Posted on 08/14/2020 3:37:26 PM PDT by jazusamo
Judicial Watch Issues Statement on Appeals Court Decision Blocking Hillary Clinton Testimony
Today I made the following statement about the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit regarding the request of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s and her former Chief of Staff, Chery Mills to avoid testifying under oath about Clinton’s emails. The court granted Clinton’s request to avoid testimony but denied Mills’.
Today’s extraordinary Appeals Court decision protecting Hillary Clinton from having to obey a court order requiring her to testify about her emails is contrary to longstanding precedent and undermines the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The opinion’s deviation from a long line of earlier mandamus cases creates the appearance of favoritism towards Clinton and undermines the public’s confidence in the fair administration of justice. One need only contrast the DC Circuit’s agony over granting General Flynn mandamus relief with the unprecedented mandamus relief so easily given to Clinton.
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton hid her government emails, then stole them when she left office. Her lawyers unilaterally determined what would be returned later. The State Department knew this occurred but tried to game a federal trial court into shutting down Judicial Watch’s FOIA lawsuit before Clinton’s scheme became public. In response, the trial court rightly ordered Clinton to testify about the reasons for her actions and their impact on the public’s right to know. That this was too much for the DC Circuit is a miscarriage of justice.
In addition to today’s political decision, the Justice and State Departments’ continuing efforts to avoid getting to the bottom of Clinton’s email misconduct are a scandal. President Trump should hold Secretary Pompeo and Attorney General Barr accountable for their failures of leadership.
Judicial Watch Uncovers Fusion GPS/Steele and DOJ Connections Back to 2015
As the clock ticks on William Barr’s and John Durham’s investigations of Obamagate, we continue to reveal the true details of the “Russia Investigation.” One thing is clear: there is much more to be learned.
We released 168 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Justice, including a handwritten timeline of meetings going back to 2015 connected to Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Steele/Fusion GPS, as well as a list of records the DOJ sent to Congress related to their investigation into the FISA warrants involving the Clinton-funded dossier.
The records also include a letter from Congress demanding the investigation into Hillary Clinton, James Comey and others, as well as a scathing email from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on the lack of cooperation from the DOJ/FBI.
We obtained the records through our August 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-01854)) filed against the Justice Department after it failed to respond to a May 29, 2018, FOIA request for:
The newly released records include a handwritten note with the heading “FBI: 11/21, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok DAD, [Redacted] SSA,” which has an attached page with the heading “Partial Chron” and the following list:
2007 Met 1st time London
2008 Jun met UK
[Redacted]
11/21/2014 Met
2/10/2015 Call
[Redacted]
10/2/2015 Met
7/7/2016 Call
7/30/2016 Meeting in DC
[8/22/2016 Simpson DC]
9/23/2016 Met in DC
10/18/2016 Call
10/19/2016 Call
A heavily redacted six-page record dated June 28, 2018, titled, “Summary of High Profile Congressional Requests,” which has the corresponding headings “Congressional Request” and “Department’s Accommodation,” lists various documents requested by Congress and the DOJ’s response to each. The documents that the DOJ provided to a Congressional Request titled “Reliance on Dossier for FISA Application” included the following:
On April 20, 2018, Deputy Attorney General Scott Schools forwarded a letter from former Representative Ron DeSantis and other members of Congress demanding a criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente to DOJ Acting Assistant Attorney General John Cronan, US Attorney for DC Jessie Liu, DOJ IG Michael Horowitz and FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich.
This letter was initially sent to Attorney General Sessions, FBI Director Christopher Wray and US Attorney John Huber.
On September 22, 2017, Damon Nelson, staff director for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sent an email to Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd, copying other senior FBI and DOJ officials saying:
The rest of the IC (Intelligence Community) has found a way to provide the committee access to all the docs it has requested for the investigation – including raw intelligence. I find it interesting that the FBI and Justice are taking a different approach. The information is critical to the House’s investigation and access to the raw documents are needed to complete the investigation (of Russian interference in the US election).
These new documents further demonstrate that the Obama FBI and DOJ had a close, working relationship with Fusion GPS/Christopher Steele. These documents also show the agencies had zero interest in telling Congress and the American people about their role in Obamagate.
This case is part of our ongoing investigation into Nellie and Bruce Ohr’s involvement with Fusion GPS and the Clinton-funded dossier. Previous document releases include Russia-related communications between Nellie Ohr and high-ranking DOJ official Lisa Holtyn; a conversation between former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Kathleen Kavalec and Bruce Ohr discussing the targeting of Donald Trump with Steele dossier material; Nellie Ohr telling Bruce Ohr that she was deleting emails sent from his Department of Justice account; and Bruce Ohr sending an email to his lawyer before his intelligence committee testimony about, “possible ethics concerns.”
Previous document releases can be found here , here , here , and here .
Judicial Watch Sues DC Government for ‘Black Lives Matter/Defund the Police’ Street Painting Records
Well yeah. Who thought otherwise? Dreamers............
Off the Wall Ping!
Contact to be added.
Bkmk
The Toons are special demonic creatures that are protected, nurtured and cared for by Satan himself.
NOTHING will ever be stuck to the Toons nor will they ever be brought to justice...ever..for anything.
Their pact with the devil will allow them to continue on unabated until the Reaper is finally dispatched to harvest them and send them back home to hell.
The sooner that happens, the better place America will be...oh, and toss in those other twi demons as well: Lil’ Ruthie and the Botoxian.
“One need only contrast the DC Circuit’s agony over granting General Flynn mandamus relief with the unprecedented mandamus relief so easily given to Clinton.”
These judges are Domestic Enemies. Plainly.
Well said, couldn’t agree more.
Try the USSC, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. The deep state protects its own.
Do they ALL have John Roberts Disorder?
Whoever coined the phrase “Justice is Blind” didn’t know the depravity of Democrats/leftists.
The Klintoons are above the law.
The “swamp” runs deep in DC appeals circuit.
Just ask Sidney Powell and Tom Fitton.
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