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'Completely open': Michael Cohen sheds light on the location where top-secret documents were stored at Mar-a-Lago Michael Cohen, an ex-lawyer for former President Donald Trump, recently shed more light on the location of the highly sensitive documents found at Mar-a-Lago. During a recent appearance on CNN, Cohen explained why it was so reckless for the documents to be stored where they were. Speaking to CNN anchor Poppy Harlow, Cohen said, “That place is completely open. It’s directly above the catering hall." Cohen explained how the location of the documents may have made them relatively accessible to just about anyone visiting the property. “So it’s not just guests, it’s not just members; it’s anybody that’s there, hypothetically, for a wedding or a christening, a bar mitzvah — any event that they have. And all that separated these individuals from top-secret, classified documents were 10 stairs and one little Master Lock key,” he explained. As a former lawyer for Trump, Cohen also expressed his concerns about the former president slamming his own legal team amid his woes with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) when his Mar-a-Lago estate was searched on August 8. Prior to the search, one of Trump's attorneys in June signed documents confirming all necessary documents had been returned. “There’s a plethora of lawyers that have all gone down or are going down or need to lawyer-up simply because they did Donald Trump’s bidding,” said Cohen. Cohen's interview came shortly after a flurry of Trump rants shared via Truth Social. Over the last couple of weeks, the former president has become increasingly agitated amid the ongoing investigations and criticism surrounding the probes. Currently, Trump is facing three highly publicized investigations: the DOJ investigation into the mishandling of top-secret government documents, the Fulton County, Ga., investigation into election tampering, and the New York Attorney General's investigative probe into the Trump Organization. https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/michael-cohen/

I expect a ton of blitzes from the Riders and picking that sort of thing up has been problematic for the Bombers on more than one occasion this year likely because of the loss of cohesiveness from all the changes.

The game may come down to which QB is going to be carried off the field first.

Death Valley National Park in California scorched a world record for high temperatures on Thursday. The park’s Furnace Creek thermometer hit 127 degrees this week, marking a world record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in September, CBS News reported. Visitors flocked to the park on Thursday to experience the record-breaking heat, which came less than a month after 1,000 people were stranded in Death Valley due to flash flooding. The rainfall, the park’s second-highest single-day total since 1936, reportedly buried some 60 vehicles in debris and mud, and washed away boulders and trees in the park.

Nope. Not even sure if its been approved in Canada.

In case it hasn't been posted yet (and I'm too lazy to look):

Not sure that I would be so generous in my assessment- he seemed to me to get beaten a lot.

Would like our chances a lot better if Couture was back in harness. The Riders front 7 is pretty good, so I really hope that Buck has schemed to offset that.

A LOT of families, even here in Canada, are still hanging onto the fantasy that Trump is innocent of everything and will be both vindicated and re-installed as president. Did you know that apparently Trump could be re-elected president even after being convicted of espionage and in jail? There seems to be no law or convention that prevents that.

I am surprised that the framers of the American constitution who spent a lot of time designing it, did not specifically bar any president from pardoning anyone who aided or abetted him in illegal acts. That is one of a helluva big hole.

Am actually quite happy for LaPolice, and that the win comes at the expense of the Als makes it even sweeter.

Problem is, if the Riders take Collaros out and then we take Fajardo out, we are gonna suffer a lot worse than they will. Collaros is an elite QB, Fajardo is a hack.

DeQuoi is a pretty good safety, but lucky on that play as he was a half-second too late.

Lordy, that's four completed passes in a row for Arbuckle. Is that his CFL record?

I'm starting to think that if LaPolice hasn't provided enough reason to can him by now, he's probably good to the end of the season. In his defence, he hasn't had a lot of talent to work with, but still.......

Unfortunately, it may take Marino inflicting another illegal season-ending injury before he gets thrown out of the league.

Trying to stay awake and watch at the same time.

No one has gotten the joke, as bad as it was.

