{"id":129298,"date":"2022-08-16T09:05:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T13:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129298"},"modified":"2022-08-16T07:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T11:57:32","slug":"the-justice-department-requests-that-the-mar-a-lago-affidavit-remained-sealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129298","title":{"rendered":"The Justice Department requests that the Mar-a-Lago affidavit remain sealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/You-are-here-Trump-heading-to-prison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/You-are-here-Trump-heading-to-prison-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/You-are-here-Trump-heading-to-prison-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/You-are-here-Trump-heading-to-prison-339x333.jpg 339w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/You-are-here-Trump-heading-to-prison-768x755.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/You-are-here-Trump-heading-to-prison.jpg 807w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department wants to keep the affidavit, related the warrant that called for the Mar-a-Lago raiding, to remain sealed. They argued that there was an ongoing investigation and its integrity needed to be protected. They also indicated that the release of the affidavit would have implications for national security.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From the Post Millennial:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Information about witnesses is particularly sensitive given the high-profile nature of this matter and the risk that the revelation of witness identities would impact their willingness to cooperate with the investigation,&#8221; the DOJ said.<\/p>\n<p>The warrant enabled more than 30 federal agents to storm Trump&#8217;s Florida property on the belief that Trump and his team had not returned all documents that are deemed government property under the Presidential Records Act, specifically materials related to the National Archives and Records Administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disclosure of the government&#8217;s affidavit at this stage would also likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance may be sought as this investigation progresses, as well as in other high-profile investigations,&#8221; the DOJ said in reference to sources.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There remain compelling reasons, including to protect the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security, that support keeping the affidavit sealed,&#8221; the DOJ said while confirming that it has no objections to other information related to the warrant being released.<\/p>\n<p>The request to see the information was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida by various media groups who wanted to see the information.<\/p>\n<p>Separately Senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio wrote Avril Haines, the director of National Intelligence, and Attorney General Merrick Garland for more information on the incident.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Post Millennial article for this story is <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-biden-administration-tells-judge-not-to-unseal-affidavit-for-mar-a-lago-search?utm_campaign=64487\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department wants to keep the affidavit, related the warrant that called for the Mar-a-Lago &hellip; <a title=\"The Justice Department requests that the Mar-a-Lago affidavit remain sealed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129298\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Justice Department requests that the Mar-a-Lago affidavit remain sealed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,613,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-joe-biden","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}