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Records Reveal 10 Attacks on Secret Service by Biden German Shepherd

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In April 2022, we released
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records
detailing multiple attacks on Secret Service members by President
Biden’s dog, Major, at both the White House and Biden’s lake home
in Wilmington, DE.

It’s happening again with Major’s replacement, Commander.

We received 194 pages
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of records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealing 10
attacks by President Joe Biden’s German Shepherd, Commander, on
officers and agents of the Secret Service between October 2022 and
January 2023. In several cases the agents required medical care,
including at a hospital. The records do not include any possible
recent events.

We forced the release of the records through a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) lawsuit
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filed after
the Secret Service failed to respond adequately to a December 2022
request for “records related to incidents of aggression and bites
involving the Biden family dog, ‘Commander.’” Judicial Watch
filed the request after receiving a tip about the dog’s behavior.

Acquired in December 2021, Commander
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a purebred German Shepherd, replaced
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Major, which was reportedly “given to family friends” following a
series of attacks on Secret Service and White House staff.

On November 3, 2022, a Secret Service official at “JOCATDESK”
[Joint Operations Center Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge]
emails
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colleagues in the Presidential Protective Division:

> Commander bite [sic] UD [Uniform Division] officer [redacted] at
> post [redacted] two times, one time in the upper right arm and a
> second bite on the officer’s thigh. WH [White House] medical
> treated the officer and made the decision to have [redacted]
> transported to [redacted] Hospital.
An email later that day from a captain of the Uniform Division, whose
name is redacted, states that he was advised that the dog was
up-to-date on all vaccines.

A November 4, 2022, email
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report adds details regarding the previous day’s attack. A Division
officer, after being bitten in the arm and thigh, had to use a steel
cart to shield himself from another attack:

> Officer [redacted] advised that ‘Commander’ came down the stairs
> and walked toward [redacted]. Officer [redacted] advised [redacted]
> was sitting with [redacted] arms crossed and Commander bite [sic]
> [redacted] arm (tricep area) then when [redacted] stood up Commander
> bite [sic] in the leg (quad area). Officer [redacted] stated that
> the usher did not control the dog and was telling Officer [redacted]
> to not back up. Officer [redacted] advised that Commander came after
> [redacted] again and [redacted] had to use a steel cart to sheild
> [sic] [redacted] self from another attack. Officer [redacted]
> advised [redacted] was in a considerable amount of pain.
The officer subsequently was placed on “restricted duty status
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for three days on doctors’ advice.

In a November 5, 2022, email exchange
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between
a Uniformed Division officer and the November 3 attack victim, the
first officer asks, “Doing alright [redacted]? That’s freaking
crazy that stupid dog – rolling my eyes [redacted].” The victim
replies, “My leg and arm still hurts. He bit me twice and ran at me
twice.” The colleague replies, “What a joke [redacted] – if it
wasn’t their dog he would already have been put down – freaking
clown needs a muzzle – hope you get to feeling better [redacted].”

The new records
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contain an email dated October 3, 2022, from an assistant special
agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division with the
subject line “Commander:”

> FYSA [For Your Situational Awareness]: This evening [redacted] took
> Commander outside for his usual dog walk through the Rose Garden. As
> Commander moved through the Palm Room doors, he inflicted a
> “friendly soft bite” on SA [special agent] [redacted]’s
> forearm as [redacted] held the door open. Afterwards SA [redacted]
> told SA [redacted] (Whip) that no skin was broken from the bite and
> [redacted] business suit was not ripped in any way. [Redacted] was
> fine. SA [redacted] advised SA [redacted] to have the WH doc look at
> it, which [redacted] did….
>
> The event seemed to be minor enough that [redacted] didn’t notice
> that Commander had even made contact with SA [redacted]….
>
> In light of past incidents, I just wanted to keep you all in the
> loop. Thanks again to Whip for properly handling the situation.
Secret Service official Darryl Volpicelli responds that he would
brief staff.

