IG reports show how President Trump is a crime victim.

[WEEKLY UPDATE]

COUP UPDATE: IMPEACHMENT ABUSE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP

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THE IMPEACHMENT VOTE FARCE

As I told the press today in a statement, the Judiciary Committee’s
vote on the articles of impeachment was both a tragedy and a farce.
Truly, it was a sad day for America because a grave injustice was
committed. There is no abuse of power by President Trump, however, it
is clear that abuses were committed against him by the DOJ, the State
Department, the FISA court, and certainly by Democrats in the
House.

This impeachment scam was corruptly formed and is being corruptly
pursued. A coup cabal has hijacked the House to violate the rights of
President Trump and undermine our constitutional republic. It is not
too late to “stop the coup.” Americans should call their members
of Congress to share their views on this wild attack on
self-government.

The House vote is set for next week, so contact your congressman ASAP.
You can find all the contact details here: www.house.gov
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THE FBI AND DOJ MASSIVELY VIOLATED THE LAW

As the coup proceeds against President Trump, the Justice
Department’s inspector general finally issued his report
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on
the Russiagate Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse this
week, and it provides abundant evidence that the FBI and DOJ massively
violated the law to obtain the Carter Page spy warrants targeting
President Trump.

As IG reports are both exposés and cover-ups at the same time, it is
no surprise that the IG punted on implicating senior officials
directly in the spy scandal.

President Trump should appoint a special counsel from outside of the
DOJ and FBI to investigate the Obama/Clinton/Deep State Spygate
scandal and other crimes that are in plain sight.

In the meantime, we will continue our dozens of FOIA lawsuits and
investigations, which have already revealed much of what is known
about Spygate – the biggest corruption scandal of all time.

Truth is, President Trump is actually the victim of a crime, as I
explain here
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and here
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The IG report
provided our team with many investigative leads – so you can be sure
that your Judicial Watch will continue to uncover more truths (and get
more accountability) on what is the worst corruption scandal in
American history.

COURT HEARING ON HOUSE DEMOCRAT IT AWAN BROS SCANDAL

While the House Democrat leadership fiddles with impeaching it
President, it is also has been long busy trying to squelch a serious
scandal involving the contractors who managed information technology
for top Democrats.

Now it seems that Deep State bureaucrats in the Justice Department are
sticking their heads in the sand as well. We’re not. We sued in
November 2018 to dig out the details, and this week we were in court
for a hearing on the matter.

U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta ordered
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the hearing in our lawsuit
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which we filed after the FBI failed to respond adequately to our two
separate FOIA requests (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice
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1:18-cv-02563)).

Our first request, filed on May 26, 2017, sought:

* All records related to any investigations or preliminary
investigations involving former congressional IT support staffers Abid
Awan, Imran Awan, Jamal Awan, and Hina R. Alvi. As part of this
request, searches should of records [sic] should include, but not be
limited to, the FBI automated indices, its older manual indices, and
its Electronic Surveillance (ELSUR) Data Management System (EDMS), as
well as cross-referenced files.
* All records of communication sent to or from FBI employees,
officials or contractors involving the subjects in bullet item 1.

We are seeking records from May 2015 to the present.

Our second request, submitted on July 3, 2018, sought:

* All records related to any investigations or preliminary
investigations involving former congressional IT support staffers Abid
Awan, Imran Awan, Jamal Awan, Hina R. Alvi and Rao Abbas. As part of
this request, searches of records should include, but not be limited
to, the FBI automated indices, its older manual indices, and its
Electronic Surveillance (ELSUR) Data Management System (EDMS), as well
as cross-referenced files.
* All records of communications, including but not limited to emails
(whether on .gov or non-.gov email accounts), text messages, instant
chats or messages on the Lync system, sent to or from FBI employees,
officials or contractors involving the Awan brothers, Ms. Alvi and Mr.
Abbas. Records of communications searched should include but not be
limited to those between FBI officials, employees and contractors and
officials with the Capitol Police, the Office of the Inspector General
of the House, and the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer of
the House.

In August 2019, the Justice Department told the court that it would
begin producing records by November 5, 2019. After producing no
records, the agency told us on November 13, 2019, that it was having
“technical difficulties,” and in a recent email claimed that,
“difficulties with the production remain.”

In a joint status report
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filed on December 5, 2019, we reported to the court that the DOJ
claimed in a phone call that it was now unable to produce any records
to either of the FOIA requests “because the agency was waiting for
some unspecified action by Judge [Tanya S.] Chutkan in some other
matter so as to avoid having to produce records in this case.” In
that same report the DOJ told the court that Judge Chutkan is
“presiding over a related sealed criminal matter” that prohibits
the government from releasing the requested FOIA information.
[Emphasis added]

At the court hearing today, the Court ordered the Justice Department
to provide, by January 10, an explanation to him on the issues
Judicial Watch raised.

