As we continue uncovering details of the coup against President Trump
by top Obama/Deep State officials, we’ve also noted the FBI and DOJ
are still slow-rolling the release of information about the scandal.

[WEEKLY UPDATE]

COMEY FBI LEADERSHIP SENT FRANTIC EMAILS ON EVE OF TRUMP’S
INAUGURATION

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As we continue uncovering details of the coup against President Trump
by top Obama/Deep State officials, we’ve also noted the FBI and DOJ
are still slow-rolling the release of information about the scandal.

So, frustratingly slowly – but surely – we’re getting piece
after piece of the Obamagate puzzle.

We received another batch of emails, 136 pages
[[link removed]],
between former FBI official Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa
Page. They include heavily redacted emails showing Strzok, Page and
top bureau officials in the days prior to and following President
Donald Trump’s inauguration discussing a White House
counterintelligence briefing that could “play into” the FBI’s
“investigative strategy.”

On January 19, 2017, the night before President Donald Trump’s
inauguration, a series of emails
[[link removed]]
were exchanged among top officials in the FBI’s General Counsel’s
office, Counterintelligence Division and Washington Field Office, and
included then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and former Assistant
Director for the Counterintelligence Division Bill Priestap.

The thread was initiated at 3:29 p.m. on January 19 by an assistant
general counsel in the FBI’s National Security Law Branch in an
email to Strzok with an almost entirely redacted email in which the
person said, “I’ll give Trisha/Baker a heads up too.” Strzok’s
reply is redacted, as is the response to Strzok. Strzok then says at
7:04 p.m., “I briefed Bill this afternoon and he was trying without
success to reach the DD [McCabe]. I will forward below to him as his
[sic] changes the timeline. What’s your recommendation?” The
Counterintelligence Division official’s reply to Strzok is mostly
redacted, except for “Approved by tomorrow afternoon is the request.
[Redacted] – please advise if I am missing something.” An
unidentified official replies, “[Redacted], Bill is aware and
willing to jump in when we need him.” At 8 p.m., Strzok responds
(copying officials in the Counterintelligence Division, Washington
Field Office and General Counsel’s office), “Just talked with
Bill. [Redacted]. Please relay above to WFO and [redacted] tonight,
and keep me updated with plan for meet and results of same. Good
luck.” Strzok then forwards the whole email exchange to Lisa Page,
saying, “Bill spoke with Andy. [Redacted.] Here we go again …”

On January 21, 2017, the day after Trump’s inauguration, Strzok
forwarded to Lisa Page and a redacted person an email
[[link removed]]
he’d sent that day to Priestap, asking them to “not
forward/share.” In the email to Priestap, Strzok said, “I heard
from [redacted] about the WH CI briefing routed from [redacted]. I am
angry that Jen did not at least cc: me, as my branch has pending
investigative matters there, this brief may play into our
investigative strategy, and I would like the ability to have
visibility and provide thoughts/counsel to you in advance of the
briefing. This is one of the reasons why I raised the issue of
lanes/responsibilities that I did when you asked her to handle WH
detailee interaction.”

Also, on January 21, 2017, Strzok wrote largely the same message
[[link removed]]
he’d sent to Priestap directly to his counterintelligence colleague
Jennifer Boone.

We received the records in our January 2018 FOIA lawsuit
[[link removed]]
filed after the DOJ failed to respond to a December 2017 request for
all communications between Strzok and Page (Judicial Watch v. U.S.
Department of Justice
[[link removed]]
(No. 1:18-cv-00154)).

The FBI has only processed emails at a rate of 500 pages per month and
has yet to process text messages. At this rate, the production of
these communications, which still number around 8,000 pages, would not
be completed until at least late 2021.

In other emails, Strzok comments on reporting on the anti-Trump
dossier authored by Hillary Clinton’s paid operative Christopher
Steele.

In a January 2017 email
[[link removed]],
Strzok takes issue with a UK Independent report that claimed Steele
had suspected there was a “cabal” within the FBI that put the
Clinton email investigation above the Trump-Russia probe. Strzok, a
veteran counterintelligence agent, was at the heart of both the
Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations.

