Jack Smith Appears to Have Lied to Congress About His Pretext for Hounding Trump About Missing Documents

Jack Smith seems to have, get this, lied to Congress about his pretext for opening up the criminal prosecution of Trump.

Just like the Russiagate Hoax.

New documents first obtained by the Daily Caller suggest former special counsel Jack Smith may have misled lawmakers and the public regarding the pretext for his investigation into President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents.

The documents reveal the National Archives' internal watchdog did not consider its February 2022 message to the Justice Department (DOJ) about Trump's possession of classified documents a criminal referral, contradicting Smith's account of how the case began. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) case report from February 2022, obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, notes that its message to the Justice Department was a referral, but not a criminal referral.

Smith had previously claimed in court filings that the investigation was "[p]rompted by NARA's discovery of classified documents in the 15 boxes in January 2022 and a criminal referral from NARA in February 2022."

So first he admitted he predicated opening the investigation on the NARA "referral."

But when it turned out that you can't open a criminal investigation based on a non-criminal "referral," he retconned his story and said it wasn't based on the NARA complaint.

"The OIG determined that this matter and the other relevant matters be classified as -R (referral to DOJ for their assessment and guidance, not the same as a criminal referral for prosecution which is only done for criminal investigations)," the report first made in 2022 and edited throughout 2023 to include such information notes.

FBI messages included in the documents show that the bureau first treated the missing documents complaint as a "spillage" issue with "little likelihood of being pursued as a criminal matter."

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"Based on the allegations as set forth below and as supplemented by our virtual meeting, Matters 1, 2, and 3 are not matters for which PIN would open a criminal investigation at this time. If you develop additional evidence related to these allegations, especially as to the contents of the underlying documents or any evidence," it continued about the potential case.

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In June 2023, Smith's office received a massive trove from NARA: 54 spreadsheets of text messages from inside Trump's orbit obtained from the White House custodian.

After obtaining the documents, senior attorney Thomas Windom was eavesdropping on the conversations between Trump and his top advisors in his first administration, including former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, former Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, first daughter Ivanka Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and many others. It appears the review was done without first separating potentially privileged information.

Republican Senator Jack Haggerty has filed a bar complaint against sleazy Democrat operative Jack Smith.

Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., filed a bar complaint against former Special Counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday for his "serious misconduct" in running the Biden-era Arctic Frost lawfare against Donald Trump and other Republicans.

Jack Smith is "a blatantly partisan actor and his prosecutorial misconduct damaged our constitutional order. He should never be able to practice law again," Hagerty wrote in an X post announcing his filing.

The complaint filed with the Tennessee Supreme Court's Board of Professional Responsibility takes aim at Smith's use of subpoenas to obtain the phone toll records of Hagerty and other Republican members of Congress. Not only did Smith and his team seek and obtain non-disclosure orders to prevent the phone companies from notifying the GOP officials that their records were being subpoenaed, but they also reportedly did not disclose to the court approving the NDOs that the subpoenas targeted members of Congress.

Marsha Blackburn has already sued him, and wants him criminally charged.

"I think that it would be a good thing for him to face prosecution," Blackburn told the John Solomon Reports podcast this week just hours before she filed her lawsuit alleging Smith was never lawfully a special counsel and therefore violated her rights as a member of Congress by collecting her phone records.

"I think it would be a good thing for him to have to reveal who all was in on this with him, and I think it would be a very good thing for him to have to return all these records to the people that he [has] victimized," she said.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:10 PM

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