It's this your way of recanting your claims of being an extraterrestrial? Will the big giant head be pissed?

 

You keep beating that horse, genius.
The amazing thing is that we still can chuckle at your stubbornness.
Although we're pretty sure that what is going on isn't stubbornness, but lack of imagination.

 

You are the one who claims to be from another planet... Not me.

 

Attaboy.
Whack it again.

 

Point proven. Treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans squealed like pigs stuck under a gate for years about Clinton's emails including Anthony Weiner's lap top. But when classified documents are found on the computer of one of Trump's aides that works for a super PAC they have no concerns about that and instead try to bury it with nothing but childish insults.

Proving once again they never gave a shit about our national security and are nothing but raving hypocrites.

 

Classified Trump schedules were moved to Mar-a-Lago after FBI search – sources

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Hugo Lowell in Washington
Thu, February 23, 2023 at 11:34 PM MST



Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP
Donald Trump’s lawyers found a box of White House schedules, including some that were marked classified, at his Mar-a-Lago resort in December because a junior aide to the former president had transported it from another office in Florida after the FBI completed its search of the property.

The former president does not appear to have played a direct role in the mishandling of the box, though he remains under investigation for the possible improper retention of national security documents and obstruction of justice. This previously unreported account of the retrieval was informed by two sources familiar with the matter.

Related: Special counsel seeks to compel Mike Pence to testify about January 6

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Known internally as ROTUS, short for Receptionist of the United States, the junior aide initially kept the box at a converted guest bungalow at Mar-a-Lago called the “tennis cottage” after Trump left office, and she soon took it with her to a government-leased office in the Palm Beach area.

The box remained at the government-leased office from where the junior aide worked through most of 2022, explaining why neither Trump’s lawyer who searched Mar-a-Lago in June for any classified-marked papers nor the FBI agents who searched the property in August found the documents.

Around the time that Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago from his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey at the end of the summer, the junior aide was told that she was being relocated to a desk in the anteroom of Trump’s own office at Mar-a-Lago that previously belonged to top aide Molly Michael.

The junior aide retrieved her work belongings – including the box – from the government-leased office and took them to her new Mar-a-Lago workspace around September. At that time, the justice department’s criminal investigation into Trump’s retention of national security documents was intensifying.

Several weeks after the junior aide moved into her new workspace, federal prosecutors told Trump’s lawyers in October that they suspected the former president was still in possession of additional documents with classified markings despite the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago on 8 August.

The Trump legal team subsequently hired two private contractors with security clearances to search Trump properties around Thanksgiving: Trump Tower in New York, Trump Bedminster and an external storage unit that turned up two additional documents marked “SECRET”, the Guardian has reported.

But the justice department was not satisfied, and it pressed the Trump legal team to get the contractors to conduct the third known search of Mar-a-Lago in early December – at which point the contractors discovered the box of presidential schedules, some with classified markings.

Related: Kevin McCarthy denounced for giving January 6 tapes to Fox News host

The Trump legal team alerted the FBI, which sent federal agents down to collect the box and its contents the following day.

A few weeks later, Trump’s lawyers started exploring whether they could get a better understanding of the sensitivity of the small number of schedules marked as classified, for the junior aide had kept sole custody of the box throughout that period.

It was at that point that the junior aide revealed for the first time that she could find out exactly what they were, because Michael – whose desk she inherited after she left the Trump political team at the end of the summer – had told her to scan all of the schedules on to her laptop.

A lawyer for the junior aide declined to comment on Thursday night.

When the Trump legal team told the justice department about the uploads, federal prosecutors demanded the laptop and its password, warning that they would otherwise move to obtain a grand jury subpoena summoning the junior aide to Washington to grant them access to the computer.

To avoid a subpoena, the Trump legal team agreed to turn over the laptop in its entirety last month, though they did not allow federal prosecutors to collect it from Mar-a-Lago and handed it over just outside the gates of the property.

