{"id":1612680,"date":"2022-08-18T09:33:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612680"},"modified":"2022-08-18T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:34:50","slug":"former-fbi-official-says-trump-could-sue-bureau-after-mar-a-lago-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-fbi-official-says-trump-could-sue-bureau-after-mar-a-lago-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FBI Official Says Trump Could Sue Bureau after Mar-a-Lago Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-fbi-official-says-trump-could-sue-bureau-after-mar-a-lago-raid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612680&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><strong>A former FBI assistant director said former President Donald Trump could likely raise legitimate legal challenges to the FBI\u2019s raid of this home following revelations that his passports were seized.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s attorneys could have a runway to argue the scope of the search is overly broad,\u201d former FBI Assistant Director for Intelligence Kevin Brock <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/courts-law\/doj-admits-it-took-trumps-passports-offers-return-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told <\/a>Just the News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSearch warrants normally require a level of specificity that seems to be missing in this warrant. Specificity is important in order to protect 4th Amendment rights from exuberant government overreach designed to find whatever they can,\u201d the former FBI official added.<\/p>\n<p>Three of Trump\u2019s passports were returned by the FBI as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-seizes-privileged-trump-records-during-raid-doj-opposes-request-independent-review-sources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News<\/a> reported at least five of the boxes seized contained information protected by attorney-client privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative critics slammed the FBI\u2019s raid for being overly broad, noting that the bureau\u2019s court-approved warrant authorized agents to seize from Trump\u2019s resort \u201cany government and\/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis apparently makes a novel legal assertion that any presidential record kept by a former president is against the law,\u201d Brock said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to wonder what the other living former presidents think about that. They have the right and, apparently, clear desire to remain silent,\u201d the FBI official added.<\/p>\n<h2>Passports and privileged documents<\/h2>\n<p>Trump demanded the return of passports and privileged documents in a post on Truth Social on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged \u2018attorney-client\u2019 material, and also \u2018executive\u2019 privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also called for the Department of Justice to release the affidavit used to justify the recent Mar-a-Lago raid. <\/p>\n<p>Trump wrote on social media:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]n the interest of TRANSPARENCY, I call for the immediate release of the completely Unredacted Affidavit pertaining to this horrible and shocking BREAK-IN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FBI said in a<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-accuses-fbi-seizing-passports-raid-mar-lago\/story?id=88433369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> statement<\/a> Tuesday that it \u201cfollows search and seizure procedures ordered by courts, then returns items that we do not need to be retained for law enforcement sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/trump-demands-doj-release-affidavit-used-to-justify-mar-a-lago-raid\/\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday, The Justice Department opposed the release of the affidavit, arguing they needed to \u201cprotect the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security\u201d and protect information about witnesses in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former FBI assistant director said former President Donald Trump could likely raise legitimate legal challenges to the FBI\u2019s raid of this home following revelations that his passports were seized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1612779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}