Fauci/Bill Gates/China Update

[INSIDE JW]

FAUCI AGENCY EMAILS DESCRIBE CLOSE GATES FOUNDATION/CHINA RELATIONSHIP

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Bill Gates has been a controversial figure these days, and the new
documents detailing his foundation’s ties to China ought to raise
substantial additional questions.

We received 129 pages
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of records from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
which include “urgent for Dr. Fauci” email chain that cites ties
between the Wuhan lab and EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit that works
on infectious diseases and is funded by U.S. taxpayers and the Gates
Foundation
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The emails also report that the Gates Foundation worked closely with
the Chinese government to pave the way for Chinese-produced
medications to be sold outside China and help “raise China's voice
of governance by placing representatives from China on important
international counsels as high level commitment from China.”

These records also include a January 6, 2020, “Wuhan Pneumonia
Update” report that details how Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth
Alliance, was tied to the Wuhan lab and was “funded for work to
understand how coronaviruses evolve and jump to human populations.”

We obtained the documents through a FOIA lawsuit
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for records
of communications, contracts and agreements with the Wuhan Institute
of Virology (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services
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(No.
1:21-cv-00696)). The lawsuit specifically seeks records about NIH
grants that benefitted the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The agency is
only processing 300 pages of records per month, which means it will
take until the end of November for the records to be fully reviewed
and released under FOIA.

The new emails
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include
a report from Dr. Ping Chen
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who had been the top
Fauci agency official working in China:

You can ask [NIAID
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Human
Coronavirus, Rhinovirus Research Program Officer] Erik Stemmy for the
grant awarded to the Ecohealth in NYC who collaborates with Dr. Shi,
Zhengli in Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), who has been doing
coronavirus research in cave bats in China. Erik would know what
exactly NIH funding supports.
I visited her and others at the Wuhan Ins Viro in 2018 and visited its
BSL4 1ab. [Redacted]
Also in 1983 NIH and CAS [Chinese Academy of Sciences] (WIV is one of
the research institutes under CAS) signed a MOU and it included
sharing research materials. I know [sic] this a long time ago.
This email chain is part of a previously released
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January
23, 2020, exchange with the subject line “Urgent for Dr. Fauci:
China's lab for studying SARS and Ebola is in Wuhan.” It begins
with Melinda Haskins
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chief of legislative affairs for NIAID, writing to senior NIAID
officials, and includes a link to a _Daily Mail_ article
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titled “China built a lab to study SARS and Ebola in Wuhan – and
US biosafety experts warned in 2017 that a virus could ‘escape’
the facility that's become key in fighting the outbreak.” She
writes: “Dr. Fauci will be brief [sic] multiple Senators tomorrow on
our novel coronavirus response … Would you please confirm the exact
nature of our support to the Wuhan Institute of Virology/Biosafety
Lab. You’ll want to read the Daily Mail article above.”

A January 6, 2020, email exchange
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on
“coronavirus countermeasures,” initiated by NIAID Chief Medical
Officer Hilary Marston, includes a “Wuhan Pneumonia Update” report
prepared by NIH/DMID.

The report was updated on January 8, 2020, and lists in its background
information on “Wuhan Pneumonia:”

* In December 2019 the Wuhan Municipal Health Committee identified
an outbreak of viral pneumonia cases of unknown cause.
* On December 31st the WHO China Country Office was notified of 44
patients with pneumonia of unknown etiology, 11 of which were severely
ill.
* As of January 5th, 2020 there are 59 patients with a diagnosis of
unknown viral pneumonia is Wuhan, 7 of which are severely ill. At
least one patient is on ECMO … The earliest case was reported
December 12th, and the latest onset was December 29th. All patients
are isolated and receiving treatment in Wuhan medical institutions.
163 close contacts have been identified for ongoing medical
observation.
* Case-patients in the outbreak are reported to have fever,
difficulty breathing, and bilateral lung infiltrates on chest
radiography (CDC,
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* Hong Kong has added Wuhan Pneumonia to the list of notifiable
diseases. As of January 7th, 2020 the Hong Kong Center for Health
Protection has reports of 30 cases under enhanced surveillance with
recent travel history to Wuhan….
* Epidemiological investigation showed that some patients operated
businesses in the Wuhan South China Seafood City. As of January 1st,
2020 the market has been closed for environmental sanitation and
disinfection.
* There is currently no clear evidence of human-to-human
transmission, however one family cluster has been identified. No
nosocomial transmission has been seen …
* Fragments of coronavirus RNA with an 86% homology to SARS has been
found in one patient…
* News reports on 1/8/2020 the virus is a novel coronavirus,
sequenced in one patient and identified in others.

