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Judicial Watch Asks for Discovery Concerning President Biden’s
Senate Papers

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The University of Delaware seems to be in full cover-up mode for
President Biden. Here’s the latest.

Our legal team filed an appeal brief
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with the Delaware Supreme Court, on behalf of Judicial Watch and the
Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), asking it to overturn a lower
court’s decision blocking the release of the U.S. Senate records of
President Joe Biden housed at the University of Delaware.

Biden’s papers include more than 1,850 boxes of archival records
from his 36-year Senate career.

In July 2020 we and the DCNF filed
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a Delaware FOIA
lawsuit after the university denied our April 2020 requests for all of
Biden’s Senate records and for records about the preservation and
any proposed release of the records, including communications with
Biden or his representatives (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. University of
Delaware_
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_No. N20A-07-001 MMJ (Del. Super.)).

In our appeal brief
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we ask the court to review a Superior Court opinion issued in October
2022 that found the university had met its burden of performing an
adequate search for the requested records. The opinion came after the
university had submitted a second affidavit from the university’s
FOIA official stating that no state funds had been spent on
maintaining the documents.

We argue:

> The Opinion should be reversed. The Supplemented Affidavit is
> nothing more than a document filled with stale hearsay and vague
> [assertions without proof] which at best shows that the University
> did not engage in a diligent effort, as required by law, to review
> Appellants’ Requests. Appellants identified the deficiencies and
> asked to vet the assertions themselves. The Superior Court, however,
> simply granted the University “do overs.” Even after multiple
> attempts, the University has still not carried its burden to prove
> that the requested records are not subject to FOIA.

***

> Despite two attempts on remand, the University still has not
> satisfied its burden to create a record from which the Superior
> Court can determine whether the University performed an adequate
> search for responsive documents.
We are asking the Supreme Court to overturn the lower court’s
ruling and allow us limited discovery “to include at [a] minimum, a
deposition of a representative of the University and production of
documents … Alternatively, the Court should remand this case with
instructions to order the turnover of the requested documents since
the University has had more than adequate opportunity to satisfy its
burden.”

The University of Delaware has been sitting on Biden’s Senate
records for more than 10 years and is desperate to avoid any scrutiny
of its secret deal with Biden to hide these records. The latest
revelations about Biden’s handling of ‘classified’ records raise
even more questions about what Biden is hiding.

“On day one, the White House said President Biden was committed to
bringing ‘transparency and truth back to government.’ Apparently,
the University of Delaware didn’t get the memo,” Daily Caller News
Foundation Managing Editor Michael Bastasch. “It’s shocking
they’ve spent years fighting to keep these records hidden from the
American people. Hopefully, the Delaware Supreme Court ends the
University’s stonewalling.”

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES PENTAGON RECORDS ABOUT KEY MEDICAL DATABASE

The Defense Department seems to have something to hide about a key
database that could provide insight on issues related to the COVID-19
vaccines.

Undeterred, we sued the U.S. Department of Defense for records and
communications relating to the data contained in the Defense Medical
Epidemiology Database (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of
Defense_
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(No. 1:22-cv-03043)).

The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch’s
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Defense Medical Epidemiology Database
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is a web-based tool designed to provide access to:

[A] subset of data contained within the Defense Medical Surveillance
System
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(DMSS). DMSS contains up-to-date and historical data on diseases and
medical events (e.g., hospitalizations, ambulatory visits, reportable
diseases, etc.) … The DMED application provides a user-friendly
interface to perform queries regarding disease and injury rates and
relative burdens of disease in active component populations.

The purpose of DMED is to standardize the epidemiologic methodology
used to collect, integrate and analyze active component service member
personnel and medical event data…
In February 2021, the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), sent a letter
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to Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin highlighting reports
from three whistleblowers about injuries to servicemen and women
potentially related to the COVID-19 vaccines:

> Based on data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED),
> Thomas Renz, an attorney who is representing three Department of
> Defense whistleblowers, reported that these whistleblowers found a
> significant increase in registered diagnoses on DMED for
> miscarriages, cancer, and many other medical conditions in 2021
> compared to a five-year average from 2016-2020. For example, at the
> roundtable Renz stated that registered diagnoses for neurological
> issues increased 10 times from a five-year average of 82,000 to
> 863,000 in 2021.
We sued after the Office of the Secretary of Defense failed to
respond to our February 16, 2022, FOIA request for:

* All emails sent to and from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (on
his official government/military email accounts or non-government
email account, in his own name or using an alias) relating to the
Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, DMED, Sen. Ron Johnson, and/or
vaccines.
* All emails sent to and from Deputy Secretary of Defense Katheen H.
Hicks (on her official government/military email accounts or
non-government email accounts, in her own name or using an alias)
relating to the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, DMED, Sen. Ron
Johnson, and/or vaccines.
* All emails sent to and from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. Mark Milley (on his official government/military email accounts
or non-government email accounts, in his own name or using an alias)
relating to the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, DMED, Sen. Ron
Johnson, and/or vaccines.
* All emails sent to and from Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff Gen. John Hyten (on his official government/military email
accounts or non-government email accounts, in his own name or using an
alias) relating to the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, DMED,
Sen. Ron Johnson, and/or vaccines.
* All emails sent to and from Defense Department Public Affairs
Officer Major Charlie Dietz (on his official government/military email
accounts or non-government email accounts, in his own name or using an
alias) relating to the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, DMED,
Sen. Ron Johnson, and/or vaccines.
* All reports, memoranda, studies, analyses, directive, and
electronic communications produced by or sent to and from officials
who maintain the Defense Medical Epidemiology Data base relating to
the accuracy of or changes to be made to data contained in the Defense
Medical Epidemiology Data base.

The data from Defense Medical Epidemiology Database showing
“skyrocketing levels of disease among military personnel,” also
were publicized through an image shared on Facebook
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Percentage Increase Over the Average of the Last Five Years: Heart
attacks 269%, Cancer 300%, Pericarditis 175%, Myocarditis 285%,
Pulmonary Embolisms 467%, Cerebral Infarction 393%, Bell’s Palsy
319%, Guillain-Barre 250%, Immunodeficiencies 275%, Menstrual
Irregularity 476%, Multiple Sclerosis 487%, Miscarriage 306%, HIV
590%, Chest Pain 1,529%, Labored Breathing 905%, Neurological Issues
1052%.
Responding to these concerns, an unnamed Defense Department source
told Reuters
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The calculations, based on figures from the Defense Medical
Epidemiology Database, are incorrect. Last year’s apparent sharp
increases were caused by underreporting for the years 2016-2020. A
spokesperson for the Department of Defense told Reuters that due to
“data corruption,” the platform showed only a “fraction” of
the actual medical diagnoses registered in that period.
The covid vaccines were until recently mandated by the Pentagon, so
the cover-up of information that could reflect on the vaccines’
safety is particularly outrageous.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR NIH COMMUNICATIONS ON FETAL ORGAN HARVESTING

On April 16, 2021, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sent out a
notice
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informing the extramural research community (researchers outside NIH
from across the United States and in some foreign countries who have
been awarded grants through the NIH grant program) that the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) was reversing the Trump
Administration’s limits
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on fetal tissue research.

The notice stated: “All research applications for NIH grants and
contracts proposing the use of human fetal tissue from elective
abortions will be reviewed by an Ethics Advisory Board.”
Accordingly, the notice said, “HHS/NIH will not convene another NIH
Human Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board.”

We have already established collusion between the University of
Pittsburgh and the NIH over the fetal organ ‘chop shop’ in the
University of Pittsburgh paid for with federal tax dollars. The Biden
administration turned the spigot back on for taxpayer funding of this
barbarism, and we want the details.

So we filed a FOIA lawsuit against the HHS for records of
communications of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Office
of Extramural Research about the use of human fetal organs (_Judicial
Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services_
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(No. 1:22-cv-03051)).

We sued after HHS failed respond to a July 15, 2022, FOIA request to
the National Institutes for Health (a component of HHS) for:

> All communications concerning human fetal tissue between the Office
> of Extramural Research and any of the following entities: (1)
> University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), (2) University of Pittsburgh
> Medical Center, (3) the National Abortion Federation and (4) any
> Planned Parenthood entity.
In February 2020, NIH records
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showed that the agency paid thousands of dollars to a California-based
firm to purchase organs from aborted human fetuses to create
“humanized mice
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for HIV research.

