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2018-07-03 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Federal Court Orders DOJ to Begin Searching and Producing Fusion GPS Records in Response to Judicial Watch Lawsuit
[Judicial Watch] (Washington, DC) ‐ Judicial Watch announced U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton instructed the Justice Department to immediately begin producing records about DOJ communications with Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior DOJ official Bruce Ohr. Nellie Ohr worked for Clinton campaign vendor Fusion GPS on the anti-Trump Dossier campaign document.

Judge Walton rejected a Justice Department request to begin producing documents six months from now and ordered the DOJ to begin producing documents immediately on a rolling basis over the next two months. Judge Walton also rejected DOJ’s efforts to restrict their search to only 2016.

Judge Walton repeatedly criticized the Justice Department during a June 14 hearing:
I think if it’s been almost, since December when the initial request was made more should have been done by now. And it seems to me if you have someone who’s going to come into office and they say they’re going to be a disrupter, that they should appreciate there’s going to be a lot of FOIA requests and therefore, should gear up to deal with those requests. So I’m not real sympathetic to the position that you have limited staff and therefore, you can’t comply with these requests. So I think you’re going to have to get some more people.

I mean FOIA is considered to be very important. I keep getting from the government, from various agencies we can’t do this, we can’t do that because we don’t have the resources. I’m not real sympathetic to that. FOIA is important. Open government is important, and government has to comply with FOIA in order to make it an open government.

In March 2018 Judicial Watch filed the FOIA lawsuit after the Justice Department failed to respond to a December 2017 FOIA request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:18-cv-00491)). The lawsuit seeks:
Bruce and Nellie Orr. The forgotten Deep state players waiting to be exposed. Bravo for Judicial Watch.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 DOJ. A once fine department until 2008AD when The One convinced many to become his very own fallen angels.
Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-07-03 03:21||   2018-07-03 03:21|| Front Page Top

#2 That'll take a generation to deliver, given their speed and thoroughness responding to Congressional subpenas.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-03 08:09||   2018-07-03 08:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Give them two weeks to comply, then send in Federal marshals.
Posted by Raj 2018-07-03 08:18||   2018-07-03 08:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Notify them that the Federal Marshals WILL be coming in the door and give them a date.

Oh and confiscate their Shredder before you do.
Posted by Lionel Spomotle6549 2018-07-03 09:21||   2018-07-03 09:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Judicial Watch: doing the job the DOJ should have ✔

Thank goodness for Judge Walton
Posted by Clamp Spawn of the Jutes4909 2018-07-03 10:25||   2018-07-03 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 #3 Give them two weeks to comply, then send in Federal marshals. Now would be good.
Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-03 10:31||   2018-07-03 10:31|| Front Page Top

#7 The Bureaucratic Veto in action. The traditional solution was to hang a few scribes from the window by their feet to encourage the rest to get to work. Bastianado also had its charms as an incentive.
Posted by magpie 2018-07-03 10:32||   2018-07-03 10:32|| Front Page Top

#8 If they don't think they have enough people now, wait until they're all in the slammer.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-07-03 10:58||   2018-07-03 10:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Prob all on Awan's missing server.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-03 15:07||   2018-07-03 15:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Tom Fitton is a hero.
Posted by mossomo 2018-07-03 17:21||   2018-07-03 17:21|| Front Page Top

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