The report also details an NIH coronavirus grant “portfolio” that
funded 13 basic science research grants, two treatment research grants
and five vaccination research grants related to coronavirus:

Peter Daszak (R01A|110964-06) is funded for work to understand how
coronaviruses evolve and jump to human populations, with an emphasis
on bat CoVs and high-risk populations at the human-animal interface.
Main foreign sites are in China (including co-investigators at the
Wuhan Institute of Virology).
The report notes that one of the grants, made to Fang Li, “is funded
to investigate the receptor recognition and cell entry in
coronaviruses using structural approaches using spike proteins in
complex with receptors. This award found the first evidence of a
MERS-related CoV that uses the human receptor and provides evidence of
a natural recombination event between bat CoVs.” Another grant
involves “a team of investigators using mouse models of SARS and
MERS to investigate CoV pathogenesis and develop vaccines and
therapeutics.”

A section of the report on “Vaccines” details:

“The VRC [Vaccine Research Center
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and
collaborators have stabilized the MERS-CoV spike protein in its
prefusion conformation. The stabilized spike protein is potently
immunogenic and elicits protective antibodies to the receptor binding
domain, n-terminal domain and other surfaces of the spike protein. The
stabilized coronavirus spike protein, and mRNA expressing the spike
protein through collaboration with Moderna Therapeutics, is currently
being evaluated in the humanized DPP4 mouse model at UNC.
Another grant description indicates that NIH was funding research at
Jefferson University using the rabies virus as a vector to deliver a
potential vaccine. In an accompanying spreadsheet detailing the
grants, one grant is listed as having gone to Dr. Ralph Baric of
UNC-Chapel Hill to study “Mechanisms of MERV-CoV Entry, Cross
Species Transmission and Pathogenesis.” That grant had been funded
from 2015-2020.

In a January 7, 2020, email exchange
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with
the subject line “Wuhan Pneumonia” Stemmy asks Chen if she has any
information about the “viral pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan.” Chen
replies: “Yes, I have been following the news. Here is what I know
so far [redacted]. Chen also revealed that her tour in Beijing had
ended three weeks earlier.

Stemmy asks, “Do you know if there is a replacement for you in
embassy in Beijing? If so I’d love to connect with them.” Chen
replies, “No replacement for now <smiley face emoji>.”

In a January 22, 2020, email exchange
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titled
“Collecting info on N CoV [novel coronavirus]”, NIAID “Senior
Volunteer”, Dr. Karl Western, informs Chen and other NIAID
officials:

Two recent examples involving CAS Institute of Virology and BSL-4
facility include:

* University of Minnesota and CAS Institute of Virology review of
the origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses in _Nature
Reviews: Microbiology_. Minnesota had a CEIRS
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award for one funding cycle.
* Columbia University School of Public Health, Eco-Health Alliance
and CAS Institute of Virology published a few days ago on the results
of surveillance of human animal interactions and bat coronavirus
spillover potential in rural southern China. Columbia is a
current CETR
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holder.

In a heavily redacted response email, Chen writes: “Thanks Dr.
Western. Eco-health has NIAID grant which has collaboration with the
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, studying the coronaviruses in wild
animals, focusing on bats, in China. One of the key Chinese
collaborators is Dr. Zhengli Shi, who works on coronaviruses.”

On February 6, 2020, Han Koo
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an executive
assistant to the Director of NIH who works in the Office of Grants
Administration (OGA), emails
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Chen
and Matthew Brown
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then-Director of the NIH China Office: “We need POCs [points of
contact] of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
and The Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) ASAP.”

Later in the chain Chen writes: “In 2018, NSF [the U.S. National
Science Foundation] and NSFC [the National Science Foundation of
China] had a joint initiative on Ecology and Evolution of infectious
diseases. A workshop was held prior to the initiative (NIH is one of
the participants to this initiative. Many participants of the workshop
are from CAS institute including WIV [Wuhan Institute of Virology]
scientists. NIAID grant to EcoHealth is studying coronaviruses in
animals including bats. The grant has different countries as
collaborators in addition to China.” A colleague then responds:
“Thanks! Do you recall who the US and Chinese PIs [principal
investigators] are on that coronavirus vector/reservoir grant are?”
Chen replies: “See the attachment I prepared previously. This grant
is on bat [redacted].”

