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Judicial Watch Sues for ‘Coup’ Documents
Judicial Watch ^ | February 19, 2019 | Tom Fitton

Posted on 02/19/2019 2:50:55 PM PST by jazusamo

Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Top DOJ Officials considered asking Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment in order to remove President Trump and discussed recording meetings with him

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for all records of communication of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the Office of the Attorney General Jeff Sessions, or the Office of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussing the 25th Amendment or presidential fitness. Additionally, the lawsuit seeks all recordings made by any official in the Office of the Attorney General or Deputy Attorney General of meetings in the Executive Office of the President or Vice President.

The suit was filed after the Justice Department failed to respond to three separate FOIA requests dated September 21, 2018 ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00388)). The lawsuit seeks all written and audio/visual records of any FBI/DOJ discussions regarding the 25th Amendment and plans to secretly record President Trump in the Oval Office.

On February 14, 2019, former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe stated in an interview with CBS that “there were conversations about the possibility of removing Trump under the 25th Amendment and confirming that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had offered to wear a wire around the president.”

After President Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey, reportedly top DOJ officials discussed whether to recruit cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.

President Trump recently tweeted : “The biggest abuse of power and corruption scandal in our history, and it’s much worse than we thought. Andrew McCabe (FBI) admitted to plotting a coup (government overthrow) when he was serving in the FBI, before he was fired for lying & leaking.”

It was reported in September 2018 that Deputy Attorney General, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested that he secretly record President Trump in the White House in an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment and have President Trump removed. Judicial Watch’s immediate follow-up FOIA requests were ignored.

“It is no surprise that we are facing an immense cover-up of senior FBI and DOJ leadership discussions to pursue a seditious coup against President Trump,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This effort to overthrow President Trump is a fundamental threat to our constitutional republic so Judicial Watch will do everything it can in the courts to expose everything possible about this lawlessness.”

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JW Sues for “Coup” Docs--Immense Cover-Up of Talks by FBI/DOJ Officials on Removing Trump...39 seconds


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: attemptedcoup; comey; coup; coupplotters; doj; fbi; foialawsuit; judicialwatch; jw; mccabe; presidenttrump; rosenstein; sessions; tomfitton
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1 posted on 02/19/2019 2:50:55 PM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

I always thought Jeff Sessions was just a typical Republican coward. Now I wouldn’t be surprised if he was in on the coup.


2 posted on 02/19/2019 2:59:45 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: GOPJ; Diana in Wisconsin; ColdOne; Art in Idaho; Conservative Gato; ptsal; onyx; Tucker39; ...

Off the Wall Ping!

Contact to be added.


3 posted on 02/19/2019 2:59:57 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

Good ol’ Judicial Watch; doing the work the RINO’s refuse to do.

I’m a contributor.


4 posted on 02/19/2019 3:01:08 PM PST by fwdude (Think about it: Blacks were made slaves in Africa, but were made free men in America.)
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To: fwdude

I’m a contributor.

Me Too.

Doing the work the Congress and the DOJ refuse to do.


5 posted on 02/19/2019 3:08:43 PM PST by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: jazusamo
A Sept 2018 report noted that AG Rosenstein secretly recorded Pres Trump in the White House preparatory to invoking the 25th Amendment to have Pres Trump removed. Judicial Watch’s immediate follow-up FOIA requests were ignored. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton: “It is no surprise that we are facing an immense cover-up of senior FBI and DOJ leadership discussions to pursue a seditious coup against Pres Trump. This effort to overthrow Pres Trump is a fundamental threat to our constitutional republic; Judicial Watch will do everything it can in the courts to expose everything possible about this lawlessness.”

Corrupt just doesn't adequately describe these Deep State bums.....more like born-criminals and con artists.
Two important products of Congressional investigations:
<><>the 18 Jan 2017 memo declassified by Pres Trump,
<><> the 28 Dec 2018 letter to Sen Mitch McConnell,

The key facts revealed:
<><> (1) the Obama FBI used, as factual basis for FISA apps, bogus info from the Steele dossier, a compilation of anti-Trump info that the FBI had not verified.
<><> (2) Obama's corrupt FBI nevertheless swore to the truth of that info to obtain surveillance warrants on Carter Page, Trump's one-time campaign advisor;
<><> (3) in the process of obtaining the search warrants the Obama FBI failed to inform FISA that the Steele dossier was bought and paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Obama hand-in-hand with his pal, NSA's Susan Rice.... outrageously asked for and obtained hundreds of “unmaskings,” of US citizens’. Their communications were intercepted by the Obama FBI and NSA as part of so-called intel operations. Innocent Americans were unmasked, and were used against Trump in the campaign.
<><> Why did the unmaskings even occur, and what information was illegally shared by Rice with Obama and/or Hillary?
<><>What illegal direction did the FBI, the NSA, and other intel agencies take to monitor Trump-related communications?

Predictably, Democraps have stopped the investigations cold. The most heinous aspect of this Democrap outrage is that the Obama admin and his factotums ----like Third World tinpot warlords----calculatedly picked over the intel apparat, set-up to protect the safety and security of Americans, to advance their scurrilous political schemes.

Partners in crime.......the two we should be investigating.

6 posted on 02/19/2019 3:11:20 PM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Sessions was a Deep State plant from the get go. No one could be as weak, passive and detached as he was unless it was by design. He was there as an insurance policy — and he paid off big for the Deep State.


