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November 11, 2022

Judicial Watch Sues for Obama White Home Data in regards to the 2016 ‘Russia Collusion Hoax’
Protection Division Data Reveal U.S. Funding of Anthrax Laboratory Actions in Ukraine
Taliban Makes use of U.S. Navy Gear, IG Withholds Data of Afghan Safety Forces Collapse
Veterans Day – Why We Struggle

Judicial Watch Sues for Obama White Home Data in regards to the 2016 ‘Russia Collusion Hoax’

We filed a Freedom of Info Act (FOIA) lawsuit towards the Barak Obama Presidential Library for White Home information in regards to the 2016 “Russia Collusion Hoax.” The information, which by legislation weren’t obtainable below FOIA till 5 years after President Obama left workplace, are held on the Library, which is a part of the Nationwide Archives system (Judicial Watch, Inc. v Nationwide Archives and Data Administration (No. 1:22-cv-03310)).

The lawsuit was filed after the Library failed to reply to a March 4, 2022, FOIA request for information of former Obama White Home Nationwide Safety Advisor Susan Rice relating to alleged efforts by the Russian authorities to intrude with the 2016 presidential election and collude the Trump marketing campaign and the alleged hacking of Democratic Nationwide Committee and/or Clinton marketing campaign laptop programs.

On March 7, 2022, we submitted a second FOIA request to the Obama Library for Obama White Home information in regards to the notorious January 5, 2017, Oval Workplace assembly between President Obama and Vice President Biden, Rice, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, Director of Nationwide Intelligence James Clapper, and others.

Rice oddly memorized the assembly greater than two weeks later in an e-mail written within the last hours of the Obama Administration on January 20, 2017, stating:

President Obama started the dialog by stressing his continued dedication to making sure that each facet of this concern is dealt with by the Intelligence and legislation enforcement communities ‘by the guide’. The President burdened that he’s not asking about, initiating or instructing something from a legislation enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our legislation enforcement staff must proceed because it usually would by the guide.

Performing Lawyer Basic Sally Yates additionally attended the January 5, 2017, assembly.

A December 2019 report from the Justice Division’s Workplace of the Inspector Basic added to the listing of attendees on the assembly: “On January 5, 2017, Clapper, then NSA Director Michael Rogers, Brennan, and Comey briefed the ICA [Intelligence Community Assessment] report back to President Obama and his nationwide safety staff.”

Comey additionally confirmed in a guide that he briefed Obama on the January 5, 2017 assembly on his plan to confront President-elect Trump with the Clinton marketing campaign “file:”

Obama didn’t seem to have any response to any of this—not less than none he would share with us. In a stage voice, he requested, “What’s the plan for that briefing?” With simply the briefest of sidelong glances at me, Clapper took a breath, then mentioned, “We’ve got determined that Director Comey will meet alone with the president-elect to transient him on this materials following the completion of the total ICA briefing.” The president didn’t say a phrase.

As a substitute, he turned his head to his left and regarded straight at me. He raised and lowered each of his eyebrows with emphasis, after which regarded away. I suppose you possibly can learn no matter you need right into a wordless expression, however to my thoughts his Groucho Marx eyebrow increase was each refined humor and an expression of concern. It was nearly as if he had been saying, “Good luck with that.” I started to really feel a lump in my abdomen…

Your Judicial Watch has taken a number one function in uncovering the Obama/Deep State spying and different abuses concentrating on Trump world.

In August of this 12 months, we sued the U.S. Division of Justice (DOJ) for information ordered declassified and launched by President Trump the day earlier than he left workplace.  The information relate to “Crossfire Hurricane,” the controversial spy operation towards President Trump, his 2016 presidential marketing campaign, and different Trump associates, and have but to be made public by the Biden administration.

In Could 2020, Judicial Watch litigation, we uncovered the “digital communication” (EC) that formally launched the counterintelligence investigation, termed “Crossfire Hurricane,” of President Trump’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign. The doc was written by Strzok.

In March 2019 Judicial Watch launched closely redacted information from the DOJ that reveal Bruce Ohr remained in common contact with former British spy and Fusion GPS contractor Christopher Steele after Steele was terminated by the FBI in November 2016 for revealing to the media his place as an FBI confidential informant.

In August 2019, our staff at Judicial Watch uncovered “302” report materials from FBI interviews with Bruce Ohr, displaying that in November 2016, Ohr mentioned that “reporting on Trump’s ties to Russia had been going to the Clinton Marketing campaign” and “Jon Winer on the U.S. State Division and the FBI.” The paperwork additionally confirmed that Ohr knew that Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson and others had been “speaking to Victoria Nuland on the U.S. State Division.” (A Type 302 is utilized by FBI brokers to summarize the interviews that they conduct and accommodates data from the notes taken throughout the interview.)

