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FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed Tuesday that FBI officials flagged probable cause concerns with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the weeks leading up to the FBI raid targeting President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property to recover classified documents in 2022.

In response to a reporter's statement on X that the FBI didn't believe it had probable cause to search Trump's Florida property, Patel <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2000999942303998185">responded</a>: "It's true."

"We just turned over documents to Capitol Hill to be made public showing the FBI told DOJ they did not have probable cause for raiding President Trump’s home in Mar A Lago but DOJ 'didn’t give a damn' and did it anyway," he added in his post.

Emails <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fbi_production_to_chairman_grassley_-_mal_search.pdf">released</a> Tuesday by the office of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and reviewed by The Epoch Times showed communications between the DOJ and FBI in the weeks before the search of the then-former president's property. FBI officials, whose names were redacted, at the time had <a href="https://x.com/SenJudiciaryGOP/status/2001005785791520794">concerns</a> about not having probable cause to search the property before the August 2022 raid. Trump was later charged in the case with retaining classified documents after leaving office.

The FBI's Washington Field Office "has been drafting a search warrant affidavit related to these potential boxes, but has some concerns that the information is single source, has not been corroborated, and may be dated," an FBI official said in one email released by Grassley. "DOJ CES opines, however, that the SW’s meet the probable cause standard," it said, using acronyms for the DOJ's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section and search warrant.

According to <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.125.0_1.pdf">court papers</a> <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-unseals-more-portions-of-trump-search-warrant-affidavit-4728628">unsealed</a> by a judge in September 2022, the DOJ had submitted an affidavit to obtain the FBI search warrant of Mar-a-Lago. The documents had shown that Trump turned over Human Intelligence Control Systems and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) materials.

In those papers, an FBI agent whose name was withheld stated that they had “observed markings reflecting the following compliments/dissemination controls: HCS (Human Intelligence Control Systems), FISA, ORCON (originator controlled), NOFORN (not for release to foreign nationals), and SI (special intelligence)” earlier in 2022.

The classified materials case had started with a referral from the National Archives and Records Administration, which had said that it discovered classified documents when Trump sent records to the agency in January 2022.

House Speaker Mike Johnston (R-La.) also confirmed Tuesday that those emails will be provided to Congress by the DOJ, although he said he hasn't personally reviewed those materials.

“It would verify and, I think, confirm much of what we understood,” Johnson said during a news conference.

“We spent a lot of time uncovering just the complete and total weaponization of the Department of Justice under the Biden administration. They used it to go after political enemies, and chief among them was, of course, Donald J. Trump."

Johnson suggested that House Republicans were expecting as much.

"There’s going to have to be appropriate accountability. I mean, accountability is key. It’s important because if you’re going to restore the people’s faith in the justice system, you have to show them that there are serious consequences for people like Jack Smith who abuses that system," he said, referring to the former special counsel who brought the classified documents case against Trump.

Smith has, on multiple occasions this year, defended his team's work and indicated that the Biden administration did not interfere in that case or a separate one that was brought in Washington that accused Trump of trying to overturn the 2020 election results. Smith was named as special counsel in November 2022, months after the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.

In both cases, Trump pleaded not guilty and said the charges were part of a longstanding witch-hunt designed to harm his reelection chances.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/jack-smith-subpoenaed-for-deposition-before-house-judiciary-committee-jordan-says-5953170">issued</a> a subpoena to Smith to testify on Dec. 17 before the panel. Previously, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) suggested that Smith needs to testify because he is "ultimately responsible for the prosecutorial misconduct and constitutional abuses of your office."

“It is equally important for me to make clear that nobody within the Department of Justice ever sought to interfere with, or improperly influence, my prosecutorial decision making,” Smith said in a Jan. 7 <a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf">letter</a> to then-Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Claims that his "decisions as a prosecutor were influenced or directed by the Biden administration or other political actors is, in a word, laughable,” Smith said.

The FBI did not immediately respond to an Epoch Times request for comment on Tuesday.

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/fbi-had-concerns-about-probable-cause-for-2022-mar-a-lago-raid-patel-says-5959018">The Epoch Times</a></em>

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