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Durham Report Documents Worst Government
Corruption in American History
Special Counsel John Durham released his long-awaited report on
intelligence agency activities in the 2016 presidential election, and it is
damning.
According to the Durham Report, President Obama’s CIA Director John
Brennan, then-Vice President Joe Biden, former Attorney General Loretta
Lynch, and the infamous former Director of the FBI James Comey were briefed
in August 2016 about the plan by Hillary Clinton and the DNC to create a
false narrative linking President Trump to Russia.
The FBI knew the Steele dossier was a sack of lies, and yet they still
pushed false allegations in the nefarious FISA warrant applications against
Carter Page. They made it a point to try to crush Trump and those around
him. It was a purely political, banana republic effort to change the course
of a presidential election and presidency.
Many key Durham report findings were already disclosed thanks to Judicial
Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigations and litigation.
Durham let down the American people with few and failed prosecutions. Never
in American history has so much government corruption faced so little
accountability. Let me be clear, the FBI and Justice Department – and
their political masters in the Obama White House – are responsible for
the worst government corruption in American history. President Trump is a
crime victim who was targeted by a seditious conspiracy by Obama, Biden,
Clinton and their Deep State allies.
Judicial Watch Client, Decorated Veteran and FBI Analyst Whistleblower
Testifies to Congress on Weaponization of Government
Marcus Allen, a decorated veteran, FBI analyst and Judicial Watch client,
testified this week at
a House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee hearing titled
“Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.”
We represent Allen in a lawsuit against FBI
Director Christopher Wray for violating Allen’s constitutional rights by
falsely accusing him of holding “conspiratorial views,” stripping his
security clearance, and suspending him from duty without pay (Marcus O. Allen v
Christopher Wray (No. 22-cv-04536)). Allen is also represented by
Tristan Leavitt and Jason Foster of Empower Oversight (https://empowr.us/).
The FBI revoked Allen’s security clearance because apparently, the FBI
believes that any views contrary to its own regarding what occurred on
January 6 constitutes as disloyalty to the United States.
The lawsuit details Allen’s outstanding military and FBI service:
Because of his outstanding military service, [Allen] was awarded the
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal and the Navy and Marine Corps
Achievement Medal. In 2004, [Allen] was designated the Marine Corps
Intelligence Activity Runner-Up for Intelligence NCO of the Year.
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In 2015, [Allen] joined the FBI as a staff operations specialist. Among
other tasks, he has provided ad hoc all-source analytical support to the
FBI Charlotte Field Office Joint Terrorism Task Force. He has consistently
been rated “Exceeds Fully Successful” on his FBI performance
evaluations. He received the FBI Charlotte Field Office Employee of the
Year Award in 2019.
[Allen] first received a Top Secret security
clearance in early 2001.
Despite Allen’s exemplary service, in a January 10, 2022, letter the FBI
asserted:
The Security Division has learned you have espoused conspiratorial views
both orally and in writing and promoted unreliable information which
indicates support for the events of January 6th. These allegations raise
sufficient concerns about your allegiance to the United States and your
judgment to warrant a suspension of your clearance pending further
investigation.
In a February 17, 2022, letter the FBI further notified Allen that he was
being placed on administrative leave without pay due to the suspension of
his security clearance.
The lawsuit states:
[Allen’s] allegiance is to the United States, as he has demonstrated
during his years of exemplary military and law enforcement service to his
country.
[Allen] was not involved in the events of
January 6 and did not support them in any material way. The FBI has made no
allegation or offered any evidence to the contrary.
[Allen] has expressed no view that could be
reasonably interpreted as personally expressing support or sympathy for any
unlawful activity that occurred on January 6.
The FBI has not identified any specific
statements or actions supporting its contention that Plaintiff has done
otherwise.
We contend that the FBI did not give Allen a chance to clear himself,
despite his repeated inquiries. In early May 2022, however, the FBI
requested that Allen appear for an interview. He promptly complied. The
interview request came only days after FBI Director Wray was confronted by
members of Congress over concerns that the FBI was weaponizing the security
clearance process to target politically conservative employees. Since that
time, Allen has received no further word on the status of the FBI’s
investigation.
