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Air Force Academy Instructional Materials Include Presentations on
Critical Race Theory, White Privilege, and Black Lives Matter –
Attacks American ‘Creation Myth’ of the Declaration of
Independence

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You will not believe the Marxist drivel being taught at our Air
Force Academy. I genuinely fear for the future of our military.

We received 478 pages
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of
records from the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), a component
of the United States Department of Defense, which include
instructional materials and emails that address topics such as
Critical Race Theory, “white privilege,” and Black Lives Matter.

We obtained these records as the result of a November 2022 Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
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filed
after the Defense Department failed to respond to a request for Air
Force Academy training material records on Critical Race Theory
(_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Defense_
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(No.
1:22-cv-03510)).

The records include a PowerPoint presentation
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titled
“Political Psychology, Lessons 32-33: Prejudice and Racism.” On a
slide labeled “Race and Partisanship” is a bullet stating:
“Opposition to interracial dating correlated with white partisanship
after Obama’s election despite being unrelated to party
identification in previous decades.”

That presentation includes a set of tables with the headline “White
Americans’ Support for Democratic Candidates for President as a
Function of Old-Fashioned Racism.” Another slide depicts tables
which purport to show “Correlations between Republican Party
Identification and Old-Fashioned Racism among White Americans.”

A slide titled “Racialization of Public Policy” includes a bullet
stating “They [pollsters] found that the image of a black man
greatly impacted responses among Trump supporters.” The next bullet
asserts:

After exposed to the black racial cue, Trump voters:

Were less supportive of housing assistance programs
Expressed higher levels of anger that some people receive government
assistance
Were more likely to say that individuals who receive assistance are to
blame for their economic situation.
Another slide purports to show a chart depicting “White Identity
among White Americans,” with the subtitle “How Important Is Being
White to Your Identity?”

Additional slides are titled “How White Identity Shapes Politics”
and contain tables purporting to show:

* Effect of White Identity on Empathy toward People of Color
* Effect of White Identity on Support for Voter ID Laws
* Effect of White Identity on Support for Political Violence

A slide titled “Race and Politics” includes an image of President
Obama with the bullet “Because the President is the leader of his
respective party – Obama signified a massive shift in image of the
stereotypical Democrat,” followed by the bullet: “The Democratic
party became branded as the party of Black Americans.”

A “CRT Talking Points” document
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prepared
at the direction of the Air Force Academy Superintendent includes the
question “Does CRT teach cadets to hate our country?” The scripted
“academic answer” to the question asserts, “much of what is
‘divisive’ [about CRT] is that it’s hard for people to hear the
words ‘white supremacy’ without feeling defensive, even though
that is the academically correct way to talk about most of American
history.”

The records include a transcript
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of
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s June 23, 2021, congressional
testimony in which he tells Rep. Matt Gaetz, “I don’t know what
the issue of critical race theory is and what the relevance here in
the department. We do not teach critical race theory. We don’t
embrace critical race theory. And I think that’s a spurious
conversation.”

Two weeks later, on July 7, 2021, Dean of Faculty Brigadier General
Linell Letendre forwards to Superintendent Lieutenant General Richard
Clark, Commander of Cadets Brigadier General Paul Moga, and others
whose names are redacted, a _Washington Post_ opinion piece
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written
the previous day by USAFA Professor Lynne Chandler Garcia, titled
“Why U.S. military academies should teach critical race theory.”
Letendre adds a note
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promoting
the piece:

> My thanks to Dr. Chandler Garcia for putting into words what many of
> us have expressed to each other around the water coolers about the
> importance of teaching our cadets _how to think_. [Emphasis in
> original] As future leaders of the profession of arms, we owe them
> nothing less.
An August 13, 2021, email exchange
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between
academy officials details hosting a virtual discussion with Stephen
Brookfield
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author of “Teaching
Race: How to Help Students Unmask and Challenge Racism_,_” to USAFA
faculty members. One official raises concerns over Brookfield’s
discussion topics related to Critical Race Theory.

In a separate email chain
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a person whose name is redacted sends the Brookfield event information
to Letendre: “In case this slipped your notice, I just wanted to
make sure you and the dean were aware that the [redacted] book group
initiative has the potential to further the CRT storm.”

The dean replies, “Thanks for the SA [situational awareness]. No
concerns. We need to keep doing the right things to prepare and
develop faculty.” Forty-three faculty members signed up for
Brookfield’s talk.