In April and June of 2017, the FBI would use the dossier as key
evidence in obtaining FISA warrants to spy on Trump campaign associate
Carter Page. In a declassified summary
[[link removed]]
of a Department of Justice assessment of the warrants that was
released by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in
January of this year, it was determined that those two applications to
secretly monitor Page lacked probable cause.

The newly released records include a January 11, 2017, email
[[link removed]]
from Strzok to Lisa Page, Priestap, andDeputy Assistant Director of
Counterintelligence Jon Moffa, a _New York Times_ report
[[link removed]]
that refers to the dossier as containing “unsubstantiated
accounts” and “unproven claims.” In the email, Strzok comments
on the article, calling it “Pretty good reporting.”

On January 14, 2017, FBI Assistant Director for Public Affairs Michael
Kortan forwards
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to Strzok, Page and Priestap a link to a UK Independent article
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entitled “Former MI6 Agent Christopher Steele’s Frustration as FBI
Sat On Donald Trump Russia File for Months”.

The article, citing security sources, notes that, “Steele became
increasingly frustrated that the FBI was failing to take action on the
intelligence from others as well as him. He came to believe there was
a cover-up: that a cabal within the Bureau blocked a thorough inquiry
into Mr Trump, focusing instead on the investigation into Clinton’s
emails.”

Strzok responds: “Thanks Mike. Of course not accurate [the
cover-up/cabal nonsense]. Is that question gaining traction anywhere
else?”

The records also include a February 10, 2017, email
[[link removed]]
from Strzok to Page mentioning then-national security adviser Michael
Flynn (five days before Flynn resigned) and includes a photo of Flynn
and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Strzok also makes a joke about
how McCabe had fat shamed Kislyak.

On February 8, 2017, Strzok, under the subject “RE: EO on Economic
Espionage,” emailed
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Lisa Page, saying, “Please let [redacted] know I talked to
[redacted]. Tonight, he approached Flynn’s office and got no
information.” Strzok was responding to a copy of an email Page had
sent him. The email, from a redacted FBI official to Deputy Director
McCabe read: “OPS has not received a draft EO on economic espionage.
Instead, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce advised OPS that they received a
draft, but they did not send us the draft. I’ll follow up with our
detailees about this EO.” Flynn resigned
[[link removed]]
on February 13, 2017.

On January 26, 2017, Nancy McNamara of the FBI’s Inspection Division
emailed
[[link removed]]
Strzok and Priestap with the subject line “Leak,” saying, “Tried
calling you but the phones are forwarded to SIOC. I got the tel call
report, however [redacted]. Feel free to give me a call if I have it
wrong.” Strzok forwarded the McNamara email to Lisa Page and an
unidentified person in the General Counsel’s office, saying, “Need
to talk to you about how to respond to this.”

On January 11, 2017, Yahoo News reporter Michael Isikoff emailed
[[link removed]]
Kortan, saying he’d learned that Steele had worked for the
Bureau’s Eurasian organized crime section and had turned over the
dossier on Trump-Russian “collusion” to the bureau in Rome. Kortan
forwards Isikoff’s email to aide Richard Quinn, who forwards to
Strzok “just for visibility”. Strzok forwards to his boss,
Priestap and Moffa, saying, “FYI, [redacted], you or I should
probably inform [redacted]. How’s your relationship with him? Bill
unless you object, I’ll let Parmaan [presumably senior FBI official
Bryan Paarmann] know.” Strzok forwards the whole exchange on to Lisa
Page.

On January 18, 2017, reporter Peter Elkind of ProPublica reached out
[[link removed]]
to Kortan, asking to interview Strzok, Michael Steinbach, Jim Baker,
Priestap, former FBI Director James Comey and DEA administrator Chuck
Rosenberg for a story Elkind was working on. Kortan replied, “Okay,
I will start organizing things.” Further along in the thread, an FBI
Press Office official reached out to an FBI colleague for assistance
with the interviews, saying Steinbach had agreed to a “background
discussion” with Elkind, who was “writing the ‘definitive’
account of what happened during the Clinton investigation,
specifically, Comey’s handling of the investigation, seeking to
reconstruct and explain in much greater detail what he did and why he
did it.” In May 2017, Elkind wrote an article
[[link removed]]
titled “The Problems With the FBI’s Email Investigation Went Well
Beyond Comey,” which in light of these documents, strongly suggests
many FBI officials leaked to the publication.

