Posted on 03/30/2019 10:50:54 AM PDT by jazusamo
Mueller Never Had a Good-Faith Basis to Pursue President Trump
Did Deep State Cover Up Chinese Hack of Clinton Email System? Judicial Watch Sues to Find Out
What Were Obama’s Spy Chiefs Telling the Media about Trump?
Mueller Never Had a Good-Faith Basis to Pursue President Trump
The fizzling out of the corrupt Mueller investigation is great victory for the rule of law and our constitutional republic. Here is the statement I issued in response Attorney General Barr’s initial summary of the special counsel’s report.
The long, national nightmare is over and President Trump has been vindicated. The corruptly-created and constitutionally abusive Mueller investigation failed to find any evidence to support the big lie that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government.
We’re pleased that AG Barr rejected Mueller’s attempt to smear President Trump with obstruction of justice innuendo by concluding that no such charges could be credibly sustained. Frankly, Mueller never had a valid basis upon which to investigate President Trump for obstruction of justice.
Let’s be clear, neither Mueller, the Obama FBI, DOJ, CIA, State Department, nor the Deep State ever had a good-faith basis to pursue President Trump on Russia collusion. Russia collusion wasn’t just a hoax, it was criminal abuse, which is why Judicial Watch has fought and will continue to fight for Russiagate documents in federal court.
The targeting of President Trump served to protect Hillary Clinton and her enablers/co-conspirators in Obama administration from prosecution. Attorney General Barr can begin restoring the credibility of the Justice Department by finally initiating a thorough investigation of the Clinton emails and related pay-to-play scandals and the abuses behind the targeting of President Trump.
Judicial Watch has long called for the shutdown of the Mueller special counsel operation and has pursued dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits in connection with the illicit targeting and other abuses of President Trump. Judicial Watch FOIA litigation exposed, for example:
As you would expect, the Democrats are refusing to back down from their collusion lies. As I told the media this week, we must demand accountability for this attack on the Republic. Judicial Watch, not Congress nor the corrupt media, remains the best path forward for getting the full truth about the effort to overthrow President Trump, which is the worst corruption scandal in American history.
Did Deep State Cover Up Chinese Hack of Clinton Email System? Judicial Watch Sues to Find Out
Back in 2015, the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), an office under the Director of National Intelligence, discovered that Hillary Clinton’s emails were being sent to a state-owned Chinese company.
Bells went off, and the ICIG sent an emissary to the FBI to meet with Peter Strzok, who was later removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and fired from the FBI after his bias against President Trump was revealed. The FBI was being run at time by James Comey.
As you might imagine, nothing happened.
We want to know what was discussed at this meeting, and we are suing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for details.
We sued after the ODNI failed to respond adequately to a July 13, 2018, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request ( Judicial Watch Inc. vs Office of the Director of National Intelligence (No. 1:19-cv-00807)). We are seeking:
Any and all records regarding, concerning, or related to the meeting between Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) official Frank Rucker, ICIG attorney Jeanette Macmillian, former Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, and other[s] regarding security threats associated with the private e-mail server utilized by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
This request includes, but is not limited to, the following:
For purposes of clarification, the meeting in question was referenced by Rep. Louis Gohmert during the testimony of Mr. Strzok at a House of Representatives hearing on July 12, 2018.
Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said during a hearing with FBI official Peter Strzok that the ICIG reportedly found an “anomaly on Hillary Clinton’s emails going through their private server, and when they had done the forensic analysis, they found that her emails, every single one except four, over 30,000, were going to an address that was not on the distribution list. It was a compartmentalized bit of information that was sending it to an unauthorized source.”
Gohmert said the ICIG presented the findings to Strzok, but that the FBI official did not do anything with the information.
Gohmert: Let me refresh your memory. The Intelligence Community Inspector General Chuck McCullough sent his investigator Frank Rucker along with an IGIC attorney Janette McMillan to brief you and Dean Chapelle and two other FBI personnel who I won’t name at this time, about an anomaly they had found on Hillary Clinton’s emails that were going to the private unauthorized server that you were supposed to be investigating?
Our lawsuit could further expose how anti-Trump activists like disgraced FBI official Peter Strzok bent over backwards to protect Hillary Clinton from having to answer for her national security crimes. The scandal of the illicit Trump spying is directly tied to the Deep State protection of Hillary Clinton.
