Posted on 08/26/2017 12:44:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
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Your Judicial Watch is leading the way in uncovering the corrupt maneuvering by the Obama administration to impose its leftist agenda on our country. As Obama holdovers and the federal Deep State continue to push this agenda even now in the Trump administration, our work is essential. A good example of this is our new lawsuit on the Obama team’s alliance with radical environmentalists to halt work on the Dakota Access Pipeline.
To get a more complete picture, we have had to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense for all records from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding environmentalist groups’ attempts to stop construction. We filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ( Judicial Watch vs. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:17-cv-01282)).
We acted after the Department of Defense failed to respond to our May 8, 2017, FOIA request seeking:
All records of communication between the Army Corps of Engineers and Greenpeace, Sierra Club, EarthJustice, or Friends of the Earth regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline or the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
All internal Army Corps of Engineers emails or communications discussing the efforts of Greenpeace, Sierra Club, EarthJustice, Friends of the Earth, or other environmentalist groups to halt or delay construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
In July 2016 , the Corps gave permission to pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners LP to start construction of the pipeline.
In October 2016, in a display of all too typical leftist violence, protesters reportedly set fires on a highway and lobbed “improvised fire bombs” at law enforcement officers, the Morton County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. There were reportedly over 140 arrests made at the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camps.
In December 2016 , the Obama administration reversed itself and denied the permit for the construction of a key section of the pipeline. The rule of law once again took a back seat to environmental radicalism.
On February 23, 2017, the National Guard and police finally evicted the remaining protesters. The Army Corps of Engineers paid a Florida-based waste-management company $1.1 million to clean up the environmentalists’ protest camps. Some 21.48 million pounds of garbage left behind by the protesters was hauled away.
The Trump administration finally reversed the Obama administration’s lame duck decision. The Army Corps of Engineers in February granted the final permit needed for the pipeline after President Donald Trump called for expediting the project.
As reported by Bloomberg.com, Energy Transfer Partners LP recently filed suit against Greenpeace and its allies for “engaging in what they claim is a racketeering scheme far beyond ordinary environmental advocacy. Resolute Forest Products Inc. made similar allegations over Greenpeace’s campaign against logging in a May 2016 lawsuit.”
Barack Obama and radical – and often violent – environmentalists worked hand-in-glove to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline. We’re not sure why the Trump Defense Department would hide the facts about this scandal and force us to go to federal court to enforce the Freedom of Information Act. But go to court we did with the aim of uncovering the links between Deep State bureaucrats and the radical left. I’ll be sure to update you on what we find.
It has become painfully obvious to me that DC is suffering from a severe case of political constipation.
DC needs a giant enema to wash out all the impacted feces in all their little pockets of corruption.
Off the Wall Ping!
Contact to be added.
Looks like Judicial Watch is doing much what the DOJ should be doing. What the hell is going on?
Absolutely right. The corruption has always been a problem but after 0bama’s 8 year reign and packing every agency with leftist communists the corruption has become unreal.
DOJ and all agencies are in dire need of a thorough purge.
Bttt.
5.56mm
JW & ACLJ.
The Federal agencies are communist.
JW & ACLJ.
The Federal agencies are communist.
bkmk
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