FBI Finds New Docs Found from Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Meeting
Judicial Watch Press Release:
FBI Finds 30 Pages of Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Meeting Documents – Wants Six Weeks to Turn Over Docs
OCTOBER 13, 2017
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch was informed yesterday by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that the FBI has located 30 pages of documents related to the June 27, 2016, tarmac meeting between former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton, and proposes non-exempt material be produced no later than November 30, 2017 (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:16-cv-02046)).
The new documents are being sent to Judicial Watch in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the Justice Department failed to comply with a July 7, 2016, FOIA request seeking the following:
All FD-302 forms prepared pursuant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server during her tenure.
All records of communications between any agent, employee, or representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding, concerning, or related to the aforementioned investigation. This request includes, but is not limited to, any related communications with any official, employee, or representative of the Department of Justice, the Executive Office of the President, the Democratic National Committee, and/or the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
All records related to the meeting between Attorney General Lynch and former President Bill Clinton on June 27, 2016.
The FBI originally informed Judicial Watch they did not locate any records related to the tarmac meeting. However, in a related case, the Justice Department located emails in which Justice Department officials communicated with the FBI and wrote that they had communicated with the FBI. As a result, by letter dated August 10, 2017, from the FBI stated, “Upon further review, we subsequently determined potentially responsive documents may exist. As a result, your [FOIA] request has been reopened…”
(Surprisingly, the Trump Justice Department refuses to disclose the talking points developed by the Obama Justice Department to help it respond to press inquiries about the controversial June 27, 2016, tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.)
On June 27, 2016, Attorney General Loretta Lynch 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.
“The FBI is out of control. It is stunning that the FBI ‘found’ these Clinton-Lynch tarmac records only after we caught the agency hiding them in another lawsuit,” stated Judicial Watch Tom Fitton. “Judicial Watch will continue to press for answers about the FBI’s document games in court. In the meantime, the FBI should stop the stonewall and release these new records immediately.”
This case has also forced the FBI to release to the public the FBI’s Clinton investigative file, although more than half of the records remain withheld. The FBI has also told Judicial Watch that it anticipates completing the processing of these materials by July 2018.
There is significant controversy about whether the FBI and Obama Justice Department investigation gave Clinton and other witnesses and potential targets preferential treatment.
The Obama administration extended numerous immunity agreements, including: Clinton’s former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills; John Bentel, former director of the State Department’s Office of Information Resources Management; Heather Samuelson, Clinton’s executive assistant; Brian Pagliano, an IT employee at the State Department who serviced the Clinton non-government server; and an employee at Platt River Networks, the company that maintained it. It is not clear whether Hillary Clinton received some type of immunity.
In 2015, a political action committee run by McAuliffe, a close friend and political supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, donated nearly $500,000 to Jill McCabe, wife of McCabe, who was then running for the Virginia State Senate. Also, the Virginia Democratic Party, over which McAuliffe had significant influence, donated an additional $207,788 to the Jill McCabe campaign. In July 2015, Andrew McCabe was in charge of the FBI’s Washington, DC, field office, which provided personnel resources to the Clinton email probe. Judicial Watch has several lawsuits about this McCabe/FBI/Clinton scandal.
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Oh my stars! You learn something new every day...
Some day in the future, if there is a future (and if it’s not a Clockwork Orange future) historians are going to have a field day describing and deciphering this period in this country’s history. A time when all the gains made the first 200 years of Empire were pissed away thanks to rampant greed and corruption. A time when once again only the wealthiest ‘capitalists’ have representation, and the majority in this country just foot the bills and provide the cheap labour.
I always remember that in a time of two wars (with more wars on his to-do list), and an economic disaster caused by Wall Street corruption (thanks Slick!), our Transformational President Barack Hopey-Changey Peace Prize, made the bush** tax cuts permanent. That’s my litmus test for betrayal. That and the crap legislation known as the Affordable Care Act that made Americans captives of the healthcare insurance industry and Big Pharma.
We need a ‘champion’. A REAL ONE, not a sheep dog (of any gender, race, or sexual persuasion).
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Mr hopey changey list
https://www.facebook.com/notes/ian-berman/when-you-say-you-miss-presiden...
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
LOL - Thanks for that list
That sums things up nicely.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
Bookmarked your list for easy reference. Now
I have some place to send anyone who starts singing their praises for the Empty suit. The
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Thanks for the list.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Thank you for the list.
It's well stated, and the photograph of President Obama is good too. He is genuinely a nice guy, clearly, but by their deeds shall we know them.
By nice guy do you mean
a fellow who smiles while cutting your throat?
@Alligator Ed
And slices in a statesmanlike fashion!
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
You're right to
challenge my statement. From the start I've felt he was a well chosen product, extremely likable and therefore trustable, and from the moment, hours into his presidency, that he chose Tim Geithner to be his Treasury Secretary, I think we all knew it was over. He is clearly, from my view, a nice guy who knew going in it was his job to cause us to trust and to sleep while the deep state ran its project for the new American century, the continuing effort of fascism. I think he knows he is surrounded by killers and a system corrupt enough to destroy life on this planet. And I think he agreed to be president for his own selfish reasons of ambition. But still think he exhibits an understanding of what a kind and compassionate person would be like. He stood up to the false flag chemical weapons attack in Syria that was meant to cause him to invade. He admitted he struggled with same sex marriage, and I saw that as courageous given the timing. He showed, if nothing else, that the President has no power over the deep state. But I agree with your point completely. Showing us it is futile and reminding us it is fatal for the President to stand up to the CIA is not being a nice guy, it is committing treason and mass murder, and it is the work of an ambitious coward.
Will Make the Harding Admin Look Pure as the Driven Snow. nt
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
@Amanda MatthewsA time when once again
"Once again" instead of "still"? But perhaps I'm being cynical . . .
Another boondoggle. JW is turning out to be the peoples
best friend. Proves gjohnsits point that justice isn't for the rich.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I remember how I felt when I heard about the meeting
on the tarmac. The corruption and collusion was so obvious. Right in our faces. I lost all hope, respect, and support for the Democratic party. And our "justice" system, in which I struggle to work, is rotten to the core.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981