Posted on 07/29/2020 10:42:53 AM PDT by jazusamo
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today the FBI will finally begin processing Andrew McCabe text message for release after a federal court rejected the FBI’s request to dismiss a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed on behalf of Jeffrey A. Danik, a retired FBI supervisory special agent, for emails and text messages of former-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe ( Jeffrey A. Danik v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-01792). Mr. Danik filed his first request for the records in 2016.
After years of suggesting that text messages are not subject to FOIA, the FBI told the court in a recent filing that it has located 150 text messages and 5,696 emails but will not have a schedule to release the records until August 28, 2020.
Judicial Watch filed the suit in 2017 in support of Danik’s October 25, 2016, and February 28, 2017, FOIA requests for records about McCabe’s “conflicts of interest” regarding his wife’s (Dr. Jill McCabe’s) political campaign and Hillary Clinton. Specifically, the two FOIA requests are for:
Text messages and emails of McCabe containing “Dr. Jill McCabe,” “Jill,” “Common Good VA,” “Terry McAuliffe,” “Clinton,” “Virginia Democratic Party,” “Democrat,” “Conflict,” “Senate,” “Virginia Senate,” “Until I return,” “Paris,” “France,” “Campaign,” “Run,” “Political,” “Wife,” “Donation,” “OGC,” Email,” or “New York Times.”
United States District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, denied the DOJ’s motion to dismiss the case, concluding that DOJ had not provided sufficient evidence to support its attempt to end the lawsuit without providing all emails and text messages responsive to the FOIA requests.
“The FBI has outrageously stonewalled for years the release of these McCabe text messages about Clinton,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “You can be sure the text messages are something the corrupted FBI doesn’t want the American people to see.”
In November 2017, in a related case, Judicial Watch uncovered Justice Department records concerning ethics issues related to McCabe’s involvement with his wife’s political campaign. The documents include an email showing Mrs. McCabe was recruited for a Virginia state senate race in February 2015 by then-Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam’s office. The news that former Secretary of State Clinton used a private email server broke five days later , on March 2, 2015. Five days after that, former Clinton Foundation board member and Democrat party fundraiser, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, met with the McCabes. She announced her candidacy on March 12. Soon afterward, Clinton/McAuliffe-aligned political groups donated nearly $700,000 ( 40% of the campaign’s total funds) to McCabe’s wife for her campaign.
Also in November 2017, Judicial Watch discovered Justice Department records showing that McCabe secretly had recused himself from the investigation into Clinton’s unsecure, non-government email server on November 1, 2016 , one week prior to the presidential election. The Clinton email probe was codenamed “ Midyear Exam .” While working as Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office, McCabe controlled resources supporting the investigation into Clinton’s email scandal. An October 2016 internal FBI memorandum labeled “ Overview of Deputy Director McCabe’s Recusal Related To Dr. McCabe’s Campaign for Political Office ,” details talking points about McCabe’s various potential conflicts of interest, including the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s illicit server, which officially began in July 2015.
McCabe was fired from the FBI in March 2018 for leaking to the media and lacking “ candor .”
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Wray sucks. He shouldn’t be “capitulating.” He should have been mining and shoveling out.
Christopher Wray needs to be fired right after the elections. An outsider should be put in charge of FBI. Trump needs to nominate somebody who has never worked in government before.
Four years later .......,
and our 'premier law enforcement organization' fought to prevent discovery to the American people.
Did the FBI claim it was "Classified" (?),.. just like most of the emails on Clinton's laptop ?
Two different types of justice by the "Just-Us" department (?),
it must be nice to be part of the privileged class !
This judge, being an Obama appointee, is likely doing this to have a “see, I’m not so bad” moment to point to, while knowing all along that any incriminating messages are long-since deleted.
Yep, Wray should never have gotten the position.
The Federal Bureau of Incrimination And Sedition (FBIAS) is still fighting to keep the truth of their activities secret.
Wray should be fired along with most of headquarters staff.
They’ll be so riddled with redactions as to be useless when finally released.
It’s the FBIAS way.
The Deep State has accomplished its most important assignment. It has delayed the delivery of evidence long enough that the election will pass well before the Deep State criminals are properly exposed.
Thank God for Judicial Watch. If not for them, we would have very little information.
Where is Ric Grenell these days?
DOJ and federal police are pure garbage. They have brainwashed the public into thinking that their cherished independence is an essential feature of constitutional government.
They are nothing more than power hungry pompous asses. The problem is that doj and their police state is only accountable to itself.
It’s no surprise that they’re Uber corrupt.
Trump has gotten a lot of bad advice because he has been so heavily infiltrated by Deep Staters. Here is hoping most of them will have been ferretted out and gone by the time the President begins his 2nd term. Then he can really get things done.
I couldn’t agree more.
I believe the election is not going to be close and the bigger the win for President Trump the harder it’s going to hit the Deep Staters.
I think Attorney “Lady Guardian of Justice” Sydney Powell would agree that something needs to be done about Chris Wray. She was very critical of him in her recent interview with Lou Dobbs.
They would have to be temporary because Senate would never approve anyone that would pose a danger to their sweetheart deals. Both parties enjoy their freebies and they are not going to give them up. Do you really think no one there knows that those non-profit charities are just a scam? Why do you think there are so many of them and no one ever hears of the great things they accomplish?
You speak truth. I was dreaming.
While I consider President Trump’s election to be a miracle, and while I believe he will be easily re-elected to another term, I see Trump as a temporary speed bump in the way of the coming collapse of America toward totalitarian socialist tyranny. I am grateful as I approach the beginning of the end of my life, that Trump has bought me several extra years staving off the worst of the worst, but I realize his impact is only going to be temporary.
Both the Democrats and the establishment Republicans have solid control going forward, and neither has our best interests. I am just grateful Trump has been able to slow down what is coming. I still shiver at the idea of a president Hillary Clinton the past 4 years. There would already be 6 solid commie liberals on the supreme court. Along with the DemocRAT House and the spineless Senate Repulbicans, we would already be toast.
I was just dreaming.
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