Let's Wrap This Baby Up, Folks!
Posted on 12/03/2018 11:07:55 AM PST by jazusamo
(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice seeking records of all meetings in 2016 between former FBI General Counsel James Baker and the Perkins Coie law firm. The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reportedly paid Fusion GPS to create the “ salacious and unverified ” Clinton-DNC anti-Trump dossier.
The lawsuit cites a specific media report that FBI top lawyer Baker met with Perkins Coie lawyers to discuss allegations of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. The meeting reportedly took place weeks before the 2016 election and before the FBI secured a controversial FISA spy warrant targeting then-candidate Trump’s campaign.
Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the DOJ failed to respond to an October 9, 2018, FOIA request ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-02617)) seeking:
All records concerning any and all meetings between former FBI general counsel James Baker and one or more attorneys from Perkins Coie, the Democratic National Committee’s private law firm during 2016.
On October 4, 2018, Fox News reported that Baker told congressional investigators that Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann “initiated contact with him and provided documents and computer storage devices on Russian hacking.” The contact was made in late 2016 as federal investigators prepared a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
At the time, Perkins Coie had hired opposition research firm Fusion GPS to dig into President Trump’s background. Fusion GPS paid British ex-spy Christopher Steele to compile the anti-Trump dossier, memos from which were shared with the FBI in the summer of 2016.
The DNC and Clinton campaign’s funding of the unverified dossier was revealed in a memo from House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes which was disclosed publicly on February 2, 2018.
According to an October 24, 2017, report , Perkins Coie lawyer Marc E. Elias retained Fusion GPS in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC: “The Clinton campaign and DNC, through the law firm, continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day.” Fusion GPS gave Steele’s dossier and other research documents to Elias.
“The real collusion scandal is the hand-in-hand effort by the Clinton campaign and the Obama DOJ/FBI to spy upon and destroy Donald J. Trump,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “The FBI, pulled by the troika of Comey/McCabe/Strzok, became an arm of the Clinton campaign. And our new lawsuit aims to get to the bottom of the massive scandal.”
A Clinton/FBI BBQ ?
God bless JW!!
the truth will be told.
Off the Wall Ping!
Contact to be added.
Let's Wrap This Baby Up, Folks!
I thought there was a Special Prosecutor looking into 2016 campaign irregularities?
Spit.
Has Judicial Watch ever won anything?....I’m being honest and inquisitive here. Not being a smart azz....they’ve been around forever.
The fbi is the biggest and most powerful MOB owned and operated by the democrats.
Fitton has actually accomplished a few things, Klaymouth did nothing but run his mouth & give himself a salary.
JW has won many FOIA lawsuits against government entities forcing the release of much info as well as filing amicus briefs on cases regarding conservative issues.
only against trump the other side can do no wrong..
only against trump the other side can do no wrong..
Bttt.
5.56mm
Sweet! Go Tommy Two-Guns!!!
Judicial Watch doing the jobs Congress won’t do.
Judicial Watch does what the Justice Department does not.
To the best of my knowledge, JW has had some pretty good wins. I don’t have links, but perhaps other FReepers can remember specifics.
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