holy shit, i thought sitting presidents were immune from bitchass stuff like the stormy case, but if you are going after a sitting president's private attorney correspondence, you better be looking for treasonous behavior that you are basically positive will be found

heads need to hit the floor if this isn't a home run. extra base hits aren't good enough.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800122)

See: Clinton, Bill

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800232)

:-S

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800237)

NOTE: Prior approval must be obtained from the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division to issue a subpoena to an attorney relating to the representation of a client. See USAM 9-13.410.

Authorization by United States Attorney or Assistant Attorney General. No application for such a search warrant may be made to a court without the express approval of the United States Attorney or pertinent Assistant Attorney General. Ordinarily, authorization of an application for such a search warrant is appropriate when there is a strong need for the information or material and less intrusive means have been considered and rejected.

Prior Consultation. In addition to obtaining approval from the United States Attorney or the pertinent Assistant Attorney General, and before seeking judicial authorization for the search warrant, the federal prosecutor must consult with the Criminal Division.

NOTE: Attorneys are encouraged to consult with the Criminal Division as early as possible regarding a possible search of an attorney's office. Telephone No. (202) 305-4023; Fax No. (202) 305-0562.

To facilitate the consultation, the prosecutor should submit the attached form (see Criminal Resource Manual at 265) containing relevant information about the proposed search along with a draft copy of the proposed search warrant, affidavit in support thereof, and any special instructions to the searching agents regarding search procedures and procedures to be followed to ensure that the prosecution team is not "tainted" by any privileged material inadvertently seized during the search. This information should be submitted to the Criminal Division through the Office of Enforcement Operations. This procedure does not preclude any United States Attorney or Assistant Attorney General from discussing the matter personally with the Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division.

If exigent circumstances prevent such prior consultation, the Criminal Division should be notified of the search as promptly as possible. In all cases, the Criminal Division should be provided as promptly as possible with a copy of the judicially authorized search warrant, search warrant affidavit, and any special instructions to the searching agents.

The Criminal Division is committed to ensuring that consultation regarding attorney search warrant requests will not delay investigations. Timely processing will be assisted if the Criminal Division is provided as much information about the search as early as possible. The Criminal Division should also be informed of any deadlines.

https://www.justice.gov/usam/usam-9-13000-obtaining-evidence#9-13.420

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800165)

why are libs such faggots these days? It wasn't like this 10 years ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800372)

ljl tyft

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800323)

What's interesting here, however, is that they didn't simultaneously raid the Trump Org. Maybe they are using this as leverage, or maybe they simply don't need to, presuming they'll find all they need by raiding Cohen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800329)

Anyway, then it's equally ridiculous that we have a special investigation for any and all matters related to an election without some type of evidence to trigger it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800457)

You can't find evidence later on in order to justify the investigation you dumb fuck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800548)

it's an extremely frustrating combo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800583)

1) Mueller was appointed to investigate Russian collusion AND any matters arising from it.

2) We cannot ascertain whether this raid was a matter of the former or latter, so your griping is just obvious pro-Trump crap.

3) Either way - whether this raid pertains to the former or latter - it suggests crimes were committed.

4) You seem to suggest some of the President's crimes/potential crimes don't matter to you. That makes you a bootlicker who believes the rule of law should be undermined in favor of a self-styled tyrant.

Is this clear enough?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800591)

Or the matter fell outside the scope of Mueller's authorization.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35802132)

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/982104705928126464

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800346)

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CBS's Pat Milton reports the FBI stormed not only Michael Cohen's office, but also his New York residence, seizing documents and other material, as authorized in a search warrant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800379)

The paparazzi lingering outside the Loews Regency on Park Avenue, hoping to get a photo of U.F.C. fighter Conor McGregor, appeared not to notice the stream of F.B.I. agents who entered the New York hotel early Monday morning, as they made their way up to the room where the president’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has been staying. A handful of them remained upstairs for several hours, according to a source familiar with the situation. “Today the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients,” Cohen’s attorney Stephen Ryan said in a statement. “I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.”

