2 fmr snr FBI employees have reached a tentative agreement w/the #DOJ to largely settle their consolidated lawsuits alleging that they were illegally targeted for #retribution by the #Trump admin after the #FBI investigated #Russia’s #ElectionInterference in 2016, acc/to a court filing Tues.
In an angry court filing, #Trump’s lawyers pushed back hard against the request by the office of the #SpecialCounsel, #JackSmith, to revise Trump’s conditions of release by forbidding him to make any public comments that might endanger federal agents working on the prosecution.
On Fri, Smith’s team requested …a limited #GagOrder on #Trump, prompted by what it called “grossly misleading” social media posts Trump made last wk falsely claiming that the #FBI had been authorized to kill him when agents searched #MarALago….
Trump’s stmnts were based on a recently unsealed order for the search that contained boilerplate language spelling out that the use of deadly force could be used only in case of emergency, a standard provision applied to all FBI searches.
During Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings in 2018, the FBI received over 4,500 tips related to him. These tips included phone calls and electronic submissions. However, the FBI took little action on these tips and referred only the most "relevant" ones back to the Trump administration's White House counsel.
The #DOJ policy statement on when officers can use #LethalForce —misrepresented by Trump & his supporters as proof of an assassination plot at #MarALago —was also in the paperwork for the consensual search the #FBI conducted of #POTUS Biden’s Wilmington home, looking for #ClassifiedDocuments.
Wow, Jim. If only there was something you could have done to stop #Trump while you were the head of the #FBI... Like keeping your fucking mouth shut, and not sabotaging #HillaryClinton's campaign in the days before the #2016election! Why don't you take some time to think about how different the world would have been had you just followed your own policies, and stayed in your own goddamned lane.