INTERVIEW – TOM FITTON – Judicial Watch President and author of new book “Clean House: Exposing Our Government’s Secrets and Lies”
>> Judicial Watch Is Suing The FBI For Records About Bill Clinton’s Secret Meeting With Loretta Lynch. (TownHall) — Government watchdog Judicial Watch has issued a Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit against the FBI demanding the release of documents surrounding the secret July meeting between former President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch. The meeting took place on Lynch’s private plane at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix and lasted for more than 30 minutes. The lawsuit includes a demand for FBI “302” documents, which are reports of FBI investigation interviews. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:16-cv-02046). On June 29, 2016, Attorney General Loretta Lynch is reported to have met privately with former President Bill Clinton on board a parked private plane at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona. The meeting occurred during the then-ongoing investigation of Mrs. Clinton’s email server, and mere hours before the Benghazi report was released publicly involving both Mrs. Clinton and the Obama administration. Judicial Watch filed a request on June 30 that the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General investigate that meeting. That secret meeting, which was first revealed by a local reporter, came just days before Director James Comey announced former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would not face indictment after a year long criminal investigation into her mishandling of classified information and use of an unsecured private email server to conduct all of her State Department business. Comey cited a lack of action by DOJ prosecutors to take on the case as the reason for the non-indictment.
>> Eric Holder Condemns FBI Director Comey Over Clinton ‘Mistake’ (NBC News) — Former Attorney General Eric Holder has written a scathing op-ed condemning FBI Director James Comey for his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. “I fear he has unintentionally and negatively affected public trust in both the Justice Department and the FBI,” Holder wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post published late Sunday. “And he has allowed — again without improper motive — misinformation to be spread by partisans with less pure intentions.” Holder accused Comey of violating long-standing policies and traditions when the FBI director wrote to members of Congress on Friday and informed them his agency was reviewing a fresh batch of emails related to the Clinton investigation.
>> FBI Obtains Warrant Needed to Start Reviewing Emails Found on Laptop Used by Clinton Aide. (ABC News) — Federal investigators looking into the Hillary Clinton email matter have obtained the warrant needed to start reviewing the emails found on a laptop used by Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband, Anthony Weiner. FBI Director James Comey told Congress Friday that the agency was again reviewing emails related to Clinton’s personal server, after it learned of additional information that might be relevant to the case. Comey sent a letter to key members of Congress informing them that although the FBI had previously announced the completion of its investigation into Clinton’s email server, new information had prompted additional review.
>> Justice Department Urged FBI Not to Make Clinton Email Development Public. (NBC News) — The Justice Department opposed the FBI’s plan to notify Congress about the discovery of new emails that could be relevant to the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server, according to senior officials familiar with the discussions. FBI Director James Comey concluded, however, that informing Congress was better than waiting until after the election and hoping in the meantime that the fact of the discovery wouldn’t leak. “In the end, we decided it was better to keep Congress informed,” an FBI official involved in the process said Saturday.
>> Harry Reid says FBI Director James Comey ‘may have broken’ federal law
>> John Podesta: Huma Abedin “Complied To The Best Of Her Ability” With FBI Investigation
>> ED KLEIN in DAILY MAIL: Resignation letters piling up from disaffected FBI agents, his wife urging him to admit he was wrong: Why Director Comey jumped at the chance to reopen Hillary investigation
>> Official: FBI knew for weeks about newly discovered emails. WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has obtained a warrant to begin reviewing newly discovered emails that may be relevant to the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Sunday. FBI investigators want to review emails of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were found on a device seized during an unrelated sexting investigation of Anthony Weiner, a former New York congressman and Abedin’s estranged husband. The official, who has knowledge of the examination, would not say when investigators might complete the review of Abedin’s emails but said they would move expeditiously.
