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Judicial Watch Sues for Records on Biden
Agency’s Welding Open Border Wall Flood Gates
Joe Biden is literally opening the flood gates to illegals. And, he is
unlawfully hiding records about this escapade.
We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit
against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for all records about
Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents welding open “flood gates” in
the border wall in Arizona (Judicial
Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No.
1:24-cv-00742)).
We cite an August 22, 2023,
report
by the New York Post in which the U.S. Border Patrol admits it was
responsible for a decision to weld open more than 100 “flood gates” in
the wall at the U.S. southern border in Arizona, allowing access points for
illegal aliens to unlawfully enter the U.S.
According to the Post, the storm gates are normally kept shut but
are opened during the annual monsoon season, which Arizona is currently
experiencing, to prevent the border wall from being damaged.
We sued after the Department of Homeland Security failed to comply with an
August 28, 2023, FOIA request for: All documents and communications from
August 25, 2022, to August 25, 2023, relating to welding open 114 flood
gates in the border wall in Arizona.
The New York Post’s report cites Border Patrol data showing the
border sector at Tucson, which includes the area with the open flood gates,
had become the busiest in the country with the Border Patrol encountering
42,561 individuals trying to cross legally and illegally into the country
in July 2023.
The report states: “About 1,400 migrants a day from as far away as China
and Egypt as well as Central and South American countries are walking
through the open gates, then looking for a Border Patrol agent to
surrender
to and claim asylum.”
In November 2022, we
published
records of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) detailing
the nighttime transportation of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) by air
from Texas to Tennessee, as well as two other flights making multiple stops
across the country.
In September 2021, we
revealed
HHS documents that list 33 separate incidents of alleged sexual abuse in a
one-month time period tied to unaccompanied alien children shelters.
I’ll be sure to let you know if we get anything substantial in about this
“flood gate” outrage portion of the Biden border invasion crisis.
Judicial Watch Sues for 911 Call, Arrest Reports in Laken Riley’s
Murder
Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Georgia’s Augusta
University,
was
killed while jogging in a park on the University of Georgia
campus. Her alleged killer is illegal alien Jose Antonio Ibarra from
Venezuela. This case has gained national attention.
We filed a Georgia Open Records Act
lawsuit
against the University of Georgia Police Department for audio of any 911
call about the assault and murder.
Our lawsuit also demands the initial arrest report of Ibarra for the
February 22, 2024, murder of Riley (Judicial
Watch v. Jeff Clark, in his official capacity as Chief of Police of the
University of Georgia Police Department (SU24-cv-0106)).
We filed the lawsuit in the Superior Court of Clarke County after the
police agency failed to comply with March 1 and March 14 Georgia Open
Record Act requests, claiming that the records requested were exempt
because they are “records of law enforcement in pending investigation of
prosecution.”
We are requesting:
The audio recording of the 911 call reportedly made by Laken Riley while
she was allegedly being assaulted by Jose Antonio Ibarra on February 22,
2024.
The initial arrest report of Jose Antonio
Ibarra for the February 22, 2024, homicide of Laken Riley.
The initial incident report relating to the
death of Laken Riley.
Our lawsuit states: “911 records are public records that can be released
to the public as long as redactions are made of any names, addresses, or
telephone numbers of the person placing the call to the public safety
answering point.” Initial arrest and incident reports are also required
to be disclosed to the public under Georgia law.
There are many political forces that wish to suppress the truth about what
happened to Laken Riley, but we will insist on transparency under law for
the public interest and public safety.
(Judicial Watch is being ably assisted in this important lawsuit by
attorney John R. Monroe of John Monroe Law, P.C.)
Judicial Watch Moves to Reopen Biden Senate Records Lawsuit
Judicial Watch and the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF)
petitioned
the Superior Court of the State of Delaware to reopen their case for the
release of Joe Biden’s Senate records kept at the University of Delaware
in light of the findings of Special Counsel Robert Hur that contradict
representations made under oath made by the University of Delaware that no
taxpayer money was used to process Biden’s records.
The Hur report provides disturbing evidence that the University of Delaware
misled the courts in order to hide Biden’s Senate papers.
In July 2020, we initially filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit
against the University of Delaware for former Vice President Joe Biden’s
Senate records, which are housed at the university’s library (Judicial
Watch Inc. and The Daily Caller News Foundation v. DE Department of Justice
and University of Delaware (No. N20A-07-001 CEB)). The
lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware.
In July 2023 the Delaware Supreme Court
sided
with the University of Delaware, denying the release of the records because
the university stated to the courts no tax dollars were used to manage the
records.
On February 5, 2024, Hur
released
his report on the Biden records scandal, which calls into question the
representations by the university that no state tax dollars were used to
manage the Biden Senate papers (which Hur found to have contained
unlawfully retained classified information).
