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Judicial Watch Sues for Records on COVID Vaccine Safety Studies

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Why is the Biden administration hiding information about the safety of
the vaccine it is so aggressively pushing on everyone?

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for records on COVID-19
vaccine safety studies (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services_
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(No. 1:22-cv-03153)).

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after
the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (a
component of HHS) inadequately responded to a June 1, 2022, FOIA
request for:

* All safety studies, data, reports, and analyses produced by the
Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) relating to
the safety of ‘vaccines’ and/or gene therapies to treat and/or
prevent SARS-CoV-2 and/or COVID-19 made by Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna,
Johnson & Johnson, and Janssen.
* All emails sent to and from the following DMID officials relating
to the safety of ‘vaccines’ and/or gene therapies to treat and/or
prevent SARSCoV-2 and/or COVID-19 made by Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna,
Johnson & Johnson, and Janssen:

a. The Director of DMID
b. The head of the Office of Genomics & Advanced Technologies
c. The head of the Office of International Research in Infectious
Diseases
d. The head of the Office of Regulatory Affairs
e. The head of the Office of Clinical Research Affairs
f. The head of the Clinical Trials Management Section
g. The head of the Virology Branch
h. The head of the Respiratory Diseases Branch
i. The head of the Influenza, SARS, and Other Viral Respiratory
Diseases Section
On May 3, 2022, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a
paper titled “Safety and Immunogenicity of a Third Dose of
SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine – An Interim Analysis
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that
“evaluated early safety and immunogenicity after a third mRNA
vaccination in adults who received the mRNA-1273 primary series in the
Phase 1 trial approximately 9 to 10 months earlier.”

Contributors to that study include three affiliates of the DMID:
Mamodikoe Makhene (DMID medical officer), Wendy Buchanan (DMID
Clinical Project Manager) and Paul Roberts (DMID Chief Respiratory
Pathogens Clinical Research).

The Biden administration is playing shell games with documents on the
COVID vaccine. The arrogant cover-up of COVID vaccine safety
information further undermines public confidence in these already
controversial drugs.

Through previous FOIA activity, we uncovered a substantial amount of
information about COVID-19 issues:

* In October, we uncovered FDA records
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regarding the COVID booster vaccines through a FOIA lawsuit for
records of communication from the former director and deputy director
of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Dr. Marion
Gruber and Dr. Philip Krause. On September 13, 2021, Gruber and Krause
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were among a group of resigning
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doctors who agreed that, “Available evidence doesn’t yet indicate
a need for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots among the general population
…”
* In July 2022, NIH records revealed
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an FBI
“inquiry” into the NIH’s controversial bat coronavirus grant
tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The records also show
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
officials were concerned about “gain-of-function” research in
China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2016. The Fauci agency was
also concerned about EcoHealth Alliance’s
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lack of compliance with reporting
rules and use of gain-of-function research in the NIH-funded research
involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China.
* FDA records showed top officials being pressured
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by
companies and the Biden administration to impose timelines on approval
for the booster shots “that make no sense”
* HHS records revealed that from 2014 to 2019, $826,277
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was given to the
Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research by the NIAID.
* NIAID records showed that it 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. The records also included an email from the
vice director of the Wuhan Lab asking an NIH official for help finding
disinfectants for decontamination of airtight suits and indoor
surfaces.
* HHS records included an “urgent for Dr. Fauci
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” email chain,
citing ties between the Wuhan lab and the taxpayer funded EcoHealth
Alliance
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The government emails
also reported that the foundation of U.S. billionaire Bill Gates
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.”
* HHS records included a grant application for research involving
the coronavirus that appears to describe “gain-of-function
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research involving RNA extractions from bats, experiments on viruses,
attempts to develop a chimeric virus and efforts to genetically
manipulate the full-length bat SARSr-CoV WIV1 strain molecular clone.
* HHS records showed the State Department and NIAID knew immediately
in January 2020 that China was withholding COVID data
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which was
hindering risk assessment and response by public health officials.
* University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) records
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show the former director of the Galveston National Laboratory at the
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Dr. James W. Le Duc
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warned Chinese
researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology of potential
investigations into the COVID issue by Congress.
* HHS records regarding biodistribution studies and related data for
the COVID-19 vaccines show a key component of the vaccines developed
by Pfizer/BioNTech, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), were found outside the
injection site
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mainly the liver, adrenal glands, spleen and ovaries of test animals,
eight to 48 hours after injection.
* Records from the Federal Select Agent Program (FSAP) reveal safety
lapses
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and violations at U.S. biosafety laboratories that conduct research on
dangerous agents and toxins.
* HHS records include emails
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between National Institutes of Health (NIH) then-Director Francis
Collins
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and Anthony
Fauci, the director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID), about hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19.
* HHS records show that NIH officials tailored confidentiality forms
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to China’s terms
and that the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted an unreleased,
“strictly confidential” COVID-19 epidemiological analysis in
January 2020.
* Fauci emails
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include
his approval of a press release supportive of China’s response to
the 2019 novel coronavirus.

