New Lawsuit Targeting Deep State Abuse



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Judicial Watch Sues Pentagon for Details of Alleged Conversation
between CIA Employees Seeking to ‘Get Rid’ of then-President Trump

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The Deep State has never stopped targeting and abusing President
Trump. And Judicial Watch continues trying to expose and stop this
corruption.

To that end, we just filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
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against the U.S. Department of Defense for reports submitted by a
military officer to his superiors regarding an alleged conversation
around January 2017 between CIA analysts Eric Ciaramella and Sean
Misko about trying to “get rid” of then-President Trump (_Judicial
Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Defense_
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(No. 1:24-cv-00068)).

Judicial Watch sued after the Defense Department failed to respond to
a January 14, 2022, FOIA request for:

* Any and all reports submitted by a US military officer assigned to
the National Security Council to his superiors relating to a
conversation he overheard circa January 2017 at an "all-hands" NSC
staff meeting between CIA analysts Eric Ciaramella and Sean Misko
regarding trying to "get rid" of then-President Trump, as discussed in
a January 22, 2020 Real Clear Investigations article available at
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* Any and all records relating to any investigations conducted by
the Department of Defense and/or its sub-agencies and departments into
the alleged conversation between Misko and Ciaramella referenced
above, including but not limited to investigative reports and witness
statements.
* All emails and communications sent to and from members of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding the alleged conversation between Misko
and Ciaramella and any related investigations.

The _Real Clear Investigations_ article
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> Barely two weeks after Donald Trump took office, Eric Ciaramella –
> the CIA analyst whose name was recently linked in a tweet by the
> president and mentioned by lawmakers as the anonymous
> “whistleblower" who touched off Trump's impeachment – was
> overheard in the White House discussing with another staffer how to
> remove the newly elected president from office, according to former
> colleagues.
>
> Sources told RealClearInvestigations the staffer with whom
> Ciaramella was speaking was Sean Misko. Both were Obama
> administration holdovers working in the Trump White House on foreign
> policy and national security issues. And both expressed anger over
> Trump’s new “America First” foreign policy, a sea change from
> President Obama’s approach to international affairs.
At a meeting of National Security Council employees two weeks into
the Trump administration, the unidentified military staffer, who was
seated directly in front of Ciaramella and Misko, confirmed hearing
them talk about toppling Trump.

> “After Flynn briefed [the staff] about what ‘America First’
> foreign policy means, Ciaramella turned to Misko and commented,
> ‘We need to take him out,’ ” the staffer recalled. “And
> Misko replied, ‘Yeah, we need to do everything we can to take out
> the president.’”
>
> Added the military detailee, who spoke on condition of anonymity:
> “By ‘taking him out,’ they meant removing him from office by
> any means necessary. They were triggered by Trump’s and Flynn’s
> vision for the world. This was the first ‘all hands’ [staff
> meeting] where they got to see Trump’s national security team, and
> they were huffing and puffing throughout the briefing any time Flynn
> said something they didn’t like about ‘America First.’”
>
> He said he also overheard Ciaramella telling Misko, referring to
> Trump, “We can’t let him enact this foreign policy.”
>
> Alarmed by their conversation, the military staffer immediately
> reported what he heard to his superiors.
>
> “It was so shocking that they were so blatant and outspoken about
> their opinion,” he recalled. “They weren’t shouting it, but
> they didn’t seem to feel the need to hide it.”
The intelligence community targeted Trump for removal for daring to
question Biden family corruption and election interference tied to
Ukraine and Burisma. The Biden Defense Department’s sitting for over
a year on a simple FOIA request on the Deep State targeting of Trump
is a cover-up plain and simple.

We previously sued for information about Ciaramella.

In November 2019 we
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that among those visiting Ciaramella at the White House were several
officers in leftist George Soros organizations.

In December 2019 we
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the DOJ and CIA for communications between Ciaramella and former FBI
agent Peter Strzok, former FBI Attorney Lisa Page, former FBI Deputy
Director Andrew McCabe, and/or the Special Counsel’s Office. In both
cases the government refused to produce records, “refusing to
confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of responsive
records” because “confirming or denying the existence or
non-existence of responsive records would reveal information protected
by the CIA Act, namely the existence or non-existence of an employment
relationship between the Agency and Mr. Ciaramella.” And, would
constitute an “unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”

JUDICIAL WATCH, ALLIED EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION FILE U.S. SUPREME COURT
BRIEF OPPOSING LEFTIST EFFORT TO REMOVE TRUMP FROM BALLOT

In a brazen application of lawfare to politics, Colorado’s top court
assumed the authority to remove a candidate – a former president, no
less – from the presidential primary ballot.