Our filing states:
The [university’s affidavit] provides, in relevant part, that no
consideration was paid to President Biden, “State funded or otherwise,”
in connection with the Senatorial Papers. To the contrary, the Special
Counsel Report found that “Mr. Biden asked two of his former longtime
Senate staffers to review his boxes in courtesy storage,” and that
“[t]he staffers were paid by the University of Delaware to perform the
pre-gift review….” “These former staffers reviewed and catalogued the
boxes and recommended to him which papers to donate….” One staffer
emailed President Biden: “I have not forgotten about the boxes and files
at your house. I am looking to start on those just after Thanksgiving”
— another email notes that a staffer was “looking through about 20-25
boxes in the garage … From that group, he has about 2 boxes of Senate
material so far….” The search for Senate documents took place at Mr.
Biden’s direction, required the participation of many, and was paid for
by the University. Even the University General Counsel was involved in
coordinating with Mr. Biden’s Chief of Staff….
In sum, the Report shows that President
Biden directed his former staffers’ work in reviewing and cataloguing the
Senate Papers, received the benefit thereof—and the University paid for
it. Such payments constitute consideration paid on President Biden’s
behalf in connection with the donation of Senatorial Papers to the
University—contrary to the representations [of the
university].
Our filing points out:
On February 20, 2024, Petitioners wrote
to counsel for the University seeking clarification and additional
information regarding the discrepancies between the Special Counsel Report
and the Supplemented Affidavit…
On March 13, 2024, the University responded,
dismissing Petitioners’ concerns and doubling down on the representation
that “no consideration was paid to Mr. Biden for the gift of his Senate
Papers …” and that “[y]our apparent assertion that payment for
services provided to the University by former Biden staffers who were
independent contractors, constitutes a payment of consideration to Mr.
Biden for the gift of his Senate Papers, is simply false….” (emphasis
in original). Counsel’s assertion, however, directly contradicts the
Special Counsel Report, which found that (1) Mr. Biden solicited and
directed his former staffers’ work, (2) the former staffers performed the
work for Mr. Biden—rather than the University, and (3) the University
paid the former staffers.
“The stunning revelations from the Hur report extend beyond the
president’s memory lapses and mental state. The court needs to reopen
this case to determine whether the University of Delaware lied,” said
Michael Bastasch, editor-in-chief for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
(Judicial Watch and the Daily Caller News Foundation are being represented
by Delaware lawyers Ted Kittila and Bill Green of Halloran Farkas + Kittila
LLP.)
Judicial Watch Sues for Emails from Private Accounts of Top Biden
Justice Dept Official
One thing I love about Judicial Watch is how we are able to find leads and
pull threads leading to potentially bigger scandal. In June 2023, we
received Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
records
from the Justice Department that showed top officials of its National
Security Division discussing the political implications of former President
Trump allowing CNN to use closed-circuit TV footage of the raid on his
Mar-a-Lago home.
The records included an email exchange in which Principal Deputy Associate
Attorney General Marshall Miller appears to forward information to Deputy
Attorney General Lisa Monaco’s personal account.
We just followed up with a FOIA
lawsuit
against the Department of Justice for work-related emails on Monaco’s
nongovernment email accounts (Judicial
Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.
1:24-cv-00527)).
This new lawsuit comes after the Justice Department completely ignored our
follow-up June 22, 2023, FOIA request for “all work-related emails sent
to and from Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco using non-.gov email
accounts from January 20, 2021, to [June 2023].”
Judicial Watch caught Monaco using her personal email accounts for
sensitive government business – including the unprecedented targeting of
President Trump. And, in further echoes of the Hillary Clinton email
scandal, the Justice Department is trying to cover it up.
In addition to having
uncovered
the Clinton email scandal, Judicial Watch is in the forefront of the court
battles for transparency regarding the Biden administration’s targeting
of former President Trump.
In August 2023, we filed a
lawsuit
against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for records
of the Archives’ role in President Trump’s White House records
controversy; whether it offered Trump a secure storage location other than
the National Archives; and if the Archives consulted with the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence regarding the classification or
declassification procedures of any of the alleged classified documents
found at Trump’s Florida residence.
In June 2023, we obtained
DOJ
records that showed top officials of the National Security
Division discussing the political implications of Trump allowing CNN to use
closed-circuit TV (CCTV) footage of the raid on his Mar-a-Lago home. The
documents confirmed that the Justice Department had asked that Mar-a-Lago
CCTV be turned off before the raid.
A separate Judicial Watch FOIA
lawsuit
against the National Archives and Records Administration resulted in the
release of records about the unprecedented document dispute between
Archives and President Trump. Click
here
or
here
to review the records.
In August 2022, we successfully
sued
to unseal
the
search warrant affidavit used to justify the unprecedented raid
on the home of former President Trump.
In September 2022, we
filed
lawsuits against the DOJ for its records and the FBI’s records about the
Mar-a-Lago raid search warrant application and approval, as well as
communications about the warrant between the FBI, Executive Office of the
President and the Secret Service.
In October 2022, we
sued
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for all communications of the
U.S. Secret Service internally and with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) regarding the raid on Trump’s home and for any video or audio
recordings made during the raid.
In November 2022, we
sued
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for all communications between
the Secret Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding the
search warrant that precipitated the raid on former Trump’s Florida
residence at Mar-a-Lago.
Until next week...
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