In August 2018, the Justice Division admitted in a courtroom submitting that the International Intelligence Surveillance Court docket held no hearings on the International Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant purposes concentrating on Carter Web page, a former Trump marketing campaign part-time advisor who was the topic of 4 controversial FISA warrants. Judicial Watch litigation additionally uncovered the key FISA warrants that confirmed the FBI and DOJ misled the courts in withholding the fabric data that Hillary Clinton’s marketing campaign and the DNC had been behind the “intelligence” used to steer the courts to approve the FISA warrants that focused the Trump staff.

Additionally, in August of that 12 months, we found FBI information about Christopher Steele, the previous British spy, employed with Clinton marketing campaign and Democratic Nationwide Committee funds, who authored the notorious file concentrating on President Trump throughout the presidential marketing campaign. The paperwork present that Steele was reduce off as a “Confidential Human Supply” (CHS) after he disclosed his relationship with the FBI to a 3rd get together. The paperwork present not less than 11 FBI funds to Steele in 2016 and doc that he was admonished for unspecified causes in February 2016.

And we must also not that the Obama Presidential Library is a part of the identical Nationwide Archives system that’s subjecting President Trump to unprecedented harassment (raiding Trump’s dwelling!) about Trump White Home document preserving practices.

Protection Division Data Reveal U.S. Funding of Anthrax Laboratory Actions in Ukraine

The American individuals have a proper to know the character and extent of our authorities’s involvement within the community of biolabs scattered throughout Ukraine. Right here at Judicial Watch, we’ve got been working extra time to shed wanted mild on U.S. involvement within the administration and dealing with of pathogens in these Ukrainian biolabs. We simply acquired 345 pages of information below a Freedom of Info Act (FOIA) request to the Protection Risk Discount Company (DTRA), a element of the U.S. Division of Protection. These paperwork reveal that america funded anthrax laboratory actions in a Ukrainian biolab in 2018. Dozens of pages are utterly redacted, and lots of others are closely redacted. The information present over $11 million in funding for the Ukraine biolabs program in 2019.

We obtained the information in response to a February 28, 2022, Judicial Watch FOIA request to the DTRA for information relating to the funding of Black & Veatch involving work of any method with biosafety laboratories within the nation of Ukraine.

Three phases of labor are mentioned within the information, a number of of that are indicated to have occurred “on web site” on the Ukrainian labs.

The Protection Risk Discount Company offered a report titled “PACS [Pathogen Asset Control System] on the [redacted (b)(3), which exempts information from disclosure when a foreign government or international organization requests the withholding, or the national security official concerned has specified in regulations that the information’s release would have an adverse effect on the U.S. government’s ability to obtain similar information in the future] Part 2 On-the-Job Coaching Report, December 11-13/December 26, 2018” The Government Abstract contains data relating to “on-site” actions, seemingly referring to a Ukrainian biolab:

• PACS [Pathogen Asset Control System] on-the-job coaching was carried out for customers of the [redacted (b)(3)] on December 11-13, below Part 2 implementation actions, Anthrax Laboratory actions had been carried out on December 28, 2018.
• PACS present configuration and customization had been checked collectively with the on-site PACS Working Group
• Part 1 implementation actions together with progress and present standing had been reviewed; points and issues mentioned and resolved;
• Normal Working Process (SOP) for PACS use at [redacted (b)(3)] was up to date to incorporate Subculturing Operation course of – the up to date SOP submitted to the on-site Working Group.

The report supplies an inventory of titles of “OJT [on-the-job training] Individuals” with all individuals names from Black & Veatch redacted, citing exemptions (b)(6) for private privateness and (b)(3):

Senior Researcher Laboratory of Anacrobic Infections

Main Researcher Laboratory of Anacrobic Infections

Senior Researcher Laboratory of Anacrobic Infections

Researcher Laboratory of Anacrobic Infections

Main Veternarian Laboratory of Anacrobic Infections

Senior Researcher Laboratory of Bacterial Animal Illnesses

Head of Anthrax Laboratory

Researcher Anthrax Laboratory

Senior Analysis Scientist Laboratory of Mycotoxicology

Main Veternarian Laboratory of Mycotoxicology

Junior Researcher Laboratory of Leptospirosis

Laboratory Assistant Neuroinfection Laboratory

Analysis Scientist Sector of Worldwide Relationships and Geoinformation

A piece titled “Future Actions” notes: “Part 3 implementation agreed for March 2019.”

