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Jack Smith Was Even Scummier Than We Thought Which Seems Impossiblehttps://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/29/jack-smith-was-even-scummier-than-we-thought-which-seems-impossible-n3819443Aw, jeez - where to start.
Maybe somewhere near the beginning would be good. Like the note from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that Jack Smith used to start the criminal investigation of President Trump's handling of classified information.
Or, at least, what Smith says was a 'criminal referral' from NARA to begin crawling up the ex-president's classified wazoo.
Turns out, that isn't what it was at all.
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New documents first obtained by the Daily Caller suggest former special counsel Jack Smith may have misled lawmakers and the public regarding the pretext for his investigation into President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents.
The documents reveal the National Archives’ internal watchdog did not consider its February 2022 message to the Justice Department (DOJ) about Trump’s possession of classified documents a criminal referral, contradicting Smith’s account of how the case began. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) case report from February 2022, obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, notes that its message to the Justice Department was a referral, but not a criminal referral.
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...“The OIG determined that this matter and the other relevant matters be classified as -R (referral to DOJ for their assessment and guidance, not the same as a criminal referral for prosecution which is only done for criminal investigations),” the report first made in 2022 and edited throughout 2023 to include such information notes.
FBI messages included in the documents show that the bureau first treated the missing documents complaint as a “spillage” issue with “little likelihood of being pursued as a criminal matter.”

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Whose Shampeachment Is It Anyway, where the high crimes are made up, and the evidence doesn't matter