Sunday, November 4, 2018

The FBI Ignores Federal Records Laws, and President Trump Notices

After the FBI claimed that text messages are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, we 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.

In our lawsuit we point 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.

We 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. We also filed suit against the Justice Department after the DOJ failed to respond to an August 27, 2018, FOIA request for the FBI's audit records of McCabe's communications (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.

Our 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.

We just released 49 pages of new State Department documents showing top Soros representatives in Romania collaborating with the State Department in a program jointly funded by, among others, Soros's Open Society Foundations - Romania and USAID, called the "Open Government Partnership."


https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/weekly-update-new-soros-docs/

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