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| Judicial Watch Sues CIA, DOJ For Intel Leak Records: "President Trump Is On To Something" |
| 2017-03-07 |
| [Zero Hedge] Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the United States Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury regarding records related to the investigation of retired United States Army Lieutenant General Michel Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak (Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency et al. (No.1:17-cv-00397)). (The National Security Agency refused to confirm or deny the existence of intelligence records about communications between Gen. Flynn and Amb Kislyak.) Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit after the agencies failed to respond to a January 25, 2017, FOIA request seeking: Any and all records regarding, concerning, or related to the investigation of retired Gen. Michael Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak between October 1, 2016 and the present.On January 23, 2017, the establishment shot itself in the foot as CNN reported that the government was investigating Flynn, former national security adviser to President Trump: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 can instantly authorize the release of all relevant information they seek. The larger questions is, will the US IC obey Trump? I doubt that. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-03-07 15:48 |
| #5 From Obama Administration Looks To Be In Very Serious Legal Trouble: "How did our extensive intelligence apparatus come to be misused against members of the Trump campaign? Well, the simplest answer seems to be Team Obama misled the courts: This raises the second problem: Obama’s team submission of an affidavit to to the FISA court. An application for a warrant of any kind requires an affidavit, and that affidavit may not omit material factors. A fact is “material” if it could have the possible impact of impacting the judicial officer deciding whether to authorize the warrant. Such affidavits are the most carefully drawn up, reviewed, and approved affidavits of law enforcement in our system precisely because they must be fully-disclosing, forthcoming, and include any information a judge must know to decide whether to allow our government to spy on its own. My assumption would be that intelligence officials were trying to investigate hacking of DNC which is not even a FISA covered crime, so therefore serious questions arise about what Obama administration attorneys said to the FISA court to even consider the application. If the claim was “financial ties” to Russia, then Obama knew he had no basis to use FISA at all." Since Trump was the obvious target, the alleged failure to disclose his name in the second application could be a serious and severe violation of the obligation to disclose all material facts. |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-03-07 12:36 |
| #4 Every single judge on the FISA Court as of today was appointed during Obama’s Presidency! Five of the current eleven judges on the court are scheduled to be on the court for President Trump’s entire first term with six of the judges’ terms expiring before January 2021. Seven of the judges are scheduled into the year 2020. |
| Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 2017-03-07 12:08 |
| #3 Kinda blows a hole in all of Josh Earnest's comments over the last few days. That and the famous Hillary tweet in October that someone fed her information about the FISA warrant to bug Trump's campaign. AND the WikiLeaks dump shows that the CIA can false flag a "Russian" hack attempt with stolen or captured Russian Malware... Ha Ha, that and the NTY January articles give me the feeling that like that Secret Service guy saying this was going to blow sky high in the Democrats face, things are going to get interesting... |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-03-07 11:01 |
| #2 Attorney General Lynch Signed Off on ALL FISA Applications to WireTap Trump "More than a thousand applications for electronic surveillance, all signed by the attorney general [em added], are submitted each year, and the vast majority are approved. From 2009 to 2015, for example, more than 10,700 applications for electronic surveillance were submitted, and only one was denied in its entirety, according to annual reports sent to Congress. Another one was denied in part, and 17 were withdrawn by the government." [em added] |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-03-07 10:41 |
| #1 President Trump is on to something. As Cheif Executive President Trump can instantly authorize the release of all relevant information they seek. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2017-03-07 08:08 |