SELLERS: Why GOP Should Seriously Consider Immunity Deals for Biden Kids

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SELLERS: Why GOP Should Seriously Consider Immunity Deals for Biden Kids

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Given the fallout from the mounting number of scandals surrounding the Biden White House, it seems inevitable that the dam will burst at some point. 

Even the Left’s No. 1 shill, Andrea Mitchell, was unable to carry water after the discovery of cocaine in the West Wing last weekend.

“I can’t even fathom anything like this having been found before in the West Wing,” the notorious MSNBC correspondent confessed.

Indeed, it is hard for anyone to fathom such a thing. There is no way that behavior so outrageous, so unseemly, would be allowed to pass without consequence.

Such cognitive dissonance goes part and parcel with the sort of propaganda-driven authoritarianism found in regimes like Nazi Germany, the Stalinist Soviet Union, Maoist China, Kimist North Korea and, of course, that of the current White House occupant.

“It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously,” wrote Adolf Hitler, explaining the “Big Lie” concept in his manifesto, Mein Kampf. “Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.”

Leftists are well aware of this fact, which is why they so eagerly sought to appropriate the term “Big Lie” for themselves and weaponize it against their opponents before it could be used against them over their systematic approach to information control.

The “Big Lie” may go a long way toward explaining the weaponization of the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying social-justice riots in 2020 to destabilize the nation by undermining its voting integrity, jurisprudence, and system of checks and balances in the aftermath of that year’s presidential election.

And it can explain a lot that has happened since then with respect to some of the Biden family’s favorite business partners in places like China and Ukraine—not to mention the incessant gaslighting that has consumed American culture, forcing citizens concerned about their social capital to publicly deny even the most self-evident and fundamental of truths.

Still, there are some things that are left unexplained by the “Big Lie” theory of governance.

For example, why, on the very day that the discovery of cocaine in the White House was a major breaking news story, would Hunter Biden appear to do a bump in the presence of his entire family from a White House balcony with cameras rolling?

Was it simply the thrill of risking it all in the moment, or showing the world what he can get away with? Or was it a cry for help?

EMBIGGENING THE LIE

There comes a point at which the level of recklessness involved in the Bidens’ activities is so implausible that it strains credulity, even when approaching them with full awareness of the lies involved.

If cracks (no pun intended) begin to show in the façade of the “Big Lie,” can making it bigger, bolder and even more brazen really be the answer?

The “Big Lie” theory certainly can help explain why the country’s intelligence community knowingly colluded with social-media platforms to spread disinformation about Hunter’s so-called laptop from Hell.

It did not matter that 51 top former intelligence officials had absolutely no basis for claiming the laptop could be yet another attempt at Russian election interference. All that mattered was that their bogus letter to that effect lent plausible deniability to the lapdog media just long enough to get their basement-dwelling candidate across the finish line, even though the FBI itself had maintained possession of the damning laptop for years.

But what the “Big Lie” theory cannot explain is why or how Hunter Biden ever could have left a laptop (or multiple laptops) that contained so much sensitive, degrading and politically compromising information in the hands of a total stranger to begin with.

Are we really to believe that the drugs made him do it, just as it was allegedly a bender that made Hunter fire of a perfectly lucid and coherent WhatsApp message from his father’s home threatening to extort a businessman linked to China’s espionage ministry while claiming that the future president was sitting right beside him at the time?

But the pattern doesn’t end with Hunter.

How many people would keep a diary alleging that their public-figure father may have sexually molested them and then accidentally leave it behind at a halfway house?

Ashley Biden did.

Luckily, Merrick Garland’s Justice Department was there to raid the journalists and arrest the hapless couple who discovered it.

THE FAMILY DISEASE

Taken in their collective sum, after cutting away all the noise and cognitive dissonance used to confuse and misdirect the public, it is hard to see the Biden children’s behavior as anything but deliberate—if unconscious—acts of self-sabotage.

They may, in fact, suffer from the most severe cases of Stockholm syndrome ever recorded. How else might one learn to cope when one’s father is a powerful man who also happens to be a sexual predator?

Not only does this explanation jibe with the private accounts that Hunter and Ashley offer in their respective correspondences, but it also reaffirms what we know to be true of Joe Biden’s own behavior.

