(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it received 372 pages of records from the U.S. Department of State that confirm prior Judicial Watch reporting that the Ukraine Embassy under then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch monitored, in potential violation of law, Donald Trump, Jr. Rudy Giuliani, and major journalists on Twitter on their commentary on Ukraine, "Biden-Burisma 2020", and George Soros.
The documents list the targeted persons as:
- Sean Hannity
- Laura Ingraham
- Rudy Giuliani
- Dan Bongino
- Sebastian Gorka
- John Solomon
- Jack Posobiec
- Ryan Saavedra
- Sara A Carter
- Donald Trump Jr.
- Michael McFaul
- Lou Dobbs
- Pamela Gellar
The search terms that were flagged to be monitored by State Department officials on social media included:
- Yovanovitch
- Ukraine Ambassador
- Ukrainian Ambassador
- Ukraine Soros
- Clinton campaign
- Biden-Burisma
The emails show that Yovanovitch was aware of the social media monitoring program.
Additionally, a State Department contractor warned his colleagues that their monitoring of private citizens was potentially in violation of the Privacy Act of 1974.
"These new documents confirm Deep State officials at the Ukraine Embassy seemed to set up an enemies list to help illicitly monitor and report on the social media postings of President Trump's family and lawyer, as well as journalists," stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "The State Department hid these smoking gun documents for months."
They are also using DoD assets to monitor citizens here in the states. How do they get away with this? They started years ago by doing it from bases in other countries and remote outposts. I once traced one of many back to a bunker in Syria. But now they are doing it from bases and installations inside the states.
Judicial Watch is so important in uncovering the unconstitutional and nefarious behavior of the left.
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