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New Judicial Watch Book Set for October Publication

CIA Rushed Approval of Hunter Laptop Letter by Former Intel Officials

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We received
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pages
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of records from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), showing Mike
Morell, former acting CIA director under President Obama, requesting
CIA permission to publish
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letter
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by former intelligence community leaders stating that they believed
the laptop emails exposing Hunter Biden’s connections to Ukraine
were Russian disinformation.

Morrell’s request for prepublication review incredibly was approved
in just six hours by the CIA.

We forced the release of the material through a June 23, 2023, Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA)
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filed
after the CIA failed to respond to a May 11, 2023, request (_Judicial
Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency_
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(No. 1:23-cv-01844)). We are asking for:

> Records and communications of the Prepublication Classification
> Review Board, Central Intelligence Agency, including emails, email
> chains, email attachments, text messages, cables, voice recordings,
> correspondence, statements, letters, memoranda, reports,
> presentations, notes, or other form of record, regarding an October
> 19, 2020, email request to review and “clear” a letter involving
> the Hunter Biden laptop story potentially having Russian involvement
> or being a Russian disinformation plot.
“This is a rush job, as it needs to get out as soon as possible,”
Morell wrote in
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email
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on Monday, October 19, 2020, at 6:36 a.m., to the CIA’s Publications
Classification Review Board (PCRB) with a copy to Marc Polymeropoulos,
a former CIA senior intelligence officer.

This was
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days
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after the _New York Post_ published an article on the Hunter Biden
emails, three days before a Donald Trump/Joe Biden debate, and 15 days
before the presidential election.

The “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails” is included in
the records. It
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> We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to
> the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy
> Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of
> Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply
> suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in
> this case.
At 8:01 a.m. the same day, an unnamed CIA official
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Morell’s request to an official whose name is also redacted:

> Below is a high profile/high alert action item for 19 October:
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> Former DDCIA Michael Morell submitted for review the attached
> manuscript (“Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails”). Mr.
> Morell has advised us that this article was co-authored with former
> DO officer Marc Polymeropoulos and that "many former senior and
> working-level officials from across the IC will sign and then be
> made public. PCRB HAS DETERMINED THAT THIS MANUSCRIPT CONTAINS NO
> CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.” [Emphasis in original]
At 11:44 a.m., five hours and eight minutes after Morrell sent his
request, a person whose name is redacted sends
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email
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stating:

> You may notify former DDCIA [Deputy Director] Morell.
At 12:44 p.m. an official whose name is redacted
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Morell:

> Dear Michael,
>
> The Prepublication Classification Review Board completed its review
> of your article titled “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden
> Emails.” The Board determined that it contains no classified
> information and can be published. Agency approval for publication of
> this material does not represent Agency endorsement or verification
> of this work.
>
> If you add new material, please resubmit it before sharing,
> highlighting the new language to expedite our review. The PCRB
> appreciates your cooperation with prepublication review. You may
> reach out to us via [redacted] with questions or concerns.
>
> Kind regards, PCRB Staff
These documents are astounding. That the CIA would turn around a
campaign document like this for Joe Biden’s team in six hours is
insane news. This seems to be demonstrable campaign interference by
the CIA, and that should be alarming to all Americans.

We have multiple federal lawsuits focused on Biden family corruption:

In July, we
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the DOJ 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.

In June 2023, we filed a
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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
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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
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the 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
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(State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolkit) system that mention
Hunter Biden.

In December 2020, State Department
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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
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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.

JUDICIAL WATCH ANNOUNCES PRESIDENT TOM FITTON’S FOURTH BOOK

I am pleased to announce the coming publication of my fourth Judicial
Watch book, _Rights and Freedoms in Peril_: _An Investigative Report
on the Left's Attack on America_.

In it, I detail a long chain of abuses officials and political groups
have made against the American people. The new book is available for
pre-order now at
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and is set for publication on October
15.

The book explores the Left’s declaration of war on everything from
the rule of law to the colorblind Constitution, border security,
honest elections, and government accountability. From our perch at
Judicial Watch, I have witnessed in person the very abuse, lawfare,
and corruption that strikes at the heart of our rights and
constitutional freedoms.

Judicial Watch has filed hundreds of lawsuits to expose and stop
leftist government misconduct and abuse.

My previous Judicial Watch books include _A Republic Under Assault_,
_Clean House_, and _The Corruption Chronicles_

_A Republic Under Assault, The Left’s Ongoing Attack on American
Freedom_
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is a hard-hitting, fast-paced look at how the Radical Left and the
Deep State tried to destroy the Trump presidency. It expands on the
observation that “President Biden has a personal corruption problem,
has obvious health challenges, must manage internal warfare between
his party’s corrupt corporate wing and its rising Communists, and
his moral claim on the presidency is rejected by a massive number of
voters.”

