Clinton Russiagate Spy Ring Update

[WEEKLY UPDATE]

FBI “FINDS” NEWS CLINTON EMAILS INCLUDE CLASSIFIED INFO AND
OFFICIAL BUSINESS IN TEXTS

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Remember when Hillary Clinton repeatedly stated that the 55,000 pages
she turned over to the State Department in December 2014 included all
of her work-related emails?

In response to a court order in a Judicial Watch case
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she declared under penalty of perjury that she had “directed that
all my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or are
potentially federal records be provided to the Department of State,
and on information and belief, this has been done.”

We’ve known for a while that this was not the case.

Now there’s more proof. We have released 37 pages
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of
new Clinton emails recently “found” by the FBI that show the
former secretary of state using her unsecure, non-government email to
transmit classified information. The new emails also show Clinton used
text messages for government business. The documents, which we
received after a review by the State Department, include 13 new
Clinton emails.

Here’s how poorly these emails were handled. The State Department
did not provide information about where they were found; why they were
not previously produced, or if additional records are anticipated.
Last month, a Justice Department attorney could not tell a federal
court judge
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how and where the FBI discovered the new cache of Clinton emails.

The State Department previously claimed it had produced all responsive
Clinton emails, including emails recovered by the FBI that Hillary
Clinton tried to destroy or withhold. The State Department initially
claimed all responsive emails had been produced in 2018, but then
found more emails, which were produced, for the first time, early last
year. Then in November 2019, the State Department first disclosed
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to
the court that the FBI had found this latest batch of emails.

The emails were produced thanks to our Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) lawsuit
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for
all of Clinton’s government emails sent or received on her secret
server system (_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State_
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(No.
1:15-cv-00687)). We sought:

> All emails sent and received by former Secretary of State Hillary
> Clinton in her official capacity as Secretary of State, as well as
> all emails by other State Department employees to Secretary Clinton
> regarding her non-“state.gov” email address.

Here’s what we found.

In an email
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Clinton’s
personal email, dated January 23, 2012, former-British Prime Minister
Tony Blair sends details that were redacted as classified.

In a email containing classified
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information
dated August 30, 2011, Jeffrey Feltman, then-Assistant Secretary for
the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs suggested Clinton meet Lebanese
Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Paris to talk about Syria and other
issues.

In an email
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exchange
on August 31, 2011, Clinton top aide Huma Abedin says she sent
Clinton “a couple text messages,” and offers to “send Monica
[Hanley] to hamptons to help you get organized.”

In an email
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sent
on April 10, 2012, Clinton forwards to her then-Deputy Chief of Staff
Jacob Sullivan a memo on the Egyptian election campaign that includes
information on the Muslim Brotherhood that she received from Sidney
Blumenthal
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In this memo, Blumenthal claims to have “Sources with access to the
highest levels of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Supreme Council
of the Armed Forces, and Western intelligence and security
services.”

On November 7, 2012, Mills forwards a classified
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email
chain with the subject “global health doc” to Clinton’s personal
email. The initial email, which included a draft of this document was
labeled and highlighted “Confidential fyi – not for larger
dissemination to ANY others.”

In an email
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dated
August 30, 2011, Clinton forwards to Sullivan, her top foreign policy
advisor, an intelligence memo on Libya that was sent to her earlier
by Blumenthal with the subject line, “H: Very good intel re: inside
NTC. Sid” NTC is the acronym for the Libyan National Transitional
Council. The State Department redacted Hillary Clinton’s comments
about the Blumenthal Libya memo.

In a heavily redacted email chain
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between
January 25-26, 2009, Clinton CCs her BlackBerry in a discussion about
an envoy to North Korea with her then-Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills,
and former State Department Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and
Arms Control Robert Einhorn. Einhorn sends Clinton, “several names
for [Clinton’s] consideration.” Clinton replies from her personal
email account.

After Einhorn responds, Clinton asks Mills privately to put Einhorn
and someone only identified as “Rose” “into transition space.”
She also asks that then-Senators John Kerry and Richard Lugar be on
call lists to “schedule the two of them.”

