Posted on 03/16/2019 9:17:00 AM PDT by jazusamo
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Judge Declares FBI’s Search for Peter Strzok Records Inadequate
A petulant child or employee will perform a task halfway and wait to see if he can get away with it. Such seems to be the strategy of the entire Deep State bureaucracy.
The FBI is particularly good at this, and we are particularly good at calling them on it. Luckily for the American people we have judges who respect the Freedom of Information Act.
A case in point: U.S. District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper for the District of Columbia has agreed with that the FBI did not adequately search for records related to the removal and reassignment of Peter Strzok from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team. He was a former deputy to the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI.
In granting our request, Judge Cooper ordered the FBI to further search their records. (The original, deficient search had only returned 14 pages .)
The order comes in the December 2017 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit we filed after the DOJ failed to respond to and August 17, 2017, request ( Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (No. 1:17-cv-02682)). Judicial Watch seeks:
On July 31, 2018, we released the first 14 pages of FBI documents produced in this FOIA lawsuit, showing that Strzok insisted on retaining his FBI security clearance before moving to the Mueller team and confirmed that Strzok played a pivotal role in the flawed Hillary Clinton email investigation.
In his decision, Judge Cooper called the FBI’s search “overly cramped:”
Notwithstanding that Judicial Watch’s request referred to Mueller by name … the Bureau searched only for the term “special counsel.” But surely one would expect that Agent Strzok and other FBI personnel might use the Special Counsel’s name — “Mueller” — rather than his title when discussing Strzok’s assignment to the Russia investigation, especially in informal emails. Another logical variation on “special counsel” is its commonly used acronym “SCO,” which appears to be used within the Special Counsel’s Office itself, as reflected by documents that the FBI uncovered and produced to Judicial Watch.
The ruling also stated that the FBI did not adequately respond to our FOIA lawsuit because it limited its search to only Strzok’s email account.
Judge Cooper ordered that the FBI must conduct a new search that includes “the email accounts of any of Agent Strzok’s superiors or other Bureau officials who were involved in the decision to assign him to the Special Counsel’s Office or the decision to reassign him to the FBI’s Human Resources Division after his removal from the Mueller investigation.”
The FBI must also expand its search to other forms of communication in addition to email. Given Strzok’s well-known use of text messaging, “it strikes the Court as reasonably likely that he discussed his assignment to the Special Counsel’s Office in text messages—which again is the standard for assessing an agency’s selection of search locations.”
Strzok was reportedly removed from the Mueller investigative team in August 2017 and reassigned to a human resources position after it was discovered that he and then-FBI lawyer Lisa Page exchanged text messages during the Clinton investigation and 2016 election season that raised serious questions about his anti-Trump/pro-Clinton bias. They were also engaged in an extramarital affair. Strzok infamously texted “there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk.”
Strzok reportedly oversaw the FBI’s interviews of former National Security Adviser, General Michael Flynn; changed former FBI Director James Comey’s language about Hillary Clinton’s actions regarding her illicit email server from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless;” played a lead role in the FBI’s interview of Clinton and is suspected of being responsible for using the unverified dossier to obtain a FISA warrant in order to spy on President Trump’s campaign.
The Court rightly slammed the FBI for its gamesmanship in searching for records about one of the most notorious FBI agents of all time – Peter Strzok. The FBI leadership is in cover-up mode on its abuses targeting President Trump, and we’re pleased a federal court pushed back on this stonewall.
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Wray is a great team player....for the other team.
The GOP-e wants to block it because key leadership were involved.
Proving once again that it’s not just leadership that makes the FBI corrupt, low level employees are going right along with it.
FBI is a globalist Deep State operation. It is a Trojan horse; a domestic enemy. FBI must be eliminated and replaced. The “good people” are irrelevant because they have done nothing effective to stop the damage.
Remember that the communists have always said that America can only be defeated from within. FBI is the tip of their spear.
Exactly!
The FBI thinks it is our government. It has become our enemy; a high criminal gang which exists for its own version of law. Pretending to be the all knowing decider of what law to enforce. Being part of the Executive branch of DC, it doesn’t even do what POTUS says to do. Evil. Un-Constitutional. A law unto itself. Seriously needs to be terminated. Real USAians do not support an FBI, sorry.
All done! Eight kennels cleaned, all dogs exercised (they were squirrely today; Spring Fever!) fed and watered. It just makes life easier if I stay on top of it. ;)
Beau was going to a United Kennel Club event tonight to hunt one of the Treeing Walker Coon Hounds that we raise, but his back is still bothering him, hence ME doing the mucking out, today. I do love those dogs, though. I raised 5 of the 8 from pups myself, so they’re special to me. :)
Thanks for the reminder to clean the cat box, too, LOL!
When we first got engaged and I sold my farm and moved out here to Beau’s farm, I had recently lost the last of my dogs, a Basset, to old age. I told him, ‘I’m done! I don’t want ANY pets in the house!’
I lasted a full year - now I have a Basset, a Beagle and two cats in the house, LOL!
As always, JW doing God’s Work to help Americans!
“...one of the most notorious FBI agents of all time – Peter Strzok.”
That guy is SUCH a POS. I wish him nothing but ill fortune from here on out!
I couldn't agree more, he even looks the part with that smirk on his face.