Strzok ended up being scheduled
[[link removed]]
to meet with Elkind at 9:30 a.m. on January 31, 2017, before an Elkind
interview of Comey’s chief of staff Jim Rybicki. Elkind’s
reporting on the Clinton email investigation was discussed at length
in previous emails obtained
[[link removed]]
by Judicial Watch.

These documents suggest that President Trump was targeted by the Comey
FBI as soon as he stepped foot in the Oval Office. And now we see how
the Comey FBI was desperate to spin, through high-level leaks, its
mishandling of the Clinton email investigation.

And, in a continuing outrage, it should be noted that Wray’s FBI and
Barr’s DOJ continue slow walking the release of thousands of
Page-Strzok emails – which means the remaining 8,000 pages of
records won’t be reviewed and released until 2021-2022!

Here’s a brief history of our investigation of the FBI’s
anti-Trump campaign.

In February 2020, we uncovered
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an August 2016 email in which Strzok says that Clinton, in her
interview with the FBI about her email controversy, apologized for
“the work and effort” it caused the bureau and she said she chose
to use it “out of convenience” and that “it proved to be
anything but.” Strzok said Clinton’s apology and the
“convenience” discussion were “not in” the FBI 302 report that
summarized the interview.

Also in February, we made public Strzok-Page emails showing their
direct involvement in the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the
bureau’s investigation of alleged collusion between the Trump
campaign and Russia. The records also show additional “confirmed
classified emails” were found on Clinton’s unsecure non-state.gov
email server “beyond the number presented” in then-FBI Director
James Comey’s statements; Strzok and Page questioning the access the
DOJ was granting Clinton’s lawyers; and Page revealing that the DOJ
was making edits to FBI 302 reports related to the Clinton Midyear
Exam investigation. The emails detail a discussion about
“squashing” an issue related to the Seth Rich controversy.

In January 2020, we uncovered
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Strzok-Page emails that detail special accommodations given to the
lawyers of Clinton and her aides during the FBI investigation of the
Clinton email controversy.

In November 2019, we revealed
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Strzok-Page emails that show the attorney representing three of
Clinton’s aides were given meetings with senior FBI officials.

Also in November, we uncovered
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emails revealing that after Clinton’s statement denying the
transmission of classified information over her unsecure email system,
Strzok sent an email to FBI officials citing “three [Clinton email]
chains” containing (C) [classified] portion marks in front of
paragraphs.”

In a related case, in May 2020, we received the “electronic
communication
[[link removed]
(EC) that officially launched the counterintelligence investigation,
termed “Crossfire Hurricane,” of President Trump’s 2016
presidential campaign. The document was written by former FBI official
Peter Strzok.

As you can see, your Judicial Watch is compiling the history, over the
grievous obstruction by the Deep State, of the gravest political
scandal in our nation’s history.

THE PENTAGON IS INDOCTRINATING OUR TROOPS WITH RACIST, ANTI-AMERICAN
PROPAGANDA

President Obama had little regard for our military, except when he
could force it to undergo brainwashing with leftist dogma, as we
reported
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in 2016. At that time, 400 soldiers in the 67thSignal Battalion at
Fort Gordon, Georgia, were subjected to a “white privilege”
briefing.

This kind of thing hasn’t stopped. In fact, it’s gotten worse. We
have obtained 1,483 pages
[[link removed]]
of teaching materials and 26 pages
[[link removed]]
of budget records from the Defense Department produced by the Defense
Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) that are used by
DOD’s “equal opportunity advisors” to train service members on
diversity topics. We received these documents in response to our FOIA
request.

You may have a hard time believing this.

The teaching materials include “Student Study Guides” written for
“Equal Opportunity Advisor Courses,” that are critical of persons
who “believe that human similarities are more important than
differences;” advise people to acknowledge their privilege when
“it is pointed out to them;” claim that heterosexuals have
“sexual orientation privilege;” and that “religious privilege”
exists.

