Judicial Watch at CPAC: Scandal Matters to the American People
It was my special privilege to speak at the Conservative Political
Action Conference last week. I was interviewed on the main stage by
Kelly Riddell of The Washington Times.
We covered a number of issues of pressing interest to the American people.
You can see the full interview beginning at the 2:43:50 mark. Here is some of what I said:
Fighting corruption matters to the American people. Washington doesn’t want what the American people want.
Obviously, Judicial Watch changed history with the Clinton email
scandal. We uncovered it. We’re still in the middle of the email
scandal. We’re still trying to get all of the emails. And frankly,
President Trump’s administration should consider reopening or pursuing
the ongoing criminal investigation related to Hillary Clinton.
There’s
this alt-government in place, a government staffed by recent appointees
or hires of Obama. There are lots of Democrats in the bureaucracy, but
on the other hand there are also lots of Republicans who think they know
better than President Trump and are willing to thwart the rule of law.
They are organizing actively against him and subverting the rule of law.
And we see elements of this with the targeting of General Flynn.
For two days, February 23 and 24, we hosted groundbreaking live coverage of CPAC from Broadcast Row hosted by Emily Miller on Facebook live.
Special guests included: Dr. Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the
president; David Clarke, sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; David
Keene, opinion editor of The Washington Times
and former president of the NRA; comedian Tim Young; intelligence
expert, retired U.S. Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer;
artist James McNaughton famous for his painting “The Forgotten Man;” and
Shane Bouvet, who was awarded $10,000 by President Trump for his
father’s cancer treatments.
The
feedback we received from the thousands of CPAC attendees was
heartening. I can tell you, especially if you’re a financial supporter,
that Americans value and depend on Judicial Watch and believe that our
work is saving the country!
Federal Court Hearing Set for Next Week on Clinton Email Scandal
As I told the audience at CPAC, the Hillary Clinton email scandal is far from over.
We announced this week that a hearing will be held Tuesday, March 7, 2017,
regarding our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking
Clinton’s emails that were sent or received during her tenure from
February 2009 to January 31, 2013. We also seek all emails by other
State Department employees to Clinton regarding her non-‘state.gov’ email address (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)). The case is before Judge James E. Boasberg.
Items of discussion at the hearing will be the emails of Clinton aide
Huma Abedin that were found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, Abedin’s
estranged husband. We also will be seeking answers as to the timing of
the release of Clinton’s emails that were recovered by the FBI in its
investigation of the server used by Clinton and others.
The State Department has previously been ordered
to produce documents to Judicial Watch and is currently processing 500
pages per month from disk one of seven available disks. At the upcoming
hearing, the State Department must address the number of documents
subject to FOIA on the remaining disks.
The lawsuit was
originally filed in May 2015. This matter should not just disappear
because we have changed administrations. We must hold our highest office
holders accountable for their actions, even if they have departed
office.
Unfortunately, when it comes to the Clinton email lawsuits, the Trump
administration hasn’t yet deviated from the Obama gang’s approach of
obstruction, stonewall, and obfuscation. I’m hoping that that changes
as more appointees of President Trump finally make it into office.
President Trump has an opportunity to begin a transparency revolution –
especially with the Clinton email scandal. Either way, we’ll still be
in court holding his administration and the prior corrupt Obama
administration to account.
U.S. Gives Soros Groups Millions to Destabilize Macedonia’s Government
Even
as we pursue the truth about former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton’s emails from a recalcitrant State Department, we are learning
of another of the department’s nefarious activities. Our Corruption Chronicles
blog has the story.
The
U.S. government has quietly spent millions of taxpayer dollars to
destabilize the democratically elected, center-right government in
Macedonia by colluding with leftwing billionaire philanthropist George
Soros, records obtained by Judicial Watch show. Barack Obama’s U.S.
Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess L. Baily,
has worked behind the scenes with Soros’ Open Society Foundation to
funnel large sums of American dollars for the cause, constituting an
interference of the U.S. Ambassador in domestic political affairs in
violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
The cash flows through the State Department and the famously corrupt
U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID), which is charged with
providing global economic, development and humanitarian assistance.
USAID has allocated about $5 million to leftwing Soros groups in
Macedonia since 2012, documents show, and at least $9.5 million has been
earmarked by the agency to intervene in the Balkan nation’s
governmental affairs for 2016-2021. State Department figures have been
tougher to come by and Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) request for the numbers. Judicial Watch also fired off a
public records request to USAID because the preliminary figures,
obtained through various sources in both the U.S. and Macedonia, appear
to be incomplete.
Here’s how the clandestine operation functions, according to high-level
sources in Macedonia and the U.S. that have provided Judicial Watch with
records as part of an ongoing investigation. The Open Society
Foundation has established and funded dozens of leftwing,
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Macedonia to overthrow the
conservative government. One Macedonian government official interviewed
by Judicial Watch in Washington D.C. recently calls it the “Soros
infantry.” The groups organize youth movements, create influential media
outlets and organize violent protests to undermine the institutions and
policies implemented by the government.
