What Are Pelosi and Biden Admin Hiding About Jan 6?

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JUDICIAL WATCH SUES PENTAGON AND PARK POLICE OVER JAN. 6 CAPITOL
DEPLOYMENT

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Nancy Pelosi wants to set up a commission to continue the
politicization of events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, saying
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that those who oppose her “are afraid of the truth.”

That’s laughable. Getting to the truth is our specialty, and so we
filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suits against the Department
of the Interior and the Department of Defense for records regarding
the deployment of armed forces around the Capitol complex in
Washington, D.C., in January and February of 2021 (_Judicial Watch v.
U.S. Department of the Interior_
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(No.
1:21-cv-01302)) and (_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Defense_
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(No. 1:21-cv-01301)).

Who needs a “commission” when you have trusty Judicial Watch!

We sued here in DC after the Department of Defense failed to reply to
our February 19, 2021, FOIA request for:

All emails regarding the deployment of U.S. troops around the Capitol
complex in Washington, D.C. sent to and from Secretary of Defense
Lloyd Austin, Deputy Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks, Joint Chiefs
Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley, and/or Vice Chairman Gen. John E. Hyten.


We’re interested in emails sent between January 6, 2021, and
February 19, 2021.

We sued the Department of the Interior after the U.S. Park Police, one
of its components, failed to reply to a March 18, 2021, FOIA
request for:

All records of communications, including emails and text messages,
between officials of the U.S. Park Police and officials of the
Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department regarding the Jan. 6,
2021 pro-Trump rally and/or protest at the Capitol Building.

All records of communications, including emails and text messages,
between officials of the U.S. Park Police and officials of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation regarding the Jan. 6, 2021 pro-Trump rally
and/or protest at the Capitol Building.

All records of communications, including emails and text messages,
between officials of the U.S. Park Police and officials of the U.S.
Capitol Police regarding the Jan. 6, 2021 pro-Trump rally and/or
protest at the Capitol Building.

All records of communications, including emails and text messages,
between officials of the U.S. Park Police and officials of the offices
of the House and Senate Sergeants-at-Arms regarding the Jan. 6, 2021
pro-Trump rally and/or protest at the Capitol Building.

All intelligence reports, memoranda, updates, and warnings received by
the U.S. Park Police regarding the Jan. 6, 2021 pro-Trump rally and/or
protest at the Capitol Building.

The timeframe for this request is December 1, 2020, to January 31,
2021.

We are deeply troubled that the U.S. Park Police and the Pentagon are
suppressing the many unknown facts surrounding the January 6 incident
at the U.S. Capitol. With those emotionally charged events shaping the
political landscape, it is critical that the American people have a
full account of the facts. It is disturbing that we must take the two
government agencies to federal court for this basic information.

We filed several lawsuits previously regarding the January 6 incident.


* In March 2021, we filed suit against the U.S. Department of
Defense for records about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s January 8,
2021, telephone call with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark
Milley.
* Pressure from a March 2021 Judicial Watch lawsuit helped bring
to light that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural
causes.
* In February 2021, we announced a lawsuit against the Capitol
Police for emails and video related to the January 6 riot.

If Ms. Pelosi wants the truth, she can follow developments in these
lawsuits. In the meantime, as I told Newsmax
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this week, you should be
very concerned that any Pelosi commission will be used to target and
abuse any and all Americans who oppose the radical left agenda.

STUDENTS TAUGHT THAT ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN’ IS ‘COVERT WHITE
SUPREMACY’

You need to be concerned about our public schools. Maryland shows us
why. We received 685 pages
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of
heavily redacted records from Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS),
including documents related to their “Anti-racist system audit”
and critical race theory classes.

The documents, obtained under the Maryland Public Information Act
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reveal
that students of “Maryland’s Largest School District” who
attended Thomas Pyle Middle School’s social justice class were
taught that the phrase “Make America Great Again” was an example
of “covert white supremacy.” The phrase is ranked on a pyramid
just below, “lynching,” “hate crimes,” “the N-word” and
“racial slurs.” They were also taught that “white privilege”
means being favored by school authorities and having a positive
relationship with the police.