We filed an _amici curiae_ (friend of the court) brief
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in the United States Supreme Court along with the Allied Educational
Foundation (AEF) in support of former President Donald Trump in his
challenge to the Colorado Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision to
remove him from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot
(_Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson et al._
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(No. 23-719)).

We are asking the court to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court’s
December 19, 2023,
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disqualifying President Trump from the state’s primary and general
election ballots under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, based on
the allegation his speech and actions disputing the 2020 election
constituted “insurrection.”

We further argue that the interests at stake in the case include
fundamental due process and First Amendment constitutional rights of
tens of millions of Americans:

> [T]he legal and national interests at stake in any proceeding to
> determine whether a candidate should be barred from running for a
> national office like the presidency, either pursuant to Section 3 or
> for any other reason, are extraordinary. Those interests encompass
> the First Amendment associational rights of members of national
> political parties, as well as the rights of millions of voters to
> express their political preferences by voting for the parties’
> candidates. Those interests also include the national interest in
> conducting elections perceived to be legitimate because they reflect
> the wishes of the voters.

***

> [T]he impact of banning a national candidate like President Trump
> from the ballot in one state is felt nationwide, as his supporters,
> in _every_ state, reassess his chances of winning and the value of
> turning out to vote for him. Accordingly, any proceeding to remove
> President Trump from the ballot in Colorado must account for the
> interests of millions of Republican party members and voters across
> the nation if it is to comport with the requirements of the Due
> Process Clause.

***

> [T]he United States has an interest in being able to credibly
> maintain that national elections are decided by voters who are
> persuaded, for various reasons, to cast their ballots for particular
> candidates. Where this is so, the outcome of the election may be
> relied on to reasonably reflect what the American people want. But
> this claim is undermined when it appears that the machinations of
> partisans, bureaucrats, and lawyers are more important in
> determining the outcome of an election than the will of voters.
We also argue that, if the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling is
allowed to stand, presidential and other federal elections will be
thrown into chaos:

> In a basically standardless legal discussion, charges of
> insurrection can be levelled by imaginative partisans on the basis
> of many different kinds of inflammatory political actions or speech.
> Consider:

* Vice President Kamala Harris promoted a bail fund that
helped to free “those protesting on the ground in Minnesota” in
the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The protests in 20 states
following that murder were among the costliest in U.S. history,
persisting in some cities for months, and resulting in at least 25
deaths. Protesters attacked federal property and set fire to a federal
courthouse. Protests also caused President Trump to evacuate the White
House to a secure underground location, as rioters assaulted police
officers outside the White House gates.
* Discussing an anticipated abortion ruling, Senate
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told a rally on the steps of the U.S.
Supreme Court on March 5, 2020, “I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want
to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will
pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with
these awful decisions.” His comments were reproved by the Chief
Justice of this Court as “dangerous.” Two years later a man was
arrested for threatening behavior directed at Justice Kavanaugh.
* Recently a number of Republican officials have proposed
retaliating for the instant lawsuit by seeking to remove President
Biden from their state ballots for abetting an “invasion of eight
million” at the southern border of the United States.
* On June 10, 2017, Sen. Bernie Sanders called President
Trump “the worst and most dangerous president in the history of our
country.” Four days later, one of his supporters opened fire on
congressional Republicans at a baseball practice, wounding four,
including Rep. Steve Scalise.

> All of these facts are fodder for interested partisans seeking to
> disqualify opposing candidates. If the nation does go “down that
> path,” presidential elections in the United States will become a
> more ugly business. Legal maneuvers to remove President Trump from
> the ballots of various states, and the retaliatory maneuvers they
> provoke, will create a new, anti-democratic front in the partisan
> wars. To be blunt, “blue states” will apply Section 3 to harass
> “red” candidates, while “red states” will apply that
> provision to harass “blue” candidates.

***

> The losers in this process, as here, will be the voters.

> The Court should foreclose this kind of warfare now. Amici
> respectfully submit that the Court should refuse to ratify these
> maneuvers, and should instead adopt as its policy the observation
> that “[t]he cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.”
Let’s be blunt: The Left is trying to turn America into a one-party
state by seeking to unconstitutionally remove President Trump from the
ballot. The Supreme Court should just say ‘no’ to this brazen,
dangerous and unconstitutional coup against the rights of tens of
millions of Americans.