According to DEOMI’s website
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the organization was
“Propelled by the civil rights movement of the 1960s.” The DEOMI
operating budget between 2012-2017 totaled $19.66
[[link removed]]
million dollars.

According the Defense Department Comptroller’s office, DEOMI and WRP
(Workforce Recruitment Program) now jointly make up an entity called
the Defense Management Operations Center (DMOC) and that entity was
budgeted $13,366,000
[[link removed]]
for FY2020.

* The newly released records include a chapter entitled “Power and
Privilege
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in which students are taught that, “Privilege can also be linked to
various forms of identity such as … sexual orientation privilege”
and “religious privilege.”
* Students are also taught that there is “sexual orientation
privilege
[[link removed]
associated with the “marginalization of non-heterosexual lifestyles
and the view that heterosexuality is the normal sexual orientation.”
* The guide advises that “some dominant group members” may claim
“personal achievement
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mostly depends on personal ability.”
* The study guide also teaches that people who raise religious
objections
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to homosexual marriage are engaged in a form of discrimination called
“principium,” which is “avoiding exploration based on a
religious or personal principle:”
* In order to “become personally aware of privilege,” the study
guide advises people to “decode
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your social identity.”
* In a chapter on diversity, the guide is critical of those who
engage in “minimization
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which it defines as those who believe that “human similarities are
more important than differences.”
* The guide notes
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that, “Statistics show Whites are the majority in senior leadership
positions (i.e., flag officers, general officers, and Senior Executive
Service) and lend itself [sic] to the perpetuation of racism.”
* An example of “modern racism
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is saying things like “Discrimination is a thing of the past …
tactics and demands of activists are unfair … racism is bad.”
* The document also states that another form of racism is
“aversive racism
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Aversive racists, say the authors, “put high value on egalitarian
beliefs.”
* In a chart labeled “Racist Behavior
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the authors break racism into “traditional,” “symbolic,”
“modern” and “aversive” categories, in which modern racists
believe minorities are “undeserving of special efforts to redress
past inequities.” The chart also indicates that people who oppose
“policies designed to address racial equality” or feel that those
policies are violations of “norms and fairness” are modern
racists.
* After cautioning against using stereotypes
[[link removed]]
in previous study sections, the study section on Asian Americans says,
“Self-control, discipline, competitiveness, and education are
important elements in Japanese-American culture.”
* A warning footer at the bottom of the trainer’s guides, repeated
throughout the document advises
[[link removed]]
“FOR TRAINING PURPOSES ONLY – DO NOT USE ON THE JOB.” [Emphasis
in original]
* Students are encouraged to: “Talk to others about your
recognized inferior socialized behavior
[[link removed]
* In a learning bloc on “Perceptions
[[link removed]
equal opportunity advisors are told that, “stereotypes are bad if
they lead to discrimination of protected categories.”
* A section addressing “Cross-Cultural Communication
[[link removed]
states: “Gender includes the social construction of masculinity and
femininity within a culture and incorporates his or her biological,
psychological, and sociological characteristics. Sex refers to a
