DC: The Department of Justice has refused to take any steps to preserve work-related emails former FBI Director James Comey had on a personal account that The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch requested under the Freedom of Information Act, the conservative watchdog will file in court Friday.
“There is nothing but complete silence about why the FBI has failed to take steps to preserve records responsive to DCNF’s request,” Judicial Watch attorney Michael Bekesha will write in the filing before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Judicial Watch and TheDCNF filed a joint lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act on April 25 seeking records, including emails, Comey produced regarding meetings and conversations he had with then-President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden and a variety of other political figures.
Following the Justice Department Inspector General’s June 2018 report, which disclosed that Comey used a personal Gmail account for official FBI business, both groups sought a preservation order to assure no records related to their FOIA requests were lost or destroyed.
Both groups requested U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly order the Justice Department to preserve all of Comey’s personal emails related to the two requests on July 27.
The same day, Kollar-Kotelly took the unusual step of demanding an expedited reply from the Justice Department, ordering that the agency respond to the court by Aug. 1 and to respond to Judicial Watch and TheDCNF by Aug. 3 MORE
The DOJ and the FBI are clearly out of control. Heads need to roll and soon! Lots of them! Nothing will be changing until they start chopping. Not just changing deck chairs around, dump them in jail or the streets.
Sessions isn’t recused from this one. Where the hell is he
Back in the twentieth century, the FBI would just grab a bunch of local law enforcement, roll up on these defiants’ homes, and kill them all. I miss the good old days of honorable men. Who swore their oaths seriously. Does that still make me racist?
It’s my understanding that e-mails sent on personal accounts aren’t subject to the FOIA. Just those sent on government accounts. Why do you think Ms. Hillary used private accounts?
So Judicial Watch and DCNF filed for a preservation order in June, and the judge issued the order at the end of July. Gee, i wonder during what time period the emails in question will be claimed to have been destroyed.
saving the emails would have been like saving used toilet paper
Yes!, this is where, ‘Failure is the Option!’ BINGO!
Badco;
E-mails on a personal account can still be subject to FOIA if proven to be related to official duties. Hillary tried it because she thought her e-mails would remain off the radar, not that they were not subject to FOIA. She believed (and Comey likely as well) that the public cannot FOIA something they don’t know exists. Once its existence was revealed, they are just as subject as a .gov address.
So they won’t preserve his emails, but they’ll preserve his security clearance. Got it.
Setting up the Religious Liberty Task Force, which this young lady has described perfectly:
https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2018/07/return-of-swamp-thing.html
@rickn8or August 3, 2018 at 10:40 pm
> Setting up the Religious Liberty Task Force
Well, it’s nice he’s finally found a hobby.