(The Allied Educational Foundation is a charitable and educational
foundation dedicated to improving the quality of life through
education. In furtherance of that goal, the Foundation has engaged in
a number of projects, which include, but are not limited to,
educational and health conferences domestically and abroad. AEF has
partnered frequently with us to fight government and judicial
corruption and to promote a return to ethics and morality in the
nation’s public life.)

AT U.N. REQUEST BIDEN REMOVED HOUTHIS FROM U.S. TERRORIST LIST

The Biden administration’s coddling of Iran’s terror regime has
led to a shooting war with the Iranian proxy Houthis in Yemen, as our
_Corruption Chronicles_ blog points out
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the effort to appease Iran and its Houthi allies also involved
pressure from the corrupted United Nations:

> The violent Yemeni militant group that keeps attacking commercial
> ships—including American vessels—in the Red Sea and Suez Canal
> was removed from the U.S. terrorist list by President Biden at the
> request of the famously corrupt United Nations and other leftist
> humanitarian groups. The revocation, announced
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> on February 12, 2021, of the terrorist designation stood even after
> the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
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> two key militants of the group, which lately is best known as
> Houthis but is also officially identified as Ansarallah or Partisans
> of God. OFAC identified the men as Mansur Al-Sa’adi and Ahmad
> ‘Ali Ahsan al-Hamzi and revealed that they were responsible for
> orchestrating attacks by Houthi forces impacting Yemeni civilians,
> bordering nations, and commercial vessels in international waters.
> The agency also revealed in its March 2021 sanction document that
> the Houthis have waged a bloody war against the internationally
> recognized Yemeni government using ballistic missiles, explosives,
> naval mines, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to attack bases,
> population centers, infrastructure, and nearby commercial shipping.
>
> Predictably, the Houthis continue to commit terrorist attacks
> because it is what they do. Nothing has really changed there, though
> the high-profile nature of the Islamic group’s recent activities
> has captured global attention that shines a light on the Biden
> administration’s controversial decision to remove it from the
> government’s official terrorist list. Since the middle of
> November, the Houthis have hijacked a commercial ship and launched
> dozens of attacks with drones, missiles and speed boats on other
> vessels transporting goods through the Red Sea and Suez Canal, a
> critical passage that sees around 12% of the world’s trade. The
> attacks are forcing ships to take a much lengthier route around
> southern Africa and the U.S. as well as Britain and other allies
> have struck Houthi targets in Yemen with missiles. This week the
> U.S. Central Command announced
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> it struck and destroyed four Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles
> prepared to launch from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and
> presented an imminent threat to both merchant and U.S. Navy ships in
> the region.
>
> The recent attacks are receiving lots of global media coverage, but
> no outlet has pressed the Biden administration for answers regarding
> its outrageous decision to revoke the Houthis’ terrorist
> designation. Afterall, Yemen is a hotbed of terrorism that serves as
> the headquarters of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which
> has appeared on the State Department’s list
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> Terrorist Organizations since 2010. Nevertheless, the international
> community and its leftist allies strongly opposed the Trump
> administration’s classification of the Houthis as a specially
> designated global terrorist entity, asserting that it would come
> with repercussions for humanitarian operations
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President Trump did
> not cave in and properly classified the Houthis/Ansarallah a
> Specially Designated Global Terrorist group, writing in a Federal
> Register bulletin
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> that the group has committed or has attempted to commit, or poses a
> significant risk of committing, or has participated in training to
> commit, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S.
> nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of
> the United States.
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> When Biden became president, the left squeezed the administration to
> remove the Houthis’ terrorist designation and it was not long
> before the U.S. obliged. Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken
> explained that the decision was a recognition of the dire
> humanitarian situation in Yemen. “We have listened to warnings
> from the United Nations, humanitarian groups, and bipartisan members
> of Congress, among others, that the designations could have a
> devastating impact on Yemenis’ access to basic commodities like
> food and fuel,” Blinken said at the time without offering details
> to back up the claim. A year later the administration laughably
> denounced the Houthis’ “acts of terrorism
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> against “civil infrastructure” after it launched drones and
> missiles at civilian targets in Saudi Arabia, including energy and
> water facilities. Blinken strongly condemned the multiple attacks
> and Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed that the
> unprovoked incidents were indeed acts of terrorism.
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Until next week,





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