Posted on 08/07/2017 12:05:35 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The Department of Justice on Friday released 413 pages of emails related to a controversial private meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch during the FBI’s investigation into then-presidential-candidate Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi emails. The FBI said earlier such records did not exist.
This discharge of information is the result of a lawsuit filed against the DOJ by the American Council for Law and Justice (ACLJ) in November 2016.
The newly-released emails mostly include DOJ officials’ conversations with reporters, who were seeking comment on the meeting between Lynch and the former president on an airport tarmac in Phoenix, Ariz. in June 2016.
The encounter raised concerns about the impartiality of the DOJ’s investigation into the Hillary Clinton episode, and became a significant issue in the presidential campaign.
The ACLJ notes that under the leadership of then-Director James Comey the FBI had originally denied the existence of such records.
“No records responsive to your request were located,” FBI Chief of Record/Information David Hardy wrote a letter responding to ACLJ’s Freedom of Information Act request.
“For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records from the requirements of the FOIA.”
(Exemptions may apply in cases of classified information relating to foreign policy or national defense, trade secrets, and personnel and medical files.)
ACLJ Executive Director Jordan Sekulow told CNSNews.com that what triggered the lawsuit was the “definitive” answer from the FBI without any requests for an extension, along with silence from the DOJ, the second recipient of the FOIA request.
“This issue only stood out to us at the time that they made the declaration [that the records did not exist], now we know that declaration was wrong,” Sekulow said. “The Comey FBI lied to us.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Special Agents of the FBI were those tasked with coordinating the protection of AG Lynch. USSS was tasked with taking care of Bill
If there was a single hint of a coordinated meeting between Bill and Loretta, the two details would have a record of coordinated communications.
These are the communications that discussed events both before and after. There very likely would have been a flurry of email about the "No Cameras, No Photos policy.
My opinion is that a lot more truth is buried about this meeting and it is in agency files
You can never have enough time to talk about the grandkids....
The flight-line @ Skyharbor is perfect for that.
It is a characteristic FBI response to Clinton and democrat crimes. Would you get such a deal?
Why are they redacted to the point of uselessness?
They are hiding stuff.
Bad stuff........................
I believe they are now suing to un-redact the redactions.
I believe they are now suing to un-redact the redactions.
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The President should tell Sessions to un-redact them forthwith. He is the boss.
The FBI needs to be abolished, it is one of the most bureaucratic dens of corruption in the government.
There is a difference between the reports are confidential which cannot be released and lying. So yes who goes to jail for violation of FOIA.
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