Justice Department's Biden-Hur and Epstein Memo Leaks

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JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FBI FOR COMMUNICATIONS WITH ANTI-TRUMP
ORGANIZATION

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Judicial Watch is still actively working to reveal the anti-Trump
lawfare shenanigans of the Biden Justice Department and FBI.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
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against the U.S. Department of Justice for communications between
former Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault and the
anti-Trump organization American Oversight (_Judicial Watch Inc. v.
U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:25-cv–02556)).

Judicial Watch sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to
respond to a January 31, 2025, FOIA request for:

> Records and communications between Timothy Thibault, former
> [Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Washington Field Office] and the
> non-profit organization American Oversight, 1030 15th St. NW, B255,
> Washington, D.C. xxxxxx, email domain: @americanoversight. The search
> terms for this request are a) Trump b) Electors c) Investigation d)
> election

In July 2022, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reportedly
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warned then-Attorney General Merrick Garland that Thibault and an
official in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section,
Richard Pilger, were “deeply involved in the decisions to open and
pursue election-related investigations against President Trump. At the
time, whistleblowers told Grassley that the Thibault-Pilger
investigation’s predicating document was based on information from
‘liberal nonprofit American Oversight.’” Thibault retired
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in August 2022.

Earlier this year, Senators Grassley and Ron Johnson (R-WI) publicized
records dating back to 2022 about Thibault’s targeting of Trump
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> Internal FBI emails and predicating documents provided to Grassley
> and released jointly by the two senators show Timothy Thibault, a
> former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) who was forced
> to retire
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> from the Bureau after Grassley exposed
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> his public anti-Trump bias, authored the initial language for what
> ultimately became Jack Smith’s federal case against Trump
> regarding the 2020 presidential election. Records show Thibault
> essentially opened and approved his own investigation.

American Oversight describes itself
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as “founded in 2017 in
response to the unprecedented challenges that the Trump administration
posed to our nation’s democratic ideals and institutions.…”
Earlier this year, _Politico _described it
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as, “A left-leaning watchdog group … working to gather materials
that could feed Congressional investigations into the Trump
administration.”

It’s a shame that we must sue to get these records about how the
Biden gang at the FBI and DOJ tried to rig an election by jailing
Trump for disputing the 2020 election. It’s past time for these
institutions to focus on transparency under law, so the American
people can know the full truth of the lawfare attack perpetrated on
Trump.

We have actively pursued transparency for the lawfare waged against
Trump.

In June 2025, we launched a related lawsuit
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against the
Justice Department for records about the FBI’s investigation of
Trump codenamed “Arctic Frost,” which was part of the Biden
administration effort to prosecute and jail President Trump for
disputing Biden’s controversial election victory (_Judicial Watch,
Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:25-cv-02011)).

In March 2025, we sued
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the Justice
Department for details of any investigations, inquiries, or referrals
concerning potential misconduct of any person working for Special
Counsel Jack Smith (_Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:25-cv-00801)).

Also in March, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis was ordered
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to turn
over 212 pages of records to a state court judge. The court also
ordered Willis to detail how the records were found and the reason for
withholding them from the public. The records were belatedly disclosed
in response to a Judicial Watch request and lawsuit for communications
with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee. In
January, we were awarded
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$21,578
for “attorney’s fees and costs” incurred in the case. The court
previously found Willis in default
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and stated:
“The Court finds Defendant [Willis, in her official capacity] is in
default and has been since 11 April 2024”(_Judicial Watch Inc. v.
Fani Willis et al._
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(No. 24-CV-002805)).

In January 2025, a federal court ordered
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the Justice
Department to provide us information on communications between Special
Counsel Jack Smith and Willis regarding the prosecution of then-former
President Donald Trump. In May, the Justice Department was directed to
search text messages from the Special Counsel’s Office for
responsive records (_Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 23-cv-03110).

In January 2025, records
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from the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) showed it and the FBI warning
that law enforcement agencies should be prepared for a surge in
threats from so-called Domestic Violence Extremists (DVEs) following
the August 8, 2022, FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm
Beach, Florida (_Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Homeland
Security_
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(1:22-cv-03275)).