On October 5, 2022, a captain in the Uniformed Division of the White
House Branch of the Secret Service emailed
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colleagues
with the subject “Family Pet Incident” writes:

> At approximately 0706 hours, ERT [Emergency Response Team]
> Officer-Tech [redacted] was involved in an incident involving the
> Family pet. While the Family pet was out for their morning walk, the
> dog jumped on Ofc.-Tech [redacted] and “bite” [sic] at
> [redacted] arm/wrist area. [Redacted] did not suffer any injuries.
> The incident was reported to me by Lt. [redacted] in the JOC [Joint
> Operations Center] and said that the ERT supervisor would be pushing
> notifications up as well.
In an email
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dated October 26, 2022, a Uniformed Division officer reports to
colleagues:

> Commander has been exhibiting extremely aggressive behavior. Today,
> while posted, he came charging at me. The First Lady couldn’t
> regain control of commander [sic] and he continued to circle me. I
> believe it’s only a matter of time before an agent/officer is
> attacked or bit. He would have bit me today if I didn’t step
> towards him a couple different times. It was bad enough that the
> agent on the detail asked if I got bit - just so you’re aware.
A November 10, 2022, Secret Service memorandum
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describes
an incident that occurred with Commander earlier in the day. While
patrolling the White House grounds, a Uniformed Division Secret
Service officer was attacked by Commander while First Lady Jill Biden
was walking him in the Kennedy Garden. The officer was bitten on the
left thigh, and subsequently experienced “bruising, tenderness and
pain in the bite area.” He was tended to by the White House medical
unit and filed a workplace injury report with OSHA [Occupational
Safety and Health Administration].

On November 14, 2022, a Uniformed Division Secret Service officer
emails
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colleagues,
with the subject line “Family Pet,” describing that while at his
post in the White House he “heard the dog bark with a loud
aggressive sound.” He then “looked up and saw him at the landing
of the ushers staircase. I made eye contact with him and grabbed the
black chair I was sitting on and held it in front of me while backing
up.” A White House usher “stepped out of her office and climbed
the staircase to him,” and took the dog up to the residence level.

On December 11, 2022, a USSS Special Agent in the Presidential
Protective Division was attacked in the evening on the South Grounds
by Commander after President Biden let the dog off the leash
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outside
the White House. He writes:

> The injuries included a bite to the left forearm resulting in
> bruising and approximately a 1 ½ cm cut and a bite to the right
> hand on the thumb resulting a 1 cm cut. I received treatment from
> White House Medical from LTC [redacted]. The injuries were
> [redacted] and I returned to work the rest of my shift.
An Assistant Special Agent in Charge who observed the incident also
describes the incident:

> It is to be noted, this occurred after departing the family movie
> theatre with [redacted] Commander and family members (total 6
> participants). POTUS requested to take Commander (on the leash) to
> the Kennedy Garden. Once at the KG, POTUS took Commander off the
> leash to run free. I was present to observe [redacted] departing
> from the Kennedy Garden to move behind [redacted] toward the south
> ground drive via the internal garden gate when this occurred.
An OSHA Form 301
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Injury and Illness Incident Report, shows another dog bite incident
occurred on December 16, 2022, when a Secret Service officer was
walking from one post to another on the White House Complex. He/she
writes, “I was walking across the complex and a dog bit my left
arm.” Asked to describe the injury, the officer wrote, “Dog bite,
superficial laceration, contusion, soreness, and bruising.”

