As the Justice Department reportedly takes a step to give James Comey
a pass for illegal activity, Judicial Watch is uncovering the details
of these crimes.

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JUDICIAL WATCH'S WEEKLY UPDATE: JW UNCOVERS MORE COMEY CORRUPTION
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FBI DOCUMENTS DETAIL THAT COMEY HAD TRUMP FBI DOCS AT HIS HOME!

As the Justice Department reportedly takes a step
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to give James Comey a pass for illegal activity, Judicial Watch is
uncovering the details of these crimes.

We received six pages
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of
records from the FBI showing that in June 2017, a month after Comey
was fired by President Donald Trump, FBI agents visited his home and
collected “as evidence” four memos that allegedly detail
conversations he had with President Trump. One of his memos was
written on June 6, a month after he was fired.

Comey was fired
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Trump on May 9, 2017. The memos are dated February 14, 2017; March 30,
2017; and April 11, 2017. Another is dated “last night at 6:30
pm.”

The FBI documents also revealed that Comey recalled writing two other
memos after conversations with Trump that he claimed were
“missing.” The FBI visit and interview took place on June 7, the
day before Comey admitted leaking the memos in testimony to Congress.

The new documents include a June 9 2017 FBI Collected Item Log that
states:

On June 7, 2017, at approximately 10:15 A.M., Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) Special Agents (SA) [redacted] and [redacted]
collected memorandums (memos) as evidence from James Comey at his
residence at [redacted]. The memos collected described as follows:

* One memo dated February 4, 2017, two pages;
* One memo dated March 30, 2017, two pages;
* One memo dated April 11, 2017, one page;
* One memo dated “last night at 6:30 pm,” four pages

We also received a newly declassified FBI document dated June 16,
2017 in which FBI agents describe Comey telling them that he had
written two additional Trump meeting memos that he could no longer
find:

Former FBI Director James Comey was interviewed at his residence at
[redacted]. This interview was scheduled in advance, for the purpose
of providing certain classified memoranda (memos) to Comey for review.
After being advised of the identity of the interviewing Agents and the
nature of the interview, Comey provided the following information:

After reviewing the memos, Comey spontaneously stated, to the best of
his recollection, two were missing:

In the first occurrence, Comey said at an unknown date and time,
between January 7, 2017, which Comey believed was the date of his
briefing at Trump Tower, and Trump’s inauguration on January 20th,
2017, Comey received a phone call from President Elect Donald J.
Trump. The originating telephone number may have had a New York area
code. Following the telephone conversation, Comey drafted and e-mailed
a memo to James Rybicki and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

In the second instance, Comey was on his way to a FBI leadership
conference in Leesburg, Virginia (March 9, 2017) when he was diverted
to Liberty Crossing to respond to a request from Trump to contact him.
Comey contacted Trump from Liberty Crossing on a Top Secret telephone
line. The conversation was “all business” and related to
[redacted]. Comey is less sure he drafted a memo for his conversation
but if he did, he may have sent it on the FBI’s Top Secret network.
We obtained the records in a Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) lawsuit
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against
the Justice Department that sought all records of communications
relating to Comey’s providing memoranda of his conversations with
President Trump to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team.
(_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice
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(No.
1:18-cv-00932)).

These extraordinary FBI docs further confirm that James Comey should
never have had FBI files on President Trump at his home and that the
FBI failed to secure and protect these private and classified files.
Comey’s illegal leaking these FBI files as part of his vendetta
against President Trump (directly resulting in the corrupt appointment
of Robert Mueller) ought to be the subject of a criminal
investigation. I know there are reports that Attorney General Barr
declined to pursue an extraordinary criminal referral from the
Inspector General of the Justice Department on this very issue.
General Barr should reconsider.

On June 8, 2017, Comey testified
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the Senate Intelligence Committee that he leaked memos of his
conversations with President Trump “because (he) thought that might
prompt the appointment of a special counsel.” Columbia University
Law professor Daniel Richman, a friend of Comey’s, reportedly
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“turned over copies of the former FBI director’s explosive memos
… to the FBI, sidestepping a request by congressional committees to
deliver the materials to Capitol Hill.”

