Judicial Watch Sues DOJ for Comey-Mueller Communications

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Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch, 202-646-5188

WASHINGTON, April 20, 2018 /Christian Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice Department for all records of communications relating to former FBI Director James Comey's providing memoranda of his conversations with President Trump to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team. (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00932)).

The suit was filed after the FBI informed Judicial Watch that it would neither "confirm nor deny" the existence of the materials for an August 4, 2017, FOIA request seeking:

All records of communications between former FBI Director James Comey and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, or members of SC Mueller's investigative committee, relating to the return of memoranda of conversations, memoranda to the file or notes regarding same generated by Comey following conversations with government officials during his tenure as FBI Director.