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Biden Agency Targets Moms?

Judicial Watch Sues for Records of Attacks by Biden German Shepherd

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Biden’s dog is out of control.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S.
Secret Service for records of aggression and bites by President Joe
Biden’s Dog, Commander (_Judicial Watch Inc, v. U.S. Department of
Homeland_
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Security
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(No. 1:23-cv-02960)).

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after
the Secret Service, a component of the Department of Homeland
Security, failed to respond to a July 31, 2023, request for all
records involving the “Biden family dog, ‘Commander,’ including
but not limited to communications sent to and from [Secret Service]
officials in the Uniformed and Non-Uniformed Divisions involved in
White House operations and the Presidential Protection Division.”

Acquired in December 2021, Commander
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a pure-bred German Shepherd, replaced
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another German Shepherd, Major, which was reportedly “given to
family friends” following a series of attacks on Secret Service and
White House staff. In April 2022, we released
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records detailing multiple attacks and damages to Secret Service
members by Major at both the White House and Biden’s lake home in
Wilmington, DE.

In July, we uncovered records
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from the DHS in
a related lawsuit revealing 10 attacks by Commander on officers of the
Secret Service between October 2022 and January 2023. In several
cases, the agents required medical care, including at a hospital.

The records included a November 5, 2022, email exchange
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between a Uniformed Division officer and the November 3 attack victim,
the first officer asked, “Doing alright [redacted]? That’s
freaking crazy that stupid dog – rolling my eyes [redacted].” The
victim replied, “My leg and arm still hurts. He bit me twice and ran
at me twice.” The colleague replied, “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
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Commander reportedly
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has been removed from the White House after its most recent attack on
a Secret Service agent and other White House staff. According to our
source, President Biden has mistreated his dogs. We have learned that
he has punched and kicked his dogs.

It is beyond belief that even after we exposed attacks on 10 Secret
Service personnel, Joe and Jill Biden have continued to let their dog
menace and attack agents and White House staff. Let’s be blunt: the
dangerous dog could kill someone. This continuing Biden administration
cover-up is dangerous corruption.


JUDICIAL WATCH SUES EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ON BOOK BANS, MOMS FOR
LIBERTY

Let this sink in: Biden’s Education Department and its union buddies
are ganging up on America’s mothers. Read that again.

We’ve gone to court to expose them. We filed a FOIA suit on behalf
of the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) against the U.S. Department
of Education (ED) for records regarding book bans, the organization
Moms for Liberty, and Ron DeSantis (_Daily Caller News Foundation v.
U.S Department of Education_
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(No. 1:23-cv-02768)).

Our lawsuit aims to uncover the truth about the desperate new effort
by the Biden administration and its leftist teachers’ union allies
to smear and target parents who oppose sexually explicit and other
extremist content being made available to schoolchildren.

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after
the Department of Education failed to respond to separate August 8,
2023, requests for:

* All email records (including attachments, URL links
and electronic database links) of Miguel Cardona to or from (President
of the National Education Association (NEA)) Rebecca (Becky) Pringle
and (President of the American Federation of Teachers) Rhonda
“Randi” Weingarten from June 1, 2023, to July 15, 2023, on the
ed.gov
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domain.

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* All communications about book bans or book banning.
* All communications about Moms for Liberty and/or Ron
DeSantis.

And:

* All email records (including attachments, URL links
and electronic database links) sent and/or received by Miguel Cardona
to or from any/all: President of the American Library Association
Emily Drabinski, from June 1, 2023, to July 15, 2023, on the ed.gov
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domain.

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* All communications about book bans or book banning.
* All communications about Moms for Liberty.

On July 4, 2023, _EducationWee_k reported
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on a speech Cardona gave on July 3 in Orlando, FL, at the NEA’s
annual representative assembly. Cardona addressed statements regarding
“woke ideology” and “indoctrinating” students made by
Republican presidential candidates at the Moms for Liberty National
Conference in the days prior to the NEA event:

Cardona dismissed that type of rhetoric as “divisive drama,”
slamming conservative policymakers who have pushed for book bans,
restrictions on instruction about racism, limitations on the rights of
LGBTQ+ students, and school choice policies that divert public money
to private schools.

Moms for Liberty
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was
founded in 2021 in Florida by two former school board members. The
group initially fought against mask mandates
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in Florida
schools. The group then expanded its mission to support parental
rights legislation
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to give
parents more say in their children’s education. The parents group
has come under increasing attack by the extremist left.

“The Biden administration can’t be allowed to hide this
information from the American people,” said Daily Caller News
Foundation Editor-In-Chief Michael Bastasch. “Citizens have a right
to know if their government is plotting against moms or working behind
the scenes to keep pornographic books in schools.”

