(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for the emails of former Special Counsel Jack Smith with officials in Georgia and New York and with the White House, congressional and law enforcement offices regarding his investigation into President-elect Donald Trump (Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:25-cv-03849)).

For nearly two decades the U.S. government spent a breathtaking $145 billion on a failed plan to rebuild Afghanistan and at least $26 billion of it was lost to waste, fraud and abuse, according to the final report published by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).

The walls of government secrecy around the “Russiagate” scandal are tumbling down. In September, former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on charges of false statements and obstruction of Congress; a federal judge threw out the case this week but Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed “an immediate appeal.”

Judicial Watch announced that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for “hidden” records from former FBI Director James Comey’s era that were referenced during a Fox News interview with Deputy Director Dan Bongino (Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:25-cv-04047)).