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Weekly Update: JW Gets Strzok-Page Docs
Judicial Watch ^ | July 13, 2018 | Tom Fitton

Posted on 07/14/2018 8:49:56 AM PDT by jazusamo

Judicial Watch Victory: FBI Begins Releasing Strzok-Page Documents!
President Trump’s Supreme Court Pick: A Victory for the Rule of Law
Another Obama scandal: ‘Unaccompanied Children’ Included Criminals, Smugglers, & Traffickers
The John Brennan-Harry Reid Collusion to ‘Get Trump’

Judicial Watch Victory: FBI Begins Releasing Strzok-Page Documents!

If you watched disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok bob and weave around the truth in his testimony to Congress this week you will understand our difficulty in getting Strzok’s official communications out of the FBI/Justice Department.

We don’t give up, however, and we are succeeding.

We just released 87 pages of records from the Department of Justice revealing former top FBI official Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page’s profanity-laced disdain for FBI hierarchy and policies. The DOJ, meanwhile, is resisting our request for a court order to preserve all responsive Page-Strzok communications.

Strzok and Page’s anti-Trump text messages became center-stage amid allegations of bias at the bureau, and both were subpoenaed to testify before the House Judiciary and the Oversight and Government Reform Committees.

We obtained the documents through a January 2018 Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the DOJ failed to respond to a December 4, 2017, FOIA request ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)). The lawsuit is seeking:

The new emails came in response to a May 21, order by U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton for the FBI to begin processing 13,000 pages of previously undisclosed records exchanged exclusively between FBI officials Strzok and Page between February 1, 2015, and December 2017. The first 500 pages of records are to be processed by June 29, 2018. This process will take over two years to complete.

Emails between Strzok and Page include conversations about a change in FBI policy that eventually would allow companies to discuss National Security Letters , which are secret non-court issued subpoenas for records:

From: Strzok, Peter P. (WF) (FBI)

Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 3:34 PM

To: Page, Lisa C. (OGC) (FBI)

Subject: FWD: FBI to Allow Companies to Reveal When They Receive National Security Letters

Sigh…are you f’ing kidding…

From: Page, Lisa C. (OGC) (FBI)

Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 3:36 PM

To: Strzok, Peter P. (WF) (FBI)

Subject: RE: FBI to Allow Companies to Reveal When They Receive National Security Letters

Sigh. This is the third conversation I will have had with him or someone on his staff about this.

On February 9, 2015, in a discussion of an article about how the Department of Defense may have unwisely used an Arabic translator in a Guantanamo hearing who had also been used as a translator at a CIA black site, Strzok says, “I cannot begin to describe the amount of f*ckupedness if true…” Page replies, “I know. I heard about it on npr on my way home tonight. Multiple mentions of the FBI’s infiltration of defense teams last year too.”

On June 1, we filed a motion for preservation order in this case asking the court to order the Department of Justice to prevent both Strzok and Page from deleting any incriminating records of their communications. We argue that several of the text messages produced to Congress reference work-related communications between Strzok and Page through personal accounts.

We noted that in January , the DOJ told Congress that the FBI had neither requested nor searched information from the personal accounts of Strzok and Page. We argued:

In a January 25, 2018 letter to Senator Charles Grassley, Charles Thorley, Acting Assistant Director of the FBI, wrote, “FBI has not requested from Ms. Page or Mr. Strzok any information from their personal email accounts, nor has the FBI conducted searches of non-FBI issued communications devices or non-FBI email accounts associated with Mr. Strzok or Ms. Page….”

Under the law, “[a]n officer or employee of an executive agency may not create or send a record using a non-official electronic messaging account unless such officer or employee- (1) ,copies an official electronic messaging account of the officer or employee in the original creation or transmission of the record; or (2) forwards a complete copy of the record to an official electronic messaging account of the officer or employee not later than 20 days after the original creation or transmission of the record.”

Not until May did the FBI say it had written Strzok and Page letters asking them to preserve the communications but there have been no assurances that this was even done:

[Judicial Watch] has asked for copies of those letters and of any responses it has received from Strzok and Page. [DOJ] refuses to provide any evidence supporting this assertion.

Because [Judicial Watch] does not know specifically what [DOJ] asked Strzok and Page to do and what, if any, steps Strzok and Page are taking to ensure preservation, [Judicial Watch] is concerned [DOJ’s] mere requests to Strzok and Page are insufficient. [Judicial Watch] therefore is concerned records responsive to [Judicial Watch’s] FOIA request will be lost or not otherwise searched.

[Judicial Watch’s] request is nothing out of the ordinary. At least three other judges of this Court have granted such requests in the last 18 months.

We are in court successfully getting Strzok-Page documents thus far denied to Congress. Yet the Justice Department is stonewalling and even protecting Strzok and Page by battling our request for preservation order to ensure that no government documents are destroyed.

President Trump’s Supreme Court Pick: A Victory for the Rule of Law

President Trump hit a home run with his nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The President stood up for the U.S. Constitution with this nomination. Judge Kavanaugh has a demonstrated record of applying the rule of law rather than legislating from the bench. His record shows that he will apply the U.S. Constitution as written and intended by our Founding Fathers.

This nomination is a great victory for constitutional government and a blow to politicized decision-making on the Supreme Court. We have too many politicians as it is in DC, and we certainly don’t need any more on the Supreme Court. Most Americans agree with Judge Kavanaugh that the Supreme Court should apply the law as it is written and leave the legislating to the people’s elected representatives in Congress.

