Posted on 10/13/2017 5:11:06 PM PDT by markomalley
Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, announced that the FBI has found 30 pages of documents concerning the 2016 tarmac meeting between former President Bill Clinton and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
"The FBI is out of control. It is stunning that the FBI ‘found' these Clinton-Lynch tarmac records only after we caught the agency hiding them in another lawsuit," Judicial Watch Tom Fitton said in a statement. "Judicial Watch will continue to press for answers about the FBI's document games in court. In the meantime, the FBI should stop the stonewall and release these new records immediately."
The watchdog group expects to receive the newly revealed documents by the end of November.
Lynch met Bill Clinton on a private plane at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Ariz., on June 26, 2016, while the FBI investigation concerning Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server was still underway, raising concerns about Lynch's independence.
In July 2016, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request regarding "all records of communications between any agent, employee, or representative," concerning Clinton's use of a personal email server and Bill Clinton's meeting with Lynch.
The Justice Department failed to comply and led to the FOIA lawsuit that Judicial Watch says paved the way to it expecting a new tranche of documents.
The FBI did not originally uncover documents concerning the tarmac meeting, according to Fox News. However, the Justice Department did find email correspondence related to the meeting in a related case in 2017.
In response, the FBI sent a letter dated August 10, 2017 that said, "Upon further review, we subsequently determined potentially responsive documents may exist. As a result, your [FOIA] request has been reopened…" and added they are investigating any "responsive material."
"We presume they are new documents. We won't know what's in them until we see them, unfortunately," Fitton told Fox News in an email Friday. "The fact they just ‘found' them is yet another scandal."
The meeting was controversial and caused Republicans to question why Lynch met with Hillary Clinton's husband shortly before the investigation of Clinton's use of personal email server concluded without any charges.
Additionally, former FBI Director James Comey said the meeting was troublesome when he testified before the Senate in June.
I wonder if this is because of the new FBI director.
Why even report it when nothing will be done about it?
Why even report it when nothing will be done about it?
I don’t believe that Lynch and Clinton would have had anything truthful written down or relayed about this meeting. It’s probably about golf and grandkids, supposedly proving they were telling the truth all along.
Bttt.
5.56mm
It is time to shut down the FBI and rebuild an agency with lessons learned.
Must have been in the trunk of a “friendly” FBI Agent’s car, eh?
J. Edgar would never have tolerated this crap. Say what you will about him but he was a patriot.
Did they use both hands to locate them?
I used to respect the FBI. No longer.
Cmon now it is just pix of their grandchildren
Where the hell is Trump on this on going FBI corruption? If AG Sessions doesn’t clean up the DOJ per the FBI, Trump needs to FIRE him, NOW!
They lost my respect fully in 2016; I tried to report some big crimes, but they refused to take me seriously… then they pulled their she's guilty, but we recommend no prosecution
-speech via Comey and totally confirmed that they respect persons and politics over law and Justice.
We know the FBI remains a shill for the democrats, rancid to the core with political favoritism, nothing at all like the great law enforcement agency it was in the past. the only question I have is why has Trump ignored its transgressions since his first day in office and lets it continue to run roughshod over its opponents?
“It is time to shut down the FBI and rebuild an agency with lessons learned.”
And the NSA, CIA, BATF, IRS, NEA, DOJ, EPA and on and on.
The entire construct is a toxic swamp of hubris, overreach and incompetence, funded by we the people.
Ho hum, nothing but sanitized lies and grandkids chat...’what kind of diapers do your grandkids wear’ lol...the FBI is a complete farce...
According to some FReepers, Sessions is a Saint. He has a huge plan to clean up the Swamp in 2525. More amazing, he is going to do this without “ANY” investigation. /s
A few years back I happened upon some info regarding a case that involved the disappearance of tens of million of dollars.It's a very long and complicated story but,as revenge for something that one of the people involved had done to me,I called the FBI and explained,in detail,the info I had.
Given that the issue was already in the papers when I became involved they were absolutely familiar with the case.Bottom line...."not interested,not even slightly interested" (not an exact quote).
But I had the last laugh.After having been hung up on by the FBI I called the SEC in DC.
*They* were interested...*very* interested.
The case is still in the courts.I've been told that I might be called to testify.
The FBI is primarily a political organization and secondly a DoJ investigative agency. The second part has been receding in importance in the last decade.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.