Worth noting that even Trump’s account of how the FISC application was released is deceptive. He credited Judicial Watch, as though a conservative group pried this damning information from the maw of the deep state. But they just me-tooed a preexisting lawsuit by media.
You can take a look at the status report filed on on Judicial Watch’s own site, where the court notes that DOJ is already working on vetting the documents they sought for release as the result of lawsuits by various media orgs. judicialwatch.org/wp-content/upl…
As JW notes, they submitted their first request in July 2017 and filed suit in February 2018. But USA Today had already begun FOIA litigation in *April 2017*. JW was just along for the ride.
