Happy Thanksgiving!

[WEEKLY UPDATE]

THE FBI UNCOVERS EVEN MORE CLINTON EMAILS

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The government malfeasance in the Clinton email scandal is seeming
never-ending.

The State Department just confessed to a court
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that
FBI found more Clinton emails that were then over to State for review.
In the November 15, 2019 filing, the State Department informs the
court that the FBI located additional Clinton emails that potentially
had not been previously released:

> [T]he Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) recently sent [the
> State Department] additional documents as part of the ongoing
> inter-agency consultation process in connection with other FOIA
> litigation. [The State Department] is working to determine whether
> that set of documents includes any responsive, non-duplicative
> agency records that have not already been processed. [The State
> Department] will promptly update [Judicial Watch] and the Court once
> that initial review is complete.
The FBI filed this court ordered joint status report in response to
our May 6, 2015, FOIA lawsuit
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(_Judicial
Watch v. U.S. Department of State_
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(No.
1:15-cv-00687)). Our FOIA lawsuit seeks all emails sent and received
by Hillary Clinton and other records about her non-governmental email
account.

Earlier this year, Judicial Watch announced that it received 756 pages
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of emails that were among the materials Clinton tried to delete or
destroy, several of which were classified and were transmitted over
her unsecure, non-“state.gov” email system. This production was
supposed to be the final production of Clinton emails. Judicial
Watch estimates that the FBI being only able to recover or find
approximately 5,000, including classified material, of the 33,000
government emails Clinton removed and tried to destroy. The FBI
uncovered 72,000 pages
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of documents Clinton attempted to delete or did not otherwise
disclose.

Now again, it appears the FBI has uncovered more Clinton email
documents.

You may recall that last week we released FBI emails
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showing
that the FBI’s top lawyer gave deferential treatment to the attorney
representing Hillary Clinton’s top aides implicated in the mass
deletion of Clinton’s emails.

So it is astonishing news that the FBI mysteriously found more Clinton
emails. Were they on Anthony Weiner’s laptop? At James Comey’s
house? Or on Peter Strzok’s cell phone? This disturbing development
further highlights how the fix was in on the Clinton email scandal and
why a criminal investigation needs to be reopened by Attorney General
Barr.

In separate Judicial Watch FOIA litigation, a federal court will soon
rule
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on
whether Hillary Clinton and her top aide can be questioned under oath
by our lawyers about the email and Benghazi controversies. The court
has already granted us additional discovery.

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. The court specifically 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.” (This Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit led
directly
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to
the disclosure of the Clinton email system in 2015.)

When Hillary Clinton’s people used
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software called BleachBit to destroy her emails so that “even God
can’t read them,” as Rep. Trey Gowdy put it, she must have thought
she was rid of this threat of incrimination for good. I’ll let you
know what is this latest batch as soon as we find out…

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR DETAILS THE CENSUS BUREAU PLAN TO HIRE FOREIGN
NATIONALS

As we have seen repeatedly in recent days with military and national
security officials, the unelected administrative state is acting under
the assumption that its predilections are law and not to be
questioned.

Now the Census Bureau is playing the game. The conduct of the census
is serious business. And we’re taking its actions seriously.

We filed a FOIA suit on against the Commerce Department for Census
Bureau records concerning the agency’s hiring of non-U.S. citizens
to help conduct the 2020 Census (_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of
Commerce
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_(No.
1:19-cv-03433)).

We sued after the Census Bureau delayed responding to a September 12,
2019, FOIA request for more than two months. We sued for:

* Records about the temporary hiring of non-citizens to help conduct
the 2020 decennial census.
* Records relating to efforts to ensure any such hires are
permanent, legal U.S. residents.

We made our request based on a report titled “Census Bureau Seeks
to Hire Non-U.S. Citizens Ahead of 2020
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published on August 6, 2019 by U.S. News & World Report. Federal law
generally prohibits the government from hiring of non-citizens, but
according to the report, Census Bureau officials believe the law
afford them “flexibilities”:

> “There are [citizenship] flexibilities within the Appropriation
> Act that would permit, for example, based on language requirements,
> some exemptions,” says Tim Olson, associate director for field
> operations at the Census Bureau. “We are actively working through
> those flexibilities to see if they can be used in 2020. We are not
> there yet.”

> Asked whether the bureau planned to employ people living in the
> country illegally [emphasis added], a spokesman said, “There is
> nowhere in our legal flexibilities that refers to people we could
> possibly hire as ‘'illegal.’” When pressed as to whether it's
> an option under the current law, the spokesman repeatedly demurred,
> saying that the term “noncitizen” encompasses “anyone who is
> not a U.S. citizen.”
The Census Bureau twice asked us to clarify the request. When we did
so in response to the first request, the Census Bureau sent a second,
identical clarification request that even included the same typos as
the first. After a telephone conference and at least two more rounds
of discussions, the Census Bureau still has not indicated whether it
will process the straightforward request.

The bureaucratic runaround we received from the Census Bureau on its
potentially illegal hiring of aliens to help conduct the census is
remarkable—and not in a good way. We simply want the documents so
the public can be reassured that the census is being run according to
law.

COMMUNISTS WORKING IN U.S. STEAL BILLIONS IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

While our intelligence agencies, particularly the FBI, have focused on
unseating a duly elected U.S. president, they have assiduously avoided
their real jobs: protecting our country from our enemies abroad. Be
clear about this: war today is information war, and critical
information is being stolen from us as the FBI and to much of DC focus
dully on the Russia and related Ukraine hoaxes.

Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog has the story
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> Billions of dollars in scientific research funded by American
> taxpayers has been stolen by China right under our noses, and the
> U.S. government has no plan to stop the ongoing theft of the highly
> valued intellectual property. In the meantime the publicly-funded
> work is helping the Communist nation meet its goal of becoming a
> world leader in science and technology, according to a scathing
> report published by the U.S. Senate. “This report exposes how
> American taxpayer funded research has contributed to China’s
> global rise over the last 20 years,” the document states.
> “During that time, China openly recruited U.S.-based researchers,
> scientists, and experts in the public and private sector to provide
> China with knowledge and intellectual capital in exchange for
> monetary gain and other benefits.”

> While the Chinese Communists run their illicit operation on our own
> soil, the federal government’s grant-making and law enforcement
> agencies sit by and let it happen. This includes the Federal Bureau
> of Investigation (FBI), the vast law enforcement agency charged with
> protecting and defending the U.S. against terrorist attacks, foreign
> intelligence threats and espionage, cyber-based attack and
> high-technology crimes. None of the government agencies impacted by
> the costly crimes have bothered to develop a coordinated response to
> mitigate the ongoing threat, Senate investigators found. “These
> failures continue to undermine the integrity of the American
> research enterprise and endanger our national security,” the
> report says.

> China uses hundreds of government-funded talent recruitment plans to
> incentivize individuals engaged in research and development in the
> U.S. to transmit information in exchange for salaries, research
> funding, lab space and other perks. The Communists then use the
> American research for their own economic and military gain, Senate
> investigators say. The report includes specific examples provided by
> federal agencies that discovered Chinese talent recruitment members
> who downloaded sensitive electronic research files before returning
> to China, submitted false information when applying for grant funds
> and willfully failed to disclose receiving money from the Chinese
> government on U.S. grant applications. One Chinese talent
> recruitment member removed 30,000 electronic files before heading
> back home. Another filed a patent based on U.S. government-funded
> research and hired other Chinese recruitment plan members to work on
> American national security projects. “One Chinese talent
> recruitment plan member stole proprietary defense information
> related to U.S. military jet engines,” the report states.
> “Others have contractually agreed to give Chinese institutions
> intellectual property rights that overlapped with research conducted
> at U.S. institutions.”

> The U.S. government spends more than $150 billion annually on
> scientific research by funding work at agencies such as the National
> Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and
> the Department of Energy’s (DOE) national laboratories. The NSF,
> for instance, funds about 27% of all basic research at U.S. colleges
> and universities where theft of intellectual property by the Chinese
> is pervasive. The NIH invests north of $31 billion annually on
> medical research through tens of thousands of competitive grants
> awarded to hundreds of thousands of candidates. As the largest
> federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences, the DOE
> awards a whopping $6.6 billion in grants and contracts each year to
> tens of thousands of researchers at hundreds of institutions. Each
> of these agencies has been deeply impacted by Chinese infiltrators
> stealing valuable research, according to the extensive Senate probe.
> This has been going on for decades.

> In fact, more than 20 years ago Judicial Watch helped expose a
> Chinese Communist scientist (Wen Ho Lee), who stole nuclear secrets
> from the Los Alamos National Laboratory
>
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in New Mexico, among the
> world’s largest science institutions and the nation’s key
> nuclear weapons research facility. The Bill Clinton Justice
> Department refused to prosecute Lee because then Attorney General
> Janet Reno claimed the accusations against him were
> racist. Judicial Watch represented the whistleblower
>
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> Notra Trulock, responsible for launching an investigation into
> Lee’s actions. Trulock was the DOE’s intelligence operations
> chief and Clinton administration officials defamed him by accusing
> him of being a racist to cover up Lee’s repeated and embarrassing
> security violations.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I’d to again this year to recall what life was like for the Pilgrims
who arrived on these shores in December of 1620. As the Plimoth
Plantation
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describes
it:

> Many of the colonists fell ill. They were probably suffering from
> scurvy and pneumonia caused by a lack of shelter in the cold, wet
> weather. Although the Pilgrims were not starving, their sea-diet was
> very high in salt, which weakened their bodies on the long journey
> and during that first winter. As many as two or three people died
> each day during their first two months on land. Only 52 people
> survived the first year in Plymouth. When Mayflower left Plymouth
> on April 5, 1621, she was sailed back to England by only half of her
> crew.
Nevertheless, a year after their arrival they sat down for a feast of
thanksgiving. They had befriended and made a treaty of mutual
protection with the Pokanoket Wampanoag leader, Ousamequin, also known
as Massasoit to the Pilgrims.

In the fall of 1621, the colonists marked their first harvest with a
three-day celebration. Massasoit and 90 of his men joined the English
for feasting and entertainment. In the 1800s this famous celebration
became the basis for the story of the First Thanksgiving.

It would be easy to focus on the passing difficulties of our time,
especially for those of us who fight daily to preserve the God-given
liberties that have blessed this land since the time of the Pilgrims.
But, as they did, we must pause to reflect on all that is good and on
the Source of this goodness.

I am particularly fond of a hymn
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popularly
associated with Thanksgiving Day and often sung at family meals and
religious services on this day, having been brought to America by
Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam, now New York City. It was written by
Adrianus Valerius and is entitled _“Wilt Heden Nu Treden” (“We
Gather Together.”)_


> We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;
>
> He chastens and hastens His will to make known.
>
> The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.
>
> Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own.
>
> Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
>
> Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine;
>
> So from the beginning the fight we were winning;
>
> Thou, Lord, were at our side, all glory be Thine!
>
> We all do extol Thee, Thou Leader triumphant,
>
> And pray that Thou still our Defender will be.
>
> Let Thy congregation escape tribulation;
>
> Thy Name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!

All of us at Judicial Watch wish you and yours a most blessed
Thanksgiving!

Until next week,





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