Posted on 09/11/2019 10:55:43 AM PDT by jazusamo
Thanks! Hopefully we are being successful, and the reporters are having difficulty finding anybody to comment about things Rod Rosenstein
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released 14 pages of records from the Department of Justice showing officials efforts in responding to media inquiries centering on talks within the DOJ/FBI allegedly invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein offering to wear a wire to record his conversations with the president.
The records show that, following a September 21, 2018, report on Rosenstein suggesting he would wear a wire to secretly record Trump and his discussions on using the 25th Amendment, Rosenstein sought to ensure the media would have difficulty finding anyone in the DOJ to comment and a concerted effort within the DOJ to frame the reporting as inaccurate and factually incorrect.
The records show DOJ officials had also discussed characterizing Rosensteins reported offer of wearing a wire to record Trump as merely sarcastic.
Additionally, the records show DOJ Public Affairs officer Sarah Isgur Flores, after conferring with other top DOJ officials and Rosensteins office about her email exchange with New York Times reporter Adam Goldman, waited 12 hours to forward the email exchange to DOJ Chief of Staff Matthew Whitaker. Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly had referred to Whitaker as the presidents eyes and ears in the DOJ.
Judicial Watch obtained the records through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the Justice Department failed to respond to three separate FOIA requests dated September 21, 2018 ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00388)). The lawsuit seeks all written and audio/visual records of any FBI/DOJ discussions regarding the 25th Amendment and plans to secretly record President Trump in the Oval Office.
The records obtained by Judicial Watch include a September 21, 2018, email from Assistant U.S. Attorney (DOJ/NSD) Harvey Eisenberg to Rosenstein informing the DAG that Washington Post reporter Ellen Nakashima had called inquiring about a New York Times report on the 25th Amendment/wire discussion, Rosenstein responds: Thanks! Hopefully we are being successful, and the reporters are having difficulty finding anybody to comment about things. [Remainder of email redacted.] Apparently in response to the redacted portion of Rosensteins reply, Eisenberg responds, Im aware. Besides letting you know, [redacted]. My best to you and the family. Rosenstein replies, I dont mean about me. [Redacted.]
The emails also detail the DOJs response to the initial story as it was being prepared by the New York Times. On September 20, 2018, the Times Goldman emails DOJs Flores that he and fellow reporter Mike Schmidt were working on a story and wanted a DOJ response to certain questions, including that at a May 16, 2017, meeting of senior federal law enforcement officials, Rosenstein offered to wear a wire to record his conversations with Trump. He also said McCabe could wear a wire.
In a second request for comment, Goldman alleges that in a separate conversation between Rosenstein and McCabe, they discussed using the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump and Rosenstein said that he may be able to get (then-Attorney General Jeff) Sessions and Kelly to go along with the plan.
In a third request for comment, Goldman said hed learned that Rosenstein in a May 12, 2017, conversation at the DOJ Command Center appeared upset and emotional over the Comey firing.
In a fourth request for comment, Goldman said that in a May 14, 2017, conversation with McCabe, Rosenstein asked McCabe to reach out to Comey to seek advice about appointing a special counsel. McCabe believed that was a bad idea.
In a fifth and final request for which he sought DOJ comment, Goldman wrote, Rosenstein considered appointing (former Deputy Attorney General) Jim Cole as the special counsel.
On Sept 20, 2018, Flores forwarded the Goldman email to Annie and Bill apparently White House Deputy Counsel Annie Donaldson and White House Communications Director Bill Shine telling Donaldson, Boss calling Don re the below if you think appropriate, share with Don [presumably referring to White House Counsel Don McGahn]. She tells Shine, Weve sent a response from the DAG thats below and had someone in the room dispute the wire part noting the dag was being sarcastic. She then includes the DAG response, which reads, The New York Timess story is inaccurate and factually incorrect. I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the Department and are advancing their own personal agenda. But let me be clear about this: based on my personal dealings with the President, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.
Shine thanks Flores and asks her to share with Elliott ASAP. Flores responds that if Shine is directing her to share with Elliott, I dont think I know who that is referring to. Flores sent that response at 10:09 PM on September 20, but Flores waits until 10:00 a.m. the next day to forward the entire exchange to DOJ Chief of Staff Whitaker, saying: Should have sent this to you last night.
In a mostly redacted email exchange on the evening of September 20, 2018, shows the efforts of officials in the Public Affairs and DAGs office to produce a response to the impending news article. DOJ Official Bradley Weinsheimer forwarded to Flores the DAG response to the allegations in the article, saying DAG has cleared this, which is what we just discussed. He then provides the official DAG response about the allegations over Rosenstein wanting to invoke the 25th Amendment against Trump as being inaccurate and factually incorrect. Deputy Attorney Generals office official Ed OCallaghan responds, Think good. The rest of his response is redacted under (b)(5) deliberative process.
In the final draft of the official DAG response approved by OCallaghan, the statement is changed from Based on my dealings with the President, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment to Based on my personal dealings with the President, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.
It is remarkable that Judicial Watch has done more to investigate the DOJ/FBIs discussions about overthrowing President Trump than the DOJ or Congress, said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. These documents essentially confirm the coup discussions about wearing a wire when speaking with President Trump and plans to remove him under the 25th Amendment.
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“I honestly now am starting to entertain the theory that Sessions was a plant placed into the Trump Administration to thwart President Trump”
Senator Jeff Sessions was on the podium with candidate Donald Trump at his very first campaign rally in Mobile Alabama, August 22, 2015.
He was all alone then among national Republican officeholders in backing Donald Trump, and he was all alone for many months.
Those who think he was “a plant” apparently also think he has the ability to see the future.
Those planted early are less suspicious later on. 8>)
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Time for Trump to appoint a special prosecutor to prosecute his ‘Justice’ dept.
We are all missing things. Things our own government doesnt want us to know and it happens all the time. One case I was sort of involuntarily caught up in was Just Cause. At the time even I thought it was all about a deranged despot. Come to find out decades later that that entire war was fought because it was necessary as a prerequisite to Get Pablo. Which is curious because it really hadnt been all that long before that that our own government was importing Pablos product through Mena, Arkansas by folks like Barry Seal. But of course, that was all info we discovered later.
Then there was the time...Iraq...WMDs...
Then there was the time 19 violent Muslims killed 3,000 people in NYC and we only found out ten years later it was financed by the Saudis and Bush and 0bama BOTH knew it....
Maybe Im the only one but to me there seems to be a pattern here. Ten years later we find out what was really happening. There must be some magic that transpires around ten years out that people just dont care anymore. We see the same thing with the Ludlow Massacre, Kent State, etc. maybe just like with immigration we should slam a ten year moratorium on anybody insisting we DO SOEMTHING...
“...And that Sessions & Kelly may have possibly been involved as well. I honestly now am starting to entertain the theory that Sessions was a plant placed into the Trump Administration to thwart President Trump from looking into other issues that involved Democrats and coup conspirators that were against President Trump. IOW, enemies of the people...”
There’s probably more truth to your “theory” than many folks realize.
I.m beginning to believe it, sad to say that though. I always liked Sessions.
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