{"id":27044,"date":"2025-12-17T09:45:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=27044"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:45:51","slug":"bidens-fbi-had-no-probable-cause-to-raid-mar-a-lago-memos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=27044","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s FBI Had No \u2018Probable Cause\u2019 To Raid Mar-a-Lago: Memos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are preparing to provide Congress with internal emails that they say show FBI officials warned the Justice Department during the Biden administration that there was insufficient probable cause to search former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence, officials told Just the News.<\/p>\n

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The emails are set to be provided to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees as early as Tuesday. This comes ahead of a scheduled deposition on Wednesday from former special prosecutor Jack Smith, who took over the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case just months after the August 2022 raid on Trump\u2019s home\u2014an event that significantly impacted the political landscape leading up to the 2024 election,\u00a0Just the News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Internal memos prepared by the FBI\u2019s Washington field office indicate that agents did not believe probable cause had been established before the search of former President Donald Trump\u2019s Florida residence, according to a source with direct knowledge of the documents slated to be turned over to Congress.<\/p>\n

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The source said the memos reflect internal concerns within the FBI about whether the Justice Department, under the Biden administration, had met the legal threshold required to obtain a search warrant. Despite those concerns, prosecutors moved forward with the search, officials told the outlet.<\/p>\n

Disagreements among FBI personnel over the decision to search Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home have been previously reported, but the emails expected to be released provide more detailed accounts of the specific objections raised by agents regarding the sufficiency of probable cause, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

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The search of Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence became a major political flashpoint ahead of the 2024 presidential election and ultimately led to two federal indictments against Trump. Both cases were later dismissed.<\/p>\n

Republicans have argued that the prosecutions were politically motivated, a claim the Justice Department has denied, said the report.<\/p>\n

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As part of its oversight of the federal investigations into Trump, the House Judiciary Committee recently issued a subpoena requiring Special Counsel Jack Smith to sit for a closed-door deposition on Wednesday, Just the News noted further.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Committee on the Judiciary is continuing to conduct oversight of the operations of the Office of Special Counsel you led \u2014 specifically, your team\u2019s prosecutions of President Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants,\u201d Chairman Jim Jordan\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0in the letter accompanying the subpoena two weeks ago. \u201cDue to your service as Special Counsel, the Committee believes that you possess information that is vital to its oversight of this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter Koski, an attorney representing Smith, said the former special counsel will comply with the subpoena.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Smith\u2019s scheduled testimony, House Democrats have sought to compel the release of a classified version of his final report on the investigation. Trump\u2019s legal team has filed court motions seeking to block the report\u2019s release, said the outlet.<\/p>\n

Smith may have believed he was untouchable when he led the Biden administration\u2019s high-profile legal campaign against Donald Trump, but a group of Republican lawmakers\u00a0has made it clear<\/a>\u00a0that his alleged misconduct won\u2019t go unanswered.<\/p>\n

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, joined by a coalition of Republican senators and one congressman, sent a formal letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi in October referring Smith to the Department of Justice\u2019s Office of Professional Responsibility and two state bar associations for investigation.<\/p>\n

The letter accuses the former special counsel of serious professional misconduct that could warrant disbarment, The New York Post\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs part of Jack Smith\u2019s weaponized witch hunt, the Biden DOJ issued subpoenas to several telecommunications companies in 2023 regarding our cell phone records, gaining access to the time, recipient, duration, and location of calls placed on our devices from January 4, 2021, to January 7, 2021,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have yet to learn of any legal predicate for the Biden Department of Justice issuing subpoenas to obtain these cell phone records,\u201d the letter added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n