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We all know that the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence back in August 2022 for the seizure of «classified documents» was a political hit job by Joe Biden’s handlers and Merrick Garland that started this whole lawfare mess that we’re seeing now.
The politicization of it only became more obvious to everyone who hasn’t kept up with it earlier this May, when it was revealed that a photo circulating online of «Secret» and «Top Secret» documents supposedly found at Mar-a-Lago was staged, as independent journalist Julie Kelly reported and our own Matt Margolis commented on.
But you may be seeing on X now that Kelly has revealed how much dirtier the whole thing was: the FBI was apparently authorized to use deadly force for the raid.
Yes, really.
The policy could be standard procedure, but it could also have been a special authorization.
Kelly’s first tweet shows the unsealed document, which contains details about the Operations Order containing this abbreviated policy statement in the document she posted, per the DOJ’s own Justice Manual on its website: «Law enforcement officers and correctional officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force only when necessary, that is, when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person.