On December 24, 2022, a White House Branch USSS Uniformed Division
officer emails
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a
colleague, with the subject line “Dog Issue:”

> Undersigned officer reports incident occurred on 12/23/2022 around
> 2030 hours at post [redacted]. While first family was coming back
> from tennis pavilion, [redacted] having her hands being full and no
> one else around I did try to open the closed door to the deep room
> for her; at that moment first family dog passed everyone towards the
> deep room. Having doors not being fully open yet he bit me in my
> left forearm. One of the SAs [Special Agents] and [redacted]
> witnessed that incident. Fortunately I was wearing multiple layers
> of clothing so it didn’t leave any marks.
In a heavily redacted December 24, 2022, email exchange
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with the subject line “Matters of extreme concern” a Secret
Service Inspector reports to colleagues on the December 23 incident:

> I attended officials roll call [redacted] this afternoon. The dog
> bite issue came up again today. Please see the attached email chain
> written last evening. Apparently, Officer [redacted] was bitten
> while posted at [redacted] yesterday. Nearly every official in the
> room with me today spoke about specific incidents surrounding the
> First Family’s dog.
The remainder of the email, and a response to it, is redacted. The
inspector’s email is then forwarded by an official to Uniformed
Division Chief Alfonso Dyson by one of the recipients, who writes,
“FYSA [for your situational awareness] … PPD [Presidential
Protection Division] is being notified of the latest incident, but we
need to address this issue ASAP collectively.”

A January 2, 2023, email chain
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describes an incident with Commander involving a Technical Security
Investigator who was looking into an alarm going off at the Bidens’
Wilmington, DE, lake house. He was attacked by the dog when the house
sitter opened the front door to talk to the agent. The agent writes:

> Commander squeezed his way through the door and immediately
> bit/latched onto the lower right side of my back. [Redacted] told
> Commander to get down and assisted in pulling him off. The total
> incident did not last more than about 10 seconds and Commander went
> back inside the residence. [Redacted] was apologetic after the
> incident. After checking my lower back, there’s a 1x1 scratched,
> bruised spot where Commander grabbed onto and was bleeding
> consistent of a scratch like rug burn.
These shocking records raise fundamental questions about President
Biden and the Secret Service. This is a special sort of craziness and
corruption where a President would allow his dog to repeatedly attack
and bite Secret Service and White House personnel. And rather than
protect its agents, the Secret Service tried to illegally hide
documents about the abuse of its agents and officers by the Biden
family.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FOR HUNTER BIDEN IRS
INVESTIGATION DOCUMENTS

We are second to none in pursuing the scandals surrounding “First
Son” Hunter Biden, and we’re now digging into the collusion of the
DOJ and the IRS regarding the Hunter tax “investigation.”

We filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit against the
Department of Justice for records from the Office of the Attorney
General and Office of the Deputy Attorney General regarding the
Internal Revenue Service investigation of Hunter Biden (_Judicial
Watch, Inc. v. Department of Justice_
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(No.
1:23-cv-02075)).

We sued after the DOJ failed to respond to a May 21, 2023, FOIA
request for:

> Records and communications, including emails, email chains, email
> attachments, text messages, calendar invites, calendar meetings,
> voice recordings, charts, correspondence, briefings, letters,
> memoranda, reports, notes, of the Office of the Attorney General or
> the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, or any person acting on
> their behalf, regarding the Internal Revenue Service investigation
> of Hunter Biden.
Evidence shows that the Garland Justice Department obstructed an IRS
criminal investigation implicating Joe Biden. And on top of this
obstruction, Garland’s Justice Department is violating federal FOIA
law to cover-up this serious scandal.

In recent testimony before the House Oversight Committee, IRS
whistleblowers detailed how the Garland Justice Department obstructed
their criminal investigation of Hunter Biden and other members of the
Biden family, including President Joe Biden. According to the
Committee:
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> The Department of Justice prevented investigators from following
> evidence that could have led to Joe Biden; divulged sensitive
> information to Hunter Biden’s attorneys; and allowed the clock to
> run out to prevent charging Hunter Biden with felonies. President
> Biden’s politically appointed U.S. Attorneys for D.C. and Central
> District of California denied the U.S. Attorney in Delaware’s
> request to bring charges, which [at that time] put Hunter Biden on
> the path to a sweetheart plea deal. Additionally, the IRS
> whistleblowers’ testimony confirms the Oversight Committee’s
> findings about the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes.
The IRS agents who provided testimony were Joseph Ziegler, a 13-year
Special Agent with the IRS, and Supervisory Special Agent Gary
Shapley.

