REVEALED: Judge allowed Biden’s Justice Department to access emails of three Trump lawyers and Republican Rep. Scott Perry during election nullification investigation
US District Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the emails were not protected by privilege
She ruled the same for emails from former Justice Department official Jeff Clark.
FBI agents seized Pennsylvania Rep. Perry’s phone in August
Perry also texted Mark Meadows about the conspiracy involving the CIA, the UK and Dominion.
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A federal judge has granted government investigators access to email messages involving Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry, the official whose cell phone was seized by the FBI in August, it was revealed Friday.
US District Court Judge Beryl Howell ruled that emails between Perry and other figures in the effort to overturn former President Donald Trump’s election were not protected by privilege.
This included 37 emails between Perry, former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, attorney John Eastman, and Clark’s aide Ken Klokowski, former senior counsel in the DOJ’s Civil Division. That made them an easy target for investigators who led the far-reaching probe into the Jan. 6 and election nullification effort.
The decision came in an unsealed ruling from June, political informed. The judge also ruled that a batch of some 331 Clark documents, which featured prominently in the House Committee’s Jan. 6 public hearings, were not protected in a September order on attorney-client privilege. .
A federal judge has issued a previously sealed ruling that emails between Perry and other figures in the effort to recall former President Donald Trump’s election were not privileged.
It has also been revealed that Perry has been in frequent contact with former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows following the January 6 release of texts obtained by the Committee.
In one, he wrote to Meadows a week after the November 2020 election, which had since been called for Joe Biden: ‘Mark, these are instructions from the cyber forensics team. Please ensure the widest dissemination and action. Please tell all seniors in the state that they need to: 1. Retain the specific voting machines (scanners) used at the polling places where the failure occurred. (Lock them up, no one touches them), followed by other detailed instructions.
Perry shared another unsubstantiated voter fraud claim on November 12 with Meadows, after referencing a conspiracy theory evidently involving CIA Director Gina Haspel and the British, National Security Agency, and machines. Dominion voting.
Judge Howell also previously ruled that a batch of email communications involving attorney John Eastman, who was at the White House during a tense meeting on January 3, were not confidential.
Interestingly, some of the emails appear to be related to a book outline proposal that former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark created. Trump wanted to install him as interim AG
“And Gina is still running around The Hill covering for the Brits who helped the Field Marshal through this whole operation,” he wrote, after Meadows asked if a “witness” was willing to sign an affidavit. The texts were obtained by Talking Points Memo this week.
‘Believe me, I’m going to do everything I can, including getting you on the phone with her. Also, apparently our state department shut down all of their systems on October 2/3 and lost all of their data, forcing them to replace all of their hard drives. I don’t know if it matters yet, but state legislative auditors are holding it for their subpoenas next week,” he wrote.
‘DNI needs to direct the NSA to immediately seize and begin searching international Dominion-related communications. Was malware from China involved? Perry wondered in another text. He called for an audit of “his overseas accounts at the CIA.”
Part of Judge Howell’s decision related to an autobiography that Clark appears to have put together an outline for, despite being a relatively unknown mid-level official that Trump explored installing as acting attorney general in his last week in office.
That prompted a mass resignation threat from other Justice Department officials.
Clark described the autobiographer in October 2021, according to Politico, which he said would have included a description of the angry White House meeting on January 3, 2021, where White House lawyers clashed with Eastman, a former law professor. at Chapman University whose name has been put forward as one of a group of potential criminal references the January 6 Committee is working on.
In August, Perry demanded the return of her phone and its contents. She then demanded the return of the material, arguing that her conversations and data as a member of Congress are protected by the ‘Speech and Debate’ clause of the Constitution. She dropped the lawsuit in October.