NEW/THREAD: I filed a #FOIA lawsuit against ODNI CIA & DOJ for the criminal referral sent to DOJ related to the intel community whistleblower disclosures on Trump & Ukraine, which led to impeachment
I just rec'd some previously unreleased docs to add to the historical record
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The first document is a formal referral letter dated Sept 4, 2019 the ICIG sent to Stacey Moy, the FBI's deputy director for counterintelligence about alleged crimes connected to Trump's call with Ukraine pres. This letter to Moy has not been previously mentioned
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The next letter is a copy of the document preservation hold letter sent to the WH counsel. This letter was referred but a copy of it has not been previously released. @mcculloughirvin told me this letter is a big deal & shows IG taking investigative actions against the WH
Just got docs in response to my #FOIA lawsuit against DOJ about Barr's intervention in the Stone case
This is a NO SURPRISE letter. It's what journalists send about what they intend to report. Posting this for the sanctimonious, shitty reporters who work at other media outlets
DOJ's Kerri Kupec keeping the WH updated about what she said in the record and on background about DOJ's intervention in the Stone case
🚨NEW/WOW: At a hearing this morning in my/@BuzzFeedNews & CNN #FOIA lawsuit for FBI 302s from the Mueller probe, Judge Reggie Walton said Judge Sullivan could potentially find that the pardon issued to Michael Flynn is invalid because it is too broad in its language.
Our great #FOIA attorney @mvtopic & CNN's attorney asserted at the hearing that the govt needs to reprocess and produce the Flynn 302s that were withheld now that he has been pardoned. DOJ agreed to do that and we will have it by January 15
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🚨NEW: Judge Questions Whether Trump’s Pardon of Michael Flynn Is 'Too Broad'
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said Emmet Sullivan could find that “the wording of the pardon is too broad, in that it provides protections beyond the date of the pardon.”
BREAKING: DOJ just turned over the last set of typewritten FBI 302s from the Mueller investigation --46 heavily redacted pages - in response to my/@BuzzFeedNews & CNN's #FOIA lawsuit. We pried loose more than 5K pages over the past 13 months #MuellerMemos buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Now the Justice Department has to start processing and producing to us all the supporting material -- handwritten notes, memos, emails -- that accompanied the 302s. Government attorneys have already indicated there are more than 20K pages.
The Justice Department withheld this sliver of information from an FBI 302 from Mueller's probe it just turned over to me citing b7a, which is ongoing investigation.
An amazing email that took me 7 yrs to pry out of GTMO via #FOIA
In Jan 2013, a guard in a watchtower shot non lethal rounds at detainees. The watchtower was referred to as "Shotgun Towers." Guards were told not to say that b/c it could end up on the internet
Now it has
This email was clearly overclassified. There is nothing in it that would raise to the level of SECRET/NOFORN. It's just that it was politically sensitive as the email states and Guantanamo brass feared blowback
I wrote about this incident, which preceded a mass hunger strike at Guantanamo in 2013.