[Conservative Brief] The former top U.S. spy chief believes that the FBI came up short during its raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate early last month.
John Ratcliffe, a former U.S. congressman from Texas whom Trump tapped to serve as director of national intelligence, told Fox News last week that the bureau "didn’t find what they were looking" for, based on his observations.
"I was a former federal prosecutor, United States attorney. Let me tell you what this is about. Good prosecutors with good cases play it straight. They don’t need to play games," Ratcliffe said, in reference to Justice Department officials. "They don’t need to shop for judges, they don’t need to leak intelligence that may or may not exist."
The Justice Department’s arguments against having a federal court appoint a special master to review allegedly classified documents "tells you that the government didn’t find what they were looking for," Ratcliffe continued.
"There weren’t nuclear secrets" at Trump’s estate, he noted further, "and they’re trying to justify what they’ve done. They’re not playing it straight before the American people. I think that that’s going to play out."
The Epoch Times noted further that Ratcliffe did not go into specific evidence regarding his claims, however.
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