Dearborn, MI is a suburb of Detroit. Dearborn at one time
was the epicenter of Ford Motors manufacturing assembly line of cars. Now days
Dearborn has gained a reputation of a huge anti-Christian Muslim population.
Expressing hate via Muslims is so virulent the city could be renamed
Dearbornistan.
The Lower Courts and initial 6th Circuit Appeals
Court (by obvious appointees od Constitution-hating Dems) initially supported
Sharia over the Constitution favoring hate-filled Muslim violence against
Christians between 2012 – 2014. Thank God a fuller panel of the 6th
Circuit Appeals Court of 15 Justices on 10/28/15 discovered the First
Amendment:
The court then took the rare action
of rehearing the case “en banc,” meaning all 15 judges on the court heard the
case together. In an opinion authored by Judge
Eric Clay, by a 10-5 vote the court held that the officers had violated
the First Amendment. The court also held 8-7 that the unconstitutional
conduct was so inexcusable that the officers are not immune from personal
financial liability for their actions. The case is Bible Believers v.
Wayne County. (Bold text Blog Editor’s - Fed
Appeals Court: Police Violated Christians’ Rights by Stopping the Evangelizing
of Muslims; By KEN
KLUKOWSKI; BREITBART;
10/31/15)
Here’s what concerned 1st Amendment conscious
Appellate Justices:
Thanks to The Gateway Pundit (TGP), I
have discovered Michigan’s seemingly increasing Muslim population is
influencing the Michigan Public School system to become a lying propaganda tool
forcing teachers in Ann Arbor to teach a sanitized therefore untrue version of
Islam. Untrue as in only the nicey-nice of Islam rather than the Liberty-robbing
Islamic Supremacist actual Islam. Ann Arbor is a mere 36 miles from
Dearbornistan.
The Thomas More Law Center, a national nonprofit public
interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, uncovered a massive Islamic
propaganda campaign which is being forced onto teachers in public school
systems in Michigan and many other states.
TMLC was concerned after hearing about a two-day MANDATORY
Islamic training course for teachers taught by a Muslim consultant who was
hired by Michigan’s Novi Community Schools District, according to TMLC.
The Thomas More Law Center filed a FOIA request for
documents related to this two-day Islamic training workshop and discovered that
the teachers were being told lies about Islamic terrorism, jihad and Sharia
law.
Furthermore, the teachers were also being told by the Muslim
consultant, an Arab, hijab-clad woman named Huda Essa, that white males are
more dangerous than Islamic terrorists.
Richard Thompson, the president of TMLC and chief counsel
said, “We found that the teachers were subjected to two days of Islamic
propaganda, where Islam was glorified, Christianity disparaged, and America
bashed—all funded by Novi taxpayers.”
“This type of infiltration amounts to an Islamic Trojan
horse within our public-school systems,” Thompson said. “No other religion gets
this kind of special treatment in our schools.”
Even worse, according to TMLC’s investigation, out of more
than 400 teachers who attended the Islamic propaganda workshop, NOT ONE teacher
challenged Huda Essa’s denigration of Christianity or attacks on the United
States.
TMLC inspected dozens of
internal school documents, including audio recordings of Essa’s presentation.
The information on Islam she
provided to Novi teachers was riddled with falsehoods and errors of omission
that were clearly meant to deceive.
Essa provided no truthful
information on Sharia law and jihad, two of the most important aspects of
Islam. All references to terrorism were dismissed as having nothing to do with
Islam. White Christian males, she suggested, are more dangerous than Islamic
radicals.
Essa is the face behind Culture
Links LLC, a Michigan-based consultancy. She describes herself on the Culture
Links website as an advocate of social justice who encourages children to “take
pride in their many identities.”
But, as TMLC discovered from the
Novi documents, the one identity Essa does not celebrate is that of patriotic
Americans who believe in our nation’s exceptionalism.
And her message extends far
beyond Novi.
Essa’s client list reveals she
has been spreading her “trash America first” philosophy to colleges,
universities, schools and professional educator associations throughout
Michigan, California, Georgia, Texas, Florida and beyond. In Michigan alone her
website lists nine school districts as clients – Oakland County Schools, Ann
Arbor Schools, L’Anse Creuse Public Schools, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools,
Roseville Community Schools, Farmington Public Schools, Dearborn Public
Schools, Birmingham Public Schools and Melvindale Public Schools.
Under the banner of promoting
diversity, inclusion and a multicultural approach to education, Essa sets about
comparing Islam to Christianity, calling them “mostly similar.” The one big
difference, she claims, is that Islam is the world’s “only purely monotheistic
religion.”
Her message was clear: The Koran
is superior to the Bible. But she did not address the fact that it calls for
the extermination of Christian and Jews.
While quick to indict America as
guilty of “cultural genocide,” Essa was silent on the 1400 years of actual
genocides, also known as jihads, in which Muslims wiped out Jewish tribes on
the Arabian Peninsula, and slaughtered millions of Christians throughout the
Middle East, North Africa and the European Continent. Referring to Islam,
Winston Churchill wrote, “No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”
Unless the FBI rank and file begin contacting Congress (Probably
the Senate since blind voters gave the House to the Dems) and blowing the
whistle on what is apparent FBI leadership corruption and coverups to protect
Dems & Obamanites, I will begin to consider the rank and file to be just as
corrupt.