The Senate should move quickly to work with President Trump to consider and approve Judge Kavanaugh. There is not much radical liberals can do to stop this excellent Supreme Court pick. We aren’t surprised by leftist smears, religious bigotry, and more threats of violence, but the votes are there for Judge Kavanaugh to be confirmed.

Please be sure to let your senators know what you think about the Kavanaugh nomination directly! You can reach your senators’ offices at 202-224-3121. Letters and emails work, too. All their contact information is available at www.senate.gov.

Another Obama scandal: ‘Unaccompanied Children’ Included Criminals, Smugglers, & Traffickers

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1 posted on 07/14/2018 8:49:56 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: GOPJ; Diana in Wisconsin; ColdOne; Art in Idaho; Conservative Gato; ptsal; onyx; Tucker39; ...

Off the Wall Ping!

Contact to be added.


2 posted on 07/14/2018 8:55:14 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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JW must have a huge storage bill for all this info they get.
But then I guess they can well afford it.

2015[7]

Total Revenue: $37,863,937
Total Expenses: $24,486,270
Net Assets: $47,131,962

2014[8]

Total Revenue: $30,811,460
Total Expenses: $21,638,212
Net Assets: $36,135,037

2013[9]

Total Revenue: $20,622,935
Total Expenses: $17,657,173
Net Assets: $27,453,495

2012[9]

Total Revenue: $20,210,502
Total Expenses: $15,902,133
Net Assets: $23,039,263

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Judicial_Watch


3 posted on 07/14/2018 9:09:10 AM PDT by deport
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To: jazusamo
Read all the articles, especially this one: Another Obama scandal: ‘Unaccompanied Children’ Included Criminals, Smugglers, & Traffickers
4 posted on 07/14/2018 9:10:54 AM PDT by yoe
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To: jazusamo

POS’s job future is shown below:


5 posted on 07/14/2018 9:11:57 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Psychopath bump!


6 posted on 07/14/2018 9:19:54 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Grampa Dave

What a frigging WEIRDO


7 posted on 07/14/2018 9:20:01 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Grampa Dave

Reminds me of a current demon of the week on the television show Supernatural...


8 posted on 07/14/2018 9:24:32 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Grampa Dave

I see a resemblance. Tony Perkins was gay, had AIDS.


9 posted on 07/14/2018 9:26:12 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: Grampa Dave

Looks like a good start on a crazy defense.

Somewhere, someone has a pic of this POS crossdressing.


10 posted on 07/14/2018 9:32:32 AM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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To: mowowie
POS* qualifies as the Demon of 2015-2018!

*Peter Ocedevious Strzok, aka POS!

11 posted on 07/14/2018 9:33:08 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: Gator113

Top left pic makes me wonder if Lisa Page was not a “lover” but a “fag hag.”


12 posted on 07/14/2018 9:35:41 AM PDT by nanetteclaret (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: mowowie

What a frigging WEIRDO!

This frigging Weirdo raises two serious questions:

#1. Does he still have a gun and carries it with him?

#2. How many similar psychopaths are armed and still in the FBI/DOJ?


13 posted on 07/14/2018 9:36:36 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: jazusamo

14 posted on 07/14/2018 9:41:13 AM PDT by BEJ
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To: deport; All
Source Watch is a publication from the Center for Media and Democracy whom I've never heard of up to now.

Not surprisingly they're a far left group, following is an excerpt about them:

"CMD takes significant sums of money for its work from left-wing foundations, and has even received a half-million dollar donation from one of the country’s largest donor-advised funds—all the while criticizing pro-business or free-market advocacy groups who also use donor advised funds or rely on foundation support.

Left leaning groups are notably absent from negative mention in PR Watch and SourceWatch. While SourceWatch maintains a “tobacco portal” dedicated to exposing links between free-market groups and the tobacco industry, the site neglects to include the thousands of dollars given by the tobacco industry to many labor-affiliated advocacy organizations.

Despite this history of far-left advocacy and funding, media sources often mistakenly cite CMD and its SourceWatch website as independent watchdog organizations.

Background

CMD began primarily as a project of career far-left activists John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, who used CMD as a platform from which to publish a series of books. Since Stauber and Rampton’s retirements, CMD has been run by Lisa Graves, a career Democratic Party and left-liberal activist who previously worked for Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Activist Facts

15 posted on 07/14/2018 9:43:20 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo
Everything but saliva dripping...such anger from a 'gone rogue' FBI agent:

Peter Strzok as an FBI agent, demonized a sitting president, President Trump....as did Coleman and Steve Cohen who wants to give the dirty FBI agent the Purple heart medal......there are several Purple Heart Medals awarded in this family none of which were for treason. Both congressmen should be publicly censored and removed from all committees they now serve on. Neither are fit to serve for any USA citizen.

16 posted on 07/14/2018 9:45:43 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe



17 posted on 07/14/2018 9:47:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: yoe

Amen...He’s definitely a nutcase and the Congress critters making the Purple Heart comments are right there with him.


18 posted on 07/14/2018 9:53:33 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

CMD:”...The group operates the publication PR Watch and a related Wiki-platform SourceWatch, which present the group’s hostile view of free-market organizations.”


19 posted on 07/14/2018 9:54:41 AM PDT by yoe
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To: jazusamo
Great Post!
Thank you.
20 posted on 07/14/2018 9:55:07 AM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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