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Border Corruption Update!

Court Orders Justice Department to Commit on Releasing Biden Audio
Tapes

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A federal court ordered
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the Department of Justice to declare whether it intends to continue
denying our request for the full audio of former President Joe
Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.

We hope the Trump Justice Department accepts what seems like an
invitation from a federal court to end the Biden regime's cover-up of
Biden’s apparent dementia.

Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia wrote:

> In light of the recent change in administration, it is hereby
> ORDERED that Defendant shall, by February 19, 2025, file a status
> report confirming that its position outlined in its [34
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> Motion for Summary Judgment and [46
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> Memorandum in Opposition remains unchanged.

We filed the first FOIA lawsuit
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and
are the lead plaintiff asking for the Biden audio recordings of his
interviews in Special Counsel Hur’s criminal investigation of
Biden’s theft and disclosure of classified records (Judicial Watch,
Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice
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(No. 1:24-cv-00700)).

This lawsuit has already forced the Biden administration to confess
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that
the transcripts of the audio recordings have been altered and are not
accurate.

The then-Biden Justice Department fought
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to keep the audio recordings secret and asked the court to ignore
precedent and rewrite FOIA law. The former Biden agency demanded that
a law enforcement/executive privilege exemption be rewritten to help
Joe Biden; wants to change FOIA law to protect (after 50 years of
being a politician) President Joe Biden’s privacy in his voice; and
sought to potentially end FOIA with a new argument that the possible
“AI” alteration of the Hur recordings was reason to keep the keep
the recordings and any government record a secret from the public.

We argued that the recordings should be released “because an open
question remains about whether Special Counsel Hur’s conclusion that
President Biden should not be prosecuted for his mishandling of
classified records [and] is supported by the evidence.”

Further, the audio would educate the public about “whether Special
Counsel Hur appropriately pursued justice by recommending to the
attorney general that criminal charges should not be brought against
President Biden concerning his mishandling of classified materials.”
This question “is of even more import these days because another
special counsel (with approval by Attorney General Garland) is
currently prosecuting President Trump for allegedly engaging in
similar actions. In addition to President Trump being both President
Biden’s former political opponent and the current Republican nominee
in the upcoming Presidential election, President Trump is the only
former president or vice president to be prosecuted for such
actions.”

We also criticized the Biden Justice Department’s reliance on a case
that allowed the withholding of the audio of the dying cries of the
Challenger astronauts as simply “repugnant.”

On February 5, 2024, Special Counsel Robert Hur issued
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the “Report of the Special Counsel on the Investigation Into
Unauthorized Removal, Retention, and Disclosure of Classified
Documents Discovered at Locations Including the Penn Biden Center and
the Delaware Private Residence of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.”

In the report, Hur called Biden a “well-meaning, elderly man with a
poor memory” and declined to charge Biden with a “serious
felony:”

> We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely
> present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as
> a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based
> on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is
> someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.
> It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict
> him-by then a former president well into his eighties-of a serious
> felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.

Prior to the finalization of the report, the White House issued a
letter
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to the Special Counsel’s office attacking the report’s
“treatment of President Biden’s memory,” and added “there is
ample evidence from your interview that the President did well in
answering your questions …”

The White House admitted
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to the court that the transcript of President Joe Biden’s testimony
to Special Counsel Robert Hur is not accurate and is missing “filler
words (such as ‘um’ or ‘uh’)” and words that “may have
been repeated when spoken (such as ‘I, I’ or ‘and, and’)”
which were sometimes “only listed a single time in the
transcripts.”

The Heritage Foundation and a CNN-led media coalition have been joined
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with our lawsuit.


JUDICIAL WATCH SUES JUSTICE AGAIN OVER HUNTER BIDEN INVESTIGATION
COVER-UP

Judicial Watch renewed a key legal battle on details of the Biden
regime’s “investigation” of Hunter Biden.

We filed a FOIA
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against the Department of Justice for records and communications
regarding the Internal Revenue Service’s investigation of Hunter
Biden (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice
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(No.1:24-cv-03387)).

Wed filed an earlier FOIA
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in July 2023 in the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Department
of Justice failed to respond to a May 2023 FOIA request for access to
the public records of Special Counsel Jack Smith. During the course of
this suit, the Justice Department invoked FOIA
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to
withhold records due to an ongoing law enforcement proceeding
regarding Hunter Biden, and the suit was dismissed.

In light of the recent
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issued by the
president to Hunter Biden, no open law enforcement proceedings remain.
However, the original FOIA request remains open, and we filed the new
complaint stating:

> [T]he Justice Department has failed to produce the requested records
> or demonstrate that the requested records are lawfully exempt from
> production; notify Judicial Watch of the scope of any responsive
> records it intends to produce or withhold and the reasons for any
> withholdings; or inform Judicial Watch that it may appeal any
> adequately specific, adverse determination.

This is a perfect opportunity for the Trump Justice Department to
expose the extent of IRS/DOJ corruption to cover up Biden family
corruption. The Justice Department is lawfully required to release all
responsive records we requested.

We have multiple federal lawsuits focused on Biden family
corruption:

In June 2024,we received
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from
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) showing Mike Morell, former
acting CIA director under President Obama, requesting CIA permission
to publish a letter
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by former intelligence community leaders stating that they believed
the laptop emails exposing Hunter Biden’s connections to Ukraine
were Russian disinformation. Morrell’s request for prepublication
review was approved in just six hours by the CIA.

