{"id":35900,"date":"2019-04-17T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35900"},"modified":"2019-04-17T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:45:55","slug":"judicial-watch-investigates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35900","title":{"rendered":"Judicial Watch Investigates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judicial Watch is one of my favorite organizations. The have turned the use of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests into an art form. They are a non-biased group that is simply demanding transparency in government&#8211;from both parties.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/judicial-watch-seeking-fbi-dossier-info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One America News Network<\/a> posted an article about the latest FOIA request from Judicial Watch.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Conservative watchdog group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the FBI in an effort to pierce the veil of the resources used in the $25 million probe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Specifically, the organization is looking to obtain all communications and payments made to the author of the anti-Trump dossier \u2014 Christopher Steele.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The former British intelligence officer was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee in order to compile his 35 page document.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Judicial Watch is now trying to determine the FBI\u2019s involvement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It\u2019s already known that the FBI made 11 payments to Steele, but the details behind those payments were heavily redacted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Conservatives suspect rogue actors at the bureau were looking to reverse the results of the 2016 election, which is something Attorney General William Barr said he\u2019s looking into.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think they were rogue actors&#8211;I think the operation began very high up in the FBI, but we will have to wait to see if that is where the trail leads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judicial Watch is one of my favorite organizations. The have turned the use of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests into an art form. They are a non-biased group that is simply demanding transparency in government&#8211;from both parties. Yesterday One &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35900\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1554,10776,10802,9245,3744,790,6971,2640,11477,4754,3620,2403,11185,11980],"class_list":["post-35900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attorney-general","tag-british-intelligence","tag-christopher-steele","tag-clinton-campaign","tag-democratic-national-committee","tag-fbi","tag-freedom-of-information-act-foia","tag-judicial-watch","tag-one-america-news","tag-payment","tag-tom-fitton","tag-transparency-in-government","tag-trump-dossier","tag-william-barr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35901,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35900\/revisions\/35901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}