Emails Show Fetal Organ “Chop Shop”

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New Documents Reveal the DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Submitted a Request to Cremate Ashli Babbitt Two Days after Gaining
Custody of Her Body

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Judicial Watch just received the first public documents about the
shooting death of Ashli Babbitt.

We obtained 1160 pages
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of documents from Washington, DC’s Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner (OCME) that document new details of the investigation of the
homicide of the Air Force veteran and San Diego native. These new
documents reveal that OCME submitted a request for permission to
cremate Babbitt only two days after taking custody of her body and
that, due to the “high profile nature” of Babbitt’s case, Deputy
Chief Medical Examiner Francisco Diaz requested that a secure
electronic file with limited access be created for Babbitt’s
records.

Additionally, Babbitt’s fingerprints were emailed to a person
supposedly working for the DC government, which resulted in Microsoft
“undeliverable” messages written in Chinese characters being
returned.

Babbitt was shot and killed by an unidentified law enforcement officer
as she attempted to climb through a broken interior window in the
Capitol Building, located outside the Speaker’s Lobby off the House
Floor during the January 6 disturbance. She was unarmed. At the time
of the shooting, several officers reportedly
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can be seen in videos
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standing in the crowd of protestors in which Babbitt was present.

We obtained the records in our lawsuit
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concerning two FOIA requests we submitted on April 8, 2021 to the
Metropolitan Police Department and the Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner for records related to Babbitt’s death (_Judicial Watch v.
The District of Columbia_
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(No. 2021 CA 001710 B)).

The newly obtained records reveal:

* On January 8, 2021, at 7:13 p.m., an application to cremate
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the body of Babbitt is labeled “completed successfully.” Copies of
the permit are sent to OCME officials Kimberli Hall and SaVern Fripp,
as well as Melinda Smith, Jennifer Love, Lisa Tabron, Jeanette Belle,
and Perlieshia Gales.
* In a January 6, 2021, email
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sent at 9:48 p.m. from OCME official Denise Lyles to medical examiner
Francisco Diaz, the subject line is, “Case #21-00106 ID
Confirmed.” [Case 21-00106 was Ashli Babbitt’s file number.]
* On January 6, 2021, at 9:43 p.m., Lyles emails
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OCME official Dr. Jennifer Love an attachment with the message, “I
am updating the information we received from IAD [Internal Affairs
Division] re the confirmed ID for OCME Case #21-00106 [Ashli
Babbitt’s case]. These are the prints that returned from the FBI,
that the detectives from IAD provided. I dropped them in the e-case
file. Their names are noted below.”

Lyles appears to have forwarded the file after having received it at
9:33 p.m. on January 6 from someone (whose name is redacted) within
the Prince George’s County, MD, Police Criminal Investigation
Division, assigned to the “Homicide Unit – FBI/Cross Border Task
Force.” The file had been sent to that person at 9:30 p.m. on
January 6 from someone with the email address
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* On January 6, 2021, at 7:42 p.m., OCME official Jamie Spann
emailed
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a scanned file called “21-00106 FBI Submission Form” to Grant
Greenwalt
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Manager of the Crime Scenes Sciences unit of the DC Department of
Forensic Sciences, as well as someone with the email address
[email protected], and copying medical examiners Francisco Diaz and Jennifer
Love, asking, “Please run the attached prints.” This document
contained Ashli Babbitt’s fingerprints.

Greenwalt forwards the request to David Chumbley
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an officer of the DC Police Department. Chumbley forwards the prints
from his iPhone at 8:06 p.m. on January 6 to someone identified as
Jamese Kororma within the DC government. The email sent to “Jamese
Kororma” resulted in multiple Microsoft “undeliverable
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messages being returned, written in what appear to be Chinese
characters.