The Justice Department previously argued to the court in a separate
case
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that
Comey’s leak of the memo regarding former National Security Advisor
Michael Flynn was unauthorized and compared it to WikiLeaks
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Comey admitted
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to
Congress regarding the “Flynn” memo, “I asked a friend of mine
to share the content of the memo with a reporter [for The _New York
Times_] … I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the
appointment of a special counsel.” The _New York Times_ published
a report about the memo on May 16, 2017. Special Counsel Robert
Mueller was appointed the following day.

_The Hill_ noted in a July 9, 2017 report
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that,
“More than half of the memos former FBI Director James Comey wrote
as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump
about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain
classified information, according to interviews with officials
familiar with the documents.”

The issue over whether to prosecute aside, Judicial Watch will
continue to pursue the truth and accountability for the corrupt Comey.

JUDICIAL WATCH GOES TO COURT ON FBI STONEWALL AND COVER-UP

We were in the courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton
this week for a hearing regarding the rate of production of emails,
text messages, and other communications between former FBI official
Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page (_Judicial Watch v.
U.S. Department of Justice
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(No.
1:18-cv-00154)).

“Upon further consideration,” Judge Walton had written, “the
Court is concerned that the processing rate adopted by the Court may
be inadequate.” The Court’s July 24 order follows a joint status
report
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by
the FBI and us disclosing that only 6,000 of almost 20,000 responsive
records have been processed since May 2018.

The hearing came in our January 2018 Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) lawsuit
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for
all communications between Strzok and Page (_Judicial Watch v. U.S.
Department of Justice_
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1:18-cv-00154)).

As you know, Strzok and Page were key investigators in the Clinton
email and Russia collusion investigations. Strzok was removed from the
Mueller investigative team in July 2017
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and
reassigned to a human resources position after it was discovered that
he and Page, who worked for FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
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and with whom Strzok was carrying on an extramarital affair, exchanged
pro-Clinton and anti-Trump text messages.

Page resigned
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in
May 2018. Strzok was dismissed
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from
the FBI in August 2018.

The FBI has been slow rolling the release of Page-Strzok
communications and is still hiding all their infamous text messages.
We hope the Court recognizes the pubic interest in ensuring the FBI
quickly releases key documents about the biggest scandal in American
history – the Spygate abuses targeting President Trump.

Here’s the background.

On May 21, 2018, Judge Walton ordered
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the
FBI to begin processing thousands of pages of previously undisclosed
records between FBI officials Strzok and Page.

In June, we uncovered documents
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in
this case including emails showing the FBI’s attempts to muddle
former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony on the Hillary Clinton
email investigation and collusion between the FBI and the media.

Other documents
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revealed
then-FBI General Counsel James Baker instructing FBI officials to
expedite the release of FBI investigative material to Hillary
Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall in August 2016. Kendall and the
FBI’s top lawyer discussed quickly obtaining Clinton’s “302”
report of the FBI/DOJ interview.

In February, we uncovered documents
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showing
an evident cover-up of a chart of potential violations of law by
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Also, we
received documents
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exposing
that Baker discussed the investigation of Clinton-related emails on
Anthony Weiner’s laptop with Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall.
Baker then forwarded the conversation to his FBI colleagues.

In September 2018, we uncovered documents
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showing
email exchanges between fired FBI official Peter Strzok and FBI
attorney Lisa Page revealing that FBI officials used unsecure devices
in discussing how the U.S. could improve the sharing of sensitive data
with the European Union top executive governing commission. The
documents also reveal that high-ranking FBI officials were not
properly read-in to top-secret programs.

And in July 2018, we received documents
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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.

You can see why the FBI wants to take as long as two years to release
the Strzok-Page materials. The Court, at the conclusion of the
hearing this week, ordered Judicial Watch and the Justice Department
to work together to help ensure that we can get key documents in a
more timely way.

I will keep updated as events develop.