Additionally, the documents show
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that
Montgomery County Public Schools allocated over $454,000 for an
“Anti-racist system audit” by The Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium,
a company that claims that their “expertise in using
intersectionality as part of its theory of change makes us uniquely
positioned to conduct the Anti-Racist Audit and mitigate the root
causes of systemic barriers.”

In Thomas Pyle Middle School’s “social justice” class course
curriculum, there is a slide titled “What is systemic racism?
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in which students are shown a pyramid slide depicting “Differences
between overt and covert hateful white supremacy.” According to the
pyramid, “Make America Great Again” is an example of “covert
white supremacy.” The phrase is ranked on a pyramid just below
“racial slurs.”

Examples of other “white supremacy” include thinking “but
we’re just one human family,” “colorblindness,” “cultural
appropriation,” “celebration of Columbus Day,” “police
murdering POC [people of color],” and “bootstrap theory.”

A separate pyramid begins with the term “genocide
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The documents include Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium’s
“anti-racist system audit” proposal
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which describes intersectional theory as “people are often
disadvantaged by multiple sources of oppression: their race, class,
gender identity, native language, sexual orientation, religion, and
other identity markers. Intersectionality recognizes that identity
markers (e.g. “female” and “Black”) do not exist independently
of each other, and that each informs the others, often creating a
complex merging of oppression.”

Records regarding Montgomery County Public School’s Thomas Pyle
Middle School’s social justice class include a cover letter, noting
that the class in question was a one-week “Summer Boost” class
called “Reading and Taking Action for Social Justice” offered from
July 13-17, 2020, and that “no grades were given and no actual work
due.” The class material includes a push for students to fill out a
form letter with contact information addressed to federal, state and
county education officials asking for more critical race theory
classes in schools.

In a slide titled “What is Intersectionality?
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the students are told it is defined as:

Exposing [one’s] multiple identities can help clarify the ways in
which a person can simultaneously experience privilege and
oppression….

Per [critical race theory scholar
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Kimberlé
Williams Crenshaw, ‘Intersectionality is simply a prism to see the
Interactive effects of various forms of discrimination and
disempowerment. It looks at the way that racism, many times, interacts
with patriarchy, heterosexism, classism, xenophobia – seeing that
the overlapping vulnerabilities created by these systems actually
create specific kinds of challenges.’

A class slide titled “Implicit Bias, Structural Racism” states:

Race is created to justify enslaving people from Africa (the economic
engine of the country).

National narrative (ideology, belief system) about people of color
being ‘less than’ human (and less than white) justifies
mistreatment and inequality (white supremacy).

Dominant narratives about race (family, media, society) coupled with
racialized structural arrangements and differential outcomes by race
all prime us to believe that people of color are inferior to white
people …

The students are asked: “What is White Privilege?
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and are instructed that white privilege includes, among other things:
having “a positive relationship with the police, generally;”
“soaking in media blatantly biased toward my race;” and “living
ignorant of the dire state of racism today.”

The students are suggested to view a Ted Talk interview with Patrisse
Cullors, a founder of Black Lives Matter. The class is provided
“definitions” created by www.racialequitytools.org. The terms
that are defined include:

* “Black Lives Matter,” which is defined as “A political
movement to address systemic and state violence against African
Americans.” It claims that “Black Lives Matter is an ideological
and political intervention in a world where Black lives are
systematically and intentionally targeted for demise.”
* “Power,” defined among other things as: “Wealth, whiteness,
citizenship, patriarchy, heterosexism, and education are a few key
social mechanisms through which power operates.”
* “Racist policies,” is defined with the statement, “There is
no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy.”
* “White Privilege,” which is defined as “to the unquestioned
and unearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits and choices
bestowed on people solely because they are white.” And “Structure
white privilege” is described as “A system of white domination
that creates and maintains belief systems that make current racial
advantages and disadvantages seem normal.”
* Under the heading “White Supremacy,” “White supremacy
culture,” is defined as referring, “to the dominant, unquestioned
standards of behavior and ways of functioning embodied by the vast
majority of institutions in the United States.” White supremacy
culture is further defined as “the glue that binds together
white-controlled institutions into systems and white-controlled
systems into the global white supremacy system.”
* Other defined terms include: “Anti-black” “colonization”
“racial recognition” “racialization” “structural racism”
and “whiteness”

We also received records
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relating
to Montgomery County Public School’s Greenwood Elementary School’s
“Dual Pandemic” of “Covid-19/systemic racism” class
presentation.