AND YES, fired/resigned former AG Jeff Sessions is
part of this problem for failing in DOJ transparency of which the FBI is
supposed to answer. So when hear Dems, many Republicans and definitely the
Mainstream Media (including Fox News) tell you Sessions you a raw deal;
those people are liars or idiots for being deceived.
Judicial
Watch smells yet another FBI coverup to protect Dems. In this
case Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz in relation to (Pakistani) Awan family
members acting as IT specialists working for the Dems: Abid, Imran, Jamal and
Hina R. Alvi.
JRH 11/9/18
In this current state of media censorship & defunding, consider
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today
that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice
Department for all records of communications relating to the investigation into
former Democratic information technology (IT) staffers Abid Awan, Imran Awan,
Jamal Awan and Hina R. Alvi (Judicial
Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice(No.
1:18-cv-02563)).
Imran Awan and his family were banned from the House
computer network in February 2017 after the House’s top law enforcement officer
wrote that Imran is “an ongoing
and serious risk to the House of Representatives, possibly
threatening the integrity of our information systems,” and that a server
containing evidence had gone “missing.” The inspector general said server logs
showed “unauthorized access” and procurement records were falsified.
Imran Awan was Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz’s top information technology aide. Most lawmakers fired Awan in
February, but Wasserman Schultz kept him on until he was arrested
in July, trying to board a flight for Pakistan.
Imran Awan was allowed a plea deal. He pleaded
guilty to federal bank fraud but prosecutors found no evidence
that Awan “violated federal law with respect to the House computer systems.”
The Judicial Watch lawsuit was filed after the FBI failed to
respond adequately to two FOIA requests.
The FBI claimed it could neither confirm nor deny records
related to the first request, filed on May 26, 2017, seeking:
·All records related to any
investigations or preliminary investigations involving former congressional IT
support staffers Abid Awan, Imran Awan, Jamal Awan, and Hina R. Alvi. As part
of this request, searches should of records [sic] should include, but not be
limited to, the FBI automated indices, its older manual indices, and its
Electronic Surveillance (ELSUR) Data Management System (EDMS), as well as
cross-referenced files.
·All records of
communication sent to or from FBI employees, officials or contractors involving
the subjects in bullet item 1.
The timeframe for the requested records is May 2015 to the
present.
Further, the FBI claimed that records related to a July 3,
2018, FOIA request were located in an investigative file and exempt from
disclosure. That request sought:
·All records related to any
investigations or preliminary investigations involving former congressional IT
support staffers Abid Awan, Imran Awan, Jamal Awan, Hina R. Alvi and Rao Abbas.
As part of this request, searches of records should include, but not be limited
to, the FBI automated indices, its older manual indices, and its Electronic
Surveillance (ELSUR) Data Management System (EDMS), as well as cross-referenced
files.
·All records of
communications, including but not limited to emails (whether on .gov or
non-.gov email accounts), text messages, instant chats or messages on the Lync
system, sent to or from FBI employees, officials or contractors involving the
Awan brothers, Ms. Alvi and Mr. Abbas. Records of communications searched should
include but not be limited to those between FBI officials, employees and
contractors and officials with the Capitol Police, the Office of the Inspector
General of the House, and the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer of the
House.
“It’s time for the full truth to come out about the House
Democrat IT scandal, especially with impending change of power in the House,”
said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “There is hope that the new
leadership at the DOJ will bring transparency to this case, as well as many
pending FOIA investigations.”
On October 11, 2017, Judicial Watch President, Tom
Fitton participatedin
a discussion between House members and experts regarding the Wasserman Schultz/Awan
Brothers/IT scandal. During this discussion, Fitton stated:
“Frankly when it comes to crimes
with a political component, I fear the Justice Department is going to fear to
tread. And because of the political nature of what went on (with the Awan
family) they’re not going to push the House … and I fear that the Justice
Department will be fearful of raising these issues with the House for fear of
embarrassing the leadership of both parties … and that’s something we need to
push the Justice Department on. That they don’t under-charge or
under-investigate this for fear of the consequences that will happen if they
push further and find something that no one wants to find, which is a national
security threat at our breast here in the House.”
On June 7, 2018, President Donald Trump tweeted, “Our
Justice Department must not let Awan & Debbie Wasserman Schultz off the
hook. The Democrat I.T. scandal is a key to much of the corruption we see
today. They want to make a “plea deal” to hide what is on their Server. Where
is Server? Really bad!”
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In Judicial Watch’s Weekly Update Tom Fitton exposes the blatant
corruption of the Deep State against President Donald Trump and his Administration.
Fitton also delves into a Federal Judge telling
the Department of Army to reconsider its refusal to award Staff Sgt.
Joshua Berry a Purple Heart for wounds received from Islamic Terrorist Nidal
Malik Hasan during the Fort Hood Massacre in 2009.
