Mueller’s “Pit Bull” Attorney Arranged Secret “Black Ledger” Meeting With AP Reporters
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Mon, 07/09/2018
Documents released Friday by the Department of Justice confirm that a DOJ attorney known as Robert Mueller’s “pit bull” arranged an April 11, 2017 meeting with journalists to discuss their investigation into Paul Manafort in which information may have been leaked back and forth concerning the case.
At question is the FBI’s relationship with AP – and whether or not the FBI leaked information about the Manafort case to them or vice-versa.
According to memos written by FBI agents, Special Counsel attorney Andrew Weissmann, Mueller’s #2 (who donated $6,600 to the DNC, Obama and Clinton campaigns and reportedly attended a Clinton election night party in NYC), arranged a meeting between DOJ/FBI officials and four reporters from the Associated Press – who told the FBI about a storage locker owned by Manafort and then gave the FBI a passcode to access it.
The memos also show that one of the AP journalists gave the FBI an unusual detail about a storage unit in Alexandria, Virginia that Manafort used to keep records of his worldwide business dealings. Both memos say the AP revealed a code number to access the unit, although one memo says the reporters declined to share the unit number of the locker or its street address. -Politico
Manafort’s attorneys received the documents on June 29 and revealed them in a Virginia federal court filing as part of a push for a hearing into possible leaks of sealed grand jury information, false reports and potentially classified materials.
“The meeting raises serious concerns about whether a violation of grand jury secrecy occurred,” wrote Manafort attorney Kevin Downing in a motion requesting the hearing. “Based on the FBI’s own notes of the meeting, it is beyond question that a hearing is warranted.”
One of the memos written by FBI Supervisory Special Agent Karen Greenaway reveals “The meeting was arranged by Andrew Weissmann,” who goes on to note that Weissmann provided guidance to the reporters.
According to Greenaway, Weissmann suggested that the reporters ask the Cypriot Anti-Money Laundering Authority, a Cypriot government agency, if it had provided the Department of Treasury with all of the documents they were legally authorized to provide regarding Manafort. -Daily Caller
AP director of media relations Lauren Easton defended the FBI briefing in a statement toi the Daily Caller News Foundation:
“Associated Press journalists met with representatives from the Department of Justice in an effort to get information on stories they were reporting, as reporters do. During the course of the meeting, they asked DOJ representatives about a storage locker belonging to Paul Manafort, without sharing its name or location.”
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