person’s biological or physical self. Although sex determines who
will bear children, gender accounts for our roles in life and how
these life roles affect our communication.”
* The section also claims that in childhood gender communication
[[link removed]
“Girls are told to use their manners, play quietly, and be
ladylike,” it is “okay for boys to use rough language, play
loudly, and be rambunctious. Girls are allowed to show feelings.”
* After warning readers about the dangers of stereotypes,
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the manual then says women communicate “stereotypically … using a
passive/assertive style,” whereas men communicate
“stereotypically” by “using an assertive/aggressive style in
efforts to accomplish tasks, achieve status, and dominate the
conversation.”
* The guide breaks Americans down into four generational types
[[link removed]
“Traditionalists,” “Baby Boomers,” “Generation X” and
“Millennials” and characterizes their personalities by group. It
says “Xers” born between 1960-1980 “need positive feedback to
let them know they’re on the right track,” and Millennials born
between 1980-2000 “are used to praise and may mistake silence for
disapproval. They need to know what they’re doing right and what
they’re doing wrong. Feedback whenever I want it at the push of a
button.”
* A section on “Sexual orientation privilege
[[link removed]
includes the view that this group believes “heterosexuality is the
normal sexual orientation,” and that “sexual and marital relations
are normal only when between people of different sexes.”
* The guide notes
[[link removed]]
that transsexual, transgender and sometimes homosexual populations are
denied “freedom enjoyed by heterosexual couples.”
* The guide advises
[[link removed]]
Equal Opportunity Advisors to: “Acknowledge your privilege when it
is pointed out to you.” They are also told that, “Privilege will
never go away until the systems in our society that cause
discrimination go away,” and suggests that the equal opportunity
advisors “work to make those inequitable systems visible.”
* In a 15-page study guide on “Extremism
[[link removed]
the guide mentions Nazis, white supremacism, criminal gangs, skinhead
groups, the Confederate flag, national anarchists, eco-terrorism,
environmental activists, and right-wing extremists. Three pages
discuss “skinhead culture.”
* According to a study guide on sexism, killing one’s spouse is an
example of sexist behavior (falling under the “extermination
[[link removed]
category).
* In a discussion of the history of sexism in the military
[[link removed]],
the guide claims that, “many women masqueraded as men in order to
serve their country” (presumably referring to the United States).
* In a study guide on “Diversity Management
[[link removed]
the authors advise that affirmative action “focuses on prevention
and/or correcting discriminatory practices concerned with numbers of
minorities and women. It is an attempt to rectify past discrimination
against certain groups of people.” In the next paragraph, the
authors write: “Service members shall be evaluated only on merit,
fitness, and capability. Unlawful discrimination against individuals
or groups based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin is
contrary to good order and discipline and … shall not be
condoned.”
* The study guides
[[link removed]]
contain some negative lines against Americans such as, “Many U.S.
Americans have widely divergent views on whether a problem even
exists.”
* In a study section on “stereotyping
[[link removed]
the authors say that, “Stereotypes may or may not originate in a
kennel [sic] of truth …”
* In a study guide section on “White Americans
[[link removed]
the authors say that, “The majority, 35.7 percent, of White
Americans are located in the South (U.S Census Bureau, 2010).”
* In a study guide section on Hispanic Americans
[[link removed]],
the authors describe illegal aliens from Mexico as “undocumented
Mexican immigrants.”