Another presentation
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discusses
the teachings of Brookfield and has the headline “The (White)
Elephant in the Room” and bullets which are partially obscured.

A slide in the series has the title “Team Teaching” and includes
the bullet: “Allows you to … Demonstrate how to engage in
difficult conversations in a way focused on behaviors not personhood,
& on learned white supremacy not essential moral differences or
failings.” Another bullet states “Allows you to … Facilitate
racial affinity groups.”

Another slide is titled “The Fatigue of WWW – Witnessing White
Woke-ness.”

An additional slide proposes:

> A calculus of understanding amongst Black, Indigenous and People of
> Color (BIPOC) who have negotiated the dynamics of structural racism
> all their lives & are tired of _WITNESSING ‘WOKENESS’_ in
> White people coming to new racial awareness. [Emphasis in original]

One of the Brookfield slides is titled, “Hard Truths I’ve Learned
as a White Instructor/Leader” and contains bullets such as “I MUST
assume that for students and colleagues of color, EVERYTHING is seen
through the lens of race. For them, NOTHING is ‘race free’.”
And, “I MUST acknowledge my own racist behavior when it’s pointed
out to me – not to try to ‘explain’ it away, not protest my
innocence.” [Emphases in original]
Still another Brookfield slide contains the bullets “I MUST NEVER
ask people of color to teach me about racism – figuring out what
whites should do is MY responsibility” and “I MUST NEVER
‘confess’ my racism so as to seek ‘absolution’ from BIPOC
students & colleagues.” [Emphases in original]

Among the works written by Brookfield listed in the bibliography is
“Creating an Anti-Racist White Identity.”

A slide
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from
Lesson 28 in Behavioral Science 362 is titled “What is CRT?” and
includes:

* Recognize that race is not biologically reality, but socially
constructed and socially significant
* Helps us understand the legacy of racism and how embedded within
social institutions
* Sees racism as systemic

Another slide in the presentation discusses the 1619 Project that
argues that America was not founded in 1776.

A presentation
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which has no specification as to whether it is intended for faculty or
the students, is titled “Free Speech in the Military” and has a
slide labeled “The Commie Cadet,” which includes images of West
Point cadet Spencer Rapone at his West Point graduation ceremony
showing the inside of his cap in which is written “Communism will
win,” and one of him wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt under his
uniform.

A presentation
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apparently intended for the cadets, is titled “American Political
System & Theory, Lesson 25-31 Law & Democracy” and a slide
containing a list of information under “Things to Know,” which
describes Critical Race Theory as: “Critical Race Theory studies
racism as a social construct” and “Proponents say learning the
history of racism is crucial to addressing inequities.”

Lesson 14 of a Social Sciences presentation
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is
titled “What does Race have to do with Security?” The next slide,
titled “Critical Race Theory,” provides several bullet points of
“definitions” of CRT, such as:

> A collection of critical stances against the existing legal order
> from a race-based point of view, (Brooks 1994)”
>
> The view that the law and legal institutions are inherently racist
> and that race itself, instead of being biologically grounded and
> natural, is a socially constructed concept that is used by white
> people to further their economic and political interests at the
> expense of people of color. (Curry 2009).
Another slide discusses the “‘Myth’ of American Peoplehood”
with one bullet claiming: “The U.S. too has a creation myth: The
Declaration of Independence declares that all men have rights endowed
by their Creator; Ideas of social contracts forged in a state of
nature.”

In the same Social Sciences presentation is a slide titled: “Lesson
16: Black Lives Matter – Causes and Context.” A bloc of slides in
the presentation discusses BLM, with one slide alleging: “White
privilege doesn’t mean your life hasn’t been HARD. It means that
your skin color isn’t one of the things making it HARDER.”
[Emphases in original]

Various slides promoting BLM follow, including one depicting a white
police officer holding a sign pointing to a black man, asking, “Is
his life worth less than mine?” and a white woman holding a similar
sign pointing to a black woman.

Numerous slides depict alleged police brutality against blacks, one of
which states “Nearly 90% of documented force used by FPD [Ferguson,
MO Police Department] was used against African Americans.”

The Air Force is fomenting racialism, racial separatism and
segregation, and anti-white hatred among its rising young leadership
at the Air Force Academy. These documents show the Biden Defense
Department is teaching these cadets on how to hate America using
repackaged revolutionary Marxist propaganda.