It was later in January – as the justice department retrieved the laptop – that federal prosecutors in the office of the Trump investigation special counsel Jack Smith issued a grand jury subpoena for a manilla folder marked “Classified Evening Briefing” observed in the former president’s bedroom, the Guardian first reported.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/classified-trump-schedules-were-moved-063446808.html

 

Spacey is living in denial...

 

'Everyone is worried on Team Trump' after new deluge of subpoenas: former prosecutor

Sarah K. Burris
March 05, 2023



President of the United States Donald Trump speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


A new round of subpoenas went out over the past few weeks from the Justice Department that is causing some nervousness among those in Donald Trump's world, MSNBC noted during a discussion on Sunday.

Speaking to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, Yasmin Vossoughian asked about the advancement of the case under special counsel Jack Smith. One of the key pieces is that the attorneys are now becoming witnesses.

"It's highly unusual, but it's not unprecedented," Kirschner explained. "There are times when prosecutors will investigate the mafia, mob organizations, and they will get to a point in the investigation when it looks like the attorneys representing the mobsters, the targets of the investigation, are complicit in the crimes of the organization and prosecutors do go after mob lawyers."

He named the example of large-scale drug organizations in Washington, D.C., where lawyers knowingly accepted so-called "dirty drug money" for their services. He said that they would at times, go after those lawyers.

The issue with Trump now over lawyer Evan Corcoran and whether he can declare attorney/client privilege because he may have been complicit in the crimes. There is a crime-fraud exception to the privilege, but the prosecutors have to prove that there was crime or fraud.

"I think everyone is worried on Team Trump," said Kirschner. "I don't fully understand why Mike Pence is unwilling to stand up for the people of the United States of America and talk about, for example, the pressure campaign that Donald Trump waged against him to get him to commit federal crimes. To violate the Electoral Count Act on Jan. 6 and obstruct Congress' official proceeding certifying Joe Biden's win. Mike Pence seems comfortable talking about it publicly when he's trying to profit off of his book."

He went on to say that a problem that witnesses will have is trying to throw up multiple privileges and that he doesn't think any of them will work in the end.

"I think Mike Pence will testify at the end of the day," said Kushner. "There are several reasons why the executive privilege fails, and I also think the speech or debate clause privilege fails because no matter how you cut it, Mike Pence is not a legislator, and he wasn't engaged in robust debate about legislation. So I think all privileges will fail, and Mike Pence will find himself inside the grand jury."

See the full discussion below or at the link here:



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-team-subpoenas-lawyers/

 

Special counsel just got access to Mar-a-Lago's 'eyes and ears': former Pentagon investigator

Matthew Chapman
March 16, 2023



President Donald Trump during a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Shutterstock.com)


Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed a broad array of people at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort as part of the investigation into Trump's mishandling of classified information.

Some of these new subpoenas are highly significant, argued former Pentagon special counsel Ryan Goodman on Thursday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," because they involve people whom Trump may never have even noticed were seeing his activity.

"There are at least two dozen witnesses," said anchor Erin Burnett. "And ... these witnesses include people that would have seen a lot, but that maybe Trump wouldn't have noticed. Restaurant servers, people like that."

"I think of it the same way," said Goodman. "They might be invisible to him. But they are the eyes and ears, and they can see things. Or they can know things might, even be somewhat rumor, but then they can at least give the investigators leads, so they can tell the investigators who is present in different conversations."


"Seems as though that's exactly what happened with the Select Committee on January 6," added Goodman. "There are important lower-level White House staff that do give testimony for example, the person that greets Trump as he enters the White House after his Ellipse speech and tells him that there's rioting down at the Capitol, that's an important marker, but that was a lower-level staff person; he might not have noticed or thought about that conversation."

Trump has insisted that the hundreds of classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago were his prerogative to do with as he wished, and some of his defenders have argued he has the right to retroactively classify documents in his mind, without telling anyone.

