We settled our historic 2014 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit that sought the emails of then-Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton regarding the Benghazi attack.



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JUDICIAL WATCH SETTLES LAWSUIT THAT UNCOVERED HILLARY’S UNSECURE
EMAILS

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JUDICIAL WATCH SETTLES LAWSUIT THAT UNCOVERED HILLARY’S UNSECURE
EMAILS

We settled
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our historic 2014 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
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that sought the emails of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
regarding the Benghazi attack. This suit led directly
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to the disclosure of Clinton’s use of a nongovernment email server
to conduct government business (_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of
State_
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(No. 1:14-cv-01242). The settlement commits the State Department to a
payment to us of $97,000.

This lawsuit, about the Benghazi scandal, forced
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the Obama administration to admit to Hillary Clinton’s hidden
classified and other government emails in 2015. We uncovered
“talking points” created by
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the Obama White House and other documents showing that statements
about the attack made on the eve of the 2012 elections by
then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice were false.

On December 6, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered
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Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers and
Clinton aides, as well as Susan Rice, to be deposed or answer written
questions under oath. Judge Lamberth called the Clinton email system
“one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.”

On March 2, 2020, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth authorized
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us to depose Clinton about her emails and the existence of relevant
Benghazi attack documents. The court also ordered
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the deposition of Clinton’s former Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills, and
two other State Department officials. The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia Circuit, in an extraordinary intervention,
exempted Clinton and Mills from testifying under oath.

The Clinton email scandal uncovered by our simple FOIA lawsuit changed
the course of American history and led to Hillary Clinton’s defeat
in 2016.

Our historic lawsuit is now officially over and settled through a
remarkable payment of $97,000 by the corrupt State Department. Hillary
Clinton ignored the law but received special protection from both the
courts and law enforcement. For countless Americans, this double
standard of justice destroyed their confidence in the fair
administration of justice. Americans would never have known about
Hillary Clinton’s classified email and related pay-for-play
criminality but for our diligence.

Our lawsuit exposed several key aspects about the scope of the Clinton
email scandal and cover-up:

* John Hackett, former Director of Information Programs and Services
(IPS) testified
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under oath that he had raised concerns that former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s staff may have “culled out 30,000” of the
secretary’s “personal” emails without following strict National
Archives standards. He also revealed that he believed there was
interference with the formal FOIA review process related to the
classification of Clinton’s Benghazi-related emails.
* Heather Samuelson, Clinton’s White House liaison at the State
Department, and later Clinton’s personal lawyer, admitted
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under oath that she was granted immunity by the Department of Justice
in June 2016.
* Justin Cooper, former aide to President Bill Clinton and Clinton
Foundation employee who registered the domain name of the unsecure
clintonemail.com server that Clinton used while serving as Secretary
of State, testified
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he worked with Huma Abedin
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Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, to create the non-government email
system.
* In the interrogatory responses
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of E.W. (Bill) Priestap, assistant director of the FBI
Counterintelligence Division, he stated that the agency found Clinton
email records in the Obama White House, specifically, the Executive
Office of the President.
* Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, Clinton’s senior advisor and deputy
chief of staff when she was secretary of state, testified
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both he and Clinton used her unsecure non-government email system to
conduct official State Department business.
* Eric Boswell, former assistant secretary of state for diplomatic
security during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, testified
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that Clinton was warned twice against using unsecure BlackBerry’s
and personal emails to transmit classified material.

To read more about this case, click here
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RECORDS REVEAL AT LEAST 23 BITING INCIDENTS BY BIDEN’S DOG COMMANDER

There is a special sort of craziness and corruption when a president
and first lady allow their dog to repeatedly attack Secret Service and
White House personnel.

We’ve uncovered more incident in 269 pages
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of records from the U.S. Secret Service related to aggression by
President Biden’s dog Commander, including at least 23 biting
incidents. After one incident, East Wing public tours were stopped for
approximately 20 minutes due to the blood on the floor from the attack
in the area of the “Booksellers.”

We obtained the records through an October 2023 FOIA lawsuit
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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” (_Judicial
Watch Inc, v. U.S. Department of Homeland_
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Security
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(No. 1:23-cv-02960).