On February 18, 2009, Mills sends an email
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to
Clinton, Clinton’s BlackBerry and Abedin containing a message “For
HRC from [former Ambassador] Frank Wisner” about Clinton’s request
for his thoughts on her upcoming trip to Egypt.

On August 2, 2009, in an email
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with
the subject line “Feingold,” Huma Abedin sends to Clinton’s
personal email a memo from Russ Feingold about issues concerning
Somalia, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and
Nigeria. The memo also includes information on the Islamist militant
group, Boko Haram in Nigeria.

In an email
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dated
January 8, 2012, which included Clinton’s schedule, Abedin emails
Clinton’s main scheduler Lona Valmoro to check to see if Clinton
will have enough time to prep for her _Elle Magazine_ interview. She
also had an interview with Lisa DePaolo of _More_ magazine. That
same day, Clinton took five questions during her phone call with 200
personnel from the US Embassy in Kabul.

In an email
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dated
October 31, 2012, then-former-State Department Director of Policy
Planning, Anne-Marie Slaughter emailed Clinton’s personal email, as
well as Sullivan, Abedin, Mills, and Clinton innovation advisor Alec
J. Ross a document asking for State Department support for a satellite
channel that would “allow Syrians to talk to Syrians in a
citizen-controlled format.” Slaughter adds that she’s “made
contact with the Swedes” on this issue.

On November 4, 2012, Valmoro again sends Clinton’s sensitive daily
schedule
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to
Clinton and Abedin on the unsecure server.

What does all this mean? Magically, after years, the FBI finds more
Clinton emails that show Clinton used text messages for government
work, not to mention the continuing flow of classified information
transmitted over her unsecure email system. These documents further
underscore the need for a fresh, unbiased and thorough criminal
investigation into Clinton’s blatant malfeasance – and the related
DOJ, FBI, and State Department cover-up.

The production of documents in this case
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was to have been
concluded with the FBI’s recovery of approximately 5,000 of the
33,000 government emails Clinton took and tried to destroy, but, as
you see, this case is still in progress.

NEW STRZOK-PAGE EMAILS REVEAL DOJ SPECIAL TREATMENT OF CLINTON LAWYERS

It’s one thing to say that the FBI pretended to investigate Hillary
Clinton’s scandalous use of unsecure email. It is quite another to
see that even blatantly anti-Trump
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FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were disturbed by the special
treatment her lawyers received.

We just received 211 pages
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of emails between former FBI officials Strzok and Page that detail
special accommodations given to the lawyers of Hillary Clinton and her
aides during the FBI investigation of the Clinton email controversy.

The new emails include a discussion about negotiations with Beth
Wilkinson over the destruction of laptops provided to the FBI. Wilson
was a lawyer for the Clinton aides who gathered and then deleted
33,000 emails for Hillary Clinton.

We received the records in our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit
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filed after the Justice Department failed to respond to our December
4, 2017, FOIA request seeking communications, including but not
limited to, emails, text messages and instant chats, between FBI
official Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page (_Judicial Watch v.
U.S. Department of Justice_
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No.
1:18-cv-00154)). We are seeking:

* All records of communications, including but not limited to,
emails, text messages and instant chats, between FBI official Peter
Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page;
* All travel requests, travel authorizations, travel vouchers and
expense reports of Peter Strzok;
* All travel requests, travel authorizations, travel vouchers and
expense reports of Lisa Page.

The FBI is processing the records at a rate of only 500 pages per
month and has refused to process text messages. At this speed, the
production of these communications won’t be completed for almost
another two more years – in late 2021.

In an April 25, 2016, email
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from Strzok to FBI Agent Jonathan Moffa and other FBI officials,
Strzok indicated that Wilkinson and Hillary Clinton lawyer David
Kendall were set to meet the following day with FBI/DOJ in the
Counterespionage Section of the FBI. Strzok tells his colleagues,
“If you have strong objection (I do not other than finding out after
the DD [Deputy Director]), we should raise it now.” Moffa replies,
“It’s weird the DD [Andrew McCabe] is the first to know though.
When did that become the norm?” Strzok replies, “Since the
butthurt. I think there’s some passive aggressive stuff going on.
Whatever.”

