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Records Reveal 10 Attacks on Secret Service by
Biden German Shepherd
In April 2022, we released 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 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 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, a purebred
German Shepherd, replaced 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 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 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”
for three days on doctors’ advice.
In a November 5, 2022, email
exchange 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 (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:
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 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 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 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 (State Messaging and Archive Retrieval
Toolkit) system that mention Hunter Biden.
In December 2020, State Department records 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 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.
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
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 largely 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 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 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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