The racist, revolutionary claptrap in these documents should be
nowhere near a school classroom. These documents show that extremists
have access to our schools and are willing to abuse this access to
children in order to advance a dangerous, divisive, and likely illegal
agenda.

FLORIDA COUNTY GIVES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SPECIAL IDS TO GET VACCINES,
PUBLIC SERVICES

Leftist public officials show contempt for the rule of law when they
promote sanctuary policies to aid and abet the continued presence of
illegal aliens. The latest example comes in Florida, as our
_Corruption Chronicles_ blog reports
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Florida’s second-most populous county is the state’s first to
offer illegal immigrants identification cards so they can obtain
taxpayer-funded services, including COVID-19 vaccines. Elected
officials in Broward County, situated in southeast Florida with a
population of about two million, unanimously passed the measure with
ardent support from the county’s top law enforcement officer,
Sheriff Gregory Tony. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Tony
to the elected position after suspending former Broward Sheriff Scott
Israel for mishandling the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland.

Tony won his first election in November to remain the county’s top
cop. In a social media post published by local news outlets
Tony thanked Broward County
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“Together, we did this. I look forward to leading the great &
hard-working people at the Broward Sheriff’s Office over the next
four years as we continue to make BSO the finest law enforcement
agency in Florida and an example of excellence for the nation,” Tony
wrote. The sheriff fully backs the new ID cards for illegal immigrants
and says they will have a positive impact on public safety, according
to a local news report
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Tony even wrote a letter of support to the Broward County commissioner
who introduced the legislation to create the special IDs for those in
the country illegally. This may seem strange considering he
runs Florida’s
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largest
sheriff’s department with 5,400 employees, including nearly 3,000
certified deputies. “Today, Broward County has thousands of
residents who lack identification for various reasons,” Sheriff
Tony’s letter to the commissioner reads. “With the homeless,
undocumented, formerly incarcerated, to elderly, these and other
bureaucratically-challenged residents do not have access to many basic
and vital services. The community ID will provide these residents with
a way to access those services.”

Support for the special IDs from the top law enforcement official in
one of its largest counties is at odds with the state’s typically
strong stance on illegal immigration. Florida is not one of the
nation’s 11 states to offer illegal aliens sanctuary and no local
government in the Sunshine state officially provides it either, though
some have toyed with idea. Florida has also resisted a nationwide
movement to provide illegal immigrants with driver’s licenses.
Sixteen states along with the District of Columbia offer illegal
immigrants driver’s licenses, according to the National Conference
of State Legislatures
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Among the states are California, New York, Oregon, Nevada, Vermont,
Washington State and Connecticut. In 2020 Virginia became the latest
to grant illegal aliens driving privileges. Many open borders groups
have expressed concern that the information on the licenses will be
shared with federal authorities.

To protect the privacy of illegal immigrants Broward County will not
issue the special IDs, but rather a nonprofit will carry out the task
to avoid potential public records requests. Technically the cards are
called “community IDs” and a third-party issues them with the
approval of local governments. It allows the personal information of
recipients to be kept private because nonprofits typically do not have
to comply with public records laws like cities, counties, states, and
other taxpayer-funded entities. The Broward County community IDs will
be issued by Legal Aid Service of Broward County
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a group that provides
free legal advice and representation to the county’s
“disadvantaged,” including illegal immigrants. The group helps
improve the lifestyle and living conditions in low-income communities
and encourages self-sufficiency, according to its website.

It is not clear how Legal Aid was chosen to administer Broward
County’s new ID cards, but the measure to do so was passed after a
“months-long campaign of advocacy and outreach by a diverse
coalition of community organizations,” a local news article
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Predictably, the groups advocate for open borders and rights for
illegal aliens. They include United We Dream, Florida Immigrant
Coalition, Hispanic Unity of Florida, and the Southern Poverty Law
Center (SPLC). It is noteworthy to mention that the SPLC is a radical
leftist nonprofit that lists conservative organizations that disagree
with it on social issues on a catalog of “hate groups.” Its famous
“hate map” helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a
conservative nonprofit in 2012. The Virginia man, Floyd Lee Corkins
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was sentenced to 25 years in prison though prosecutors recommended 45
because his crime was an act of terrorism. Even the Obama Department
of Justice (DOJ) officially reprimanded the SPLC for its hateful
attacks, documents
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obtained
by Judicial Watch show.