Staff Sgt. Joshua Berry –
Wounded at Ft. Hood
In case you haven’t figured it out, Deep State is simply
another name for the Democratic Party. And the Dems have string pullers largely
embodied under the auspices of former President Barack Hussein Obama. And at
the risk of sounding the Conspiracy Theorist nut, you can globalist string
pullers such as George Soros.
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Weekly Update: Strzok Drafted Comey’s Letter to Congress
About Weiner’s Laptop
Strzok’s ‘Fingerprints’ Are on Comey’s Letter About the
Weiner Laptop
We have added two new pieces to the giant jigsaw puzzle
showing the effort to undermine President Trump. They show more of the workings
of the disgraced former FBI Director James Comey and fired FBI official Peter
Strzok.
We have released 424
pages of FBI records, including an email revealing that Strzok
created the initial draft of the October 2016 letter Comey sent to Congress
notifying lawmakers of the discovery of Hillary Clinton emails on the laptop of
disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner.
Another email suggests that the FBI had not yet completed
its review of Clinton’s emails by the time Comey sent a second
letter to Congress on November 6, 2016, reconfirming his
belief that Hillary Clinton shouldn’t be charged with a crime.
The records were produced as a result of a June 2018 Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the DOJ failed to respond to a
September 1, 2017, request (Judicial
Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice(No.
1:18-cv-01448)). Judicial Watch is seeking:
1.All drafts of James Comey’s statement closing the Clinton email
investigation, from his original draft in April or May 2016 to the final
version.
2.All records of communications between or among FBI officials
regarding Comey’s draft statement closing the Clinton email investigation,
including all memoranda and/or analyses of the factual and/or legal
justification for his July 5, 2016 announcement regarding his decision not to
seek Mrs. Clinton’s prosecution.
3.All records previously provided to the Office of Special Counsel
in the course of its now-closed Hatch Act investigation of Mr. Comey.
The documents reveal that on October 27, 2016, Peter
Strzok emailedother
senior FBI officials a draft notice letter from Comey to Congress about the
Weiner laptop discovery and the reopening of the Clinton investigation. The
emails indicated that Strzok and another official Jon (Last Name Unknown)
authored the notification to Congress. The notification, according the
DOJ IG, came a full month after the emails were discovered by the
FBI on the Weiner laptop.
According to the documents, at 11:04 p.m. on Saturday,
November 5, 2016, FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki sent Comey an
email containing a redacted draft document which he referred
to as a “New Proposal” saying: “Folks, Per our 1000pm conversation, below is a
revised straw man for discussion. Again, we could use this if the review when
completed supports our conclusions. My comments again in ALL CAPS and bold
italics.”
Rybicki’s “New Proposal … straw man” apparently refers to a
draft of Comey’s letter to Congress concerning the FBI’s review of the 650,000
Clinton emails found on Weiner’s laptop. At the time of the Rybicki email,
Comey was preparing his letter informing Congress of the FBI’s findings, and
according to page
390 of the June 2018 report from the DOJ Office of the
Inspector General, the deliberations regarding the letter began on the
afternoon of November 3 and concluded “very early on November 6.”
Despite Rybicki’s email suggesting late on November 5 that
the review of the new emails had not been completed, Comey’s November 6 letter
to Congress stated, “[W]e reviewed all of the communications
that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State. Based on
our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with
respect to Secretary Clinton.”
Comey’s “conclusions” in July were that no charges should be
filed against Clinton, despite her repeatedly having sent classified
information over her unsecured, non-State-Department server. Comey later
admitted that he had drafted his July exoneration more than a month earlier.
Real Clear Investigations’ reporter Paul Sperry recently
reported that “only 3,077 of the 694,000 emails [found on the
Weiner laptop] were directly reviewed for classified or incriminating
information. Three FBI officials completed that work in a single 12-hour spurt
the day before Comey again cleared Clinton of criminal charges.”
These new documents provide more details of the corrupt and
dishonest FBI investigation of the incredible revelations that Clinton’s
classified and other emails were present on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. When will
the Sessions DOJ and Wray FBI finally begin an honest investigation of Hillary
Clinton’s national security crimes?
In a related Judicial Watch lawsuit, the State
Department told
the court in October 2017: “The State Department identified
approximately 2,800 work-related documents among the documents provided by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
Further examples of our work in this case on your behalf can
be found here.
Army Must Rethink Purple Heart for
Joshua Berry in Fort Hood Terror Attack
We’ve helped the father of a deceased Army sergeant get a
step closer to winning the recognition his son deserves for his role in a
terrorist attack within our borders.
U.S. District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper has ordered the
Army to reconsider its decision denying a Purple Heart to Sgt. Berry for
injuries sustained in the 2009 international terrorist attack at Fort Hood,
Texas.
If the Army wishes to stick with the denial, it must
sufficiently explain why Sgt.
Berry is not entitled to the Purple Heart.
On remand, the Army, assuming it
wishes to stick with its determination, must explain why Berry is not entitled
to a Purple Heart and do so with sufficient clarity that “a court can measure”
the denial “against the ‘arbitrary or capricious’ standard of the
[Administrative Procedures Act].”
