{"id":1629751,"date":"2022-09-01T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629751"},"modified":"2022-09-01T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T18:16:42","slug":"former-us-intel-chief-fbi-didnt-find-what-they-were-looking-for-in-trump-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-us-intel-chief-fbi-didnt-find-what-they-were-looking-for-in-trump-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Former US Intel Chief: FBI \u2018Didn\u2019t Find What They Were Looking for\u2019 in Trump 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\">30<\/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-us-intel-chief-fbi-didnt-find-what-they-were-looking-for-in-trump-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=1629751&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--><p>Former Director of National Intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-john-ratcliffe\">John Ratcliffe<\/a> said he believes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> \u201cdidn\u2019t find what they were looking\u201d for during last month\u2019s raid on former President Donald Trump\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a former federal prosecutor, United States attorney. Let me tell you what this is about. Good prosecutors with good cases play it straight. They don\u2019t need to play games,\u201d Ratcliffe told Fox News on Wednesday, referring to officials within the Department of Justice (DOJ). \u201cThey don\u2019t need to shop for judges, they don\u2019t need to leak intelligence that may or may not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of the DOJ\u2019s arguments against having Trump appoint a special master to review allegedly classified documents, it \u201ctells you that the government didn\u2019t find what they were looking for,\u201d Ratcliffe said. \u201cThere weren\u2019t nuclear secrets\u201d kept at Mar-a-Lago, <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6311667689112&amp;w=466&amp;h=263\">he added<\/a>, \u201cand they\u2019re trying to justify what they\u2019ve done. They\u2019re not playing it straight before the American people. I think that that\u2019s going to play out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe, a former Texas congressman who later headed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under Trump, did not provide any specific evidence for his claims and appeared to be speculating on the DOJ\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Aug. 8 raid on Mar-a-Lago, neither the DOJ nor the FBI has revealed what materials agents were trying to find. A heavily redacted affidavit used to obtain the search warrant last week provided few details, but it said prosecutors believed there were allegedly classified documents being kept in Trump\u2019s Florida residence.<\/p>\n<p>The former president and some former White House aides say that Trump had a standing order to declassify any materials that left the Oval Office and were taken to Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>Court Hearing<\/p>\n<p>A photo included in the latest DOJ filing appeared to show documents\u2014some marked \u201cTOP SECRET\u201d and \u201cSECRET\u201d\u2014scattered on the floor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said he believes the FBI \u201cdidn\u2019t find what they were looking\u201d for during last month\u2019s raid on former President Donald Trump\u2019s home. \u201cI was a former federal prosecutor, United States attorney. Let me tell you what this is about. Good prosecutors with good cases play it straight. They [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1894800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/former-us-intel-chief-fbi-didnt-find-what-they-were-looking-for-in-trump-raid_4704401.html","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629751","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}