DOJ Records: Mueller Team Repeatedly, 'Accidentally' Wiped Phones | Eastern North Carolina Now

    On the same day, Rosenstein appointed Mueller special counsel for the Russia investigation.

    On July 24, 2019, Mueller, testified about whether he was interviewed for the FBI Director position in an exchange with Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL):

• STEUBE: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Mueller, over here. Mr. Mueller did you indeed interview for the FBI director job one day before you were appointed as Special Counsel?
• MUELLER: My understanding I was not applying for that job, I was asked to give my input on what it would take to do the job, which triggered the interview you're talking about.
• STEUBE: So you don't recall on May 16th, 2017 that you interviewed with the president regarding the FBI director job?
• MUELLER: I interviewed with the president and it was about...
• STEUBE: Regarding the FBI director job?
• MUELLER: ...it was about the job and not about me applying for the job.
• STEUBE: So your statement here today is that you didn't interview to apply for the FBI director job?
• MUELLER: That's correct.
• STEUBE: So it - did you tell the vice president that the FBI director position would be the one job that you would come back to - for?
• MUELLER: I don't recall that one.
• STEUBE: You don't recall that?
• MUELLER: No.

    President Trump said that Mueller did indeed "apply and interview" for the FBI director job and that claims otherwise presented a conflict of interest that should have kept him out of the Russia investigation.

    The president tweeted on July 24, 2019, the day of Mueller's House testimony: "It has been reported that Robert Mueller is saying that he did not apply and interview for the job of FBI Director (and get turned down) the day before he was wrongfully appointed Special Counsel. Hope he doesn't say that under oath in that we have numerous witnesses to the interview, including the Vice President of the United States!"


    The latest production of documents from the DOJ also includes a letter dated May 19, 2017, from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to President Trump in which the senator recommends Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for the director's position at the bureau.

    Feinstein writes that McCabe "has demonstrated leadership and excellence while engaged in some of the most high-profile and complex cases."

    Feinstein goes on to conclude: "During my time on both the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, I have been impressed by Mr. McCabe and believe him to be a man of honor. He is exactly the kind of person we need leading the FBI right now, and I hope you give him strong consideration."

    DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a report in 2018 detailing multiple instances in which McCabe "lacked candor" with FBI Director James Comey, FBI investigators, and inspector general investigators about his authorization to leak sensitive information to the Wall Street Journal that revealed the existence of an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.

    On March 16, 2018, McCabe was fired by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

    After stonewalling on our FOIA requests for years, the FBI in late July agreed to release McCabe's text messages, though have yet to release any of them.

    The corrupted Justice Department and FBI inexcusably hid these and other smoking gun records about Mueller and Rosenstein for nearly three years. It is well past time for a serious independent investigation of Mueller and his abusive special counsel operation.

    In February 2020, we uncovered Rosenstein's communications with former Obama officials, such as Eric Holder, as well as information sharing with the media in the days immediately surrounding the inception of the Mueller investigation.

    In October 2019, through this same lawsuit, we uncovered Rosenstein's communications from this lawsuit that included a one-line email Mueller stating: "The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions," as well as "off the record" emails with major media outlets around the date of Mueller's appointment.

    In September 2019, through a separate lawsuit, we uncovered records from the Department of Justice showing officials' efforts in responding to media inquiries about DOJ/FBI talks allegedly invoking the 25th Amendment to "remove" President Donald Trump from office and Rosenstein offering to wear a "wire" to record his conversations with the president. Later that month, we uncovered a two-page memo, dated May 16, 2017, by then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe detailing how Rosenstein proposed wearing a wire into the Oval Office "to collect additional evidence on the president's true intentions." McCabe wrote that Rosenstein said he thought it was possible because "he was not searched when he entered the White House."


    We've laid bare the multiple conspiracies at Justice and the FBI and it well past time that the DOJ or some other federal law enforcement agency do something about it.

    Judicial Watch Court Battle for Joe Biden's Senate Records at the University of Delaware

    What does Joe Biden not want the American people to see in his Senate records hidden away at the University of Delaware? A sexual assault complaint? Notes on conversations with Putin?

    We intend to find out.

