https://www.judicialwatch.org/press...s-fbi-over-failure-to-preserve-text-messages/ Judicial Watch Sues FBI over Failure to Preserve Text Messages NOVEMBER 01, 2018 Email Print Text Size Tweet Also Files Suit over Disgraced Official McCabe’s Texts (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed lawsuits regarding the maintenance of text messages as federal records and for records of the audit of communications of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. After the FBI claimed that text messages are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Judicial Watch filed suit to ensure that text messages are being preserved. The new Administrative Procedure Act lawsuit against the FBI challenges the FBI failure to preserve FBI text messages as required by the Federal Records Act. (Judicial Watch v. FBI (No.1:18-cv-02316)). In its lawsuit Judicial Watch points to a related case in which Michael G. Seidel, the assistant section chief of the Record/Information Dissemination Section in the FBI’s Information Management Division, stated: “text messages on [FBI]-issued devices are not automatically integrated into an FBI records system.” (Danik v. U.S. Department of Justice, (No. 1:17-cv-01792)). Judicial Watch argued that the FBI “does not have a recordkeeping program in place that provides effective controls over the maintenance of electronic messages, including text messages.” Moreover, “The FBI relies upon its personnel to incorporate their text messages into a recordkeeping system. If FBI personnel do not actively incorporate their text messages into a recordkeeping system, the text messages are not preserved.” Judicial Watch asked the court to declare the FBI’s failure to have a recordkeeping program for electronic messages to be “not in accordance with law” and that the court order the FBI “to establish and maintain a recordkeeping program that provides effective controls over the maintenance of electronic messages.” If text messages are not preserved, then they may be deleted and never produced to Congress, criminal investigators, and to the American people under FOIA. Judicial Watch also filed suit against the Justice Department after the DOJ failed to respond to an August 27, 2018, FOIA request seeking the FBI’s audit records of McCabe’s communications (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-02283)). In 2015, a political action committee run by Terry McAuliffe, a close friend and political supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, donated nearly $500,000 to Andrew McCabe’s wife Jill, 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. In July 2017, Judicial Watch filed three FOIA lawsuits seeking communications between the FBI and McCabe concerning “ethical issues” involving his wife’s political campaign; McCabe’s communications with McAuliffe; and McCabe’s travel vouchers. Following an Inspector General Report, a grand jury reportedly was impaneled recently to investigate McCabe’s possible role in leaks to the media “to advance his personal interests.” The FBI has told Judicial Watch that it is under no legal obligation to produce any of Andrew McCabe’s text messages under FOIA, which has attracted criticism from President Trump. “This lawsuit exposes a massive FBI cover-up of its text messages, which are government records and are, by the thousands, likely to have been deleted and lost by FBI employees,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And of course, this cover-up conveniently impacts the production of text messages to Judicial Watch and Congress of disgraced FBI officials Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and James Comey.”
That will have to wait until after all of Trumps lawsuits are dealt with. Should be able to hear the case sometime by 2050. Sounds like trumps group is ramping up over the fear of what Mueller will soon be exposing.
Judicial Watch has nothing to do with Trump, and has filed many lawsuits against his administration, albeit the majority involve Obama holdover personnel guilty of crimes. Judicial Watch has sued the government dozens upon dozens of times when the Deep State refuses to honor FOIA requests, and wins 100% of the time. They are America's Truth Seekers, and without them we would know nothing of the graft and crime running rampant in our political system. Nearly every successful prosecution of a public official in America was prompted, encouraged or forced by them. They exposed Hillary's email scandal. They exposed Andrew McCabe's criminality. They exposed Obama's illegal funding of George Soros's Political Organization's meddling in Romania using US taxpayer's dollars. They exposed Christine Blasey Ford's lawyers for deceiving her for political gain. They exposed the incredibly improper immunity deals and lack of investigation of Clinton, her lawyer, her aide, and many other staff members. They are in the process of forcing a legitimate investigation of Clinton and further investigation of the Deep State FBI members involved in covering for her and her crimes. They are exposing Obama's attempts to enact massive gun confiscations. They have exposed Obama illegally financing Soros's aid to far-left terrorist groups in Albania. They exposed the FBI, the DNC, Clinton, GPS Fusion and British spy Christopher Steele for election tampering through a fabricated smear campaign, lying to a FISA court, illegal surveillance... They exposed ex-FBI agents Strzok and Pages anti-Trump plot. They exposed Bruce Ohr and his wife's parts in the fake Russian Dossier scam. They exposed Comey for writing an exoneration of Clinton before he ever interviewed her. They exposed Obama's IRS and Sen. John McCain for abusing their office to damage conservative taxpayers. They exposed the illegal sale of 2000+ guns by Obama/Holder to Mexican drug cartels, resulting in the murder of at least one border patrol agent. They exposed Obama's secret resettlement of refugees in key rural cities to establish a future liberal voting bloc in historically conservative ares.They exposed the illegal Uranium 1 deal. They exposed John and Tony Podesta's illegal tampering in foreign governments and failure to register as agents of a foreign government, failure to pay taxes...ala Manafort. They exposed the Clinton Foundation's pay to play graft, selling our country's cooperation for "donations of over $200,000,000 from foreign governments and foreign and domestic businessmen. And that's just the recent actions.