On October 12, 2017, we filed a
lawsuit on behalf of Sgt. Berry’s father, Howard M. Berry, who
is challenging the Army’s denial of the Purple Heart under the Administrative
Procedures Act (APA) (Howard
M. Berry v. Mark Esper, Secretary of the Army, et al. (No.
1:17-cv-02112)).
Following the Fort Hood attack, the Secretary of Defense
declined to recognize the mass shooting as an international terrorist attack
against the United States. Instead, the attack was characterized as “workplace
violence.” As a result, active duty service members injured in the attack were
ineligible for the Purple Heart, among other awards and benefits.
In response, Congress enacted legislation in 2014 mandating
that service members killed or wounded in an attack targeting members of the
armed forces and carried out by an individual in communication with and
inspired or motivated by a foreign terrorist organization be eligible for the
Purple Heart.
As a result, in 2015, the Secretary of the Army announced
that service members injured or killed in the Fort Hood attack were eligible
for the Purple Heart if they met the regulatory criteria.
The Purple Heart is not a “recommended” decoration for
soldiers killed or wounded in combat or under attack. Rather, a soldier is
entitled to a Purple Heart upon meeting specific criteria. Sgt. Berry met the
regulatory criteria for an award of the Purple Heart.
Sgt. Berry suffered a dislocated left shoulder during the
November 5, 2009, terrorist attack on Fort Hood by Maj. Nidal Hasan. Hasan, who
admitted during his 2013 court martial that he had been influenced by al Qaeda,
killed 13 people and injured 30 others.
In witness statements given to the U.S. Army Criminal
Investigative Command (“CID”) and in a separate statement given to a Texas
Ranger, Sgt. Berry had estimated that Hasan fired 30-40 rounds outside Building
42004 at Ft. Hood. Sgt. Berry told those around him to get down on the floor
and stay away from the doors and windows. When Sgt. Berry heard gunshots hit
the metal doors near him, he leaped over a desk to take cover and, in so doing,
dislocated his left shoulder. He then heard Hasan trying to kick in the doors.
According to a witness statement from another individual, Hasan fired three
rounds at the briefing room doors.
Mr. Berry applied for a posthumous award of the Purple Heart
to his son. The U.S. Army Decorations Board denied Mr. Berry’s application. In
April 2015, the Army awarded the Purple Heart to 47 service members injured in
the Fort Hood attack. Sgt. Berry was not among them.
On April 17, 2016, upon Mr. Berry’s application for review,
a three-member panel of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records
recommended that all Army records concerning Sgt. Berry be corrected to award
Sgt. Berry the Purple Heart. The panel found “[t]here is no question that [Sgt.
Berry]’s injury met the basic medical criteria for award of the [Purple
Heart].” The Board’s eight-page determination provided a detailed analysis of
“the degree to which the enemy (i.e., the terrorist) caused [Sgt. Berry’s]
injury.”
A few months later, however, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
the Army (Review Boards) Francine C. Blackmon issued a single paragraph
memorandum rejecting the Corrections Board’s recommendation:
I have reviewed the findings,
conclusions, and Board member recommendations. I find there is not sufficient
evidence to grant relief. Therefore, under the authority of 10 U.S.C. § 1552, I
have determined that the facts do not support a conclusion that his injury met
the criteria for a Purple Heart.
In his ruling, Judge Cooper said the court could not
“meaningfully evaluate the reasoning behind” Blackmon’s decision. Decisions
which are “utterly unreviewable,” the judge added “must be vacated as arbitrary
and capricious.” Judge Cooper noted the Army’s final memorandum:
provides no meaningful
analysis—only a boilerplate determination “that the facts do not support a
conclusion that [Berry’s] injury met the criteria for a Purple Heart.” Why not?
Was there conflicting evidence regarding how immediate of a threat Hasan posed
to Berry as he sat inside the building? Was the evidence clear but the Deputy
Assistant Secretary thought that Berry could have taken cover without injuring
himself? Or did she read the regulations as categorically taking the Purple
Heart off the table for service members injured while taking cover?
The denial letter provides no
hints. In turn, the Court cannot meaningfully evaluate the reasoning behind it.
That is enough to warrant remand.
We are thrilled by the court’s ruling and hope the Army
quickly comes to its senses and finally awards Sgt. Berry a well-deserved
Purple Heart.
State Dept. Uses Outdated, Unsecure
System to Spot Visa/Passport Fraud
You will no longer wonder how Hillary Clinton got away with
using a non-government email system housed in her home basement when you read
this incredible story from
our Corruption Chronicles blog. And you’ll wonder if the
government learned anything at all from 9/11.
Though it claims the 9/11 attacks
“reenergized” its mission, the State Department branch responsible for spotting
visa and passport fraud fails to practice basic security protocols, leaving the
nation extremely vulnerable to foreign threats. To keep potential terrorists
from entering the United States, the monstrous agency with a $37 billion annual
budget uses outdated machines that are poorly monitored and fails to protect
data and perform basic security scans, according to a distressing federal
audit. The report documents the alarming inefficiencies in a
decades-old system—Bureau of Consular Affairs Fraud Prevention Program
(CA/FPP)—used by the State Department to determine if foreigners seeking U.S.
visas are being candid about their identity and where they have traveled. The
goal is to oversee and coordinate the integrity of U.S. visa and citizenship
processes by stopping fraud in the visa and passport system, a crucial tool to
protect national security.