* On January 7, 2021, Forensics photographer Matthew Brown emailed
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OCME colleagues regarding Babbitt’s case with “High”
importance,” stating, “Due to the high-profile nature of case
21-00106, Dr. Diaz has requested limited access to this case. Please
create a secure folder on the photo server for case 21-00106 and
provide access only to the following OCME staff: Dr. Mitchell, Dr.
Diaz, Anna Francis, Matthew Brown.”

Brown adds, “Currently there are no images or folders on the photo
server for this case. The images are being held on the OCME archiving
server until a secure folder is created.”

Michael Coleman, OCME’s Chief Information Officer, responded two
hours later, “The requested directory has been created with the
stipulated access granted. Please let me know if any additional
adjustments are required.”

Brown replies, “Thank you Mike. The case photos are now available on
the server.”

Responding separately to Coleman, OCME Records Manager Anna Francis
says, “I have restricted the e-case file as well. For work purposes,
the following groups have access, please let me know if permissions
should be limited further: 1. Anna Francis; 2. MLI Investigations; 3.
Medical Examiners; 4. Michael Coleman; 5. Roger Mitchell; 6.
QC-n-RecMgmt; 7. Investigators.”

* In a January 14, 2021, email
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from Deputy Chief Toxicologist Stephen Raso to OCME colleague Samantha
Tolliver with the subject “Capital Riot Cases,” Raso states,
“See attached prelim results.”
* In a February 2, 2021, email
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from OCME official Andrea Pugh to medical examiner Dr. Francisco Diaz,
Pugh indicated that the preliminary toxicology report on Babbitt was
completed.
* On January 13, 2021, Dr. Francisco Diaz emailed
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Chief Medical Examiner/Deputy Mayor Roger Mitchell with the note,
“21-00106: COD-Gunshot wound to left anterior shoulder.
MOD-Homicide.” Note: COD is “Cause of Death” and MOD means
“Manner of Death.”

The OCME did not release the cause and manner
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of Babbitt’s death until April 7, 2021:
Ashli Babbitt, 35 years old:

Cause of Death - Gunshot wound to the left anterior shoulder
Manner of Death – Homicide

* In a January 8, 2021, email
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Lead Forensic Investigator Rebecca Wood tells OCME officials, “I
spoke with the family for the above case and her legal last name is
‘Babbitt.’ CMS has been updated to reflect this change, please
update the death certificate as well.”
* In a January 8, 2021, email
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sent at 3:45 p.m., OCME official Denise Lyles messages her OCME
colleagues with the subject “Capitol Incident Cases,” and notes
“FYI, all the cases from the Capitol Incident all Identifications
have been confirmed,” adding, “Ashli Elizabeth Pamatian aka A.
Babbitt – partner/husband notified.”
* The records include identification records for “Ashli Elizabeth
Pamatian
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including a copy of an FBI fingerprint submission card, a State
Department visa check record “for identification purposes,” and a
separate FBI fingerprint submission card that indicated that the
“Official Taking Fingerprints” in the Babbitt case was “E.
Betts.”

Additionally, Babbitt’s body was listed as “Unidentified female”
and “WF.”

The DC government form included in the records states: “The District
of Columbia Office of Chief Medical Examiner has recovered human
remains and is requesting AFIS fingerprint database searches for
identification purposes,” and the “transaction type” on the form
indicates “Unidentified Deceased (DEU Transaction).

The comments section notes, “Please attempt to identify this
unidentified female who was discovered deceased on 01/06/2021 in
Washington, DC.” The form asks for the response to be faxed to OCME.
official Jennifer Love. An X-ray log sheet indicates that three
“LODOX” images of Babbitt’s body were taken by a technician with
the initials RK.

* In an email
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on January 18, 2021, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Francisco Diaz
sends an attachment with Babbitt’s case file number to OCME
officials Kristina Giese and Kimberly Golden stating, “Please review
this homicide.”
* In an email
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on March 1, 2021, OCME official Cheryle Adams messaged colleagues
Beverly Fields and Dr. Francisco Diaz (copying Mayor’s office
spokeswoman Olivia Dedner), advising them that she was providing an
updated spreadsheet of reporters seeking information on the people who
died at “the January 6, 2021, Insurrection at the Capitol.”

