@JudicialWatch
From @DailyCaller: According to DOJ records obtained by Judicial Watch last month through a FOIA request, text messages and calendar entries of Weissmann show he led the hiring effort for the investigation that targeted President @realDonaldTrump.
>@JudicialWatch
>From @DailyCaller: According to DOJ records obtained by Judicial Watch last month through a FOIA request, text messages and calendar entries of Weissmann show he led the hiring effort for the investigation that targeted President @realDonaldTrump.
1st Democratic Debate! (pic 1 related)
Me thinking about watching the 1st Democratic Debate! (below)
━━━━━┒
┓┏┓┏┓┃
┛┗┛┗┛┃＼○／
┓┏┓┏┓┃ /
┛┗┛┗┛┃ノ)
┓┏┓┏┓┃
┛┗┛┗┛┃
┓┏┓┏┓┃
┛┗┛┗┛┃
┓┏┓┏┓┃
┛┗┛┗┛┃
┓┏┓┏┓┃
┃┃┃┃┃┃
┻┻┻┻┻┻
>News items can't be notabled unless there's a link.
>>@JudicialWatch
>>From @DailyCaller: According to DOJ records obtained by Judicial Watch last month through a FOIA request, text messages and calendar entries of Weissmann show he led the hiring effort for the investigation that targeted President @realDonaldTrump.
ANDREW WEISSMANN NOT A TOP PRIORITY HEARING WITNESS FOR HOUSE DEMS
https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/12/andrew-weissmann-hearing-witness-house-dems/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=other
GOOD GRIEF, POTUS has them cutting their own throats BEFORE DECLAS when it will come out HUSSEIN used foreign countries to spy on candidate Trump, President-Elect Trump AND President Trump! bwhahahaha
FEC CHAIR: GETTING INFO FROM FOREIGN ENTITIES IS ILLEGAL
Ellen L. Weintraub, the Chair of the Federal Election Commission, issued a statement Thursday evening unequivocally stating that accepting contributions either financially or otherwise from foreign nationals is illegal.
Weintraub’s statement comes a day after President Donald Trump stated that he wouldn’t necessarily go to the FBI in the event his campaign was contacted by foreign groups during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
“Let me make something 100% clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election,” her statement begins. “This is not a novel concept. Electoral intervention from foreign governments has been considered unacceptable since the beginnings of our nation.
Our Founding Fathers sounds the alarm about ‘foreign Interference, Intrigue, and Influence.’”
It continued, “They knew that when foreign governments seek to influence American politics, it is always to advance their own interests, not America’s. Anyone who solicits or accepts foreign assistance risks being on the wrong end of a federal investigation. Any political campaign that receives an offer of a prohibited donation from a foreign source should report that offer to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
In Stephanopoulos’s interview, he asked the president if his campaign would go to the FBI in the event they are contacted by a foreign entity with dirt on an opponent.
“I think maybe you do both. I think you might want to listen. There isn’t anything wrong with listening,” the president answered. “If somebody called from a country —Norway — [and said,] ‘We have information on your opponent’ — oh, I think I’d want to hear it.”
Trump justified his statement by claiming everyone does it.
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York was among many who pointed out that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was involved in funding opposition research conducted by British spy Christopher Steele that relied on foreign sources.
The Senate tried passing a bill via unanimous consent on Thursday, which would force any campaign that was contacted by a foreign entity to report it to the FBI, but Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn blocked it. (WTF???)
https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/13/federal-election-commission-ellen-weintraub-donald-trump/
>FEC CHAIR: GETTING INFO FROM FOREIGN ENTITIES IS ILLEGAL
Liberals "have a look", don't they?
NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Trump unveils never-before-seen images of Air Force One's prospective redesign during an exclusive one-on-one with @ABC News' @GStephanopoulos.
One was caught red-handed engaged in nepotism. Another, a lawyer no less, admitted to shoplifting at a Marine barracks store. A third leaked sealed court information to the news media. And a fourth engaged in fraud by turning a government garage into a personal repair shop.
Four cases, all solved in the past month, with suspects who cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and significant breaches of public trust.
But these weren’t your everyday perps.
All were U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) employees who are supposed to catch other criminals while working for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. attorneys’ offices. Instead, they broke the law or violated the rules. And all managed to escape prosecution, despite their proven transgressions.
ADVERTISEMENT
Recent Justice Department disciplinary files tell an undeniable story.
Under the leadership of Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz, DOJ’s internal watchdog is doing an outstanding job of policing bad conduct inside America’s premier law enforcement agency.
And DOJ is doing a poor job of punishing its own.
In cases closed in the past month, more than a half-dozen FBI, DEA, U.S. attorney and U.S. marshal officials were allowed to retire, do volunteer work, or keep their jobs as they escaped criminal charges that everyday Americans probably would not.
