As Democrat Scandals Go Unchecked, AG Sessions Must Get Control of the DOJ or Resign

THE REAL NEWS TODAY IS THAT THE GOVERNMENT TELLS US NOTHING AND ONLY LAWSUITS REVEAL THE INFORMATION WE ARE ENTITLED TO. • Without Judicial Watch and other conservative public interest lawsuits, many under the Freedom of Information Act, there is a lot about Democrat scandals that would never be revealed, least of all by the lapdog mainstream media that is the ProgDem propaganda arm. • • • THE LYNCH - CLINTON TARMAC MEETING WAS COORDINATED AND COVERED UP. Legal Insurrection reported on Saturday : “There is clear evidence that the main stream media was colluding with the DOJ to bury the story.” When the news broke about the Phoenix tarmac meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, everybody knew that there was no-good afoot because the gross impropriety of the tarmac summit was obvious -- Clinton’s wife, Hillary, the 2016 Democrat presidential hopeful, was then under FBI investigation for her server and email scandals. But, the improper meeting was swept away by the AG who finally recused herself from decision-making in the Hillary investigation. A colluding media and a complicit FBI Director James Comey played the game of cover-up. • But, says Legal Insurrection, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has released 413 pages of memos obtained from the DOJ that show the “tarmac summit” was planned and that the media was working with the Obama-Lynch DOJ to downplay and bury the entire incident." • The ACLJ article entitled, “DOJ Document Dump to ACLJ on Clinton Lynch Meeting: Comey FBI Lied, Media Collusion, Spin, and Illegality,” states : "We have just obtained hundreds of pages in our ongoing investigation and federal lawsuit on former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton while the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI had an ongoing criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. The results are shocking. First, the Comey FBI lied to us. Last July, we sent FOIA requests to both the Comey FBI and the Lynch DOJ asking for any documents related to the Clinton Lynch plane meeting. The FBI, under the then directorship of James Comey, replied that 'No records responsive to your request were located.' The documents we received today from the Department of Justice include several emails from the FBI to DOJ officials concerning the meeting. One with the subject line “FLAG” was correspondence between FBI officials (Richard Quinn, FBI Media/Investigative Publicity, and Michael Kortan) and DOJ officials concerning “flag[ing] a story...about a casual, unscheduled meeting between former president Bill Clinton and the AG.” The DOJ official instructs the FBI to “let me know if you get any questions about this” and provides “our talkers [DOJ talking points] on this.” The talking points, however are redacted." • So, the FBI and DOJ were cooperating to contain the story about the Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting, and Comey’s FBI did not provide information about the meeting when asked -- "No documents responsive to your request were located." • The ACLJ article also reported that its 400-page release from DOJ contained an email to the FBI from the DOJ with the subject line “security details coordinate between Loretta Lynch/Bill Clinton?” On July 1, 2016 -- just days before the ACLJ FOIA request -- a DOJ email chain under the subject line, “FBI just called,” indicates that the “FBI...is looking for guidance” in responding to media inquiries about news reports that the FBI had prevented the press from taking pictures of the Clinton-Lynch meeting. The discussion then went off email to several phone calls (of which we are not able to obtain records). An hour later, Carolyn Pokomy of the Office of the Attorney General stated, 'I will let Rybicki know.' Jim Rybicki was the Chief of Staff and Senior Counselor to FBI Director Jim Comey. The information that was to be provided to Rybicki is redacted." • The ACLJ says several of the documents contain redactions that are notated by the DOJ as requested “per FBI.” • • • THE LYNCH-CLINTON COVER-UP AT DOJ. The ACLJ says : "It is clear that there were multiple records within the FBI responsive to our request and that discussions regarding the surreptitious meeting between then AG Lynch and the husband of the subject of an ongoing FBI criminal investigation reached the highest levels of the FBI. However, on October 21, 2016, the Comey FBI replied to our legal demands that “No records responsive to your request were located.” This is in direct contravention to the law, and we are preparing further legal action to force the FBI to come clean and turn over ALL documents related to this matter to us in a timely manner." • "Second, the hundreds of pages of (heavily redacted – more on that below) documents paint a clear picture of a DOJ in crisis mode as the news broke of Attorney General Lynch’s meeting with former President Clinton. In fact, the records appear to indicate that the Attorney General’s spin team immediately began preparing talking points for the Attorney General regarding the meeting BEFORE ever speaking with the AG about the matter." • "Third, there is clear evidence that the main stream media was colluding with the DOJ to bury the story. A Washington Post reporter, speaking of the Clinton Lynch meeting story, said, 'I’m hoping I can put it to rest.' The same Washington Post reporter, interacting with the DOJ spin team, implemented specific DOJ requests to change his story to make the Attorney General appear in a more favorable light. A New York Times reporter apologetically told the Obama DOJ that he was being 'pressed into service' to have to cover the story. As the story was breaking, DOJ press officials stated, 'I also talked to the ABC producer, who noted that they aren’t interested, even if Fox runs with it.' Two days after the meeting, DOJ officials in a chain of emails that includes emails to Attorney General Lynch herself stated that the media coverage of the meeting 'looks like all or most are FOX' and that 'CBS...just says a few lines about the meeting.' " • "Fourth, DOJ bureaucrats have redacted all the talking points, discussions of talking points, a statement on the meeting that was apparently never delivered because there was not enough media coverage on the meeting, and its substantive discussions with the FBI on the matter. They absurdly claim the 'deliberative process exemption' to FOIA, which is only supposed to apply to agency rulemaking processes. Discussions about Attorney General Lynch’s ethically questionable meeting with former President Clinton during her investigation into Hillary Clinton clearly has nothing to do with any rule making process. We will be taking these redactions back to federal court. The law is on our side. We will keep pressing on with our investigation of former Attorney General Lynch until we get to the bottom of this." • The entire ACLJ article on the tarmac meeting can be found at < http://media.aclj.org/pdf/FBI-Security-Lynch-Clinton.pdf > • • • WHAT ARE THE DOJ AND FBI HIDING?? That was the question asked by American Thinker on Tuesday : "Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton met at an airport tarmac days before the FBI interviewed Hillary, not under oath, about her use of a private unsecured email server, and her destruction of over 30,000 emails. After the interview, Comey announced that Hillary was extremely negligent but absolved her of any criminal intent. Hillary told us the deleted emails were about yoga and Chelsea’s wedding plans. Lynch and Bubba said they talked about golf and grandkids, Bill’s travels." American Thinker says that 400 pages of coordination and cover-up efforts between the FBI and DOJ seem excessive for small talk about golf, travel and grandchildren. According to NPR : "Nothing came up, the Attorney General said, about any ongoing Justice Department investigation.” • On March 15, 2017, Judicial Watch sued the Justice Department to obtain records about the meeting. It requested : “-- All records of communication sent to or from officials in the Office of the Attorney General regarding the meeting held between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton in June 2016. -- All records of communication sent to or from officials in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General regarding the meeting held between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton in June 2016. -- All references to the meeting held between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton contained in day planners, calendars and schedules in the Office of the Attorney General.” The lawsuit was filed because the FOIA request to the Justice Department and FBI did not produce any records. • So, JW has joined ACLJ in trying to get at the truth about the Lynch-Clinton "tarmac summit." • For American Thinker, the serious question is "why the Justice Department, presumably led by Sessions, and the FBI, presumably led by a Trump appointee, is redacting the communications between the Obama Justice Department, then clearly led by Lynch, and the Obama FBI, then clearly led by Comey. There are no national security issues, so why not release the entire unredacted documents? We want the contents of the 400 pages detailing the communications between the Comey FBI and the Lynch DOJ, and why the FBI said there were no documents in response to the FOIA request when there are at least 400 pages. An attorney for the ACLJ, and Judicial Watch have stated they will go to court to get the unredacted documents. But why do they have to go to court -- we are entitled to know what happened. What is there to hide and why is the Sessions DOJ protecting Lynch?" • • • IS MUELLER THE CANCER IN THE REPUBLIC. Newsmax reporter Cathy Burke wrote last Sunday that Governor Chris Christie warned special counsel Robert Mueller to be "very careful" that his reported aim to follow the money trail in a Russia probe doesn't turn into "a fishing expedition." Burke was reporting on Christie's interview on CNN's "State of the Union," where the New Jersey Republican and former federal prosecutor also said Mueller's empaneling of a grand jury in the investigation is "typical" : "You can't issue subpoenas without a grand jury. It's the grand jury that actually issues the subpoenas. And so I think Bob Mueller wanted a grand jury focused on this so he could issue subpoenas and then review the evidence. That's a typical thing to be done in any investigation." Christie praised Mueller as