In June 2020, FDA records
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showed that
between 2012 and 2018 the FDA 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 April 2021, FDA records detailed the agency spent tens of thousands
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of taxpayer
dollars to buy human fetal tissue from California-based Advanced
Bioscience Resources (ABR). The tissue was used in creating
“humanized mice” to test “biologic drug products,” and wanted
“fresh; shipped on wet ice” fetal organs.

In August 2021, Judicial Watch and the Center for Medical Progress
through a separate FOIA lawsuit
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uncovered HHS documents that revealed 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.

In September 2021, we uncovered records
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and
communications from the FDA involving “humanized mice
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research with human fetal heads, organs and tissue, including
communications and contracts with human fetal tissue provider Advanced
Bioscience Resources (ABR). Most of the records are communications and
related attachments between Perrin Larton
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a procurement
manager for ABR, and research veterinary medical officer Dr. Kristina
Howard
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of the
FDA.

In April 2022, we uncovered records revealing that the Associate
Senior Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy and Planning in the Health
Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Jeremy Berg, contacted
then-Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis
Collins, requesting help
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to combat, “efforts to undermine important science using fetal
tissue.” Additionally, the records included a scientific report
containing information about grafting human scalp and other tissues
onto mice.

$4.5 MILLION FOR CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE PROGRAM TO HELP ASIANS QUIT
SMOKING

Here’s another corrosive way bureaucrats have decided to spend your
hard-earned tax dollars, as reported
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by our
_Corruption Chronicles_ blog.

> The U.S. government is dedicating $4.5 million to enhance a
> “linguistically and culturally appropriate” program to help
> Asians quit smoking. It is known as the national Asian language
> quitline and provides cessation counseling, nicotine replacement
> therapy (NRT), and in-language materials for tobacco users who speak
> Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese (CKV). The cash will flow through a
> Centers for Disease Control (CDC) offshoot called Office on Smoking
> and Health. With an annual budget of nearly $10 billion
>
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> the CDC is the federal agency responsible for protecting public
> health. It operates under the Department of Health and Human
> Services (HHS) and claims to work around the clock to protect
> America from health, safety, and security threats whether diseases
> start at home or abroad.
>
> In its grant announcement
>
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> the agency writes that telephone-based quitlines increase quit rates
> among individuals who use commercial tobacco and are trying to stop.
> They are also effective in reaching and supporting diverse and
> low-income populations, according to the CDC. “Limited capacity to
> provide linguistically and culturally appropriate quitline services
> may create barriers that contribute to tobacco-related disparities,
> especially among various subgroups of Asians that speak Chinese
> (including Cantonese and Mandarin), Korean, and Vietnamese languages
> (CKV),” the agency writes in the recently published Notice of
> Funding Opportunity (NOFO), adding that less than half of Asians of
> CKV descent in the United States report speaking English “very
> well."
>
> That poses a public health challenge, the CDC claims, because
> limited English proficiency reduces access to evidence-based health
> services. “Since many CKV speakers in the United States come from
> countries with very high smoking rates among men (up to 50%),
> providing culturally and linguistically appropriate care is a step
> towards equitable and effective care,” according to the agency.
> The millions of American taxpayer dollars will go to one lucky
> organization that will “operate and promote a linguistically and
> culturally appropriate nationwide quitline service for individuals
> who use commercial tobacco products and who predominantly speak CKV
> languages,” the CDC reveals. The agency explains that it is more
> efficient to provide a national Asian language quitline rather than
> rely on states to provide the services.
>
> It is not clear how the agency came to that conclusion considering
> that a national government-funded Asian Smokers’ Quitline (ASQ)
> that has served CKV-speaking populations since 2012 has enrolled
> just 19,000 callers in more than a decade. That information is
> embedded deep in the grant announcement which is more than 50 pages
> and states that the CDC will provide continued support for a
> national Asian language quitline. With the new multi-million-dollar
> allocation the agency expects better outcomes such as increased use
> and reach of evidence-based and culturally appropriate quit support
> services among CKV-speaking people. That includes counseling,
> medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and
> digital technologies. The agency also expects “increased
> successful cessation at greater than 6 months among CKV-speaking
> people who use commercial tobacco,” according to the grant
> document.
>
> Tobacco-related disparities are created by a complex mix of factors
> including social determinants of health, tobacco industry influence
> and environmental conditions, the CDC writes. Social determinants of
> health are the conditions in the environments where people are born,
> live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range
> of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. The
> disparities can affect populations based on factors such as race,
> ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, income, and
> employment status.
>
> In the last few years, the government has spent vast amounts of
> taxpayer dollars to provide culturally and linguistically
> appropriate services to a variety of groups. Recent examples include
> $66.5 million
>
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> to strengthen COVID-19 vaccine confidence among racial and ethnic
> minority groups by providing culturally appropriate information,
> education and outreach involving the shots. Uncle Sam also recently
> spent $125 million
>
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> to provide illegal immigrant minors, known as Unaccompanied Alien
> Children (UAC), with a multitude of services in the private sector
> including medical care, special housing arrangements for delinquent,
> pregnant and gang-affiliated teens as well as long-term counseling.
> The services were guaranteed by the government to be “culturally
> and linguistically-appropriate to the unique need of each
> individual.”

