Kash Patel Kash Must Return the FBI to Legitimate Law Enforcement

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 the Justice Department for messages among top leaders of the FBI referencing social media posts of Special Agent Jeffrey Veltri, head of the Miami Field Office, which is investigating the September 15 assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
• In May 2024, we uncovered a recording of a phone message 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 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 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 showing top officials rushing to craft a public response to the leaked FBI intelligence memo that revealed its targeting of Catholics who adhere to traditional beliefs on church issues. In December 2023, heavily redacted records from the FBI showed that the agency’s Office of General Counsel reviewed the controversial targeting of the Catholics by the Richmond field office of the FBI.
• In August 2022, the Department of Justice’s released a highly redacted affidavit in response to our court request 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 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 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 (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 to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6^th 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 6^th.

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 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 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 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” 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 that 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% 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, 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 millionfrom 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 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.
 

Behind the Bombshell End of the Case Against New York Mayor Eric Adams

Micah Morrison, our chief investigative reporter, takes a look 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, those were the questions haunting the pending criminal trial of Mayor Eric Adams.

The Trump Justice Department ended speculation last week with a bombshell memo 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 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.

Read the full Washington Examiner article by Judicial Watch’s Micah Morrison here.
 

Until next week,