a prosecutor, but said he also needs to be a "careful" one : "I trust that he'll be very careful to try not to go on a fishing expedition. There's always temptation to do that. I hope that that's not what he does. I hope the focus remains on what may have motivated any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, if, in fact, any collusion happened at all." • Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich took a different tone. He told Fox News' Hannity that special counsel Mueller's Russia investigation represents "the Deep State at its very worst." Gingrich called the Mueller threat probably "the most deadly because he has the power of the law, he has the ability to indict people, he has the ability to negotiate and let some people off if they'll testify against other people. I regard the Mueller example as the Deep State at its very worst and it worries me a great deal. It fits the whole case that we've seen about the Justice Department at times being out of control. So, that worries me a lot." • But Gingrich said despite everything, the Trump system is beginning to work. One proof of that came last week at the Trump rally in West Virginia. Despite the MSM ballyhooing about all things Democrat -- the January March on Washington, the endless town hall protests around the country, the roadblocks thrown up in the Senate to prevent Trump's program from being implemented -- one thing Democrats cannot prevent, yet, is what people think. The Trump presidency has not been kind to Progressives or the Democratic Party. Special elections have shown that neither Progressive causes nor seething hatred of the President are enough to inspire voters to come out to the polls. In areas of the Midwest, the Democratic Party is seeing more of what they saw last year -- people unregistering themselves in droves. The election of 2016 was a bitter blow for the Democrats, and it may have been the beginning of a long, painful slide into irrelevance for the Democrat Party. • The latest insult came on Thursday when, in attendance for a Trump rally, West Virginia’s Democrat governor, Jim Justice, stood up in front of thousands of people and a huge TV audience and officially jumped to the Republican Party. Governor Justice said : “Like it or not, but the Democrats walked away from me. West Virginia, I can’t help you anymore by being a Democratic governor.” Governor Justice's change carried a powerful symbolism -- it puts the Republican Party in control of 34 governor’s mansions across the country, and in 26 of those, they hold both the executive chair and the state legislature. On the other side, Democrats have total power in a mere six states. Put that together with the GOP’s complete stranglehold on Washington DC, and it becomes obvious how disconnected the nation’s major TV stations and newspapers are from the average American. The only thing the Democrat Party and MSM feed on is hatred of Trump, and so far, that isn’t enough to win elections. It isn't even enough to hold on to those few states where they actually have won elections -- witness Governor Jim Justice. • One reason the Democrat elites in the Swamp defend Special Counsel Mueller so fervently is that he is challenging the one thing that they can coalesce around -- their agreement that President TRump must be removed from office. But, they will lose on that issue, to. • • • DEEP STATE EMPLOYEES ATTACK TRUMP. TheHill published a story last weekend about how increasingly brazen current government employees are getting when it comes to disobeying, criticizing, and outright plotting against the Trump administration. The article shows that there is more need than ever before for the President to start draining the Swamp of bureaucrats who are entrenched in the system, loyal to Obama, and believe Progressives instead of following the will of the voters, as they used to. TheHill wrote : "A handful of current and former career staffers in the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have openly shredded their superiors within the last several weeks, continuing a trend that has developed throughout the government over the course of Trump’s tenure in the Oval Office. The growing opposition in the executive branch comes as the White House’s legislative agenda has stalled in Congress and Trump turns to his Cabinet agencies to change course in several policy areas. It also is emanating from career staffers or political holdovers whose resistance to Trump has, at times, been rooted in deep opposition to the President’s agenda." Jeff Ruch, the executive director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) group, when asked about staffers’ growing pushback, said : “From our point of view, it’s kind of obvious. You have Donald Trump, who ran and said he would drain the Swamp, meaning them.” • Ruch is right about that -- they are the people who helped expand the federal government to the point where most of us hardly know what happened to our private lives. To overhaul the country -- to make America great again -- will require firing some of those employees, and at agencies like the EPA, there will be natural pushback because Trump and the Republicans have made it clear that it’s time to slash funding to certain federal agencies, including the EPA, which have strayed