Thursday, July 18, 2019

Emails Show Dossier-Connected Top Obama State Department Officials Set 'Face-to-Face' Meeting on 'Russian Matter' in NY in September 2016

Judicial Watch and The Daily Caller News Foundation today released 84 pages of documents, including a September 2016 email exchange between then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Special Coordinator for Libya Jonathan Winer, a close associate of dossier author Christopher Steele, discussing a "Face-to-face" meeting on a "Russian matter."

"According to an op-ed Winer wrote for The Washington Post in 2018, also in September 2016,"Steele and I met in Washington and discussed the information now known as the "Dossier I prepared a two-page summary and shared it with Nuland, who indicated that, like me, she felt that the secretary of state needed to be made aware of this material."

The documents obtained by Judicial Watch also show that State Department officials continued to use unsecure BlackBerry devices for the transmission of classified material more than a year after Hillary Clinton's use of an unsecure, non-government email system was revealed.

Judicial Watch obtained the documents in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed on April 25, 2018, on behalf of itself and the Daily Caller News Foundation against the State Department after it failed to respond to three separate FOIA requests national security advisor Daniel Silverberg to work on Russia dossier materials provided by Christopher Steele.

In December 2018, Judicial Watch released documents revealing that Nuland was involved in the Obama State Department's urgent gathering of classified Russia investigation information and disseminating it to members of Congress within hours of Donald Trump taking office.

In a related lawsuit, Judicial Watch is suing the State Department communications between Ambassador Nuland and employees of Fusion GPS, as well as top ranking Department of Justice, FBI, and State Department officials.

Judicial Watch recently released 41 pages of documents from the State Department revealing that Winer, played a key role in facilitating Steele's access to other top government officials, prominent international business executives.


https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-emails-show-dossier-connected-top-obama-state-department-officials-set-face-to-face-meeting-on-russian-matter-in-ny-on-september-2016/?utm_source=twitter2&utm_medium=social&utm_campaig

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