The other shoe about to drop

[Carlos Danger]

The Justice Department inspector general has determined the three Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant extensions against onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page were illegally obtained, attorney Joe diGenova said on Thursday.

 

In an investigation that began last year, Inspector General Michael Horowitz is examining the Justice Department's and FBI's compliance with legal requirements as well as policies and procedures in applications filed with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court related to Page as part of a larger counterintelligence probe into Trump's campaign.

The inspector general inquiry is expected to be completed in either late May or June, and diGenova, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said Democrats on Capitol Hill are working overtime to investigate and discredit President Trump.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-inspector-general-found-carter-page-fisa-extensions-were-illegally-obtained-joe-digenova-says

[DriftBusta]

Good.  Lets get some real news for a change.

[Momorider]

They will be able to hold the DemonCUNT convention in Jail

[spin_dry]

I keep hearing about shoes dropping. Where are they? 

[Stephen Hawking]

2 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

I keep hearing about shoes dropping. Where are they? 

In the same pen with mainecats ducks. 

[Mainecat]

Ahhh the same inspector that investigated Comey for the Clinton email scandal.

 

[teamgreen02]

24 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Ahhh the same inspector that investigated Comey for the Clinton email scandal.

 

That's what the inspector general does, investigate malfeasance by the DOJ.

Remember when you were complaining about Comey's handling of the Clinton email "matter" and wanted him fired?

[Carlos Danger]

47 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

I keep hearing about shoes dropping. Where are they? 

Hmmmm were you not one of the guys who said Trump was going to jail over Russian Collusion?

[Zambroski]

1 hour ago, Carlos Danger said:

The Justice Department inspector general has determined the three Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant extensions against onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page were illegally obtained, attorney Joe diGenova said on Thursday.

 

In an investigation that began last year, Inspector General Michael Horowitz is examining the Justice Department's and FBI's compliance with legal requirements as well as policies and procedures in applications filed with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court related to Page as part of a larger counterintelligence probe into Trump's campaign.

The inspector general inquiry is expected to be completed in either late May or June, and diGenova, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said Democrats on Capitol Hill are working overtime to investigate and discredit President Trump.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-inspector-general-found-carter-page-fisa-extensions-were-illegally-obtained-joe-digenova-says

It sure would be nice if this goes somewhere.  LIKE IT SHOULD.

It won't.

[Jimmy Snacks]

1 hour ago, Carlos Danger said:

Hmmmm were you not one of the guys who said Trump was going to jail over Russian Collusion?

When is Hillary going to jail? 

[Zambroski]

38 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

When is Hillary going to jail? 

When witnesses stop suiciding themselves.

 

[Jimmy Snacks]

2 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

When witnesses stop suiciding themselves.

 

Yeah you are probably right....so never.

[Zambroski]

Just now, Jimmy Snacks said:

Yeah you are probably right....so never.

Nope!  Like I’ve read here many times, “It’s just politics”.  Why didn’t LBJ just use that excuse?

[Carlos Danger]

1 hour ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

When is Hillary going to jail? 

I think Hillary was put away in the best way possible.....she lost an election.   Don't worry though her name along with Obama's will be mentioned often in the IG report to come.

[Jimmy Snacks]

2 minutes ago, Carlos Danger said:

I think Hillary was put away in the best way possible.....she lost an election.   Don't worry though her name along with Obama's will be mentioned often in the IG report to come.

I just have little faith that those truly responsible for the shenanigans will ever pay.

[Carlos Danger]

1 minute ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

I just have little faith that those truly responsible for the shenanigans will ever pay.

I agree but some soldiers are going to be sacrificed over this. Many have lost their jobs and I feel indictments will follow.

[steve from amherst]

1 hour ago, Carlos Danger said:

I agree but some soldiers are going to be sacrificed over this. Many have lost their jobs and I feel indictments will follow.

SUre , some poor schmuck no one ever of heard of before will be hauled in front of a camera with that deer in the headlights look as he's trying to figure out what the fuck is going on.

