HUGE: Kash Patel Confirmed!
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HUGE: Kash Patel Confirmed!

KASH PATEL Kash Must Return the FBI to Legitimate Law Enforcement

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As perhaps the nation’s leading Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
litigant against the FBI on its corruption issues, we congratulate
Kash Patel on his confirmation as Director of the FBI.

Kash Patel is a patriot and a fighter. It was a scandal his
confirmation took this long.

I consider Kash a friend, and he is the perfect choice to reform the
FBI. Kash will bring transparency and accountability back to an agency
that became irredeemably corrupt and the tip of the spear of
unfettered lawfare against any American seen as a threat to the ruling
class. From sitting on Hunter Biden’s laptop to influence the 2020
election, the raid of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, and the
censorship of Americans, to the targeting of traditional Catholics,
the FBI has shown itself as a tainted domestic and intelligence
service. Kash Patel has his work set out for him.

Under its previous leadership, the FBI became the enemy of
transparency, the rule of law, constitutional government, and the
civil rights of tens of millions of Americans. (Judicial Watch and I
witnessed firsthand the corruption of Wray’s operation when FBI
agents came to my home in what was obvious retaliation for our
criticism and lawsuits exposing their abuses.)

Kash Patel should open wide the FBI’s files and expose its abuses of
power targeting Trump and countless other American citizens. Along
with bringing transparency and accountability back to the FBI, Kash
will return the agency to its core mission, legitimate law
enforcement, that will protect the rights of law-abiding Americans and
prosecute legitimate crimes.

Kash will be a welcome breath of fresh air for which we will all be
grateful.

Here are examples of our work on FBI corruption that we hope Kash
Patel addresses with transparency and accountability:

* In October 2024, we sued
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the Justice
Department for messages among top leaders of the FBI referencing
social media posts of Special Agent Jeffrey Veltri
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head of the Miami Field Office, which is investigating the September
15 assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
* In May 2024, we uncovered
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a recording of
a phone message
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left
by an FBI special agent for someone at the Secret Service in the
context of the raid on President Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago,
Florida.
* In April 2024, Justice Department records
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showed
that the FBI opened a criminal investigation of Air Force veteran
Ashli Babbitt after her killing and listed four “potential
violations of federal law,” including felony rioting and civil
disorder.
* In January 2023 we sued
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the DOJ
for records of communications between the FBI and social media sites
regarding foreign influence in elections, as well as the Hunter Biden
laptop story.
* In November 2023, we and CatholicVote Civic Action received FBI
records
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showing
top officials rushing to craft a public response to the leaked
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FBI
intelligence memo that revealed its targeting of Catholics who adhere
to traditional beliefs on church issues. In December 2023, heavily
redacted records
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from the FBI
showed that the agency’s Office of General Counsel reviewed
the controversial targeting
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of
the Catholics by the Richmond field office of the FBI.
* In August 2022, the Department of Justice’s released
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a
highly redacted affidavit
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in
response to our court request
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to
unseal the warrant materials used in the unprecedented raid on the
home of President Trump.


JUDICIAL WATCH SUES PENTAGON FOR RECORDS ON MILLEY JAN 6 CALLS

Former Joint Chief of Staff Mark Milley has a lot of explaining to do.

In December we sued
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the
Department of Justice for details of a reported meeting between
Attorney General Merrick Garland and Milley in which they discussed
President Trump and during which General Milley pressured Garland to
target American “far right” militia movements.

This month we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
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against
the Department of Defense for information about two conference calls
involving Milley and the Departments of Justice, Interior and Homeland
Security regarding coordination for the January 6, 2021, election
certification (_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Defense_
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(No.
1:25-cv-00439)).

We sued after the Defense Department failed to respond to a December
19, 2024, FOIA request for:

Records and communications about two conference calls hosted by former
Department of Defense employees Acting Secretary of Defense
Christopher Miller, then Secretary of Army Ryan McCarthy, and then
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley on January
3rd and January 4th, 2021, with the Department of Justice, Department
of Interior, and Department of Homeland Security. The subject of these
conference calls was coordination for and the common operating picture
for the January 6, 2021, Electoral Certification taking place at the
United States Capitol building in Washington, DC.

In testimony
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to
the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, Milley
stated:

So there was a series of meetings prior to the 6th — and we can get
you the exact dates and who’s in the meetings, et cetera —
interagency meetings, with Acting SecDef Miller [and others]. And
I’m involved in those meetings as well. These are in the end of
December, so to speak, and then they go all the way up through, I want
to say, the 2nd or 3rd or maybe 4th or something like that of January.
These are telephonic conference calls to try to figure out exactly
what the security measures are going to be for the 6th.

General Mark Milley and many Deep Staters at the Pentagon hated
President Trump, so their role in January 6 is well worth exploring.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should order full transparency and
disclosure.


TRUMP SLASHES ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, THOUSANDS FLEE

Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog has for years reported the disaster
of the Biden administration’s open border mania. Now it can report
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the
good news of President Trump’s efforts to reverse the Biden
invasion.