Watch the segment below or at this link.




https://www.rawstory.com/mar-a-lago-witness/

 

Monumental might not be hyperbole. What makes this significant is in order for Special Counsel Jack Smith to get a judge to set aside attorney/client privilege and order Trump's attorney to testify he had to convince the judge a crime had been committed that would negate attorney/client privilege. And he did.


'Monumental ruling': Trump attorney ordered to testify before grand jury

Sky Palma
March 17, 2023



Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


A federal judge has ruled that an attorney for Donald Trump must testify before a grand jury in regards to the investigation into the former president's handling of classified documents, CNN reported. The publication described it as a "monumental ruling."

Prosecutors want to know more about a phone call attorney Evan Corcoran allegedly had with Trump as investigators were seeking evidence over possible obstruction of the government’s investigation into classified materials he took to his Palm Beach resort.

Sources speaking to CNN say Justice Department prosecutors "have met the threshold for the crime-fraud exception" for Corcoran.

"The decision hands Trump yet another loss under seal in court as his team and allies have tried to hold off Smith’s investigators from learning about direct conversations the former president had with some of his closest advisers," CNN's report stated. "The development is particularly notable because of accusations prosecutors would have made about Trump as they argued to the judge for the grand jury testimony."

Corcoran, who CNN characterizes as "an attorney-turned-witness," previously testified to the grand jury but refused to answer certain questions.

Read the full report over at CNN.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-atto...ver-stormy-daniels-hush-money-payment-report/

 

Federal Judge Hands Over Trump’s Lawyer’s Notes to DOJ



Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
On her final day as the top judge in the District of Columbia on Friday afternoon—in her final act—Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell did more than grant the Justice Department permission to question former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney. She actually took the rare step of handing over the lawyer’s notes to federal prosecutors, according to a person familiar with the arrangement.

In doing so, Howell may have planted the seeds for a future constitutional challenge. But in the immediate term, she’s handed Justice Department Special Prosecutor Jack Smith a parting gift: what she deemed evidence of a crime involving the former president improperly hoarding classified documents after he left office.

M. Evan Corcoran, a former federal prosecutor, has represented Trump in that classified documents scandal. And while Corcoran already has his hands full as Trump’s lawyer, the probe now appears to have put Corcoran in legal jeopardy himself.



Trump Attorney Hires Attorney of His Own in Classified Docs Case

According to a source, Corcoran’s professional notes about private communications with his client were turned over to Judge Howell, who was conducting an “in camera review”—a carefully controlled screening of confidential records that typically takes place in a judge’s chambers.

Judges who come to the conclusion that some legally protected and sensitive material must be turned over to an opposing side normally issue an order directing one side to do it, along with a deadline. Doing so gives the losing side the ability to appeal to a higher court—and prevent irreversible damage that could forever taint a case, according to two lawyers not involved in the case who spoke to The Daily Beast but asked not to be identified.

But Howell appears to have skipped that careful yet tedious approach—and just handed Smith a batch of documents that may show Trump and one of his lawyers planning a crime.

Either way, Trump’s legal team is left without recourse, and federal prosecutors have more evidence to bolster the next steps in their ballooning investigation.

“She’s taken all the legal relief out of their hands. If she orders them to do it, they can take up an appeal on an emergency basis. She may have been concerned from what she read in the documents. She may have not trusted them to comply with an order,” said David Cross, an experienced federal litigator at the Washington firm Morrison & Foerster who is not involved in the Trump case.

A spokesperson for the DOJ special counsel did not respond to a request for comment Friday night.

On Friday, as part of a sealed proceeding, Howell ordered Corcoran to provide additional testimony to the DOJ, CNN first reported on Friday. She decided that investigators could pierce the typically ironclad blanket of attorney-client privilege because of something called the “crime-fraud exception.” In essence, the judge found that whatever legal advice Corcoran gave to Trump was used in furtherance of a crime.

But in turning over his notes, Howell’s alleged actions stand in stark contrast with the more traditional approach taken by a federal judge in California who faced similar questions last year. In that case, the Jan. 6 Committee was trying to access documents protected by attorney-client privilege to explore how Trump employed conservative legal scholar John Eastman in an attempt to stay in power after losing the 2020 election.