In May 2024, we uncovered
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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 Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home
(_Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S Department of Homeland Security_
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_(No.
1:22-cv-03147)).

In February 2024, the Justice Department asked
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a
federal court to allow the agency to keep secret the names of top
staffers working in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office that was
targeting Trump and other Americans (_Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S.
Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:23-cv-01485)).

In August 2022, we successfully sued to unseal the search warrant
affidavit
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used to
justify the unprecedented raid on Trump’s home (
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v. Sealed Search Warrant_
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(No. 9:22-mj-08332)).



JUDICIAL WATCH SUES JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNICATIONS ON BIDEN-HUR
AUDIO, EPSTEIN MEMO

The American public deserves to know the details surrounding the leaks
of “exclusive” U.S. Department of Justice information on the
Biden-Hur interviews and the Epstein client list memo.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
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against the Justice Department for its communication with the media
outlet Axios regarding the outlet’s “exclusives” on the release
of audio of then-President Joe Biden’s August 2023 interview with
then-Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding Biden’s handling of secret
documents and the July 2025 memo that states there is no Jeffrey
Epstein “client list” (_Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of
Justice_
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_(No.
1:25-cv-03225)).

We sued the Justice Department after it failed to comply with two FOIA
requests. In May 2025, we filed a FOIA request for the Justice
Department’s contacts with Axios regarding the Biden-Hur audio
recordings
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We also had submitted a July 2025 FOIA request for the Justice
Department’s communications with Axios pertaining to the
investigation of Jeffrey Epstein
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We have been at the forefront of these investigations.

Regarding the Biden-Hur records, in March 2024, we filed the first
FOIA lawsuit
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and
were the lead plaintiff asking for the Special Counsel’s interviews
of Biden (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:24-cv-00700)). In June 2024, the Justice Department admitted
that the Special Counsel’s transcript was inaccurate
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Justice Department emails in a related case showed White House
staffers suggesting edits
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to
transcripts of Biden’s interview with Hur (_Judicial Watch v. U.S.
Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:24-cv-02176)).

In May 2025, we forced the release
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of the audio recordings of Biden’s October 2023 interview
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with Hur. The recordings are available here:
justice.gov/storage/Biden-interview-with-Hur-part-1-October-8th.mp3
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and
justice.gov/storage/Biden-interview-with-Hur-part-2-October-9th.mp3
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In July 2025, we reached a settlement
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in which
the government agreed to pay $10,000 for attorneys’ fees and other
costs associated with the successful lawsuit that forced release of
the audio tapes of Biden’s interview with Hur.

Regarding Jeffrey Epstein, in April 2025, we filed a FOIA lawsuit
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against the
Justice Department for records on the identities of clients or
associates of Epstein (_Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of
Justice_
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_(No.
1:25-cv-01056)). In July, the Justice Department reported to the court
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that
it was continuing to search for and review records, which is at odds
with the leaked, unsigned and undated Justice Department/FBI memo
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that suggested
no more Epstein records would be disclosed to the American public. The
memo was first disclosed late on July 6
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We also sued
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in July
for records related to Epstein’s victim Virginia Louise Giuffre.

