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HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP UPDATE!

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JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR FBI RECORDS ON HUNTER BIDEN’S INFAMOUS
LAPTOP

The Hunter Biden saga drags on as the government clings to details
about his laptop.

In our latest effort to pry this information loose, we filed a Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
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against the U.S. Department of Justice for all FBI investigative
records concerning Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, which contained
extensive evidence of Biden family business dealings (Judicial Watch
Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice
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(No. 1:25-cv-04240)).

The Justice Department’s refusal to release these basic
investigative records raises serious questions about transparency and
potential interference in one of the most consequential political
stories in recent history. We will fight in court to get the public
the answers it is entitled to under the law.

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after
the FBI failed to respond to a January 29, 2025, FOIA request for:

All FBI investigative reports, witness interview summaries, memoranda,
and other records related to the investigation of Hunter Biden's
laptop.

All emails, text messages, Lync messages and other electronic
communications records related to the Hunter Biden laptop.

IRS whistleblowers confirmed that the FBI became aware of Hunter
Biden’s laptop as early as October 2019 and verified its
authenticity in November 2019. The FBI took possession of it in
December 2019
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In October 2020, through information obtained from Hunter Biden’s
laptop, the New York Post began publishing reports
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about the Biden family’s business arrangements.

In an August 2022 letter
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Senator
Ron Johnson (R-WI) highlighted whistleblower concerns about the
handling of the FBI’s investigation, noting that the Bureau appeared
to take no visible action for months despite possessing the verified
laptop well before the 2020 presidential election.

We have filed numerous FOIA lawsuits seeking transparency on the
Hunter Biden investigations and related matters.

In July 2025, we sued
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the
Justice Department for all records from the Offices of Attorney
General, Deputy Attorney General, and Associate Attorney General
regarding Joe Biden’s controversial pardon of Hunter Biden (Judicial
Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of State
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(No. 1:25-cv-02143)).

A hearing was held in July 2025 in the FOIA lawsuit
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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 (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. National Archives
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(No. 1:23-cv-01432).

In February 2025, we filed a lawsuit
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against the Justice Department for records and communications
regarding the Internal Revenue Service’s investigation of Hunter
Biden (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice
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(No.1:24-cv-03387)).

In June 2024, we received records
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the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) showing Mike Morell, former
acting CIA director under President Obama, requesting CIA permission
to publish a letter
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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
was approved in just six hours by the CIA (Judicial Watch v. Central
Intelligence Agency
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(No. 1:23-cv-01844)).

In January 2024, we filed a lawsuit
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against the
Justice Department for records of communications between the FBI and
social media sites regarding foreign influence in elections, as well
as Big Tech censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story (Judicial
Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice
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(No. 1:23-cv-00079)).

In October 2022, we sued the DOJ
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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 (Judicial Watch v. U.S.
Department of Justice
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(No. 1:22-cv-02821)).

We filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department on April 20,
2022, for messages sent through the SMART
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(State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolkit) system that mention
Hunter Biden (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State
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(No. 1:22-cv-01066)).

In December 2020, State Department records
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obtained through a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit showed that former U.S.
Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch had specifically
warned in 2017 about corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings.
Previously in this case, State Department records
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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
v. U.S. Department of State
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(No. 1:20-cv-00229)).

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES BOSTON MAYOR FOR DETAILS OF MARIACHI BAND PRESS
CONFERENCE

At an August 19, 2025, press conference, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu
reportedly
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vowed to resist the Justice Department’s efforts to secure
cooperation from local governments with federal immigration
enforcement. The event opened with mariachi music performed for
attendees as Wu positioned Boston as a defiant “sanctuary”
jurisdiction in opposition to federal law.

To see what’s behind this event, we filed a Massachusetts Public
Records Law lawsuit
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against the City of Boston for details about the press conference
during which Wu publicly defied U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s
demands that Boston comply with federal immigration law (Judicial
Watch v. City of Boston
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(No. 2584 cv 03395)).