In an October 20, 2017, email exchange
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following
Chen’s submission of a situation report, NIAID official James Meegan
tells Chen: “Jim LeDuc at U Texas Medical Branch, Director of the
Galveston BSL4, works closely with them [Wuhan Institute of Virology].
In 1986 Jim and I spent the year on and off in Wuhan setting up a
virology lab and studying Hantavirus infections and treating patients
with ribavirin. We trained many, and some later came to the States. I
think that helped it on its way to becoming a center for virology.”

Further in the exchange, Chen writes, “The [Wuhan] lab will be
operational soon. The visit has been arranged through one of our
grantees. I know Jim LeDuc has been worked with WIV and had done some
training. [Redacted.] Also, I was told only certain viruses can be
worked in this lab. [Redacted]” Handley then tells Chen: “Please
make a very careful and full report on what you learn during this
visit. It will be a very important interaction and one that many are
interested in. Please share your report with us before it goes into
any other reporting. We will be glad to engage directly or via
grantees in whatever will help ensure safe operations.”

On March 4, 2020, Greg Folkers, Fauci’s chief of staff, emails
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an
academic paper titled “On the origin and continuing evolution of
SARS-COV-2”, published in _National Science Review_ on March 3,
2020, to David Morens and other unidentified officials within NIAID,
and asks in his cover note: “David, this may come up in ASF’s
[Anthony S. Fauci’s] 10:00 hearing [likely referring to House
Appropriations Committee hearings
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held
on March 4, 2020, on NIH budget requests.] What do you make of this
paper and the attendant press coverage?” Folkers highlights within
the report two passages. One reads: “Our results suggest that the
development of the new variations in functional sites in the
receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike seen in SARS-COV-2 and
viruses from pangolin SARS-CoVs are likely caused by mutations and
natural selection besides recombination.” The second highlighted
passage reads: “Although the L type (~70%) is more prevalent than
the S type (~30%), the S type was found to be the ancestral version.
Whereas the L type was more prevalent in the early stages of the
outbreak in Wuhan, the frequency of the L type decreased after early
January 2020.” Morens replied, but his response is entirely
redacted.

Five years prior to the outbreak, in an October 30, 2014, report
titled “Wuhan
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Chen informs Ken Earhart that she had met with a Chinese official from
Wuhan. Chen reports that his office “is similar to what I am doing
here seeking, facilitating, and promoting international scientific
collaborations for scientists in Wuhan.” She continues that this
official was asked by an organization put together in part by the
Wuhan Institute of Virology “to help the members in the organization
increase scientific exchanges between the members and international ID
[infectious disease] experts.”

In a September 5, 2017, situation report
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Chen informs her colleagues that she had “attended a ‘Belt and
Road’ High Level Meeting for Health Cooperation: towards a Health
Silk Road.” She also reported:

Last week USAID, CDC, ESTH [Environment, Science, Technology, and
Health
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and I met with Gates Foundation, initially planned to talk about
global Malaria eradication efforts to see if there is any area we can
work together. But we ended talking in general Chinese policies and
the foundation's current strategies in China – capacity building to
help China raise its national standards and leverage China's resource
to help others. One of the examples for raising the national standards
is to help China FDA for its reform. Gates foundation has managed to
work out a mechanism with China FDA to provide fund[ing] to China FDA
for placing experienced Chinese-Americans who had worked at US FDA for
many years to work in China FDA as senior consultants….
On the approach for leveraging China’s resource to help others,
Gates Foundation is working with Chinese government on donations to
its neighboring countries and African countries such as anti-malaria
medicines, bed nest, diagnostics etc. More specifically, it helps
Chinese companies to gain pre-qualification on medications so that
Chinese company manufactured drugs can be sold outside China, helps
the Chinese to establish bilateral collaboration with specific
countries in Africa, teaches the Chinese how to do resource
mobilization, and helps raise China's voice of governance by placing
representatives from China on important international counsels as high
level commitment from China.
Chen goes on to describe numerous other ways the Gates Foundation was
helping the Chinese government by, for example, helping “Chinese
companies gain pre-qualification on medications so that Chinese
company manufactured drugs can be sold outside China.” Chen
continues: “Just met with a group from the Global Virome Project
(GVP) which is funded partially by USAID. The head of the project,
Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, is an NIAID funded PI. His
collaborator at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China has done
excellent work on corona viruses in Chinese bat populations.”