ALVIN BRAGG PAID OVER $900/HOUR TO SHUT DOWN HOUSE OVERSIGHT INTO
TRUMP INDICTMENT

New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been under fire for his
soft-on-crime approach in New York City, but he has no trouble going
after a former president whose politics he abhors. We’re learning
more about his prosecution.

We received the engagement letter
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showing
Bragg paid $900 per hour for partners and $500 per hour for associates
to the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm for the purpose of suing Rep.
Jim Jordan (R-OH) in an effort to shut down the House Judiciary
Committee’s oversight investigation into Bragg’s unprecedented
indictment of former President Donald Trump.

We obtained the agreement as the result of an April 11, 2023, Freedom
of Information Law (FOIL) request
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followed
by an appeal
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for
records of agreements between Alvin L. Bragg or the New York County
District Attorney’s Office and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP for work
related to _Bragg v. Jordan_, Case No. 23-3032 filed in the U.S
District Court for the Southern District of New York on or about April
11, 2023.

The letter welcomes “the Manhattan District Attorney's Office
(“the DA”) as a client of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP … You are
retaining us to provide legal services to the DA in connection with a
congressional investigation, potential litigation, and related matters
regarding the DA's investigation of Donald Trump (the
“Matter”).”

Initially redacted in its first production of records, the
“professional fees” section states: “For this matter we have
agreed on the following hourly rates for our attorneys: $900 per hour
for partners, and $500 per hour for associates. These rates will
remain the same for the life of the matter.”

The House Judiciary Committee on March 20 sent a letter
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to
Bragg demanding records related to the “unprecedented abuse of
prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the
United States and current declared candidate for that office:”

> The New York County District Attorney’s Office has been
> investigating President Trump since at least 2018, looking for some
> legal theory on which to bring charges. The facts surrounding the
> impending indictment have “been known for years.” Michael Cohen,
> President Trump’s disgraced former lawyer, pleaded guilty over
> four years ago to charges based on the same facts at issue in the
> impending indictment. By July 2019, however, federal prosecutors
> determined that no additional people would be charged alongside
> Cohen. Now, in the words of one legal scholar, you are attempting to
> “shoehorn” the same case with identical facts into a new
> prosecution, resurrecting a so-called “zombie” case against
> President Trump. Even the _Washington Post_ quoted “legal
> experts” as calling your actions “unusual” because
> “prosecutors have repeatedly examined the long-established details
> but decided not to pursue charges.”

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> In addition to the novel and untested legal theory, your star
> witness for this prosecution has a serious credibility problem—a
> problem that you have reportedly recognized. This case relies
> heavily on the testimony of Michael Cohen, a convicted perjurer with
> a demonstrable prejudice against President Trump. Cohen pleaded
> guilty to lying to Congress in 2018. In 2019, when he testified
> before Democrats on the House Oversight Committee to aid their
> fruitless investigation into President Trump, Cohen lied again—six
> times. Cohen has been vocal about his deeply personal animus toward
> President Trump. Under these circumstances, there is no scenario in
> which Cohen could fairly be considered an unbiased and credible
> witness.
On April 4 Bragg announced a felony indictment
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of
former President Donald Trump.

The Judiciary Committee on April 6 issued a subpoena
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compelling the testimony of former New York County Special Assistant
District Attorney Mark Pomerantz, who resigned
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from
office the previous year because Bragg was reluctant to pursue charges
against Trump.

The committee in March had written Pomerantz a letter
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stating
that his “efforts to shame Bragg have worked as he is reportedly
resurrecting a so-called ‘zombie’ case against President Trump
using a tenuous and untested legal theory.”

On April 11, Bragg filed a lawsuit
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against
Jordan to block his alleged “interference” and “obstruction”
of the investigation of former President Donald Trump in New York.

On April 19, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New
York issued a decision denying
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Bragg’s
requested temporary restraining order. The House Judiciary Committee
subsequently issued a statemen
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“Today’s decision shows that Congress has the ability to conduct
oversight and issue subpoenas to people like Mark Pomerantz, and we
look forward to his deposition before the Judiciary Committee.”

Bragg’s unjustified, malicious prosecution is not only corrupt but
it’s also a waste of taxpayer funds as he tries to thwart a
legitimate House investigation into his attempt to interfere in the
2024 election. Rather than spending $900 per hour on lawyers to defend
his abuse of office and political jihad against Trump, Bragg should
focus on taking dangerous criminals off the streets of New York.

WHO IS DAVID WEISS?

