IG Report on Comey Details Anti-Trump Coup

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TOM FITTON'S VIDEO WEEKLY UPDATE - AUGUST 30, 2019

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_Court Gives JW New Clinton Email Discovery, Anti-Trump Coup Exposed
in Comey/IG Report, & New #SpyGate Update!_

COURT GRANTS SIGNIFICANT NEW DISCOVERY IN CLINTON EMAIL CASE

We have won a significant victory in our pursuit of the truth about
Hillary Clinton’s misuse of official email and the Deep State’s
efforts to cover it up.

A federal judge granted
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us
seven additional depositions, three interrogatories and four document
requests related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use
of a private, unauthorized email server.

Hillary Clinton and her former top aide and current lawyer Cheryl
Mills were given 30 days to oppose being deposed by Judicial Watch
(_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State_
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(No.
1:14-cv-01242)).

The court rejected Justice and State Department arguments to protect
Mrs. Clinton and the agencies from additional discovery and ordered
agency lawyers to respond to our questions about their knowledge of
the Clinton email issue. The court granted all of our requested
discovery but gave Clinton and Mills 30 days to file any opposition to
the requests to question them in person under oath.

The new court-ordered discovery allows us to take testimony and gather
evidence of Clinton’s handling of emails, specifically in an
“after action memo” drafted by Heather Samuelson, Clinton’s
senior advisor at State and White House liaison. The memo was created
in December 2014 to memorialize the Clinton team’s processing of the
Clinton emails. The discovery also asks when Justice and State
Department attorneys learned about Clinton’s private email use; and
what senior records-keeping officials at the State Department knew
about Clinton’s emails and when they knew it.

This past Friday, we submitted the document request
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to
Hillary Clinton’s attorneys for the “after action memo” that
Samuelson created.

The court specifically raised concerns about a Clinton email cache
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recently
discussed in a letter to Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) and wants
Judicial Watch to “shake the tree” on this issue.

We uncovered the Clinton email scandal and we just found more evidence
that raises further questions about the cover-up – which is why the
court allowed us to pursue more leads and potentially question Mrs.
Clinton under oath. As ordered by the court, we will continue to
“shake the tree” on the Clinton email issue. It is shameful that
the Justice and State Departments oppose our efforts and are still
trying to provide cover for Hillary Clinton.

Additionally, on Friday, August 23, Judicial Watch submitted
interrogatories to Department of Justice attorney Robert Prince
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to
find out when he learned about the State Department requesting and
receiving emails and federal records from Clinton and to the State
Department
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to
identify officials and documents that have been uncovered, but not
identified. We also submitted a document request
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to
the State Department for records reviewed in response to Gawker’s
2013 FOIA request for communications from Hillary Clinton’s email
accounts sent to Sidney Blumenthal.

Here is some background.

On December 6, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Lamberth ordered
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Obama
administration senior State Department officials, lawyers and Clinton
aides to be deposed or answer written questions under oath. The
court ruled
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that
the Clinton email system was “one of the gravest modern offenses to
government transparency.”

The court ordered discovery into three specific areas: whether
Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email server was intended to
stymie FOIA; whether the State Department’s intent to settle this
case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith; and whether
the State Department has adequately searched for records responsive to
our request.

Our discovery over the last several months found many more details
about the scope of the Clinton email scandal and cover-up:

COURT GRANTS SIGNIFICANT NEW DISCOVERY IN CLINTON EMAIL CASE

* John Hackett, former Director of Information Programs and Services
(IPS) testified
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oath that he had raised concerns that former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s staff may have “culled out 30,000” of the
secretary’s “personal” emails without following strict National
Archives standards. He also revealed that he believed there was
interference with the formal FOIA review process related to the
classification of Clinton’s Benghazi-related emails.
* Heather Samuelson, Clinton’s White House liaison at the State
Department, and later Clinton’s personal lawyer, admitted
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under
oath that she was granted immunity by the Department of Justice in
June 2016.
* Justin Cooper, former aide to President Bill Clinton and Clinton
Foundation employee who registered the domain name of the
unsecure clintonemail.com
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server that
Clinton used while serving as Secretary of State, testified
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he
worked with Huma Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, to create
the non-government email system.
* In the interrogatory responses
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of
E.W. (Bill) Priestap, assistant director of the FBI
Counterintelligence Division, he stated that the agency found Clinton
email records in the Obama White House, specifically, the Executive
Office of the President.
* Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, Clinton’s senior advisor and deputy
chief of staff when she was secretary of state, testified
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that
both he and Clinton used her unsecure non-government email system to
conduct official State Department business.
* Eric Boswell, former assistant secretary of state for diplomatic
security during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, testified
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that
Clinton was warned twice against using unsecure BlackBerrys and
personal emails to transmit classified material.

It is staggering that the current Justice Department still goes to
such lengths to hide her behavior. Rest assured that Judicial Watch
will continue to fight for the truth.

NEW IG REPORT CONFIRMS COMEY CRIMES BUT DOJ DROPS BALL

As you have no doubt heard, the Office of the Inspector General for
the U. S. Department of Justice has released its report
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on former FBI
Director James Comey’s mishandling of his memos. It detailed
Comey’s abuses of law and FBI policy. Nevertheless, the department
has decided not to prosecute.

