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Since you are in govt, you surely know the DoJ lawyers and district attorneys approved every step of this.

So it’s not like a random FBI agent or even office decided to do this, it was assuredly brought high up into the DoJ and approved.

Let’s not forget that federal or local judges then approved the warrants.

So it’s more accurate to say the federal persecution machine did this, not just the FBI.

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> it was assuredly brought high up into the DoJ and approved.

The warrant was approved, but the issue at hand is that these safety deposit boxes were raided when "the warrant authorizing the raid explicitly forbade the FBI from seizing the safe deposit boxes or their contents."

IIRC judges aren't exactly lining up to throw the book at the feds when they misbehave. I'd love to to hear from someone more well informed though -- do judges just look the other way?

I’m not in govt. but, based on past experiences, imo you’re misattributing structured intent to general bureaucratic haze. The “assuredly” part gives that away for me.

The organizational prowess and intent that people assume is present there rarely is. It’s present when you get to certain teams and levels.

More often than not It’s civil servant teams trying their best to replicate organizational processes taught in an MBA program.

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