Posted on 02/21/2019 8:12:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
As I fight on with my computer intrusion lawsuit against the U.S. government, it seems to intersect more clearly with current events every day. And it points to an even larger story.
How widespread is improper government surveillance of journalists, politicians and other U.S. citizens in the name of the fight against terrorism? A few of us found out we were targeted only because we were lucky enough to be alerted by inside sources or other unique ways. How many others were targeted, monitored and watched by government officials but still have no idea it happened?
Who is behind the move to use government surveillance tools against innocent Americans? Do some of these officials still work inside the government? Were some of them the very same officials now implicated in alleged surveillance abuses during Campaign 2016?
The Case
In late January, an appeals court heard oral arguments in my federal lawsuit, now entering its fourth year. A panel of three judges will determine what happens next. Here are several possible outcomes:
1. The judges side with us. They determine that former Attorney General Eric Holder is not entitled to immunity from lawsuits such as mine. They decide that we had adequate time in discovery to learn the identities of the “John Doe” federal agents who conducted the remote computer intrusions and surveillance. The case returns to U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia where we resume our longstanding attempts to get the Department of Justice to properly respond to document subpoenas, which they have so far failed to do.
2. The judges side with the Department of Justice. They determine that Holder and other federal officials enjoy immunity from my lawsuit.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Option #3. Ruled against and appealed.
Option #4. Special Counsel Mueller ends his investigation and then all hell breaks loose as the real investigations begin.
Good Luck Sharyl
If the Democratic Socialists push for the revocation of the Patriot Act, there’d be a willing audience across the political spectrum.
The dark state beast is great in power. Funded by trillions of our dollars.
I would not be surprised if pretty much everyone who regularly posts on conservative websites is on some sort of watch list.
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theguardian.com Circa 2013
The Justice Department did more than seize a Fox News reporter’s emails while suggesting he was a criminal “co-conspirator” in a leak case — it did so under one of the most serious wartime laws in America, the Espionage Act. It is now well known that the Obama justice department has prosecuted more government leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined - in fact, double the number of all such prior prosecutions. But as last week’s controversy over the Obama DOJ’s pursuit of the phone records of AP reporters illustrated, this obsessive fixation in defense of secrecy also targets, and severely damages, journalists specifically and the news-gathering process in general.
New revelations emerged yesterday in the Washington Post that are perhaps the most extreme yet when it comes to the DOJ’s attacks on press freedoms. It involves the prosecution of State Department adviser Stephen Kim, a naturalized citizen from South Korea who was indicted in 2009 for allegedly telling Fox News’ chief Washington correspondent, James Rosen, that US intelligence believed North Korea would respond to additional UN sanctions with more nuclear tests - something Rosen then reported. Kim did not obtain unauthorized access to classified information, nor steal documents, nor sell secrets, nor pass them to an enemy of the US. Instead, the DOJ alleges that he merely communicated this innocuous information to a journalist - something done every day in Washington - and, for that, this arms expert and long-time government employee faces more than a decade in prison for “espionage”.
The focus of the Post’s report yesterday is that the DOJ’s surveillance of Rosen, the reporter, extended far beyond even what they did to AP reporters. The FBI tracked Rosen’s movements in and out of the State Department, traced the timing of his calls, and - most amazingly - obtained a search warrant to read two days worth of his emails, as well as all of his emails with Kim. In this case, said the Post, “investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.” It added that “court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist”.
But what makes this revelation particularly disturbing is that Obama's DOJ, in order to get this search warrant, insisted that Fox's Rosen - a journalist - committed serious crimes. The DOJ specifically argued that by encouraging his source to disclose classified information - something investigative journalists do every day - Rosen himself broke the law.
Obama needs to be brought to justice and probably a firing squad.
Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Comey, Clapper and Obongo’s “muses” are all up to their ears in criminal activities from what I have read.
I am not an attorney like Ms. Attkisson, and I’m sure she would be appalled by the suggestion that it’s time for We the People to address the rampant prosecutorial misconduct found in contemporary DOJ cases. Perhaps on May Day we can show up on the DC Courthouse steps protesting the acts of violence by the DOJ against We the People. Signs might point to the Saudi perps’ disappearance before arrest to Mannafort’s solitary confinement; killing a mother holding her child at Ruby Ridge and the amphibious assault on Stone’s residence; the prima fascia evidence of leaking a sealed indictment to CNN; and I’m sure Freepers can add to this list.
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This is very interesting. Is there a link?
Sessions could have refused to defend this case and settled. Holder’s dirty deeds would have justly become public. We might also now be further along with dismissing the deep-rooted bad actors at DoJ and the FBI.
“How widespread is improper government surveillance of journalists, politicians and other U.S. citizens in the name of the fight against terrorism?”
It amazes me that otherwise intelligent people still ask questions like this. We know with certainty that ALL communications are monitored by the government. We are ALL under surveillance. All it takes is for them to gin up some flimsy excuse about how we might be connected to someone who is connected to someone who is connected to a terrorist and they can just pull up all the surveillance records that already exist on us in their databases.
RE: This is very interesting. Is there a link?
Sorry, missed the link:
I would not be surprised if pretty much everyone who regularly posts on conservative websites is on some sort of watch list.
I read the entire article.
You can’t just print a brief and submit it to the court. It has to be bound, and only special companies can do it.
Print it at home and bind it: $30.
Use one of the companies the court says you have to use: $4,300.
Now that right thar was funny! And sadly, true!
I am a lifelong conservative. When I heard the names, Patriot Act and Homeland Security, I felt I had been warped into an alternate dimension of 1939 Germany. They gave me chills: not the good kind.
Bureaucracies exist to create ways to extort money. That is why Democrats want to regulate everything: control and money - fees and fines.
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