These documents show that the Department of Defense has been
indoctrinating our troops with anti-American and racially inflammatory
“training.” We must protect our military service members from
being brainwashed by the divisive, anti-American propaganda fueling
the leftist insurrectionists who are right now trying to destroy our
country.

FRAUD IN NEW JERSEY MAIL-IN BALLOTS SIGNALS NATIONAL TROUBLE

Voter fraud is real and it is more of a risk this election because of
crazed efforts by the Left to flood the mails with millions of ballots
and ballot appplications. Micah Morrison, chief investigative
reporter, reports
[[link removed]]
in his Investigative Bulletinon the ballot fraud uncovered in New
Jersey.

> Concern over mail-in balloting is rising as the presidential
> election approaches. Last month, we highlighted California Governor
> Gavin Newsom’s brazen mail-in ballot scam
>
[[link removed]
> an executive order mandating mail-in ballots “to preserve public
> health in the face of the threat of Covid-19.” Judicial Watch
> challenged the executive order in federal court, prompting the state
> legislature to pass a law ensuring that mail-in balloting would take
> place.
>
> Problems with mail-in, or absentee, balloting are not new. In 2005,
> the bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission noted that, “absentee
> ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud….
> Absentee balloting is vulnerable to abuse in several ways: blank
> ballots mailed to the wrong address or to a large residential
> building might get intercepted. Citizens who vote at home, at
> nursing homes, at the workplace, or in church are more susceptible
> to pressure, overt and subtle, or to intimidation. Vote buying
> schemes are far more difficult to detect when citizens vote by
> mail.”
>
> Now comes news from New Jersey that has election observers worried.
> In a well-documented case of ballot fraud, the state attorney
> general charged four men with casting fraudulent mail-in votes,
> tampering with public records, and falsifying documents. It’s a
> template for crooked electioneering and perhaps a sign of things to
> come.
>
> The charges surround city council elections in Paterson—Democratic
> Party turf and New Jersey’s third largest city, with a $287
> million municipal budget. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, like his
> counterpart in California, issued an executive order authorizing a
> vote entirely by mail-in ballots. Mark Hemingway of Real Clear
> Politics reports
>
[[link removed]]
> that problems quickly surfaced after election day. Bundles of
> ballots appeared in neighborhood mailboxes, raising the suspicions
> of U.S. Postal Service inspectors. Over 2,300 ballots were
> disqualified when the signatures appeared to not match voting
> records. Piles of mail-in ballots were left on the lobby floors of
> apartment buildings. Reporters tracked down citizens who were listed
> as having voted but insisted they never even received a ballot.
> Nearly 20% of the 16,000 ballots were disqualified.
>
> Investigators for the attorney general quickly traced the bogus
> ballots to two local politicians and their hired hands. City
> Councilman Michael Jackson and councilman-elect Alex Mendez were
> charged with election fraud for illegally collecting ballots and
> tampering with the certification paperwork. Shelim Kalique and Abu
> Razyen were charged with fraud for improperly collecting ballots.
> The scheme appears to have been simple: the men collected blank
> ballots, forged the paperwork and signatures, and submitted fake
> votes. Read more on the charges here
>
[[link removed]].
>
> The fairy tale among Democrats and the Left is that conservative
> concerns about election fraud are nothing but attempts to deny
> voters access to the ballot box. But election fraud should be a
> bipartisan concern. As Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told
> Congress
>
[[link removed]
> month, “if you’re a Leftist Democrat trying to take on an
> incumbent in a corrupt jurisdiction, voter fraud can keep you from
> gaining traction.”
>
> Paterson underscores Tom’s argument. It’s a historically corrupt
> city dominated by Democratic Party politics. The defendants in the
> ballot fraud case are not criminal masterminds—a closer
> approximation would be Curly, Moe and Larry—but in a way that’s
> the point. Ballot fraud is easy.
>
> RCP’s Hemingway reminds us that while Paterson’s municipal
> balloting has little in common with a national election, the 2016
> presidential race was decided “by fewer than 80,000 votes in a
> handful of swing states.” Paterson demonstrates that the national
> rush to mail-in balloting has left plenty of room for fraud and
> error. And that’s a signal of trouble for November.

As you know, Judicial Watch is a leader in efforts to keep elections
clean, and you can help us
[[link removed]]
win.

TRUMP TASK FORCE DISMANTLING MS-13 TAKES DOWN GANG’S KEY LEADERS

Given the widespread violence in our streets it is a relief to see
President Trump doing what he is famous for: solving a problem. This
one had to do with the barbarian gang known as MS-13. Our Corruption
Chronicles blog has the story
[[link removed]].

