re: FBI conducted pre-dawn raid of Manafort's home in late July.

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Because they're the FBI. We're members of the public and don't need to have details disclosed to us at this time. We'll find out when the investigation concludes. The public simply isn't important enough to warrant giving away key details at this time.

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You're not a very smart person.

As any investigator will tell you, a warrant being served doesn't mean a crime has been committed. It doesn't mean a judge has looked at the evidence and said "yep this person committed a crime" it simply means a judge has been convinced that a search is warranted and some judges are very easy to convince. There is no appeal to a search warrant, it's based solely on a judge's discretion, and some judges are quite friendly to law enforcement and yes LEOs know exactly which judges those are.

Yeah, if anything damning would have been found, it would have been leaked already.

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As any investigator will tell you, a warrant being served doesn't mean a crime has been committed. It doesn't mean a judge has looked at the evidence and said "yep this person committed a crime" it simply means a judge has been convinced that a search is warranted and some judges are very easy to convince.

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Well he didn't say a crime had been committed, he said:

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Sounds to me like they had a good reason to search his home.

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I mean maybe the judge was too easily convinced, but since we don't know, and we know "probable cause" is a requirement, it's not crazy to assume they "had a good reason."

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are they going to snag Manafort for something unrelated to Russian interference?

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It seems he has issues unrelated, or loosely related to Russia, although it could be both in the end.

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Yeah, if anything damning would have been found, it would have been leaked already.

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We didn't know Flynn was under investigation for his involvement with Turkey until May, despite the investigation beginning before he was appointed.

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I mean maybe the judge was too easily convinced, but since we don't know, and we know "probable cause" is a requirement, it's not crazy to assume they "had a good reason."

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The standard is "reasonable and probable grounds" which again is pretty easy to meet, and while I guess you could call that "good reason" based on my experiences with obtaining search warrants I can tell you that isn't always true.

And further proving that the decision to either ask for or grant search warrants is pretty subjective both on the parts of law enforcement and judges , one need look no further than say Hillary Clinton. Were these self righteous assholes who are now screaming about Trump and his associates anywhere to be found when for example the FBI didn't bother to get a warrant to search the homes of Hillary and her associates when it was beyond known that classified material was being sent via unsecure computers? Hell man, it was months later when during an unconnected investigation another device was found that contained classified emails. When any reasonable person would have found it probable to search Huma's abode for more devices in the original investigation.

I simply dislike the outright hypocrisy we have seen here in the last 6 months in all things Trump.

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It has leaked already. Just needs verification.

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Yep.
Here's the pic . . .

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Manafort met with staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee day before raid which indicates investigators may have argued to a Federal Judge they had reason to believe Manafort could not be trusted to turn over all records in response to a grand jury subpoena.

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They want to rough him up and force him into talking to save his own arse.