U.S. WASTES $907 MILLION TAX DOLLARS ON USELESS “NUTRITION
EDUCATION”

Waste, fraud and abuse is the operation motto for many government
programs. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog has the details
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on more extraordinary waste of your tax dollars:

Besides spending tens of billions of dollars on fraud-infested
programs to feed the poor, the U.S. government wastes an additional
$907 million to give recipients useless “nutrition education”
courses with rates of effectiveness that cannot be assessed. It marks
the latest scandal to rock the government’s famously bloated and
corrupt food stamp program as well as a multi-billion-dollar sister
project that feeds millions of low-income women and their children.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) operates and funds both
programs and spends a fortune on them annually. The grand master is
food stamps, renamed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
by the Obama administration to eliminate the welfare stigma. Under
Obama the food stamp tab reached a ghastly $80.4 billion
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in
one year to provide a record 46 million people with the welfare
benefit. The Trump administration has reduced it a bit, but not by
much. The latest USDA figures
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reveal
the food stamp budget is hovering north of $60 billion annually to
feed around 44 million people. That’s still a chunk of change. Uncle
Sam spends $5.3 billion
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a year on
the other program, which is known as Women Infants and Children (WIC).
It serves around 7 million recipients and claims to “safeguard
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the
health of low-income women, infants, and children younger than 5 who
are at nutritional risk.”

Besides doling out huge sums of taxpayer dollars to feed this large
demographic, the USDA dedicates extra money to school the
beneficiaries about nutritional matters. The classes and counseling
are conducted in daycares, grocery stores, public housing, health
clinics, food banks, recreation centers and other public facilities
throughout the country.

In fiscal year 2017 this cost $907 million, according to a federal
audit
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that concludes the
effectiveness of the so-called “SNAPEd” cannot be aggregated or
reviewed. States, which are responsible for distributing food stamps,
also provide information about the educational programs in a way that
“hinders the USDA’s ability to assess the effectiveness” and
“determine whether SNAPEd is achieving its goals,” according to
the audit, which was conducted by the investigative arm of Congress,
the Government Accountability Office (GAO). That’s diplomatic, sugar
coating for it’s a waste. The congressional watchdog further reveals
that it already reviewed the USDA’s dubious nutrition education
efforts a decade and a half ago and found “challenges” across the
agency.

The GAO report breaks down the expenses and offers some details about
the actual courses. The USDA spent $422 million to educate WIC
recipients about good nutrition and $404 million to school those who
get food stamps. An additional $51 million went to an “expanded food
and nutrition education program,” $16 million to “team
nutrition” and $13 million to a “food insecurity nutrition
incentive grant program.” Those wondering how it all works may find
answers in this line from the GAO: “Sometimes multiple nutrition
education programs operate in the same setting. For example, SNAP-Ed
may provide classes for students while Team Nutrition may distribute
teacher training materials and nutrition education curricula to the
same school.” The bottom line is that most of the USDA’s nutrition
education programs target interventions to low income populations,
according to the audit.

Why does the USDA waste such large sums on this nonsense? Because
another government agency, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), claims that the diet of many Americans lacks
adequate sources of good nutrition and that contributes to costly
chronic health conditions. In typical government fashion, the solution
is to throw money at the so-called problem with no follow through. The
goal, according to the USDA, is to help educate Americans on nutrition
and improve their dietary choices. The agency considers it an
important intervention that also involves social marketing as well as
policy and environmental changes. More than 4 million people
participated in the “direct education interventions” last year,
yet it remains unclear what impact the costly sessions had.

Fraud and waste have been pervasive in the government’s food stamp
program for years and Judicial Watch has reported
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on it
extensively. The Obama administration left the program in disarray,
but the problems have continued in the Trump administration. Just last
year authorities in north Florida arrested nearly 200 people for
operating a sophisticated ring in which millions of dollars
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in
food stamps were fraudulently exchanged for cash and drugs. More than
22,000 fraudulent transactions totaling $3.7 million were documented
by a task force of local and federal authorities.
Until next week,

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton


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