Anonymous ID: 08e65a Nov. 9, 2018, 9:45 p.m. No.3829719   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Tracy Beanz has an interesting thread on Matthew Whitaker. He was President/Director of FACT - Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (watchdog group like Judicial Watch).

 

From October 2014 to September 2017, Whitaker was the executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT),[26] and the organization's only full-time employee in 2015 and 2016.[27] FACT, founded in late 2014, is a conservative nonprofit organization specializing in legal and ethical issues related to politics.[28][29] The Washington Post reported in February 2015 that "The group is backed by $1 million in seed money from donors who support conservative legal causes", and that Whitaker had declined to identify the donors.[30] According to the organization's first tax return, its funding — $600,000 in 2014 - came from a conservative donor-advised fund called DonorsTrust, a pass-through vehicle that allows donors to remain anonymous.[31]

 

During Whitaker's tenure at FACT, the organization had a special focus on the Hillary Clinton e-mail controversy and perceived favoritism in the business dealings of Clinton.[32] While the head of FACT, Whitaker wrote opinion pieces that appeared in USA Today and the Washington Examiner, and appeared regularly on conservative talk-radio shows and cable news.[33] For four months, from June to September 2017, he was a CNN contributor.[34] Whitaker aspired to become a judge in Iowa, and hoped his media appearances would catch the eye of the Trump administration.[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Whitaker_(attorney)

 

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  1. After that, he went on to be the President and director of an organization called FACT- (a point left out of his wikipedia bio) and he occupied this position from 2014/15 through 2017 when he was brought in to work with Sessions that September.

 

https://www.factdc.org/

 

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Anonymous ID: 08e65a Nov. 9, 2018, 9:56 p.m. No.3829812   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Comey talked about sensitive FBI matters on personal email: report

 

Former FBI Director James Comey reportedly used his private Gmail account hundreds of times to discuss matters related to his work.

 

The New York Post, citing documents obtained by a conservative watchdog group, reported Friday that Comey discussed FBI-related business with his chief of staff on about 1,200 pages of messages, 156 of which the paper obtained.

 

The Post noted that at least seven of the messages related to Comey's personal email correspondence were not released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) because they were deemed too sensitive.

 

The DOJ said the messages “disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions,” according to the Post.

 

An additional 363 pages of emails weren't released because they either were related to agency communications or may have led to personal privacy concerns.

 

Representatives for the Justice Department and Comey didn't immediately return a request for comment from The Hill late Friday.

 

The New York Post said that The Cause of Action Institute, a conservative watchdog group, received the documents through a Freedom of Information Act Request.

 

Comey, whom President Trump fired from the FBI in May 2017, has received scrutiny over his role in the investigations into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private email server and the Russia probe.

 

The Post noted that the emails it obtained involving Comey are related to communications between 2013 and 2017, adding that more emails are expected to be released soon. The emails reportedly focus on a range of issues, including the Clinton email probe.

 

The release comes just months after the DOJ's inspector general said Comey used a personal email to conduct government business.

 

“We identified numerous instances in which Comey used a personal email account to conduct unclassified FBI business,” the report stated.

 

Comey has said that he did not use the personal email for sensitive or classified information, asserting that his use of it was "incidental."

 

Clinton mocked Comey over his use of personal email for government business earlier this year, which he pushed back against.

 

"It was not about her use of a personal email system. It was about communicating about classified topics on that system when those topics have to be done on a classified system," he said at the time.

 

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/416043-comey-talked-about-sensitive-fbi-matters-on-personal-email?fbclid=IwAR2B3PjEWkx79P1b5qO9W6HhGwdGrnmQf6uPho8KfikVxy2G9j8EYQ9M_7c