It turns out that the State
Department’s security team is a bit of a joke, according to the incredible
lapses documented in the report, which was made public recently by the agency’s
Office of Inspector General (OIG). The team doesn’t even bother to patch the
system, scan it for computer viruses or audit for evidence of breaches or
compromises by hackers. In short, the State Department consular division
ignores basic information security practices in this essential program used to
screen potential threats. Nearly two decades after the worst terrorist attack
on American soil, this is incredibly disturbing. In fact, the report states
that “the events of September 11, 2001, reenergized CA/FPP’s mission.” Not
enough, apparently. “OIG found deficiencies that included shared passwords and
lack of access control lists or visitor logs,” the watchdog writes in its
report. In addition, the flawed system’s “security officer did not perform
regular patch management or anti-virus scanning on the network or regular audit
and accountability reviews to identify data loss or potential intruder
activities.”
It gets better, or rather, more
enraging. The OIG found that no one monitors the server and the State
Department doesn’t keep adequate logs of who accesses the information on the
database. In fact, a SharePoint site established by the agency a decade ago to
track “possible consular malfeasance” has never even been examined. Auditors
found that management was not even aware that the system had never undergone an
assessment to determine whether it contained information that exceeded
SharePoint’s security categorization. “Without applying appropriate controls,
the case management system and its information are vulnerable to unauthorized
access or compromise,” the report states. This indicates that breaches could
very well have occurred, but we’ll never know for sure thanks to the
government’s incompetence. This may seem inconceivable to most Americans as the
nation faces serious threats from radical elements.
OIG investigators gathered
mountains of evidence in the course of their probe, which considered interviews
with hundreds of State Department personnel and contractors as well as
observations of daily operations and written questionnaires. This includes 178
interviews and 224 questionnaires completed by consular officers in the field
as well as 54 filled out by agency employees and contractors domestically. The
watchdog makes a multitude of recommendations to fix this laughable “security”
system, but this very basic one sticks out: “The Bureau of Consular Affairs
should implement a website content management process for the Office of Fraud
Prevention Programs that includes a dedicated team responsible for the regular
updating of website content.” Another simple recommendation is that the State
Department’s Office of Fraud Prevention Programs implement required security
controls in accordance with federal standards. It’s troubling that the agency
watchdog has to suggest these elementary, common sense approaches to a program
that is so imperative to national security.
Then again, this is the same agency
that allowed Hillary Clinton to traffic
highly classified information on an unsecure, personal email
server. It is also the agency run by high-level officials who knewweak
security at U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide could result in a tragedy
like Benghazi long before Islamic jihadists raided the Special Mission, killing
four Americans.
Every big organization has IT troubles, but this ineptitude
imperils our country.
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Something Never Trumpers, brainwashed Lefties, overtly lying
Lefties and just simple apolitical Americans who get most of news from local
networks that are subsidiaries of MSM networks all should know. The FBI pushed
the Steele Dossier (or whatever name you choose) as a legitimate source to take
down President Trump EVEN THOUGH the FBI discredited Christopher Steele as a
legitimate “Confidential Human Source”.
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced
today the FBI turned over 70 pages of heavily redacted records about
Christopher Steele, the former British spy, hired with Clinton campaign and
Democratic National Committee funds, who authored the infamous Dossier
targeting President Trump during last year’s presidential campaign. The
documents show that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” (CHS)
after he disclosed his relationship with the FBI to a third party. The
documents show at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016 and document that he
was admonished for unknown reasons in February, 2016. The documents were
turned over in response to Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) lawsuitagainst the U.S. Department of Justice for
records of communications and payments between the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) and former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele
and his private firm, Orbis Business Intelligence (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.
1:17-cv-00916)).
The documents include a “source closing communication” that states that Steele
(referred to as “CHS” or Confidential Human Source) “is being closed” because:
CHS confirmed to an outside third
party that CHS has a confidential relationship with the FBI. CHS was used as a
source for an online article. In the article, CHS revealed CHS’ relationship
with the FBI as well as information that CHS obtained and provided to FBI. On
November 1, 2016, CHS confirmed all of this to the handling agent. At that
time, handling agent advised CHS that the nature of the relationship between
the FBI and CHS would change completely and that it was unlikely that the FBI
would continue a relationship with the CHS. Additionally, handling agent
advised that CHS was not to operate to obtain any intelligence whatsoever on
behalf of the FBI.
The documents also show that Steele was paid repeatedly by
the FBI and was “admonished” for some unknown misconduct in February,
2016. The documents include:
1.Fifteen (15) FD-1023, Source Reports.
2.Thirteen (13) FD-209a, Contact Reports.