On June 7, 2022, Rep. Jim Jordan, ranking member of the House Judiciary
Committee, sent a letter to Wray
regarding the firing of FBI employees, noting that, “Multiple
whistleblowers have called it a ‘purge’ of FBI employees holding
conservative views.”
Pentagon Inspector General Concludes Naval Academy Superintendent Made
False Statements to End Midshipman’s Career
We received 19-pages of records
from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) consisting of an internal report
by its Inspector General titled “Report of Investigation of Vice Admiral
(VADM) Sean L. Buck, U.S. Navy, Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy,”
which concluded that Buck made false statements in discussions with senior
Navy officials during disenrollment proceedings against a midshipman for
perceived inappropriate tweets.
We uncovered the internal report, dated September 2022, thanks to our March
2023 FOIA lawsuit (Judicial Watch, Inc. v.
U.S. Department of Defense, No. 1:23-cv-00566). We sued after the
Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General (“DODIG”) failed
to respond to a December 2022 FOIA request for all records related to an
investigation conducted by the DODIG, which it publicly referenced in its
most recent annual report to Congress. The reference is on page 54 of the
Report to Congress. In
the report, DODIG informed Congress of the following incident:
The DOD OIG investigated allegations that a Navy vice admiral made false
official statements to senior Navy officials on three occasions. We did not
substantiate the allegations. We concluded that the vice admiral did not
make a false official statement, as defined by Article 107 of the Uniform
Code of Military Justice, on any of the three occasions. The DOD OIG
initiated this investigation based on complaints filed with the DOD
Hotline.
The report we just uncovered details that following Vice Admiral Buck’s
interview with the midshipman at issue (whose name is redacted), Buck made false statements
internally to other Navy officials on three separate occasions when he
“asserted that [the midshipman] said he would use military force against
civilians.” The report also notes that Buck used these false statements
to support his recommendation that the midshipman be disenrolled from the
Academy and be required to reimburse the Navy $174,753 for his tuition.
(The DODIG’s Whistleblower Reprisal
Investigations Directorate, which produced the report on Buck,
“investigates allegations of whistleblower reprisals made by members of
the armed services and employees, contractors, and grantees of DOD and the
DOD intelligence community.”)
In a November 12, 2020, memo, Buck recommended to the Assistant Secretary
of the Navy, Manpower and Reserve Affairs that the midshipman be
disenrolled from the United States Naval Academy after Buck claimed he had
lost confidence in the midshipman.
Based on Buck’s recommendation, the Secretary of Navy disenrolled the
midshipman from the Naval Academy. However, after the midshipman sued, the
Navy ultimately allowed him
back into the Academy to complete his remaining credits, “graduate
from the USNA, receive a commission as an ensign on May 28, 2021, and enter
active duty.” A news report by The
Stars and Stripes suggests the midshipman in question may have been
Chase Standage.
The report concludes:
We concluded by a preponderance of the evidence that [Vice Admiral] Buck
did not make a false official statement, as defined by Article 107 of the
[Uniform Code of Military Justice] … However, we found that VADM Buck
made a statement that was false during both the conference call with
[redacted] on February 18, 2021, and the office visit with
[redacted] on February 24, 2021. We further found that VADM Buck knew that
his statements were false, but we could not determine by a preponderance of
the evidence that VADM Buck intended to make those false statements on
either occasion to deceive [redacted] or [redacted]. Separately, we
concluded that VADM Buck did not make a false official statement to former
Secretary Braithwaite.
The IG made “no recommendation” regarding Buck.
The documents show how Pentagon leaders let a vice admiral – the head of
the US Naval Academy – off the hook for knowingly making false statements
to justify his recommendation to end the career of a young midshipman over
tweets. It is disturbing that it took a federal FOIA lawsuit to uncover how
this senior officer made a series of false statements as part of his
unusual effort to destroy this midshipman.
HHS Earmarks Millions for Illegal Immigrant Minors’ Long Term Foster
Care
Children pouring across the border without parents are becoming wards of
the state – on your dime. Our Corruption Chronicles blog explains.