On May 11, 2016, Strzok submitted
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a
“Wilkinson negotiation timeline” to Assistant Director for the
Counterintelligence Division Bill Priestap wherein he laid out
unspecified “negotiations” that had taken place between FBI/DOJ
and Wilkinson. Strzok noted that “We will have spent 34 days waiting
for opposing counsel to make the initial step of any tangible offer,
about which we have no idea of if it will be anywhere close to what we
have been specific about (at least since the Mills interview, if not
earlier by DoJ) wanting.” Mills refers to Cheryl Mills, a top
Clinton State Department official who then served as Clinton’s
private lawyer and led the Clinton email review and destruction.

In an April 8, 2016, email
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to
FBI officials, Strzok outlines questions for the FBI’s upcoming
interviews of Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson
“concerning their post-State employment.” Strzok then forwards the
email on to Page, Moffa and other unidentified persons, indicating
that the questions were prepared “in anticipation of potential need
for further discussion between the FBI and DOJ on the analysis of
attorney-client and attorney work product privileges and
protections.”

Heather Samuelson
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was the Clinton lawyer who deleted the 33,000 Clinton emails and was
one of several Obama-era State Department officials, lawyers, and
Clinton aides who were ordered by Judge Lamberth to provide answers
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under
oath to our questions about the Benghazi and Clinton email scandals.
Ms. Samuelson testified last year that the Justice Department also
gave her immunity.

On March 22, 2016, Strzok writes
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in
an email to Priestap, “[Redacted] indicated he feels a need (and I
agreed) to respond to Beth [Wilkinson] quickly about taking possession
of the laptops. She is fine to provide them to be destroyed, but not
to store them.”

On April 13, 2016, Strzok emailed Priestap and expressed concern
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about
“the content of that Baker-Wilkinson contact,” apparently
referring to a phone call between FBI General Counsel James Baker and
Wilkinson. Strzok told Priestap, “To the extent you can ask what
Jim’s contact was and ask that the investigative team be kept
abreast of contact with our DOJ counterparts, I would greatly
appreciate it.” Strzok forwarded the note to Page, saying, “You
still think I don’t have reason to be angry?”

On April 1, 2016, Strzok forwards
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to
Priestap, FBI Counterintelligence Division official Robert Jones,
Moffa and some unidentified FBI officials a _Politico_ report
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discussing
the highly unusual legal strategy of Wilkinson simultaneously
representing four of Hillary Clinton’s top aides in the email
scandal.

On March 23, 2016, Page emails
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Strzok
at 8:39 p.m. with the subject line “God, I’m in such a bad mood”
and said, “I really just hate everyone. Especially DOJ. ??????”

Strzok replies: “God me too! I’m trying to figure out why I’m in
a foul mood, I think it’s DoJ plus prospect of packing and travel
and late night all for bullsh*t meeting postponed and [redacted] and
wondering how Bill’s feeling. Got a weird too many people to
coordinate I’m punting to [redacted] message earlier this morning.
Why are you cranky? This stuff? The UC media provisions? Why did you
end up staying up so late? And hi. The only saving grace is the
glorious moon tonight.”

Page responds: “Just everything. Fighting with doj and internally on
uc policy (it’s back up to DD - I don’t want to hear about it).
[Redacted] I need an office closer to Andy, I need to clean my office,
I need to write my PAR. [Redacted]. Just proposed to Andy [McCabe]
that we have a pre-meet on Friday. Think we need it plus it will give
us an opportunity to skinny down the room if he thinks it’s too
big.”

Strzok replies: “Babe, that stinks across the board. I don’t have
an easy answer for you on the hours. If you can’t get out before 7
on a day he isn’t there, well, you’re going to have to give
somewhere. You definitely do need an office closer. Andy needs to do
that. There are at least 5 people I can think of who easily can go.
… Going to bed soon [redacted] United managed to f*ck up seat
assignments when they split the locator record, so that’s nice
[redacted].”

