President Trump Echoes Judicial Watch
Concerns about Dirty Voter Rolls
In his forceful and comprehensive address to the nation this week on
widespread election fraud, the president referred to the many dirty voter
rolls across the country. Here’s what he said:
It’s a widely known fact that the voting rolls are packed with people who
are not lawfully eligible to vote, including those who are deceased, have
moved out of their state, and even our non-citizens of our country.
Beyond this, the records are riddled with errors, wrong addresses,
duplicate entries, and many other issues. This is not disputed. It has
never been disputed. Dozens of counties in the key swing states have more
registered voters on the rolls than they have voting age citizens,
including 67 counties in Michigan. All of this is evidence.
In Wisconsin, the state’s Board of Elections could not confirm the
residency of more than 100,000 people, but repeatedly refused to remove
those names from its voter rolls before the election. They knew why, nobody
else did. I knew why. They were illegal voters. It is a travesty that in
the year 2020, we do not have any means of verifying the eligibility of
those who cast ballots in an election and such an important election it is,
or determining who they are, whether they live in the state or whether
they’re even American citizens. We have no idea.
You might have recognized his concerns about dirty voting rolls because
Judicial Watch in October reported
that our September
2020 study revealed 353 U.S. counties with 1.8 million more registered
voters than eligible voting-age citizens. In other words, the registration
rates of those counties exceeded 100% of eligible voters. The study found
eight states showing statewide registration rates exceeding 100%: Alaska,
Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and
Vermont.
I’ve repeatedly said
that dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. That’s why we’ve
filed three federal lawsuits to clean up the voter rolls in Pennsylvania
(which our lawsuit alleges has over 800,000 extra names on the rolls),
North Carolina and Colorado.
Our expert team of election lawyers and investigators is also on top of the
current election crisis. For example, we have dozens of open record
requests in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Georgia, Arizona and Nevada – to start.
The Left changed how our elections were conducted – and it resulted in a
tsunami of mail-in ballots that the evidence increasingly shows were
unlawfully handled and counted in a way at that is at odds with the law.
The structural integrity of the elections in key states fell under leftist
machinations – raising serious question about the validity of reported
results for Joe Biden.
There is strong evidence, incontrovertible is some instances, that
virtually every “battleground” state's laws were violated in the
handling and counting of mail-in ballots. It is an open question whether
the courts will enforce the rule of law. But under our Constitution, the
state legislatures and Congress can and must act through the Electoral
College process. Accordingly, I encourage you to contact your state
legislatures (especially if you live in states where the election is under
dispute) and Congress to let your elected representatives know what you
think about the current election crisis.
President Trump, as president, has a constitutional duty to enforce the
rule of law on election issues. And as the DOJ is seemingly again AWOL,
it will be up to Judicial Watch and other independent activists and
citizens like you to ensure that our elections are secure and that the
lawful winner is our nation’s next president.
Records Show Obama DHS Scanned Georgia Election Site in
2016
There is a raging debate about the security of our election systems.
Judicial Watch released documents this week that show, when it comes to
election security, the Obama administration may have been part of the
problem.
We received 243
pages of records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that
show the Obama administration’s scanning of the election systems of
Georgia, Alaska, Oregon, Kentucky and West Virginia in 2016. This activity
prompted a letter
from then-Georgia Secretary of State (now Governor) Brian Kemp to then-DHS
Secretary Jeh Johnson accusing DHS of, “an unsuccessful attempt to
penetrate the Georgia Secretary of State’s firewall.”
The records were produced in response to our FOIA request for all records
related to reported cyberattacks against the Georgia secretary of state’s
information network involving DHS, including investigative reports,
memoranda, correspondence and communications between October 1, 2016, and
February 14, 2017.
The minutes
of a DHS “Enterprise Security Operations Center” (ESOC) meeting
indicate that on November 15, 2016, at 8:43 a.m. a “scanning event”
occurred. The “‘scanning’ event was the result of a FLETC [Federal
Law Enforcement Training Center] user’s Microsoft Office Discovery
Protocol sending a packet with the OPTIONS flag to the Secretary of State
of Georgia site.”
