Judicial Watch issued a press release discovering the
fix was planned ahead of time to exonerate Crooked Hillary. I can hardly wait
to hear or read conclusions of the Inspector General to see if criminal actions
can be executed in relation to the FBI/DOJ coverup.
JRH 6/8/18
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Judicial Watch Uncovers Hidden Strzok Emails in Latest
Production of Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Meeting Docs—Strzok Email Suggests Clinton
Investigation Decision Made in April 2016
Press Release
JUNE 07, 2018
FBI Security Official Reacts to Tarmac Meeting: Job is
To Protect Comey from Embarrassment
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today
released 16
pages of Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) documents related to the June 2016 tarmac meeting between
former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton showing
involvement of the FBI’s former Chief of Counterespionage Peter Strzok.
The FBI originally informed Judicial Watch
they could not locate any records related to the tarmac meeting. However, in a related FOIA lawsuit,
the Justice Department located emails in which Justice Department
officials communicated with the FBI and wrote that they had communicated
with the FBI. As a
result, by letter dated August 10, 2017, the
FBI stated, “Upon further review, we subsequently determined potentially
responsive documents may exist. As a result, your [FOIA] request has been
reopened …” This is the second batch of documents the FBI produced since
telling Judicial Watch they had no tarmac-related records.
The new documents were obtained by Judicial
Watch in response to an October 2016 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit (Judicial
Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:16-cv-02046)) filed after the
Justice Department failed to comply with a July 7, 2016, FOIA request seeking:
·
All FD-302 forms prepared
pursuant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation of former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server during her
tenure.
·
All records of
communications between any agent, employee, or representative of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation regarding, concerning, or related to the aforementioned
investigation. This request includes, but is not limited to, any related
communications with any official, employee, or representative of the Department
of Justice, the Executive Office of the President, the Democratic National
Committee, and/or the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
·
All records related to the
meeting between Attorney General Lynch and former President Bill Clinton on
June 27, 2016.
In a previously
unseen email, on July 1, 2016, Strzok forwarded to Bill Priestap,
assistant director of FBI counterintelligence, and other FBI officials an
article in The New York Times titled then “
Lynch to Remove Herself From Decision Over Clinton Emails, Official Says.”
Priestap comments on it, saying: “The meeting in PX is all over CNN TV news
this morning …” Strzok replies: “Timing’s not ideal in that it falsely adds to
those seeking the ‘this is all choreographed’ narrative. But I don’t think it’s
worth changing … later won’t be better.” Priestap responds “Agreed.”
In November
2017, Judicial Watch revealed 29
pages of FBI documents showing officials were concerned about
a leak that Bill Clinton delayed his aircraft taking off in order to “maneuver”
a meeting with the attorney general. The resulting story in
the Observer was discussed in this production of documents.
The Strzok email was absent from this production.
Another Strzok email suggest the decision on the Clinton
email matter has been under discussion since April
2016—three months before then-FBI Director James Comey announced he
would recommend no prosecution.
On July 3, 2016, an email with the subject line “Must Read
Security Article” someone from the FBI’s Security Division (SECD)
forwards the
article in the Observer and reveals concern:
I believe that the source quoted in
the article is one of the local Phoenix LEO’s [law enforcement officers].
Needless to say that I have contacted the Phoenix office and will contact the
local’s [sic] who assisted in an attempt to stem any further damage. This is
exactly why our Discretion and Judgement are the foundation of the AG’s trust
in our team, which is why we can never violate that trust, like the source did
in this article.” [Emphasis in original]
A July 1, 2016, email from
an unidentified official in the FBI Security Division sent to officials in
several FBI offices with the subject line “Media Reports***Not for
Dissemination***”, sent in the wake of the tarmac meeting, an FBI official
warns his colleagues (with emphasis) “Our job is to protect the boss from harm
and embarrassment.” [Emphasis in original] He emphasizes that FBI
officials should ask themselves “What issues are currently being reported in
the media? And what actions/interactions/situations that the Director may be in
could impact them.” The official then cites an example of a public relations
disaster near-miss when Comey’s plane “literally just missed Clinton’s plane”
when they flew into the White Plains, NY airport (HPN) a few months earlier,
and saying, “Imagine the optics and the awkward situation we would have put the
Director in we would have been at the FBO at the same time as Secretary
Clinton.”
In a July 1, 2016 email
exchange FBI Section Chief Rachel Rojas warns a colleague to
“stay away” from discussion of the Clinton Lynch tarmac meeting following
publication of the meeting, unless they hear from a “higher up”. The colleague
responds the next day, telling Rojas not to worry because, “I know better
” He/she adds that “it was DOJ opa [Office of Public Affairs]
who threw us under the bus.” Rojas replies “Doj is likely overwhelmed so in
[sic] hoping it wasn’t intentional. I know it wasn’t you guys because I know
you have great judgement. Nothing good would come from that. Her staff should
have avoided that scenario. The bu[reau] will be fine but obviously
disappointed on how this is happening. Unfortunately, she’s taking heat from
all over the place and I feel bad for her. I know she didn’t want this on her
plate or for this to happen.” The colleague then concludes by saying that
he/she thought the leaker was “a Phoenix cop assisting with the motorcade.”
“These emails are astonishing, no wonder the FBI hid them
from Judicial Watch and the court,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
“They show anti-Trump, pro-Clinton FBI Agent Peter Strzok admitting the
decision not to prosecute the Clinton email issue was made back in April 2016 –
long before even Hillary Clinton was interviewed. And the new emails show
that the FBI security had the political objective of protecting then-Director
Comey from ‘embarrassment’—which is, frankly, disturbing.”
On June 27, 2016, Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with former President Bill
Clinton on board a parked plane at Sky Harbor International Airport in
Phoenix, Arizona. The meeting occurred during the then-ongoing
investigation of Mrs. Clinton’s email server, and only a few days before she
was interviewed the Justice Department and FBI. (Judicial Watch filed a
request on
June 30 that the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
investigate that meeting.)
The tarmac meeting also came just days before
former FBI Director James Comey held the July 5,
2016, press conference in which he announced that no charges would be
filed against Mrs. Clinton. In his subsequent, May 3, 2017,
testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Comey said the
Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting was the “capper” among “a number of
things” that had caused him to determine that Department of
Justice leadership “could not credibly complete the investigation and decline
prosecution without grievous damage to the American people’s confidence in the
justice system.”
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