There is intense public interest in the shooting of Ashli Babbitt at
the Capitol on January 6. The continued secrecy and delayed release of
information about the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt are suspicious
and smacks of politics. The Metropolitan Police Department has not yet
produced documents about the shooting of Ms. Babbitt.

This document release is part of Judicial Watch’s independent
investigation into the January 6 disturbance.

In March, we filed a FOIA lawsuit
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against the District of Columbia for documents about the death of
Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. Pressure from this lawsuit
helped lead to the disclosure that Capitol Police Officer Brian
Sicknick died of natural causes
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We also filed lawsuits for U.S. Capitol Police emails and video
related to the riot
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and for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s communications
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with the Pentagon in the days after the January 6 incident.

That Americans still have no information about who killed Ashli
Babbitt or any police report about her death is a scandal of epic
proportions.

MILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS TO MAKE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ‘ONE-STOP
FETAL TISSUE SHOP’

The abortion industry is big business, and your tax dollars are
supporting it. This is a gross affront to any system of values that
purports to respect human life.

For example, nearly $3 million in federal funds were spent on the
University of Pittsburgh’s quest to become a “Tissue Hub” for
human fetal tissue ranging from 6 to 42 weeks gestation. To put this
in perspective, a typical pregnancy lasts
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40 weeks.

We learned this after we and The Center for Medical Progress
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(CMP) received
252 pages
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of documents from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

We represent CMP in a Freedom of Information lawsuit against HHS,
which was filed after the agency failed to respond to an April 28,
2020, FOIA request seeking, among other things, the grant applications
for a University of Pittsburgh “tissue hub and collection site.”
(_Center for Medical Progress v. U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services_
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(No. 1:21-cv-00642)).

The documents reveal the following:

* The aims of the project listed in the original 2015 proposal were
to “develop a pipeline
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to the acquisition, quality control and distribution of human
genitourinary [urinary and genital organs and functions] samples
obtained throughout development (6-42 weeks gestation). … [and]
generate an ongoing resource to distribute fresh developmental human
genitourinary samples from various stages (6-42 weeks) to the GUDMAP
[GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project] Atlas
projects.”
* In the proposal
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Pitt notes that it has been “collecting fetal tissue for over 10
years … include[ing] liver, heart, gonads, legs, brain,
genitourinary tissues including kidneys, ureters and bladders.”
* Pitt noted in 2015 “we have disbursed over 300 fresh samples
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collected from 77 cases. The collections can be significantly ramped
up as material could have been accrued from as many as 725 cases last
year.”
* The Health Sciences Tissue Bank at Pitt is “embedded
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within the Department of Pathology … thus providing rapid access to
very high quality tissue and biological specimens.”
* Pitt boasts it has a number of internal connections as well as a
“strong working relationship with UPMC [University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center] and the Department of Pathology” as well as three
“laboratories in the flagship UPMC hospitals.” This includes a lab
boasting a “ButcherBoy band saw for sectioning bone
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and a “frozen section room has digital video feed to and from the
operating rooms. This also allows for instantaneous discussions with
the surgeons as well [as] immediate ‘show and tell’ for them.”
The proposal ironically also boasts about the laboratories at the
“Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
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* Later in the proposal, Pitt states that it records the “warm
ischemic time
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on our samples and take steps to keep it at a minimum to ensure the
highest quality biological specimens.” [The “warm ischemic time”
refers to the amount of time an organ remains at body temperature
after blood supply has been cut off. Warm ischemic time differs from
cold ischemic time which refers to amount of time the organ is
chilled. Pitt’s statement suggests the time between the abortion
and collection is minimal.]
* The Pitt scientists note “All fetal tissue is collected through
a collaborative process
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including Family Planning, Obstetrics and Pathology.” And that,
“the numbers of consents and collections has been steadily
increasing… and we are in an excellent position to expand our
services to include the needs of the GUDMAP Atlas projects.”
* Pitt anticipated “being able to harvest and distribute
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quality tissue and cells … [and] do not anticipate any major
problems related to the acquisition and distribution of the
tissues.”
* Pitt’s target goal
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“is to have available a minimum of 5 cases (tissues and if possible
other biologicals) per week of gestational age for ages 6-42 weeks.”
* Pitt’s proposal also included a racial target
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for harvesting human fetal parts. Of its planned aborted
“subjects” Pitt desired 50% to be minority fetuses. The proposal
suggests that the “subjects” be diverse because Pittsburgh is
diverse, the U.S. Census Bureau shows the city of Pittsburgh is close
to 70% white.
* Pitt’s proposal requested more than $3.2 million
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over a five-year period. The documents show NIH has funded at least
$2.7 million so far for Pitt’s human fetal tissue harvesting and
hub.