3.Eleven (11) FD-794b, Payment Requests. (It appears Steele
was paid money eleven of the thirteen times he met with the FBI and gave them
information.)
4.An Electronic Communication (EC) documenting that on February 2,
2016, Steele was admonished in accordance with the Justice Department
guidelines and the FBI CHS Policy Manual.
The documents were obtained as a result of a lawsuit was
filed after the Department of Justice failed to respond to a March 8,
2017, FOIA request seeking:
·All records of
communications between any official, employee, or representative of the FBI and
Mr. Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer and the owner of
the private firm Orbis Business Intelligence.
·All records related to the
proposed, planned, or actual payment of any funds to Mr. Steele and/or Orbis
Business Intelligence.
·All records produced in
preparation for, during, or pursuant to any meetings or telephonic
conversations between any official, employee, or representative of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and Mr. Christopher Steele and/or any employee or
representative of Orbis Business Intelligence.
“These new docs show the shady, cash-based relationship
the Obama FBI had with Clinton operative Christopher Steele,” said Judicial
Watch President Tom Fitton. “The anti-Trump Russia ‘investigation’ had
Christopher Steele at its center and his misconduct was no impediment to using
information from his Russia intelligence collaborators to spy on the Trump
team. The corruption and abuse is astonishing.”
Last week, a separate Judicial Watch lawsuit uncovered the
FISA warrant documents used to justify spying on Carter Page. The warrants are
controversial because the FISA court was never told that the key information
justifying the requests came from a “dossier” that was created by Fusion GPS, a
paid agent of the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.
Fusion GPS hired Steele to create the Dossier and Steele is referenced
repeatedly as “Source #1” in the warrants. The initial Carter Page warrant was
granted just weeks before the 2016 election. Steele and his “minimally corroborated”
Clinton-DNC dossier was an essential part of the FBI and DOJ’s applications for
surveillance warrants to spy on Page.
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Tom Fitton: At Least 11 FBI Payments went to Steele
August 5, 2018- JW President Tom Fitton appeared on “Fox and
Friends” on the Fox News Channel to discuss The FBI released 71 pages of redacted documents tied to the bureau’s relationship
with Christopher Steele.
[Blog Editor: I can’t figure out how to embed the JW video
version watch is about 5-minutes. You’ll have to go to JW link to watch that video.
Fortunately I found a 10-minute version on Youtube, but only 1st
five-minutes are relevant to this post..
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Even as the Mainstream Media (MSM) continues to harangue the
Trump Administration over Crooked Hillary’s loss to President Trump, more and more
documented information is rising to the top like scum purified out of metal.
Emails and memos substantiate just how corrupt the Obama Administration’s FBI,
DOJ, CIA, etc. leadership indeed was in creating ex nihilo
fake evidence of Trump wrongdoing with Russian help.
Below are three documented stories of where the actual
collusion originated and guess what? TRUMP IS NOT THE CULPRIT!
At some point, some rational journalist is going to have to
start openly wondering if they’ve been wrong about this FBI/DOJ/Mueller stuff
all along, won’t they?
The overwhelming majority of agents working for the FBI/DOJ
are wonderful, hard-working professionals, which begs the question, how did so
many anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton agents get in on the Clinton
investigation, the Russia investigation, and the Mueller investigation?
The material that has leaked out over the last few months
has proven that at least 4-5 of the agents had a definite anti-Trump animus and
that animus was bad enough that Mueller canned them from his investigation.
Now, we’re learning that there is even more evidence of the
intelligence community working against Trump for partisan reasons.
Multiple reviews of whether FBI
agents’ political bias affected the Russia-Trump collusion case remain in their
infancy, but investigators already have unearthed troubling internal
communications long withheld from public view.
We already know from FBI
counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok’s now-infamous text messages with his
fellow agent and reported lover, Lisa Page, that Strzok — the man driving that
Russia collusion investigation — disdained Donald Trump and
expressed willingness to use his law enforcement powers to “stop” the
Republican from becoming president.
Memos the FBI is now producing
to the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general and multiple Senate and
House committees offer what sources involved in the production, review or
investigation describe to me as “damning” or “troubling” evidence.
They show Strzok and his
counterintelligence team rushing in the fall of 2016 to find “derogatory”
information from informants or a “pretext” to accelerate the probe and get a
surveillance warrant on figures tied to the future president.
The memos prove that Strzok and his team railroaded Trump
associate Carter Page (who has still never been accused of any kind of wrongdoing)
and used him as a scapegoat to spy on the Trump campaign. Strzok’s own words in
the memos damn him for his immoral tactics and obvious partisan behavior.
The memos also indicate that certain FBI officials were
knowingly and maliciously leaking information from their investigations to
Democrats in Congress and to the media.
These and other documents are
still being disseminated to various oversight bodies in Congress, and more
revelations are certain to occur.
Yet, now, irrefutable proof
exists that agents sought to create pressure to get “derogatory” information
and a “pretext” to interview people close to a future president they didn’t
like.
Clear evidence also exists that
an investigation into still-unproven collusion between a foreign power and a
U.S. presidential candidate was driven less by secret information from Moscow
and more by politically tainted media leaks.