The philosopher Diogenes
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of ancient Greece
held up a lamp and searched the faces of Athens for an honest man. We
can only wonder what he would find in the Justice Department today. In
_Investigative Bulletin, _Micah Morrison, our chief investigative
correspondent, examines
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the man behind one
long-time Washington face.

> On June 20, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware announced
> a sweetheart plea deal with Hunter Biden, the son of President
> Biden. Hunter Biden would plead guilty to two tax charges and enter
> a diversion program on a gun possession charge. Diversion programs
> are usually focused on drug offenses—Biden has a well-documented
> history of crack cocaine use—and generally consist of
> psychotherapy and class work on building life skills. There would be
> no jail time.
>
> Outrage ensued. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton called it
>
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“a
> miscarriage of justice whose chief beneficiary is President
> Biden.” In Congress, House GOP leaders sent a letter
>
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to
> Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the appearance of
> eleven witnesses before the House Judiciary Committee to address
> “allegations of politicization and misconduct with respect to the
> Department’s investigation of Hunter Biden.”
>
> The star witness? David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for the District of
> Delaware. “We want to talk to David Weiss,” said
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House
> Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan. Weiss ran the five-year probe into
> Hunter Biden. Weiss’s defenders are quick to note that the
> prosecutor was a Trump appointee, but that’s only part of the
> story. Weiss has deep roots in Democrat-dominated Delaware and spent
> key career years as a top Obama Administration prosecutor in
> Wilmington.
>
> Weiss got his ticket punched as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in
> Delaware from 1986 to 1989, then moved on to a lucrative career in
> the private sector. From 1989 to 1999, Weiss worked at the
> Wilmington law firm Duane Morris, becoming a partner in 1993,
> according to his Justice Department bio. In 1999, Weiss joined the
> Siegfried Group, also based in Wilmington, a financial services
> firm, serving as chief operating officer.
>
> In 2007, Weiss returned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware.
> In 2009, Barack Obama appointed Weiss to leadership positions at the
> Delaware office, where he served as both Acting and Interim U.S
> Attorney. In 2018, President Trump, following historic practice,
> named him U.S. Attorney upon the recommendation of the two U.S.
> senators from Delaware, Democrats Tom Carper and Chris Coons.
>
> House GOP leaders want details of the control exerted by Main
> Justice over the Biden case. Garland had repeatedly promised a
> “hands-off” approach to the inquiry and noted that Weiss had
> been given “full authority” to decide the matter. GOP leaders in
> their letter to Garland noted that recent testimony from IRS
> whistleblowers involved in the case raised “serious questions
> about the Department’s commitment to evenhanded justice and the
> veracity of assertions” made to the Judiciary Committee.
>
> Specifically, the letter noted, House GOP leaders “seek to examine
> whistleblower claims that the Department’s investigation of Hunter
> Biden was purposely slow-walked and subject to improper and
> politically motivated interference.” An earlier letter
>
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to
> Weiss from Jordan also sought “documents and information”
> related to retaliation against one of the IRS whistleblowers.
>
> On June 30, House investigators got the response from Weiss: drop
> dead.
>
> In a letter
>
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> to Chairman Jordan, Weiss noted that in order to protect law
> enforcement sources and internal investigative
> deliberations—standard boilerplate but this time involving a case
> that had been largely closed with the plea deal—“I will not
> provide specific information related to the Hunter Biden
> investigation at this time.” Weiss also repeated that “I have
> been granted ultimate authority over this matter, including where,
> when and whether to file charges.”
>
> It’s unlikely that Jordan and other House leaders will go quietly
> into the night on the Hunter Biden case. There’s more to come.
> Legal minds may quibble over whether Hunter Biden got the standard
> deal for a first-time offender on two tax charges and a gun case,
> but that misses the point. The big picture here is what Hunter Biden
> and other family members, and perhaps even the current president of
> the United States, were up to in Ukraine and China
>
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raking in tens of
> millions of dollars in exchange for…what?
>
> David Weiss spent five years investigating Hunter Biden. What does
> Weiss know about Biden’s Ukraine and China dealings? Did Weiss act
> properly with his “ultimate authority?” Did the attorney general
> act properly? Did the White House?
>
> _Quis custodiet ipsos custodes_—who will guard the guardians?