It's about time the BSers who have been spreading disinformation about the carbon tax were challenged.

Why the 'empty folders' found at Mar-a-Lago are 'unfathomably dangerous': former federal prosecutor Immediately after a federal judge released the Dept. of Justice’s detailed list of items the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago experts agreed among the most concerning details was that there were a large number of empty folders marked “Classified.” NCRM reported the DOJ’s inventory list included over 13,000 items, including over 100 documents marked with various classification headers. Also listed were “43 Empty Folders with ‘CLASSIFIED’ Banners,” and “28 Empty Folders Labeled ‘Return to Staff Secretary/Military Aide.’” Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor of 30 years, tweeted out his surprise and concern. “OMG!” exclaimed Kirschner, who is also an MSNBC/NBC News legal analyst. “Court just released an inventory of evidence of crime seized at Mar-a-Lago. Dozens of EMPTY folders labeled ‘Classified’ or ‘Return to Military Aide.’ Trump didn’t pack up EMPTY folders to take with him to FLA. Things just went from bad to worse to unfathomably dangerous.” Others also expressed concern over the empty folders. Andrew Weissmann, a former General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who has also worked as chief of the criminal fraud section of DOJ observed: “It’s the empty classified folders that are of most concern.” “Where are the contents? Trump has not addressed that at all in all his bluster and obfuscation. What were you doing with these?” asked Weissmann, who also worked for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Former Dept. of Defense Special Counsel Ryan Goodman wrote: “This is going to get a lot of attention too: 43 Empty Folders with “CLASSIFIED” Banners” “Empty,” he emphasized. “Must be fairly alarming to U.S. intelligence community conducting the damage assessment. Now think about how Trump’s legal team is trying to keep this info from the FBI/ODNI. National security attorney Brad Moss wrote, “Very first question the FBI would ask the person who had in their home office 43 empty folders with classified banners is ‘where did the documents from those folders go????'” And later he added: “Why. Are. There. Empty. Folders?"

NEW RAID DETAILS: EMPTY ‘CLASSIFIED’ FOLDERS! WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month found top secret records in an office and storage room, along with empty folders with classified banners on them and more than 10,000 government records without any classification markings at all, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public on Friday. The inventory disclosed by the Justice Department reveals in general terms the contents of 33 boxes and containers taken from an office and a storage room at Mar-a-Lago during the Aug. 8 search. Though the inventory does not describe the content of the documents, it shows the extent to which classified information — including material at the top-secret level — was stashed in boxes at the home and commingled among newspapers, magazines, clothing and other personal items. It also makes clear for the first time the volume of unclassified government documents maintained at the home even though such records were to have been turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration, which had tried unsuccessfully for months to secure their return. The Justice Department has said there was no secure space at Mar-a-Lago for sensitive government secrets, and has opened a criminal investigation focused on their retention there and on what it says were efforts in the last several months to obstruct that probe. It is also investigating potential violations of a separate statute that criminalizes the mutilation or concealment of government records, classified or not. Lawyers for Trump did not immediately return an email seeking comment Friday. The inventory was released as the Justice Department undertakes a criminal investigation, as intelligence agencies assess any potential damage caused by the apparent mishandling of the classified information and as a judge weighs whether to appoint a special master — essentially an outside legal expert — to review the records. The inventory shows that 43 empty folders with classified banners were taken from a box or container at the office, along with an additional 28 empty folders labeled as “Return to Staff Secretary” or military aide. Empty folders of that nature were also found in a storage closet. It is not clear from the inventory list why any of the folders were empty or what might have happened to any of the documents inside. https://www.huffpost.com

Leopards, spots and all that.

Heiligh likely to make the team?

Trump followers are essentially bullies and if/when the big fish start parading to jail without Trump in power to pardon them, they will, for the most part, wilt and retreat into whining and bitching with the occasional flareup. Its sort of a behavioural infection from one generation to the succeeding one.