In her reply, Page discusses a meeting that would take place between
DOJ and FBI officials concerning the Hillary Clinton investigation,
writing, “I texted Andy pre-meet, he agreed, I called [redacted] to
ensure it gets on the calendar. I don’t care what Mike and Bill
think, you’re going to be there. I also talked to [redacted] about
skinnying up the room - right now we’ll have ELEVEN, which is
retarded.”

Strzok responds: “If it’s any consolation, I think doj will have 5
plus one on speaker phone.”

In a March 28, 2016, email
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from
Page to Strzok with the subject line “god, I’m frustrated,” Page
appears to refer back to the large FBI/DOJ meeting at which Beth
Wilkinson asserted a privilege over the Clinton’s lawyers sorting
and deleting of Clinton’s emails. Page writes Strzok, “And I’m
sorry, it is not obvious to me that the sort is opinion work product.
It should have been conducted by State department records managers,
and you wouldn’t even be in this position to be talking about
privilege. And to be clear, some opinion work product materials ‘do
not warrant heightened protection because, despite revelations they
contain as attorney’s though processes, lawyer has no justifiable
expectation that mental impressions revealed by materials will remain
private.’” Page ends the email saying, I AM IRRITATED.”

Strzok responds: “Hi. I am irritated too, but mostly exhausted;
I’m sure you’re more so after the morning you had. I’m glad you
made it to the meeting – was worried you might not. Obviously want
to talk about your impressions of the whole thing.”

On March 29, 2016, Strzok forwarded
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to
officials in the FBI General Counsel’s office as well as to Deputy
Assistant Director in the Counterintelligence Division Jonathan Moffa
an article
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from _The
Hill_ headlined “Second judge opens door to depositions in Clinton
email case” discussing Judge Royce Lamberth opening the door us to
take depositions
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from
government officials in our Benghazi talking points lawsuit.
Strzok’s comment in his cover email is redacted, as is the response
from the General Counsel’s office, under deliberative process.

On May 19, 2016, Strzok forwarded
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to
Priestap a _New York Times_ article
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discussing
a deposition we took of State Department official Lewis Lukens
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regarding
Clinton’s email case, and Strzok cut-and-pasted in particular
comments I made concerning the impact of Lukens’s testimony.

A paragraph from the article which Strzok pasted in the email read:
“But Mr. Fitton predicted that once the testimony is publicly
released — perhaps as early as next week — it would show ‘why
the State Department and Mrs. Clinton have slow-rolled this and
withheld a complete explanation of what went on with her email
system...’” Strzok acknowledges Lukens “plays a minor role but
appears in an email discussing setting up a computer on Mahogany row
where she could access private email which was seized upon by some
outside.” Strzok writes: “we have interviewed his boss Stephen
Mull and REDACTED both of which had greater involvement.” (We have
also deposed Amb. Mull
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It is quite apparent why the FBI is slow-rolling the release of these
Strzok-Page emails – as they dramatically show how senior officials
at the Obama DOJ and FBI gave special and favorable treatment to
Clinton and her lawyers. As the Obama Justice Department and FBI bent
over backwards to protect Hillary Clinton, these agencies broke every
law under the sun to spy on her political opponent, Donald J. Trump.

In November 2019, we made public records of communications
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between
Strzok and Page showing that Wilkinson was given a meeting with Baker
and McCabe. Also, we uncovered records
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revealing
that, after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statement
denying the transmission of classified information over her unsecure
email system, former FBI official Peter Strzok sent an email to FBI
officials citing “three [Clinton email] chains” containing (C)
[classified] portion marks in front of paragraphs.”

In June 2019, we received records
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from
the Department of Justice that show FBI top officials scrambling to
write a letter to Congress to supplement then-Director James Comey’s
Senate testimony in an apparent attempt to muddle his message.

In a related case, we uncovered 277 pages
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of
redacted records that show the FBI failed to produce information from
an August 2015 meeting with the Intelligence Community Inspector
General about Hillary Clinton’s email server. The FBI claimed that
notes are “missing” and the CD containing notes from the meeting
is likely “damaged” irreparably.

Also in June 2019, we released emails
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of
Strzok and Page that show then-FBI General Counsel James Baker
instructing FBI officials to expedite the release of FBI investigative
material to Kendall, in August 2016. Kendall and the FBI’s top
lawyer discussed specifically quickly obtaining the “302” report
of the FBI/DOJ interview of Clinton.