CBP RELEASED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ON FBI TERRORIST WATCHLIST AFTER ARREST

Given the Biden administration’s purposeful border crisis, are you
at all surprised that a foreigner on the terrorist watchlist was free
in the U.S. for more than two weeks while the feds sorted out their
inept system for keeping the nation safe? Our _Corruption Chronicles_
blog reports
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> In the latest national security blow to come out of the southwest
> border U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended and
> subsequently released an illegal immigrant on the Federal Bureau of
> Investigation’s (FBI) terrorist watchlist. CBP arrested the
> migrant, whose gender is not being identified by authorities, and
> their family in Yuma, Arizona, and supposedly screened them for
> national security threats. Based on the information provided by CBP,
> the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) determined that the
> migrant was an inconclusive terrorist watchlist match and the
> frontline Homeland Security agency released the illegal alien. A few
> days later, the suspect and family members checked in at the Palm
> Springs International Airport in California for a flight to Tampa,
> Florida and during pre-flight screening the TSC obtained additional
> information from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
> that “confirmed the migrant was a positive Terrorist Watchlist
> match,” according to a heavily redacted federal audit
>
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> It took another two weeks for the feds to finally arrest the illegal
> immigrant, according to the report.
>
> The document was recently made public with extensive redactions by
> the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General, which
> concluded that “CBP’s ineffective practices and processes for
> resolving inconclusive matches with the Terrorist Watchlist led to
> multiple mistakes.” As an example, investigators write that CBP
> sent a request to interview the migrant to the wrong electronic mail
> address, obtained information requested by the TSC but never shared
> it, and released the migrant before fully coordinating with the FBI
> screening center. “Once the migrant was identified as a positive
> match with the Terrorist Watchlist, U.S. Immigration and Customs
> Enforcement (ICE) prioritized arresting the migrant but faced
> multiple challenges sharing information within ICE’s Enforcement
> and Removal Operations while planning and conducting the arrest,”
> the report states. When ICE finally received the necessary
> information, it safely apprehended the illegal alien, the report
> confirms.
>
> In all, the foreigner on the terrorist watchlist was free in the
> U.S. for more than two weeks while the feds sorted out their inept
> system for keeping the nation safe. The DHS watchdog found that CBP
> missed multiple opportunities to help the TSC verify the migrant was
> a “positive Terrorist Watchlist match before releasing the
> migrant.” Because such large chunks of the report are redacted,
> specifics of how CBP dropped the ball are not available, but it
> appears to be a broad problem at the agency that is hardly limited
> to this case. That is why the DHS IG conducted the probe to review
> CBP’s screening process of a suspected terrorist and the timing of
> ICE’s subsequent arrest following the suspected terrorist’s
> release in the U.S. “If CBP’s ineffective practices for
> resolving inconclusive Terrorist Watchlist matches continue, the
> component risks releasing individuals into the United States who
> potentially threaten national security and public safety,” the
> report states. Despite the omitted portions, the document does a
> solid job explaining that CBP released the migrant without sharing
> information that would have confirmed the terrorist watchlist match.
>
> The public disclosure of this inconceivable case comes on the heels
> of equally distressing information involving terrorists and the
> famously porous southern border. Just a few weeks ago, Judicial
> Watch reported
>
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that a
> record number of foreigners who appear on the FBI’s Terrorist
> Screening Database (TSDB) have been caught trying to enter the U.S.
> through Mexico. In April alone federal agents caught 16 illegal
> immigrants who appear on the TSDB trying to enter the country
> through the southern border, according to the latest government
> figures. The TSDB contains thousands of records that are updated
> daily and shared with federal state, local, territorial, and tribal
> law enforcement as well as the intelligence community and
> international partners to “ensure that individuals with links to
> terrorism are appropriately screened,” according to the FBI. The
> April figure is more than the total terrorists caught in four
> previous years—2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 combined. With about
> three months till the end of the fiscal year, Border Patrol agents
> have already encountered 98 migrants that appear on the TSDB list.
>
> The new probe exposing how the nation’s frontline Homeland
> Security agency handles potential terrorists who cross into the U.S.
> through the largely unsecured southern border should concern all
> Americans. Incredibly, the DHS, created after 9/11 to prevent
> another terrorist attack, seems most concerned with the new
> report’s title misleading readers into believing that CBP
> knowingly released an individual on the terrorist watchlist. The
> watchdog stands by its probe, explaining that the document’s
> title, “CBP Released a Migrant on a Terrorist Watchlist,” is
> accurate and supported in the report findings.

Until next week,





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