We filed the lawsuit in the Suffolk County Superior Court after the Wu
administration failed to respond to our public records request for
emails of Mayor Wu and her immediate staff about Attorney General
Bondi’s demands that Boston modify its sanctuary-city policy and
cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as
records related to the appearance of a mariachi band at the August 19,
2025, press conference.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported that in
September 2025 it and federal partners arrested
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more than 1,400 illegal aliens in Massachusetts – including
murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, child sex predators and members
of violent transnational criminal gangs. Acting ICE Director Todd M.
Lyons said, “Every illegal alien we arrested during the operation
was breaking U.S. immigration law, and hundreds were violent criminals
who should never have been allowed to roam freely in our
communities.”

Mayor Wu staged a racist political spectacle instead of cooperating
with federal law enforcement – even as dangerous criminal aliens are
at large in her city. Boston residents deserve to know why the
mayor’s office refuses transparency about this event and why city
hall is stonewalling lawful public records requests.

In October 2025, we sued
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the Office of the Mayor of Evanston, IL, for records related to
obstruction of federal immigration enforcement.

In January 2025, we sued
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office for records regarding his vow
to resist the Trump administration’s mass deportation and other
immigration law enforcement activities.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR FBI RECORDS ON HILLARY CLINTON’S BROTHER,
TONY RODHAM

What’s currently in the public record about the schemes of Hillary
Clinton’s little brother Tony likely just scratches the surface.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
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against the U.S. Department of Justice for FBI records on Hillary
Clinton’s deceased brother, Tony Rodham (Judicial Watch v U.S.
Department of Justice
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(No.1:25-cv-04237)).

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
after the Justice Department failed to respond adequately to a June
10, 2019, FOIA request for FBI records about Rodham. We are asking
for:

All records related to Anthony Dean Rodham, born in August 1954 in
Park Ridge, Illinois, who died on June 7, 2019, including but not
limited to: investigative reports; 302s; witness statements;
Confidential Human Source reporting (FD 1023 forms); meetings/contacts
(FD 209a forms); cables; letterhead memoranda; and communications sent
to and from FBI officials regarding Mr. Rodham.

In August 2019, the FBI acknowledged it had located over 13,000 pages
of records responsive to the request, as well as audio and video files
that are potentially responsive to the request. After years of delays,
in May 2025, the FBI again acknowledged possession of responsive
records and asked if there was still interest. We acknowledged our
continued interest in having the request processed without
modification of its scope. Having received no further response from
the FBI, we filed suit.

Clearly, the Justice Department has been sitting on a wealth of
information, and we intend to obtain it.

Rodham for decades
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used his connections with the Clintons to further his failing career.
Rodham described himself as a “facilitator” and had a range of
opportunities, like addressing Chinese investor conferences and
joining an advisory board of a company seeking permission to mine for
gold in Haiti. Among other controversies, Rodham also pursued
contracts in post-earthquake Haiti, seeking a $22 million housing deal
while Bill Clinton co-chaired the recovery commission, a proposal that
collapsed.

While Hillary Clinton was secretary of State, former Virginia Governor
Terry McAuliffe and Rodham were beneficiaries of the EB-5
cash-for-visas program
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in which they
raised at least $46 million
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from investors for their GreenTech Automotive electric-car company.
Greentech filed for bankruptcy
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in February 2018.

Through our FOIA investigations and lawsuits we have uncovered other
incidents involving Rodham.

In August 2017, we uncovered
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records from the State Department revealing repeated use of unsecured
communications for classified information and numerous examples of
Clinton Foundation donors receiving special favors from former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s staff. The emails also reveal
instances of Rodham seeking to leverage his influence as Clinton’s
brother. In January 2010, Confidential Assistant Monica Hanley
forwarded to Abedin a request from Rodham, on three issues
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One involved help on a “green card renewal,” another involved a
visit by someone of which Abedin said they “wanted to regret,” and
a third involved a job for someone whose CV Rodham forwarded to State.

In July 2017, we received
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records from the State Department revealing incidents of Huma Abedin,
deputy chief of staff to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
providing special State Department treatment to major donors to the
Clinton Foundation and political campaigns. The heavily redacted
documents from Abedin’s non-government account included an email
from Rodham to Abedin revealing that he acted as a go-between for a
Clinton Foundation donor, Richard Park. The records also revealed
Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band instructing Abedin to “show
love” to Clinton donor Andrew Liveris.

BILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS SPENT IN FAILED EFFORT TO REBUILD
AFGHANISTAN

Afghanistan offers a clear lesson: You can’t smoothly impose Western
democracy on a quasi-feudal Third World country. Our Corruption
Chronicles blog reports
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on
the billions of your tax dollars that were haphazardly thrown at the
attempt to rebuild Afghanistan.

For nearly two decades the U.S. government spent a breathtaking $145
billion on a failed plan to rebuild Afghanistan and at least $26
billion of it was lost to waste, fraud and abuse, according to the
final report
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by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
(SIGAR). The United States also left behind over $38 billion in
military equipment and military and civilian infrastructure, the audit
reveals, offering enraging details about the U.S. government’s
costly debacle to restore a terrorist nation that promptly returned to
Taliban rule the moment American troops left in 2021. Even after the
Biden administration’s disastrous military withdrawal, hundreds of
millions of dollars in humanitarian aid kept flowing into the coffers
of fake charities created by the Taliban
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The
terrorist group also received at least $239 million in development
assistance
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the State
Department did not screen award recipients, failing to comply with its
own counterterrorism partner vetting requirements before disbursing
dozens of grants to local entities in the central Asian Islamic
nation.

“The Afghan government’s stunningly rapid collapse in August 2021
laid bare a fragility concealed by years of confident assertions of
progress,” the new SIGAR report states. “The gap between ambition
and reality was vast, with deteriorating conditions continually
stymying objectives that proved to be unrealistic.” Investigators
blame multiple factors for the U.S. failure to transform a war-torn,
underdeveloped country into a stable and prosperous democracy. “For
example, early and ongoing U.S. decisions to ally with corrupt,
human-rights-abusing powerbrokers bolstered the insurgency and
undermined the mission, including U.S. goals for bringing democracy
and good governance to Afghanistan,” the audit says, adding that
efforts to improve Afghanistan’s economic and social conditions also
failed to have a lasting impact and that despite nearly “$90 billion
in U.S. appropriations for security-sector assistance, Afghan security
forces ultimately collapsed quickly without a sustained U.S. military
presence.” The cost of the failed Afghanistan reconstruction plan
was “immense,” investigators found, and includes tens of thousands
of people— including more than 2,450 U.S. servicemembers—killed.
Many more were injured, among them more than 20,700 U.S.
servicemembers, the watchdog writes.

SIGAR, which was created in 2009 and will officially shut down at the
end of January 2026, has identified at least 1,327 instances of waste,
fraud, and abuse for a total of at least $26 billion from 2002 through
the middle of 2021. The cash started flowing shortly after President
George W. Bush launched military operations in Afghanistan following
the 9/11 attacks as part of the war on terror. Even after Afghanistan
fell back to Taliban rule in 2021, the U.S. remains its largest donor
disbursing over $3.83 billion in humanitarian and development
assistance, much of it managed by the famously corrupt United States
Agency for International Development (USAID), which was dismantled by
the Trump administration. Nevertheless, the money is still flowing to
Afghanistan, with disbursements of $120 million in the March 2025
quarter alone, according to the SIGAR report. Past failures have not
stopped Uncle Sam from cutting the checks. The report offers a
multitude of examples of the waste over the years, including $7.3
billion on an ineffective counternarcotics program that did little to
stem the production and exportation of illicit drugs; $4.7 billion on
a failed stabilization project to keep insurgents out of an area after
they had been expelled by security forces; $675 million on wasteful
business development programs aimed at reducing violence to enhance
stability and economic normalcy; $486 million for unused aircraft for
the Afghan Air Force; $335 million for a USAID constructed power plant
that was not utilized and $85 million for an unfinished—and never
used—hotel across from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

Most of the projects that seemed legitimate were also wasteful and
failed to accomplish their goal, the final in-depth probe confirms.
For instance, the U.S. allocated $90 billion to Afghanistan Security
yet the nation’s security forces collapsed quickly without sustained
U.S. Military presence. Investigators warn that the costly failure to
rebuild Afghanistan was predictable. “Unlike past reconstruction
efforts in places like post-World War II Europe or Japan where the
United States successfully rebuilt countries whose modern economies,
industry, and infrastructure had been degraded by war, Afghanistan was
a severely underdeveloped state,” SIGAR writes. “U.S. efforts
there were often trying to create capabilities, systems, and
institutions of a type and quality the country had never possessed.”

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