77. Based upon this investigation, I believe that the STORAGE ROOM, FPOTUS's residential suite, Pine Hall, the "45 Office," and other spaces within the PREMISES are not currently authorized locations for the storage of classified information or NDI. Similarly, based upon this investigation, I do not believe that any spaces within the PREMISES have been authorized for the storage of classified information at least since the end of FPOTUS's Presidential Administration on January 20, 2021.
78. As described above, evidence of the SUBJECT OFFENSES has been stored in multiple locations at the PREMISES. [next nine lines of paragraph 78 redacted.]
Accordingly, this affidavit seeks authorization to search the "45 Office" and all storage rooms and any other rooms or locations where boxes or records may be stored within the PREMISES, as further described in Attachment A.[...]
CONCLUSION
79. Based on the foregoing facts and circumstances, I submit that probable cause exists to believe that evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation 18 U.S.C. §§ 793(e), 2071, or 1519 will be found at the PREMISES. Further, I submit that this affidavit supports probable cause for a warrant to search the PREMISES described in Attachment A and seize the items described in Attachment B
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ATTACHMENT B
Property to be seized
All physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or
other items illegally possessed in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 793, 2071, or 1519, including the
following:
a. Any physical documents with classification markings, along with any
containers/boxes (including any other contents) in which such documents are located, as
well as any other containers/boxes that are collectively stored or found together with the
aforementioned documents and containers/boxes;
b. Information, including communications in any form, regarding the
retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defense information or classified material;
c. Any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021; or
d. Any evidence of the knowing alteration, destruction, or concealment of
any government and/or Presidential Records, or of any documents with classification markings.
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To state the obvious, this affidavit was based on what the FBI learned in the January 2021 and June 2022 recoveries and on witness statements and video. That is, the affidavit was prepared for the Aug. 8th search, it is not about what was uncovered in the Aug. 8th search. We have no idea what was recovered Aug. 8th. The redacted affidavit is silent on what specific docs FBI had p.c. for before Aug. 8. The redacted affidavit adds little new facts to what we already knew. It would not pass the "Douthat Test" of "sale to the Saudis"; nor in all likelihood would the complete, unredacted affidavit pass the Douthat Test. There is just no evidence of rumor that 45th sold or transmitted the docs.
Will the fruits of the Aug. 8th search pass the Douthat Test? To state the obvious once again, we don't know any more today than we knew yesterday about what specifically was recovered on Aug. 8 but I would be shocked if 45th sold or transmitted them. So Douthat would not have had 45th arrested based on this redacted affidavit. For me, the evidence even in the redacted portions so warrants. Two people unrelated to the 45th investigation have been convicted and sent to jail on this same statute subsection, Samuel L. Morison in a case cited in the affidavit, and Kenneth Wayne Ford, Jr. Let’s see what the 4th Estate says.