HUNDREDS MORE ILLEGAL ALIEN GANG MEMBERS, MURDERERS ARRESTED IN
HOUSTON

Every town in America is now a border town, but Texas is at the
frontier and facing some of the worst consequences of the Biden
era’s open-door policy for illegal aliens. Our _Corruption_
_Chronicles blog_ reports
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> Texas’s largest city appears to be a cesspool of undocumented
> criminals where just weeks after federal authorities announced the
> arrest of hundreds of violent gang members
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> with a combined 1,700 criminal convictions, another 822 illegal
> immigrant offenders have been apprehended. This batch also includes
> gangbangers, convicted murderers, child predators, and other
> egregious criminals. In the last few weeks, during two separate
> operations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed that
> it has taken more than 1,000 dangerous criminal aliens off the
> streets in Houston, Texas’s biggest city—and the nation’s
> fourth largest—with a population of around 2.4 million. The
> perpetrators rounded up in the first operation completed in early
> August entered the United States illegally a combined 1,400 times
> under the Biden administration’s disastrous open border policies
> that welcomed a record-breaking 7.6 million illegal aliens,
> including hundreds of thousands with serious criminal records and
> over 1.7 million
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> from countries the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says pose a
> national security threat to the U.S.
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> In an effort to mitigate the damage the Trump administration
> launched a nationwide initiative known as Operation Take Back
> America
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that
> aims to repel the invasion of illegal immigration and protect
> American communities from perpetrators of violent crimes. Cracking
> down on criminal aliens released throughout the nation under Biden
> is a key component of the effort and the administration assures it
> is targeting the “worst of the worst
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> for arrest and removal even as most media outlets spin the narrative
> to focus exclusively on polices open border groups claim separate
> immigrant families and victimize hard-working migrants. The
> mainstream media ignored last month’s announcement involving
> ICE’s Houston operation even though it nabbed hundreds of illegal
> immigrants who are mostly members of violent gangs, including the
> renowned Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Tren de Aragua, Latin Kings, 15th
> Street Gang, Sureños, Paisas and Tango Blast and the majority of
> the perpetrators have been convicted of serious crimes such as
> homicide, sex trafficking, domestic violence, burglary, arson and
> unlawful possession of a firearm. The feds made it incredibly easy
> to report the story by providing mug shots and detailed criminal
> information of the worst offenders, illustrating the urgency to
> enforce immigration laws after four years of devastating open border
> policies.
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> As expected, the most recent Houston operation has also been
> disregarded by the media though it was just as alarming. In only a
> week ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested over 800
> criminal aliens, many of them transnational gang members, with
> disturbing records. More than 320 of the offenders had previously
> been deported from the U.S. and 112 illegally reentered the country
> at least once after getting deported. “During the past four years,
> transnational gang members, foreign fugitives and other violent
> criminal aliens took advantage of the crisis at our southern border
> to illegally enter the country,” said Houston’s ICE ERO Director
> Gabriel Martinez in a statement
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> issued by the agency a few days ago. “Many of them remained in the
> Houston area and have gone on to wreak havoc in our local
> communities.” Martinez added that the most recent weeklong
> operation focused on targeting those threats to public safety and
> resulted in the arrest of 822 illegal aliens, including five
> transnational gang members, seven child predators and three criminal
> aliens convicted of homicide-related offenses.
>
> Here are a few examples of the criminal aliens arrested recently in
> Houston: Jorge Eliseo Torres-Soto, a 30-year-old child predator from
> Guatemala convicted of sexual assault of a child; William Alexander
> Telles Amaya, a 35-year-old from El Salvador convicted three times
> of child sex offenses, including aggravated sexual assault of a
> child, failure to register as a sex offender and sexual indecency
> with a minor; Cruz Leandro Martinez Leiva, a 25-year-old from El
> Salvador and MS-13 gang member convicted of robbery and armed
> carjacking; Carlos Vega-Ramirez, a 38-year-old Mexican deported from
> the U.S. twice and convicted of sexual indecency with a minor,
> enticement of a minor for indecent purposes, driving while
> intoxicated, fleeing police and forgery; Manuel Ivan Castillo
> Estrada, a 36-year-old child predator from Mexico deported from the
> U.S. three times and convicted of alien smuggling and sexually
> assaulting a minor; Francisco Eduardo Bonilla, a 37-year-old from El
> Salvador, convicted of sexual indecency with a minor; Alejandro
> Perez Miramontes, a 54-year-old Mexican deported from the U.S. 12
> times and convicted eight times of illegal reentry and twice each of
> robbery, larceny and burglary as well as trespassing and evading
> arrest.