The IG report confirms that Mr. Comey improperly kept FBI files on
President Trump at his home and that he illicitly leaked these FBI
files to the _New York Times_ to advance his personal agenda of
getting a Special Counsel appointed to target President Trump. Comey
also misled both the FBI and Congress about his handling of these
documents. On top of all of that, in violation of law, he kept and
disclosed classified information.

It is beyond belief that the Justice Department refused to prosecute
Comey for his series of crimes, to include a seditious conspiracy
targeting President Trump. It is going to be up to us to obtain full
justice and full accountability for this terrible misconduct that goes
to the heart of our justice system.

Judicial Watch recently uncovered
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through
a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit documents that detail that the
FBI had to go to Comey’s home to retrieve classified and other FBI
files on President Trump.

(You can also see my Tucker Carlson preview of the Comey report (and
the pending decision on whether to prosecute Andrew McCabe) here
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JW TAKES ON ANOTHER DANGEROUS SANCTUARY POLICY IN CALIFORNIA

We have already reported to you that we are pursuing a taxpayer
lawsuit against San Francisco’s
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illegal
immigrant sanctuary policies. We’re scheduled to go to trial in
2020.

Now we are also suing theCounty of Santa Clara, California, in
Superior Court to overturn a policy that protects aliens in the
county’s custody from removal proceedings by federal immigration
authorities.

Our suit on behalf of Howard Myers, a Santa Clara taxpayer, is against
Laurie Smith, sheriff of Santa Clara County and Carl Neusel, acting
chief of correction of Santa Clara County (_Howard A. Myers v. Laurie
Smith et al.
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(No.
19-CV-353510)).

Santa Clara County Board Policy 3.54(B) requires Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to obtain a “judicial arrest
warrant” in order for the county to transfer custody of an alien.
Federal law however does not require “judicial arrest warrants”
for federal authorities to detain aliens, especially for those who had
been incarcerated or arrested by local authorities.

We are asking the court to grant an injunction against the sanctuary
policy because:


* It is an “illegal local regulation of immigration;”
* It is “preempted by federal law;” and
* It is “barred by the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity,”
which prevents a state from intruding on the federal government’s
sovereignty.

Here is the horrific story behind our lawsuit.

On February 28, 2019, Bambi Larson
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a Santa Clara County resident, was murdered inside her San Jose home.
According to court documents, she suffered extensive and deep wounds
consistent with a cutting tool. A few weeks later, Carlos
Arevalo-Carranza was arrested and charged with Larson’s murder.
Arevalo-Carranza reportedly had multiple, prior convictions in Santa
Clara County, including a conviction for burglary in 2015, convictions
for battery of an officer, resisting arrest, and entering a property
in 2016, and a conviction for false imprisonment in 2017.

He also reportedly had multiple, prior arrests in 2015-2018 in both
Santa Clara County and Los Angeles County, including arrests for
possession of drug paraphernalia and methamphetamine, prowling, and
false identification. At the time of Larson’s death,
Arevalo-Carranza reportedly was on probation for possession of drug
paraphernalia and methamphetamine, false imprisonment, and burglary.

ICE officials had sent six separate requests to Santa Clara County,
when Arevalo-Carranza was about to be released from its custody,
asking that he be detained long enough for federal immigration
officials to take him into custody for removal proceedings. Each
request was ignored because of Santa Clara County’s sanctuary
policies.

In March 2019, San Jose officials reportedly
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“criticized
so-called sanctuary policies they say prevented federal authorities
from detaining a gang member in the country illegally before he
allegedly killed a woman.” The murderer was a, “self-admitted gang
member,” with a “long criminal history in the San Francisco Bay
Area and Los Angeles spanning five years.”

Sanctuary policies are illegal and deadly. We have been a leader (and
often the only) legal opponent to sanctuary policies that ignore
federal and state laws concerning immigration at the expense of the
public’s safety, the rule of law, and our national security. Our new
taxpayer lawsuit simply seeks to stop tax dollars from being spent on
a sanctuary policy that harms public safety and undermines the rule of
law.

CHRIS FARRELL TO HOST “ON WATCH” ON THE ONE AMERICA NEWS NETWORK

One America News will broadcast a special edition of “Chris
Farrell’s On Watch” with an expert panel on this Saturday and
Sunday at 5 pm ET.

Chris’s special guest this week is Senior Judicial Watch Attorney
Ramona Cotca, who will bring us up to date on our recent victory in a
lawsuit seeking answers to questions surrounding former Secretary
Clinton’s email server. Was the non-government server intended to
stymie the Freedom of Information Act? Did the State Department’s
first attempt to settle this case amount to “bad faith?” And has
the State Department – to this day – adequately searched for
records?

Also joining the show is Senior Attorney Robert Popper, who heads up
our Election Integrity Project. He will provide updates on our
victories in Los Angeles and Kentucky in our fight to clean up voter
rolls.

Check for show times in your area:
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You’ll see from my colleagues Chris, Ramona, and Bob why Judicial
Watch is so successful. These experienced professionals and the rest
of the Judicial Watch team are part of the secret to our success to
holding the government accountable to the rule of law.

Until next week …

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton

Daywatch Updates

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Judicial Watch: Federal Judge Orders FBI to Search for Steele
Documents
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Judicial Watch recently announced that U.S. District Court Judge
Christopher Cooper orderedthe FBI to conduct a search within 60 days
for records of communications with former British spy and dossier
author Christopher Steele post-dating Steele’s service as an FBI
confidential source. In ordering the supplemental search for records,
Judge Cooper held:

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