What judge approved all of these DOJ supoenas?

[zaj]

[dalton99a]

1. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson

The nondisclosure order was extended three times, each time for a year, Apple said. When it was not extended for a fourth time, Apple said it informed the affected customers on May 5, 2021.

"In this case, the subpoena, which was issued by a federal grand jury and included a nondisclosure order signed by a federal magistrate judge, provided no information on the nature of the investigation and it would have been virtually impossible for Apple to understand the intent of the desired information without digging through users' accounts," Apple said in the statement. "Consistent with the request, Apple limited the information it provided to account subscriber information and did not provide any content such as emails or pictures."

The subpoena was signed by prosecutor Jocelyn Valentine and authorized by Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson in DC federal court, the source familiar with the request said.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/11/politics/justice-department-apple-congress-leak-investigation/index.html

[uponit7771]

2. "..prosecutor Jocelyn Valentine ..." WOW !! So many people dragged in this shit

[Nevilledog]

27. It's actually Ballantine.

Emptywheel has been tweeting about her. Ballantine was also one of the Manafort prosecutors and got called out for submitting altered documents.

[malaise]

3. Was her son released from prison for her good work?

Asking for a friend

[WhiteTara]

25. What?????

[paleotn]

6. Maybe I'm wrong, but

do nondisclosures apply to illegal acts. I don’t think so.

[csziggy]

11. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson

Deborah Robinson

Nonpartisan
Prior offices - United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Education - Bachelor's

Morgan State University - Law

Emory University School of Law

Deborah A. Robinson was a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She began her service in that position on July 18, 1988.[1] Robinson retired on August 31, 2020.[2]

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Magistrate judge overseas pleas in Russia probe (2017)

See also: United States District Court for the District of Columbia (United States of America v. Paul J. Manafort Jr. and Richard W. Gates III)

On October 30, 2017, Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson presided as Paul Manafort, the one-time campaign manager for President Donald Trump (R) and Manafort's associate, Rick Gates, entered pleas of not guilty in response to an indictment on 12 charges related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Upon entry of the plea, the defendants were held over for trial in a federal district court with Judge Amy Berman Jackson presiding.[3]

https://ballotpedia.org/Deborah_Robinson

[dem4decades]

4. who from DOJ brought them? And who told them to?

[paleotn]

9. HAd to come from the top

Took a lot of “muscle” to get career guys to go along with this.

[dem4decades]

15. Couldn't have, Barr, Sessions and Rosenstein have all said they knew nothing. DOJ was led by Sgt.

Shultz.

[triron]

18. Had to chuckle at the image that bought up.

[dem4decades]

22. Now that you mention it, Barr and Shultz could be twins.

Though Schultz was less of a Nazi.

[MLAA]

20. And he knows nothing!

[paleotn]

21. Nothing!

[MLAA]

23. 😬

[SWBTATTReg]

5. I suspect that these subpoenas were very flimsy, without substance or evidence to even back the ...

subpoenas...in other words, a fishing expedition.

Perhaps the judges should be heavily questioned as to why they approved these w/o apparent cause? Totally illegal I suspect being the Constitution does limit intrusions into everyday American lives via unreasonable searches and seizures. I don't know, I'm not a legal professional, but it smacks of illegality.

[dawg day]

19. I'm struck by the constantly renewed gag orders-

Until Biden took over.

Why the gag orders? Is that usual? It meant none of the targets ever knew what was happening.

[SWBTATTReg]

26. I don't know, this is a good point you make. Kind of sounds like they were wanting to hide ...

this intrusion (possibly illegal) eh?

[dawg day]

28. Maybe it's really common-- these gag orders?

If not... why did the DOJ insist?
And of course, who ordered all this? It wouldn't happen just on the say-so of a low-level attorney.

[UTUSN]

7. K&R

[Me.]

8. And Who Exactly Is Prosecutor Ballantine?

[csziggy]

14. She was involved in the Flynn case

DOJ’s Response To Flynn Misconduct Evidence Only Makes Them Look Worse
By Margot Cleveland
June 18, 2020

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Then came this disconcerting passage: “The government disclosed approximately 25 pages of documents in April and May 2020 as the result of an independent review of this case by the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. While those documents, along with other recently available information, see, e.g., Doc. 198-6, are relevant to the government’s discretionary decision to dismiss this case, the government’s motion is not based on defendant Flynn’s broad allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. Flynn’s allegations are unfounded and provide no basis for impugning the prosecutors from the D.C. United States Attorney’s Office.”

This passage proves disconcerting for several reasons. First, the paragraph’s construction creates the false impression that there was no prosecutorial misconduct involved, while, in reality, it does not say that at all. Rather, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jocelyn Ballantine, who signed the brief, merely asserted in the government’s brief that it’s “motion is not based on defendant Flynn’s broad allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.”

But what about narrow and specific allegations of prosecutorial misconduct and specifically Powell’s claim that federal prosecutor Brandon Van Grack—who has since withdrawn from the case—improperly withheld material exculpatory evidence from Powell?

More: https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/18/dojs-response-to-flynn-misconduct-evidence-only-makes-them-look-worse/

ETA - Sorry about the source, but when she's pissed off even the right wing, she can't be all that competent.

[Me.]

16. We're Going To Have To Learn A Lot More About Her

wherever did she get such authority to subpoena the records of congressional dems?

[intrepidity]

10. And why did a grand jury approve it? nt

[RANDYWILDMAN]

12. The DOJ is just so dirty after TRUMP

The whole place needs a firehose to clean it up

[jalan48]

13. This one?

[zaj]

17. Obama appointed, long history of big cases

Seems like there might 2 sides to this story.

[doc03]

24. Trump always telegraphs what he is up to. He

rages about the FISA court investigations of Flynn. While at the same time he is spying on Democrats. He calls Shiff "Shifty Shiff" . He talks about Obama golfing then golf 4 times as much himself. Trump is responsible for thousands of unnecessary COVID deaths then he goes on a campaign against Dr. Falchi calling him a murderer.
You can bet if Trump accuses someone of something he is guilty of it himself.