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DOJ Formally Asks Manhattan Court To Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Testimony

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) formally petitioned a Manhattan federal judge on Friday to unseal grand jury testimony from the Jeffrey Epstein prosecution.

Federal prosecutors filed the request in the Manhattan Federal District Court, where Epstein awaited trial on sex-trafficking charges before his death by suicide in a jail cell six years ago, according to The New York Times. The New York City medical examiner officially ruled Epstein’s death a suicide.

The DOJ also asked the court to unseal testimony from the grand jury proceedings involving Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate. Maxwell received a 20-year prison sentence following her 2021 conviction on charges of aiding Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme. Her case remains on appeal.

The request to unseal Epstein’s grand jury testimony now rests with Judge Richard M. Berman, appointed to the federal bench by former President Bill Clinton in 1998. Berman presided over Epstein’s case prior to his death.

Friday’s court filings followed President Donald Trump’s announcement on social media Thursday evening, authorizing Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all relevant grand jury testimony, pending court approval. (Read more from “DOJ Formally Asks Manhattan Court To Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Testimony” HERE)

New Docs Shatter Leftist Claims Emil Bove Ordered Former DOJ Official To ‘Defy’ Court Orders

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Senate Democrats recently released communications from a Justice Department whistleblower they claim show 3rd Circuit Court nominee Emil Bove instructed a Trump Justice Department official to defy court orders related to the administration’s deportation of Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia. New records obtained by The Federalist, however, indicate such assertations aren’t true.

On Thursday, Senate Democrats published messages from Erez Reuveni, a former DOJ attorney who was fired in April “when department leadership accused him of presenting an insufficiently vigorous argument on behalf of the Trump administration during Abrego Garcia’s court proceedings,” according to CBS News. Reuveni went public with his opposition to Bove’s nomination last month, telling lawmakers he was “threatened, fired, and publicly disparaged” by the DOJ over his handling of the matter.

In his article summarizing Reuveni’s communications, CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane wrote, “Some of the text messages from Reuveni included exchanges by Reuveni and a Justice Department colleague in which they refer to alleged instructions from Bove to communicate a ‘f*** you’ to the court’s order that Abrego Garcia and others be returned from El Salvador to U.S. custody after the March 15 deportation flights.”

Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dick Durbin, D-Ill., similarly framed the message as an instruction from Bove to ignore any court orders the agency may disagree with on the matter. He claimed that the messages “show that the Department of Justice misled a federal court and disregarded a court order,” and that “Mr. Bove spearheaded this effort.”

Bove denied Reuveni’s allegations during his confirmation hearing last month, telling lawmakers, “I have never advised a Department of Justice attorney to violate a court order.” (Read more from “New Docs Shatter Leftist Claims Emil Bove Ordered Former DOJ Official To ‘Defy’ Court Orders” HERE)

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Senior DOJ Officials Didn’t Know Database Allowed FBI to Bury Existence of Russiagate Documents

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People familiar with the investigation into the Russia collusion hoax told The Federalist that senior officials did not know the FBI case management database, Sentinel, allowed agents to conceal the existence of evidence. Nor did anyone from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office mention that documents related to the investigation into the Trump campaign had been rendered invisible by use of the “Prohibited Access” coding in Sentinel — even though they knew the Department of Justice was investigating the origins and handling of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

On Monday, a former political appointee at the DOJ expressed surprise that no one from Special Counsel Mueller’s team mentioned the “Prohibited Access” functionality of Sentinel to senior officials. This news follows last week’s release by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, of a recently declassified FBI report that revealed that Special Counsel Mueller’s office used a “Prohibited Access” restriction during the Trump/Russia-collusion investigation.

As The Federalist detailed earlier today, the “Prohibited Access” coding in the FBI’s Sentinel case management system, “precludes investigators from detecting the existence of potentially relevant serials.” “In other words,” according to the just-released FBI report, “when search terms that exist in the Prohibited Access-status cases are searched in Sentinel, the particular search will receive a false-negative Sentinel search response.” (Read more from “Senior DOJ Officials Didn’t Know Database Allowed FBI to Bury Existence of Russiagate Documents” HERE)

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Declassified Doc: FBI, DOJ Declined To Charge Russia Collusion-Hoaxer Who Allegedly Lied To Congress

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A newly declassified analysis reveals that the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) were aware of allegations that Russia-collusion hoaxer Nellie Ohr lied to Congress regarding her role in the infamous Crossfire Hurricane investigation but chose not to pursue charges.

According to the declassified 2019 analysis by the FBI, Ohr — who was working for Fusion GPS– allegedly lied to Congress on multiple occasions regarding her work attempting to link then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia. Fusion GPS was the opposition firm hired by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to dig up non-existent dirt on Trump. Fusion GPS hired ex-British spy Christopher Steele and eventually compiled what became known as the Steele Dossier. The dossier became the basis for the Russia collusion hoax.