Included within the information is an Order for Provides or Companies dated August 1, 2019, is issued by the Protection Risk Discount Company to Black and Veatch Particular Tasks Corp. The overall quantity of the contract award is $11,289,142.00. The order accommodates roughly 35 contract line gadgets set forth in a press release of labor (SOW), dated March 5, 2019, titled: “Digital Built-in Illness Surveillance (EIDSS) and Pathogen Asset Management (PACS) Implementation” The assertion of labor, consisting of 24 pages, was not offered, nor was there a proof for the withholding.

A report titled “PACS [Pathogen Asset Control] Implementation on the [redacted (b)(3)]. Part 3 On-the-Job Coaching Report, November 28-29.2018” states in its Government Abstract:

• B&V has accomplished the ultimate stage of PACS implementation on the [redacted (b)(3)]. The location has been totally commissioned in operations of PACS performance.
• PACS on-the-job coaching and on-site actions had been carried out for customers on November 28-29, 2018 below Part 3 implementation actions
• PACS present configuration and customization had been checked collectively with the on-site PACS Working Group
• Part 2 implementation actions had been reviewed; points and issues mentioned and resolved;

A report titled “PACS [Pathogen Asset Control] Implementation on the [redacted (b)(3)]. Part 3 On-the-Job Coaching Report, April 3-5, 2019” has its Government Abstract and different parts redacted, citing FOIA exemptions (b)(4) commerce secrets and techniques, (b)(5) interagency or intra-agency communications and/or attorney-client privilege.

The Protection Risk Discount Company additionally offered a 2018 report titled “PACS [Pathogen Asset Control System] Implementation Plan at [redacted (b)(3)]. Part 2 On-the-Job Coaching Report, September 25-27, 2018.” The Government Abstract contains: “PACS on-the-job coaching was carried out for customers of the [redacted (b)(3)] on September 25-27, 2018, below Part 2 implementation actions.”

An inventory of “OJT [on-the-job-training] Individuals” from contractor Black & Veatch contains job descriptions however all names have been redacted by way of exemptions (b)(6) private privateness and (b)(3). A few of these job descriptions embody:

Head of Laboratory Virology

Division of Molecular Diagnostics and Management

Researcher of Pigs Illnesses Analysis Laboratory

Scientist of Laboratory of Virology

Division of Avian Illnesses

Researcher of Division of Avian Illnesses

Laboratory for Biosafety, High quality Administration

Engineer of the Laboratory for Biosafety, High quality Administration

Laboratory of Biotechnology

Researcher of the Laboratory of Biotechnology

Head of the Brucellosis Laboratory

Senior Researcher of the Brucellosis Laboratory

Head of the Molecular Diagnostics and Management

Head of the Tuberculosis Laboratory

Researcher of Tuberculosis Laboratory

Researcher of the Laboratory of Virology

The report additionally accommodates a piece titled “Future Actions:”

PACS [Pathogen Asset Control System] customers to proceed with materials registration, shifting and destruction operations.

PACS customers to replicate the method of Subculturing in PACS.

B & V to replace Normal Working Procedures (SOP) to incorporate the Subculture operations course of.

[Redacted (b)(3)] to carry out verify of PACS interface and supply suggestions (if any).

Part 3 implementation agreed for December 2018.

A December 19-21, 2018, Pathogen Asset Management System report begins with an Government Abstract that states: “B & V has accomplished the ultimate stage of PACS [Pathogen Asset Control System] implementation on the Institute of Experimental and Scientific Veterinary Drugs of the Nationwide Academy Agrarian Sciences (NAAS) of the Ukraine. The location has been totally commissioned in all operations of PACS performance.”

In a report titled “PACS Implementation Plan on the [redacted (b)(3)]” has the subtitle “Part 3 On-the-Job Coaching Report, October 30 – 31, 2018 / November 14, 2018” The Government Abstract supplies partly:

B & V has accomplished the ultimate stage of PACS implementation on the [redacted (b)(3)]. The location has been totally commissioned in all operations of PACS performance.

PACS on-the-job coaching and on-site actions had been carried out for customers on October 30 – 31, 2018, below Part 3 implementation actions. Virology Division “actions” had been carried out on November 14.