A heavily redacted October 26, 2017, email
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released
to us in a previous production
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includes
a newly released response from Handley. The email chain begins with
Chen sending a trip report to her colleagues regarding her visit to
the BSL4 Lab in Wuhan. She notes: “My contact who helped arrange the
visit is Dr. Zhengli Shi, who is a Chinese collaborator on a NIAID
grant to EcoHealth for SARS like corona virus project.” She
continues: “The P4 lab is located in a new developing zone about one
hour car ride from the current institute location in central Wuhan
city. The location will be the new campus for the entire institute in
the near future (a lot of construction is going on right now). Since
we are not allowed to take photos so only the photo from the outside
is attached.”

Newly released in these HHS documents is Handley’s reply in the
email chain: “This is a sensitive subject and will be of interest to
others.”

Later in the exchange, Handley tells Chen, “Please send us by e-mail
your full report on the visit and then we can decide what to do with
the information.” After Chen emails Handley the report, he writes:
“There is enough good information in your report that it needs to be
shared in some form or another.”

On July 18, 2016, Chen sends an “activity update
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to top NIAID officials, summarizing her activities for the prior three
weeks. In a discussion of the Chinese needing assistance with
conducting clinical trials of new medicines, Chen notes: “GSK’s
[Glaxo Smith Kline’s] Zhi Hong (the head of the GSK anti-infective
program and led the GSK center for infectious diseases and public
health in Beijing) met with Dr. Fauci on Monday, the 11th, asking for
NIAID support for this clinical trial network in China. I know Dennis
[presumably Dennis Dixon
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Chief of NIAID
Bacteriology and Mycology] and Carl [possibly Carl Dieffenbach
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Director of
NIAID AIDS Research] attended the meeting with Fauci. I don’t know
the outcome of the meeting.”

Further along, Chen writes: “I met with EcoHealth Alliance, a NY
based non-profit organization on health. They have an R01 grant from
DMID [Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases] on identifying
SARS-like coronaviruses in China. They partner with Dr. Shi Zhengli at
Wuhan Institute of Virology. I visited Dr. Shi over a year ago. She
took bat samples in caves in certain regions of China, isolated and
identified viruses and found some viruses are similar to SARS by
sequencing. Now [redacted]. We are talking about close animal-human
close contact in densely populated city.” Chen also mentions an
upcoming meeting of “Chinese NIH Alumni” and talks about NIH
Director Francis Collins discussing with the head of Peking University
Medical School “about the establishment of a Chinese NIH Alumni as
there are so many Chinese researchers trained and worked at NIH in the
past.”

On October 12, 2016, Chen sends a “High” importance email
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to
senior NIAID officials Handley, Bernabe and Dixon regarding an
upcoming conference in China. Chen notes: “Another topic under
session 1, Zoonotic Disease Characterization and Prevention, has some
relevance to us. NIAID funded George Gao at CAS [Chinese Academy of
Sciences] for avian flu (I think it was on avian flu genetics in
birds) and we have grant from RDB funding coronavirus survey in bats.
The Chinese collaborator is Wuhan Institute of Virology, a CAS
institute too. The request for zoonotic diseases is from a Chinese
agency I don’t know, AQSIQ. [Redacted.]” Dixon replies: “Thanks
Ping. I see the topic of ‘prevention and control’ by your name.
While we have occasional projects in that realm, they are at the
border of our mission area relative to CDC who list their name that
way sometimes in reverse order.”

In a January 20, 2017, situation report
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Chen discusses the Global Virome Project “to identify viruses
present in wildlife with potential crossing over to humans …
Following the identification of the viruses is the development of
vaccines to protect human population. China has huge capacity for
vaccine development (I think it has 7 national owned vaccine
manufacturing facility and over 30 private vaccine making companies.)
[Redacted] One of the partners in this project is EcoHealth Alliance.
Peter Daszak from EcoHealth Alliance is one of the leaders of GVP and
he has NIAID grant from RDB looking at the coronaviruses in bat
populations in China in collaboration with Wuhan Institute of
Virology. He came to visit me once in the Embassy. This grant has
direct connection with the purpose of GVP.”