And that means the dots between
expressions of political bias and official actions just got a little more
connected.
In response to all of the bad news, Democrat leader Adam
Schiff (D-CA) has been trying to obfuscate what is really happening by
attacking Republicans for being on Trump’s side.
Schiff has even begun mocking a few GOP Congressional
leaders as ‘The Four Horsemen,” but Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) isn’t worried
about anything Schiff has to say. In fact, to hear Gowdy talk about it… nobody
in the GOP “gives a damn” about what Schiff thinks.
“Let me tell you this about
Adam,” Gowdy began. “Adam’s had a terrible last couple of years. He wanted to
be the attorney general under Hillary Clinton and no one in the country worked
harder to protect her than Adam Schiff.”
“He wanted to be the head of the
CIA. He wanted to run for California and the run for Senate and the People’s
Republic of California, but he couldn’t win either of those seats. So, now,
now, he wants to be the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Speaking
of the apocalypse, Adam Schiff wants to be the chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee,” he said.
“If you ever have — I don’t know — a couple of three months with nothing else
to do, I want you to go back, Jason, and think of all the things you would not
know if you had taken Adam Schiff’s advice. You wouldn’t know the whole — the
spontaneous reaction to a video was a hoax in Libya. You would never have read
the first Chris Stevens email. You wouldn’t know that Hillary Clinton had this
unique email arrangement with herself because Adam Schiff did everything in his
power to keep you from finding out,” Gowdy continued.
“You wouldn’t know about the
dossier. You wouldn’t know who funded it. You wouldn’t know it was used in a
court proceeding. You wouldn’t know about Strzok and Page. In fact, you
wouldn’t even be having the show tonight. You wouldn’t be having the show about
Strzok and Page if Adam Schiff had had his,” Gowdy finished.
During a closed-door interview on June 27, former FBI
official Peter Strzok downplayed his role in obtaining surveillance warrants to
spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
The Daily Beastreported that Strzok, the
former deputy chief of counterintelligence, claimed in the interview that he
had no substantive input on drafting or securing Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants used to spy on Page, an energy consultant who
left the Trump team in September 2016.
Strzok also denied providing evidence for the FISAs, the
first of which was granted on Oct. 21, 2016.
A Republican in the June 27 interview confirmed that Strzok,
who oversaw the Russian investigation, denied having a direct role in the FISA
process. But the Republican was also incredulous at Strzok’s suggestion that he
had little to do with the spy warrants obtained against Page.
A new report appears to justify the Republican’s skepticism.
John Solomon reported on The Hill that Strzok exchanged emails with FBI
attorney Lisa Page regarding the Carter Page surveillance.
Strzok and Lisa Page exchanged numerous anti-Trump text
messages during their work on the Russia probe, which was codenamed “Crossfire
Hurricane.” In one Aug. 8, 2016, message, Strzok told Page that “we’ll stop”
Trump from becoming president.
Strzok, who was the FBI’s top investigator on Crossfire
Hurricane, sent an email with the subject line “Crossfire FISA” to Lisa Page
discussing a set of talking points aimed at getting then-FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe to push the Department of Justice to approve a surveillance
warrant against Carter Page, according to Solomon.
“At a minimum, that keeps the hurry the F up pressure on
him,” Strzok emailed Lisa Page on Oct. 14, 2016, according to Solomon.
Strzok also commented on a letter that Lisa Page sent to
then-FBI Director Jim Comey offering to meet with the FBI to discuss
allegations made against him in a Yahoo News article published on Sept. 23,
2016.
“At a minimum, the letter provides us a pretext to
interview,” Strzok wrote to Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair, on
Sept. 26, 2016.
The Yahoo News article claimed that U.S. government
officials were looking into allegations that Page met secretly in Moscow in
July 2016 with two sanctioned Kremlin insiders.
It would later be learned that the article, written by
Michael Isikoff, was based on information from Christopher Steele, the author
of the dossier.
The dossier claimed that Page was the Trump campaign’s
conduit to the Kremlin for the collusion conspiracy. Page has vehemently denied
all of the allegations, and no evidence has emerged to support the Steele
dossier’s claims about him.
The FBI and DOJ’s spy warrants relied heavily on the Steele dossier,
which remains largely unverified and uncorroborated, in order to persuade a
federal judge to allow spying against Carter Page. The FISA applications also
cited the Isikoff article that relied on the dossier, though without disclosing
that the article was derived from Steele.
The applications also did not disclose that the Hillary
Clinton campaign and DNC had financed the dossier. A law firm for both
organizations hired opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which in turn hired
Steele.
Despite Strzok’s suggestion of an interview with Carter
Page, the FBI did not meet with him until March 2017, six months after the
email and two months after BuzzFeed News published the dossier. Page has
questioned why the FBI waited so long to interview him.
The FBI used other methods to keep tabs on the former Trump
aide. As The Daily Caller News Foundation first reported, an FBI informant
named Stefan Halper made contact with Page during a conference at the
University of Cambridge on July 11, 2016, nearly three weeks before the start
of Crossfire Hurricane.