U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter concluded that “President Trump and Dr. Eastman more likely than not committed obstruction of an official proceeding… and conspiracy to defraud the United States.” But when he ordered on June 7, 2022 that Eastman turn over 159 documents to the congressional committee, he gave Eastman a day to comply.


Howell’s decision on Friday appeared to be her final one as chief judge of the extremely consequential D.C. court, which is home to many of the nation’s most pivotal policy debates, national security investigations, and constitutional challenges.

She was replaced by James Boasberg, another federal judge who was also appointed by President Barack Obama.

Howell’s last-minute decision in the Trump case could mark a turning point in the special counsel’s probe, because it has the ability to supercharge the investigation. But notably, the saga keeps playing out behind closed doors. Her orders in this case remain sealed, and the grand jury investigation continues in legally protected secrecy.

The total lack of transparency in this historic case—and the surprising ability of news journalists to still squeeze out details about the secret proceedings—became the subject of much humor during her goodbyes on Friday, according to Politico, which described her being “toasted and occasionally roasted.”

So while Trump’s legal skrimaging in open court against the New York Attorney General allows the American public to see how the Trump Organization has flouted subpoenas and slowed down investigators, this Justice Department effort continues largely in the shadows—even though the consequences could be far more serious.

Federal prosecutors have been exploring criminal charges against the former president for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection, defrauding the nation and its courts with bogus election fraud conspiracies, and the way he refused to return classified documents kept at his South Florida oceanside estate of Mar-a-Lago long after leaving the White House.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-judge-hands-over-trump-034922736.html

 

Just exactly how low will they go, we keep wondering.
The mission to "get Trump, no matter what it takes" can even usurp established law without bothering any court for a review.

 

I see I fucked up and posted this on the wrong thread and didn't catch it in time to make a correction. But it needs to go here.

 

I know I have never heard of such a thing but I watched multiple legal experts and former prosecutors last night and none of every seen anything like this either. They believe it indicates a great deal of urgency to make Trump's lawyer testify and hand over documents, notes, and one I had not heard of, audio recordings.



Court Makes ‘Extraordinary’ Late Night Demands in Trump Mar-a-Lago Case

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Matt Young, AJ McDougall
Tue, March 21, 2023 at 10:08 PM MDT



Marco Bello/Reuters

A D.C. Circuit appeals court set an “unprecedented” schedule Tuesday night surrounding Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago classified documents case, requiring answers from Trump attorneys by midnight and a reply from the U.S. Department of Justice just hours later, at 6 a.m.

The move concerns a request from Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by the Department of Justice to investigate Trump’s potential mishandling of classified documents, to have Trump attorney Evan Corcoran appear before a grand jury.

Smith found “compelling preliminary evidence” that the former president knowingly misled his own legal team about holding onto the records after leaving office, sources told ABC News on Tuesday.



Smith’s reported findings were referenced in a sealed filing penned Friday by a former top federal judge, the sources said. U.S. Judge Beryl Howell, who stepped down as the D.C. district court’s chief judge on the same day, reportedly wrote that Smith’s prosecutors had made a “prima facie showing that the former president had committed criminal violations.”

Smith make the request despite Corcoran’s attorney-client privileges—which are sometimes wiped under cases of crime or fraud.

On Friday, Judge Howell ruled in favor of wiping said privileges, forcing Corcoran to appear before a federal grand jury.

In her filing, Howell wrote that what Smith’s office had found was enough to render the attorney-client privileges previously invoked by two of Trump’s attorneys void, but did not constitute grounds to seek charges against the former president.

However, on Tuesday night, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily stayed Judge Howell’s ruling, demanding a rapid-fire series of filings, according to reports from Politico.

Three judges in the latest ruling “asked Trump’s attorneys to specify the precise set of documents at issue by midnight, and for Smith’s team to respond by 6 a.m. Wednesday to the Trump team’s demand for a longer stay of Howell’s ruling,” according to Politico.

