Defense Department SUED on Behalf of Whistleblower Who Lost Security Clearance after Raising Questions about Prominent Trump Spygate Figure

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Judicial Watch Sues Defense Department on Behalf of Whistleblower Who Lost Security Clearance after Raising Questions about Prominent Trump Spygate Figure

August 20, 2018

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Former Pentagon Analyst and White House National Security Council Director Lovinger questioned lucrative contracts with Trump Campaign Spy Stefan Halper, as well as Long Term Strategy Group, a firm owned Chelsea Clinton’s friend Jacqueline Newmyer Deal

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on behalf of former Pentagon analyst and White House National Security Council (NSC) senior director Adam S. Lovinger, whose security clearance was pulled after he raised concerns regarding lucrative government contracts awarded to Stefan Halper, who has been identified as being used an informant by the Obama administration against President Trump’s campaign, as well as Long Term Strategy Group, a consulting firm owned by Chelsea Clinton’s friend Jacqueline Newmyer Deal (Adam S. Lovinger v. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:18-cv-01914)).

The Washington Times reported on the contracts in question: “According to USASpending.gov, Mr. Halper was paid $411,000 by Washington Headquarters Services on Sept. 26, 2016, for a contract that ran until this March.” Also, “a string of contracts totaling $11 million [was granted] to D.C. consulting firm Long Term Strategy Group. It is headed by Jacqueline Newmyer Deal, a self-described ‘best friend’ of Chelsea Clinton.”

Lovinger filed his complaint in the fall of 2016. In May 2017, Lovinger’s security clearance was initially suspended by Barbara Westgate, the Director of Washington Headquarters Services and an Obama-appointee. A few months later, the Pentagon’s Consolidated Adjudications Facility (CAF)“issued an unfavorable clearance determination and Mr. Lovinger’s clearance was revoked,” a Defense Department spokesman informed The Washington Times. The CAF is part of the Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) and reports directly to Westgate.

In September 2017, Lovinger filed a whistleblower reprisal complaint against the CAF, which determines security clearance eligibility of non-intelligence personnel, Westgate and James H. Baker, the DOD’s Director of Net Assessment who recommended the contract awards to Halper and Long Term Strategy Group.

In December 2017, Lovinger filed a Privacy Act request seeking:

Any and all emails or similar electronic messaging transmissions referencing the word “Lovinger;” whether in the title or body of said communications(s); between May 1, 2017 and present; to, from, or copied to the following individuals:

A. Mr. Edward Fish, Director DoD CAF

B. Mr. Daniel Purtill, Deputy Director DoD CAF

C. Mr. Ronald Freels, Adjudications Directorate Chief.

In March 2018, the DOD responded, treating his request as both a Privacy Act and a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request and admitting it found 75 pages of responsive documents but was withholding them all in their entirety. Lovinger was informed that Fish, against whom the whistleblower complaint had been filed, had also been the official who determined the documents should be withheld.

In April 2018, Lovinger appealed the DOD’s determination. Over four months later, the appeal has not been addressed. Washington Headquarters Services has refused repeated requests to recuse itself from further involvement in this case despite an apparent conflict of interest. Under existing DOD policy, WHS officials reporting to Westgate will be the final arbiter of Lovinger’s case, which cannot be appealed to the courts.

Also, the DOD has yet to comply with Lovinger’s Privacy Act Request.

Before his work on the NSC, Lovinger was a strategic affairs analyst in the Office of Net Assessment at the Pentagon, where he specialized in issues related to U.S.-India relations, the Persian Gulf, and sub-Saharan Africa. He also is an attorney and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and McCort School of Public Policy.

“Mr. Lovinger was targeted because he blew the whistle on Stefan Halper and a Clinton crony getting suspicious Defense contracts,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is disturbing that the Defense Department may now be implicated in Spygate targeting of President Trump.”

Lovinger is also represented by Sean M. Bigley, a national-security attorney and a partner at Bigley Ranish LLP.

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Fault lies with Trump for not calling for dismissal of all clinton /obama associates/aapointees and anti-trump officials to prevent subversion of elected President. Obama did not waste do much time doing exactly that.

Clinton mafia still active after Trump takeover as they kill another witness to email investigation http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l

They know their hold overs in FBI / DOJ /NSC will help them out !

Unless they are totally purged including Left/Liberal judges to keep out their bias …its uphill task to prosecute them.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

A new broom sweeps clean / supposedly .

USMC Trained Killer
USMC Trained Killer
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

That’s why they call it is secret ballot. The next admin, could do the same thing

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

what has secret ballot got to do with bureaucrats who support the opposition party and crooks ?

USMC Trained Killer
USMC Trained Killer
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

While some may be identifiable, you don’ who voted left or right and with the Federal Union it is still pretty hard to fire men or women based on their political meanings. If you mean fire everyone that every talked to Obama,Clinton et.al, that is not going to happen. We all want vigilante justice where everyone we hate is lined up and shot.That would give the insane left all they need to win

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

No. only those who have been paid to support hillary or other accused of serious crimes , aiding them and subvert the law and deny information sought by congress.
That is good , legally valid reason to fire them for criminal behaviour , subversion and anti govt actvities.
common citizens are penalised and land in jail for far less

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Rotten and corrupt don’t even begin to describe the various three letter acronym intelligence and “law enforcement” entities that comprise the federal government. Are any of them NOT corrupt?

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
5 years ago

A clean-up of this rotten work and its perpetrators must take place soon. If not, divine judgment enters, and a thankless nation will suffer intense divine retribution for, among other things, taking liberty (without responsibility) for granted.

USMC Trained Killer
USMC Trained Killer
5 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

It won’t be divine intervention but you can pack your religious books. Instead it will be a five sided race war and a war between the states. Whomever the military signs with wins. Posse Comitatus will not apply.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
5 years ago

This writer has no “religious” books to pack or unpack.

In your war scenario, how would this affect America’s relationship with Israel?

USMC Trained Killer
USMC Trained Killer
5 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

They would probably help provide intel and certainly the Mossad would work with the winning team. No one will ever destroy Israel, even if they damage the place some. I reckon you missed the sarcasm. I said , “It won’t be divine intervention, it will be secular. But you can pack your religious books if you want.”

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
5 years ago

Well, the response was great. The Mossad has my admiration. Stuxnet got Iran’s attention. Missed the sarcasm a bit, and to add this, a slow driver as well. Thanks.

1984  George Orwellesque
1984 George Orwellesque
5 years ago

Traditionally all of these suits were done by MSM. However, MSM has a vested interest in protecting Obama/ Hillary. Now JW, an NGO far removed from the press is bearing the burden. This is the result of a fascist insurrection by the OBAMA/ Hillary MSM.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
5 years ago

It still boggles my mind how someone like John Brennan ever had a security clearance in the first place. He is married to a raghead yet one of the navigators in my US Navy squadron list his clearance for marrying a foreign national. Is it a political decision with no clear standards?

The problem with a foreign national spouse is that enemy agents can use them as a device to extort classified material under threat of harming a relative of theirs.

USMC Trained Killer
USMC Trained Killer
5 years ago

So I married a Japanese bride. That is my right. She is now a U.S. Citizen. That’s the law.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Have you ever seen so much DERANGED hatred for a man trying to turn this country around? Showing their true colors and and insane hatred as their dear Nerogro.

Who tried in 8 years to tear this country down and hand it over in pieces to Megroes, Moslems, Migrants, Mexicans, and Mongrels.

The Negro had as much hatred for the white man as Hillaryous, Wassername, Frankenstein, and Pocahontas.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
5 years ago

Exactly right purge the sedition / sludge from government get it done .

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