Halper, a veteran of three Republican presidential
administrations, maintained contact with Page for over a year, until September
2017. That was the same month that the fourth and final FISA warrant against
Carter Page expired.
Halper met with two other Trump campaign advisers, Sam
Clovis and George Papadopoulos. Halper paid Papadopoulos $3,000 in September
2016 to travel to London under the guise of writing a policy paper and
Mediterranean energy issues.
Papadopoulos has told associates that during dinner one
night in London, Halper asked him about Russian efforts to steal Hillary
Clinton emails.
Strzok’s attorney, Aitan Goelman, did not respond to an
email seeking comment for this article.
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Judicial Watch Sues CIA for Documents
on Dossier Leak to Senator Harry Reid
Reid Publicized Clinton-DNC Dossier Allegations
Following Brennan Briefing
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced
today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) for records of communications with former Senator
Harry Reid (D-NV) and his staff regarding the anti-Trump dossier funded by the
Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (Judicial
Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:18-cv-01502)).
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid reportedly believed
then-Obama CIA Director Brennan was feeding him information about alleged links
between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in order to make public
accusations.
According to “Russian
Roulette,” by Yahoo! News chief investigative correspondent Michael
Isikoff and David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of the left-wing Mother
Jones magazine, Brennan contacted Reid on Aug. 25, 2016, to brief him on
the state of Russia’s interference in the presidential campaign. Brennan
briefed other members of the so-called Gang of Eight, but Reid is the only who
took direct action.
Two days after the briefing, Reid
wrote a
letter to then-FBI Director James Comey asserting that
“evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald
Trump’s presidential campaign continues to mount.”
Reid called on Comey to investigate the links “thoroughly
and in a timely fashion.”
Reid saw Brennan’s outreach as “a sign of urgency,” Isikoff
and Corn wrote in the book.
“Reid also had the impression that
Brennan had an ulterior motive. He concluded the CIA chief believed the public
needed to know about the Russian operation, including the information about the
possible links to the Trump campaign.”
According to the book, Brennan told
Reid that the intelligence community had determined that the Russian government
was behind the hack and leak of Democratic emails and that Russian President
Vladimir Putin was behind it. Brennan also told Reid that there was evidence that
Russian operatives were attempting to tamper with election results.
On August 27, 2016, Reid wrote a letter to
Comey accusing President Trump’s campaign of colluding with the Russian
government.
The Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit was filed in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia after the CIA failed to respond to
a February 12, 2018, FOIA request for:
§All records of
communications, including but not limited to letters, emails, text messages,
and instant chats, between former CIA Director John Brennan and/or officials in
the CIA Director’s Office on the one hand, and Senator Harry Reid and/or
members of Senator Reid’s staff on the other hand, regarding, concerning or
relating to the Christopher Steele “dossier” and/or alleged “collusion” between
the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
§Copies of any reports,
memoranda or other materials provided to Senator Reid and/or members of his
staff by the CIA relating to alleged Russian “collusion” or cooperation between
the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
§All materials, including
briefing reports and memos, audio/video presentations, PowerPoint presentations
and any other records, used by CIA Director Brennan and/or other CIA officials
to brief Senator Reid and/or members of his staff on alleged “collusion”
between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
§All notes, minutes,
transcripts, and audio and/or visual recordings made of any and all briefings
provided by the CIA to Senator Reid and/or members of his staff regarding
alleged “collusion” between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
Brennan has come under public scrutiny as one of the
suspected prime movers of the “Spygate”
scandal against then-candidate Trump and his team during 2015 and 2016 and
later against President Trump and members of his administration.
Brennan himself has revealed his deep-seated animus toward
President Trump and used his media platform as an MSNBC commentator to
repeatedly attack the president.
When President Trump tweeted about FBI
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s firing in March 2018, Brennanretweeted
and responded:
When the full extent of your
venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will
take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history.
You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America…America will
triumph over you.
In response to the president’s tweet that former FBI
director Comey is a “proven leaker and liar,” Brennan retweeted
and responded in April 2018 that President Trump’s
administration is a failing “kakistocracy.”
“Obama CIA Director John Brennan’s unhinged attacks on
President Trump help explain the Obama administration spying abuses targeting
Trump,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The mere fact that we had to
file this lawsuit shows the CIA has something to hide on Obama-era abuses and
collusion with Democrats in Congress to target then-candidate Trump.”
Judicial Watch filed a separate FOIA lawsuit against
the CIA on March 6, 2017, for records related to the investigation of former
Trump National Security Advisor and retired United States Army Lieutenant
General Michael Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak (Judicial
Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency et al.(No.1:17-cv-00397)).
The National Security Agency refused
to confirm or deny the existence of intelligence records about
communications between Gen. Flynn and Amb. Kislyak.
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Evidence of FBI anti-Trump Bias Uncovered!
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Judicial Watch Sues CIA
for Documents on Dossier Leak to Senator Harry Reid
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accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law. Through its
educational endeavors, Judicial Watch advocates high standards of ethics and
morality in our nation’s public life and seeks to ensure that political and
judicial officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American
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investigations, and public outreach.
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