If a man behaves like this openly in public, what is he doing behind closed doors when people are not watching?

In a 2018 text message between Joe and Hunter discovered via the laptop, the elder Biden even admitted that he bore the direct responsibility for his son’s “disease.”

“All I want is to make you proud,” wrote Hunter, who was 48 at the time of the exchange. “And I know I haven’t. But I promise I’m trying Dad.”

The future president responded, shortly after 4 a.m., by offering absolution to his prodigal son and assuring him that the issues that afflicted him were not his fault.

“You’ve always made me proud you got the disease from mommy and me but you are strong and courageous with so much more to give,” Joe Biden wrote.

Just two months after that exchange, Hunter was contacted by his uncle Jim, who warned him that his sister-in-law-turned-ex-lover, Hallie, the widow of his brother Beau, had been complaining about sexually inappropriate photos that Hunter had taken with his niece Natalie, in which the underage girl was topless.

“Your father is getting as am I barraged by Hallie. He has not responded I have not responded,” Jim Biden wrote.

“… Once again we both need you[r] side of the story so we can both shove it down her f***ing throat !!!!” he continued. “I implore you to call. Please I/we are on you[r] side. I believe you[.]”

THEORY OF EVERYTHING

As the Biden story begins to unravel, it may be tempting to go after Hunter, the low-hanging fruit, whose prosecution under any circumstances other than the current travesty would be a cut-and-dry case several times over.

However, Reps. James Comer, R-Ky., who chairs the House Oversight Committee, and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, might wish to think outside the box when the opportunity does finally present itself to hold Joe Biden accountable for his crimes.

By then, his children may be ready to come forward and, for once, provide the American people with a clear and full picture of the underlying evil that motivates his every move.

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers.

Tucker Carlson Says Ex Capitol Police Told Him J6 Crowd Was ‘Filled with Federal Agents’

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Tucker Carlson Says Ex Capitol Police Told Him J6 Crowd Was ‘Filled with Federal Agents’

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In an interview with comedian Russell Brand aired Friday, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he was told by the former Capitol Police chief that the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest crowd was “filled with federal agents”—but Fox refused to air this revelation.

Carlson told Brand that when he originally witnessed the violence on Jan. 6, it never crossed his mind that there were federal provocateurs among the protestors.

“I never thought there was a false flag or anything like that. And then I interviewed the chief of the Capitol Police, Steven Sund, in an interview that was never aired on Fox, by the way,” Carlson said, adding that he plans on interviewing Sund again.

“He said, ‘Oh yeah, the crowd was filled with federal agents.’ He would know, of course, because he was in charge of security on site.”

Carlson said he plans on interviewing Sund, who is now retired, again.

Carlson’s information is the latest evidence of J6 federal provocation.

In May, the House Weaponization Subcommittee disclosed an FBI whistleblower’s claim that the bureau’s DC office tried to sequester information about potential J6 from other FBI offices.

The whistleblower, retired FBI agent George Hill, said the bureau’s Boston field office requested the J6 footage from DC. However, the DC field office denied this request, according to Hill.

“The [Washington field office] said, ‘We can’t show you those videos unless you can tell us the exact time and place those individuals were in the Capitol’, to which [Boston agent] responded back: ‘Why can’t you just give us access to the 11,000 hours of video?’”

According to Hill, the DC office then responded, “Because there may be undercover officers or confidential human sources on those videos, whose identity we’d need to protect.”

Additionally, during the Proud Boys sedition trial earlier this year, the Justice Department disclosed that at least 10 to 12 undercover DC Metropolitan Police Department officers also participated in Jan. 6.

A defense attorney from the same trial also alleged that there were 19 DHS informants in the J6 crowd. According to that attorney, “there are reasons to suspect the true number [of informants] is higher.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Wisconsin Gov. Uses Bizarre Veto Trick to Waste Tax Dollars 4 Centuries into Future

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Wisconsin Gov. Uses Bizarre Veto Trick to Waste Tax Dollars 4 Centuries into Future

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Democrat Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin wielded his veto power to raise funding for the state’s public schools for the next 400 years.