_The Corruption Chronicles_
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and
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House_
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revealed what Judicial Watch, the world’s largest and most effective
watchdog group, uncovered in its battles against Obama administration
secrecy.

The Left has taken extraordinary steps to eradicate American liberty,
motivated by a radical ideology whose adherents occupy the nation’s
highest offices. This upcoming book is an exhaustive investigation
into the progressive movement’s efforts to dismantle the venerable
institutions protecting the rights and freedoms of all Americans.

DHS LETS CRIMINALS, SUSPECTED TERRORISTS INTO U.S., AGENCY WATCHDOG
AFFIRMS

Remember how we created a massive federal agency to “protect us”
from foreign invaders after 9/11? Of course, we all know it isn’t
working, as our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog reveals
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> The massive federal agency created after 9/11 to “safeguard the
> American people
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> risks national security by allowing criminals, suspected terrorists
> and other nefarious actors into the United States and letting asylum
> seekers with derogatory information remain in the country. More than
> two decades after the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, this may
> seem unbelievable to many, but it is the ugly reality inside the
> Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the mammoth agency with over
> 260,000 employees responsible for aviation and border security as
> well as emergency response. The Biden administration’s disastrous
> open border policies have jolted the agency and those on the
> frontline that operate under its umbrella, specifically Customs and
> Border Protection (CBP).
>
> CBP is responsible for screening all foreign visitors and returning
> American citizens upon arrival at a United States port of entry
> (POE). U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), another
> DHS conglomerate, is supposed to vet foreigners seeking asylum to
> verify their identities and determine eligibility. Both DHS agencies
> are supposed to use technology, procedures, and coordination to
> perform these duties, but a federal audit reveals they are not fully
> effective, leaving the nation at risk. “Although U.S. Customs and
> Border Protection (CBP) deployed new technologies to enhance
> traveler screening, it could not access all Federal data necessary
> to enable complete screening and vetting of noncitizens seeking
> admission into the United States,” according to a report
>
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> made public this month by the DHS Inspector General. The 35-page
> document is sprinkled with redactions to protect sensitive
> information, but the publicly available portions tell an alarming
> story. For instance, CBP used varied and sometimes inconsistent
> inspection procedures for travelers arriving in vehicles at land
> ports of entry and the agency does not have the technology to
> perform biometric matching on travelers arriving in vehicles at the
> crossings.
>
> Incredibly, the probe found that CBP is inconsistent when it
> conducts inspections of travelers seeking admission to the U.S.
> through land crossings. Specifically, the watchdog determined that
> CBP used non-standard inspection procedures for vehicle passengers.
> “At three land POEs we visited, CBP officers did not query all
> vehicle occupants in Simplified Arrival to identify criminal
> warrants, national security concerns, or border crossing history
> before admitting them into the country,” the report states.
> “Officers at those POEs said port management frequently directed
> officers working vehicle primary inspection lanes to query only
> drivers to expedite processing. This practice leaves officers
> unaware of potentially derogatory information about persons in a
> vehicle other than the driver.” While some officers told
> investigators they applied experience and professional judgment when
> determining whether to check all persons in a vehicle, others said
> they felt pressured by management to release vehicles into the
> country without querying all occupants, even if the officer believed
> all passengers should be vetted before admitting the vehicle’s
> occupants into the country.
>
> As for USCIS, the government agency that oversees lawful immigration
> to the United States, the DHS watchdog found that it did not always
> complete timely screenings of more than 400,000 asylum applicants
> between October 2017 and March 2023. “Additionally, USCIS does not
> have a dedicated procedure or comprehensive technology solution to
> perform interim screening of asylum applicants whose cases were not
> adjudicated within the required 180-day timeframe,” the report
> states. “Without capabilities to effectively screen and vet
> noncitizens, CBP is unable to conduct complete screening and vetting
> of all noncitizen travelers at air and land ports of entry.” The
> report proceeds to blast both DHS agencies, concluding that the
> lapses will continue to admit dangerous persons into the country and
> enable asylum seekers who may pose significant threats to public
> safety and national security to keep living in the United States for
> extended periods while awaiting an asylum decision. The DHS IG also
> reminds that in a past report, it identified at least two persons
> paroled into the U.S. as part of Operation Allies Refuge/Operation
> Allies Welcome who may have posed a risk to national security and
> the safety of local communities.

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