Ziegler testified:

> In the Criminal Tax Manual, Chapter 10, found on the Department of
> Justice website, Tax Division policy states, “Cases involving
> individuals who fail to fil tax returns or pat a tax but who also
> commit acts of evasion or obstruction should be charged as felonies
> to avoid inequitable treatment.” In early August of 2022, federal
> prosecutors from the Department of Justice Tax Division drafted a
> 99-page memorandum. This memorandum recommended approving felony and
> misdemeanor charges for the 2017m 2018, and 2019 tax years. If the
> Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss followed DOJ policy as he stated
> in his most recent letter, Hunter Biden should have been charged
> with a tax felony, and not only the tax misdemeanor charge. We need
> to treat each taxpayer equally under the law.
Shapley told the House Oversight Committee:

> I am here to tell you that the Delaware USAO and Department of
> Justice handling of the Hunter Biden tax investigation was very
> different from any other case in my 14 years at the IRS. In this
> country, we believe in the rule of law, and that applies to
> everyone. There should not be a two-track justice system depending
> on who you are and who you’re connected to. Yet in this case,
> there was. At every stage decisions were made that benefited the
> subject of the investigation.
Shapley noted that “evidence, including the laptop, was concealed
from investigators,” and that “the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s
office also slow-walked interviews, serving document requests, and
pursuing physical search warrants.” He also testified that an
“electronic search warrant on Hunter Biden’s Apple iCloud led us
to WhatsApp messages with several CEFC China Energy executives where
he claimed to be sitting and discussing business with his father Joe
Biden, we sought permission to follow up on the information in the
messages. Prosecutors would not allow it.”

We have filed multiple federal lawsuits focused on Biden family
corruption:

In June 2023, we filed a lawsuit
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against the
Department of Justice for a copy of the FBI FD-1023 form that
describes “an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President
Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for
policy decisions.” Judicial Watch also asked for communications
about the FD-1023.

In May 2023, we filed a FOIA lawsuit
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against
the National Archives for Biden family records and communications
regarding travel and finance transactions, as well as communications
between the Bidens and several known business associates.

On October 14, 2022, we sued
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DOJ for
all records in the possession of FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst
Brian Auten regarding an August 6, 2020, briefing provided to members
of the U.S. Senate. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
raised concerns that the briefing was intended to undermine the
senators’ investigation of Hunter Biden.

We filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department on April 20,
2022, for messages sent through the SMART
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(State
Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolkit) system that mention Hunter
Biden.

In December 2020, State Department records
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obtained
through our FOIA lawsuit showed that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch had specifically warned in 2017 about
corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings.

In October 2020, we forced the release of State Department records
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that
included a briefing checklist of a February 22, 2019, meeting in Kyiv
between then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Sally
Painter, co-founder and chief operating officer of Blue Star
Strategies, a Democratic lobbying firm which was hired by Burisma
Holdings to combat corruption allegations. At the time of the meeting,
Hunter Biden was serving on the board of directors for Burisma
Holdings.

