All search warrants involve the possibility of forced entry. All of them involve police seizures of property, which can subject the personnel involved to legal risks as well as safety risks. The cops or federal agents usually do a good job of identifying themselves during the process of seeking or forcing entry; yet there are tragic instances in which people inside the premises mistakenly believe violent criminals, rather than cops, are trying to get in, resulting in physical confrontations including, sometimes, exchanges of gunfire.

As a result, and as a matter of common sense, the FBI always has an operational plan for carrying out a court-authorized search. That plan customarily involves reminding the search teams of the FBI’s use-of-force policies. Those policies, of course, include a refresher on the conditions under which lethal force may be used. This is to prepare law-enforcement officials for contingencies that are all too familiar, and to protect the agency and agents in the event of later legal claims.

If you don’t instantly grasp why police agencies would perform these prudential steps, you must have been living under a rock for the last decade or so, which has featured no shortage of instances in which allegations of excessive police force have been made (and a thankfully small percentage of instances when excessive force was actually used), with intense scrutiny and occasional rioting in the aftermath.

It would have been surprising if the Mar-a-Lago search hadn’t been conducted in accordance with an operational plan of which use-of-force policies were a component. It was important to do this search by the book — more on that momentarily. But there was never anticipation that force, much less lethal force, would be used, and there was never any threat to the former president. My understanding is that the FBI was reluctant to do the search — it was Justice Department officials who ran out of patience with Trump’s intransigence. The bureau intentionally carried out the search when it was known that Trump was not on the premises.

@Jolly said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

It's not a nothing burger.

It's a former fucking President of the United States. Period.

According to Shipley, former fed prosecutor, now defending ~50 Jan 6 defendants, it's SOP.

I'd like to know...Was deadly force authorized when Biden's home was searched?

Good question. I don't even know if there was a warrant.

@George-K said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

@Jolly said in Mar-a-Lago raided:

It's not a nothing burger.

It's a former fucking President of the United States. Period.

According to Shipley, former fed prosecutor, now defending ~50 Jan 6 defendants, it's SOP.

I'd like to know...Was deadly force authorized when Biden's home was searched?

Good question. I don't even know if there was a warrant.

Probably not, unlike the fat man he was cooperating.

“Two months after the former president yielded 38 unique classified documents to the government on June 3, 2022, the government discovered over 100 additional classified documents stored in Mar-a-Lago during execution of the August 8, 2022 search warrant that the former president had failed to deliver,” the opinion stated.

“The documents were classified to levels as high as TOP SECRET, with some documents bearing additional sensitive compartment indications; undoubtedly, these documents contained national defense information.”

“More classified-marked documents still were uncovered in November 2022 in a leased storage unit, in December 2022 in the Office at Mar-a-Lago, and apparently sometime thereafter in the former president’s own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago.”

Whole document here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.561.4.pdf

Imagine if some trigger happy agent shot Donald Trump...Wonder what the country's reaction would be?

https://ncofnas.com/p/why-we-need-to-talk-about-the-rights

It's not a nothing burger.

It's a former fucking President of the United States. Period.

According to Shipley, former fed prosecutor, now defending ~50 Jan 6 defendants, it's SOP.

I'd like to know...Was deadly force authorized when Biden's home was searched?

Good question. I don't even know if there was a warrant.

It's a former fucking President of the United States. Period.

I'd like to know...Was deadly force authorized when Biden's home was searched?

And like most of Mr. Biden's plans, it was another failure.

Mr. Trump outsmarts them again.

Nothing surprises me anymore.

this nothing burger

Yup.

Interview & profile of a Trump employee who unknowingly got mixed up in the Trump classified documents case.

You mean I have to tell the truth? Fuck that.

Former President Donald Trump has voluntarily dismissed the $500 million federal lawsuit he brought against his former attorney Michael Cohen, according to court records.
The notice, filed Thursday, states that the lawsuit will be thrown out "without prejudice," a distinction that provides Trump the option to refile it later.
Days after his first criminal indictment came down in April, Trump sued Cohen — the key witness in his New York hush-money case and ongoing fraud trial — for a half billion dollars in the Southern District of Florida. He had been scheduled for a deposition by Cohen's lawyer, which he had pushed back twice, on Monday.
The deposition was first scheduled for Sept. 6, but Trump postponed it. After a judge rescheduled it for Oct. 3, Trump pushed back the date again on the grounds that he had to attend court for his civil fraud case in New York.
U.S. District Court Judge Edwin Torres then rescheduled the deposition for a second time for Oct. 9, which is now void.
Cohen's attorney E. Danya Perry said in a statement to The Messenger that Trump dropped the case to avoid facing her questioning.

https://qoshe.com/salon/tatyana-tandanpolie/-didn-t-want-to-answer-questions-under-oath-trump-abruptly-drops-cohen-lawsuit-ahead-of-deposition/166220865

If he had been smarter

That phrase pretty much sums up the last 7 years.

But when you’re sufficiently incompetent it’s both the crime and the attempted coverup.

Yup.

If he had been smarter he would have used hammers, or Bleachbit, or even a cloth.

But when you’re sufficiently incompetent it’s both the crime and the attempted coverup.

Federal prosecutors announced new charges against Donald Trump in his alleged hoarding and hiding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home, alleging the former president and a newly-charged aide tried to keep security camera footage from being reviewed by investigators.

Trump was also hit with with a fresh charge, in addition to the 31 counts he already faces, of illegally retaining national defense information. The indictment also charges that Trump and two aides, Waltine “Walt” Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, requested that another Trump employee "delete security camera footage at the Mar-a-Lago Club to prevent the footage from being provided to a federal grand jury.”

De Oliveira is the second Trump aide to be charged in the documents case. Nauta was charged alongside Trump in June with helping the former president mislead investigators as they sought to retrieve all of the classified documents that remained at the former president’s home and private club after he left the White House.