> Paul Manafort is one example that immediately comes to mind, and his was in the middle of the night IIRC. Nah, that story was just propaganda to make people

> Paul Manafort is one example that immediately comes to mind, and his was in the middle of the night IIRC. Nah, that story was just propaganda to make people feel sorry for a dude who evaded like $20M in taxes by offering political services to corrupt governments and oligarchs. You need special permission from a judge to do a 'no-knock' raid or a night one. (First page here clearly shows it was a daytime search warrant: https://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180626-Manafort-Search-Warrant-.pdf https://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180626...) The FBI knocked repeatedly, and then used a previously provided key to access Manafort's condo sometime after 6am, which is early but still after dawn in Virginia in August so even the "pre-dawn raid" people were wrong. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/manafort-trial/h_dfb67c68bae53ab1e2aa7950e22c148a https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/manafort-trial/h_dfb6...