Posted on 08/24/2018 6:56:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: Deep State DOJ Tells Court it is Unable to Give Judicial Watch Requested Fusion GPS Documents Due to a Glitch
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch attended a hearing in federal court this week after the Justice Department failed to respond to a December 12, 2017, FOIA request seeking records on oppo research firm Fusion GPS.
The Justice Department argued that it is unable to produce the requested records due to technical issues.
Where else have we heard this before?
Judicial Watch is seeking the following from the DOJ:
All records of contact or communication, including but not limited to emails, text messages, and instant chats, between DOJ officials in the Attorney Generals Office and Fusion GPS employee or contractor Nellie Ohr. The time frame for the requested records is January 1, 2015, to the present.
On June 14, 2018, Judge Walton ordered the Justice Department, which had been resisting Judicial Watchs FOIA request, to immediately commence its search for responsive records and produce responsive records
Additionally, Judge Walton previously criticized the Justice Department, saying:
I think if its been almost, since December when the initial request was made more should have been done by now. And it seems to me if you have someone whos going to come into office and they say theyre going to be a disrupter, that they should appreciate theres going to be a lot of FOIA requests and therefore, should gear up to deal with those requests. So Im not real sympathetic to the position that you have limited staff and therefore, you cant comply with these requests. So I think youre going to have to get some more people.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
This means that Nellie Ohr’s activities were such that revealing them would be so damaging to the FBI that they are willing to claim there are no emails, texts, interview forms, contracting forms, documents of any kind available...
It’s all “unrecoverable”.
So that in itself is important information. Make the same request of other areas of the DOJ / FBI. FBI emails on the clinton / Lynch meeting came out from the DOJ, when the FBI claimed there were none.
Keep digging Judicial Watch !
Bald-faced lies and everyone knows it.
This case and all similar issues justify Trump’s criticism of Sessions - because he is absent, as he says the DOJ should not be politicizing what it does, as the deep state within the DOJ politicizes everything it does and Sessions ignores it.
RE: the only way to cut it...
I agree that an immediate punishment is the only way to stop the stonewalling. However, the problem is who to punish? Head of the DOJ? Deputy head? The guys in the tech room? A fine will no doubt be assessed to the taxpayers, so jail time, yes.
He will not be influenced by politics.
Let’s hope the judge brings charges of “contempt of court” against the DOJ officials who are stonewalling and acting in a criminal manner.
Time to clean out the most corrupt DOJ in the history of American.
What would be expected, if that happened, is that the Left would say it was Donald Trump’s DOJ being cleaned out rather than their own corrupt partisan weasels being rooted out.
“Most corrupt administration ever!” they’ll mindlessly parrot.
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