After it claimed no such document existed, the Justice Department just unearthed a letter Matt Whitaker delivered to the Utah U.S. attorney directing a review of how the department handled the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One issues.
Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions wrote the letter on Nov. 22, 2017 for Utah U.S. Attorney John Huber. Matt Whitaker, who was Sessions’ chief of staff at the time, emailed the letter to Huber that day, writing, “As we discussed.” He also sent Huber a copy of a letter the Justice Department’s Congressional affairs chief sent to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Nov. 13 of that year.
The existence of a letter documenting Sessions’ directive that the DOJ revisit probes of Trump’s top political foe is a surprise because a department lawyer said in court last year that senior officials insisted it didn’t exist. The liberal nonprofit American Oversight obtained the letter through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request they filed on Nov. 22, 2017––the same day Whitaker emailed Sessions’ letter to Huber.
Interesting that the story is broken by The Daily Beast.
Chelsea is on the board of directors and maybe an owner if I recall.
Haven’t been following this one close enough to draw any conclusions about that.
The people who are targeted for possible arrest
https://mobile.twitter.com/prayingmedic/status/1104988011899416576
The very same Justice Department that let Hillary off the hook, the very same JD that continued all of its wretched FISA abuses well into Trump’s term, the very same JD that spawned the Mueller probe and all of its witch-hunting… is now supposed to ring up Hillary and be the white knight after all?
Shyeah, right. I’ll believe it the day I see her do the perp walk. Not one minute before.
Now that we have a new Attorney General, full speed ahead!
And hold the DOJ lawyer who said in court that it didn’t exist, and the senior DOJ officials who insisted it didn’t exist, in contempt of court.
Let’s see now. That’s bombshell/smoking gun/death sentence number what….22….27?
I have stopped sitting on the edge of my seat over these constant “We got them now!” claims, too.
But wait! There’s more!
Yep. Trump ain’t being impeached, Hillary ain’t doing no prison time, east ain’t never gonna have an equal in the west.
You’re wrong about Trump being impeached. The House absolutely WILL do it. Probably in the fall. The committee hearings are all a preplanned sham, to build the “case” for impeachment. It’ll pass on mostly party lines, and then it’s off to the Senate for trial.
Then, you have to remember that the Senate Republicans are mostly not Trump allies, beginning with McConnell himself. He’s liable to schedule the trial to damage the president politically going into his reelection campaign, possibly with the hope of encouraging a primary challenge and further weaken him. Then even if Trump is ultimately acquitted, he’s wasted time & resources fighting it, helping the Democrat candidate get a head start.
The establishment would much rather have a Democrat POTUS than Trump. Never doubt that.
There’s a swamp to drain in Bananada too, the stench is getting heavier.
Exactly. The stench of corruption in the SNC file and possibly even treason on the energy file.
Like other posters above, I also am sick and tired of hearing “we got them now” about the Clintons or in the case of Trump/Russian collusion that the evidence is just around the next corner.
Since this is Canada, is it not the ‘slough’ that needs draining? Just saying.
let us all pray, or is that prey, now
So maybe Sessions wasn’t the worst piece of crap to occupy the job of Attorney General. I still need convincing.
Yes, I’m in “wait and see” mode.
There’s something amusing about this FOIA request. As the post states, the letter was sent on Nov. 22, 2017. As, also, stated, the FOIA was filed on that very same day. Had they filed it a day later, it wouldn’t just be coming to light now. It would have shown up a while ago and added fodder to the media’s full court press. It would have been twisted into “obstruction of justice” accusations.
Still, it’s nothing. The Mueller investigation expanded itself wide enough to ensnare these aspects. As a result, the Inspector General was warned off pursuing a valid investigation with valid consequences. And, unfortunately, Horowitz was assigned to work in tandem with Huber. So, in short, they really didn’t investigate anything because Mueller claimed dominance. He still is. That’s why you can bet the house that the Mueller Investigation will not disband any time soon, despite the rumors.
Incidentally, I don’t think the date of filing the FOIA was an accident. I think it was a very clear message to Sessions that “we have people in your most trusted circle, and we know everything you do exactly when you do it.”
The former congress woman and secretary of state is sailing through the “justice system” ruled by law? with a breeze like conditions and nobody is touching it. She gets away with statements like “its old news” or “as said before” and other such, one suppose legal nonsense, and there are no follow up questions. Like that is the end of story.
It is positively amazing how Democrat criminals in high places get away with their deeds.
One could say without one bit of irony that a conservative person would be destroyed by now, hands down, depending on which tribe they belonged to.
There are of course things that the media cartel will omit, so that the population will not know the whole story.
One wonders how many people know about the bathroom server, other than those that want to be informed.
It would not be a surprise if those that stayed in school to get whatever diploma, have no clue what is going on.
Hence the popularity among them of AOC.
Their Justice Department is as unbiased as Michael Wernick is.
That about sums it up.
Swish, swish, swish. The sound of a jointly handled media and their progressive political master’s broom sweeping it under the rug, int the US and in Canada.