> Some good news for a change. A special task force launched by
> President Donald Trump to gut the nation’s deadliest street gang
> has taken down key leaders in less than a year and for the first
> time charged a gang banger with terrorism-related offenses. The
> feared street gang
>
[[link removed]]
of mostly
> Central American illegal immigrants, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), has
> spread throughout the U.S. and is renowned for drug distribution,
> murder, rape, robbery, home invasions, kidnappings, vandalism and
> other violent crimes. The Justice Department’s National Gang
> Intelligence Center (NGIC) says criminal street gangs like MS-13 are
> responsible for the majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are
> the primary distributors of most illicit drugs.
>
> Thanks to Barack Obama’s open border policies, MS-13 was energized
> with new recruits provided by a steady flow of illegal immigrant
> minors. When the Obama administration started welcoming a barrage of
> Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) in 2014, Homeland Security
> sources told Judicial Watch that the nation’s most violent street
> gangs—including MS-13 and the 18th Street gang—were actively
> recruiting
>
[[link removed]]
> new members at U.S. shelters housing the minors. The Texas
> Department of Public Safety subsequently confirmed
>
[[link removed]]
> that the MS-13 is a top tier gang thanks to the influx of illegal
> alien gang members that crossed into the state under Obama’s
> disastrous program, which saw over 60,000 illegal immigrants—many
> with criminal histories—storm into the U.S. in a matter of months.
> Tens of thousands more have entered since then.
>
> President Trump vowed to crush the famously savage MS-13 and shortly
> after taking office issued an Executive Order
>
[[link removed]]
> directing several agencies, including the departments of Justice,
> State and Homeland Security, to coordinate an effort to restore
> safety for the American people by extinguishing transitional
> criminal organizations such as MS-13. The order states that the
> criminal groups have spread throughout the nation, threatening the
> safety of the United States and its citizens. “These organizations
> derive revenue through widespread illegal conduct, including acts of
> violence and abuse that exhibit a wanton disregard for human
> life,” the order says. “They, for example, have been known to
> commit brutal murders, rapes, and other barbaric acts. These groups
> are drivers of crime, corruption, violence, and misery.” The
> president gives federal agencies 120 days to report progress in
> combating the criminal organizations as well as recommended actions
> for dismantling them.
>
> In August 2019 Attorney General William Barr launched an initiative
> known as Joint Task Force Vulcan (JTFV) to address MS-13 with a
> coordinated force of federal law enforcement agencies and the
> Department of Justice (DOJ). JTFV has increased collaboration with
> foreign law enforcement partners, including in El Salvador, Mexico,
> Honduras, and Guatemala; designated priority MS-13 programs, cliques
> and leaders, who have the most impact on the U.S., for targeted
> prosecutions, and; coordinated significant MS-13 indictments in U.S.
> Attorney’s Offices across the country, such as New York, Virginia
> and Nevada. Less than a year after its formation, the task force has
> recorded big successes. This week the DOJ announced
>
[[link removed]]
> a number of significant JTFV cases, including for the first time an
> MS-13 member being charged with terrorism-related offenses, the take
> down of the MS-13 Hollywood leadership and the Attorney General’s
> decision to seek the death penalty against an MS-13 operative. JTFV
> Director John Durham calls it the result of tremendous teamwork
> between prosecutors and law enforcement officers across the United
> States and Central America.
>
> The cases announced this week include an indictment against a
> high-ranking MS-13 operative, Melgar Diaz, in Virginia. Diaz is
> charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists,
> conspiring to kill or maim persons overseas, conspiring to commit
> acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, conspiring to
> finance terrorism, and; conspiring to engage in narco-terrorism, in
> addition to racketeering conspiracy and drug trafficking. In another
> case eight MS-13 members were indicted in New York for committing
> six murders, two attempted murders, kidnapping, narcotics felonies
> and related firearms offenses. In Nevada 13 MS-13 gang bangers,
> including leaders of the “Hollywood Locos” clique and “Los
> Angeles Program” were charged with multiple counts of narcotics
> distribution and weapons crimes. The task force is also responsible
> for the indictment in New York of Alexi Saenz, an MS-13 leader
> accused of committing seven murders, including two high school
> students with a machete and baseball bat. “MS-13 is a violent
> transnational criminal organization, whose criminal activities
> respect no boundaries,” said Durham, the JTFV director. “The
> only way to defeat MS-13 is by targeting the organization as a
> whole, focusing on the leadership structure, and deploying a
> whole-of-government approach against a common enemy.”

Does it really take the President of the United States to clean up
street crime?

