Rudy Giuliani Gives the Most Bizarre Explanation Yet for Cohen FBI Raid

[DonViejo]

by Ronn Blitzer | 9:11 am, April 10th, 2018

Welcome to the Spin Zone. Your host? Former New York City Mayor, former U.S. attorney, and current Donald Trump supporter, Rudy Giuliani. This week’s topic is FBI raids on attorneys’ offices and how they’re apparently not really a big deal.

In the wake of the FBI’s search of Trump attorney Michael Cohen‘s office on Monday, Giuliani told The Washington Post that this sort of thing — seizing a lawyer’s records, including communications with his clients — is just something that happens, and doesn’t necessarily mean anything.

“Is this surprising? Yes,” Giuliani told the newspaper. “Is it extraordinary? No. This is the way prosecutors get information — sometimes to convict and prosecute, sometimes to exculpate.”

As a former prosecutor, I can tell you the number of times that I’ve heard of the government getting a search warrant and raiding anyone‘s office, let alone a lawyer’s, for the purpose of proving someone not guilty (exculpating): it’s zero. Sure, if prosecutors come across information that exculpates a suspect that’s one thing, but it’s not the purpose of a raid. The purpose of a raid — and the legal standard required for getting a warrant to conduct one — is the exact opposite. Law enforcement officials must provide evidence to a judge that they have probable cause that a crime was committed and that the materials they’re searching for are connected.

When the target of a search is an attorney’s office, the standard is even higher, because of attorney-client privilege. A senior law enforcement official told CNN’s Jake Tapper that a raid like the one on Cohen’s office must have been conducted because Cohen was either not cooperating with an investigation, or they believed he was destroying evidence.

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[CatMor]

1. The Cryptkeeper emerged from his tomb again..

to give a lame ass defense for trump. Hope he goes back into his tomb until they find he was complicit with Russia and the election. I detest that man.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Did they find any info on 9/11?

Fame called, Rudy, they want their 15 minutes back.

[BSdetect]

3. What a stretch. So stupid.

[MrsCoffee]

4. Yeah, prosecutors regularly take extraordinary measures to prove the innocence of their targets.

But Trumpers in Trumpville will eat it up.

[spanone]

5. Bwahahahahaaa Rudy seems kind of old to enter the comedy field, but it looks good so far.

'I SAID I'LL BE HERE ALL WEEK'

[longship]

10. "It's BEAUTIFUL!!!"

[spanone]

12. 👍🏼

[safeinOhio]

6. Hey Rudy

trump needs a new lawyer, you looking?

[Corgigal]

7. Yeah, right

Better sell that to Trump. The rest of the thinking world understands what happened. Time to snow your friend, that allows him to sit there while his associates get picked off one to one.

[Guilded Lilly]

8. The phrase...tap dancing in mud...comes to mind!

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Maybe It's Me

But, i'm reading it differently than others here. I'm reading this as a problem for "it" because even Rudy isn't jumping on board the "corrupt investigation" train.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. He's driving the minimizing this as a problem train.

Rumors around that he has been talking with Mueller for some time now.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Probable Cause

'nuff said.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. "They were just doing it to fool Lloyd Braun!" nt