L.A.-based Holocaust claims lawyer sues FBI over Clinton warrant

[oldtime dfl_er]

E. Randol Schoenberg was confused when he read a New York Times article in the waning days of the presidential election reporting the FBI had obtained a warrant to seize new material in the Hillary Clinton email case.
“I thought, ‘What does that mean?’” he told the Journal. “Normally you have to show probable cause. That’s what it says in the Fourth Amendment.”

http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/l.a._based_jewish_art_lawyer_sues_fbi_over_clinton_warrant

[Cha]

1. K&R

[MADem]

2. Wow--what he's saying, in essence, is that someone lied to the FBI to make trouble for HRC....

“It’s like somebody’s been to your house and searched ten times and says, ‘Oops, there’s a drawer I missed. Can I go back in?’” Schoenberg said.

The New York Times article was the last time Schoenberg saw mention of a search warrant in the press. So he decided to file a request on Nov. 12 under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to review the warrant. Two days later, the FBI acknowledged receiving his request.


The transparency law allows government agencies twenty days, excluding holidays and weekends, to determine whether it will comply with the request and notify the petitioner. When that time period elapsed, Schoenberg contacted David B. Rankin, a Manhattan-based attorney specializing in FOIA requests, and filed suit in the United States District Court of Southern New York.

In an interview with the Journal, Schoenberg speculated one of two things happened to allow the FBI to obtain a search warrant: Either a lax judge didn’t care enough to scrutinize the warrant application, or “it could be something more nefarious."
Not unlikely, by his estimation, is that somebody provided the FBI allegedly incriminating information that turned out to be untrue.

[world wide wally]

3. I'm glad someone is using his brains

[progressoid]

4. This is potentially very serious, something that if traced back to Donald Trump...

“This is potentially very serious, something that if traced back to Donald Trump might even lead to impeachment,”

I'd be surprised if it leads back to Drumpf. At best it will end at one of his lackeys.

[Ilsa]

5. I hope it leads directly back to Comey,

Who knew he had nothing, I bet.

[progressoid]

11. That would be great. n/t

[Ilsa]

6. This is Composer Arnold Schoenberg's grandson.

He was the art restitution lawyer in the movie, Woman in Gold with Helen Mirren. He risked his career and personal finances to get justice for a relative of holocaust victims whose artwork was stolen by the nazis in Austria.

The character played by Mirren was there, but managed to escape to France, then the US, with her husband. The primary painting she wanted returned was of her late aunt, painted by Gustav Klimt.

[madaboutharry]

7. My money is on Giuliani.

He was crowing about it on tv like he had inside information, information coming from himself.

[LeftInTX]

8. K&R - We need people like him

[oasis]

9. K and R

[Ilsa]

10. Kick. NT