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real-human
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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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two lawsuits filed recently for similar...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/andrew-mccabe-sues-fbi-over-firing-alleges-plot-by-trump-to-oust-those-disloyal-to-the-president/ar-AAFxuoq?ocid=spartandhp
Andrew McCabe sues FBI over firing, alleges plot by Trump to oust those disloyal to the president
Quote: | Andrew McCabe, the acting FBI director who authorized an investigation into President Trump for ties to Russia and possible obstruction of justice, filed a lawsuit against the bureau and the Justice Department on Wednesday, alleging he was illegally demoted and fired as part of a plot by Trump to remove those who were not politically loyal to him.
McCabe asked that a federal judge declare his termination a “legal nullity” and essentially allow him to retire from the FBI as planned, with all the benefits that would have afforded him. He was fired from the bureau in March 2018, a little more than 24 hours before McCabe was set to retire, costing him significant retirement benefits. The termination came after the Justice Department inspector general found that McCabe made an unauthorized disclosure to the media, then lied to investigators about it.
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“It was Trump’s unconstitutional plan and scheme to discredit and remove DOJ and FBI employees who were deemed to be his partisan opponents because they were not politically loyal to him,” the lawsuit alleges, adding that McCabe’s firing “was a critical element of Trump’s plan and scheme.”
Justice Department and FBI spokeswomen declined to comment. White House officials did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
The inspector general referred McCabe’s case to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., which has been using a grand jury to determine if McCabe should also be charged criminally. McCabe has long asserted he did nothing wrong, and that his termination, ordered by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, was a politically motivated effort by Trump to undermine the FBI’s work. Trump had vigorously criticized McCabe even before he was removed from his post. |
Quote: | The suit is the second this week by former FBI officials who say they were wrongly removed from their positions for political reasons.
On Tuesday, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who also played a key role in the Russia probe, sued the Justice Department and FBI for reinstatement and back pay, arguing he was unfairly terminated for criticizing Trump. Strzok was found to have sent anti-Trump text messages, which FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said called into question the bureau’s decisions in the Russia probe and the separate investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
McCabe’s lawsuit is notable for its forcefulness, alleging that Trump enlisted the highest-ranking members of the federal law enforcement apparatus in a scheme to stifle dissent. The suit singles out in particular Sessions and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, who it claims “knowingly acted in furtherance of Trump’s plan and scheme, with knowledge that they were implementing Trump’s unconstitutional motivations for removing Plaintiff from the civil service.”
“Trump demanded Plaintiff’s personal allegiance, he sought retaliation when Plaintiff refused to give it, and Sessions, Wray, and others served as Trump’s personal enforcers rather than the nation’s highest law enforcement officials, catering to Trump’s unlawful whims instead of honoring their oaths to uphold the Constitution,” the lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff refers to McCabe, who filed the suit. |
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mac
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Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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After months of paranoid claims by the three stooges, promising that members of the deep state were going to jail—crickets.
“The Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence that the FBI attempted to place undercover agents or informants inside Donald Trump’s campaign...”
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mat-ty
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Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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mac wrote: | After months of paranoid claims by the three stooges, promising that members of the deep state were going to jail—crickets.
“The Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence that the FBI attempted to place undercover agents or informants inside Donald Trump’s campaign...”
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Report comes out Dec 9th you nitwit....What you're hearing now is the pre spin for stupid old fools like you. The IG report will be highly critical of wrong doing and sloppiness...but has no teeth.. The Durham report is going to be a whole different situation and will absolutely have indictments....
Handwritings on the wall...just listen to some of Barrs statements. |
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real-human
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Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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mat-ty wrote: | mac wrote: | After months of paranoid claims by the three stooges, promising that members of the deep state were going to jail—crickets.
“The Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence that the FBI attempted to place undercover agents or informants inside Donald Trump’s campaign...”
Released on Thanksgiving to save Matty from embarrassment. |
Report comes out Dec 9th you nitwit....What you're hearing now is the pre spin for stupid old fools like you. The IG report will be highly critical of wrong doing and sloppiness...but has no teeth.. The Durham report is going to be a whole different situation and will absolutely have indictments....
Handwritings on the wall...just listen to some of Barrs statements. |
after 3 years still no grand jury indictment, considering the first two years every branch of government was completely controlled by the ultra right wing.
Can't we just have another Hillary investigation... oh we are. funny not one person from Hillary or Bill has been indicted by a grand jury in again what 6 years of countless ultra partisan right wing investigations and Hillary even testified under oath and so did every single person requested by the ultra partisan right wingers controlling every branch of governemnt. _________________ when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
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real-human
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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seems the trump administration tried their hardest to find where the info was coming from, but we see that no arrests/convictions were made by trump-Barr injustice department on anyone in 4 years in the obama administration about trumps help and collusion with russia.
https://news.yahoo.com/3-washington-post-reporters-phone-170937354.html
3 Washington Post Reporters’ Phone Records Were Obtained by Trump Justice Department
Quote: | “We are deeply troubled by this use of government power to seek access to the communications of journalists,” Post’s acting executive editor Cameron Barr says
Three Washington Post reporters’ phone records were secretly obtained by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department as a result of reporting they did on Russia’s role in the 2016 election, according to Post. The DOJ also attempted to obtain the reporters’ email records.
Per a story published by The Washington Post on Friday, “In three separate letters dated May 3 and addressed to Post reporters Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, and former Post reporter Adam Entous, the Justice Department wrote they were ‘hereby notified that pursuant to legal process the United States Department of Justice received toll records associated with the following telephone numbers for the period from April 15, 2017 to July 31, 2017.’ The letters listed work, home or cellphone numbers covering that three-and-a-half-month period.”
The Justice Department’s phone records for Nakashima, Miller and Entous include the phone numbers of the calls made to and from their phones over that time period and how long the calls were, but not what was said during the calls.
“We are deeply troubled by this use of government power to seek access to the communications of journalists,” The Post’s acting executive editor Cameron Barr said. “The Department of Justice should immediately make clear its reasons for this intrusion into the activities of reporters doing their jobs, an activity protected under the First Amendment.”
“While rare, the Department follows the established procedures within its media guidelines policy when seeking legal process to obtain telephone toll records and non-content email records from media members as part of a criminal investigation into unauthorized disclosure of classified information,” DOJ spokesman Marc Raimondi said in a statement to The Post. “The targets of these investigations are not the news media recipients but rather those with access to the national defense information who provided it to the media and thus failed to protect it as lawfully required.”
Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment Saturday. The Department of Justice also did not immediately respond to our request. |
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