Despite all of this work, Judicial Watch is just getting started!
I’ll keep you updated as more lawsuits are filed and more
information comes in!

DOZENS ON TERRORIST WATCHLIST AMONG RECORD 2.4 MILLION MIGRANTS CAUGHT
IN 2022

Among the millions pouring across our southern border are some of the
worst of the worst: violent gang members and potential terrorists. Our
_Corruption Chronicles_ blog paints
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the
disturbing picture.

Besides shattering a U.S. record for apprehending nearly 2.4 million
illegal immigrants along the Mexican border in fiscal year 2022,
Border Patrol agents arrested hundreds of gang members—mostly from
the famously violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13)—and dozens of people
on the national terrorist watchlist. Federal agents also confiscated
thousands of pounds of drugs, mainly methamphetamine, according to
government figures
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released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) just days ago. The
startling year-end (fiscal years run from October to September) stats
depict a chaotic Mexican border region rife with lawlessness that is
inevitably seeping north.

It is serious enough that the number of migrants arrested in 2022
increased significantly over 2021, which at the time seemed like a
crisis at 1.73 million. The Biden administration’s open border
policies inspired a last-minute surge of 227,547 illegal aliens in
September alone, the figures show. The overwhelming majority of those
caught were single adults with the rest of the family units and
unaccompanied minors. The Del Rio Border Patrol sector in Texas saw
the most traffic with 480,930 illegal alien encounters, an increase of
85% over 2021. The Rio Grande Valley sector, also in Texas, came in
second with 468,124 encounters. Other busy stations include Yuma in
Arizona (310,094), El Paso (307,884) and Tucson (251,984).

As if the record-breaking figures were not disturbing enough, violent
gangbangers, terrorists and drugs also crossed the border. The feds
arrested 751 gang members compared to 348 in 2021. Nearly
half—312—of those apprehended in 2022 belong to the MS-13, a
feared street gang
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of mostly Central American illegal immigrants that has spread
throughout the U.S. and is renowned for drug distribution, murder,
rape, robbery, home invasions, kidnappings, vandalism and other
violent crimes. The Justice Department’s National Gang Intelligence
Center (NGIC) says criminal street gangs like the MS-13 are
responsible for the majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are the
primary distributors of most illicit drugs. More than 145 members of
Paisas, a prison gang of inmates from Mexico, were also apprehended
crossing the border in 2022 and 146 from the 18th Street gang, a Los
Angeles-based tribe known for recruiting youths.

In addition to all this, nearly 100 people on the U.S. government’s
terrorist watchlist were apprehended at the Mexican border, the
year-end figures reveal. That is a huge increase over 2021, when only
16 suspected terrorists were caught. The 98 people busted this year
appear on a government database called Terrorist Screening Dataset
(TSDS) that contains sensitive information on known or suspected
terrorists as well as individuals who represent a potential threat to
the U.S., including known affiliates of individuals on the watchlist,
according to CBP. The agency claims in the year-end stats that
encounters with individuals on the terrorist watchlist at U.S. borders
is very “uncommon.” Judicial Watch has long reported on the
increasing number of Muslim migrants—including from terrorist
nations—entering the U.S. through the Mexican border. This includes
a growing population from Bangladesh, a recruiting ground for
terrorist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
and Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), getting caught by federal
agents along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Last year a Bangladeshi man based in Mexico was sentenced to 46 months
in prison
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for operating an “international human smuggling conspiracy” during
a period in which the U.S. saw a spike in migrants from terrorist
nations entering the country through the famously porous southern
border. The smuggler, 41-year-old Mohamad Milon Hossain, lived in
Tapachula in the southeast Mexican state of Chiapas bordering
Guatemala. The smuggling operation run by Hossain is part of a broader
crisis involving a growing demographic of illegal aliens from
terrorist nations entering the U.S. through the Mexican border. The
government classifies them as Special Interest Aliens (SIA) and they
are flowing north via Latin America in huge numbers, thanks to
established Transitional Criminal Organizations (TCO) that facilitate
travel along drug and migrant smuggling routes. Tens of thousands of
SIAs—from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa—entered Panama and
Colombia in recent years. Nearly all the SIA migrants were headed to
the United States and most came from Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Somalia, Bangladesh, and India.

