BREAKING: Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Justice Department for info on the FBI's prepublication review & other records on fired FBI Director James @Comey’s book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.” (1/8) jwatch.us/JnQABv
JW filed suit after DOJ failed produce any records in response to a 3/16/18 FOIA request for all records of communications between the FBI & Comey relating to his book and all records relating to the requirement for prepublication review by the FBI. (2/8) jwatch.us/JnQABv
Comey reportedly received an advance of over $2 million for his book that is set for publication today. Former FBI agents & officials writing books on their tenure are customarily required to submit the entire transcript for pre-publication review. (3/8) jwatch.us/JnQABv
This is the second JW lawsuit on the Comey book. After Comey signed on to write his book in August 2017, JW sent a FOIA seeking FBI docs re: book deal & coordination on his testimony w/ the Senate – & we filed a FOIA lawsuit w/ DOJ in January 2017. (4/8) jwatch.us/JnQABv
On @ABC on 3/15/18, Comey admitted to leaking convos w/ Trump to get a special counsel appointed: “I gave that unclassified memo to my (friend), who was also acting as my lawyer, but this wasn’t a lawyer task, and asked him to give it to a reporter.” (5/8) jwatch.us/JnQABv
JW also has other lawsuits related to Comey & the FBI, including seeking access to the so-called Comey Memos, info on the Comey Memos metadata, docs re: the handling of classified info signed by Comey, lawsuits with @DailyCaller re: Comey, & more. (6/8) jwatch.us/JnQABv
Judicial Watch President @TomFitton: “James Comey illegally took and then leaked material from his FBI memos in order to get a Special Counsel appointed to target President Trump.” (7/8) jwatch.us/JnQABv
Judicial Watch President @TomFitton: “Judicial Watch is asking questions about whether James Comey is getting special treatment from the FBI to use these ill-gotten FBI documents in his book.” (8/8) jwatch.us/JnQABv
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NEW: The controversy over the 2020 presidential election took a sharp turn last week when the FBI executed a search warrant at the offices of the Fulton County Election Board in Georgia. It’s a dramatic development.
Atlanta’s Fulton County was the epicenter of Donald Trump’s disputed loss of the state in 2020. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton called the search warrant a “vindication” for Trump. Candidate Trump “almost went to jail for raising the questions that have now been validated by a federal magistrate,” Fitton told Newsmax.
“The reason the search warrant was approved was because a federal magistrate looked at the facts and made the conclusion that there was a reasonable belief that a crime had taken place…specifically election crimes.”
BREAKING: Judicial Watch filed an AZ Public Records Law lawsuit against Gov. Hobbs for records regarding her office reportedly ordering state police & the AZ National Guard to withhold cooperation from federal immigration enforcement authorities (1/3). jwatch.us/KLp8q6
Arizona law states: “No official or agency of this state or a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state may limit or restrict the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law” (2/3). jwatch.us/KLp8q6
“Governor Hobbs’ apparent refusal to allow state resources to support lawful immigration operations is undermining federal authority,” Judicial Watch President @TomFitton (3/3). jwatch.us/KLp8q6
BREAKING: @TomFitton issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court: "What a brave, wonderful Supreme Court pick by President Trump!" 1/8 jwatch.us/aDnGoH
"Judge Barrett has a demonstrated record of applying the rule of law rather than legislating from the bench. Her record shows that she will not only respect but apply the U.S. Constitution as written and intended by our Founding Fathers." 2/8 jwatch.us/aDnGoH
"And it would be a wonderful milestone that Judge Barrett would be the first conservative woman member on the Supreme Court. She seems to be a full spectrum conservative who is likely to be a force on the Supreme Court for years to come." 3/8 jwatch.us/aDnGoH
President @realDonaldTrump retweeted Judicial Watch & @TomFitton 11 times! The retweets were about "Rod Rosenstein’s Communications with Eric Holder, John Huber, Other Senior Obama Officials and the Media" press release, the Logan Act, and more! (1/5)
President @realDonaldTrump retweeted Judicial Watch & @TomFitton 11 times! The retweets were about Tom Fitton on Lou Dobbs discussing FISA warrants/coup cabal, Russiagate & Clinton email cover-up, FBI “302” about Obama, DOJ abusing powers to ‘punish’ Roger Stone, & more! (2/5)
President @realDonaldTrump retweeted Judicial Watch & Judicial Watch President @TomFitton 11 times! The retweets were about Russiagate & Clinton email scandal cover-up, FBI “302” about Obama, DOJ abusing powers to ‘punish’ Roger Stone, and more! (3/5)
.@realDonaldTrump retweeted JW 4 times! The tweets were about @TomFitton’s Weekly Update live stream discussing the Pelosi/Schiff abuse, the FBI “finds” #Clintonemails, JW suing for Ukraine coup corruption, the #impeachmenthearings & more. Check out the retweets below! (1/4).
Check out the retweet below and be sure to visit our website here: judicialwatch.org (2/4).
Check out the retweet below and be sure to visit our website here: judicialwatch.org (3/4).