According to The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell, citing sources, Trump lawyer Jim Trusty is working on the appeal for the three appeals judges: Cornelia Pillard, J. Michelle Childs, and Florence Pan — all of whom are Democratic appointees.

A Trump campaign statement blasted the situation, claiming “prosecutors only attack lawyers when they have no case whatsoever… These leaks are happening because there is no factual or legal basis or substance to any case against President Trump.”


Politico’s Kyle Cheney reported, however, that the order made it “clear” that the documents are at the center of the case “and the extraordinary light-speed with which the appeals court is moving suggests there will be action on this at the federal courthouse *tomorrow.*”

According to MSNBC commentator Tristan Snell, the move is “completely unheard of.” He wrote on Twitter: “Normally that process would take MONTHS. Instead they’re making the lawyers submit everything in HOURS.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/court-makes-extraordinary-night-demands-040839431.html

 

Mark this spot

 

'The entire ball game': Former FBI counsel wonders if there's a national security issue driving Trump documents case

Sarah K. Burris
March 22, 2023



Donald Trump speaking with attendees at the "Rally to Protect Our Elections" hosted by Turning Point Action. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


Speaking to MSNBC, former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal and former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann homed in on the importance of all the legal woes hitting Donald Trump at once.

For example, the judge in the classified documents case last night demanded a seven-hour turn-around time on new responses from the DOJ. Calling it "extraordinary," Katyal said that he's never seen anything like it before.

"To me, I think it really does suggest the seriousness of the investigation," he explained. "There are some theories people are saying, well, the grand jury is going to meet on Friday. The evidence has to be turned over today. And so, maybe that's why they rushed it. But that, to me, is not an explanation. The court could have just delayed the turning over of the information through a stay — without having to actually rule on the underlying merit. But here they said, government, brief this overnight, and now we're going to decide it. And so I think there's something more going on in just simply the turning over the material deadline."

Host Lawrence O'Donnell asked Weissmann what possible reason there would be to move so quickly.

"I can give you two thoughts," said Weissmann. "One is that you're supposed to decide grand jury matters expeditiously. Here in the Second Circuit in New York, where there are lots of criminal grand jury matters, it would be unheard of to do it this way, with sort of a matter of hours, but you would have very quick decisions. So that's one theory."

The other idea he suggested is a possible national security implication that is in the filing that caused the lower court and the appeals court to be "really concerned" about getting the information back to the proper parties.

"And just to stress one critical thing here, and I know this because I had the identical situation in front of Judge [Beryl] Howell, this could be the entire ball game in terms of the obstruction of justice and a false statement case that special counsel Jack Smith could bring against the former president," Weissmann explained. "It would be a crime — two crimes that really differentiate this investigation from anything that's alleged with respect to the current president or the former Vice President. But you could end up with a lawyer giving the last testimony about learning the false statements of the certification and the false statements he made to the Department of Justice orally. He may very well say that is information he learned from the former President of the United States. It would be exactly the situation that happened with Paul Manafort before the same judge, making the exact same ruling, and it really was 'game over' in our case. Obviously, we don't yet know what Mr. [Evan] Corcoran's gonna say, but the recording is that he is not going to be the fall guy. He is going to say 'I was misled.'"

See the full conversation in the video below or at the link here.





https://www.rawstory.com/trump-document-case/

 

To be clear lawyers have the same Constitutional right against self incrimination all Americans have and can plead the fifth. But if they do they just can't be lawyers anymore. Not after you admitted you didn't want to incriminate yourself. Granted lawyers are some of the most corrupt in the country. But if you are a lawyer you are not supposed to get caught at it. And if it ends on paper you are done.

And this looks like it might be a bail to save himself. Which might indicate how bad it is.