far from their original mission statement to become job-killing behemoths of liberal policy. • President Trump needs to implement his agenda, and it is time to get federal employees under control, even if it takes mass firings. Trump was the man elected to do the job, and he needs people willing to help him do it. Simple as that -- which brings us to another problem. • • • WHAT IS ATTORNEY GENERAL SESSION DOING? If he knew about the severe redactions in the release of the 400 pages of Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting information to ACLJ, why would be agree to the redactions? Why would he want to protect Jim Comey or Loretta Lynch or Bill Clinton? WHY??? And, why is he not leading the charge to tamp down and fire if necessary the Deep State federal employees who are in open warfare against the President they are supposed to be working for. WHY??? • Sessions is doing many good things -- we know this because ever since President Trump gave him a dressing down in public, the AG has performed at a much higher level. But, why did it take an extraordinary action by the President to get Sessions to act as he should have all along? Is AG Sessions so afraid of the Mueller presence and of damaging his own position in the Washington Swamp hierarchy that he needs to be pushed to do his job??? I have asked this before -- is Jeff Sessions, despite his best effort to support Trump, really a lost soul in the Swamp??? • Consider that when Trump barks, Sessions acts. Real Clear Politics reported that within days after President Trump again admonished his attorney general on Twitter to crack down on leaks, Jeff Sessions announced on Friday that the Justice Department has been doing just that. At a Department of Justice news conference alongside Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, Sessions said criminal referrals to the DOJ alleging unauthorized disclosure of classified information have “exploded.” And, he said the FBI is creating a beefed-up investigative team, while the department reviews existing policies to determine when or whether to subpoena journalists as a tactic to aid the government as it attempts to find and prosecute suspected leakers. Following a review that began in February of referrals, ongoing investigations and manpower, the AG said his department had made the protection of classified national security information a priority : “We tripled the number of active leak investigations. In response, the FBI has increased resources devoted to leak cases and created a new counterintelligence unit to manage these cases. Simultaneously, this department is reviewing policies that impact leak investigations.” Attorney General Sessions also said the Trump administration has charged four people since January under criminal statutes with leaking classified material or with concealing contacts with federal agents. One case, disclosed in June, involves intelligence contractor Reality Leigh’s suspected disclosure to The Intercept of National Security Agency information about Russia’s interference with the 2016 US election. • Neither Sessions nor his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, gave details about the possible expansion of subpoenas affecting journalists and news outlets either directly or through third parties, such as communications carriers. Rosenstein said he would consult with news media representatives, including during a meeting scheduled next week, before decisions are reached. Sessions said : “We respect the important role that the press plays and will give them respect. But it is not unlimited.” • Obama AG Eric Holder's policy was that the Attorney General must sign off on all subpoenas and warrants associated with the news media during the government’s investigations. Sessions said Friday he put career-bureaucrat Rosenstein and newly confirmed FBI Director Christopher Wray in charge of overseeing “all classified leak investigations.” DNI Dan Coats emphasized that leaks of classified information are not always traced back to the intelligence community or its contractors and detailees : “They come from a wide range of sources within the government, including the executive branch and including the Congress.” • But, why does it take a public rebuke from President Trump for his Attorney General to step up to a microphone and tell America what he is doing for them?? It is a "Why" that has no answer. • • • DEAR READERS, Newt Gingrich also told Hannity that despite everything, the Trump system is beginning to work : "President Trump is making progress every week. "He's getting things done. He's beginning to move toward a tax cut bill that will be historic. He's gotten more judges approved than Obama had at this point. Obama and a Democratic Congress. Despite everything, I think the Trump system is gradually beginning to really work." • Clarice Feldmna at American Thinker says President Trump's "stated goals have always been to make us safe, get the economy booming, enable a job-creation economy, and make life better and safer for all Americans....the President keeps plowing on with his agenda. American Digest lists 220 things the President has achieved while in office, despite the vitriolic attacks on him and what appears to be a silent coup by the press, bureaucrats, and entrenched