Thread by @DawsonSField

As I've discussed before, Rudy's lawyers show that the DOJ warrants on Rudy's are meant to gather evidence against his targets & set a precedent that it is admissible evidence when conducing surveillance on the President's lawyer.
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This is Rudy's response to the DOJ filing asking for the court to appoint a Special Master to filter information to protect attorney-client privileged info before investigators & prosecutors see it.
DOJ's filing said there was no pending criminal case against Rudy!

But DOJ & FBI have already had this information for 2 years, so they already know all of this, but it might not be admissible in a prosecution.

So this motion gives the court the chance to rule that the evidence was legally obtained to prosecute Rudy's targets!

For those of you who still won't see the trend in Trump, Giuliani, & their allies serving as FBI assets; Rudy's lawyers spell out that he was cooperating with another US Attorney. Who was Scott Brady of WDPA & his investigation of the crooks in Ukraine.

Setting precedent as to what info is protected by AC privilege & what is admissible as evidence.

The lawyer doth protest too much!
They claim that the iCloud warrant from 2019 required a finding that Rudy would destroy evidence or tamper with witnesses.
That's good bait, but it's likely Rudy's clients are the ones the affidavits will accuse of being tampering w witnesses.

But it gives Rudy an out to claim he didn't know his communications were being monitored by the FBI, which would be an ethical violation that could get him disbarred. Plausible deniability at it's finest!

The Swamp creatures aren't going to like a ruling that even the President's lawyer can be placed under FBI surveillance if one of his clients is a crook!
Hello Marc Elias!

As you can see here, SDNY was investigating Rudy's clients. Again implying that Rudy is not a target of an investigation, but the person holding the evidence of the crimes emanating from Ukraine. Evidence that must be ruled admissible for future prosecutions!

Rudy was acting as an asset for the US State Department in exposing Ukrainian corruption. By serving as a honey trap for anyone who wanted to create fake evidence against the Bidens to influence the 2020 election. He was getting sworn affidavits, but they were false!

This is big too! Rudy was also cooperating with the US government during the Clinton & Bush Administrations! This is likely the NYPD corruption cases brought by SDNY, under then Assistant US Attorney Michael Horowitz who drained NYPD's Swamp for Rudy!

Gee, I wonder what 'unknown reasons' might have made SDNY to get the #Receipts in a covert method so Rudy could continue to run the stings against the Ukrainians. Like a US governement covert operation...

The covert warrant kept the covert operation concealed & allowed SDNY to collect evidence against Rudy's targets. But might be considered 'fruit of the poisonous treee' in a trial, so the overt warrant & filtering processes will establish it as admissible evidence.

Trump DOJ officials who were aware of the scope of Giuliani's covert operations, could not sign off on the warrant or reveal the covert operations to SDNY.
So they waited until Biden officials not read in on the covert operation could sign off on the warrant.

Rudy's attorney's casting unsupported shade on SDNY, while admitting it doesn't know what was said in the warrant applications.

But of course Rudy preserved all the evidence, (unlike the Clintons) to ensure DOJ could use the evidence later!

Of course for ethical & legal reasons, Rudy could not provide any information that might be covered by attorney client privilege. So a voluntary disclosure of evidence would not allow a DOJ filter team to determine that evidence was not AC privileged & provide investigator access

USA Scott Brady became the DOJ's point man on Ukrainian corruption investigations. In January 2020, Rudy began cooperating with that office to provide evidence of Ukrainian corruption.

Rudy provided the FBI & DOJ the documents from Ukraine & an outline of the subjects to be investigated! He provided them with a list of people who were feeding him fake evidence from Ukraine!
The allegation that Rudy would destroy evidence is only in Rudy's claims, not DOJ's.

Of course SDNY could not tell him the specific subject matter. Rudy had to be able to pretend the documents he was receiving from Ukraine were legitimate, otherwise it would be unethical for him to keep saying the allegations in the docs were real.

This is because Rudy's 'clients' were the targets of the investigation and their crime was sending Rudy false information. So the crime of sending Rudy fake documents & perjurous affidavits, invalidated the attorney-client privilege, but Rudy could not ethically say that.

Yep DOJ wanted a broad interpretation of which emails were a crime & not AC privileged to ensure they got the crooks. But now needs a Special Master or the court to approve of that so that the evidence is admissible.

Rudy's team is asking to unseal the warrants based on the fact that the DOJ & grand jury found nothing to indict Rudy for after having covert access to all of he electronic communications!

Again, putting it on record that the information needs to be reviewed to ensure that any claims of attorney client privilege will not prevent the admissibility of this evidence for trials!

Interesting, claiming the warrant might be behind Rep. Schiff's access to Rudy's records. Looks like reporters were suckered in by a claim that he was calling WH officials, without them fact checking that Rudy's son worked at the White House.
The leaks are real, the news is fake!

I'm not implying Schiff did anything wrong here, but maybe the person who leaked it to his committee fell for a honey trap. He's likely been read in on Trump's covert ops since March 2017. He's been a honey trap for Vindmans & Ciamerella types since then...

Do you think some judge's might rule differently if this was Hillary's lawyer & not Trump's?
Absolutely, which is why the Trump team has set this up to get the courts to give DOJ authority to secretly seize evidence from Swamp connected lawyers & covertly use a filter team!

Some of use have been telling folks for years that the aggressive DOJ positions against Cohen, Manafort & Stone were designed to set a precedent, so that later they could get evidence admitted into evidence that otherwise might be ruled privileged.

So the Cohen precedent was used by Trump's DOJ to justify covertly seizing the evidence against Rudy's clients & allowing DOJ to review it & FBI to access any evidence of crimes that cancelled out AC privilege.

This precedent is very important, during the Clinton email investigation. Her lawyers were all given immunity to hand over records like these, on the grounds that DOJ shouldn't get a warrant on a former Cabinet member & Presidential candidates attorneys.
That precedent is gone!

Can't wait for them to get the files of the personal attorneys for former Presidents of the United States Clinton, Bush & Obama...

Precedent matters!

If Rudy loses on this point, keeping identity of clients confidential, then every Swamp lawyer who enabled the crimes of politicians & oligarchs would also risk having their clients exposed to covert DOJ filter teams looking for crimes hidden behind Attorney-Client privilege.

I'm getting the feeling that the Mid Year Exam filter team & HRC's lawyers colluded to conceal texts & emails that were instruments of crimes by claiming they were privileged or secret information...

I think it will be established that SDNY & the affiant, were not aware that Rudy was participating in a covert operation for the US government when they filed the warrant application...
Thus making it admissible against his dirty Ukrainian clients.

Victoria Toensing's counsel has filed a similar motion.
Her's seems to claim but it's redacted that the evidence is connected to representatives of indicted Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash.
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Firtash is very interesting due not his global corruption footprint.
But also because Manafort convinced Michael Chertoff of Covington & Burling to take Firtash as a client.

It was Chertoff who convinced General Flynn's attorneys to get him to plead guilty to a crime he did not commit. Then had a Swampy Republican lawyer who set Flynn up compose some allegations against Flynn in the FARA case.

Firtash is also connected to the corrupt Wirecard e-commerce provider that stole billions of dollars & then imploded while German authorities investigated the reporters that uncovered it!