Saturday, January 6, 2024

JUDICIAL WATCH ISN'T ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL! - Ashli Babbitt: Judicial Watch files a J6 wrongful death lawsuit

JOE BIDEN'S DOJ EXISTS MERELY TO PROTECT AND ENABLE THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY AND HARASS THE REGIME'S ENEMIES!

Attorney General

Merrick Garland: Obama nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court after death of Antonin Scalia. Senate refused to vote on his nomination. Biden then made Garland U.S. Attorney General in 2021.

How Obama Pulls Biden's Strings

Barack Obama and his “Hope and Change” for America represented a political Trojan Horse phenomenon.  Joe Biden was Obama’s choice for his vice president for eight years of his Trojan Horse presidency. Joe Biden’s presidency has been an Obama Trojan Horse II with less subtle, more blunt messages of political persuasion and policy formation.

Obama, through clever political manipulation, presidential dictates, and eloquent speechmaking brought a seductive liberal, progressive, socialistic utopian vision to America. Obama used sophisticated Alinsky-style tactics to construct his Trojan Horse. He has tried to change America from within by distorting our political system. According to Obama, we are not an exceptional country. We are in Obama’s mind merely another tribe in his vision of where the best history of the collective human village is going.

Joe Biden trumpets Obama’s propaganda slogans of “social justice” vaunted as America’s true democratic values. Obama and now Biden both seduce and are pampered and protected by the American mainstream media which suspends vigorous investigative reporting about Hunter Biden’s promoting ‘the Biden brand” for alleged political influence peddling and financial gain for Biden family members.  

Joe Biden has created a third term for Obama’s propaganda domain labelled as “social justice” and “our American democratic values,” really Obama-Biden’s version. Biden has added climate change as his anti-fossil fuel campaign that destroys our energy independence and brings American security and military power down a peg. The Biden administration’s status as Obama presidential term three is confirmed by Biden’s appointment of enormous number of Obamaites:

Cabinet Members and Key Advisors

National Security Adviser

Jake Sullivan: Obama’s Deputy Assistant and Director of Policy.

Secretary of State

Antony Blinken: Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor (2013-2015) and Deputy Secretary of State (2015-2017).

Secretary of Homeland Security

Alejandro Mayorkas: Obama Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. He also managed staffing the DoJ Criminal Division

Director of National Intelligence

Avril Haines: Was Obama’s Deputy Director of the CIA then Deputy National Security Advisor. Biden promoted her to DNI in 2021.

Ambassador to the United Nations

Linda Thomas-Greenfield: Obama’s Director General of the Foreign Service and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.

Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Samantha Power: Obama’s transition team for the State Department and his UN Ambassador (2013-2017)

Deputy Secretary of State

Wendy Sherman: Obama’s Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. Retired July 2023 and replaced by Victoria Nuland (acting)

ECONOMIC POLICY and FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT

Director, National Economic Council 

Brian Deese: Obama's senior White House advisor, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, and deputy director of the National Economic Council. Subsequently. Deese was Global Head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock before joining the Biden administration.

Secretary of the Treasury

Janet Yellen: Obama’s Chairman of the Federal Reserve and Biden’s appointment as Secretary of the Treasury.

Chair, Council of Economic Advisers

Cecilia Rouse: Obama member of the Council of Economic Advisors promoted to the chair by Biden in 2021. 

Deputy Secretary of the Treasury

Adewale "Wally" Adeyemo: A Nigerian, Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and deputy director of the National Economic Council, then head of the Obama Foundation.

Member, Council of Economic Advisers

Jared Bernstein: VP Biden economic advisor during Obama years, then Biden appointed him Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.

Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission

Gary Gensler: Obama Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, then Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2021

Attorney General

Merrick Garland: Obama nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court after death of Antonin Scalia. Senate refused to vote on his nomination. Biden then made Garland U.S. Attorney General in 2021.

Secretary of Agriculture

Tom Vilsack: Obama Secretary of Agriculture, appointed by Biden in 2021.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Denis McDonough: Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor, then Chief of Staff. Biden appointed him in 2021.

Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Eric Lander: Obama’s advisor on science and tech. Elevated to Cabinet in 2021. He resigned in 2022 for bullying, replaced by Alondra Nelson.

Deputy Attorney General

Lisa Monaco: Obama Homeland Security Advisor, appointed by Biden to Deputy Attorney General in 2021.

Associate Attorney General

Vanita Gupta: Obama Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. promoted by Biden to Associate Attorney General in 2021.

Surgeon General

Dr. Vivek Murthy: Obama’s (and Trump’s) Surgeon General, reappointed by Biden in 2021.

Chairperson, Council on Environmental Quality

Brenda Mallory: Obama General Counsel of the EPA, then promoted by Biden to Chair of Council on Environmental Quality.

WHITE HOUSE AIDES 

Chief of Staff

Ron Klain: Obama Ebola Response Coordinator. Replaced by Jeff Zients, Obama Director of OMB, and Director of the National Economic Council.