Ohr’s husband, Bruce, was an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the DOJ at the time of Ohr’s employment with Fusion GPS.

Ohr and her husband testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 2018 as part of the committee’s investigation into the Russia collusion hoax.

Then-Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina filed a criminal referral with the DOJ alleging that Ohr knowingly lied to Congress during her testimony. (Read more from ” Declassified Doc: FBI, DOJ Declined To Charge Russia Collusion-Hoaxer Who Allegedly Lied To Congress” HERE)

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DOJ Investigation Into Anti-Catholic Law Is Latest In Series Of Actions Defending Religious Liberty

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has stepped up its defense of religious liberty under the Trump administration.

In the past several months, the DOJ has filed statements of interest in land use cases for churches, helped launch a task force to “eliminate” anti-Christian bias and opened an investigation into an “anti-Catholic” law in Washington.

The DOJ opened an investigation Monday into a Washington law that forces Catholic priests to disclose information received in the confessional related to child abuse or neglect. The law, signed by Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson on Friday, explicitly excludes “members of the clergy” from an exemption for reporting information obtained as a result of “a privileged communication.”

Bishop Thomas Daly of the Spokane Diocese said priests would remain “committed to keeping the seal of confession – even to the point of going to jail” after the law was signed.

“Washington’s new law forces priests to choose between violating their faith or breaking the law,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon wrote Monday on X. “That’s unconstitutional.” (Read more from “DOJ Investigation Into Anti-Catholic Law Is Latest In Series Of Actions Defending Religious Liberty” HERE)

Whoops: Jack Smith Accidentally Tells the Truth About That J6 ‘Insurrection’

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Jack Smith, the dutiful DOJ attack dog unleashed to take down President Trump and eliminate him from the 2024 race, has finally let the truth slip about January 6th. Whether it was a blunder or a last-resort confession doesn’t matter—the fact is, it’s now on the official record: President Trump never incited an insurrection, because there wasn’t one.

This revelation isn’t breaking news to anyone who hasn’t been brainwashed by the regime-controlled propaganda media. We’ve known this for years. But how, you ask, did this undeniable truth finally see the light of day? Well, it’s buried in the January 6th Special Counsel report. The very same report where Jack Smith and Merrick Garland admit they desperately wanted to charge President Trump with violating the “Insurrection Act.” But here’s the spoiler alert: they couldn’t.

What’s even more outrageous is that they proceeded with a second impeachment charade, despite knowing full well they couldn’t legally charge Trump with insurrection. Let that sink in for a moment. The American people were duped into enduring yet another fake impeachment trial over a crime that prosecutors had already determined didn’t exist. Surprised? If you are, you shouldn’t be. . .

Left-wing states, predictably and laughably, describe the events at the Capitol on J6 as an “insurrection” in court rulings. But here’s the kicker: the Special Counsel report clings to one of the most absurd and embarrassing examples of this—the infamous Colorado case. This was the desperate attempt to remove President Trump from the 2024 ballot by accusing him of inciting an insurrection. But let’s not forget what happened next: the Supreme Court stepped in and obliterated that nonsense with a unanimous ruling. Yes, the highest court in the land spoke with one resounding voice—there was no insurrection. Period.

Yet here we are, with Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, and the entire Biden regime clinging to a discredited narrative, pretending otherwise. These government hacks are not just political operatives—they’re criminals.

(Read more from “Whoops: Jack Smith Accidentally Tells the Truth About That J6 ‘Insurrection’” HERE)

Three Russia Hoax Bombshells Hidden In IG Report On DOJ Surveillance Of Congress

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Last week the Department of Justice’s inspector general released a report on some of the DOJ’s tracking of communications from media and congressional figures as part of its purported investigation into who was leaking classified information against President Donald Trump in 2017. Three significant bombshells about the Russia collusion hoax were hidden inside the dense and dry 100-page report.

For context, when Trump won the 2016 presidential election, anonymous Democrat operatives in the federal government and Congress began leaking like sieves as part of a coordinated effort to paint Trump as a mastermind spy who had worked with Russian President Vladimir Putin for decades in order to steal the election.

Two Washington Post stories, a New York Times story, and a CNN story were all found to have included classified information. None of the four stories are specified in the report, but they all appeared in the first half of President Trump’s first year in office.

The first Washington Post story is likely the April 2017 story by Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett, and Adam Entous revealing that DOJ had gotten a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Carter Page, a Trump affiliate. The true story of that warrant would end up revealing the corruption of the DOJ, including how it falsified evidence in its application and relied on the laughable Steele dossier as the basis. But at the time of its publication, the FISA story suggested that an honorable DOJ had serious reason to suspect the Trump campaign of colluding with Russia to steal the election.