Separately, we filed suit
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in June against
the U.S. Department of Justice for all FBI communications from bureau
officials using several systems and databases regarding investigations
carried out after an October 4, 2021, memo
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from Attorney General Merrick Garland instructing investigators to
target American parents due to an alleged “increase in harassment,
intimidation and threats of violence against school board members,
teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools”

SAN FRANCISCO PRIORITIZES GUARANTEED INCOME TO BLACK/LATINO
TRANSGENDERS

If you’ve been worried about “financial insecurity” in “trans
communities,” consider moving to San Francisco. Taxpayers there are
funding, among other things, gynecological care for black/Latino
transgenders (biological men) and support for trans and nonbinary
people who engage in “survival sex trades.”

We received 1,719 pages
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of records from the City of San Francisco showing the city prioritizes
tax money for black/Latino transgenders (biological men) in a program
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that distributes free money to transgender individuals. The records
show that the taxpayer-funded “Guaranteed Income for Trans People”
(GIFT
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program also allowed illegal aliens to apply; allowed people who
“engage in survival sex trades” to apply; and the use of the funds
by participants is virtually unrestricted.

We obtained the records through a November 18, 2022, California Public
Records Act (CPRA) request to the San Francisco Office of the
Treasurer and Tax Collector for:

> Records and communications regarding the application and approval
> process for transgender, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and
> intersex individuals receiving Guaranteed Income for Transgender
> People (GIFT) benefits.

> Records identifying the legality or constitutionality of using
> transgender, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and intersex status
> as a factor in deciding who receives GIFT benefits.
We filed a follow-up request with the Office of the Treasurer and Tax
Collector on January 10, 2023, for:

> Records and communications regarding the administration of funds to
> participants of the Guaranteed Income for Transgender People (GIFT)
> benefits.
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> Records and communications regarding the development of eligibility
> requirements for GIFT benefits.
>
> Records and communications regarding financial literacy services and
> workshops associated with the GIFT program.
Mayor London Breed announced
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the launch of the Guaranteed Income for Trans People (GIFT) program on
November 16, 2022. The mayor’s office stated in a press release that
the city will “provide low-income transgender San Franciscans with
$1,200 each month, up to 18 months to help address financial
insecurity within trans communities.”

The program began disbursing funds
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in
January 2023.

An undated document
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from the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, titled
“Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development Pre-paid Card
Policies and Procedures,” states:

> Selected participants in this program will identify as transgender
> and extremely low-income (<30% of Area Median Income, approximately
> less than $28,000 per year for a household of one person). Within
> this population, there will be a specific focus on Black and Latinx
> transgender women. A monthly $1,200 stipend will be provided to
> participants so they may focus on their basic physical and mental
> health and wellness without worrying about income. Prepaid cards are
> being utilized because some participants may not have bank accounts.

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> [The Mayor’s Office] will purchase Prepaid cards with funding
> supported by the General Fund and dedicated specifically for the
> Transgender Basic Income pilot program.
A March 2022 city document
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sets the program’s intended opening date as October 2022 and is
titled “Guaranteed Income Program for Transgender People.” It
details the criteria for guaranteed income eligibility and sets race
and sexual identity quotas:

> The collaborative leading this program will focus on a target
> population of low-income transgender, non-binary, gender
> nonconforming and intersex (TGI) individuals residing in San
> Francisco County. The program WILL PRIORITIZE ENROLLMENT AND
> RETENTION OF BIPOC [BLACK, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF COLOR] TRANS AND
> NONBINARY PEOPLE WHO ALSO ENGAGE IN SURVIVAL SEX TRADES, LIVING WITH
> DISABILITIES, ELDERS, LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS, UNDOCUMENTED,
> MONOLINGUAL SPANISH SPEAKERS, FORMERLY INCARCERATED, AND UNHOUSED
> AND MARGINALLY HOUSED. [Emphasis in original]

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> We will work collaboratively to create equity guidelines for
> enrollment, centered on the reality of how racism disproportionately
> disadvantages BIPOC, black trans women, and undocumented monolingual
> Spanish speakers. The program enrollment will ensure the 55
> participants is 66% BIPOC, at least 30% Black Trans Women, and at
> least 20% Latinx Trans Women.
>
> Lyon-Martin Health Services WILL PROVIDE WRAP-AROUND PEER-LED
> SERVICES such as gender-affirming primary medical and holistic care,
> gynecological and sexual health care, mental health services, case
> management, crisis response services, financial literacy training
> and workforce development services, and outreach and harm reduction
> services, to the enrollees. [Emphasis in original]
A November 2022 email chain
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among San Francisco government and Treasurer & Tax Collector’s
Office (TTX) officials has the subject line “DRAFT -- ReliaCard FAQ
for GI [guaranteed income] recipients,” which includes concerns
about the use of legal names (“dead” names) versus aliases (chosen
names):