Trump's lawyer won't plead the Fifth: report

Sarah K. Burris
March 23, 2023



Alex Wong/Getty Images


Writing for the New York Times on Thursday, reporters revealed that Donald Trump's lawyer, Evan Corcoran, would not be pleading his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Corcoran is set to testify to the grand jury in Washington, D.C., over the theft of the documents the former president is accused of snatching upon leaving the White House. Special counsel Jack Smith has worked his way through a number of witnesses around Trump and Mar-a-Lago at a time that the documents were being shifted around.

In the case of Trump's lawyer, it's incredibly rare for attorney-client privilege to be broken, but in this case, four judges agreed that it could be as a result of a crime being committed.

Another lawyer, Jennifer Little, is being brought in to testify. While her work is isolated only to the Fulton County, Georgia grand jury, she was discussing things with Trump at the time of the Mar-a-Lago documents shuffle and the Justice Department's request for the documents back.

IN OTHER NEWS: 'Felony offenses': House Oversight chairman's remarks in 2015 email leak spark calls for investigation

"The extraordinary back-and-forth in the past several weeks between Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Mr. Corcoran and his lawyers, and Mr. Smith’s prosecutors — not to mention with multiple witnesses who are also Mr. Trump’s lawyers, as well as all of their lawyers — has turned the federal courthouse in Washington into a bustling hive of Trump-related inquiries," the Times reported.

“The latest example came on Thursday when lawyers for Mr. Trump — including Mr. Corcoran — appeared before a new chief judge, James E. Boasberg, with lawyers for former Vice President Mike Pence," the report closes. "They were there to discuss some issues related to Mr. Pence’s testimony before a grand jury investigating Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, an inquiry also being overseen by Mr. Smith, the special counsel.”

Read the full report at the New York Times.



https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-lawyer-wont-plead-fifth/

 

This one is creating way more than the usual amount of buzz for a new development in Trump's classified documents case. And yes its a very big deal when not only a court but also an appeals court rules a lawyer must testify against his client because they believe crimes have been committed. Especially one of Trump's lawyers. But from what I am seeing its even a much bigger reaction than just that. Its more like they know Evan Corcoran is getting ready to flip on Trump to try and save himself. Or at the very least will have to incriminate Trump because he has also been forced to hand over notes, documents, and audio recordings. And those might amount to hard evidence of a crime he cannot deny,




WATCH: Trump Lawyer Evan Corcoran Draws Swarm As He Heads Into Court Without Privilege Protection
By Tommy ChristopherMar 24th, 2023, 10:04 am
81 comments

Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran was swarmed by journalists as he entered the courthouse to testify in a criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump — without the protection of attorney-client privilege.

On Friday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, anchor Don Lemon tossed to his last commercial break by introducing comical video of journalists staked out at the courthouse jumping to buzz around Corcoran when they spotted him heading into the courthouse:

Hey, we got some developing news that we need to get to now. Moments ago. Check it out. This is Trump attorney Evan Corcoran arriving to court in Washington, D.C. He was denied attorney-client privilege in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case and is being compelled to testify.

The journalists can be seen milling around and conversing, then springing into action when they notice corcoran.


On Wednesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by Trump’s legal team seeking to block Corcoran from testifying and turning over documents to the Special Counsel Jack Smith-led Justice Department probe into Trump’s mishandling of classified information.

Corcoran had previously invoked attorney-client privilege when he was questioned about the classified documents issue by the Department of Justice, but in a sealed filing, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell wrote that Smith’s team has made a “prima facie showing that the former president had committed criminal violations,” namely that he “deliberately misled” his own lawyers about his handling of the documents.

Trump’s campaign responded by ripping the news outlet that reported on the sealed filing, ABC News, and claiming “The real story here, that Fake News ABC SHOULD be reporting on, is that prosecutors only attack lawyers when they have no case whatsoever.”

The documents probe is just one of many investigations into Trump, including Smith’s probe of Trump’s conduct surrounding the January 6 insurrection, as well as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ grand jury investigation of Trump’s effort to overturn election results in Georgia and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s probe over hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch...eads-into-court-without-privilege-protection/