The DOJ left a 'tantalizing' warning in their Trump-appointed judge appeal: former FBI official

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Tom Boggioni
September 11, 2022

According to the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, when the Department of Justice appealed Judge Ailleen Cannon's decision on appointing a special master, they left a clue that there are more issues to be resolved.

Speaking with host Alex Witt, former agent Frank Figliuzzi called the legal notation "tantalizing."

Prompting Figliuzzi about the empty files that have DOJ officials concerned, Witt asked, "The DOJ filing says that the FBI is responsible for finding out if they are lost or compromised. Frank, how significant is that?"

'Yeah I mean, just as important as what they found is what they didn't find and the question is of where is it," he replied. "Because as you said, they've got 40-some odd empty folders marked classified and you've got to figure out whether that simply means that the documents were taken out of those folders and intermingled amongst personal belongings and other records, or whether they were truly, truly missing."

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[yankee87]

1. Check Putin and Saudis

We all know those documents were sold for two billion dollars to the Saudis and Putin has blackmailed for them.

[Farmer-Rick]

2. Oh come on.....

He sold them off.

Leaving unguarded secrets around TFG was like leaving candy in front of a baby. You know he had to grab it.

[allegorical oracle]

3. Believe those docs were "mingled" with the private stuff because the dumpf**k(s) who boxed them

didn't believe that a) anybody would actually come to fetch them back, and b) if there was a search, nobody would check drawers that contained tfg's golf socks and skivvies.

[exboyfil]

5. On top of everything else the mixing of classified documents with unclassified material

is hideous. It is like mixing nuclear waste with non-nuclear waste. When I handled classified material I wasn't supposed to put unclassified material in my approved locked file cabinet for just that reason. I could only use my cabinet for Confidential documents. For higher security level I had to go to our library which had our safe. I could only then view the documents in the library and return them when I was finished.

[exboyfil]

4. Any regular person seen hauling document boxes out after a legal inquiry into missing documents

Would have sufficient justification to issue additional search warrants on at least where those boxes were supposed to go.

Will this be a new paradigm for our legal system? Or do exemptions just apply to oligarchs (or Republican oligarchs)?