In a July 7, 2017, situation report
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Chen informs her colleagues: “RDB [NIAID’s Respiratory Disease
Branch] has a grant to EcoHealth which has a Chinese collaborator at
WIV working on finding similar SARS viruses in bat populations and
then look for human exposures to the viruses carried by the bats in
the villagers near the caves. USAID funds the same organization and
they do more virus seeking projects in China.”

On May 27, 2018, Chen emails
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colleague
Nancy Boyd, forwarding her an announcement sent to Chen by people at
the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which Chen describes as “China’s
only publicly known P4 lab.” Chen adds: “I copied Gayle [Bernabe]
at OGR and she can forward to programs officers with the P4 pathogen
portfolio.”

These emails provide extraordinary and troubling information about
Fauci’s agency partnership with China and its monitoring, concerns
and funding for the Wuhan Institute. And the Gates Foundation should
also explain the government report about its assistance to and
advocacy for China.

These documents add to our growing knowledge of U.S.-China
entanglement before the pandemic.

In July, we obtained records
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from
NIAID officials in connection with the Wuhan Institute of Virology
revealing significant collaborations and funding that began in 2014.
The records revealed that NIAID gave nine China-related grants
to EcoHealth Alliance
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to
research coronavirus emergence in bats and was the NIH’s top issuer
of grants to the Wuhan lab itself.

In June, we announced that it filed Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) lawsuits
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against
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the
State Department for information on the Wuhan Institute of Virology
and the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Also in June, we obtained records
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from
HHS revealing that from 2014 to 2019, $826,277 was given to the Wuhan
Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research by the NIAID.

In March, we publicly released
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emails
and other records of Fauci and Dr. H. Clifford Lane
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from HHS
showing that NIH officials tailored confidentiality forms to China’s
terms and that the WHO conducted an unreleased, “strictly
confidential” COVID-19 epidemiological analysis in January 2020.
Additionally, the emails reveal an independent journalist in China
pointing out the inconsistent COVID numbers in China to NIH’s
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Deputy
Director for Clinical Research and Special Projects Lane.

In October 2020, we uncovered emails
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showing a
WHO entity pushing for a press release, approved by Fauci,
“especially” supporting China’s COVID-19 response.

More documents are coming, and I will keep you apprised
accordingly….

FEDERAL COURT RULES JUDICIAL WATCH LAWSUIT CAN PROCEED TO FORCE
CLEANUP OF COLORADO VOTER ROLLS

Another step forward in our historic efforts for cleaner elections. A
federal court ruled
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that our lawsuit can proceed against Colorado officials to force a
cleanup of the state’s voter rolls.

We filed the lawsuit
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on
October 5, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Colorado on behalf of three residents of Colorado against Jena
Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State, and the State of Colorado for
failing to clean the state’s voter rolls as required by the National
Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA
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(Judicial Watch senior attorney Robert Popper is the director of our
clean elections initiative.)

The new court ruling to allow our claims to proceed came after
Colorado’s motion to dismiss the case, which the court denied in all
key respects.

The court ruled that the individual plaintiffs have standing to sue
based on the fact that “noncompliance with the NVRA undermines the
individual plaintiffs’ confidence in the integrity of the electoral
process and discourages their participation [in elections].”

In his ruling, Chief District Judge Philip A. Brimmer also ruled that
our allegations about Colorado’s voting lists were enough to allow
the lawsuit to proceed:

[Judicial Watch’s] claims that the Secretary is not complying with
the NVRA are based on public records and statistical analysis.
Plaintiffs insist that they have shown not only high registration
rates, which they claim courts have found indicative of an NVRA
violation, but also that the Secretary sends too few Confirmation
Notices, removes too few registrants, and has too high a number of
inactive voters on the rolls. . . . [T]he Court finds that plaintiffs
have met their burden and have plausibly alleged that Colorado’s
list maintenance program does not comply with the NVRA.
In our lawsuit against Colorado, we argue:

* A 2019 study showed that 40 of Colorado’s 64 counties had voter
registration rates exceeding 100% of the eligible citizen voting-age
population. The share of Colorado counties with registration rates
exceeding 100% was the highest in the nation.
* Data Colorado itself provided to the federal Election Assistance
Commission (EAC) showed that Colorado was lagging in the processing
and removal of certain classes of ineligible registrations belonging
to those who had moved out of state.
* In the last two years, 60 of Colorado’s 64 counties had a higher
percentage of inactive registrations than the national median.
* In eight Colorado counties, more than one in six registrations
belonged to an inactive voter.