Director, Domestic Policy Council

Susan Rice: Obama’s National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate

John Kerry: Obama’s Secretary of State.

National Climate Adviser

Gina McCarthy: Obama Administrator of the EPA.

Director, Office of Legislative Affairs

Louisa Terrell: Was Obama’s Legislative Aide

Counsel to the President

Dana Remus: Obama Deputy Assistant and Deputy Counsel for Ethics, then general counsel for the Obama Foundation and Michelle Obama.

Comptroller General of the U.S.

Gene Dodero (appointed by Obama and still in office)

Image: White House          


Ashli Babbitt: Judicial Watch files a J6 wrongful death lawsuit

Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP) was recently at it again, claiming police officers were killed on January 6.  If “fact checkers” bothered to fact check her, they’d discover no officers died, but Army veteran Ashli Babbitt was killed, shot by the diverse Capital Police Lt. Michael Byrd. Byrd was never charged, but has been promoted. Fortunately, Judicial Watch isn’t letting America forget Babbitt’s murder: 

Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. Government on behalf of the family of Ashli Babbitt, the U.S. Air Force veteran who was shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021 (Estate of Ashli Babbitt and Aaron Babbitt, et al. v. United States of America (No. 3:24-cv-00033)).

The lawsuit includes claims against the U.S. Government for wrongful death, assault and battery, and various negligence issues.

Image: Judicial Watch press release graphic

I’ve extensively covered Babbitt’s murder at my home blog, including Byrd’s record of firearm incompetence. The lawsuit alleges even greater, and more dangerous, incompetence than has been previously known:

The lawsuit argues that, based on prior incidents involving Lt. Byrd, the Capitol Police, Capitol Police Board, and ultimately Congress, as Lt. Byrd’s employer, “knew or should have known that Lt. Byrd was prone to behave in a dangerous or otherwise incompetent manner:”

Less than two years before January 6, 2021, on or about February 25, 2019, Lt. Byrd left his loaded Glock 22 – the same firearm he used to shoot and kill Ashli Babbitt – in a bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) complex. Lt. Byrd’s loaded Glock was discovered during a routine security sweep later the same day. Approximately 15,00 to 20,000 people pass through the CVC, which serves as the main entrance for visitors to the U.S. Capitol, daily during peak season (March-July). Lawmakers and staff charged with oversight of the USCP were not made aware of the incident until contacted by a reporter.

This bit of incompetence was previously known. It’s the kind of lapse for which police officers are routinely fired, but not Byrd. This was not previously known:

Lt. Byrd’s police powers had been revoked on more than one occasion prior to January 6, 2021, for failing to meet or complete semiannual firearms qualification requirements. In fact, Lt. Byrd had a reputation among peers for not being a good shot. Under USCP’s range management system, an officer who fails to meet firearm qualification requirements is given one week of remedial training. If the officer still fails to qualify after remedial training, police powers are then revoked until the officer qualifies.

Lt. Byrd’s police powers also were revoked for a prior off-duty shooting into a stolen, moving vehicle in which the occupants were teenagers or juveniles. The stolen vehicle was Lt. Byrd’s car. Lt. Byrd fired multiple shots at the fleeing vehicle in a suburban area. Stray bullets from Lt. Byrd’s firearm struck the sides of homes nearby. An official investigation found that Lt. Byrd’s use of force was not justified.

The Washington Examiner has the complete lawsuit filing. 

So Byrd failed to qualify a few times. So what? Most Americans don’t know police officers tend not to be good shots. Most aren’t gun guys and girls. Many possess only their issued handgun. Police qualifications have a low minimum passing score, usually no more than 70%, fired at short distances with generous, or no, time limits. They can miss 30% of shots fired under ideal circumstances, and still pass. Officers are usually allowed as many “do-overs” as necessary to minimally pass. This is important because there are many cases on file of officers shooting at suspects at inside-a-phone-booth ranges, and missing, while ventilating the surrounding countryside.

That was the case with Byrd, who on January 6 was depicted walking about with his finger on the trigger of his 5.5 pound trigger pull Glock, a flashing red warning of an incompetent, dangerous cop. Striking was the lawsuit’s allegation of Byrd wildly firing at his own stolen vehicle, and apparently hitting only surrounding homes. That’s precisely the kind of horrific handgun control and alarmingly bad judgment that would get most cops instantly fired.

Why wasn’t Byrd fired for that incident, leaving his handgun in a bathroom and for killing Babbitt? Byrd is black. Firing him would expose diversity hiring, retention and promotion practices, and prosecuting him for an obvious murder would damage the Jan. 6 insurrection narrative. Instead, Byrd was proclaimed a hero and promoted to captain. Ashli Babbitt was not available for comment.

Hopefully, the Judicial Watch lawsuit will proceed. The Mummified Meat Puppet Administration will surely do all it can to quash it, because discovery will be, to put it mildly, revealing. Or maybe we’ll be surprised and the most transparent administration ever will actually opt for transparency. This is me, bitterly laughing.

Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.  

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