[Ez ryder]

5 hours ago, teamgreen02 said:

That's what the inspector general does, investigate malfeasance by the DOJ.

Remember when you were complaining about Comey's handling of the Clinton email "matter" and wanted him fired?

I do but let's be honist mx13 can't remember if he just went pee pee or if he spilled his ensure again 

[Carlos Danger]

56 minutes ago, steve from amherst said:

SUre , some poor schmuck no one ever of heard of before will be hauled in front of a camera with that deer in the headlights look as he's trying to figure out what the fuck is going on.

No I think it will be people at the director level that will swing for this. Keep in mind It is starting to look as if the white house was in on this.

[Jimmy Snacks]

1 hour ago, steve from amherst said:

SUre , some poor schmuck no one ever of heard of before will be hauled in front of a camera with that deer in the headlights look as he's trying to figure out what the fuck is going on.

Yep....fall guys and patsys. 

[XCR1250]

Judicial Watch: Records Obtained in Court-Ordered Discovery Reveal Obama White House Tracking FOIA Request for Clinton Emails

 

‘WH called – have we received a FOIA request’ – State Department 

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained 44 pages of records from the State Department through court-ordered discovery revealing that the Obama White House was tracking a December 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records concerning then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of an unsecure, non-government email system. Months after the Obama White House involvement, the State Department responded to the requestor, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), falsely stating that no such records existed.

Judicial Watch’s discovery is centered upon whether Clinton intentionally attempted to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by using a non-government email system and whether the State Department acted in bad faith in processing Judicial Watch’s FOIA request for communications from Clinton’s office. U.S District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers, and Clinton aides, as well as E.W. Priestap, to be deposed or answer written questions under oath. The court ruled that the Clinton email system was “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.”

The State Department’s Office of Inspector General issued a report in January 2016 saying “At the time the request was received, dozens of senior officials throughout the Department, including members of Secretary Clinton’s immediate staff, exchanged emails with the Secretary using the personal accounts she used to conduct official business.” Also, the IG “found evidence that [Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills] was informed of the request at the time it was received …”

The State Department produced records in response to court-ordered document requests that detail Obama White House involvement in the Clinton email FOIA request.

In a December 20, 2012, email with the subject line “Need to track down a FOIA request from CREW”, Sheryl L. Walter, director of the State Department’s Office of Information Programs and Services (A/GIS/IPS), writes to IPS officials Rosemary D. Reid and Patrick D. Scholl and their assistants:

WH called – have we received a FOIA request from CREW (Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington) on the topic of personal use of email by senior officials? Apparently other agencies have. If we have it, can you give me the details so I can call the WH back? I think they’d like it on quick turnaround. Thanks! Sheryl

In the same email chain, Walter on December 20, 2012 also emailed Heather Samuelson, Clinton’s White House liaison, describing the CREW FOIA request:

Hi Heather – Copy attached, it was in our significant weekly FOIA report that we send to L and S/ES also. Do you want us to add you to that list? It’s a subset of things like this that we think likely to be of broader Department interest. More detail below re this request. As a practical matter given our workload, it won’t be processed for some months. Let me know if there are any particular sensitivities. If we don’t talk later, happy holidays! All the best, Sheryl

Sheryl: The request is assigned Case #F-2012-40981. It was received on 12/6/2012 and acknowledged on 12/10/2012. The request is assigned for processing.

On January 10, 2013, Walter writes to Samuelson that she is not including “personal” accounts in the FOIA request search:

Hi Heather – did you ever get any intell re what other agencies are doing re this FOIA request that seeks records about the number of email accounts associated with the Secretary (but isn’t specifying “personal” email accounts so we are interpreting as official accounts only). We are considering contacting the requester to find out exactly what it is they are looking for. Do you have any-concerns about that approach?

Soon afterward, Samuelson responds, “White House Counsel was looking into this for me. I will circle back with them now to see if they have further guidance.”