The plan increased per-pupil spending by $325 each year until 2425. The original plan only grew funding from 2024 to 2025.

The governor of Wisconsin had the greatest legal veto power of any governor in the country, allowing them to strike out words and numbers to drastically edit laws and proposals to their personal satisfaction.

Evers struck out the “20” and the hyphen from “2024-25” throughout the bill, originally written and proposed by the Wisconsin GOP.

The bill contained a $3.5 billion tax cut—households making between $36,000 and $405,500 would have seen a 17% decrease in their state taxes had Evers kept it in the bill.

Evers also vetoed a plan to uproot diversity, equity and inclusion programming at the University of Wisconsin.

When writing the budget, Evers relegated money for universal school breakfasts and lunches, targeted tax relief, healthcare expansion, the legalization of marijuana and vaguely referenced “community-driven solutions to workforce challenges.”

The governor admonished the state’s GOP for their “short-sighted decisions.”

“Republicans in the Legislature have failed to meet this historic moment, sending my budget back to my desk absent critical investments in key areas that they know … are essential to the success of our state,” Evers’ said in his veto statement. “That decision is, to put it simply, an abdication of duty.”

Republicans in Wisconsin’s state House said they would overturn the vetoes, particularly the one on tax cuts.

“We want to make sure the people of Wisconsin remember who’s on their side and who’s not,” said State House Speaker Robin Vos. “We are not going to lay down.”

Recently, a Wisconsin-based newspaper caught the governor paying thousands of dollars for positive reviews and accolades via a business group known as People First.

The group pushed causes and candidates on the far-left side of the political spectrum for its clients, including Evers, who shelled out $52,000 for the fake support.

Wyoming Town Introduces AI-Run Mass Surveillance System

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Wyoming Town Introduces AI-Run Mass Surveillance System

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The council of Jackson, Wyoming, voted to implement a surveillance system largely run by artificial intelligence, making the town the first in its state to make use of such technology.

According to the Daily Wire, the council agreed to install 30 solar-powered license plate recognition cameras along streets and on traffic lights. The cameras fed a centralized surveillance system managed by Flock Safety, a private company specializing in the LPR technology.

Even councilmembers who voted to support the measure expressed reservations about where the surveillance was headed. “I don’t like this particular arc of this particular part of history,” Councilman Jonathan Schechter said. “I’m screaming ‘stop’ as I vote ‘yes.’”

The AI-run cameras can send law enforcement instant alerts when they detect illegal activity. Flock Safety introduced the LPR tech as part of their “Falcon” line, which came from their larger AI-powered surveillance system, known as “TALON.”

The other technology in the TALON package detected gunshots, breaking glass and screeching tires; searched through police footage for suspects; and even provided zooming and live feed capabilities.

Flock Safety explained that the tech only captured images of license plates—which was legally required to be deleted after 30 days—and did not gather information on humans.

However, CEO and co-founder Gerrett Langely previously stated that the technology may assist U.S. Border Patrol officers in the deportation of illegal immigrants.

Over 2,000 cities in 43 states have installed Flock Safety cameras since their founding in 2017. The company started by marketing to private citizens, allowing them to share footage in real time with police officers. They were remarkably popular as a security measure within homeowners associations.

A recent CATO survey revealed that many young people are increasingly in favor of greater government surveillance—even on private property and in personal homes.

While 75% of Americans were against the idea, 33% of Generation Z (adults under the age of 30) expressed favor for the idea of government-sponsored security cameras in the home.

Several private companies are ahead of the curve, as people continue to purchase technology such as Amazon Alexa.

Both Amazon and Microsoft both faced fines of millions of dollars for collecting private data on children.

TikTok was also an area of concern, and recently faced federal investigation in both the United States and the United Kingdom for data mining and storing private information from its users.

Activists Plot to Fill Seattle District w/ Homeless ahead of MLB All-Star Game

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Activists Plot to Fill Seattle District w/ Homeless ahead of MLB All-Star Game

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Activists in Seattle planned an RV “park in” to obstruct the Democrat-run city’s attempts to clear homeless encampments before the MLB All-Star game on July 11.