> Thanks! This looks great. I’d like to see if we can provide more
> nuance and explanation around the legal name question as this will
> be very important for the transgender pilot. My understanding is
> that the city will allow a provider to enroll participants using
> their chosen name vs legal name and it may be very challenging for
> someone to put their dead name on the card. So I think we can
> provide more context - “when you use the card in person you may be
> asked to verify your id. If you don’t have id that matches the
> name on the card, you could be turned away.”
A February 2022 email
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from Kimmie Wu
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in the Treasurer & Tax Collector’s Office to her supervisor, Tajel
Shah, details how the office hired a firm to push “diversity,
equity, inclusion and belonging” training and hiring:

> TTX [Treasurer & Tax Collector’s Office] has hired a firm to
> advance our Racial Equity initiative. TTX has budgeted for these
> costs. The scope of the work includes the following:

> A. EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM ASSESSMENT AND TRAINING
> 1. Racial equity assessment - Assess leadership competencies in the
> areas of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. This assessment
> should be leveraged to develop capacity building and lead to clear
> recommendations that help leaders lead with equity in mind.
> 2. Customized facilitated learning sessions – Work with the
> varying levels of comfort and practice with concepts of structural
> and organizational equity including: coaching around racial equity
> in supervision and program delivery design, customer service,
> decision-making processes, communications and daily practices.

> B. ALL STAFF TRAINING SESSIONS
> 1. Department wide training - Facilitate one to two Department-wide
> Racial Equity trainings for All Department Staff. The content will
> be based on discussions with the Core Team and the consultant
> assessment of the Department's racial equity journey.
>
> C. RESTORATIVE JUSTICE DIALOGUE AND REFLECTION
> Facilitate restorative justice conversations in order to provide
> insight on how systemic and historic issues of racism and bias are
> inherently part of conversations, which is therefore limiting full
> participation and reflection on how work environments and systems of
> communication (Human Resources/Discipline/Performance) are being
> heard/interpreted. Garner insights from key conversations to
> alleviate immediate issues as well as reflect on changes to be made,
> which may include training.
>
> D. HIRING, RECRUITMENT, AND PROMOTION STRATEGY
> 1. Address specific job classifications that lack racial diversity,
> including Managers, Administrative Analysts, Accountants and
> Auditors. The consultant shall develop recommendations for
> identifying barriers to application and employment within these job
> classifications with the aim to broaden diversity and inclusion
> throughout the hiring and employment cycle. Recommendations may be
> shared with the Central Department of Human Resources and/or Civil
> Service. The consultant will also interview the teams to identify
> group norms and biases within the sections that inhibit full
> participation by staff.
> 2. Review current hiring and recruitment policies and make
> recommendations to ensure they align with ORE’s racial equity
> framework. The consultant will make recommendations to broaden
> recruitment strategies to increase diversity in candidate pools.
> 3. Review current employee assessments tools and surveys and
> recommend the inclusion of questions to gauge sentiment on the
> department’s effort to address diversity and inclusion. The
> consultant will evaluate current exit interviews and recommend
> changes to questions to ensure a racial equity lens is applied.
> 4. Review any current candidate exit interviews and propose new
> questions to gauge sentiment on the department’s effort to address
> diversity and inclusion and to solicit any feedback or
> recommendations in this area.
>
> E. CORE TEAM RACIAL EQUITY CAPACITY BUILDING
> 1. Customized learning sessions on racial equity leadership &
> facilitation - interactive workshops and learning sessions that
> build capacity to lead with equity through dialogue, analysis and
> reflection. The sessions should build a foundational understanding
> and framework for racial equity in the workplace and basic
> terminology and definitions. The learning sessions must help the
> Core Teams to push beyond this shared understanding to address
> topics such as: the role of team members in leading organizational
> antiracist changes and make recommendations to transform practices
> that are heavily influenced by white-supremacist culture and
> practices. The learning sessions should address the specific racial
> equity work to be done by the cohort within the department building
> on the racial equity plan.
> 2. Coaching, facilitation & technical assistance on racial equity
> plan implementation - Operationalizing the Racial Equity Action Plan
> as well as provide the Team with tools that help foster inclusion
> and racial equity across the Agency. The consultant will also
> provide coaching and support racial equity working groups including:
> barriers to hiring, supplemental questionnaires, minimum
> qualifications, etc.
These disturbing new documents confirm how, among other leftist
extremist policies, San Francisco is abusing tax dollars to give cash
to individuals based on race and transgender quotas.

MENENDEZ CORRUPTION CASE: WILL HE BEAT THE RAP AGAIN?