Trump gave a heads up that he was about to declassify everything for those that are paying attention.
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November 28th
In a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with The Post, President Trump said Wednesday that if House Democrats launched probes into his administration — which he called “presidential harassment” — they’d pay a heavy price.
“If they go down the presidential harassment track, if they want go and harass the president and the administration, I think that would be the best thing that would happen to me. I’m a counter-puncher and I will hit them so hard they’d never been hit like that,” he said during a 36-minute Oval Office sitdown.
The commander-in-chief said he would declassify FISA warrant applications and other documents from Robert Mueller’s probe — and predicted the disclosure would expose the FBI, the Justice Department and the Clinton campaign as being in cahoots to set him up.
https://nypost.com/2018/11/28/trump-threatens-to-declassify-devastating-docs-about-democrats/
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Then Trump Tweets
Only 2 words on March 5th
“Presidential Harassment”
Here’s the tweet
https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1102934910900363266
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I believe Trump was telling us that the democrats had been warned but with the 81 letters from Nadler the left signalled their move and Trump’s about to hit back
and that is Why we have begun to see the daily drops of house testimonies like Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr, Peter Strozck, Christopher Steele and according to Sara Carter Loretta Lynch soon as well
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“The commander-in-chief said he would declassify FISA warrant applications and other documents from Robert Mueller’s probe — and predicted the disclosure would expose the FBI, the Justice Department and the Clinton campaign as being in cahoots to set him up.”
Fingers Crossed! Stockpiling Popcorn In Anticipation! MAGA! :)
OK, I get the presidential harasment side of the issue. Trump will retaliate bigley if the Democrats persist in their efforts to attack and distract him. Trump, the counter puncher, will hit back hard.
Trump is protecting himself. Understandable.
But what about protecting the nation from treason? The point is exposing the cabal and its tactics is more important than anything else. Even this president. If we don’t get to the bottom of this subversion, expose and punish all those who engineered and participated in it we are effectively turning a blind eye. One thing this will do is ensure that it happens again. And the next time we may not be so lucky.
Trump is basically playing a game with the Democrats and is using the FISA docs as a bartering chip. I think that’s wrong. The country should come first. If we are to persist as a functioning republic the people must KNOW WHAT WENT ON and the only way to truely expose it is to release the FISA docs — unredacted.
I think the Founding Fathers would have done this to save the country. Just my humble opinion.
Trump had to wait till the Mueller report was done to avoid the optics he was obstructing justice also Ryan and Rosenstein b locked suponeas and declassification now they are out of the way.
Here is some highlights of want is coming
Civilian and non civilian indictments
SCOTUS challenges regarding trying the traitors as Non civilian as is military tribunals
acts of treason will be exposed
the five eyes illegal spying will be made public And the fisa abuses made public
Declassification will be made public
2ndbspecial counsel public (lindsey Graham asked for one the other day)
Then eight OIG reports
Covering FBI doj + media collusion
executive branch media collusion including Biden Obama and members of his cabinet
The use or Foreign assets fornFisa abuse
Umbrella spying and targeting of political opponents
Buckle up
It’s all coming and you all are whining every day “are we there yet”.
I always imagine how we would have ever won wwII if the internet was around then all the trolls could whine for four years how we hadnt landed at Normandy yet or beat Japan
It’s all coming and you all are whining every day “are we there yet”.
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Eight months ago Trump publically said he would declassify and release the FISA documents. Was he playing a game then or simply misleading people?
So wanting to see existing evidence of treason and exposing an internal plot to subvert our predidential election is now whining? Really?
You are quite the optimist. I hope you can bear some disappointments in your laundry list. Do you really thing the Deep State with all its resources is just going to sit back and get steamrolled by Trump? If so there’s a bridge in New York I’d like to sell you.
Your sad bridge analogies are pathetic...
Rosenstein the weasel
Blocked it, nice try and keep up ok
DOJ Ties a Trump FISA Release to Obstruction
By Lee Smith, RealClearInvestigations
In court filings last week the Department of Justice deployed what could be the nuclear option in its latest effort to prevent President Trump from declassifying information regarding FISA warrants used to spy on his campaign aide Carter Page: It is claiming that such a move would interfere with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Your sad bridge analogies are pathetic...
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What’s pathetically sad is naive people who are disciples of Q.
Says the dude still whining about stuff that happened 8 months ago but has no idea why it happened.
go stick your head back in the sand or wherever you stick it to keep yourself from seeing what is coming
later troll
later troll
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You’ve been on this forum for just a few months and you’re calling a long time FReeper a troll. That’s really rich and exposes your complete ignorance.
Blah blah blah
A troll says what?
Go troll my profile page some more
You don’t even have common sense
I see you went with ad hominem cause you have no comment about the fact rod rosenstein blocked the Declass you were whining about.
You claim that the deep state isn’t going to just lay down but then complain things take time
And that “nothing has happened” for two years
Make up your mind...
Bye now, we are having a discussion about what info is going to be declassified this week
Since ohr steele page and strozck were last week
You know things you claim aren’t going to happen but you can’t even see actually are happening
Cause of either your ignorance or stubbornness..
You are 8-12 months behind but you’ll find out soon enough
I see you went with ad hominem
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This from a guy who is obsessed with labelling people who disagree with him as “trolls”! LOL
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