The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch announced it has filed a motion “asking the Superior Court in Fulton County to appoint a special master to oversee District Attorney Fani Willis’ search for records in Judicial Watch’s lawsuit for communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee. Judicial Watch also asks the court to conduct an in camera (private) inspection of any records found.”
“Fani Willis can’t be trusted, which is why Judicial Watch is asking the court to review of her secret anti-Trump collusion records and for a special master to handle the search for more records,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The court should put an end to Willis’ shell games to hide her conspiracy with Pelosi’s January 6 committee and who knows who else to ‘get Trump.’”
“The March 2024 lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of Fulton County, GA, after Willis and the county denied having any records responsive to an August 2023 Georgia Open Records Act (ORA) request for communications with Special Counsel Jack Smiths office and/or the January 6,” JW reports
According to JW, “Willis finally admitted to having records showing communications with the January 6 Committee but refused to release all but one document in response to the court order that found her in default. She cited a series of legal exemptions to justify the withholding of communications with the January 6 Committee. The only document she did release is one already public letter to January 6 Committee Chairman Benny Thompson (D-MS). With respect to communications with, and records related to, Jack Smith’s office, Willis continued to deny her office had any records related to the Special Counsel’s office.”
Judicial Watch states in the new motion that Willis’ response to the order “makes no showing that the search was diligent. Based on her previous searches in this matter, it probably was not diligent. Likewise, she provided no list or even a general description regarding any responsive records she has elected to withhold. Without a list or description, it is impossible to evaluate what, if any, exemptions or exceptions are applicable, as she now contends.”
Willis “has now had three opportunities to search for the records requested,” Judicial Watch states, adding. “A recent Fulton County Superior Court deposition of Willis’ official custodian, Dexter Bond, which covered her first two searches show Willis’ first two searches were woefully inadequate.”
Regarding the appointment of a special master, Judicial Watch states:
Willis by her own admission conducted at least three searches before finding any responsive records not already supplied by [Judicial Watch]. She did not even bother to conduct a search until the Complaint was filed. Her records custodian says he does not know the Cellebrite [digital investigations] equipment he apparently had a hand in ordering can be used to search cell phone texts and other data…. Moreover, the custodian had no standard practice for conducting searches and keeps no records of the methods used in a given search.
The foregoing gives rise to grave suspicion that all responsive records have not been found. The Court should appoint a special master to supervise and monitor the record searches. The special master should have authority to audit searches and conduct searches herself. She also should have authority to hire such consultants and experts as may be needed to execute her commission. The special master should make a recommendation to the Court as to how her fees and expenses should be allocated among the parties, taking into consideration whether she finds responsive records that Willis should have found but did not.
Judicial Watch is assisted in the case by John Monroe of John Monroe Law in Georgia.
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Fat Fanny is a crook. She should be disbarred, Indicted and tried in U.S. District Court in Rome, GA for violating President Trump’s civil rights. By the way, that’s MTG’s hometown. Now, that would be poetic justice.