BREAKING: FBI Has Active Investigation
Pertaining to Donald Trump’s Call for Russian
Hacking and Espionage
By Sparrow
May 10,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- President Trump’s May 9, 2017 letter
firing now-former FBI Director James Comey in
part reads, “I greatly appreciate you informing
me, on three separate occasions, that I am not
under investigation[.]”
However, a
recent court filing
by the Department of Justice on behalf of the
FBI in an ongoing FOIA lawsuit plainly indicates
the FBI has an active investigation pertaining
to Donald Trump’s actions related to actual or
potential election-related hacking and espionage
by Russia.
The lawsuit is filed by
Ryan
Shapiro, a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) PhD
candidate/Berkman Klein Center for Internet &
Society at Harvard University research
affiliate, and
Jason
Leopold, Senior
Investigative Journalist at BuzzFeed News.
On
August 18, 2016, Shapiro and Leopold submitted a
FOIA request to the FBI seeking “disclosure of
any and all records, including investigative
records, mentioning or referring to Donald J.
Trump’s statement on 27 July, 2016 [regarding
Secretary Hillary Clinton’s State Department
emails], ‘Russia, if you’re listening, I hope
you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are
missing,’ and ‘I think you will probably be
rewarded mightily by our press.’”
When
the FBI did not respond in a timely manner to
the FOIA request, Shapiro and Leopold sued.
During the lawsuit, the FBI initially asserted
that it could neither confirm nor deny the
existence of documents responsive to this FOIA
request.
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