I’ll let you decide why Biden’s Justice Department has suddenly
decided to go after Sen. Robert Menendez again for corruption. Could
it possibly be that he’s voted the wrong way on matters important to
the Biden administration, the Obama operation, and Deep State? Micah
Morrison, our chief investigative reporter, takes a look
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in
_Investigative Bulletin_:

> The government’s September indictment on corruption charges of
> Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, opened with a bang.
> Prosecutors displayed sensational photographs
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> of gold bars, a Mercedes Benz, and piles of cash—more than
> $480,000—found at the home of Menendez and his wife, Nadine.
>
> Justice may endeavor to be blind, but the prosecution of politicians
> is inherently political. The Justice Department failed to convict
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> Menendez in a high-profile 2017 corruption case and doubtless is
> eager to take another shot at him. And while reliably liberal on
> many issues, Menendez has taken a hard line on Cuba and Iran as
> chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, often
> thwarting
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> Biden—and earlier Obama administration—initiatives. He’ll have
> zero support from the White House and Democratic Party establishment
> as he fights the new charges.
>
> Menendez and his wife are charged with bribery, honest services
> fraud, and extortion. Also charged are three businessmen with ties
> to Egypt. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian
> Williams said
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> the conspirators were engaged in “a corrupt relationship” that
> included payments by the businessmen to the Menendez couple of
> “hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes, including cash, gold,
> a Mercedes Benz, and other things of value—in exchange for Senator
> Menendez agreeing to use his power and influence to protect and
> enrich those businessmen and to benefit the Government of Egypt.”
>
> Corruption concerns have swirled around Menendez for decades. A
> product of the famously corrupt
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> Hudson County, New Jersey, political machine, Menendez was schooled
> in the amoral world of Union City Mayor William Musto, who hired him
> as aide in the 1970s. By the early 1980s, he had turned on Musto and
> testified at the mayor’s corruption trial. By 1986, in a campaign
> touting his Cuban roots and “reformer” image, he was elected
> mayor of Union City. From there he rose through state government and
> into the halls of Congress.
>
> Judicial Watch has been ringing alarm bells about Menendez for more
> than a decade. In 2012, we put him on our list of Washington’s
> “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” In 2014, we highlighted
> concerns about Menendez and a “never-ending saga of political
> corruption and cronyism.”
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> In 2017, it looked like the jig was up for Menendez. The Justice
> Department indicted him
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> and an old friend and benefactor, Florida ophthalmologist Salomon
> Melgan, on charges of bribery and honest services fraud. The
> government charged that the duo conspired to corruptly influence
> Menendez’s “official acts” and defraud the U.S. of the
> “honest services of a public official.” Sound familiar?
>
> In the new case, the government similarly charges that Menendez
> “agreed to take a series of official acts and breaches of his
> official duty” in return for bribes from the three Egypt-connected
> businessmen.
>
> First, the government charges, Menendez “improperly pressured”
> an Agriculture Department official about an Egypt-related business
> directly benefiting the co-defendants.
>
> Second, Menendez tried to “disrupt” a New Jersey state
> investigation related to the co-defendants.
>
> Third, Menendez recommended the appointment of a U.S. Attorney that
> he believed would be more friendly to one of the co-defendants under
> federal investigation.
>
> Back in 2017, Judicial Watch took a close look at that first
> Menendez federal corruption case. We noted that a year earlier, the
> Supreme Court had significantly narrowed the definition of official
> acts and honest services fraud in the McDonnell ruling
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> Prosecutors now needed to prove a direct “official action”
> connected to an illegal payment. An “official act” must be more
> than “setting up a meeting, talking to another official, or
> hosting an event,” the court ruled. We were skeptical
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that prosecutors
> in 2017 could meet that standard. It turned out, we were right.
> Menendez beat the rap
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> Will history repeat itself in the new Menendez prosecution?
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> Let’s go back to those gold bars and piles of cash. The meaning of
> the photos is of course to suggest corrupt intent. How could gold
> bars and $400,000 in cash stashed at home not be corrupt? That’s a
> smart media play by the prosecution.
>
> But Menendez struck back. The cash and the gold? Blame the
> communists—blame Cuba—an argument that may find sympathetic ears
> at a jury trial. “For 30 years,” he told the media
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> in a statement that highlighted his hardscrabble Cuban background,
> “I have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal
> savings account, which I have kept for emergencies and because of
> the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba.”
>
> Weightier perhaps is how Menendez will exploit _McDonnell_. We’ll
> have more to say on this as the trial nears, but based on the
> current indictment
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> the government could have trouble drawing a _quid pro quo_ that will
> satisfy a jury. The co-defendants may have provided something (the
> _quid, _the cash, the gold) but what did they get in return (the
> _quo_)? Given what we currently know about the case, Senator
> Menendez appears to have been singularly unsuccessful in delivering
> for his friends.

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