We noted that registration rates over 100%, poor processing of
out-of-date registrations, and high levels of inactive registrations
“indicate an ongoing, systemic problem with Colorado’s voter list
maintenance efforts.” Colorado’s “failure to comply with their
… voter list maintenance obligations” injures lawfully registered
voters by “undermining their confidence in the integrity of the
electoral process, discouraging their participation in the democratic
process, and instilling in them the fear that their legitimate votes
will be nullified or diluted.”

We asked the court to declare that Colorado and its Secretary of State
are violating the NVRA and to order them to “develop and implement a
general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove the
registrations of ineligible registrants from the voter rolls in
Colorado …”

Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. And this court victory
highlights how Colorado citizens and voters have a right to expect
that the state’s voting rolls are reasonably kept up to date, as
federal law requires.

Your Judicial Watch is a national leader for cleaner elections.

In 2020, we sued North Carolina
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and Pennsylvania
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for
failing to clean their voter rolls.

In 2018, the Supreme Court upheld a voter-roll cleanup program that
resulted from our settlement of a federal lawsuit with Ohio
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California settled
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a
federal lawsuit with us and in 2019 began the process of removing up
to 1.6 million inactive names from Los Angeles County’s voter rolls.

Kentucky
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also
began a cleanup of hundreds of thousands of old registrations after it
entered into a consent decree to end another Judicial Watch lawsuit.
In September of last year, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Kentucky agreed
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to
extend the consent decree through 2025 after finding that that
Kentucky’s former Democrat Secretary of State Alison Lundergan
Grime breached its terms
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by
delaying sending out voter notices, which allowed the names of people
who have died or moved away to remain on the Commonwealth’s voter
rolls.

In September 2020, we filed a lawsuit
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on
behalf of the Illinois Conservative Union (ICU) and three of its
officers, after Illinois state officials refused to allow them to
obtain a copy of the state’s voter registration database. In June
2021, a federal court ruled
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the
lawsuit could proceed.

In October 2020, we released a study
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that
found 353 counties nationwide that had more voter registrations than
citizens old enough to vote, _i.e._, counties where registration
rates exceed 100%. These counties combined had about 1.8 million
registrations over the 100%-registered mark.

Our 2019 study found 378 counties nationwide that had more voter
registrations than citizens old enough to vote, _i.e._, counties
where registration rates exceed 100%. These 378 counties combined had
about 2.5 million registrations over the 100%-registered mark.

We are now analyzing more recent voter registrations and the latest
Census data, so expect more from Judicial Watch as it pushes states to
do the basics as required by law to keep voter registration rolls
accurate.

SECRET SERVICE RECORDS SHOW BIDEN DOG REPEATEDLY BIT SECRET SERVICE
PERSONNEL

We just caught the Biden White House in another cover-up.

We received 36 pages
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of records from the Secret Service that show the Bidens’ dog, Major,
was responsible for numerous biting incidents of Secret Service
personnel. One email notes that “at the current rate an Agent or
Officer has been bitten every day this week (3/1-3/8) causing damage
to attire or bruising/punctures to the skin.” The documents show
that agents were advised to protect their “hands/fingers” by
placing their hands “in their pockets.” Photos of the dog bite
injuries were redacted (blacked out) by the agency.

The documents were produced in response to our FOIA lawsuit
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for
records of communications between USSS officials responsible for
protection at the White House regarding the Biden family dogs, named
Champ and Major (_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland
Security_
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(No.
1:21-cv-01194)).

On March 8, 2021, a Secret Service official emails
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redacted
Secret Service officials:

Attached are a couple of photos from the dog bites SA [redacted] has
received the [sic] in the last week from the First Family’s pet
(Major).

On 3.1.21, SA [redacted] was bit by Major on [redacted] at the Lake
House in Wilmington, DE. That bite caused some bruising as seen in the
picture dated 3.1.21.
On 3.8.21, SA [redacted] was bit by Major on [redacted] at the White
House. That bite caused bruising and puncture to the skin as seen in
the picture dated 3.8.21.
At the current rate an Agent or Officer has been bitten every day this
week (3/1-3/8) causing damage to attire or bruising/punctures to the
skin.
An assistant special agent in charge forwards the message and images
to Secret Service official David Cho, reporting, “Sirs, We had
another dog bite incident this morning. This was the 2nd time SA
[redacted] was bitten.”