It is not enough that American taxpayers spend billions of dollars
annually to “temporarily” care for the onslaught of illegal immigrant
minors that cross into the U.S. through the Mexican border until they get
released to relatives or sponsors. Now the Biden administration is quietly
doling out tens of millions more for long-term foster care through fiscal
year 2024. The money will go to providers that will give Unaccompanied
Alien Children (UAC) with no family in the U.S. continuing “quality care
in a community setting.” The accommodations will focus on migrants up to
17 years of age, including pregnant and parenting teens and those who are
“especially vulnerable or with other special needs,” according to the
Department of Health and Human Services, the agency distributing the money.
The allocation comes just
weeks after Judicial Watch reported that the government is spending $50 million on
“post-release” services for the never-ending influx of migrant
youths.
HHS is responsible for underage migrants and
the agency, through its handsomely funded Office of Refugee Resettlement
(ORR), has spent a fortune to care for the mobs of mostly Central American
youths that have crossed into the U.S. through the Mexican border in the
last few years. Because those under 18 are welcomed with open arms hundreds
of thousands have entered the country in the last few years and HHS spends
billions of dollars annually to house, medically treat, entertain, and
school UAC when they arrive in the U.S. In fact, HHS oversees dozens of
state-licensed care facilities to house the young migrants when they arrive
in the country and as of May 2, 2023, there are 8,492 unaccompanied
children in HHS care, according to the latest agency figures. In fiscal year 2021
ORR provided shelter to an unprecedented 122,731 UAC. In fiscal year 2022,
a record 149,000 UAC were apprehended
by federal agents. The overwhelming majority of UAC in U.S. custody,
approximately 72%, are over 14 years of age and 66% are male. Nearly half
(47%) come from Guatemala, 32% from Honduras, 13% from El Salvador and 8%
from other countries.
The living accommodations are supposed to be
short term, until the government can place the migrants with family or a
sponsor even though Uncle Sam still pays for costly medical, educational,
legal and other services after release. The new funding for long term care
indicates that American taxpayers will get stuck with a much bigger tab
than previously disclosed to support UAC. The extended services will also
include “acculturation and adaptation” care to help the illegal aliens
develop social and interpersonal skills, education, legal and mental
health. Daily education for the UAC in long term foster care will be a
minimum of six hours based on basic academic competencies and secondarily
on English language training. Foster homes will establish summer education
plans tailored to the migrants’ needs, including individual counseling by
a qualified mental health professional when needed. Mental health
professionals will identify special needs and issues that require immediate
intervention, including previous juvenile justice or criminal
involvement.
“Care providers are required to provide or
arrange for the required services in a manner that is sensitive to the age,
culture, religion, dietary needs, native language, sexual orientation,
gender identity, and other important individual needs of each” young
migrant, the grant announcement states. It also says all UAC in U.S. care
are entitled to human rights protections and freedom from discrimination
and abuse and that providers must ensure that all migrants who are LGBTQI+
are treated fairly and served during their time in custody. “Care
providers are required to have the capacity to provide services in the
language spoken by the majority of UC in their facility(ies) and/or provide
translation services,” the document states, adding the obvious, that
“most UC in ORR custody speak Spanish.” The agency further writes that
applicants for the new pot of money should “have the flexibility to care
for the expanding cultural and linguistically diverse populations that are
referred each year.”
This is all part of the Biden
administration’s red-carpet rollout for underage illegal immigrants. It
is important to note the irony of a system that spends so much money to
accommodate a demographic that also includes hardcore criminals and violent
gangbangers. For instance, a teenage Salvadoran gang member recently
arrested for the murder of a
Maryland woman came to the U.S. as a UAC. A few years ago, two UAC were
charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in the bathroom of a Maryland public
high school. The illegal immigrants were both charged with first-degree
rape and two counts of first-degree sexual offense. Both were in the ninth
grade like their victim. One came from El Salvador and the other from
Guatemala. A year earlier two UAC—both 17—from Central America executed
a Massachusetts man by shooting him in the head shortly after being
welcomed into the U.S. by the Obama administration. Both had ties to the
notoriously violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), authorities
disclosed at the time.
Until next week…
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