CREW’s general counsel, Anne Weismann, submitted a FOIA request to the State Department on December 6, 2012, seeking “records sufficient to show the number of email accounts of or associated with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the extent to which those email accounts are identifiable as those of or associated with Secretary Clinton.”

On May 10, 2013, [Information Programs and Services] replied to CREW, stating that “no records responsive to your request were located.”

Samuelson became Secretary Clinton’s personal lawyer and in 2014 led the review of Clinton’s emails to determine which ones were work-related and which were personal. She was also one of five close Clinton associates granted immunity by the Department of Justice in the Clinton email investigation.

Samuelson is one of several Obama administration and State Department officials ordered by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth to respond under oath to Judicial Watch questions regarding whether Clinton’s private email use while Secretary of State was an intentional attempt to evade FOIA.

The new documents also include a January 2013 email exchange discussing Clinton’s departure from the State Department in which Agency Records Officer Tasha M. Thian specifically stating that Secretary Clinton “does not use email.”

This was directly contradicted by an email exchange between Secretary Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus dating back to January 2009 – the very first days of Clinton’s State Department tenure – in which she tells Petraeus that she “had to change her email address.”

Interestingly, this email exchange between Petraeus and Clinton was not produced in a related FOIA lawsuit seeking “all emails” of Hillary Clinton. The bottom portion of the email chain was produced, but not the beginning emails.

In a January 2013 email under the subject “RE: Sec Clinton’s papers,” Thian writes:

Just so you know, Secretary Clinton – she brought with her a lot of material as Senator and First Lady – 47 boxes. In case you hear there are many boxes I wanted you to know what they are. She is taking her copies of photos, public speeches, press statements, contacts, templates (some of these are both hard copy and electronic), reimbursements, etc …

Although Sec. Clinton does not use email [emphasis added] her staffers do – I have agreed that the emails of the three staffers will be electronically captured (and not printed out).

Also included in the new batch of documents is the draft Departing Officials Notice, which states that State Department personnel are not to remove classified records from Department “custody and control.”

The new records obtained by Judicial Watch are further evidence revealing the Obama White House’s early knowledge of questions surrounding Clinton’s email use. In late April, Judicial Watch announced that E.W. (Bill) Priestap, assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, had admitted, in writing and under oath, that the agency found Clinton email records in the Obama White House, specifically, the Executive Office of the President.

“These documents suggest the Obama White House knew about the Clinton email lies being told to the public at least as early as December 2012,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “A federal court granted Judicial Watch discovery into the Clinton emails because the court wanted answers about a government cover-up of the Clinton emails. And now we have answers because it looks like the Obama White House orchestrated the Clinton email cover-up.”

Judicial Watch’s filed its 2014 FOIA lawsuit after the State Department failed to respond to a May 13, 2014 FOIA request (Judicial Watch v. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)).

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[AKIQPilot]

6 hours ago, Carlos Danger said:

No I think it will be people at the director level that will swing for this. Keep in mind It is starting to look as if the white house was in on this.

Everyone who was even remotely paying attention could tell that Obama was in on the illegal surveillance  of Trump from the beginning.  The left and all their minions have done nothing but spin and deflect from day one. Maybe someday justice will be served. 

[Guest]

I do believe this involves OBAMA, that is why it's going slowly. Obie thought that Trump would NEVER WIN, and they would get away with this illegal bullshit, with Hillary, Comey and Lynch.

I believe like I said months ago, it is going to take a long time, but it is going to explode eventually. 

I believe it could lead to massive rioting if OBAMA gets indicted or convicted. 

[spin_dry]

12 hours ago, Carlos Danger said:

Hmmmm were you not one of the guys who said Trump was going to jail over Russian Collusion?

Nope. I was never a collusion salesperson. Trump is a bad human being. That’s my POV. The collusion theatric is as pathetic as Obama spying on trump. 

Edited May 13, 2019 by spin_dry