7 posted on 02/19/2019 3:12:18 PM PST by Starboard
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Notably there is NO mention of the “2 hops” rule for FISA warrants.

The FISA wasn’t just to spy on Trump’s campaign via Carter Page.......but with “the 2 hops rule” the Obama spies could spy on virtually the entire Trump campaign staff.

SOURCE-—REDDIT.COM Under FISA law, when the government obtains a warrant on an individual, they are also allowed to spy on anyone that person contacts, as well as anyone the contacted person contacts, as well as anyone that person contacted, going back FIVE YEARS!

IOW, the Obama admin got a FISA warrant on Carter Page, but since Page would have been in contact with at least 1 member of the Trump campaign, and that member or one of their contacts probably was in contact with virtually anyone even remotely connected to the campaign........the FISA warrant made it “legal” for Obama and his cronies to spy on anyone even remotely connected to Trump or the campaign and look at ANY of their communications over the last FIVE YEARS!

This should be a major focus of news stories......right now one of the misleading talking points from the Deep State is that this FISA was innocently looking at Page “only.”


8 posted on 02/19/2019 3:13:02 PM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: jazusamo

Judicial Watch doing the job that the DOJ and FBI refuse to do.


9 posted on 02/19/2019 3:13:52 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Mouton

Doing the work the Congress and the DOJ refuse to do.

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Exactly. Without JW we would not know anywhere what we do now. A great organization that unfortunately is doing the heavy lifting that a Republican congress should have been doing for the past two years.


10 posted on 02/19/2019 3:14:51 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Liz

Thanks Liz, Right On!


11 posted on 02/19/2019 3:20:38 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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CNN's Toobin says its Patriotic for DOJ Officials to Discuss Removing Trump Via 25th Amendment
Newsbusters ^ | February 19, 2019 | P.J. Gladnick / FR Posted by PJ-Comix

Jeffrey Toobin is CNN's chief legal analyst, but he seems to be clueless about the fact that the 25th Amendment can only be invoked when a president is either physically or mentally incapacitated. It was never intended to be used in case high level officials decided that they just didn't like a president.

Yet somehow Toobin allowed his obvious dislike for President Donald Trump to, well, trump any basic legal sense on his part on Monday's The Situation Room to declare that it was "patriotic" for FBI and DOJ officials to discuss Trump's removal from office via the 25th Amendment even though to do so would have been plainly unconstitutional. (Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...

12 posted on 02/19/2019 3:21:29 PM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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CNN's Toobin says its Patriotic for DOJ Officials to Discuss Removing Trump Via 25th Amendment
Newsbusters ^ | February 19, 2019 | P.J. Gladnick / FR Posted by PJ-Comix

Jeffrey Toobin is CNN's chief legal analyst, but he seems to be clueless about the fact that the 25th Amendment can only be invoked when a president is either physically or mentally incapacitated. It was never intended to be used in case high level officials decided that they just didn't like a president.

Yet somehow Toobin allowed his obvious dislike for President Donald Trump to, well, trump any basic legal sense on his part on Monday's The Situation Room to declare that it was "patriotic" for FBI and DOJ officials to discuss Trump's removal from office via the 25th Amendment even though to do so would have been plainly unconstitutional. (Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...

13 posted on 02/19/2019 3:21:29 PM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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MAGA!

Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!

Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

14 posted on 02/19/2019 3:22:14 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Liz

why do you think FakeNewsMSM has had so many Trump haters - including many of their own “hacks” - question President Trump’s mental state?

from the minute it was made public that Clinton campaign/DNC/Perkins Coie/FusionGPS/Steel etc were responsible for the fake ClintonRussianDossier, and that it was used in the FISA warrant applications, the Mueller investigation should have ended. period.

at the same time, Sessions should have started an investigation into ClintonRussia.


15 posted on 02/19/2019 4:57:03 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: fwdude
Good ol’ Judicial Watch; doing the work the RINO’s refuse to do. I’m a contributor.

I have been a contributor since the time he would snail mail his report on the pigs in Washington DC with a big pig on the cover. He is a stand up guy.

16 posted on 02/19/2019 5:06:33 PM PST by New Perspective (Proud father of a son with Down Syndrome and fighting to keep him off Obama's death panels.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Somebody referred to Session as their “secret weapon.”


17 posted on 02/19/2019 5:11:59 PM PST by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: fwdude

Me too.


18 posted on 02/19/2019 6:33:05 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: jazusamo

Well, let’s see. It’s exclusionary to communists and DemocRats who hate it and want to see it destroyed along with the US. Yep, sure is exclusionary.


19 posted on 02/19/2019 6:50:51 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Liz

Which is why civil-libertarian minded people opposed the Patriot Act. Whether the Act’s existence or non-existence would have enabled or prevented the activity is an open question since there are all kinds of data collection these days with private companies like AT&T being used by government to short-circuit the 4th Amendment. But the ability to use the intelligence agencies, have their collective work filtered through and directed by a White House position such as the National Security Adviser, the existence of secret courts etc need to be reformed needs to be put into a system of checks and balances. It is clear the FISC courts do almost no checking or balancing, acting as a rubber stamp in some 95% of all applications.


20 posted on 02/19/2019 8:19:24 PM PST by monkeyshine
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