On March 1, 2021, a Protective Division agent notes
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“This weekend in Wilmington, there were 3 minor incidents where
Major nipped/ brushed up and nudged Shift SAs. Panicking or running
with only embolden animals so stand your ground and protect your
hands/fingers by placing them in your pockets or behind your back.”

The newly released documents show
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that
the dogs first arrived on January 24, 2021. An email sent by a Joint
Operations Center supervisor reports that:

[T]he First Families 2 dogs have arrived on the complex. Please call
them out when the [sic] enter and exit the residence. Be sure and know
their locations prior to opening your gates on the grounds.
IMPACT ON COMPLEX: No impact to normal White House operations.
The next day a Secret Service official wrote
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about
the dogs, “They just went out on the lawn for 5 mins, didn't really
walk around. Sadly, Champ didn't make it out of the Dip Room
[Diplomatic Reception Room] before dropping code. So [redacted] ended
up doing a little cleanup prior to taking the elevator back.”

That same day, an agent relays
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their
notes from a Secret Service supervisor’s meeting, writing: “Major
(family pet) is not always predictable. Be careful, especially if you
have to make entry during an [redacted] situation.”

Two days later, on March 3, 2021, an agent details
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to
Cho that: “Major went after the officer at [redacted]. Dr took a
look. Redness on left hand. Officer back at [redacted].”

Cho asks: “Who was minding the pets? Protected or Residence/usher
staff?” An agent responds: “Protectee. Usher was there as well.”

On March 5, 2021, a series of emails was sent
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about
Major attacking a White House pass holder. The Presidential Protective
Division reported, “For your awareness. WHMU [White House Medical
Unit] responded to the South Portico a short time ago on a UDW
[Uniformed Division White House] report of a pass holder with a dog
bite. The pass holder is [redacted] of the Residence Staff. He is
currently being treated in the Doctor’s office.

Agent David Cho
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head
of the Presidential Protective Division detail, asked, “Was it
Major?” The other agent wrote, “Doesn’t sound like it.
Attempting to ascertain severity of injury. Pass holder walked out of
[redacted] and dog made b-line to hm. Got his arm twice. A group was
standing there at time.”

An agent then responded, “Minor. Did break the skin.” quickly
adding, “Sorry. Meant it was Major, the name of the younger German
Shepard. He’s been an issue lately.” An agent adds: “Dog: Major.
Injury: Minor.” To which David Cho replied, “Ha! Thank you.”

On March 6, 2021, Major attempted to bite again. An agent wrote
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Major attempted to bite SA [redacted] this evening. He didn’t make
contact with agent’s skin, but did bite a hole through his overcoat.
This marks the third day in a row someone has been bitten by Major
(Thursday USSS SA & Friday Pass Holder).
I just wanted you to have visibility. I think it’s definitely worth
bringing up during Monday’s meeting with staff.”
David Cho replied, “Copy. We passed to usher Office. FLD also passed
to [redacted]. Will present to [redacted] on Monday. RTC K9 trainer
[redacted] is very good at training canines. He did it for Obama, etc.
we have extended that piece and will pursue again.”

An agent wrote
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on
March 8, 2021, “The dogs are being transported to Delaware and will
stay there for an undetermined time. The family will use a trainer
they have used previously.”

Later that same day, David Cho emailed
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colleagues,
writing, “Apparently CNN will be running a story on how a family pet
bit two agents, and have now been sent to Delaware. Of course the
situation is sensitive, and unsure how the information originated.
Just wanted to send to you for awareness.”

Kimberly Cheatle, the assistant director of Protective Operations,
responded, “this is ridiculous.”

On March 9, 2021, the White House
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confirmed
that President Biden’s dog Major, “did in fact bite someone at
the White House, causing a “minor injury.” Press secretary Jen
Psaki confirmed said that the dogs, “are still getting acclimated
and accustomed to their new surroundings and new people.”

On March 30, 2021, the White House
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reported
that, “President Biden’s dog Major on Monday afternoon bit another
employee, who then required medical attention.” The encounter
reportedly took place on the White House South Lawn Monday, March 29.
The Bidens reportedly decided to send the dogs home to Delaware
because of these incidents.

Major returned
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to
the White House in April 2021. Champ died
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in
June 2021.

We’re sure Major is a good dog, but these records show he was
involved in many more biting incidents than the Biden White House has
publicly acknowledged. It is disturbing to see a White House cover-up
of numerous injuries to Secret Service and White House personnel by
the Bidens’ family pet.

Until next week …

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