Breitbart Slammed for Doxxing FBI Agents Involved in Mar-a-Lago Raid

 https://www.newsweek.com/breitbart-slammed-doxxing-fbi-agents-involved-mar-lago-raid-1733401

Conservative media outlet Breitbart is facing criticism for publishing the names of FBI agents involved in the raid of former President Donald Trump's home.

Breitbart published a leaked version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, including the names of an FBI special agent and supervisor agent, on Friday. The agents both signed their names on receipts for property seized from Trump's home, including boxes of classified documents that reportedly may have included nuclear secrets. A redacted version of the warrant, which omitted the names of the agents, was officially released hours later.

Commentators soon took to Twitter to accuse Breitbart, an outlet previously managed by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, of doxxing—the practice of identifying a person or releasing personal information about them, often with the aim of enabling targeted harassment. Some also accused Trump of leaking the warrant to Breitbart in hopes of targeting the agents.

Antisemitism on the field: The English soccer team inciting Israel hatred

 https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/08/08/antisemitism-on-the-field-the-english-soccer-team-inciting-israel-hatred/

Third-division English soccer club Forest Green Rovers is far from impressive on the field, and in the stands, Vince, the team's owner, understands that athletic competence alone won't spark media interest in his unheralded squad. So how can he attract some attention, and better yet for free? Vince's method is simple: He has turned his club into the leading voice for the anti-Israel boycott movement.

Vince, the owner and founder of the British energy company Ecotricity, which specializes in wind and solar energy products, purchased Rovers in 2010 and immediately went about hitching the club to his anti-Israel agenda. The team's games serve as a platform for extremist ideas that paint the Jewish state as evil and the root of all problems. As for Jewish soccer fans, it is best they do not attend these matches, especially if they're wearing anything identifying them as such.

Jerusalem terror attack: Shooter turns himself over to Israel Police

 https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-714649

The man suspected of carrying out a shooting terror attack in Jerusalem turned himself over to security forces on Sunday morning after searches for him carried on through Saturday night, an Israel Police spokesperson said in a statement.

The suspect was taken in for questioning, and his gun was confiscated.

At least eight people were wounded - two severely and five mildly and moderately - in a shooting attack targeting a bus near King David's Tomb near the Western Wall on Saturday night.

Teenager jailed after beating a rabbi over the head with a concrete brick

 https://www.thejc.com/news/news/teenager-jailed-after-beating-a-rabbi-over-the-head-with-a-concrete-brick-1wUJjQllruDgklgk7f81kd

A teenager who beat a rabbi over the head with a concrete brick in a vicious antisemitic attack has been sentenced to three years and seven months in a young offender institution.

But the judge expressed his frustration at not being able to give the attacker a longer term behind bars after he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge than he might have faced.

National Archives counters Trump’s baseless claims about Obama records

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/12/trump-obama-national-archives/

In its statement, NARA said that it obtained “exclusive legal and physical custody” of Obama’s records when he left office in 2017. It said that about 30 million pages of unclassified records were transferred to a NARA facility in the Chicago area and that they continue to be maintained “exclusively by NARA.”

Classified records from Obama are kept in a NARA facility in Washington, the statement said.

“As required by the [Presidential Records Act], former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the Presidential records of his Administration,” the statement said.

Former President Trump's lawyer certified in June that no classified material remains at Mar-a-Lago

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-president-trumps-lawyer-certified-june-no-classified-material-remains-mar-lago 

In a Truth Social post on Friday, after the warrant was made public, Trump disputed whether the documents the FBI seized were classified.

"Number one, it was all declassified. Number two, they didn’t need to ‘seize’ anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago. It was in secured storage, with an additional lock put on as per their request..." Trump said. "They could have had it anytime they wanted—and that includes LONG ago. ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK. The bigger problem is, what are they going to do with the 33 million pages of documents, many of which are classified, that President Obama took to Chicago?"

Trump lawyer claimed no classified material was at Mar-a-Lago in signed letter to Justice Department

 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/13/politics/trump-attorney-classified-documents-mar-a-lago-search/index.html

One of former President Donald Trump's attorneys signed a letter in June asserting that there was no more classified information stored at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The letter signed by the attorney raises fresh questions about the number of people who may have legal exposure in the ongoing investigation into the handling of classified materials from Trump's time in the White House.

The probe reached dramatic heights earlier this week when the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, with agents removing 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were marked as "top secret/SCI" -- one of the highest levels of classification.

That inventory list contradicts the attorney's letter. The removal of that classified information after the letter was sent could explain why prosecutors cited an obstruction law in their search warrant request.

Trump says "it was all declassified" — how declassification usually works

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-classified-records/

It is also unclear how central a legal question the classification process and the president's role in it could be. As the New York Times points out, none of the statutes cited in the warrant rely on whether the records were classified or not. The search warrant signed by the Florida magistrate judge entails items "illegally possessed in violation of 18 U.S.C. § § 793, 2071, or 1519." 

Trump claims Mar-a-Lago documents were 'declassified.' Why experts reject that argument.

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/12/trump-says-mar-a-lago-documents-declassified-experts-disagree/10310614002/?gnt-cfr=1

Former President Donald Trump claims that documents the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago were 'declassified

Even a president is subject to federal laws designed to protect the most sensitive documents, experts say.

The FBI seized 11 sets of secret, top secret, confidential and other classified documents.

Altered image of Bruce Reinhart, Ghislaine Maxwell circulates after FBI search of Mar-A-Lago

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/08/12/fact-check-altered-image-bruce-reinhart-ghislaine-maxwell-circulates/10307916002/

Our rating: Altered

Based on our research, we rate ALTERED an image that purports to show Reinhart with Maxwell. The original image shows Maxwell rubbing Epstein's foot, and it was released in 2021 amid her sex-trafficking trial. A 2017 photo of Reinhart watching a football game was edited into the image in the Facebook post in place of Epstein.

Judge who approved FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search represented clients linked to Jeffrey Epstein

 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/09/judge-mar-a-lago-epstein-00050739

He worked as a federal prosecutor until Jan. 1, 2008, when a day later he became a defense attorney representing employees of Epstein, according to a 2018 story by the Miami Herald. According to the Herald, the employees included pilots for Epstein, his scheduler and a woman who had been described by some of Epstein’s victims as his sex slave. Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan federal jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.

Trump is pushing us toward the abyss

 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/8/12/23302835/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago-search-warrant

Conservative media has taken a similar line. Fox News has been leading the charge against Judge Bruce Reinhart, who authorized the FBI search warrant, on grounds that he represented clients with ties to Jeffrey Epstein over a decade ago. On Thursday night, Fox host Brian Kilmeade displayed a fake picture of Reinhart on a plane with Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell. Little wonder, then, that Reinhart and his synagogue have been receiving threats.

 

Trump's 'Declassified' Defense After FBI Raid 'Is Going to Fail': McQuade

https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-declassified-defense-after-fbi-raid-going-fail-mcquade-1733438 

Speaking with The Washington Post, one source close to the situation claimed that some of the documents pertained to the country's nuclear arsenal. If true, this would also invalidate Trump's declassification defense, as presidents lack the authority to declassify nuclear information. The search warrant also revealed that the ex-president is under investigation for potentially violating the Espionage Act.

Attorney Shoots Down Trump’s ‘Insane’ New Document Defense