DHS SLAMMED FOR FAILING TO COUNTER TERRORISM, MANAGE EXPLOSIVE DEVICES

It should come as no surprise that the massive federal agency created
to protect the homeland (including our border) is a bureaucratic
disaster. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog has the details
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Two decades after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was
created to protect the U.S. from another 9/11, the agency faces
serious management and performance challenges that prevent it from
fulfilling its critical mission, according to a federal audit
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says DHS must improve how it identifies domestic terrorism threats and
better manage its efforts to counter homemade explosive devices. DHS
also got slammed for one of its biggest lapses, failing to secure the
southern border. “Migrant surges require a whole-of-government
approach,” according to the report issued days ago by the DHS
Inspector General. However, a coordinated response did not occur
because DHS failed to conduct multi-component planning between Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE).

Furthermore, the surges in immigration exposed technology challenges
which impede CBP and ICE personnel from tracking migrants from
apprehension to release or transfer, the probe found. “Technology
deficiencies also meant that data was not consistently documented in
DHS’ systems of record, which can delay DHS from uniting children
with families and sponsors, or cause migrants to remain in DHS custody
longer than legally allowed,” the watchdog writes in its report.
Investigators also trash the way DHS managed the sudden influx of
Ukrainian and Afghan citizens. Specifically, screening, vetting, and
inspecting all evacuees after the Biden administration withdrew
American troops from Afghanistan was a “challenge,” the report
reveals, adding that the watchdog continues to evaluate CBP’s access
to critical data necessary to fully vet individuals trying to enter
the U.S.

The report delves into other areas such as DHS’ cybersecurity
weaknesses and the famously corrupt Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA), the 20,000-employee conglomerate created by former
President Jimmy Carter’s executive order in 1979. FEMA operates
under DHS and lists helping people before, during and after disasters
as its mission. The agency has been involved in a multitude of
scandals surrounding pervasive fraud in its COVID-19 relief programs.
DHS and FEMA need to analyze systemic weaknesses across the spectrum
of disaster-related funding and services, the IG writes, adding that
the agencies must make overarching improvements in risk assessment,
controls, policies, systems and applications, resources, training, and
data. “As of July 31, 2022, OIG had received more than 7,500
complaints and initiated more than 300 investigations related to
COVID-19, including allegations that fraud networks have secured
pandemic-related benefits,” the new report states. Fraud and
corruption is so rampant in the government’s massive COVID-19 cash
giveaway that the Department of Justice (DOJ) created a COVID-19 Fraud
Enforcement Task Force
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“enhance efforts to combat and prevent pandemic-related fraud.”

This probe did not dig deeply into the pandemic fraud cases but
offered enough information to convey the problem. Attached to the
17-page audit is a document issued by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
and the “leadership team across all DHS components” listing the
agency’s 12 priorities for 2022. They include advancing Diversity,
Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in the workforce and to
protect the privacy, civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights
of the communities served as well to ensure DHS reflects the diversity
of the communities it serves. Another priority is securing the
nation’s borders by giving the agency’s workforce the tools to
interdict irregular migration and illicit flows of drugs, weapons, and
other contraband. Record-breaking illegal immigration in fiscal year
2022 proves that it never materialized. DHS also made it a priority to
build a fair, orderly, and humane immigration system and to implement
lawful pathways as alternatives to irregular migration and enhanced
policies to administer the nation’s laws and uphold our values as a
nation of immigrants expeditiously and fairly. The rest of the
priorities include preparing the nation to respond and recover from
disasters and combat the climate crisis, increasing cybersecurity and
combatting all forms of terrorism.

After getting blasted by auditors, DHS struck back claiming in a
lengthy letter that the report is “misleading” and accusing its
watchdog of being “inaccurate, contextually incomplete and
confusing.”
Until next week…



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