A piece of the order titled “Particular Contract Necessities” cites the 2015 Nationwide Protection Authorization Act and states the contractor “shall not interact in actions that incur expenditures within the Russian Federation, similar to venture administration actions, procurement and transport actions, journey or direct and oblique price incurrences.” The contractor could, nonetheless, procure Russian-origin gear from a Russian or non-Russian vendor positioned exterior of Russia.

The information embody 10 reviews titled “Report of Switch of U.S. Authorities Property Possession.” between the Protection Risk Company and the [redacted (b)(3)]. All the property listed within the reviews is redacted, citing exemptions (b)(3) and (b)(6). The overall worth of the property is $20,293.05

The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine claims the U.S. Division of Protection’s Organic Risk Discount Program is solely for bio-threat discount:

The U.S. Division of Protection’s Organic Risk Discount Program collaborates with accomplice nations to counter the specter of outbreaks (deliberate, unintended, or pure) of the world’s most harmful infectious ailments.  This system accomplishes its bio-threat discount mission by way of improvement of a bio-risk administration tradition; worldwide analysis partnerships; and accomplice capability for enhanced bio-security, bio-safety, and bio-surveillance measures. The Organic Risk Discount Program’s priorities in Ukraine are to consolidate and safe pathogens and toxins of safety concern and to proceed to make sure Ukraine can detect and report outbreaks brought on by harmful pathogens earlier than they pose safety or stability threats.

On March 8, 2022, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland admitted to the U.S. Senate International Relations Committee: “Ukraine has organic analysis amenities, which in actual fact we at the moment are fairly involved that Russian forces could also be looking for to achieve management of, so we’re working with the Ukrainians on how they will forestall any of these analysis supplies from falling into the arms of Russian forces, ought to they strategy.”

On March 26, 2022, the New York Publish reported that Hunter Biden helped safe funds for a U.S. biolab contractor in Ukraine.

In line with a webpage expunged from the web site of the State Division:

PACS [Pathogen Asset Control System] was first put in in Ukraine in take a look at mode in November 2009 on the Interim Central Reference Laboratory of the Particularly Harmful Pathogens (ICRL). Since then, Sanitary-Epidemiological Division (SED) of the Medical Command of the Ukrainian Ministry of Protection acquired 4 cellular laboratories from DTRA with the purpose of reinforcing the system of epidemiological surveillance within the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

These information reveal america has been concerned in Ukrainian biolabs for not less than 13 years, together with work on Anthrax. This seems to be a really deep gap, and we’ve got solely begun to plumb its depths.

Taliban Makes use of U.S. Navy Gear, IG Withholds Data of Afghan Safety Forces Collapse

It’s not unhealthy sufficient that america fought the Taliban for 20 years in a dropping trigger solely to withdraw and see the unconventional Islamists waltz into energy unopposed; it now involves mild that the Taliban is coaching its army and working with U.S. army gear within the aftermath of our withdrawal.

As reported within the Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, the Taliban is working with U.S. army gear:

The Taliban is coaching and working with U.S. army gear together with rifles, vehicles, and helmets with night time imaginative and prescient mounts for the reason that Biden administration withdrew American troops from Afghanistan final 12 months. Taliban forces even held a army parade with dozens of U.S.-provided armored autos and Mi-17 helicopters flying overhead, in keeping with a federal audit documenting the collapse of the American-funded Afghan Nationwide Protection and Safety Forces (ANDSF). For 20 years the U.S. Authorities spent a mind-boggling $90 billion to assist the ANDSF develop right into a self-sustaining power able to combatting terrorist teams just like the Taliban. It by no means occurred.

When the Biden administration withdrew U.S. troops in August 2021, the ANDSF crumbled, and the Taliban took over, producing pictures and movies of troopers carrying U.S.-provided clothes and brandishing U.S.-provided rifles. “Taliban models now patrol in pickup vehicles and armored autos seemingly procured by america and offered to the ANDSF,” reads the report revealed by the Particular Inspector Basic for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), which was created by Congress to supply unbiased and goal oversight of Afghanistan reconstruction tasks and actions. “Taliban particular operations troops, generally known as Badri 313 models, put on helmets with night time imaginative and prescient mounts seemingly offered by america, and carry U.S.-provided M4 rifles outfitted with superior gunsights.” The report continues: “Khalil Haqqani, a senior Taliban chief, carried a U.S.-provided rifle as he attended prayers at a mosque in Kabul following the collapse.” The examples present that the terrorist group is now outfitted with materials that was equipped by america to defeat it, the watchdog writes.