The minutes note that the ESOC “has received requests from NCCIC [DHS’s
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center] and
MS-ISAC [Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center] to
investigate other states that have seen ‘suspicious’ activity.”
The minutes note that Kemp accused DHS of conducting illicit scans on at
least February 2, February 28 and May 23, 2016, as well.
DHS notes in the minutes that they were working with Microsoft to determine
what happened: “Microsoft and the ESOC with the assistance of FLETC, were
able to confirm that the user non-maliciously copied and pasted elements of
the website to an excel document, which triggered the HTTP ‘OPTIONS’
request.”
A “Microsoft E-Mail Statement (Unofficial Statement to ESOC)” was
included with the minutes. The email stated, “After looking at the data I
do not see requests that look malicious in nature or appear to be
attempting to exploit a vulnerability.”
A chart
of “Current Open Vulnerabilities” for the period November 30, 2016,
through December 12, 2016, noted that DHS had identified a total of 1,227
cyber vulnerabilities within DHS components, including five “High”
severity ones at FEMA.
In a “Shift Pass Down Report – Sunday Night Shift – December 18,
2016” describing one of the State of Georgia incidents, DHS identifies
that it originated, “from a FLETC-based Physical Security Contract
Manager.”
DHS identifies activity originating from them in Alaska, Oregon, Kentucky
and West Virginia.
In a “State of Alaska update,” the report notes, “Confirmed this
activity was a NPPD [DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate]
employee investigating twitter reports of compromise on an AK Election
System, as part of his normal duties.”
A “State of Oregon update,” indicated that “Oregon Secretary of State
inquired why they observed the same DHS IP reported by GASOS visiting their
website. After engaging with DHS, Oregon agreed there was nothing
suspicious and closed the investigation.”
A “State of Kentucky update” said, “Normal web traffic from
DHS.”
A “State of West Virginia update” also said “Normal web traffic from
DHS.”
In a December, 16, 2016, email
exchange between DHS officials regarding a “Preliminary update on
GASOS [Georgia Secretary of State]” an official notes there were at least
10 other “timestamps” in which “we have identified different
components who have caused the same traffic as the FLETC user.” The log
lists incidents involving FEMA, ICE-CIS and FLETC occurring between Feb. 2,
2016 and Sept. 12, 2016.
The email sender adds, “At this time, we cannot validate users with ease
for these past timestamps due to DHCP and the lack of Authentication
logs.”
Acting Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer, Jeanne Etzel replies to
him, “When this gets published in the 4:00, don’t say ‘lack of
logs’ say something about logs are maintained for xx days and the events
in question occurred xx days ago therefore our logs are overwritten per our
standard retention policy.”
Another official, unidentified, then forwards the exchange to unknown
officials saying, “FYI. Please use the lens of Press Release and senior
leaders.”
In a December 9, 2016, email,
Director of DHS Cybersecurity Operations, Boyden Rohmer emailed an
unidentified Chief of the Justice Security Operations Center at the Justice
Department about “some claims by the State of Georgia that we’ve been
scanning their website,” noting that when he pulled their logs over a
three hour period, “we see that we have about 1800 similar
requests.”
In an email
exchange on December 8, 2016, sent to a DHS official, from a CBP CSOC
[Customs and Border Protection/Cyber Security Operations Center] official
indicated that the same CBP IP address that scanned the Georgia Secretary
of State election systems also “previously was reported to us by Princess
Cruise Lines” but “ESOC [DHS’s Enterprise Security Operations Center]
assesses that the CBP computer was just doing normal web browsing to
Princess Cruise Lines.”
The email continues, “ESOC assesses that the CBP computer was just doing
normal browsing to Georgia’s Secretary of State office on Nov 15 as
well.”
The CBP cyber security official then asks the DHS ESOC official for
clarification of certain questions, such as “In both instances, who made
this assessment that all of this activity was just ‘normal
browsing’?” and “Please define ‘normal browsing’ as it is
referenced in the text highlighted above.”
In January 2017, the DHS Inspector General wrote
to Kemp, saying that an investigation into his allegations was in progress
and asking for web and network logs, as well as any other evidence that
indicated the DHS attempted to breach Georgia’s system.