> President Trump’s measures to mitigate the unprecedented illegal
> immigration crisis he inherited from the Biden administration are
> working and have led to an impressive 93% decline
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in
> migrants apprehended at ports of entry since his January 20
> inauguration. The U.S. Border Patrol also reported an 85% drop in
> apprehensions along the southwest border from January 21 through
> January 31 compared to the same period in 2024. Newly released
> federal data reveals that just 61,465 illegal aliens were captured
> at the southern border during the entire month of January, a 36%
> decline from the previous month. A national Spanish-language news
> network reported
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days
> ago that restrictions imposed by Trump are deterring migrants who
> have made it to Mexico’s southeastern city of Tapachula, on the
> border with Guatemala, from continuing the long journey north
> through Mexico to the U.S. southern border. Instead, many are
> returning home to Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, and Venezuela.
> “In particular they are discouraged by massive deportation
> policies and the closure of the border with thousands of military
> personnel deployed and the elimination of U.S. Customs and Border
> Protection’s CBP One app that allowed asylum solicitation in the
> United States from the south of Mexico,” the story states.
>
> The “Donald Trump Effect
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> has forced Mexico to invest millions of dollars to build shelters
> that accommodate the flow of migrants deported by the
> administration, a Latin American business journal reports this
> month. “The recent immigration policies implemented by Donald
> Trump increased massive deportations towards Mexico,” the
> publication writes, adding that Mexican authorities are looking to
> mitigate the “humanitarian crisis” triggered by the increase in
> the flow of migrants that are being returned because it has
> overwhelmed existing shelters. The new project will offer refuge and
> assistance to people affected by the “strict immigration policies
> of the actual U.S. administration,” the article states. One
> American newspaper chain reports
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> an estimated 350,000 migrants are “trapped in Mexico” because
> the U.S. border has been closed by “drastic measures put in place
> by the Trump administration.” Thousands are making the “hard
> trek back to their countries,” the report adds, with some already
> crossing in Guatemala while others try to earn enough money for the
> trip home.
>
> The apprehension of illegal immigrants inside the United States has
> also skyrocketed with an increase of more than 137%
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since Trump
> moved back into the White House, according to figures released this
> week by Border Czar Tom Homan. “Arrests of aliens with criminal
> convictions have doubled under President Trump,” Homan writes in a
> social media post, adding that arrests of illegal alien gang members
> have also doubled. Homan, a former New York police officer and
> Border Patrol agent who served as Immigration and Customs
> Enforcement (ICE) executive associate director of Enforcement and
> Removal Operations (ERO) under Obama, confirms that “our streets
> and neighborhoods are that much safer under President Trump.” In
> 2015 Homan received the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished
> Service
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> which is bestowed each year by the commander-in-chief and is
> considered the nation’s highest civil service award. Among his
> celebrated accomplishments was the removal of 534,000 criminal
> aliens from the United States.
>
> The Trump border measures came at a critical time for national
> security as well as public safety. Under Biden’s disastrous open
> border policies, a ghastly 7.6 million illegal aliens were welcomed
> into the country, including nearly 2 million who sneaked over the
> border without getting arrested. Among them were more than 1.7
> million
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> countries that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has
> determined pose a national security threat to the United States.
> They are labeled Special Interest Aliens (SIA) by the government and
> come from some 26 nations, including Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq,
> Libya, Nigeria, Syria, and Turkey, China, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan,
> Mauritania, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela. The Biden
> administration also allowed over half a million illegal aliens with
> criminal histories
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to roam
> freely in the United States by putting them on an ICE
> “non-detained docket.” Recent figures revealed that 435,719 had
> convictions and another 226,847 pending charges. Nearly 15,000 of
> the freed illegal aliens have been convicted of or charged with
> murder, more than 20,000 with sexual assault, 60,268 with burglary,
> larceny, or robbery, 105,146 with assault, 16,820 with weapon
> offenses, 3,971 with commercialized sex crimes and 3,372 with
> kidnapping.
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BEHIND THE BOMBSHELL END OF THE CASE AGAINST NEW YORK MAYOR ERIC ADAMS

Micah Morrison, our chief investigative reporter, takes a look
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at one example of
corruption in the Biden Justice Department in _Investigative
Bulletin_.

> Rotten Big Apple? Prosecutorial pile-on? Politics as blood sport? To
> legal observers in New York City
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those were
> the questions haunting the pending criminal trial of Mayor Eric
> Adams
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> The Trump Justice Department
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ended
> speculation last week with a bombshell memo
>
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to
> the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York,
> the fabled and famously independent SDNY, directing the office to
> “dismiss the pending charges” against Adams.
>
> The memo from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove criticized
> “the timing of the charges and more recent public actions by the
> former U.S. Attorney [Damian Williams] … that have threatened the
> integrity of the proceedings, including increasing prejudicial
> pretrial publicity that risks impacting potential witnesses and the
> jury pool.”
>
> The Bove memo also noted that “the pending prosecution has unduly
> restricted Mayor Adams’ ability to devote full attention and
> resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that
> escalated under the policies of the prior Administration.”
>
> At the SDNY, the interim U.S. attorney, Danielle Sassoon, declined
> to follow Bove’s directive and resigned. So did the lead
> prosecutor in the case. In Washington, five members of the Justice
> Department’s public integrity unit, responsible for overseeing
> corruption cases, resigned. Bove responded to Sassoon’s
> resignation with a scathing letter
>
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charging
> her with “insubordination” and misconduct. Attorney General Pam
> Bondi brushed aside the resignations, and on Friday, the Justice
> Department filed a motion to dismiss the charges
>
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>
> Read the full _Washington Examiner_ article by Judicial Watch’s
> Micah Morrison here
>
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Until next week,





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