The Georgia Election Raid Was Even Worse Than It Seemed

"When federal agents raided a Fulton County, Georgia, elections office last month and seized hundreds of thousands of 2020 ballots, red flags flew. This week, we've learned more through the unsealing of key prosecutorial paperwork - and a search that at first looked shady has now been confirmed as something even worse. Some background: Last month, federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Missouri wrote an affidavit seeking authorization to search a Fulton County elections office in Georgia."

"Albus was a federal prosecutor for 17 years and then a state judge. A federal magistrate judge in Georgia, Catherine Salinas, reviewed the paperwork and found that prosecutors had established probable cause that federal election-related crimes were committed and that the search would likely yield evidence of those crimes. Salinas took the bench in 2015 but was not a political appointee; magistrates are chosen by the district-court judges for that district, not by any president."

Federal agents executed a search of the Fulton County elections office and seized hundreds of thousands of 2020 ballots. A Missouri-based U.S. Attorney filed an affidavit seeking authorization for the search in Georgia. The U.S. Attorney, Thomas Albus, previously served 17 years as a federal prosecutor and later as a state judge. A Georgia magistrate judge, Catherine Salinas, reviewed the affidavit and found probable cause and that evidence would likely be found. Questions arose about why a Missouri-led team investigated alleged Georgia election crimes and why resources were used to revisit already-debunked election-fraud claims.

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