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Peak Mueller - DOJ Concealing Legal Predicate
to Investigate Congressional Staff in 2017

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 5/5/2024 9:51:50 AM

Jason Foster has filed an interesting “motion to intervene” in a court filing against the DOJ effort to keep the legal rationale for a 2017 subpoena hidden. tldr version HERE Mr Jason Foster was one of Chuck Grassley’s congressional lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee and a key Grassley research staffer when the background of the DOJ/FBI spygate operation against Donald Trump was at its apex. In a COURT FILING Jason Foster notes in September 2017 the DOJ requested and received a court order which it leveraged against Google and Big Tech to gain access to the phone and electronic data of House and Senate staff members.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 5/5/2024 11:21:20 AM (No. 1712385)
More FTA: The DOJ then filed Non Disclosure Orders (NDOs) blocking the notification of the target(s), in this example Mr Foster himself. Foster wants to know what justification the DOJ gave the judge to get the warrants and subpoena.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Birddog 5/5/2024 12:53:14 PM (No. 1712439)
To try to contain the scandal and damage from illegal surveillance by Govt entities to effect an election....they used secret illegal surveillance of even MORE people. They went from spying on Trump, to spying on Congress and Senate. Spying on the staffers and even the Lawyers...
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Timber Queen 5/6/2024 5:05:34 AM (No. 1712707)
#2 - They probably had spies spying on their spies. Like the old Mad magazine, "Spy vs. Spy". What a sorry state our Republic has become because of the siren call of "democracy"! After President Trump's victory, his VP's successful two terms and our Republic is restored; I pray the word "democracy" takes on the same stink as "communism" and "totalitarianism". Just sayin'.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Rinktum 5/6/2024 6:47:00 AM (No. 1712739)
#3, I am so with you on the constant call for saving our “democracy”. Even some Republicans can be caught advocating for that. Why do these supposedly learned individuals fail to understand what democracy is. It is mob rule, which is fine with democrats because they certainly are the mob that wants to rule, but most of us understand that the Founders wisely wanted nothing to do with a democracy which is why we ended up with a Constitutional Representative Republic. Thank the good Lord! I cringe every time I hear the word, democracy, because the speaker is attempting to virtue signal their support of something that is not virtuous. Words matter.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: mobyclik 5/6/2024 7:18:35 AM (No. 1712748)
The way these suspicious suicides are happening across the country, Mr. Foster had best watch his back.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Rumblehog 5/6/2024 8:07:41 AM (No. 1712782)
Government that's grown used to doing business in secret is a most dangerous beast. "Sunlight" is the best disinfectant, as the saying goes, so let the people know just how vile and corrupt these departments of the Executive Branch have become. Start by coming clean on their involvement in the Kennedy assassination. Clearly there's more to this 61 year old coverup than meets the eye.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: privateer 5/6/2024 8:39:03 AM (No. 1712806)
Towards the end 4 describes, how about from now on, always print it like this: Democracy (mob rule). The average knucklehead public school graduate---but I repeat myself--- has never learned the difference between a democracy and a Constitutional Republic. Help them learn
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Zigrid 5/6/2024 9:33:46 AM (No. 1712864)
I recall a book written years ago called..."Blood sport" describing Washington's obsession with power and the men and women who practice this sport ...they care nothing about right or wrong...they only care about power and control.....
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