Judge unseals less redacted version of affidavit used for Mar-a-Lago search warrant

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

A newly unsealed version of the affidavit that federal investigators used to secure a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago revealed some previously unknown details about the classified materials that former President Donald Trump gave to the Justice Department under subpoena in June.

The less-redacted version of the previously released affidavit was unsealed Tuesday by a federal judge in Florida.

It was previously known that Trump’s lawyers provided one envelope to investigators, which contained 38 unique documents with classification markings, according to court filings. But the newly lifted redactions in the search warrant affidavit indicate that some of those classified files contained markings for “HCS, SI and FISA,” according to court filings made public on Tuesday.

These classification markings indicate that the documents were connected to extremely sensitive government programs. “HCS” refers to human sources, or spies, that often work with the CIA. “SI” refers to signals intercepts that are typically handled by the National Security Agency. And “FISA” refers to domestic surveillance and wiretaps related to counterintelligence.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/less-redacted-mar-a-lago-affidavit/index.html

[intrepidity]

1. Please, can someone knowledgable opine on

what the judge may have been thinking by taking this action?

[emulatorloo]

2. Any thoughts on what Cannon is trying to accomplish with this?

Does she somehow believe this info helps Trump? Or is she feeding info to his “lawyers” about the government’s case against Trump?

[Backseat Driver]

8. Government's case is incomplete if they can't continue to investigate the probable/possible

ramifications re national security interests were compromised since the document(s) went "missing/stolen." Isn't it enough that TFG indeed had them outside an appropriately noted secure area?

[onenote]

14. Cannon had nothing to do with this. This was released by the Magistrate Judge, Bruce Reinhart

A completely different case number than Cannon's case.

People are jumping to conclusions without checking the facts.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

17. Ha!!!

Once again, people jumping to conclusions without even reading the article, just the headline.

Thank you for setting record straight.
If I read the article right, it was the DoJ that recommended the release of the updated redacted affidavit.

[onenote]

18. Yep. The caption at the top of the document clearly identifies the case number, Reinhard's initials

[MarineCombatEngineer]

20. Thank you, I was pretty sure that it wasn't Cannon that approved of it. nt

[emulatorloo]

25. Thanks!

[NullTuples]

3. Are circuit judges allowed to effectively override national security redactions?

[Bayard]

4. That's what I'm wondering too

I wouldn't think she'd have the authority to do this.

[onenote]

15. She didn't do this. This was released by Magistrate Judge Reinhart

The judge that authorized the search warrant.

It's a completely different case number.

[NullTuples]

21. Thank you for the clarification!

[FBaggins]

6. It probably isn't a security redaction

It was probably information that they didn't want the Trump legal team to see.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Judge Cannon is part of the conspiracy.

It’s gonna hurt, treason.

[brooklynite]

10. In that case, so is the DOJ...

ABC News

Justice Department makes redacted Mar-a-Lago affidavit public

The Justice Department on Friday made public the redacted affidavit that supported the search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

After reviewing the DOJ's proposed redactions Thursday, a magistrate judge had ordered the redacted affidavit filed in the public docket by noon Friday.

[Kid Berwyn]

24. Sorry, my mistake.

Don’t know about DoJ, but if Trump shopped Cannon for her Trump-friendly approach to jurisprudence, she’s a co-conspirator.

[onenote]

16. For the umpteenth time, this isn't in her court. This is in Magistrate Judge Reinhard's court

And his case. Not Cannon's.

People need to stop jumping to conclusions when they don't have the facts.

[Kid Berwyn]

23. Really? Thanks.

Cannon came to mind for some reason.

[gab13by13]

7. Just wondering if the FISA documents involve Trump?

[onenote]

19. Probably "Russiagate" related. The documents related to the initial investigation.

Trump had a hard on for those documents.

[Marthe48]

9. I didn't see cannon's name mentioned in the story link

Do we just assume it is she who is publicizing information that might help traitor in court?

[brooklynite]

11. No, we can assume DOJ asked the Judge to release them...

[Marthe48]

12. I thought more info would endanger the agents?

I hope it doesn't, hope they all know what they're doing. I was following along pretty good, but the last few days, the legal points are getting more obscure, at least to me

I appreciate your posts on different stories. Many times, I understand when you explain things.

[brooklynite]

13. Not what was released.

[forgotmylogin]

22. Different classifications mixed in one envelope??