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BREAKING: Judicial Watch announced today that it filed lawsuits against the FBI and the DOJ regarding the maintenance of text messages as federal records and for records of the audit of the communications of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. (1/11)
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After the FBI claimed that texts are not subject to FOIA, JW filed suit to ensure the texts are preserved. The new Administrative Procedure Act lawsuit w/ the FBI challenges the FBI’s failure to preserve texts as required by the Federal Records Act. (2/11)
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JW points to a related case where the assistant section chief of the Record/Info Dissemination Section in the FBI’s Info Management Division stated: “Text messages on [FBI]-issued devices are not automatically integrated into an FBI records system.” (3/11)
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JW argued the FBI does not have a record-keeping program in place that provides effective controls over the maintenance of electronic messages, including text messages. (4/11)
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JW also argued the FBI relies upon its personnel to incorporate their text messages into a record-keeping system. If FBI personnel do not actively incorporate their text messages into a record-keeping system, the text messages are not preserved. (5/11)
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JW asked the court to declare the FBI’s failure to have a record-keeping program for electronic messages to be not in accordance with law. (6/11)
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JW also asked the court to order the FBI to establish and maintain a record-keeping program that provides effective controls over the maintenance of electronic messages. (7/11)
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JW believes that if these text messages are not preserved, then they may be deleted and never produced to Congress, to criminal investigators, nor to the American people under the Freedom of Information Act. (8/11)
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Judicial Watch also filed a lawsuit suit against the Justice Department after the DOJ failed to respond to a FOIA request from August 27, 2018 seeking the FBI’s audit records of Andrew McCabe’s communications. (9/11)
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JW President @TomFitton: “This lawsuit exposes a massive FBI cover-up of its text messages, which are government records and are, by the thousands, likely to have been deleted and lost by FBI employees.” (10/11)
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JW President @TomFitton: “Of course, this cover-up conveniently impacts the production of text messages to Judicial Watch and to Congress of disgraced FBI officials Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and James Comey.” (11/11)
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BREAKING: Judicial Watch signed a settlement agreement with the State of California & the County of L.A. under which they’ll begin the process of removing from voter registration rolls up to 1.5 million inactive registered names that may be invalid. (1/8)
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This Judicial Watch lawsuit confirmed that Los Angeles County has on its rolls 1.5 million or more potentially ineligible voters. This means over one in every five L.A. County registrations likely belongs to a voter who has moved or is deceased. (2/8)
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NEW: JW filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court in an effort to overturn a decision of the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that upheld Utah’s law engineered by GOP legislators to compel GOP members to change how they choose candidates. (1/3)
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BREAKING: Judicial Watch announced it filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice for records of the costs incurred by and for records of the logs maintained by the security detail for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. (1/5)
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In a related Oct. 2017 lawsuit, DOJ refused to release Mueller’s budget, but later was forced to release details from the redacted Aug. 2nd memo where Deputy AG Rosenstein gave broad authority to Mueller – three months after Mueller’s appointment. (2/5)
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