James Comeys friend accuses Trump of lying about terrorists: lawsuit
Source: raw story
14 Aug 2017 at 13:11 ET
President Donald Trump was not telling the truth when he said most terrorists who struck the United States came from abroad, according to a new lawsuit by Benjamin Wittes, a friend of former FBI Director James Comey.
Wittes is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Lawfare, a national security blog that has gained attention since the November election. The lawsuit, which Wittes filed on August 11 and announced the next day, challenges a claim Trump made in February before a joint session of Congress, when the president said, “According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country.”
Lawfare investigated the claim and has said it is inaccurate. “I not only believe that the White House made up ‘alternative facts’ about the substance of this matter in a presidential address to a joint session of Congress,” Wittes wrote in April, “I don’t believe that the National Security Division of the Justice Department provided any data or analysis to the White House that could reasonably be read to support the president’s claim. In other words, I believe the president was lying not merely about the underlying facts but also about his own Justice Department.”
On Saturday, Wittes wrote in a blog post that he had filed a Freedom of Information Act request months ago for communications between the Justice Department and the White House about Trump’s remark. Because he had not heard back about the request, he filed the lawsuit, alleging a violation of the Freedom of Information Act...................................
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Come on Sessions. ante up the docs and save the taxpayers some money.
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