JUDICIAL WATCH’S GUIDE TO CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS

Can we expect any serious investigation of Biden administration
wrongdoing now that the Republicans control the House of
Representatives? Micah Morrison, our chief investigative reporter,
provides a rundown
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in I_nvestigative Bulletin_ of the House’s investigative agenda:

The new House of Representatives was sworn in early Saturday morning
after Kevin McCarthy was elected Speaker on the fifteenth ballot. The
House GOP leadership promises an ambitious agenda of investigations,
including a special committee on the weaponization of federal agencies
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but history is not reassuring. Will the House probes bring real
progress—important new information, defunding of bad actors,
sunlight on wrongdoing, indictment referrals, impeachment if
warranted—or two years of fruitless bickering over documents and
testimony?

At Judicial Watch, we run our own investigations
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and have been holding
government officials, Democrat and Republican, accountable for nearly
three decades, but we’ll be closely watching the House probes.
Republican staff on the House Judiciary Committee earlier released a
“road map” to the new investigative agenda, and over at the
Senate, ranking Judiciary Committee member Charles Grassley has been
digging deep into FBI corruption, releasing letters outlining serious
allegations of wrongdoing. We’ve reviewed all the documents and
talked to our sources. Here’s our guide to the new Congressional
investigations.

WHO IS JACK SMITH?

No case is likely to dominate the 2023 headlines more than the
investigation of former president Donald Trump by new special counsel
Jack Smith. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith, a career
federal prosecutor, to lead a probe into Trump’s conduct surrounding
the events of January 6, 2021, as well as a separate probe of the
storage of presidential documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Trump has denied wrongdoing in both cases. Notably, any decision to
indict rests with the attorney general, not the special counsel.

The Trump affair screams for Congressional oversight—and apparently
will get it. Even before the appointment of Smith, the House
investigative road map signaled concerns about an “unprecedented
raid on a former president’s home” to seize documents. The roadmap
noted that Trump had cooperated with government officials seeking
documents before the raid; that “the Biden Justice Department has
provided limited justification for this unprecedented action;” and
that Justice and the FBI “have failed to sufficiently comply” with
Congressional requests for documents related to the raid. Congress
will want to take a look as well at the belated disclosure of
classified documents found
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at a Joe Biden office in the days before the 2022 midterm elections.

Smith’s unusual career—a path that took him from the office of the
Manhattan District Attorney to federal postings in Brooklyn,
Washington, Tennessee, and the Hague—is also worth a closer look.
From 2010 to 2015, he headed the Justice Department’s Public
Integrity Section and was at the center of several controversial
issues. Among them: the IRS scandal.

In 2014, a Judicial Watch investigation revealed that top IRS
officials had been in communication with Smith’s Public Integrity
Section about a plan to launch criminal investigations into
conservative tax-exempt groups. Government officials were looking to
step up a probe into requests for tax-exemption from organizations
with conservative sounding names like “Tea Party” and other
“political sounding names,” according to a later report by the
Treasury Department’s inspector general. Smith appears to have been
a key player in this attempt to silence conservative voices.