We had a separate lawsuit against the ODNI that would have required it to conduct, as required by law, an assessment and prepare a report on how and whether Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email practices as U.S. Secretary of State damaged national security.
Hillary Clinton was given full cover by the Deep State. Don’t think the Deep State has has given up.
What Were Obama’s Spy Chiefs Telling the Media about Trump?
President Obama’s top spy chiefs appear to have been ringleaders in the illicit effort to overthrow President Trump. They enlisted the FBI, foreign spies, and the media in their efforts. I’m not at all surprised that they found a warm welcome at CNN.
Now we want to know the details of their connections to the network. We have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seeking records of communications between former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and CNN around the time the Clinton-Democrat National Committee anti-Trump dossier was being pitched to key media outlets.
A House report detailed that Clapper leaked information regarding the dossier to CNN in January 2017. The former ODNI chief signed on as an analyst for CNN in August 2017.
We are also seeking records of communications between Clapper and Obama CIA Director John Brennan regarding the dossier, which was authored by former British spy and FBI payee Christopher Steele.
We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ( Judicial Watch v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:19-cv-00776)) after the agencies failed to respond to our April 23, 2018, FOIA request seeking:
All records of communication, including emails (whether on .gov or non-.gov email accounts), text messages and instant chats, between officials in the office of the Director of National Intelligence, including but not limited to James Clapper, and employees, representatives and contractors of CNN.
The time frame for the records request is May 2016 through May 2017.
All records of communications between the office of the Director of Central Intelligence and representatives of CNN; DCI John Brennan and DNI James Clapper regarding the collection of memos known as the “Steele Dossier:” and between DCI John Brennan and DNI James Clapper regarding CNN.
All records of communication, including emails (whether on .gov or non-.gov email accounts), text messages and instant chats, between officials in the office of the Director of Central Intelligence, including but not limited to DCI John Brennan, and employees, representatives and contractors of CNN. The time frame for the requested records is May 2016 through May 2017.
All records of communication, including emails (whether on .gov or non-.gov email accounts), text messages and instant chats, between DCI John Brennan and DNI James Clapper regarding the collection of memos known as the “Steele Dossier”. The time frame for records requested in this bullet item is May 2016 through January 2017.
All records of communication, including emails (whether on .gov or non-.gov email accounts), text messages and instant chats, between DCI John Brennan and DNI James Clapper regarding the news network CNN. The time frame for records requested in this bullet item is May 2016 through January 2017.
In a March 2018, report , Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee exposed that:
“Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, now a CNN national security analyst, provided inconsistent testimony to the Committee about his contacts with the media, including CNN.” And, “when questioned by the Committee … Clapper admitted that he confirmed the existence of the dossier to the media.”
Clapper later admitted he had discussed the Steele dossier with CNN’s Jake Tapper and other journalists in early 2017, shortly before President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
In a January 10, 2017 report with bylines from Tapper, Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto and Carl Bernstein, CNN first revealed that then-FBI Director James Comey had briefed then-President-elect Trump on the dossier’s allegations.
The Intelligence Committee’s report detailed that “Clapper subsequently acknowledged discussing the ‘dossier with CNN journalist Jake Tapper,’ and admitted that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic. Clapper’s discussion with Tapper took place in ‘early January 2017,’ around the time [intelligence officials] briefed President Obama and President-elect Trump, on ‘the Christopher Steele information.’”
Shortly after CNN’s January 10, 2017, report, BuzzFeed News published the dossier in full.
The four CNN reporters were awarded the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Merriman Smith Award for their coverage of the dossier story.
Brennan, in an interview with NBC News on February 4, 2018, insisted that the Steele dossier “did not play any role whatsoever” in early intelligence assessments on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Several subsequent reports strongly contradict Brennan’s claim.
We are again in court trying to get the truth about the Obama gang’s illegal leaks and conspiracy targeting President Trump. Clapper and Brennan were key proponents of the big lie, exposed by the Mueller report. President Trump did not collude with the Russians. Once again, our FOIA litigation is the best hope for getting full accountability on this attack on our constitutional republic.
Until next week …
Exonerated from what? If you didn’t do something you can’t be exonerated.
Off the Wall Ping!
Contact to be added.
Exoneration is the correct word - he was exonerated of the accusations against him.
Judicial Watch is awesome - worthy of donations, constant hat-tips, and our respect. They are the only people who match the fight of Trump and what they are doing is terrific.
The Treason Party will “find” what they want in the report.
