DOJ officials rejected colleague's request to intervene in Georgia's election certification: Emails
Source: ABC
Top members of the Department of Justice last year rebuffed another DOJ official who asked them to urge officials in Georgia to investigate and perhaps overturn President Joe Biden's victory in the state -- long a bitter point of contention for former President Donald Trump and his team -- before the results were certified by Congress, emails reviewed by ABC News show.
The emails, dated Dec. 28, 2020, show the former acting head of DOJ's civil division, Jeffrey Clark, circulating a draft letter -- which he wanted then-acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue to sign off on -- urging Georgia's governor and other top officials to convene the state legislature into a special session so lawmakers could investigate claims of voter fraud.
"The Department of Justice is investigating various irregularities in the 2020 election for President of the United States," the draft letter said. "The Department will update you as we are able on investigatory progress, but at this time we have identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia."
The draft letter states: "While the Department of Justice believe[s] the Governor of Georgia should immediately call a special session to consider this important and urgent matter, if he declines to do so, we share with you our view that the Georgia General Assembly has implied authority under the Constitution of the United States to call itself into special session for [t]he limited purpose of considering issues pertaining to the appointment of Presidential Electors."
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-officials-rejected-colleagues-request-intervene-georgias-election/story
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PSPS
(13,512 posts)From the NYT last January:
Katie Benner, Charlie Savage
Justice Department colleagues said they were shocked by Mr. Clarks embrace of the presidents falsehoods and plan to oust the acting attorney general in an effort to overturn Georgias election results.
Colleagues said they had seen Jeffrey Clark, who was the head of the Justice Departments civil division, as an establishment lawyer who was not particularly Trumpist.
Jan. 24, 2021
WASHINGTON It was New Years Eve, but the Justice Departments top leaders had little to celebrate as they discussed Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the civil division, who had repeatedly pushed them to help President Donald J. Trump undo his electoral loss.
Huddled in the departments headquarters, they noted that they had rebuked him for secretly meeting with Mr. Trump, even as the department had rebuffed the presidents outlandish requests for court filings and special counsels, according to six people with knowledge of the meeting. No official would host a news conference to say that federal fraud investigations cast the results in doubt, they told him. No one would send a letter making such claims to Georgia lawmakers.
When the meeting ended not long before midnight, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen hoped that the matter was settled, never suspecting that his subordinate would secretly discuss the plan for the letter with Mr. Trump, and very nearly take Mr. Rosens job, as part of a plot with the president to wield the departments power to try to alter the Georgia election outcome.
It was clear that night, though, that Mr. Clark with his willingness to entertain conspiracy theories about voting booth hacks and election fraud was not the establishment lawyer they thought him to be. Some senior department leaders had considered him quiet, hard-working and detail-oriented. Others said they knew nothing about him, so low was his profile. He struck neither his fans in the department nor his detractors as being part of the Trumpist faction of the party, according to interviews.
The departments senior leaders were shocked when Mr. Clarks machinations came to light. They have spent recent weeks debating how he came to betray Mr. Rosen, his biggest champion at the department, and what blend of ambition and conviction led him to reject the results of the election and embrace Mr. Trumps claims, despite all evidence to the contrary, including inside the department itself.
The rest: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/politics/jeffrey-clark-trump-election.html
stillcool
(32,626 posts)through-out the government. I've maybe read too many spy novels, but jeeze they're everywhere.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)zebrapa
(112 posts)I hope to see the day that Mr. Clark testifies under oath and outline, in detail,(among other things) the
"significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including theState of Georgia."
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,660 posts)These people were making it up on the fly and believed they had the ultimate authority to decide who wins, and who loses, free and open elections. Let that sink in.
The arrogance. The abuse of power. The sense of entitlement and privilege. Jail for these people. Jail. Fines. And more jail.
Lonestarblue
(9,874 posts)I hope all new agency heads are looking at hiring records and weeding out the Trump plants who are still in government.
Stuart G
(38,359 posts)You may think this is over...not a chance...........................................................................
.........................................This one is coming out 8 months after the event...........................
Maybe, (yes maybe) SOME insiders in the Trump Administration will see that Trump has no chance ever of
getting elected to anything..., AND those people may come out with more information!!!
Maybe, Maybe & MAYBE!!!!!!! ..Who knows what they are thinking? The Trump name is being destroyed...totally...
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OK.PROOF:........How many places have the name NIXON on them?...any at all?
The Trump name....
Will be the same....
And I believe that we will not hear much from the Trump family either...
All buildings with Trump name will be sold.....The end of the Trump name is coming...very soon!!!