    We just filed a new brief in our lawsuit for access to former Vice President Joe Biden's Senate records at the University of Delaware. This court filing comes in the lawsuit we filed with the Daily Caller News Foundation after a Delaware Attorney General's opinion denied us access to the records, which are housed at the university's library (Daily Caller News Foundation v. University of Delaware (No. N20A-07-001)).

    We filed this Delaware FOIA lawsuit in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware on July 2, 2020. Judicial Watch and the Daily Caller News Foundation are being represented by Delaware lawyers Ted Kittila and Bill Green of Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP.

    The lawsuit is challenging a state attorney general opinion that the Biden records are not "public records" because, the opinion concludes without evidence, no public funds are used to support the Biden records project at the University of Delaware.

    We responded in court that it is impossible for the Biden Senate documents, which are housed in the University of Delaware's Library, to not be supported by public funds. We note that the University admitted that "[t]he State of Delaware provides the University with approximately $120 million each year through an appropriation in the state budget," but never shows how public funds are not used to support the papers.

    We further point out that "archival storage space and professional staff members' time are things of value that it can be inferred are paid for with public funds," and notes that the requests even listed the, "University personnel who maintain the Senatorial Papers whose salaries, it can be inferred, are paid with State funds." We're requesting that the Court order the University to search for and produce the requested records.

    "Anyone running for public office, especially our highest office, should expect public scrutiny of their record, especially of their public record," said Daily Caller News Foundation President Neil Patel. "It's amazing that Joe Biden's public papers are still sealed and nobody else in the press seems to care. We care and we are going to fight to get these records opened up as they should be."

    I would add that Delaware is hiding, in violation of law, Joe Biden's Senate records. It is time for the University of Delaware to stop protecting Joe Biden and follow Delaware law, which requires them to provide public access to these public records.

    We filed our FOIA lawsuit after the University denied our April 30, 2020, FOIA request for:

• All records regarding the proposed release of the records pertaining to former Vice President Joe Biden's tenure as a Senator that have been housed at the University of Delaware Library since 2012. This request includes all related records of communication between the University of Delaware and any other records created pertaining to any meeting of the Board of Trustees during which the proposed release of the records was discussed.
• All records of communication between any representative of the University of Delaware and former Vice President Biden or any other individual acting on his behalf between January 1, 2018 and the present.

    On April 30, the Daily Caller News Foundation submitted its FOIA request to the University for:

• All agreements concerning the storage of more than 1,850 boxes of archival records and 415 gigabytes of electronic records from Joe Biden's senate career from 1973 through 2009.
• Communications between the staff of the University of Delaware Library and Joe Biden or his senatorial, vice-presidential or political campaign staff, or for anyone representing any of those entities between 2010 [April 30,2020] about Joe Biden's senate records.
• Any logs or sign-in sheets recording any individuals who have visited the special-collections department where records from Joe Biden's senate career are stored between 2010 to the date of this request.
• All records from Joe Biden's Senate career that have been submitted to the University of Delaware Library.

    Tara Reade, who accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993 when she worked as a staff assistant to the then-senator, has said that she believes a workplace discrimination and harassment complaint she filed against Biden at the time may be in the records housed at the University of Delaware. Biden also admitted to communicating with Vladimir Putin and other foreign leaders when he was a United State Senator.

    We Must Never Forget

    I was on the tarmac set to take off from Dulles Airport to travel to LA to tape an appearance on Bill Maher's show nineteen years ago on 9/11/01. My plane never took off. Conservative activist and lawyer Barbara Olson was also flying out of Dulles for Maher's show, but her plane, AA #77, had just taken off and was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon. What a horrible day that was...

    Judicial Watch sprung into action and through diligent and persistent investigation uncovered revelation after revelation about the failures and cover-ups tied to the 9/11 conspiracy. In fact, we still have lawsuits pending connected to the 9/11 terror attacks.


    And let's not forget today is the anniversary of the Benghazi attack, which occurred on 9/11/12. Judicial Watch's investigation of this egregious scandal stands as the most important non-governmental investigation in American history - as it resulted of the Benghazi Select Committee and the uncovering of the Clinton email scandal.

    We won't forget and, with your support, Judicial Watch keep pushing where we can on accountability on the attacks and on terrorism generally.

    Until next week ...