"Compelling the Government Respondents to respond to Buzzfeed’s questions clearly would interfere with and possibly cause grave harm to an ongoing investigation," Justice Department attorney Anjali Motgi and other lawyers wrote. District Court Judge Amit Mehta that forcing officials to answer a series of questions about their handling of the dossier could trigger "a wave" of similar requests, distract government employees involved in important intelligence work and expose sensitive details about what government attorneys referred to in vague terms as "an ongoing investigation." Justice Department lawyers moved Monday to block that effort, telling U.S. government and triggered some effort by American authorities to verify its contents. To bolster its defense in the suit, BuzzFeed is asking a federal judge in Washington to order the FBI and perhaps others to provide details that would officially confirm the dossier circulated at the highest levels of the U.S. In February, BuzzFeed was hit with a libel suit from Russian internet entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev, who was mentioned in the document as having ties to hacking directed at Democratic Party leaders. Feds fight BuzzFeed demand for Trump dossier probe detailsįederal agencies are fighting BuzzFeed's demand for information about how officials investigated a controversial dossier of claims about President Donald Trump's alleged connections to Russia.īuzzFeed published the dossier in January along with a warning that the media outlet's reporters had been unable to verify many of the assertions in the compilation, including salacious allegations about Trump.
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