In May 2023, we filed a FOIA
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against
the National Archives for Biden family records and communications
regarding travel and finance transactions, as well as communications
between the Bidens and several known business associates.

On October 14, 2022, we
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the
Justice Department for all records in the possession of FBI
Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten regarding an August 6,
2020, briefing provided to members of the U.S. Senate. Ron Johnson
(R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) raised concerns that the briefing was
intended to undermine the senators’ investigation of Hunter Biden.

In December 2020, State Department
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obtained through a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit showed that former U.S.
Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch had specifically
warned in 2017 about corruption allegations against Burisma
Holdings.

In October 2020, we forced the release of State Department
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that
included a briefing checklist of a February 22, 2019, meeting in Kyiv
between then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Sally
Painter, co-founder and chief operating officer of Blue Star
Strategies, a Democratic lobbying firm which was hired by Burisma
Holdings to combat corruption allegations. At the time of the meeting,
Hunter Biden was serving on the board of directors for Burisma
Holdings.


CBP AGENT CHARGED WITH SMUGGLING, TRAFFICKING IN MAJOR CARTEL
CORRIDOR

The profits from illegal activities along the border are a great
temptation, even for law enforcement. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog
has a telling example
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> A federal agent in a border region long known as a major corridor
> for Mexican cartels smuggling narcotics and Islamic terrorists into
> the United States has been arrested and charged with alien smuggling
> and drug trafficking. The case involves a Customs and Border
> Protection (CBP) officer in El Paso, Texas, where Judicial Watch
> years ago uncovered
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> unprecedented partnership between Mexican drug cartels and jihadists
> as part of a decade-long investigation into crime, terrorism and
> corruption in the southern border. Back in 2017 Judicial Watch also
> produced an investigative documentary
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detailing
> an elaborate narco-terrorist cell operating out of El Paso, which
> the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) confirms is a primary hub
> for Mexican opioids and methamphetamine enroute to every corner of
> the U.S.
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> Corruption within the law enforcement ranks has also been a problem
> in the region at both local and federal levels, Judicial Watch
> investigations show, with a number of federal agents caught taking
> bribes over the years. Back in 2014 Judicial Watch reported
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> on the criminal indictment of Jesus Campa, the chief deputy of the
> El Paso County Sheriff’s Office (EPCSO), a Texas agency
> responsible for patrolling more than 1,000 square miles with a
> population of about 870,000. After nearly two decades with the
> agency, he left abruptly amid allegations of embezzling $5.6 million
> in Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) funds. His boss, Sheriff
> Richard Wiles, was embroiled in several scandals. Besides looking
> the other way as one of his trusted deputy chiefs embezzled millions
> of dollars, Wiles attended a fundraising event at the home of a
> convicted felon with connections to the illegal drug trade while
> serving his third term as sheriff.
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> The recent CBP case involves an agent, Manuel Perez, who federal
> authorities say has helped smuggle illegal immigrants and cocaine
> for six years on the El Paso border. In multiple instances the
> disgraced 32-year-old agent admitted vehicles driven by illegal
> immigrants at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry in El Paso as part of
> human smuggling operations, according to a statement
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> issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ). Additionally, Perez
> conspired to possess cocaine from 2019 to February 2025 as part of
> an operation to distribute the drug throughout Texas, Louisiana,
> North Carolina and elsewhere in the country. The officer is charged
> with one count of conspiracy to bring aliens to the United States
> for financial gain, three counts of bringing aliens to the United
> States for financial gain, and one count of conspiracy to possess a
> controlled substance with intent to distribute. He faces decades to
> life in prison, according to federal prosecutors.
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> Perez’s case indicates that little has changed since Judicial
> Watch first traveled to El Paso over 10 years ago to expose the
> reality gripping a city long promoted by local officials as one of
> America’s safest. The truth is that the municipality, which sits
> along the Rio Grande across famously violent Ciudad Juárez, Mexico,
> is a key smuggling route for Mexican drugs, illegal immigrants, and
> Islamic terrorists. Cartels smuggle foreigners from countries with
> terrorist links into a small Texas rural town near El Paso by using
> remote farm roads—rather than interstates—to elude Border Patrol
> and other law enforcement barriers, Judicial Watch reported
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> a decade ago. We also broke a story
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> 2015 about an ISIS training cell just a few miles from El Paso in an
> area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in
> the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Law enforcement and intelligence
> sources on both sides of the border confirmed to Judicial Watch that
> cartel-backed “coyotes” help smuggle ISIS terrorists through the
> desert and into the U.S. between Acala and Fort Hancock, Texas. The
> areas are targeted for exploitation by ISIS because of their
> understaffed municipal and county police forces and the relative
> safe havens the terrain provides for unchecked large-scale drug
> smuggling.
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> With four years of open borders under the Biden administration and
> corrupt federal agents like Perez, there is no telling how many
> terrorists have entered the country to plan attacks. After all, in
> 2016 Judicial Watch uncovered
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> an operation in which Mexican drug traffickers helped Islamic
> terrorists stationed in Mexico cross into the U.S. to explore
> targets for future attacks and among them was a Kuwaiti named Shaykh
> Mahmood Omar Khabir, an ISIS operative who at the time lived in
> Chihuahua not far from El Paso. Khabir trained hundreds of Al Qaeda
> fighters in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen, according to
> information provided to Judicial Watch by government sources.
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