Posted on 08/03/2018 7:30:07 AM PDT by mandaladon
The Department of Justice is refusing to preserve work-related emails on former FBI Director James Comey’s private account. The Justice Department Inspector General disclosed that Comey used a personal email account to conduct agency business. The Justice Department has refused to turn over government records on Comey’s personal account, which The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch requested under the Freedom of Information Act. The Department of Justice has refused to take any steps to preserve work-related emails former FBI Director James Comey had on a personal account that The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch requested under the Freedom of Information Act, the conservative watchdog will file in court Friday.
“There is nothing but complete silence about why the FBI has failed to take steps to preserve records responsive to DCNF’s request,” Judicial Watch attorney Michael Bekesha will write in the filing before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Judicial Watch and TheDCNF filed a joint lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act on April 25 seeking records, including emails, Comey produced regarding meetings and conversations he had with then-President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden and a variety of other political figures.
Following the Justice Department Inspector General’s June 2018 report, which disclosed that Comey used a personal Gmail account for official FBI business, both groups sought a preservation order to assure no records related to their FOIA requests were lost or destroyed.
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Criminality wanna bet?
DC has infectious lerner-clinton email syndrome
How does Jeff Sessions still have a job???
The Deep State always protects itself.
Nothing that the NSA shouldn’t have a copy of...
The Swamp has learned it can break certain laws with impunity because the likes of Clapper and Brennan and Holder were never prosecuted for their crimes. And Clapper and Brennan could have been prosecuted by Sessions before the statute of limitations ran out - heck, it might still be in play for Brennan. So IMO Sessions is part of the Swamp.
The government lawlessness is outrageous.
If only Trump had not nominated a career politician for Attorney General....
Sessions is worse than useless.
“How does Jeff Sessions still have a job???”
That’s a very good question.
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Don’t forget that it is Sessions who is supposed to be in charge and Sessions needs to be held responsible for helping shield his fellow swamp dwellers. Terrible hire by Trump...
For those that work at private corporations: What would happen if the feds are investigating your company and they discover you have failed to preserve your internal emails from the time period in question?
i.e. we get to find out if these guys are above the law.
There’s no incentive or penalty compelling the DOJ or FBI to comply with Congress or groups like Judicial Watch.
Sessions is dirtier than a turd on the sidewalks of SF.
The DOJ demonstrates virtually every day that it is responsible to no one and, under Sessions’ leadership is an independent fourth branch of government. Maybe Trump could end all this, including DOJ defiance of Congress, but what would happen if they blew him off, too?
DOJ they name is corruption.
5.56mm
” which disclosed that Comey used a personal Gmail account for official FBI business, “
SO........ the reason they won’t go after Hillary for using a personal account for government business is because....
THEY WERE ALL DOING IT !
The FBI is a criminal organization with a code of omerta whose violence surpasses all others that carry a death penalty. Doubtful whether any US prosecutor will ever get a witness to talk no matter the stakes. Should anyone turn evidence their life is not worth a dime. They will be hunted worldwide no matter how long it takes. It frightening to study omerta’s history.
There is a precedence now. If you use external tools to conduct government work, you can do whatever you want with them.
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