As outlandish and unhinged as the conspiracy theory was, it was fueled with daily drops of classified and deceptively packaged information designed to make it appear legitimate. The corporate media dutifully regurgitated, published, and aired the leaks as part of their campaign against the Republican president. (Read more from “Three Russia Hoax Bombshells Hidden In IG Report On DOJ Surveillance Of Congress” HERE)

Desperate Democrats Are Pushing Yet Another Version of the Russia Collusion Hoax

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The Biden administration’s announcement this week that the Justice Department is taking action against alleged Kremlin-run websites and Russian state media employees as part of an effort to crack down on Russian “misinformation” ahead of the election should raise red flags — huge, obvious red flags.

The biggest red flag is the timing of the indictment and accompanying announcement, just as mail-in ballots in some states are sent out and two weeks before in-person voting begins in some states. The only possible reason for the DOJ to announce this now, and to frame it as a Russian election meddling scheme designed to boost former President Donald Trump, is to paint Trump and his supporters as agents of a hostile foreign power, or at the very least to imply that Trump’s support is fake, paid for by Moscow.

In other words, the timing of the indictment itself represents an egregious form of election meddling by our own Justice Department, whose longstanding policy is not to file indictments that could potentially influence an election. Yet that’s the entire purpose of the indictment announced this week.

We’ve seen this playbook before from Democrats. Hand-waving about “Russian disinformation” and “election interference” by the DOJ and the U.S. intelligence community is of course a well-worn election interference tactic — and arguably a far more potent than anything that’s ever come from Moscow.

First it was the outlandish claim in 2016 that Donald Trump was actually a secret Russian agent and that he colluded with Moscow to win the White House. An entire FBI investigation was based on the discredited and patently ridiculous Steele dossier. The initial election meddling allegation was based on nothing more than $100,000 or so in Facebook ads purchased by Russian entities with the aim of sowing division among the American electorate. And from that thin reed, an entire narrative emerged that Russia not only meddled in our election but that Trump colluded with Moscow in the effort. (Read more from “Desperate Democrats Are Pushing Yet Another Version of the Russia Collusion Hoax” HERE)

Look Who Wants Jail for Woman Who Found Ashley Biden’s Perverted Diary

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The Joe Biden Department of Justice is demanding jail time for another defendant who was caught up a Biden family scandal – that of diary revelations about Joe Biden “showering” with his young daughter, in a “probably not appropriate” scenario.

It’s just one of the many scandals embroiling the Biden family, from a scheme to peddle influence to foreign enemies to a failure to pay taxes to an apparent lie on a federal form required to purchase a handgun. . .

Now a report in Twitchy reveals Joe Biden’s DOJ is sounding off in a case against a woman who took a diary that once belonged to Biden daughter Ashley.

The diary, which the Biden administration purported was a fake for a long time, includes Ashley’s references to being “sexualized” at a young age and showering with her father, Joe Biden, at the time. The diary expresses those actions as “probably not appropriate.”

The Twitchy report openly challenges the Biden family stories on the topic, with, “Wait, we thought it wasn’t real: DOJ wants prison time for woman who ‘stole’ Ashley Biden’s diary.”

(Read more from “Look Who Wants Jail for Woman Who Found Ashley Biden’s Perverted Diary” HERE)

Smoking Gun: Biden DOJ Took Advice From Group Demonizing Concerned Parents, Docs Show

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The Justice Department arm focused on prosecuting “hate crimes” welcomed input from a far-left organization known for demonizing conservatives and Christians right after that organization put parental rights groups, including Moms for Liberty, on a “hate map” alongside the Ku Klux Klan, documents obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reveal. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news and commentary outlet.)

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which notoriously brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations as hateful by placing them on a “hate map” in what a former employee describes as a fundraising scheme, reached out to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division on June 6, 2023—the day the SPLC released its annual “Year in Hate and Extremism” report and had added Moms for Liberty to the map.

The new documents, obtained by the Oversight Project via a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal yet more collaboration between the Biden administration and the far-left group.

The Justice Department confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the briefing did indeed take place, although the department did not specify when.

SPLC Outreach

Michael Lieberman, senior policy counsel for “hate & extremism” at the SPLC, reached out to Robert Moossy Jr., deputy assistant attorney general at the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, and Sheila Foran, acting head of the Civil Rights Division’s Policy and Strategy Section, granting Moossy and Foran a “quick embargoed peek” ahead of the full report. (Read more from “Smoking Gun: Biden DOJ Took Advice From Group Demonizing Concerned Parents, Docs Show” HERE)

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