YET ANOTHER TOP FBI OFFICIAL EMBROILED IN SEXUAL MISCONDUCT SCANDAL

The “sick man” of federal law enforcement, the FBI, too often
seems like Peyton Place, as our Corruption Chroniclesblog informs
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> Besides its infamy for failing
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> to protect the U.S. from terrorist attacks, the Federal Bureau of
> Investigation (FBI) is gaining quite a reputation as a hotbed of
> sexual misconduct among its upper ranks. Perhaps that is why the
> “intelligence-driven and threat-focused national security
> organization”
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a staff of 30,000
> agents, analysts and other professionals has been derelict in its
> duties for decades. Remember that the FBI’s well-documented
> transgressions culminated in the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil
> in 2001. Since then, the agency, which is also charged with
> protecting the nation from espionage, cyber attacks and other major
> criminal threats, has struggled to do its job and it has cost dozens
> of American lives. The critical lapses have allowed homegrown
> violent extremists to carry out more than 20 attacks
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> in the U.S. since 9/11, some of them after the agency closed
> counterterrorism investigations of the attackers.
>
> In the meantime, the FBI has been singled out repeatedly for sexual
> misconduct among high-level officials, including a unit chief,
> special agent in charge and supervisory intelligence analyst. Just a
> few days ago, the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General
> (DOJ OIG) issued an investigative summary
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of misconduct by
> an FBI Unit Chief (UC) for engaging in an improper, intimate
> relationship with a subordinate and failing to disclose it as per
> agency policy. The unit chief, who is not identified, was directly
> involved in the lover’s promotion while the secret relationship
> was ongoing and helped the lover get certain work assignments and
> travel opportunities, also in violation of FBI policy. “The FBI
> UC’s conduct violated federal ethics regulations regarding
> impartiality,” according to the DOJ IG, which further reveals that
> the unit chief has since retired. The document does not mention if
> there were any consequences for the high-ranking FBI official, but
> it seems to indicate that the serious violations are water under the
> bridge because the official is no longer at the beleaguered agency.
>
> Three other cases were also made public by the agency watchdog in
> recent months, though the offenders are never identified. In May, a
> former FBI section chief and Special Agent in Charge (SAC) was
> exposed for sexually harassing multiple employees, failure to report
> an intimate relationship with a subordinate and lack of candor.
> Investigators found that the “SAC sexually harassed six
> subordinate employees while serving as the SAC and two subordinate
> employees while serving in a previous position as a Section Chief at
> FBI Headquarters, failed to report an intimate relationship with a
> subordinate, engaged in actions following the end of that
> relationship that created a hostile work environment for the
> subordinate, and lacked candor during the SAC’s interview with the
> OIG, all in violation of FBI policy,” according to a report
>
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> made public in late May. The investigation also determined that the
> SAC violated the DOJ’s zero tolerance policy involving sexual
> harassment.
>
> Two other cases were made public in April, one involving an FBI
> assistant director and the other a supervisory intelligence analyst.
> The assistant director got busted for seeking an improper intimate
> relationship with a subordinate, sexual harassment and related
> misconduct, according to a DOJ IG bulletin
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issued on April
> 21. Investigators found that the assistant director violated FBI
> policy by pursuing an “improper intimate relationship” with a
> subordinate after inappropriately touching the subordinate following
> an after-work happy hour event. The probe also determined that the
> high-ranking official “violated FBI policies related to sexual
> harassment and unprofessional conduct off-duty, as well as DOJ’s
> zero tolerance policy with respect to harassment, in making
> unwelcomed and unwanted sexual advances on the subordinate.” The
> report further reveals that the assistant director violated FBI
> policy by failing to properly secure a firearm inside his or her
> vehicle. As in several other cases of wrongdoing the assistant
> director has conveniently retired. About a week earlier, an FBI
> Supervisory Intelligence Analyst (SIA) was dismissed for knowingly
> possessing child pornography.
>
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late 2019, the
> DOJ OIG blasted an “FBI senior official”
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> failing to report an intimate relationship with a subordinate and
> violating the FBI’s ethics policy by participating in decisions
> regarding the subordinate’s promotion.
>
> The cases mark a lot of activity at the Bureau in less than a year.
> To be fair, sexual misconduct appears to be a broad problem at
> various DOJ agencies, not just the FBI. Earlier this year the
> agency’s watchdog issued a management advisory
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identifying
> concerns in the handling of supervisor-subordinate relationships
> across DOJ components. “In the recent past, the OIG has noted an
> increase in the number of allegations it has received and
> subsequently investigated regarding allegedly inappropriate
> relationships between high-level supervisors and subordinates in
> several different components,” the document states. In the
> advisory the FBI’s policy is described as prohibiting supervisors
> from engaging in romantic or intimate relationships with
> subordinates “if the relationship negatively affects a
> professional and appropriate superior-subordinate relationship or
> otherwise adversely affects the FBI mission.”

Does anyone in FBI have time to fight crime or terrorism or spies?

Until next week,





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