In February 2019, we uncovered records
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from
the Department of Justice that include emails documenting an evident
cover-up of a chart of potential violations of law by former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton. We also received records
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from
the U.S. Department of Justice revealing former FBI General Counsel
James Baker discussed the investigation of Clinton-related emails on
Anthony Weiner’s laptop with Kendall. Baker then forwarded the
conversation to his FBI colleagues. The documents also further
describe a previously reported quid pro quo from the Obama State
Department offering the FBI more legal attaché positions if it would
downgrade a redaction in an email found during the Hillary Clinton
email investigation “from classified to something else.”

There is a mountain of evidence, uncovered by Judicial Watch, that
show AG Barr and FBI Director Wray have every reason to reopen the
Clinton email investigation.

STATE DEPARTMENT HANDLER FOR CLINTON SPY STEELE USED PERSONAL EMAIL TO
PUSH REPORTS

It seems that people in Obama’s State Department other than Hillary
Clinton were oblivious, to put it charitably, to the fact that using
personal email for government business is a security risk and can also
thwart federal recordkeeping laws.

This week we uncovered the use of personal email by a State Department
official involved with the notorious British spy whose fictional
dossier became the centerpiece of the coup against Donald Trump.

In our lawsuit filed together with The Daily Caller News Foundation we
uncovered 11 pages
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of State Department documents revealing a discussion about the use of
private email to transmit potentially sensitive information from
Christopher Steele, the author of the Clinton-funded, anti-Trump
dossier.

We obtained the documents in a Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) lawsuit
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filed
on April 25, 2018, on behalf the Daily Caller News Foundation against
the State Department after it failed to respond to three separate FOIA
requests (_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State_
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(No.
1:18-cv- 00968)). The lawsuit seeks:

* All records of communications between State Department officials,
including former Secretary of State John Kerry, former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, and Assistant Secretary of State Victoria
Nuland, on the one hand, and British National Christopher Steele
and/or employees or contractors of Steele’s company, Orbis Business
Intelligence, on the other hand.
* All records and/or memoranda provided by Christopher Steele and/or
his firm Orbis Business Intelligence or by others acting on
Steele’s/Orbis’s behalf to State Department officials.
* Any and all records in the custody of the State Department related
to the provision of documents to British national Christopher Steele
and/or his firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, or the receipt of
documents from Steele or his firm. Time period is January 20, 2009
through the present.
* All records created in 2016 by Jonathan M. Winer relating to
research compiled by Christopher Steele.

Here’s the story.

On December 8, 2014, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European
Affairs Paul Jones suggests to Special Coordinator for Libya Jonathan
Winer that he “flip” reports from Steele’s firm, Orbis Business
Intelligence, to a more secure
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email
system, “given our ongoing concerns about security of opennet
…”

Jones added, “We just want to be sure we don’t inadvertently
undermine a very good source of info or worse.” Winer responds,
“Flipping to the high side will result in delays whenever the
reporting takes place and I am out of the office, which includes
weekends plus when I am overseas…”

Then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland replies, “Let’s
do high side.”

Winer replies that he would, “have [his assistant] Nina Miller send
them to you on my behalf high side … I will send them to her from my
non-State email account, not copying myself. She will then send them
to us. You know who they are coming from, so even high side from here
I will just refer to them as ‘O Reports,’ and strip out any other
identifying information as to sourcing.”

On February 9, 2016, a heavily redacted email exchange with the
subject, “Urgent -- [redacted]” begins with an email
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from
Justin Siberell, former-Principal Deputy Coordinator of the State
Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau to multiple senior State
Department officials including Winer. In this exchange, Siberell
mentions that they are “meeting later today with OSD/SOLIC
[redacted].” OSD/SOLIC is the office run by the Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict.

Siberell notes that the “DOD will work on press guidance and a
strategic messaging plan that will be cleared with/through State,”
which implies that it is a matter of public relations concern.