officeholders." Feldman lists some of Trump's achievements -- 78 of his nominees for office confirmed; 48% of Americans now live in a state where Republicans have complete control, compared to 17% in states with total Democrat control; the stock market is booming although the NYT twists itself into a pretzel to deny the President’s role in this, and Wall Street and corporate America are booming with the Dow Jones industrial average passed the 22,000 mark, a new high. • As for the Russian nonsense -- if Putin had really wanted to help Trump win the election, why did Russian sources provide damaging dirt to Steele for the salacious dossier that could have cost Trump the election? why did Kislyak provide the FBI with information, via a known tapped line, that could (and did) compromise key members of Trump’s administration? • As Putin told Oliver Stone in a fawning Stone interview recently, it doesn’t matter particularly to Russia whether Clinton or Trump won the election : his goal was to install doubt in the legitimacy of the process, regardless of how it turned out. • Another longtime investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh in salty language claims to have insider knowledge that Seth Rich downloaded the DNC emails -- they were not hacked, but leaked. Hersch says : "All I know is that he (Seth) offered a sample, an extensive sample, you know I’m sure dozens of email and said “I want money.” Then later Wikileaks did get the password, he had a Dropbox, a protected Dropbox, which isn’t hard to do, I mean you don’t have to be a wizard IT, you know, he was certainly not a dumb kid. They got access to the Dropbox. He also, and this is also in the FBI report, he also let people know with whom he was dealing...I don’t know how he dealt with the Wikileaks and the mechanism but he also, the word was passed according to the NSA report : 'I’ve also shared this box with a couple of friends so if anything happens to me it’s not going to solve your problem.' Ok. I don’t know what that means....I have somebody on the inside, you know I’ve been around a long time, and I write a lot of stuff. I have somebody on the inside who will go and read a file for me. This person is unbelievably accurate and careful, he’s a very high-level guy and he’ll do a favor. You’re just going to have to trust me. I have what they call in my business a long-form journalism, I have a narrative of how that whole **** thing began, it’s a Brennan operation, it was an American disinformation and ****ing the ****ing President, at one point when they, they even started telling the press, they were back briefing the press, the head of the NSA was going and telling the press, ****ing Rogers, was telling the press that we even know who in the GRU, the Russian Military Intelligence Service, who leaked it. I mean all [nonsense]... I worked at the New York Times for ****ing years, and the trouble with the f***ing New York Times is they have smart guys, but they’re totally beholden on sources....So that’s what the Times did. These guys run the ****ing Times, and Trump’s not wrong. But I mean I wish he would calm down and had a better a better press secretary, I mean you don’t have to be so. Trump’s not wrong to think they all ****ing lie about him." • Read that a few times to understand that Hersch, a formidable Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, is saying that the Democrat CIA Director and the NSA Director were leading the fake news against Trump about Russia collusion. • IF that is so, why are we surprised that former FBI head James Comey who earlier was caught leaking official government memos to the media, has now been accused of another crime by lying and covering up the details of the Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting while Hillary was under investigation by Comey’s FBI for mishandling secret information she’d received as Secretary of State. • The sad and frightening truth is that the broad redactions of the FOIA releases about the tarmac meeting show that President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions do not yet, and may not ever, fully control the Department of Justice -- but they can get started by eliminating Deep State hangovers from the Obama years. And, while Special Counsel Robert Mueller is off-limits for firing unless he does something outrageous, he has brought the grand jury proceedings to Washington DC, which Professor Alan Dershowitz states is a highly partisan anti-Republican venue, and he has continued to stack his team with Democratic lawyers most of whom have donated to Hillary, supported the Democrats, and even expressed anti-Trump sentiments. Where is the Rosenstein control? It apparently does not exist. But, Congress has oversight authority and it should be looking at the Mueller team and overreach, NOW. • BUT, the bottom line still is that President Trump is not losing. He has America with him. He has made the Democrat leadership look like -- dare I say it -- a JV team. It is the media and the Democratic party they work for who are losing their non-Progressive rank and file, and losing America. With President Trump as our leader, we are taking America back and nobody is going to stop us. Nobody. Certainly not Jeff Sessions, who must get control of the DOJ or resign.