Posted on 08/09/2022 9:40:32 PM PDT by zeestephen
Judicial Watch announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for records ordered declassified and released by President Trump the day before he left office. The records relate to "Crossfire Hurricane," the controversial spy operation against President Trump, his 2016 presidential campaign, and other Trump associates, and have yet to be made public by the Biden administration.
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Has this been in the news before?
This is completely new to me.
Trump de-classified exactly zero FOIA documents that were vigorously sought by Conservatives during his first 3.999 years in office.
In December 1991, Germany passed an Act of Parliament opening ALL Stasi files to the public
We need that here
I remember when Chris Wray and Mike Pompeo panicked and rushed to the oval office when Trump was about to declassify the JFK files. They said it was still a national security issue.
Trump could have de-classified and released every politically helpful document in the entire Executive Branch on his first day in office.
I guess I forgot to watch Oprah the day that happened.
We have crossed that dreaded ugly boundary where the government has the same legitimacy as Uganda or Angola.
Never forget the courage of NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers who didn't want to participate in the spying scheme (Clapper, Brennan, Etc.) against Trump. Rogers went to Trump Tower and warned him that he was being spied upon at great peril to his career.
Furthermore, Admiral Rogers after appointment to head the NSA saw anomalies in database query requests at some point in 2015. We do not know if he then requested the NSA Inspector General, George Ellard, to investigate, or if Ellard was doing this of his own accord.
In early January 2016, Ellard presented his report to Rogers. The report revealed that the NSA was not fully complying with federal law in queries of the NSA database of communications. Of particular interest was Section 702 of the FISA law that permits the NSA to target the surveillance of foreign persons outside the United States for the purpose of gathering intelligence. Instead of issuing individual court orders, section 702 requires the attorney general and the DNI to provide FISC with annual certifications that specify categories of foreign intelligence information allowed under Section 702. The attorney general and DNI must certify that the intelligence community follows established minimization procedures that are approved by the FISC for the annual certification. That wasn't happening.
We all know how the FISC process was abused in the whole Russia-gate and Steele report fiasco.
It is time that the public really learned about how corrupt the FBI, CIA, DOJ really are and how they got foreign intelligence agencies to help spy on Trump and set up Honey Traps for people associated with Trump to turn them into moles and spies.
Back in the late 1990s, the Pentagon assembled a team to go and declassify tons of documents. At the very end...they came to mention that a half-dozen-odd documents from the period of 1918 (WW I) existed, and would continue be safe-guarded as ‘secret’. Just about everyone in the intel world asked why, and no answer was ever given.
There needs to be a national standard where declassification automatically occurs at 25 years, without any Presidential or CIA gimmicks preventing it.
Probably had something to do with germ warfare or something. Maybe testing it out on humans in small towns they wanted it kept quiet.
[Re: “I remember when Chris Wray and Mike Pompeo panicked and rushed to the oval office when Trump was about to declassify the JFK files. They said it was still a national security issue.”]
Well, if it was just a lone gunman, then.....why?
(I’m not a fan of JFK btw). Still...
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