Before I address the evidence-tampering filing posted by Special Counsel Jack Smith last night, let's turn to the motion that forced Smith to admit what happened--one filed by Walt Nauta's attorney on May 1.
Remember the photo of "classified docs" strewn on the floor with scary looking cover sheets to depict the classification level of various papers?
It appears those cover sheets, or slip sheets, were produced and used by the FBI after the raid.
The cover sheets do not represent the format in which the records were found--an intentional misrepresentation in the court docket for special master lawsuit and by the media.
Here is how Nauta's attorney described what we now know is the FBI's use of "slip sheets" to replace alleged classified papers.
Look familiar?
This is how DOJ in August 2022 described the files in
a filing to Judge Cannon with accompanying photo that went viral to make it appear that this was the original form of the documents seized by FBI.
This does not appear to be the truth--at all. It instead appears that the red, yellow, and blue cover sheets were "slip sheets" the FBI used to replace alleged classified files.
Jack Smith finally admitted yesterday the FBI used those sheets as placeholders (I mean, you can't really say "props" to help stage a "stunt") in his filing last night.
Then laughably claimed FBI found so many classified records they ran out of stunt covers/slip sheets.
I could spend all day posting news articles and segments claiming that photo depicted the form in which the documents originally were found.
Here is what one "intelligence expert" told ABC News after the photo went viral.
There is no indication in initial reporting that the FBI was responsible for those cover sheets.
More here from Jack Smith:
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"Our sources estimate that it was 'easily' hundreds of Las Vegas Metropolitan officers and employees who heard the broadcasts live, so a curious media shouldn’t have a problem reporting any follow-ups to this story."
Las Vegas news reported emergency plans to transport Biden to the only level one trauma center in the area. The hospital received an alert around 2:15pm on July 17.
Staff was on "high alert" and law enforcement presence was heavy including bomb sniffing canines.
Reporter says hospital moved from trauma-based prep to medical emergency with "imaging, X-rays, CTs" ready for scans.
This appears consistent with reports by @jenvanlaar
that Biden suffered a minor stroke:
I have often said, in covering FBI entrapment operations esp Whitmer, that it is amazing these plots don't actually result in violence.
I'm not saying for certain what happened a week ago involved the FBI but there is reason to at least question whether feds were in contact with Crooks prior to July 13.
For example, 2 days after the assassination attempt, DOJ announced the indictment of a 21-year-old Georgian national for plotting a "mass casualty" event in NYC last year.
For months, the individual was in communication on encrypted chats (ESC) with--you guessed it--an FBI undercover agent (UC-1)
The affidavit follows a pattern. Plenty of texts, comms of the defendant but essentially none from the FBI agent.
But even with limited info, it's clear the FBI agent was not simply surveilling or infiltrating a group plotting violence but inciting it.
Similar to Whitmer fednapping hoax, this FBI agent wants to get into the so-called "Maniac Murder Cult," an alleged white supremacist group probably created by the FBI. He then starts to discuss "targets" and how to create explosives.
Here the FBI agent tells the individual he made a Molotov cocktail and asks for advice.
Recall in Whitmer--the FBI embedded an FBI undercover agent in the group in Sept 2020 to pose as an "explosives" expert to keep the FBI's plot going as the group started to disband.
"Red," the FBI UCE, brought a video of an exploding SUV to prove his cred to the target group.
NEW: Sources tell me DHS Secretary Mayorkas is stonewalling the release of this DHS IG report, which would include any security failures or perhaps involvement by the Secret Service on January 6.
For 2 years, the Biden White House, Democrats in Congress, and the media have attacked DHS IG Joseph Cuffari, who discovered that all of the texts belonging to roughly two dozen Secret Service officials including the head of USSS related to Jan 6 had been deleted at the end of January 2021--under the Biden regime.
Cuffari sought a criminal investigation into the purge of the messages--which occurred AFTER Democrats notified each federal agency to preserve all records and documents for Jan 6.
Instead, the J6 Committee and Biden White House started to smear Cuffari, claiming he failed to notify Congress about the missing texts--which is not true.
Cuffari today announced an inquiry into the Secret Service for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
Bennie Thompson--chair of the J6 select committee who pretended his job was to get to the truth about what happened that day--led the smear campaign against Cuffari and it continues to this day.
Thompson at the time was also chair of the House Homeland Security committee.
He apparently ignored Cuffari's warnings that DHS leadership was blocking the IG's investigation into Jan 6. This is from Cuffari's Sept 2021 semi annual report, which presumably Thompson received as committee chairman.
MORE on fallout of Fischer and DOJ's plans to try to make 1512c2 stick to keep J6ers in jail and maintain the charge despite SCOTUS stating evidence impairment element must be present.
DOJ has not made that allegation in any indictment for 3 1/2 years but the crooks at the department are working on it now.
Judge Amit Mehta (I will get to him in a moment) just continued the already delayed sentencing of Oath Keeper Donovan Crowl. Here is what Matthew Graves' office told Mehta--basically, give us a month or so to come up with some garbage excuse to sustain 1512c2 count especially in high profile cases like Proud Boys:
When I am asked which judges should first be impeached (in an ideal world), Mehta is often in my top 4.
Why?
Among other reasons, he permitted the 1512c2 charge to go forward among the greatest number of J6 defendants.
This is from Dec 2021--he admits none of the indictments against the Oath Keepers involved evidence impairment, the new standard established by SCOTUS.
Nonetheless, Mehta denied motions to dismiss based on DOJ's intentional misreading of 1512c2
More from Judge Mehta (Obama appointee).
What he wrote here in Dec 2021 is in direct conflict with how SCOTUS just ruled in Fischer.
So what does Mehta--and 14 of his DC district court judges who also consented to DOJ's now unlawful use of 1512c2--do now?
Apologize to defendants? Vacate their convictions and sentences? Give them back years that some lost languishing in prison as innocent men and women? Remove the terror enhancement he applied in 1512c2 convictions?
BREAKING: Judge Cannon just granted Trump's motion to pause some deadlines in FLA doc case to consider SCOTUS' immunity opinion and potential impact on the case. Trump's lawyers filed the motion yesterday
As expected, Team Trump notes Justice Thomas' concurring opinion suggesting Smith's appointment is unconstitutional.
Trump already has pending motion to dismiss case based on unlawful appointment of special counsel. It was debated at a hearing last month.
Trump again raises Biden's inappropriate remarks after SCOTUS opinion as proof the White House in interfering in the case.
Trump also accuses DOJ of recently leaking info to media--something Judge Cannon admonished special counsel about when she appointed a special master in 9/22. I don't think she will be too happy about this.