The 43-page report, which has 17 pages of endnotes, was launched to the general public earlier this 12 months and decided that the only most essential issue within the ANDSF’s collapse was the U.S. choice to withdraw army forces and contractors from Afghanistan. Since 2002, america deployed army and civilian personnel to coach, advise, and mentor Afghan troopers, police, and ministry officers, the report reveals, including that Uncle Sam offered the ANDSF over 600,000 weapons, 300 plane, 80,000 autos, communication gear, and different superior materials, similar to night time imaginative and prescient goggles and biometric programs. As a part of its probe SIGAR reviewed a whole bunch of presidency and tutorial reviews associated to the event of Afghan forces and its subsequent collapse. Investigators additionally carried out greater than 40 interviews with former Afghan authorities officers, former ANDSF members, and present and former U.S. authorities officers, together with commanders of U.S. forces and the Mixed Safety Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A), the unit liable for the ANDSF’s improvement. Ambassadors and advisors had been additionally interviewed.

Although fairly prolonged, the report leaves a variety of unanswered questions so we right here at Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Info Act (FOIA) request for information that would make clear the SIGAR probe and supply solutions for the American taxpayers that financed the 20-year boondoggle. In our request, Judicial Watch requested for emails, interviews, memoranda, reviews, and briefings with former Afghan authorities officers, former ANDSF members, and present and former U.S. Authorities officers, together with former commanders of U.S. forces, CSTC-A commanders, ambassadors, and advisors liable for the event of the Afghan military, air power, particular forces, and police, as they relate to the report. Just a few weeks later we acquired a letter acknowledging receipt of the FOIA request, and several other weeks later SIGAR adopted up with a letter rejecting the general public document request. The watchdog claims solely 27 information attentive to Judicial Watch’s request had been positioned however they’re exempt from disclosure below measures that defend attorney-client privilege, private privateness and knowledge compiled for legislation enforcement that would moderately be anticipated to represent an invasion of private privateness. The exemptions have official authorities codes that had been cited within the rejection letter.

SIGAR’s refusal to supply the information means the general public won’t ever know your complete fact behind the U.S.’s large failure in Afghanistan and the abrupt demise of the American-funded ANDSF. Within the title of transparency, the federal government watchdog ought to present the data. Mockingly, SIGAR just lately blasted the State Division for withholding information obligatory to research how billions of {dollars} in Afghanistan reconstruction cash is being spent. SIGAR condemned the State Division’s stonewalling in a letter to Congress and the Secretary of State explaining, “American taxpayers need to know why the Afghan authorities collapsed in spite of everything that help, the place the cash went, and the way taxpayer cash is now being spent in Afghanistan.”

Now, that exact same so-called “watchdog” indulges in constructing its personal stonewall round data taxpayers are entitled to see. Hypocrisy a lot?

Veterans Day – Why We Struggle

As we honor the sacrifices of our nice nation’s veterans on November 11, I’d wish to name your consideration once more to the Veterans Day speech given in 1985 by then-President Ronald Reagan, notably this part:

And the residing have a duty to recollect the situations that led to the wars wherein our heroes died. Maybe we are able to begin by remembering this: that each one of those that died for us and our nation had been, in a method or one other, victims of a peace course of that failed; victims of a call to overlook sure issues; to overlook, for example, that the surest strategy to maintain a peace going is to remain sturdy. Weak point, in spite of everything, is a temptation — it tempts the pugnacious to claim themselves — however energy is a declaration that can’t be misunderstood. Power is a situation that declares actions have penalties. Power is a prudent warning to the belligerent that aggression needn’t go unanswered.

Peace fails after we overlook what we stand for. It fails after we overlook that our Republic relies on agency ideas, ideas which have actual that means, that with them, we’re the final, finest hope of man on Earth; with out them, we’re little greater than the crust of a continent. Peace additionally fails after we overlook to convey to the bargaining desk God’s first mental reward to man: frequent sense. Widespread sense offers us a practical data of human beings and the way they suppose, how they stay on the earth, what motivates them. Widespread sense tells us that man has magic in him, but in addition clay. Widespread sense can inform the distinction between proper and unsuitable. Widespread sense forgives error, but it surely at all times acknowledges it to be error first.

We endanger the peace and confuse all points after we obscure the reality; after we refuse to call an act for what it’s; after we refuse to see the apparent and search security in Almighty. Peace is barely maintained and gained by those that have clear eyes and courageous minds.

I do know thousands and thousands of People have “clear eyes and courageous minds” and these patriots need the identical qualities in our political and judicial leaders. It definitely displays Judicial Watch’s modest strategy to our mission.

God bless America!