Additionally, we filed a February 13 complaint
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for Biden dog records dating from August and September 2023 (_Judicial
Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security_
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(No. 1:24-cv-00429)).

Our FOIA requests and lawsuits
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exposed initial White
House falsehoods about the severity and number of attacks by the
Bidens’ previous dog, Major. We then received a tip that Commander
was also attacking
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Secret Service
personnel and uncovered documents last July showing 10 biting
incidents.

According to a Judicial Watch source, President Biden mistreated his
dogs. The source disclosed that Biden punched and kicked his dogs.

The latest records we forced out include a spreadsheet
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of 22 incident reports between October 2022 and June 2023, 10 of which
required medical treatment.

On June 15, 2023, Dep. Asst. Dir. Darryl Volpicelli
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sent a report
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via email regarding an agent who received a “deep bite” by
Commander while “inside the Kennedy Garden.” The incident shut
down East Wing tours for 20 minutes:

Video of the incident shows SA [redacted] enter the Kennedy Garden
while Commander, who was off the leash and on the opposite side of the
garden at the time, run at a high rate of speed towards SA [redacted]
jump towards [redacted] and take [redacted] to the ground. [Redacted]
(grounds keeper), who was also in the garden at this time, put
Commander on a leash after the bite occurred.

SA [redacted] said that [redacted] looked around the garden before
entering it and did not see the family pet.

SA [redacted] sustained an injury to [redacted] left arm (‘deep
bite’) that reportedly needed stitches. SA [redacted] was treated by
[White House Medical Unit] at the Residence Clinic.

East Wing Tours were stopped for approximately 20 minutes due to blood
from the incident being on the floors in the area of the Booksellers.

A January 28, 2023, email chain
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discusses three biting incidents, “2 incidents today and one
yesterday.” Later that day, a Presidential Protection Division
official whose name is redacted emails Senior White House Advisor
Anthony Bernal
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that “Commander bit one of the Navy Staff” who worked at Camp
David.

A photo is attached to a June 11, 2023, email
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from the Presidential Protection Division to Volpicelli with the
subject line “Dog Bite.” The photo shows the torn clothing of an
agent who was bitten in the chest by Commander while the agent was
attempting to open the door for Jill Biden to the Oval Dining Patio
area of the White House. The agent required medical attention.

A June 29, 2023, email
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written by an Assistant Special Agent in Charge in the Presidential
Protection Division whose name is redacted with the subject line
“Message to Team FLD [First Lady Detail]” states:

The recent dog bites have challenged us to adjust our operational
tactics when Commander is present – please give lots of room
(staying a terrain feature away if possible). We will continue to keep
[redacted] in our sight but must be creative to ensure our own
personal safety. The senior leaders of the detail and agency continue
to address the issue at higher levels with staff and First Family –
working to have a better solution soon. Thank you for your patience
and understanding.

On July 29, 2023, nearly six weeks after agents had compiled the list
of 22 bite incidents, another attack of an agent
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at Biden’s Rehoboth, DE, home. The July 30 incident report
indicates:

Commander ran towards the direction of post [redacted] booth and bit
SA [redacted] in the left forearm. Causing a severe, deep open wound.
As a result of the attack SA [redacted] started to loose [sic] a
significant amount of blood from [redacted] arm. SA [redacted]
remained calm and walked away from the area looking for help.

These Biden dog attack documents again raise fundamental questions
about President Biden and the Secret Service. 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.

That it took federal lawsuits to force the release of this information
speaks volumes. The Bidens are lucky no one has been killed as a
result of their reckless disregard for the safety of Secret Service
and White House employees.

In July 2023, we uncovered records
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from DHS in a
related lawsuit revealing 10 attacks by Biden’s German Shepherd,
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.

In April 2022, we released
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records including incident reports detailing multiple attacks and
damages caused to United States Secret Service members by President
Joe Biden’s dog Major at both the White House and Biden’s lake
home in Wilmington, DE. The documents also reveal that a member of the
Secret Service who was attacked by the dog was displeased that White
House Press Secretary Jen Psaki misled the press about the incident.