Creeps like Mueller don’t have a problem falsifying anything needed to accomplishing his goal. Makes me believe his goal was coverup for Clinton-Obama, not directly to take down Trump.
Now the Washington ComPost is pushing a story that Trump inflated his net worth to scam investors. Yeah Ok. Moving right along from one hoax to another.
Bump!
Yep, those commies lay awake nights thinking up new accusations.
This was always the main objective of the unconstitutional Mueller investigation. Secondary objectives were to cripple the legitimate Trump Administration and bring down a properly elected President.
All of that was sedition and possibly treason!
zactly !
Exonerated from what ? If something isn’t a crime, you can’t be exonerated.
The JW blog post instead uses the words:
“no charges”
“great victory”
“vindicated”
Agree 100%
Thanx.
I see it. Never made the disconnection. Only the headline uses exonerates.
LEVIN’S EXCELLENT RANT ON HANNITY
While ALL Mark Levin’s rants are fact based and EXCELLENT, he outdid himself on Hannity on 3/29/2019.
The link immediately below is for Sean’s entire show. Levin begins at the 22 MINUTE MARK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POsOdBQzAFg&t=1811s
The part that really caught my attention began just before 29:50 in.
He correctly remarks that TED KENNEDY was dispatched to the USSR during Reagan’s first term to ask the Russians to assist the Dems in keeping Reagan from a second term. TALK ABOUT COLLUSION?
It’s why those of us who KNEW this story were especially INCENSED at the Trump/Russia BS from the FAKE NEWS 5th COLUMN!
Some of us have known this for several decades due to our contact with former KGB/Novasti Press defector, Yuri Bezmenov (aka Thomas Shuman). Yuri spoke to us here on 3/14/1985. I was asked to MC the program and had a chance to chat with him.
During that chat, Yuri told us that he had been assigned to accompany Ted Kennedy during his stay and described his task was to keep the notoriously promiscuous and besotted “Lion of the Senate” (more like LYIN’) “...in BROADS AND BOOZE”! He did!!
(In later appearances, he told that story in more public settings.)
I also audio recorded that March 14 appearance and, at the link below, Travis Moss has assembled the fragmented posts I uploaded back when YouTube’s limit was 10 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOW6ysVKOg8
Yuri gave us great insights into the workings of the then largely mysterious government of the USSR. You may find it as interesting today as we did then.
LEVIN’S EXCELLENT RANT ON HANNITY
While ALL Mark Levin’s rants are fact based and EXCELLENT, he outdid himself on Hannity on 3/29/2019.
The link immediately below is for Sean’s entire show. Levin begins at the 22 MINUTE MARK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POsOdBQzAFg&t=1811s
The part that really caught my attention began just before 29:50 in.
He correctly remarks that TED KENNEDY was dispatched to the USSR during Reagan’s first term to ask the Russians to assist the Dems in keeping Reagan from a second term. TALK ABOUT COLLUSION?
It’s why those of us who KNEW this story were especially INCENSED at the Trump/Russia BS from the FAKE NEWS 5th COLUMN!
Some of us have known this for several decades due to our contact with former KGB/Novasti Press defector, Yuri Bezmenov (aka Thomas Shuman). Yuri spoke to us here on 3/14/1985. I was asked to MC the program and had a chance to chat with him.
During that chat, Yuri told us that he had been assigned to accompany Ted Kennedy during his stay and described his task was to keep the notoriously promiscuous and besotted “Lion of the Senate” (more like LYIN’) “...in BROADS AND BOOZE”! He did!!
(In later appearances, he told that story in more public settings.)
I also audio recorded that March 14 appearance and, at the link below, Travis Moss has assembled the fragmented posts I uploaded back when YouTube’s limit was 10 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOW6ysVKOg8
Yuri gave us great insights into the workings of the then largely mysterious government of the USSR. You may find it as interesting today as we did then.
Exonerate: to clear, as of an accusation; free from guilt or blame; exculpate: He was exonerated from the accusation of cheating.
One definition of ‘exonerate’ is to clear from blame.
Meanwhile, here’s a pretty interesting article from The Conservative Treehouse on how the Obama admin was apparently giving itself legal coverage for lying to Trump and others about what they were doing in terms of surveillance, investigations, etc:
He says the way to get around that is to focus on the actions they took to trump up the whole ruse to start with. But if Obama also pardoned them for their involvement in that, I’m not sure how much they wouldn’t supposedly be covered on that end either.
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