Author: Freedom Watch
By Larry Klayman, Chairman and General Counsel Freedom Watch January 23, 2018 As I have written before, it falls upon Freedom Watch to rid the nation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, since no one else — including President Trump’s own establishment lawyers — Ty Cobb, Jay Sekulow and John Dowd — has had the fortitude, much less desire, to do it. And the group which I conceived of and founded, Judicial Watch, relies on the government to police itself, focusing mainly on just getting documents under the Freedom of Information Act but not itself bringing legal enforcement actions. The…
Pence says US will open embassy in Jerusalem next year New York Post January 22, 2018 Vice President Mike Pence referred to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and announced the US will open its embassy there by the end of 2019 — escalating the controversial move’s timeline. “The United States has chosen fact over fiction — and fact is the only true foundation for a just and lasting peace,” Pence said during an address to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, on Monday. Continue Reading…..
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Team Is Still Working During The Shutdown By Zoe Tillman BuzzFeed January 22, 2018 The federal government on Monday braced for the first work week of the shutdown, but for the team of lawyers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, it was business as usual. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office, which is funded through a permanent, indefinite appropriation, will continue to operate during the shutdown. A spokesman for the special counsel’s office confirmed to BuzzFeed News Monday morning that the office is open and people are showing up to work. Continue Reading…..
Is the FBI’s Latest Probe of the Clinton Foundation A “Witch Hunt” — or Something More? Salon January 22, 2018 With few exceptions, most presidents fade from public life once they step down. Bill Clinton, however, has shunned leisure time since his administration ended in January 2001. Instead, he has whiled away the hours toiling for an eponymous foundation he established with his wife Hillary Clinton. At least initially, the foundation seemed well-suited for cleaning up his legacy, after the ugliness of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the subsequent impeachment and Senate trial tarnished it. Continue Reading…..
FBI Says It Failed to Preserve 5 Months of Strzok’s Text Messages By Solange Reyner Newsmax January 22, 2018 The FBI on Sunday said it “failed to preserve” five months of text messages involving a senior agent who was taken off Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team following a report he made derogatory comments about President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reports. The revelation came after the Justice Department turned over additional text messages to Congress involving Peter Strzok, a veteran counterintelligence agent who also worked the Hillary Clinton email case. He was discharged from Mueller’s team after…
Opinion | Staffers at The Hill press management about the work of John Solomon By Erik Wemple Washington Post January 22, 2018 A group of newsroom staffers at The Hill have complained to management about stories written by John Solomon, the publication’s executive vice president of digital video. The complaints were launched in December when Solomon and reporter Alison Spann broke a story under this headline: “Exclusive: Prominent lawyer sought donor cash for two Trump accusers.” The gist of Solomon and Spann’s story: Prominent California lawyer Lisa Bloom worked to secure payments for women who “made or considered…
Was Lynch coordinating with Comey in the Clinton investigation? By Sharyl Attkisson, opinion contributor TheHill January 22, 2018 Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew well in advance of FBI Director James Comey’s 2016 press conference that he would recommend against charging Hillary Clinton, according to information turned over to the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Friday. The revelation was included in 384 pages of text messages exchanged between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and it significantly diminishes the credibility of Lynch’s earlier commitment to accept Comey’s recommendation — a commitment she made under the pretense that…
By Larry Klayman WND January 21, 2018 As I have written before, it falls upon Freedom Watch to rid the nation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, since no one else — including President Trump’s own establishment lawyers — Ty Cobb, Jay Sekulow and John Dowd — have have the fortitude, much less desire, to do it. The group that I conceived of and founded, Judicial Watch, relies on the government to police itself, focusing mainly on getting documents under the Freedom of Information Act but not itself bringing legal enforcement actions. Continue Reading…..
Newly released texts between ex-Mueller team members suggest they knew outcome of Clinton email probe in advance By Samuel Chamberlain Fox News January 21, 2018 The Department of Justice has given various congressional committees nearly 400 pages of additional text messages between two FBI officials who were removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. One of the newly discovered messages, lawmakers said, appeared to indicate that Peter Strzok and Lisa Page knew that charges would not be filed against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as a result of…
Sen. Schumer: Dealing With Trump Is ‘Like Negotiating With Jell-O’ By Eric Mack Newsmax January 20, 2018 Responding to Republican criticism that has labeled Saturday’s government shutdown the Schumer Shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., claims President Donald Trump welched on a deal Friday and told the Senate floor “negotiating with president trump is like negotiating with Jell-O.” “President Trump just can’t take yes for an answer,” Sen. Schumer told the Senate on Saturday afternoon. “He’s rejected not one but two viable bipartisan deals, including one in which I put his most prominent campaign pledge on the…