GHASTLY 7,300% SURGE IN ILLEGALS FROM SAME NATION AS STUDENT’S
MURDERER

Thanks to Biden throwing the border wide open, and sanctuary city
policies, our children are no longer safe on our streets. Our
_Corruption Chronicles_ blog has chilling details
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about the criminals from one nation in particular.

While most mainstream media coverage flagrantly omits that the man
charged in the murder of a Georgia nursing student is an illegal
immigrant who entered the United States through the famously porous
southern border, other important nuggets are also being left out of
most reports. The 26-year-old suspect, Jose Antonio Ibarra, comes from
a country—Venezuela—run by a dictator with close ties to
terrorists who refuses to accept deportees. This is especially
disturbing because the U.S. has seen a shocking 7,300% spike
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in
migrants from Venezuela under the Biden administration’s disastrous
open border policies and now we are stuck with all of them. There is
no telling how many other violent criminals or terrorists are among
the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who have been released inside
the country by our government in the last few years.

Ibarra and his brother, another delinquent recently charged with
possessing a fake green card, crossed into El Paso, Texas in September
2022 and was released in the country like millions of other migrants
under the Biden administration’s policies. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) confirmed in an Atlanta news report
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that Ibarra “was paroled and released for further processing.”
Federal authorities say the brother, 29-year-old Diego Ibarra
“claimed a credible fear” of being returned to his native
Venezuela when he got arrested, which is a scandal-plagued tactic used
by millions of illegal immigrants to avoid getting deported. Before
the most recent arrest for murder the younger Ibarra had been arrested
several times, for driving under the influence of alcohol and driving
without a license, shoplifting and failure to appear for an offense.
One of the arrests occurred in New York City, which offers illegal
immigrants sanctuary and does not report criminals to the feds for
removal.

A few days ago, Ibarra got charged with malice murder, felony murder,
aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment,
kidnapping, hindering a 911 call, and concealing the death of another.
Police say he killed 22-year-old nursing student Laken Hope Riley,
whose body was found in the woods behind a lake on the University of
Georgia campus. “On February 22, 2024 at approximately 12:07 p.m.,
the UGA Police Department received a call from a friend of Laken’s
who was concerned that she had gone to run at the Intramural Fields
earlier in the morning and had not returned as expected,” according
to a statement
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issued by the University of Georgia Police. “Officers responded to
the area and immediately began a search at approximately 12:20 p.m.
and located her shortly afterward. She was unconscious and not
breathing, and had received visible injuries. Officers immediately
began rendering medical aid. Emergency medical responders determined
that she was deceased upon their arrival.”

Evidence shows that Ibarra acted alone. Only conservative media has
bothered to report the highly relevant details surrounding the
Venezuelan’s immigration status and that he moved to Athens, Georgia
because it offers illegal aliens sanctuary. The mainstream media
mostly sugar coated or avoided the subject altogether. One national
news outlet shamefully wrote
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that Riley’s violent murder has once again put the spotlight on the
dangers female runners face. While failing completely to mention
pertinent information about the illegal immigrant suspect, the article
delves into a survey by athletic wear company Adidas that reveals 92%
of women reported feeling concerned for their safety while running
with half afraid of being physically attacked. More than a third of
women experienced physical or verbal harassment, including sexist
comments, and being followed, according to the athletic wear survey.

It is distressing enough that a young woman lost her life to a suspect
who should not have been in the country and could have been deported
after previous arrests. We must also grapple with the fact that there
has been an inconceivable surge in illegal immigrants from Venezuela
since Biden became president. This is especially alarming because the
South American nation operates under a Marxist regime that encourages
international terrorist groups to run free. Venezuela’s government
issues travel documents to individuals linked to terrorism and allows
terrorists to operate with relative impunity. The country also has
close ties with Iran and other notorious state sponsors of terrorism.
A State Department report
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reveals that Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro and his associates
“use criminal activities to help maintain their illegitimate hold on
power, fostering a permissive environment for known terrorist
groups.” That includes the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC-D), the Colombian-origin National Liberation Army (ELN), and
Hizballah sympathizers. In a separate assessment the State Department
writes that Maduro has defined himself through his opposition to the
United States, regularly criticizing the U.S. government, its
policies, and its relations with Latin America.

Until next week,









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