Imran Awan and his family were banned from the House of
Representatives computer network in February 2017 after the House’s
top law enforcement officer wrote that Imran is “an ongoing and
serious risk
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to the
House of Representatives, possibly threatening the integrity of our
information systems,” and that a server containing evidence had gone
“missing.” The inspector general said server logs showed
“unauthorized access” and procurement records were falsified.
Imran Awan was Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s (D-FL) top
information technology aide. Most lawmakers fired Awan in February,
but Wasserman Schultz kept him on until he was arrested in July 2017
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trying to board a flight for Pakistan.

In July 2018, Imran Awan was given a plea deal, and pled guilty
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to federal bank fraud, but prosecutors found no evidence that Awan
“violated federal law with respect to the House computer systems.”

The Awan brothers reportedly
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“were not given background checks before being given access to
highly sensitive government information and no explanations have been
given as to why.” Additionally, “If they would have run this
background check it would have found out not only multiple criminal
convictions, but $1 million bankruptcy, a dozen lawsuits … it would
have found a whole host of major red flags and the Democrats didn’t
do any of those checks.”

This scandal is a matter of national security. It involves a cover-up
by House Democrat leadership and, now, the Deep State DOJ. We won’t
let this go.

NEW YORK BECOMES 13TH STATE TO GIVE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS DRIVER’S
LICENSES

Given the murders committed by a Saudi national in Pensacola this
week, and daily reports of violent crimes by illegal aliens across the
country, everyone is more alert to who comes into our country.
Everyone but New York state politicians, that is. Our _Corruption
Chronicles_ blog reports
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on that state’s move to make it easier for illegal aliens to reside
here in violation of the law:

This month New York will become the 13th state in the U.S. to give
illegal immigrants driver’s licenses, and officials in counties
throughout the Empire State warn they are not equipped to handle the
predicted onslaught. One state lawmaker is offering free care for the
children of illegal aliens who attend a workshop to help them navigate
the process of obtaining a license. More than half a million
undocumented immigrants are expected to qualify, and all they need is
an expired passport, consulate identification or license from their
country of citizenship.

Local Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) clerks throughout New York
are deeply concerned about their ability to authenticate the
unfamiliar documents—written in foreign languages—acceptable under
the new law to obtain a license. One county clerk in the state’s
eastern region said in a local news report
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that his office, which services a population of about 160,000, will
not issue licenses to illegal aliens and instead will let the state
deal with the applicants. “They want to us to make a decision right
at the window as to whether something is fraudulent or acceptable,”
Rensselaer County Clerk Frank Merola said in the article. “I’m not
going to make a major mistake.” In the state’s southern tier,
Chemung County Clerk Catherine Hughes blasted lawmakers for leaving
her and her colleagues to deal with the mess. “They don’t really
realize the ramifications that it causes by doing something like
this,” said Hughes, who serves a population of about 90,000.
“There are no set of rules and regulations on how to get it done.
And that puts us county clerks in a very precarious situation because
we don’t know how to do it.”

Officials in some New York counties have filed lawsuits to block the
measure, officially called the Driver’s license Access and Privacy
Act
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but popularly known as the Green Light Law, from being implemented. It
was passed by the legislature over the summer and signed by Governor
Andrew Cuomo after he was assured federal immigration officials would
not be able to obtain DMV records. That’s where the “privacy”
portion of the bill’s language comes in. Officials in several
counties—including Erie, Monroe and Rensselaer—are suing to thwart
the law, which is scheduled to take effect on December 14. New York
State Senator Julia Salazar
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a former
community organizer and proud member of the Democratic Socialists of
America, announced this week that she is holding an “informational
session”
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to guide illegal immigrants through the process of obtaining a
license. Free childcare will be provided, according to the
announcements, which were issued in English
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and Spanish
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Besides New York, a dozen states and the District of Columbia have
enacted laws to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s
licenses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures
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They include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii,
Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Vermont and Washington.
More than half of the states passed their measures in 2013. In 2019
several states—including Florida, Kansas, Minnesota and North
Carolina—introduced legislation to grant illegal aliens driver’s
licenses, but those haven’t been resolved and it’s not clear if
they’ll pass. This week the Department of Justice (DOJ) challenged
New York’s soon-to-be-implemented measure, writing in a federal
court filing that it conflicts with federal law.

New York is also undermining national security, according to a report
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published by a Washington D.C. think tank dedicated to researching
U.S. immigration policy. New York’s Green Light Law equips illegal
aliens and others with nefarious intentions with legitimate,
state-issued identification, prohibits federal authorities from using
information maintained by the state’s DMV and inhibits public safety
as well as immigration enforcement. “The federal government should
not simply surrender to the unreasonable and potentially
unconstitutional limitations imposed on federal immigration and local
law enforcement agencies by this law,” the Center for Immigration
Studies (CIS) writes in its extensive report, which includes ideas to
circumvent New York’s law. Among them is withholding federal funding
and taking legal action. Over the summer a federal appellate court
ruled
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that the Trump administration could withhold federal funding to local
governments that offer illegal immigrants sanctuary.

Until next week …



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