The city of Seattle gave notices to homeless residents living in RVs parked around the T-Mobile Park baseball stadium, requesting them to relocate their belongings before the game. The SODO neighborhood in Seattle has struggled with crime, drug dealing and waste caused by RV encampments in recent years. Seattle officials estimated that there were 449 RV encampments in the city, with 118 of them located in the SODO neighborhood in 2022. 

In response, activists distributed flyers to the homeless, encouraging them to move back to the SODO neighborhood the night before the game when parking rules lapse, thwarting the city’s attempt to clear out homeless encampments in the area, the Daily Caller reported.

“They’ve been pushing us around for months hoping to clear us out of sight for the MLB All-Star game on July 11. Let’s make sure all their work was for nothing!” the flyer read. “Just imagine when the tailgaters and rich assholes show up for the big game they’re going to find exactly what the city worked to hard to prevent: us!”

Activists will start a protest on July 10 by providing all-day assistance, coffee and food. They will then move RVs to the SODO neighborhood around midnight, where there are no parking zones, and host a party starting at 1 a.m. according to the flyer, distributed by Sweepless In Seattle, a local homeless activist group.

Sweepless in Seattle stated on its website they are “a new collective of unhoused people who have been subject to relentless sweeps,” adding to the pressure was the incoming MLB All-Star Game.

“The city is more than capable of producing these necessary solutions for people and make that caring vision a reality, especially with the $2m it pocketed directly from the MLB to help host the event,” the organization also noted in a video.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams, DA Alvin Bragg at Center of Alleged Straw Man Donor Scheme, 6 Charged

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams, DA Alvin Bragg at Center of Alleged Straw Man Donor Scheme, 6 Charged

(Headline USA) Six people were charged Friday in an alleged scheme to divert tens of thousands of dollars in public money to New York City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams’s campaign months before his election.

The indictment, announced by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, does not implicate Adams or other current city employees in the upended plot.

Despite Adams’s campaign reportedly benefiting from the alleged scheme, Soros-funded Bragg’s case describes a straw donor conspiracy orchestrated by people with business before the city who hoped to maximize their donations in exchange for political favors.

Among the defendants are the owners of a construction safety business that’s working on a trash depot on Staten Island and a former NYPD commander now serving as director of integrity for a union that represents thousands of city workers.

“We allege a deliberate scheme to game the system in a blatant attempt to gain power,” said Bragg, who has come under intense criticism for the sham indictment of former president Donald Trump, which many legal scholars have blasted as baseless and politically motivated.

“The New York City Campaign Finance Board program is meant to support our democracy and amplify the voices of New York City voters. When the integrity of that program is corrupted, all New Yorkers suffer,” Bragg said.

Prosecutors said the effort to illegally structure donations was led by Dwayne Montgomery, a former NYPD inspector currently listed as the director of integrity for the Teamsters Local 237, which represents municipal workers. Adams reaped rich rewards from labor union support during his mayoral bid.

According to the indictment, Montgomery recruited friends and relatives to take advantage of the city’s generous matching funds system, which provides an eight-to-one match for the first $250 donated by a city resident.

He is accused of orchestrating the donations of at least 23 straw donors between 2020 and 2021, while also helping to organize at least one fundraiser for Adams. It’s not clear how much money was ultimately steered to the campaign.

The indictment also names Shamsuddin Riza, Millicent Redick, and Ronald Peek as helping to organize the contributions. Yahya Mushtaq and Shahid Mushtaq, the leaders of EcoSafety Consultants, a construction company with active city contracts, are named as well.

Although New York’s campaign finance rules bar those with business before the city from donating more than $400, prosecutors say the defendants devised a scheme to donate to the campaign under the names of EcoSafety’s employees, without their knowledge.

“You could use a straw man,” Riza allegedly told Yahya Mushtaq during a phone call. “Whoever’s on the LLC or the incorporation, those are the people that do business with the city. Anybody else is an employee, the employees don’t fall under that criteria.”

Riza, who owns a construction company and was previously charged with falsifying business records, also indicated that he was hoping to secure work from the city.

“FYI ! This is the one I want, Safety, Drywall, and Security one project but we all can eat,” Riza wrote in a July 2021 email to Montgomery in which he sent along the information for a construction project called Vital Brooklyn, prosecutors allege.

