using blank sheets with handwritten notes indicating the classification level of the document(s) seized,” the prosecutors wrote.

Later, they said, the handwritten notes were replaced with more formal placeholder sheets, but some of the handwritten ones may have been left in the boxes as well, complicating efforts to link a placeholder to a specific classified document.

“Any handwritten sheets that currently remain in the boxes do not represent additional classified documents — they were just not removed when the classified cover sheets with the index code were added,” Smith’s team wrote. “In many but not all instances, the FBI was able to determine which document with classification markings corresponded to a particular placeholder sheet.”

Prosecutors say despite the reordering, each box still contains precisely the same material it had in it when it was seized.

In a post on his Trump Social site Friday, Trump painted the disclosures at catastrophic for the government’s case.

Smith “and his team committed blatant Evidence Tampering by mishandling the very Boxes they used as a pretext to bring this Fake Case,” Trump said, accusing prosecutors of “deeply illegal” actions that should trigger dismissal of all charges.

Trump’s trial in the classified documents case is still officially set to open on May 20, but all sides in the case have agreed that date is unrealistic.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/03/mar-a-lago-trump-classified-documents-00156124

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Teddy Roosevelt’s great-great-great grandson is anti-Israel protester at Princeton

David Spector

Speak softly and carry a big keffiyah?

The great-great-great grandson of President Teddy Roosevelt appears to have traded the Rough Riders for Hamas and Hezbollah, as he vocally supports the anti-Israel tent encampments erupting at universities across the country.

Quentin Colon Roosevelt, 18, a freshman at Princeton University who also once served as Washington DC’s youngest elected official, is staunchly anti-Israel despite his famous ancestor’s support for a Jewish state.

Roosevelt wants the Ivy League university, where he serves on the student government, to “divest” from Israel and has vowed “we will not stop, we will not rest” in a recent post on X that included an image of a hand-drawn Palestinian flag.

The teen, who also worked to re-elect‘Squad” member Summer Lee this spring, retweeted a post from the far left rep likening Israel’s war against Hamas to a “genocide.”

Roosevelt also accused Israel of committing “massacres in Gaza,” but does not appear to have condemned Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7 terrorist attacks which left at least 1,200 Israelis dead.

The Bull Moose nepo baby has implied he’s even helped organize the anti-Israel demonstrations at Princeton, where students have displayed the Hezbollah flag, chanted for “intifada revolution,” and shoved Jewish counterprotesters.

“We’ve set up a peaceful student protest in solidarity with our peers at Columbia, Yale, UT Austin, and other universities nationwide,” Roosevelt wrote on X on the first day of protests.

Princeton has seen more than a dozen students arrested since the protests began April 25, and Roosevelt has been outspoken against the police action.

“You can threaten us, but you cannot silence us @Princeton,” the college freshman wrote on X.

Roosevelt attempted to pass an amendment in Princeton’s student government condemning the arrests, but an 11th-hour effort mounted by the school’s Jewish student body forced the vote to be rescheduled.

Theodore Roosevelt, who supported the Balfour declaration — issued by the British Government in 1917 during World War supporting the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region — had a very different attitude toward Israel than his distant descendent.

“It seems to me that it is entirely proper to start a Zionist state around Jerusalem,” Roosevelt famously said in 1918, at the end of World War I.

The 26th president, who himself was a Harvard man, was the first US president to appoint a Jew to his cabinet, and lauded Jews who served under him when he was commissioner of the NYPD.

President Roosevelt criticized Russian Czar Nicholas II after the 1903 Kishniev pogrom, in which marauders killed 49 Jews and raped 600 Jewish women after rumors spread that a Jew murdered a Christian child.

(I hope Teddy haunts him)

https://nypost.com/2024/05/04/us-news/teddy-roosevelts-great-great-great-grandson-is-anti-israel/

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Kek

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UVA police rip down a Palestinian flag that was placed on Thomas Jefferson's statue.

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At Least One Justice — Clarence Thomas — Appears Open To Disqualifying Jack Smith From Prosecuting Trump

The court’s senior justice took notice of an argument that could put the special counsel’s tenure in jeopardy.

Almost no journalists picked up on Justice Clarence Thomas’s question, put from the high bench during the Supreme Court hearing in the January 6 case, about whether President Trump may challenge, on constitutional grounds, the qualifications of the special counsel. Yet the poser suggests that at least one member of the Supreme Court is watching the issue.

Awake, we say. Justice Thomas’s inquiry came in oral arguments in the case of Trump v. United States. The high court’s most senior member, who is known for rarely asking questions, inquired of Mr. Trump’s attorney, John Sauer, if “you, in this litigation, challenge the appointment of special counsel?” Justice Thomas must have seen the issue marked in an amicus brief by two former attorneys general supporting Mr. Trump, Edwin Meese, 92, and Michael Mukasey, 82.

Mr. Sauer answered, “Not directly.” He added, though, that Mr. Trump’s lawyers “have done so in the Southern District of Florida case, and we totally agree with the analysis provided by Attorney General Meese and Attorney General Mukasey.” Those eminences argue that Mr. Smith assumed his position in violation of the Constiution’s appointments clause.

That clause ordains that the president “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States,” but that “Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.”

The brief appealing to that clause is docketed before Judge Aileen Cannon in the Mar-a-Lago case and the Supreme Court in the January 6 one. In it, Generals Meese and Mukasey, joined by two professors, Steven Calabresi and Gary Lawton, argue that Mr. Smith’s appointment is invalid because he was not nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.

Mr. Smith was appointed not by President Biden but by Attorney General Garland. Unlike, say, Robert Hur, the special counsel who investigated Mr. Biden, Mr. Smith was not already serving in the Department of Justice in a Senate-approved role. He was prosecuting war crimes at the Hague, a position that demands no senatorial scrutiny. He was a private citizen, not a public servant confirmed by the Senate.

The challenge to Mr. Smith’s appointment notes that Mr. Smith “wields tremendous power, effectively answerable to no one, by design. And that is a serious problem for the rule of law — whatever one may think of former President Trump or the conduct on January 6, 2021, that Smith challenges in the underlying case.”

Mr. Sauer echoed this position in court, telling Justice Thomas of the “extraordinary prosecutorial power being exercised by someone” — that’s Mr. Smith — “who was never nominated by the president or confirmed by the Senate at any time.” The reference to the Sunshine State reminds Justice Thomas that Judge Cannon is yet to rule on the challenge, one of many filed by Mr. Trump.

Mr. Smith argues that his appointment passes constitutional muster because he is an “inferior officer” under the terms of the Appointments Clause. That means he can be named to his position by the “Heads of Departments,” one of whom is General Garland. The special counsel emphasizes that he can be fired and that the attorney general oversees his work, if not on a day-to-day basis.

That does not sway the amici, who write that nothing “remotely authorized the appointment by the Attorney General of a private citizen to receive extraordinary criminal law enforcement power under the title of Special Counsel.” They maintain that he is a superior officer, and therefore needs Senate confirmation or a congressional statute expressly authorizing his appointment.

Mr. Smith leans on the Supreme Court case, Morrison v. Olson, which upheld the predecessor to his office, the independent counsel, as constitutional. Only Justice Antonin Scalia dissented. Storm clouds, though, could be gathering over that precedent. During those same oral arguments at which Justice Thomas posed his question, Justice Brett Kavanaugh called it “one of the Court’s biggest mistakes” and a “terrible decision.” (Kavanaugh is a coward)

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Patriotic dog wants to sing at the MIT rally for Israel.

Great work

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