Posted on 07/29/2017 12:17:19 PM PDT by jazusamo
Judicial Watch Files Three Lawsuits Seeking Communications of Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe
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These past few days saw a significant advance in our efforts to plumb the depths of what was going on at the top of the FBI during the late stages of the Obama administration and during the early days of the Trump administration. The advance includes three Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Justice seeking records for FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe relating to his political activities, travel vouchers, and employment status. The first two lawsuits specifically seek records of McCabe’s political activities involving his wife’s failed campaign for political office and interactions with Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
The first FOIA lawsuit, filed on July 24 ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-01494)), seeks the following:
The second Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit, filed on July 26, ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-01495)) seeks communication records between then-Deputy Director McCabe and Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and the Democratic Party of Virginia, including:
Any official within the office of the Governor of Virginia, including but not limited to Governor Terry McAuliffe;
Any official, representative or employee with the Democratic National Committee; and
Any official, representative or employee with the Democratic Party of Virginia.
In 2015, a political action committee run by McAuliffe, a close friend and political supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, donated nearly $500,000 to Jill McCabe, wife of McCabe, who was then running for the Virginia State Senate. Also, the Virginia Democratic Party, over which McAuliffe had significant influence, donated an additional $207,788 to the Jill McCabe campaign. In July 2015, Andrew McCabe was in charge of the FBI’s Washington, DC, field office, which provided personnel resources to the Clinton email probe. McAuliffe himself was (and still may be) was under FBI investigation as well.
The Hatch Act prohibits FBI employees from engaging “in political activity in concert with a political party, a candidate for partisan political office, or a partisan political group.”
The third FOIA lawsuit filed this week came on July 26 ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-01493) for:
These are all basic requests about the acting FBI director. The cover-up of the records is a good indication that both the FBI and its parent the Justice Department are out-of-control.
There are numerous questions about the ethics and judgement of the FBI’s top leadership, particularly Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe. These new lawsuits will help Americans “watch the watchers” at the powerful FBI.
We ramped up the pressure on the Deep State yesterday with another Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice looking for answers from the FBI, this one for the metadata for the memoranda written by former FBI Director James Comey memorializing his conversations with President Donald Trump, as well as records about Comey’s FBI-issued laptop computer or other electronic devices and records about how Comey managed his records while he was FBI Director ( Judicial Watch, Inc., v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 17-cv-01520)). Importantly, the metadata information may include details about when the memos were created or edited and by whom.
We sued here in DC after Justice simply failed to respond to our June 21 FOIA request for:
In an earlier, related FOIA lawsuit, JW sued the Justice Department for information about former FBI Director James Comey’s memorandum written after his meeting with President Trump regarding potential interference by the Russians in the 2016 presidential election ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-01189).
The infamous Comey memo purportedly memorialized his meeting and conversation with President Trump regarding the FBI’s investigation of potential Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election.
The memorandum, reportedly, was written on or about February 13, 2017 and was the subject of a New York Times article dated May 16, 2017. The memo also purportedly recounts a conversation between President Trump and Comey about a pending investigation of former National Security Advisor Gen. Mike Flynn.
As you know probably know from earlier Weekly Updates, Judicial Watch is pursuing numerous additional FOIA lawsuits related to the surveillance, unmasking, and illegal leaking targeting President Trump and his associates during the FBI’s investigation of potential Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election. You can review some of them here , here , here , here , here , and here . Last month, Judicial Watch also warned the FBI of its obligations under federal law to uncover records unlawfully removed by Mr. Comey.
We want to figure out when Mr. Comey wrote or edited his memos and how his records were created and managed by the FBI. The fact that Mr. Comey walked out of the FBI with these sensitive documents tells us something isn’t right at the FBI and Justice Department.
Rather than wait for Congress, the media, or a compromised special counsel, we are in court to get answers.
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JW does great work. It is too bad no one has the same “drive” as them. While they will get some good results, it takes too long. Make any info moot. Look at the Clinton mess(s). This current request should take about 3 to 4 years. We are still waiting for FOIA records that have been court ordered in other matters. The Swamp doesn’t care.
Judicial Watch needs to make sure they get ALL the metadata associated with the Comey “contemporaneous” memos. The corrupt, lying, devious Comey is certainly not above backdating and/or modifying the contents of his documentation.
Yep, getting this type info is like pulling teeth even with all the FOIA lawsuits that they win these agencies drag it out..
But isn’t this Mueller’s job?
We need a clone of Tom Fitton for AG. Not Tom himself, because we need him to continue his lawsuits against the government. Hit the target often enough and one “round” is likely to take out one of the government enemies!
I can definitely see his frustrations.
Trump could totally change the way FOIA is handled. Let people from JW and all think tanks and news organizations have BROWSE access to all relational databases in the government ... except maybe a very small number that contain truly secret stuff.
The reality is that almost nothing that is more than 1 year old except the identities of FBI and CIA/NSA informants is worth keeping secret. Everything moves so fast these days that what happened a year or 5 years ago is worthless.
But think of HUD, HHS, DOT, FDA, FCC, SEC... no reason to keep anything secret.
So just give everyone BROWSE access to most everything.
Currently agencies spend big bucks on staff who do nothing but respond to FOIA requests. Their staff salaries are unnecessary expense...waste.
The data belongs to the people; not the swamp.
Let JW, think tanks, media pay for the salaries to grab the data.
OPEN THE BOOKS should be OPEN THE DATABASES.
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Why am I not surprised? As many of my FR friends would say, "wake me up when someone's actually put in jail!"
Bttt.
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He certainly tells it/shows how it works on Capital Hill, it’s really disheartening to average folk like me. We are truly in a Bind.
Keep up the fight, JW!
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