One of the Soros’ groups funded the translation and publication of Saul
Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” into Macedonian. The book is a tactical
manual of subversion, provides direct advice for radical street protests
and proclaims Lucifer to be the first radical. Thanks to Obama’s
ambassador, who has not been replaced by President Trump, Uncle Sam
keeps the money flowing so the groups can continue operating and
recruiting, sources in Macedonia and the U.S. confirm.
With a population of about 2 million, Macedonia has one of the more
conservative governments in Europe. This includes the lowest flat tax in
Europe, close ties with Israel and pro-life policies. The country
recently built a border fence to crackdown on an illegal immigration
crisis that overwhelmed law enforcement agencies. Between 10,000 and
12,000 illegal aliens were crossing the Greek-Macedonian border daily at
the peak of the European migration crisis, a Macedonian official told
Judicial Watch, and the impact was devastating. This is likely of big
interest to Soros, a renowned open borders advocate who pushes
international governance, diminished U.S. global power and an increase
in Muslim immigration. Soros spent tens of millions of dollars to
support Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Just this month
Hungary’s prime minister lashed out against Soros for
funding groups to secretly influence the country’s politics.
“Large-bodied predators are swimming here in the waters,” said Viktor
Orban in his annual state of the nation speech. “This is the
trans-border empire of George Soros, with tons of money and
international heavy artillery.”
This appears to be the case in Macedonia with the help of American
financing. There have been a number of violent protests in recent months
that have been coordinated by Soros’ Open Society Foundation through
its U.S.-funded NGOs, sources tell Judicial Watch. Some U.S. members of
Congress have expressed interest in the issue and have demanded answers
from Ambassador Baily, USAID and the State Department. In typical
fashion, the State Department has stonewalled the inquiries and USAID
hasn’t been much more forthcoming. Last month Utah Senator Mike Lee sent
Ambassador Baily a letter
asking questions involving the U.S. Mission to Macedonia’s involvement
in the political process and its connections to the Open Society
Foundation. It’s unlikely that Americans will receive answers,
especially since Baily is probably on his way out. The fact remains
however, that millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have already been spent
on this illicit operation and the government agencies need to be held
accountable.
It became increasingly clear toward the end of the Obama administration,
as it gave up all pretense of being a traditional administration
operating somewhere near the center of political thought, that Rules for Radicals was its guiding bible. Our new secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has his work cut out for him.
JW Goes to Court After Army Stonewalls on Opiate Use by Americans in Afghanistan
We as a nation can’t help our veterans with the myriad challenges they face if we don’t know what’s really going on.
In that spirit, we have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense for information from the U.S. Army Crime Records Center regarding the use of opiates by American service members in Afghanistan from January 1, 2012, to the present (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:17-cv-00276)).
The Department of Defense failed to respond to a February 3, 2016, FOIA request seeking:
All
records regarding the nonprescription use of opiates (including opium,
heroin; and/or pharmaceutical opioid medications) by American service
members in Afghanistan and by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom in
Afghanistan (OEF-A) or Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.
We filed the FOIA lawsuit after the Army Crime Records Center failed to:
- Produce the requested records or demonstrate that the requested records are lawfully exempt from production;
-
notify Plaintiff of the scope of any responsive records Defendant
intends to produce or withhold and the reasons for any withholdings; or
- make a determination with respect to Plaintiff’s administrative appeal.
In
a letter dated March 7, 2016, the Army Records Center denied Judicial
Watch’s FOIA request, asserting that the request was “unfeasible to
perform with the information provided” because records at the U.S. Army
Crime Records Center “are indexed by personal identifiers such as names,
social security numbers, dates and places of birth and other pertinent
data to enable the positive identification of individuals.”
Judicial
Watch appealed, referencing the Army Crime Records Center’s March 2012
production of records in response to an identical request:
In
that case, the U.S. Army Crime Records Center “was able to identify,
retrieve, review, apply appropriate redactions to, and release records
responsive to the [2012] request in a matter of approximately 15 days.”
At the time of the Army’s 2012 records release,
I said:
“Prescription
[opiates] abuse can easily veer into heroin drug use. Afghanistan is
the capital of this opiate production and the temptation is great there.
Judicial Watch is concerned that there hasn’t been enough public
discussion, and we would encourage the leadership to discuss or talk
about this issue more openly.”
The Obama administration’s multi-billion-dollar effort to counter
narcotics in Afghanistan was a humiliating failure. Poppy cultivation
and opium production have increased. Last year, opium production
reportedly rose 43 percent in Afghanistan.
The
U.S. Army has gone into full-fledged cover-up mode, refusing to release
data about illicit drug usage by our soldiers in that war zone. This
is yet another opportunity for the Trump administration to begin a new
era of transparency and end this obvious cover-up.
Until next week...
 Tom Fitton President
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