Declassified and pending release Wrote:
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> Reginald Wentworth III Wrote:
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> > First de-classifying something is not done with
> a
> > magic wand or the wave of a hand. There are
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> that they would do that."
>
> You can read the full memo here:
>
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-0
> 7/Meadows%20Memo%20to%20AG%20re%20Declassification
> %20of%20FBI%20Binder.01.20.2021.pdf
>
> Former Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel, who
> worked as the chief investigative counsel for the
> House Intelligence Committee when it unraveled the
> false Russia narrative under then-Rep. Devin
> Nunes, said Tuesday the DOJ's defiance of a lawful
> presidential order only compounded the FBI's and
> department's failings during the original probe by
> preventing the American public from having
> transparency.
>
> "It is illegal to hide documents from publication
> through the FOIA process, if their sole purpose is
> to cover up an embarrassment or unlawful activity,
> and that's what's going on right now," Patel told
> the John Solomon Reports podcast, criticizing
> current and former federal officials for not
> speaking out against the DOJ's defiance.
>
> "It's shocking, but not surprising, since it has
> to do with President Trump," Patel added. "So
> their hypocrisy is on display." The DOJ and FBI,
> he said, simply attempted to run out the clock as
> the administration's final hours wound down.
>
> Patel said the next steps to force the disclosure
> of the documents is a FOIA lawsuit and possible
> subpoenas from Congress if Republicans regain
> control in the November elections. Just the News
> is exploring such litigation.
>
> Tom Fitton, the president of the watchdog group
> Judicial Watch, said the documents in the binder
> are likely to be responsive to current lawsuits
> his group has pending at the Justice Department
> and FBI for Russia probe documents and the 2021
> memo from Meadows may make it easier to persuade a
> court to take action. He said he believes DOJ is
> "still trying to protect their own in terms of the
> corruption involving the targeting of Trump"
> during the Russia probe.
>
> Notably, Fitton's group was involved in litigation
> that resulted in a court ruling years ago that the
> White House was exempt from the requirements of
> the Privacy Act, and he said the DOJ's last-minute
> effort to raise the issue to stop the release of
> the declassified documents smacked of bad faith.
>
> DOJ "did the runaround to try to protect
> themselves from being exposed, because the
> documents, to be clear, relate to the improper
> targeting of Trump and his associates that we know
> is based on politics and animus as opposed to
> national security or anything substantive," Fitton
> told the "Just the News, Not Noise" show. "And in
> this case, these were documents that were made
> available pursuant to the president's lawful
> authority. And in the end, the FBI came up with a
> lie, which is that the Privacy Act was implicated
> in the release of these documents by the White
> House, and that wasn't the case."
>
> Former Trump adviser David Bossie, the head of the
> Citizens United watchdog group, said the episode
> is a pointed reminder that the permanent
> bureaucracy in Washington wields so much power it
> can thwart the actions of a duly elected
> president.
>
> "This is what President Trump ran against: the
> Deep State," Bossie said. "These are the deep
> state actors that the American people don't
> understand really what it's about, but it's the
> people who are the permanent class in Washington
> D.C. They just don't do what they're told. They
> don't do what they are ordered to do. And so when
> President Trump says to a bunch of bureaucrats to
> go do something, they sit on their hands, and
> especially at the last minute. This was a
> conspiracy against the president, within our own
> government."
>
> Meadows said if the documents are finally
> released, they will provide compelling evidence
> that congressional Democrats and FBI leaders who
> assured the public there was a Russia-Trump
> conspiracy actually knew what they were saying was
> untrue.
>
> "We found that not only were some of the
> allegations made by some of the Democrats false,
> but they were kind of guilty of what they were
> accusing Donald Trump of," he said.
Conveniently, this completely ignores the Top Secret stuff that would be devastating to our Country if that information fell in the wrong hands,