RISING CRIME, RADICAL AGENDA TEST LEFT

It’s been said that as New York City goes, so goes the nation. That
would be tragic. These days, New York City is a radical sandbox that
results in policies that threaten the safety and welfare of
law-abiding citizens. Micah Morrison, our chief investigative
reporter, has a revealing update
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in Judicial Watch’s _Investigative Bulletin_:

With weeks to go to elections that will decide New York City’s next
mayor and the powerful post of Manhattan district attorney, rising
crime suddenly is at the center of the political action. The stakes
are high—and not just for New York.

The proximate cause for the sudden focus on crime was a shooting in
the heart of the city—a gunman let loose with a fusillade in Times
Square
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wounding a 4-year-old girl, a woman from New Jersey, and a tourist
from Rhode Island. But that was just gas on the bonfire. Judicial
Watch followers are familiar with the grim litany of rising crime
statistics
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in
New York and across urban America.

“As of May 2,” the New York Times reported, “132 people have
been killed compared with 113 this same time last year, a 17 percent
increase, according to Police Department statistics. There have been
416 shooting incidents compared with 227 this time last year, an 83
percent increase.” Violent subway crimes
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rattle
the city. Hate crimes continue to rise
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Rising crime poses a big problem for the Left, which nationwide has
pushed hard on criminal-justice issues with calls to defund the police
and empty the jails. In New York, a draft platform from a coalition of
radical left-wing groups, obtained by Judicial Watch
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suggests the scope of the Left’s national agenda.

The crowded New York mayoral and DA races are Democratic Party
primaries that will be decided June 22 in a city dominated by
Democrats, effectively anointing the winners. Both races have tacked
sharply to the left, with most of the DA candidates backing most of
the radical platform, and the mayoral candidates echoing its themes.

The platform calls for defunding the Manhattan DA’s office, sharp
reductions in charging and sentencing discretion, curtailing gang
prosecutions and intelligence gathering, ending support for
police-sponsored community programs, declining disorderly conduct
prosecutions, and stopping pre-trial detention.

It’s class war on the criminal justice system. The platform calls
for a fifty percent reduction in the district attorney’s budget
because “for too long” the office “has worked to extract wealth
from the targets of policing and incarceration.” It says that the DA
“continues to pursue overzealous charges and excessive sentences”
and that there must be a commitment to “reducing the power of the
office.”

The attack on the office of district attorney is an attack on policing
as well. The DA’s office, the draft platform says, “is heavily
intertwined with and dependent on other law enforcement entities,
including the NYPD.” Charging of violent offenders must be changed
because “the label ‘violent’…is applied in arbitrary, biased,
and harmful ways that do nothing to address the root causes of
violence.” Gang prosecutions must be ended because the “cases have
been built through close collaboration with the NYPD as it has
expanded its racist and controversial gang database.”

Gang violence, by the way, is widely identified as a central cause of
shootings and killings in New York. And recent state legislation
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already
has sharply reduced jail populations.

But lately it seems that urban America is tiring of rising crime and
disorder. The public mood appears to be shifting. In a recent New
York poll
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crime placed second in public concern, after Covid-19.

In recent years, the criminal-justice reform movement, backed by the
George Soros network
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has made powerful gains around the country. Left-wing district
attorneys are now installed in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco,
Philadelphia, and other cities. The New York races, while dominated by
the city’s noisy progressive factions, feature a handful of relative
moderates, such as mayoral candidate Eric Adams and DA contender Tali
Farhadian Weinstein, who have pushed back against the Left’s
excesses. Polling is sparse, but both seem to be gaining ground. Read
more about the races here
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and here
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Victory for any moderate would signal that the public pushback against
rising crime is gaining traction. Victory for any of the other
candidates would signal something entirely different—that the
leftward march in American cities continues.

Until next week …





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