More to come …


MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS ‘SEIZE UNPRECEDENTED CONTROL’ OF SOUTHWEST
BORDER

President Biden’s open border policy handed control of our southern
border over to Transnational Criminal Organizations operating
throughout our country. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog explains
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> While the Biden administration and its allies in the mainstream
> media highlight a reduction in illegal immigration since the
> termination of a Trump-era restriction known as Title 42, Mexican
> drug cartels have seized unprecedented control of the nation’s
> southwest border. The president’s reckless open border policies
> have greatly facilitated the business model of Transnational
> Criminal Organizations (TCOs) operating in the region and throughout
> the United States, according to congressional testimony
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> delivered recently by federal sources in counterterrorism,
> intelligence and drug enforcement.
>
> The hearing, held last week by the House Committee on Homeland
> Security, exposed information that helps illustrate how the Biden
> administration has “threatened our national security and the
> safety of every American” with its negligent border policies. This
> includes ending a Trump measure known as Migrant Protection
> Protocols (“Remain in Mexico”) which made illegal immigrants
> wait in Mexico—rather than in the U.S.—for asylum hearings that
> could take years. Refusing to finish a border barrier system has
> also contributed to the crisis as has the implementation of mass
> catch and release of migrants and failing to properly vet
> Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) or their sponsors. TCOs have
> capitalized on the weaknesses, according to evidence provided at the
> hearing. “The cartels have essentially taken over,” said House
> Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, a medical
> doctor and Republican congressman from Tennessee.
>
> Green reminded the panel that Attorney General Merrick Garland has
> admitted to the Senate that the cartels’ strategy is to tie up the
> Border Patrol by flooding it because the agency is practicing a
> catch-and-release system, allowing drug cartels to slip people into
> the country. The foreign criminal enterprises operate in cities
> throughout nation with the help of U.S.-based street gangs that have
> overrun American communities with drugs, according to Jaeson Jones,
> a former captain of intelligence and counterterrorism at the Texas
> Department of Public Safety. Jones testified that cartels have
> highly effective systems that include pushing hundreds of migrants
> to one location as a distraction to open a route elsewhere after
> local, state and federal law enforcement resources are deployed to
> the location flooded by illegal immigrants. They also utilize a
> reliable network of scouts that operates like an organized law
> enforcement agency to document border activity and U.S. agents
> around the clock. The lookouts have eight, 10 and 12-hour shifts and
> are equipped with encrypted radios to communicate with cartel
> bosses. “I’ve seen them in South Texas as far as 30 miles into
> the United States,” Jones said. “I have seen them in Arizona as
> far as 70 miles.”
>
> Days earlier at a separate and equally alarming congressional
> hearing
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> ignored by the media, law enforcement sources confirmed that Mexican
> TCOs are successfully smuggling mass quantities of deadly illicit
> fentanyl past Border Patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection
> (CBP) officers into the U.S. The criminal enterprises are not just
> surreptitiously bringing loads in at land crossings, they are also
> using drones for smaller stashes that boost billions of dollars in
> profits. Though federal agents are seizing “unbelievable volumes
> of fentanyl,” huge amounts are still getting through and
> authorities cannot accurately track how much. “The challenge with
> something like fentanyl is it being synthetic—there’s no
> agriculture-based place to get an initial estimate,” said James
> Mandryck, a CBP deputy assistant intelligence commissioner. “So
> unlike cocaine or marijuana, where we can kind of do an oversight to
> see general cultivation estimates, we can’t do that with
> synthetics like fentanyl or methamphetamine.”
>
> The recent congressional hearings documenting how Mexican TCOs have
> taken over the southwest border come on the heels of equally
> chilling news in the region, that a record number of suspected
> terrorists have been caught trying to enter the U.S. through Mexico.
> Last month Judicial Watch reported
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that an
> unprecedented number of foreigners who appear on the Federal Bureau
> of Investigation’s (FBI) terror watchlist known as the Terrorist
> Screening Database (TSDB) have been apprehended by Border Patrol
> agents this fiscal year. 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
> latest available figure at the time of our report was more than the
> total terrorists caught in four previous years—2017, 2018, 2019
> and 2020 combined. The number has since increased, according to the
> latest government stats
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and
> will likely grow before the end of the fiscal year on September 30.
>
> Circling back to Mexican TCOs, the U.S. government has long assessed
> that they are the greatest criminal threat to the country. Nine
> Mexican TCOs have the greatest drug trafficking impact on the U.S.,
> according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Among them
> are the Sinaloa and Juárez cartels, Los Zetas, La Familia
> Michoacána, Los Rojos and Guerreros Unidos. The TCOs maintain drug
> distribution cells in cities across the U.S. that report to leaders
> in Mexico and dominate the nation’s drug market.

Until next week,





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