Later in the redacted discussion, Winer changes the distribution list
and writes, “For this group only – [redacted]”. Secretary John
Kerry’s Chief of Staff Jonathan Finer responds, “As Jonathan
predicted [redacted].”

One of the other recipients, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe,
John Heffern, then forwards the entire exchange to two colleagues,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Europe, Conrad Tribble
and then-Office Director for Western European Affairs, Robin Quinville
saying, “Do not circulate widely.”

Tribble replies the next day asking Heffern and Quinville, “Anything
further on this? No real action for EUR [State Department’s Bureau
of Europe and Eurasian Affairs] yet, but obviously of some concern.”

Said Neil Patel, publisher and CEO of the Daily Caller News
Foundation: “The Obama State Department's handling of the Steele
dossier remains one of the great mysteries of the Russia probe. We
still do not have all the answers about how the State Department used
opposition research collected by a foreign spy regarding President
Trump and his campaign. These documents, obtained through our lawsuit
filed together with Judicial Watch, raises further questions about
what exactly went on at Foggy Bottom.”

No wonder Jonathan Winer, Steele’s ally at the State
Department, refused to talk
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to the DOJ
IG. He seems to have circumvented the rules in pushing Steele’s
unreliable reports to his Obama State Department colleagues. Our
lawsuits have documented that the Obama-Kerry State Department was a
hotbed of anti-Trump activity. AG Barr and US Attorney Durham would
do well to focus like a laser on the State Department.

Here is some background.

We recently released 146 pages
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of
documents revealing that Steele had an extensive and close working
relationship dating back to May of 2014 with high-ranking Obama State
Department officials including Winer and Nuland. We also
uncovered documents
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showing that less than a month before the presidential inauguration
Winer had a 10-minute phone call with Alexey Vladimirovich Skosyrev,
the “political chief” at the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC.

In July 2019, we released 84 pages
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of
documents revealing an email exchange between Nuland and Winer,
discussing a “face-to-face” meeting on a “Russian matter” in
New York in September 2016.

In June 2019 we released 41 pages
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of
documents from the State Department revealing that Winer played a key
role in facilitating Steele’s access to other top government
officials and prominent international business executives. Winer was
even approached by a movie producer about making a movie about the
Russiagate targeting of President Trump.

In May 2019, our FOIA lawsuit produced
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information
from the DOJ showing a conversation between former Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
Kathleen Kavalec and Bruce Ohr, discussing the targeting of Donald
Trump with Steele dossier material. In discussing a meeting with the
potential source for a Mother Jones article accusing the Trump
campaign of taking money from a Russian-American oil magnate, as well
as Steele’s connection to that source, Kavalec emails Ohr citing the
accusatory Mother Jones article. Ohr says, “I really hope we can
get something going here.”

Also, we obtained an email
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revealing
that Nellie Ohr, wife of Bruce Ohr, informed him that she was deleting
emails sent from his DOJ email account. The full email exchange
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is
between Bruce Ohr, Lisa Holtyn, Nellie Ohr, and Stefan Bress, a first
secretary at the German Embassy, and is part of 339 pages
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of
heavily redacted records from the U.S. Department of Justice.

In March 2019, we uncovered emails
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from
Bruce Ohr showing that he remained in regular contact with former
British spy and Fusion GPS contractor Steele after Steele was
terminated
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by
the FBI in November 2016 for revealing to the media his position as an
FBI confidential informant. The records show that Ohr served as a
go-between for Steele by passing along information to “his
colleagues” on matters relating to Steele’s activities. Ohr also
set up meetings with Steele, regularly talked to him on the telephone
and provided him assistance in dealing with situations Steele was
confronting with the media.

We broke this story and, as you can see, we aren’t letting it go.

NEARLY ALL ARRESTED ILLEGAL ALIENS HAD CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS OR CHARGES

Although President Trump is trying to improve security at the border,
in its currently porous state there isn’t a good filter for keeping
out the bad guys. Countries south of us aren’t always sending us
their best and brightest. Sometimes not their most law-abiding either.
We’re at the point at which it’s fair to question the motives of
those who favor throwing open our borders and setting up sanctuaries
for those who cross.

Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog reports
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how those coming in are threats to our safety.