According to the documents obtained by Judicial Watch, Smith directed
the head of the Justice Department’s Election Crimes Branch, Richard
Pilger, to meet with the director of the IRS’s Tax-Exempt
Organizations division, Lois Lerner. In one email obtained by Judicial
Watch, Lerner discusses an idea that the Justice Department could
build “false-statement cases” against tax-exempt conservative
groups.

Judicial Watch later obtained additional documents detailing a
planning meeting between Justice Department, FBI and IRS officials
about possible criminal prosecutions. Thanks to Judicial Watch
disclosures, House investigators discovered that the IRS improperly
turned over confidential tax records of non-profit organizations to
the FBI—sparking a public uproar and forcing the return of the
records to the IRS. Read more about the case here
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and here
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BIDEN FAMILY CORRUPTION

The other headline-grabbing case in the House roadmap are allegations
of corruption involving President Biden’s son, Hunter, and other
family members—possibly even the president himself. The House report
puts aside the sensational aspects of the Hunter Biden saga—the
crack cocaine use, the heavy drinking and hookers, the controversy
over a suddenly surfaced laptop computer, a gun, a seemingly endless
parade of incriminating, embarrassing, or outright disgusting personal
photographs from the laptop—and focuses on the sober case.

Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act litigators are pressing
for additional information about the Secret Service’s handling of
the Hunter Biden gun case
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Biden
business dealings
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and possible FBI obstruction
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of a
Senate inquiry into Biden business dealings.

“Mounting evidence from the last two years,” the House roadmap
notes, “shows that Hunter Biden, son of President Biden, has
received preferential treatment from federal law enforcement, who seem
to have turned a blind eye to potential national security threats
presented by his business dealings with Chinese, Russian, and other
foreign nationals.”

The roadmap notes the September 2020 release of an investigative
report by Senator Chuck Grassley. That report noted “potential
criminal activity relating to transactions among and between Hunter
Biden, his family, and his associates with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh,
and Chinese nationals.” One Hunter Biden business associate charges
that Joe Biden was slated for a payoff in 2017. Congress will want to
hear from the Biden business partner alleging a payoff of the
president and take a close look at the evidence.

The Grassley letters
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outline an apparent campaign of stonewalling and coverup by the FBI
and others in response to Congressional inquiries in the Hunter Biden
case. The letters, cited at length in the House roadmap, also note the
role of several senior FBI officials and Richard Pilger—the Justice
Department Election Crimes Branch chief involved in the earlier IRS
scandal—in opening investigations into “the Trump campaign and
individuals linked to the 2020 elections.” FBI whistleblowers told
Grassley that there was a “double standard” in opening
investigations that appeared “to benefit the political aims and
objectives of a select few Justice Department and FBI officials.”

Those are serious charges. Congressional investigators will have to
steer around numerous roadblocks, including a criminal inquiry into
Hunter Biden by U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the top federal prosecutor
in Delaware. Fox News has reported
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that Attorney General Garland—Weiss’s boss—has taken a
“hands-off approach” to the Hunter Biden case and is “leaving
charging decisions up to Weiss,” a Trump appointee. But Congress may
want a look at the Garland connection as well.

FBI CORRUPTION: FAKING A RISE IN DOMESTIC VIOLENT EXTREMISM?

The House roadmap reports that whistleblowers have come forward with
claims that “the FBI is manipulating data about domestic violent
extremism to support the Biden Administration’s political agenda.”
According to the roadmap, the FBI “is pressuring agents to
reclassify cases as domestic violent extremism (DVE)” and allegedly
“manufacturing DVE cases where they may not otherwise exist and even
manipulating its case categorization system to feign a national
problem.”

That’s a grave charge. The issue traces back to the events of
January 6, 2021, Congressional investigators say. According to the
roadmap, whistleblowers have come forward “with information about
how the FBI manipulated the manner in which it categorized January
6-related investigations to create a misleading narrative that
domestic terrorism is organically surging around the country.”