The defendants each face charges of conspiracy, attempted grand larceny, and making false statements. None of them could immediately be reached for comment. A spokesperson for Adams’ campaign, Evan Thies, released a statement denying any involvement in the alleged scheme.

“There is no indication that the campaign or the mayor is involved in this case or under investigation,” Thies said. “The campaign always held itself to the highest standards and we would never tolerate these actions.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

J6 Families to Unite at Missouri Festival as Prisoners Call on Trump to Speak

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J6 Families to Unite at Missouri Festival as Prisoners Call on Trump to Speak

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) The American Patriot Relief, an organization assisting J6 defendants detained in the Washington D.C. gulag, will reunite family and advocates of the political prisoners at the second annual “J6 Truth and Light Freedom Festival” in Rogersville, Missouri.

“On July 7-9, there will be an Independence Day reunion festival for hundreds of J6 family members and our beautiful network of activists. Tickets are available for the general public,” political prisoner Jonathan Mellis told the Gateway Pundit. The J6 Truth and Light Freedom Festival was named after a support group chat and was formed out of necessity to support J6 prisoners and their families. 

Mellis, a member of the J6ers group, which also started a new program where people can adopt a J6’er and send commissary funds to them, called on former President Donald Trump supporters to ask him to attend their festival or send a video message of support.

“I am a J6er sitting in the DC jail for the last 2.5 years. I am one of your biggest supporters. I hope you are well considering all the attacks you endure. You are our country’s greatest hope for a good future,” Mellis wrote in a letter to Trump.

“It would be the greatest honor for our families to hear from you. This whole ordeal has broken our families’ hearts and that hurts us J6ers in jail more than anything else. The impact, if you, Mr. Trump, were to send a video would be HUGE,” Mellis concluded.

The FBI conducted predawn raids on J6ers and their families, charging many with federal felonies and even domestic terrorism with their connection to the events of January 6, 2021. Some were charged with minor trespassing, while others claimed self-defense against police brutality during the protest that turned into a riot.

In December 2022, Mellis cautioned Americans that he and fellow J6 defendants in the “Patriot Pod” of DC’s gulag were being tortured by biased, cruel and violent correctional officers, sexually harassed and demeaned for their Trump advocacy in what the American Patriot Relief “called the most oppressive acts by our government against its own citizens in the history of our country.”

Major Media Co. Cancels Online Comments, Impacting Many Local Dailies

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Major Media Co. Cancels Online Comments, Impacting Many Local Dailies

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) MediaNews Group, also known as Digital First Media, which owns many local newspapers, has turned off its comments sections on its news stories.

The leadership of the company stated that its reason for removing content was to cancel voices the publication deemed unfit for the public square.

“Open comments can be difficult to moderate, and the discussion can sometimes be overwhelmed by spam, vicious political feuding, or even worse, hate speech,” said MediaNews Group Executive Editor Frank Pine, according to Axios.

Pine said that removing the capacity of his readership to comment on news stories was for the sake of “our democracy.”

“We take our Fourth Estate responsibility to facilitate public discourse very seriously and we believe increasing polarization is not good for our democracy,” he said, assuming the authority to control partisan feelings in America.

“In that respect, this decision is in line with our previous move away from national political endorsements,” he rationalized, referring to the company’s 2022 announcement.

The company announced its decision via editorials in their papers, as reported by The New York Times.

“Unfortunately, as the public discourse has become increasingly acrimonious, common ground has become a no man’s land between the clashing forces of the culture wars,” the editorials read, asserting that its readers get confused between opinion articles and news stories.

The company is also under financial pressure and has had to lay off staff that would otherwise moderate comments, which could be contributing to the removal of comments, according to Axios.

MediaNews Group owns hundreds of weekly newspapers and many daily newspapers. Some of the biggest names owned by the company are The Denver Post, The New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune and The Boston Herald.

The company is owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital, which is the second largest distributor of newspapers in the country, second only to the company that owns and operates USA Today.

