Redaction
In the Book of Life, there are some lines in everyone’s chapters that most would like to cover with a thick black marker. Hide them from the world. That’s the simple definition of redaction. However in the case of legal matters, such as the FBI raid on Trump’s home, the affidavit that authorized such an unprecedented act deserves the absence of any blacked-out lines. Instead, the liberal use of a yellow highlighter is needed. Obfuscating the reason for the search is increasing evidence that the rogue FBI break in of the former President’s home was a calculated partisan hit job. Americans deserve the reasoning behind the Justice Department’s action, not the liberal media’s misleading conjecture.
Seems that a National Archive librarian had a hissy fit over some documents that were at Mar-a-Lago, in the basement, double locked, and surround by Secret Service agents 24/7. The documents are reputed to be Top Secret and confidential in nature and could affect the well-being of the United States. Bunk. This is not the first time a former President has had in his possession documents from his presidency outside the National Archives. Obama shipped 30 million documents from his time in office to Chicago. Of course none of them were sensitive. More bunk. Then again perhaps the librarian thought Trump was going to sell them on eBay.
Then there’s Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, Senator, and First Lady who was caught with a private computer server loaded with Top Secret state department email correspondence in her Chappaqua, New York estate. She conducted government business on it, with no accountability for whatever she was doing. The material on that private server was stolen, and when caught, she tried to delete half of it. Even though she and Bill are guarded 24/7 this was a far greater breach of national security. Anyone with the IQ higher than a boxcar knows that computer servers are constantly victimized by international hackers. Hillary was never President; her documents were never declassified, and all were available digitally online. No one has figured out how to hack a locked guarded basement. There is ample evidence that Hillary’s server was hacked several times. Trump’s basement not so much. Hillary got off the hook.
The Biden regime has claimed to have no knowledge of Attorney General Garland’s and FBI Director Wray’s raid. Horsefeathers. They were aware of the planned raid on the former President’s home. Emails have surfaced, thanks to some investigative reporting by John Solomon, that dispute the current false narrative of ignorance pushed by White House Press Secretary Jean-Pierre. Anyone who thinks that this isn’t a designed political hatchet job, designed to deflect attention from the chaotic governance of Joe and his crew, is eligible for an all-day pass to LaLa Land. The White House was up to its neck in this swampy deep state violation of Trump’s Fourth Amendment rights.
The FBI spent nine hours in Mar-a-Lago rummaging through the private residence portion of the estate. The jack-booted agents were even searching the former First Lady’s closet. One can be certain that national secrets were in her lingerie drawer or Louis Vuitton handbags. Can anyone image the outrage if the same raid were conducted by former FBI Director James Comey on the Clinton Chappaqua manse, a holy site revered by the progressive left. The shock of agents pawing their way through Bills sock drawer and checking the pockets of Hillary’s pant suits would be a pearl clutching moment for the left.
On Friday a federal judge released a heavily redacted version of the affidavit the FBI used to justify its search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. Even with page after page of redactions, the publication seemed to confirm that the search really is about a dispute over documents. It supports the legal argument made by several prominent attorneys that Trump committed no crime. According to these legal scholars, his rights under the Presidential Records Act, override the statutes the Justice Department cited as a basis for the search.
Confidence in the FBI has reached an all-time low. Once regarded as a somewhat reliable investigative agency despite the revelations of J. Edgar Hoover’s tenure as a world class blackmailer. Whistleblowers from the agency have begun to talk to Congress, prompting a memo from the agency cautioning personnel against revealing the nature of ongoing investigations. It appears that there are some rank-and-file members who haven’t bought into the corruption of the seventh floor. Good for them.
Trust in government and its leaders is essential to this republic, but sadly the mountain of malfeasance that has piled up over the last 20 months cannot be hidden with a broad black Sharpie. Folks are fed up, weary of the drama and continual investigations of Trump over the last 6 years. Apparently the vilification of Trump is the only arrow in the progressive Biden regime quiver as the November midterm elections loom. However, the coddling of a coke sniffing grifter whose law breaking is verifiable on an Apple laptop hard drive continues by the corporate media.
Meanwhile Joe has taken to the road, bloviating about unity, law and order, more law enforcement funding, claiming that Trump supporters are practitioners of semi-fascism while he avoids the obvious real problems facing Americans: high inflation, high gas and food prices, the border crisis, and the fentanyl epidemic.
Joe’s in his redacted zone…The Twilight Zone.