Speaking Of Phone Calls. . .

How does anything get done at the Department of Justice and the FBI when so many agents are on the phone all day leaking to their media allies? 

After the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, Attorney General Merrick Garland told us that he couldn’t discuss the details of the raid, but he said they would come out “in the appropriate way at the appropriate time.”  

It wasn’t long after he finished speaking that anonymous sources at the Justice Department leaked to the Washington Post that the raid was about recovering top secret information on our nuclear weapons systems.

But then we learned from leaks to the Wall Street Journal that Garland was very serious and thoughtful about this whole process – “deliberating for weeks” over whether to authorize the raid on Trump’s home. 

Really? You’re supposedly worried about nuclear secrets being compromised and you take “weeks” to decide how to respond? That doesn’t make sense at all.

There were also reports of an “informant” inside Mar-a-Lago. Rep. Jim Jordan tweeted today, “If there was a government ‘informant’ at Mar-a-Lago, then we now know they spied on President Trump before he was in office, while he was in office, and after he was in office.”

Today, the Justice Department was in court arguing against releasing the FBI affidavit requesting the search warrant, suggesting it would compromise key details of the investigation. 

Talk about chutzpah! How can they go into court with a straight face and say they can’t disclose the affidavit because it may disclose details when they are constantly leaking to the press?

Well, here’s the latest leak: According to Newsweek, the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago because the Deep State feared that Donald Trump had been collecting material throughout his presidency related to the Russia hoax which he might be able to “weaponize” against the agencies if he became president again. 

Now that sounds like a far more plausible explanation for this unprecedented action. Of course, I don’t know for certain what precipitated the FBI raid, but you can see why the Deep State might be afraid.  

They have been lying to the media, lying to the courts, using the tools we gave them to spy on our enemies to spy on our duly-elected leaders, including the Senate.

These Newsweek leaks seem much closer to the truth, and it is very revealing that the Biden Justice Department is resisting transparency while Donald Trump is the one demanding it.

Just moments ago, Judge Bruce Reinhart issued a split decision, ruling that the entire affidavit should not be disclosed, but some portions can be. He has given the Justice Department one week to submit suggested redactions. I expect the suggested redactions will look something like this.