> More than 90% of illegal immigrants arrested by federal agents in
> the United States last year had criminal convictions or pending
> criminal charges, including 56,000 assaults and thousands of sex
> crimes, robberies, homicides and kidnappings. Many had “extensive
> criminal histories with multiple convictions,” according to
> Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) year-end report
>
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> The 123,128 illegal aliens arrested by the agency’s Enforcement
> and Removal Operations (ERO) in 2019 had 489,063 criminal
> convictions and pending charges, representing an average of four
> crimes per alien, highlighting the “recidivist nature” of the
> arrested aliens, the agency writes, noting that sanctuary cities
> nationwide greatly impeded its public safety efforts.

> The Dallas ICE field office, which covers north Texas and Oklahoma,
> led the way with 16,900 arrests
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> in fiscal year 2019. The overwhelming majority,12,578, were
> convicted of crimes and 3,499 had pending criminal charges. The
> Atlanta field office, which is responsible for enforcing immigration
> law in Georgia as well as South and North Carolina, ranked second
> with 13,247 arrests, 8,009 of them convicted for state crimes.
> Another 3,943 illegal aliens had pending criminal charges. Atlanta
> field office leadership has repeatedly blasted local law enforcement
> officials within its jurisdiction for releasing droves of illegal
> immigrant criminals back onto the streets after being jailed for
> serious state crimes, accusing the sanctuary jurisdictions of
> creating a “serious public safety threat
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> In North Carolina alone, hundreds of violent criminals were released
>
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> by local authorities last year to honor measures that offer illegal
> immigrants sanctuary. Among them were illegal aliens charged with
> serious violations such as homicide, kidnapping, arson and sex
> offenses. Mecklenburg County, the state’s largest, was among the
> biggest offenders, releasing numerous violent criminals rather than
> turn them over to federal authorities for removal. Among them was a
> previously deported Honduran charged with rape and child sex crimes.
> The perpetrator, 33-year-old Oscar Pacheco-Leonardo, was freed by
> the county sheriff, who has kept his campaign promise
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> protect illegal immigrants from the feds. In Buncombe County, North
> Carolina the elected sheriff recently freed a child sex offender
>
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> to keep with his county’s sanctuary policy. The Salvadoran
> national, a registered sex offender charged with four felony counts
> of statutory sex with an 11-year-old girl, had been in ICE’s radar
> for years.

> The Tar Heel State is hardly alone in making ICE’s enforcement
> duties more difficult by protecting the most violent of illegal
> immigrants. Police nationwide are contributing to the crisis,
> refusing to participate in a local-federal partnership known
> as 287(g)
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> inmates in the country illegally so they can be deported after
> serving time for state crimes. Instead, a growing number of law
> enforcement agencies are releasing the illegal aliens——many with
> serious convictions such as child sex offenses, rape and
> murder—rather than turn them over to federal authorities for
> removal. In California various police departments released
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> 16 illegal immigrants with criminal records during a three-month
> period, some arrested and released multiple times by the same
> agency. Offenders include Mexican, Honduran and Salvadoran nationals
> charged with murder, rape, assault with a deadly weapon, spousal
> abuse, driving under the influence of alcohol, possession of illegal
> drugs and other serious crimes.

> ICE still managed to deport some after scooping them up in targeted
> operations. Last year ICE removed 5,497 known or suspected gang
> members and 58 known or suspected terrorists. Just this month, ICE
> arrested a previously deported
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> illegal immigrant released by local authorities in a fatal hit and
> run that killed a 35-year-old woman on Christmas eve. The Mexican
> national, 27-year-old Jorge Flores-Villalba, was arrested and
> released by Stony Point Town Police in New York. ICE’s New York
> Field Office Director, Thomas Decker, blasted Stony Point officials
> in a statement
>
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> “Creating laws and policies that prevent cooperation between law
> enforcement agencies just to promote their political agenda, places
> the safety of the public in danger,” he said. “Due to the hard
> work of our officers, we were able to find and arrest this accused
> criminal, but there are countless others who are released without
> ICE even knowing, or whom it may take a great amount of resources to
> find for arrest.”

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