According to FBI whistleblowers, FBI field offices around the country
have been directed by the powerful FBI Washington Field Office to open
cases against individuals who were at Capitol on January 6. But no
work is actually done in the field, according to the whistleblowers.
Rather, the entire January 6 investigation is run from the Washington
office.

The upshot? Notes the roadmap: the “FBI’s case categorization
creates the illusion that FBI field offices around the country are
investigating a groundswell of domestic terrorism cases, giving the
impression that [domestic violent extremism, or DVE] is present in
jurisdictions across the nation. In reality, however, the cases all
stem from the same related investigation concerning the actions at the
Capitol on January 6. Such an artificial case categorization scheme
allows FBI leadership to misleadingly point to ‘significant’
increases in DVE nationwide.”

FBI CORRUPTION: TARGETING SCHOOL BOARDS & PARENTS

In October, as controversy about Covid masking and the influence of
hard-left Critical Race Theory in education rippled through school
board meetings across the country, Attorney General Garland issued a
memorandum directing the Justice Department and FBI to target local
school boards and parents. The FBI would address a purported
“disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of
violence” against school boards.

Following a national outcry about Justice Department overreach,
Garland publicly backpedaled,
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but did not rescind or disavow the memorandum. In fact, the FBI
quickly doubled down. The House road map notes that soon after the
Garland memorandum, the FBI established “a new ‘threat tag’
created to apply to school board investigations.” The new
“EDUOFFICIALS” threat tag, officials directed, was to be applied
to all “investigations and assessments of threats specifically
against school board administrators, board members, teachers, and
staff,” according to an email obtained by House investigative staff.


Critics charge that the Justice and the FBI has gone too far, chilling
legitimate dissent over issues such as Covid masks and Critical Race
Theory. Imagine speaking up at your local school board meeting and
getting a visit from the FBI. The roadmap claims that “information
from whistleblowers show that the FBI has opened investigations with
the EDUOFFICIALS threat tag in almost every region of the country and
relating to all types of educational settings.”

BIG BROTHER, BIG TECH

House leaders are also calling for close looks at the FBI’s
relationship with Big Tech powerhouses like Facebook and Twitter. The
House roadmap says evidence “shows that the FBI is helping censor
conservative viewpoints” on Big Tech platforms. Whistleblower
information provided to House investigators “suggests that the FBI
and Facebook have a so-called ‘special relationship’ that may
threaten constitutional protections and lead to partisan efforts.”
Whistleblower allegations suggest that the special FBI relationship
includes “Facebook voluntarily sending information that may relate
to citizens’ private political speech.”

Elon Musk’s recent “Twitter Files” disclosures
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have increased pressure for congressional scrutiny of the relationship
between government entities and Big Tech. The Twitter disclosures
outlined apparent government interference with free speech,
suppression of conservative voices, improper banning of then-President
Trump from the platform, and censorship of New York Post reporting on
the Hunter Biden scandal. Incoming House Judiciary Committee Chairman
Jim Jordan told the Wall Street Journal that the Twitter Files showed
the “collusion between big government, big tech and big media” was
“worse than we thought.” Jordan and incoming House Oversight
Committee Chairman James Comer are expected to launch hearings
exploring the Twitter Files revelations.

THE BORDER CRISIS

It’s not in the road map, but the other House investigations worth
noting are upcoming probes into the crisis on the southern border.
House leaders have said they will support investigations
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by the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees into border
issues, including a possible impeachment inquiry into Homeland
Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The southern border is under tremendous strain. More than two million
illegal immigrants were arrested in border crossings in 2022 up to
October, a record number—and that’s just the ones that got caught.
More than 800 died making the dangerous crossing in the same time
period. Mexican drug cartels pound the border in an unceasing drug
war. The latest cartel gambit? A plague of fentanyl
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on both sides of the border.

House investigators want to hear from Mayorkas and other top Homeland
Security officials on a wide range of issues, including the
unprecedented surge of illegal aliens, the failure of border policing
and border security technology, the impact of President Trump’s wall
and other Trump-era policies, the influence of drug cartels and drug
smuggling, and the entry into the U.S. of violent criminals and
terrorists.

We’ll have more on the House investigations in the coming months.
And the independent Judicial Watch investigations will continue. Stay
tuned.

Until next week,





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