You can learn more from The Center for Medical Progress’ press
release available here
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These latest documents show taxpayer money is being used to turn the
University of Pittsburgh is a one-stop human fetal tissue shop –
from procuring the tissue from elective abortions, “subdividing”
the human remains, to distributing and shipping the harvested tissue.

In March 2021, a federal court ordered
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HHS to release additional information about its purchases of organs
harvested from aborted human fetuses. The court also found “there is
reason to question” whether the transactions violate federal law
barring the sale of fetal organs.

In May 2021, we uncovered
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records from the FDA showing the agency spent tens of thousands of
taxpayer dollars to buy human fetal tissue from California-based
Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR). The tissue was used in creating
“humanized mice
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to test “biologic drug products.” The records show the agency
ordered shipments to be “fresh; shipped on wet ice.”

In June 2020, we released records
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showing the FDA between 2012 and 2018 entered into eight contracts
worth $96,370 with Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) to acquire
“fresh and never frozen” tissue from 1st and 2nd trimester
aborted fetuses for use in creating humanized mice for ongoing
research. In February 2020, we made public
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additional humanized mice records.

All these records constitute a catalog of horrors that should shock
the conscience. Our grim work exposing these outrages will continue.
It is a moral imperative.

BORDER CRISIS: JUDICIAL WATCH SUES BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FOR
INFORMATION ON ALIENS CHARGED WITH CRIMES AFTER ENTERING U.S.

President Biden’s lawless opening of our southern border is almost
certainly allowing all manner of dangerous people into our country,
and he’s covering it up.

In 2018, the Trump administration initiated the Migrant Protection
Protocols program
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it went into effect in early 2019. Under the program, also referred to
as “Remain in Mexico,” asylum-seekers and other aliens who arrived
at the Southwest Border were required to remain in Mexico while U.S.
officials processed their immigration claims
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The Biden administration suspended the program on January 21, 2021,
then terminated it on June 1, 2021.

On March 18, 2021, we filed a FOIA request with the Biden Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) for information on asylum-seekers and other
aliens participating in MPP who have been charged with crimes after
entering the United States. Our request is simple:

Records reflecting the number of enrollees in the Migrant Protection
Program who have been charged with crimes after entering the United
States under MPP; the nature of the charges; the disposition of the
charges; and demographic data of those enrollees charged, such as age,
sex, country of origin, etc.

After CBP and ICE failed to respond, we sued on July 16 (_Judicial
Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security_
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(No. 1:21-cv-01927)).

After Biden suspended Trump’s security measure, DHS opened the gates
further. DHS announced
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that beginning on February 19:

DHS will begin processing people who had been forced to “remain in
Mexico” under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). Approximately
25,000 individuals in MPP continue to have active cases.
The DHS announcement also said that individuals enrolled in the MPP
program who are eligible to enter the United States while their cases
are processed would be allowed to enter the U.S. through designated
ports of entry at designated times:

We will provide instructions in the coming days for how individuals
with active MPP cases may remotely register for in-processing. We will
continue to enforce U.S. immigration law and border security measures
throughout this process.
In mid-April, Texas, Missouri and Louisiana sued
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the Biden DHS and immigration agencies for ending MPP and demanded the
program be reinstated. When the Texas/Missouri
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lawsuit was filed, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
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said:

President Biden could immediately remedy the influx of crime pouring
across our border by reinstating the Migrant Protection Protocols.
Dangerous criminals are taking advantage of the lapse in law
enforcement and it’s resulting in human trafficking, smuggling, a
plethora of violent crimes, and a massive, unprecedented burden on
state and federal programs for which taxpayers must foot the bill.
According to the Louisiana complaint
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the Biden administration exceeded its authority by rescinding MPP:

Federal law requires Defendants to take custody of many criminal
aliens, including those with final orders of removal, those convicted
of drug offenses, and those convicted of crimes of moral turpitude. By
refusing to take these criminal aliens into custody, Defendants [the
Biden administration immigration agencies] have disregarded
non-discretionary legal duties.
In May, it was reported
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“More than 61,000 immigrants who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico
border have been released into the United States since President Joe
Biden took office, according to federal data.” Prior to the
suspension of MPP, these individuals would have been returned to
Mexico to wait while their applications for entry were adjudicated.

The Biden administration should come clean about crimes committed by
aliens as a result of its reckless decision to end the Migration
Protection Protocols, a commonsense measure put in place by the Trump
administration to try to control the border.

In other actions provoked by the Biden administration border crisis,
in June we filed a FOIA lawsuit
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against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for
COVID-19 technical guidance provided to the Office of Refugee
Resettlement relating to illegal aliens released by the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. I
noted at the time, “The Biden administration secrecy on its border
crisis includes stonewalling on the issue of COVID-19 and illegal
immigration and controversial refugee resettlement programs.”

On April 30, we filed a FOIA lawsuit
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against HHS for records about assaults on and abuse of unaccompanied
alien children in its custody after it was disclosed
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that multiple facilities where children are being held are unsafe. We
are concerned that the surge of migrants seeking to take advantage of
the Biden administration’s lax immigration policies has resulted in
the foreseeable abuse of children, as overwhelmed federal authorities
are ill-equipped to handle the huge number of children crossing the
border.

Let me be clear: the Biden administration is engaged in what fairly be
called the largest human trafficking operation in world history. And
you can be sure that Judicial Watch will do what we can to uncover the
truth about this unprecedented assault on our nation’s sovereignty
and safety.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR RECORDS OF DIPLOMATS SUBJECTED TO ANAL COVID
TESTS BY CHINA

The gall of the Chinese Communists in abusing our diplomats is matched
only by the weak response by the Biden State Department.

In February2021, it was reported
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that U.S. diplomats were subjected to anal swab testing for COVID-19
by the Chinese government. At the time, the State Department told The
Hill that,

Chinese officials who forced American diplomats to undergo an anal
swab for COVID-19 testing did so “in error,” the State Department
told The Hill on Thursday, as Beijing denies it conducted the tests at
all….

A State spokesperson responded to a request for comment from The Hill
by saying that the department “never agreed” to such tests and had
protested directly to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
following complaints from staff.
To learn more about this outrage, we filed a Freedom of Information
Act request for:

All records about US diplomatic personnel in or seeking to enter China
being subjected to anal swab tests for the COVID-19 virus, including
all complaints and communications regarding such testing. This request
does not seek any personal identifying information of US diplomatic
personnel that may have been subjected to such testing.
Per usual, our request wasn’t answered as the law required, which is
why Judicial Watch just filed a FOIA lawsuit against the State
Department for the documents. Again, we simply want non-identifying
records of U.S. diplomatic personnel being subjected to invasive
COVID-19 “anal swab” tests by the Chinese government (_Judicial
Watch v U.S. Dept of State_
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(No. 1:21-cv-02111)).

Our diplomatic personnel was abused in a reprehensible way by the
Chinese government, and the Biden administration seems to have done
little in response – except to cover it up.

Until next week …





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