In July 2017, the DHS Inspector General reported
to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform “that DHS
employee interactions with the Georgia systems were limited to routine
searches for publicly available information on the state’s public website
and that none of the web pages visited were related to elections or
voters.” And stated: “The investigation was conducted by employees in
OIG’s specially trained Digital Forensics and Analysis Unit.”
What this all means is that the Obama DHS was caught scanning the Georgia
Secretary of State’s website in 2016, and these documents show that
details about the controversy may have been ‘overwritten.’
These documents also provide context for the current debate. The
Obama-Biden Left that is now trying to convince Americans our election
computer systems are secure seems to have breached these very systems when
they last ran the government.
Three Congresswomen Star in Forum with Terror Financiers,
Anti-Semites
Not two decades after 9/11 we have two radical members of Congress openly
consorting with terrorists. Our Corruption Chronicles blog has the
disturbing details.
Congress should reprimand three of its members for participating with
financiers of Islamic terrorism in a conference sponsored by an
anti-Semitic group with deep ties to Hamas, the Palestinian extremist group
that calls for eradicating the state of Israel. The legislators who joined
forces with the extremists over the Thanksgiving weekend include Ilhan Omar
and Betty McCollum of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. All are
Democrats with a history of supporting anti-Semitism. Omar and Tlaib are
the first two Muslim women in Congress and their tenure as elected
officials has been marred with tremendous controversy.
The powwow they recently starred in was bankrolled by American
Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a Virginia-based group that advocates for
Palestinian rights and claims to educate the public about the just cause of
Palestine. The lineup at the recent event read like a “ who’s
who for the Muslim Brotherhood,” according to a nonprofit dedicated
to exposing the threat of radical Islam and other extremist ideologies. The
respected Washington D.C.-based group, Clarion Project, published a poster
advertising the conference, which featured an array of terror financiers
and anti-Semites. They include Tarek Hammoud, who has well-documented
connections to Hamas and Kifah Mustapha, a prolific fundraiser for radical
Islamist groups with deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Hamoud is the executive director of the Palestinian
Return Center (PRC), a Hamas
front
in the United Kingdom. PRC regularly hosts Hamas leaders, including Ismail
Haniyeh, a former prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority.
Mustapha is the chairman of Muslim American Society Institute of Chicago
( MAS)
and was embroiled in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding case,
according to court
documents. An imam at a Chicago-area mosque, Mustapha is a member of
the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and was a Holy Land
Foundation officer. The Holy Land Foundation is a Hamas front group
prosecuted by the U.S. for funding terrorism. In 2008 five of the group’s
leaders were convicted
in Texas on 108 counts for funneling more than $12 million to Hamas. The
government considered it the largest victory against terrorist financing
since the 9/11 attacks. A year before the verdicts Judicial Watch published
a special
report on Muslim charities that includes alarming information about the
Holy Land Foundation.
At the Thanksgiving weekend event, the three federal lawmakers rubbed
elbows with an assortment of terrorist supporters and funders. AMP was
founded in 2006 by a University of California, Berkeley professor, Hatem
Bazian, who is an anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activist. He also founded a
group called Students for Justice in Palestine, whose members are notorious
for intimidating
and harassing
Jewish and pro-Israel students on college campuses around the U.S. Bazian,
who still operates AMP, has employed an array of terrorist financiers to
help run his group, according to congressional
documents obtained by the Clarion Project. At least five AMP officials
previously
served with the U.S. Muslim
Brotherhood’s pro-Hamas Palestine Committee. The Palestine Committee
was a secret body set up to advance the Brotherhood/Hamas agenda in
America. Bazian has proclaimed that Muslim-Americans must follow
in the footsteps of the “uprising in Iraq,” which was against
American soldiers, and the “intifada in Palestine” by starting an
intifada in the U.S. that changes the country’s political
dynamics.
After hobnobbing with allies of Islamic terrorists, one of the
congresswomen took to social media to advance their cause. On the last day
of the AMP conference Tlaib, who easily won reelection last month, promoted
a message on her Twitter account that has long been reiterated by those
calling for the complete destruction of the state of Israel and its Jewish
citizens. It reads: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be
Free.”
Until next week…
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