DEFENSE DEPARTMENT BEING SUED TO RESTORE KIDS’ TRANSGENDER
TREATMENTS

Three military families are suing the U.S. Department of Defense to
reverse a provision in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act
(NDAA), signed by former President Biden, which bans Tricare from
covering hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender minor
children of service members. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog explains
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> Although the Defense Authorization Act
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> signed by former President Biden blocks the U.S. Military’s
> healthcare system from providing specialized treatments to the
> transgender children of service members, three families are suing
> the Department of Defense (DOD) to reinstate the benefit, claiming
> they have been left with “significant” and “crushing
> out-of-pocket costs.” Leftist groups were outraged when the
> measure passed late last year and called on Biden to veto
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> because it bans the military’s Tricare Health Plan from covering
> gender-affirming care such as hormone therapy and
> puberty-suppressants to treat “gender dysphoria.” An analysis
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> by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a leader in the
> campaign opposing the military’s transgender healthcare ban,
> estimates that 2,500 minor patients receive care for gender
> dysphoria through Tricare and 900 get puberty-suppressants or
> gender-affirming hormones.
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> In their lawsuit
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> the DOD, military personnel with transgender children claim that
> Tricare’s sudden refusal to cover medically necessary care has
> inflicted profound harm and that plaintiffs’ families now face
> significant and crushing out-of-pocket costs. “This is not an
> abstract policy shift – it is an immediate and devastating
> disruption of essential health care that affects the physical and
> psychological well-being of plaintiffs and other young people
> throughout the country,” according to the complaint filed this
> month by two LGBTQ+ rights groups on behalf of the families. The
> transgender patients are not named to protect their privacy and are
> identified in the complaint as Diana Doe, Nathan Noe, and Parker
> Poe. The first two were taking hormones prescribed at Walter Reed
> National Military Medical Center in Maryland and were recently told
> by doctors that the treatments would no longer be covered under
> Tricare. The third plaintiff, Poe, is identified in the lawsuit as a
> young adult who has been taking testosterone covered by Tricare at
> an unnamed medical facility. Without Tricare coverage the
> testosterone prescription is “too expensive to purchase
> out-of-pocket,” the complaint states, adding that the “process
> has resulted in unnecessary stress and panic.”
>
> Servicemembers and their families have been able to obtain puberty
> blockers or cross-sex hormone therapy for their transgender children
> through the military insurance for nearly a decade, one of the
> LGBTQ+ groups that filed the lawsuit writes in a statement
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> blames President Trump for ordering the DOD to terminate the
> essential care. “As a result of the Trump administration’s
> directive, the families’ trusted doctors cannot provide ongoing
> care and families are unfairly forced to take on this financial
> burden,” according to the group, which accuses the Trump
> administration of waging a relentless assault on transgender
> Americans and issuing a barrage of discriminatory executive orders
> designed to strip away their basic legal rights and deny them
> recognition. The reality is that the defense bill signed by Biden
> back in December 2024 bans gender-affirming care for transgender
> youth whose parents are active-duty military personnel. Leftist
> groups like the ACLU mounted a campaign to pressure Biden to veto
> the bill, but he signed it even though it prohibits insurance
> coverage for “medical interventions for the treatment of gender
> dysphoria,” including the hormone therapy and puberty-suppressants
> taken by the minors in this lawsuit.
>
> Tricare has never covered the costly transgender sex change
> operations for adults but until recently provided hormone therapy
> and psychological counseling for gender dysphoria, which is
> identified by the plan as “psychological distress that results
> from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and
> one’s gender identity.” Before Trump’s second presidency,
> Tricare allowed active-duty service members to request a waiver for
> “medically necessary gender affirming surgery,” but the pricey
> operation was typically denied and two enlisted men who identify as
> women sued the DOD claiming the policy discriminates based on sex
> and transgender status. Less than a year ago, an Obama-appointed
> federal judge ruled
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their
> favor, determining that the military’s health insurance plan is
> discriminatory and violates Equal Protection rights under the Fifth
> Amendment of the United States Constitution by failing to pay for
> gender transition surgeries, which the judge compared to
> mastectomies and hysterectomies due to cancer.



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