In most instances, the decisions were made by federal prosecutors who work with the very figures impacted by or committing the bad conduct. In local law enforcement, that go-easy phenomenon is known as the “thin blue line.”
Spokespersons for the Justice Department and FBI did not respond to a request for comment.
The troubling pattern of weak punishment emerges as DOJ heads into one of its most ambitious internal affairs probes in recent history. Attorney General William Barr, Horowitz and special U.S. Attorney John Durham are investigating whether the FBI and other intelligence agencies violated the law with the Trump-Russia investigation.
Even before the recent spate of closed inspector general investigations, questions surfaced about DOJ’s willingness to punish its own. That’s because fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was recommended for prosecution more than 15 months ago for lying about news leaks, and so far has faced no criminal charges.
To put that into perspective, it took special counsel Robert Mueller just a few months to bring charges against multiple figures associated with President Trump’s campaign accused of lying or other process crimes.
It’s still possible that McCabe could face prosecution. But the recent spate of fresh wrongdoing inside DOJ doesn’t portray a compelling pattern of enforcement or punishment.
Take, for example, the DEA executive who just this week was found to have engaged in nepotism by routing hundreds of thousands of dollars to contractor jobs for his son and retired colleagues or friends.
Feds gone wild: DOJ's stunning inability to prosecute its own bad actors
Horowitz: “The senior DEA official wasted and misused hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds and engaged in misconduct when he took actions to get his son and former colleagues contractor positions and that his actions constituted misconduct in violation of federal ethics regulations, the DEA Standards of Conduct, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation,” he reported this week.
Despite the established wrongdoing, criminal prosecution “was declined” and “the senior DEA official retired from his position.” In short, he kept his retirement benefits.
_
_
_
One of the internal affairs cases that stunned members of Congress this month directly grew out of the interwoven Hillary Clinton email and Russia collusion investigations in 2016, during then-FBI Director James Comey’s tenure.
The IG concluded that an FBI deputy assistant director engaged in multiple improper news media leaks while those investigations were ongoing, including one that violated a sealed court order, and accepted an improper gratuity from the news media. But prosecution was declined, yet again. FBI officials say they are considering discipline against the supervisor.
Records I reviewed indicate that more misconduct eerily similar to that already uncovered is being investigated. For example, the IG fraud unit opened a case in March and began interviewing whistleblowers about a new contract fraud matter inside the DEA, emails show.
It used to be that those who were entrusted to enforce the law were held to the highest standards.
Today, however, there is a troubling pattern of officers being held to a lower standard inside a department where critics fear there is a dual system of justice.
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/448383-feds-gone-wild-dojs-stunning-inability-to-prosecute-its-own-bad
Feds gone wild: DOJ's stunning inability to prosecute its own bad actors
Horowitz: “The senior DEA official wasted and misused hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds and engaged in misconduct when he took actions to get his son and former colleagues contractor positions and that his actions constituted misconduct in violation of federal ethics regulations, the DEA Standards of Conduct, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation,” he reported this week.
Despite the established wrongdoing, criminal prosecution “was declined” and “the senior DEA official retired from his position.” In short, he kept his retirement benefits.
One was caught red-handed engaged in nepotism. Another, a lawyer no less, admitted to shoplifting at a Marine barracks store. A third leaked sealed court information to the news media. And a fourth engaged in fraud by turning a government garage into a personal repair shop.
Four cases, all solved in the past month, with suspects who cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and significant breaches of public trust.
But these weren’t your everyday perps.
All were U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) employees who are supposed to catch other criminals while working for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. attorneys’ offices. Instead, they broke the law or violated the rules. And all managed to escape prosecution, despite their proven transgressions.
_
_
_
One of the internal affairs cases that stunned members of Congress this month directly grew out of the interwoven Hillary Clinton email and Russia collusion investigations in 2016, during then-FBI Director James Comey’s tenure.
The IG concluded that an FBI deputy assistant director engaged in multiple improper news media leaks while those investigations were ongoing, including one that violated a sealed court order, and accepted an improper gratuity from the news media. But prosecution was declined, yet again. FBI officials say they are considering discipline against the supervisor.
Records I reviewed indicate that more misconduct eerily similar to that already uncovered is being investigated. For example, the IG fraud unit opened a case in March and began interviewing whistleblowers about a new contract fraud matter inside the DEA, emails show.
It used to be that those who were entrusted to enforce the law were held to the highest standards.
Today, however, there is a troubling pattern of officers being held to a lower standard inside a department where critics fear there is a dual system of justice.
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/448383-feds-gone-wild-dojs-stunning-inability-to-prosecute-its-own-bad