Downstairs, hotel jazz blared on speakers, as women with Louis Vuitton totes and men in Gucci loafers and gold-button blazers checked in and out, while kids in Yeezys and fur-trimmed puffer coats chased each other around the lobby. A woman who looked awfully like Caroline Kennedy made a quick pass through the restaurant, and hotel security seemed to arrange a way for a guest, perhaps McGregor, to make an exit through a side door without being spotted.

The cheery hotel scene belied what has become a growing legal headache for Cohen as Robert Mueller’s Russia probe has expanded to include inquiries into the Trump Organization’s business records and foreign dealings, including in Russia. Last week, McClatchy reported that the special counsel’s investigators showed up with subpoenas to the home of an associate of the Trump Organization, compelling sworn testimony and electronic records. The report indicated that investigators were interesting in interactions involving Cohen.

Monday’s F.B.I. raid was “completely inappropriate and unnecessary,” Cohen’s attorney said. “It resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney client communications between a lawyer and his clients. These government tactics are also wrong because Mr. Cohen has cooperated completely with all government entities, including providing thousands of non-privileged documents to the Congress and sitting for depositions under oath.”

A spokesman for the special counsel’s office declined to comment on Monday. The F.B.I.’s New York office did not respond to a request for comment. Cohen’s cell phone, which is typically ringing off the hook, went straight to voice mail all day on Monday. The New York Times separately reported that the warrant was related to payments Cohen made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, among other issues.

Cohen, a loyal fixer for the Trump Organization and longtime personal friend of the Trump family, has been a person of interest in the Mueller probe since 2016, when his name surfaced in the Trump-Russia dossier compiled by Christopher Steele—a controversial opposition-research document that included claims that Cohen had traveled to Prague to meet with Russian operatives to “clean up the mess.” (Cohen has told me repeatedly that he has never been to Prague, and that the claims in the dossier are untrue; he filed a defamation suit earlier this year against Fusion GPS, which commissioned the dossier, and BuzzFeed, which published it, seeking $100 million in damages.) Last year, it was reported that Cohen had been working on a plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, which did not materialize. In September, he was questioned by congressional committees over the course of two days as part of their investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.

More recently, Cohen’s relationship with the president has become headline news because of the payment he made to Daniels, 11 days before the 2016 election. In January, The Wall Street Journal reported that a shell company set up by Cohen had paid Stephanie Clifford, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels, $130,000 as part of a non-disclosure agreement barring her from discussing her allegation of a 2006 affair with Trump. Her attorney has since filed a lawsuit claiming that the agreement is void because Trump did not sign it; attorneys for Cohen have filed their own suit attempting to bring the matter into arbitration. Trump, who has denied the affair through spokespeople, said aboard Air Force One on Thursday that he did not know about the agreement—a contention Cohen has repeatedly made, as well. While ethics experts have suggested that the payment could represent an illegal campaign contribution if it were deemed to have been made for electoral purposes, Cohen has repeatedly told me that the payment came out of his own pocket and that it had nothing to do with the election. “What I did defensively for my personal client, and my friend, is what attorneys do for their high-profile clients,” Cohen told me last month. “I would have done it in 2006. I would have done it in 2011. I truly care about him and the family—more than just as an employee and an attorney.”

The arrival of F.B.I. agents at the Regency marks another dramatic escalation of the Mueller probe. While Trump’s allies have dismissed many of the people in the special counsel’s crosshairs as low-level campaign officials, or waved away the charges against Paul Manafort as unrelated to Trump, Cohen is inextricably and emotionally linked to the Trump family. He worked in Trump Tower every day, and still remains one of Trump’s personal attorneys, though he left the the Trump Organization around the presidential inauguration. Last summer, he told me he would “take a bullet for the president.”

For months after Mueller’s appointment, Trump and Cohen did not speak regularly, at the advice of counsel, but earlier this year, they started to communicate more. He has had dinner twice at Mar-a-Lago in recent months, including a meeting with Trump on the eve of Stormy Daniels’ sit-down on 60 Minutes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800400)

This faggot is making shit up this is not that nice of a hotel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35802154)

response to my question is curiously absent from your poast friend.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800515)

Conclusion needing proof: the prosecutor has strong evidence.

Assumption: He wouldn't have done it without strong evidence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3943823&forum_id=2#35800694)