Philly’s Woke DA Blames Lack of Gun Laws for Trans-Terrorists Mass Killing

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Philly’s Woke DA Blames Lack of Gun Laws for Trans-Terrorists Mass Killing

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In a recent tirade, far-left Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner blamed his state’s lack of extreme gun-restriction laws for the recent BLM trans-terrorist shooting that happened on his watch, the Huffington Post reported.

In an interview following the deadly rampage, Krasner blamed the state legislature for the violence that unfolded, ignoring his own complicity through so-called criminal justice reforms that have led to skyrocketing crime and violence.

“It is time for everybody and our legislature, including the ones who would like to walk around with an AR-15 lapel pin,” Krasner said, referring to Republicans including U.S. Reps. George Santos, R-N.Y., and Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla.

“It is time for every one of them to face the voters,” Krasner continued, noting that he finds the lack of gun restrictions in his state a disgrace.

“It is disgusting, the lack of proper gun legislation that we have in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Krasner said.

The killer, Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was arrested on Monday night after shooting up the city’s Kingsessing neighborhood.

According to police, Carriker began the rampage in the middle of the street before chasing the last victim down and killing him in his home. He shot two children, a 2-year-old and a 13-year-old, in their legs.

After his arrest, he told police that he shot innocent adults and children in order to help police combat gun violence in America. “All these guys are out there killing people,” Carriker allegedly told the police.

Carriker was a known leftist activist who posted frequently about BLM on his Facebook page, including one post in which he expressed support for workers who protested in the Strike for Black Lives in July 2020.

Asa Khalif, a representative of the district attorney’s office, said that Carriker’s choice to sometimes wear women’s clothing and long hair, however, does not mean that he identified as a woman, and that the incident should not be held against the “trans community.”

“The language spewed out by the conservative press is violent and is dangerous and is targeting trans women of color,” Khalif said. “We have our trans women, and our trans men, living in these communities, working, thriving in the communities. They are not killers, they are the most vulnerable to violence.”

Watchdog: Record-High Visa Overstays Could Portend Next Terrorist Attack

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Watchdog: Record-High Visa Overstays Could Portend Next Terrorist Attack

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Four of the 9/11 plane hijackers had been in the U.S. on expired visas, and one person linked to the Oklahoma City bombing was also in the country illegally.

With a record-high 853,955 visa overstays in 2022, is another such attack looming?

Judicial Watch thinks so. The government watchdog released a scathing response to a recent DHS report that downplays the severity of America’s broken visa system.

“A persistent crisis involving visa overstays has gripped the nation in years following the 2001 attacks … DHS tries to downplay the severity of the situation by shining a light on the positive, that the overstay rate is a mere 3.67% compared to 96.33% of over 23 million nonimmigrants that departed the country on time in accordance with the terms of their admission,” Judicial Watch said last week.

“The reality is that the latest available overstay figure is an alarming record-breaker for the U.S. and it indicates that national security is not being taken seriously by the government.”

While visa overstays are linked to the two deadliest terrorist attacks in American history—OKC and 9/11—the issue isn’t as simple as terrorists slipping through a porous immigration system.

To the contrary, the U.S. government was aware of the visa overstayers in both cases. Moreover, evidence suggests that the U.S. government allowed the visa overstayers to operate with impunity in the leadup to the attacks.

In the Oklahoma City bombing, the overstayer in question was Andreas Carl Strassmeir, a Hebrew-speaking, ex-military German who lived in a Nazi-infested religious compound during the 1990 and had dealings with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh—as Headline USA detailed in this story.

Given his connections to various intelligence assets, researchers have suggested that Strassmeir was a government informant. Strassmeir has denied being an informant and being involved in the attack.

In any event, the ATF had been investigating both Elohim City and Strassmeir in late 1994 and early 1995. During that investigation, the ATF discovered from a confidential informant that Strassmeir was in the country illegally.

Some in the ATF wanted to raid Elohim City in early 1995, but the FBI squashed that plan—bureau spokesman Bob Ricks claimed that the U.S. government didn’t want another Waco disaster on its hands.

Months later, the OKC bombing took place, and Strassmeir left the country before the FBI interviewed him about the matter.

In 2001, the U.S. government would again be monitoring at least one visa overstayer, Nawaf al-Hazmi, in the runup to a major terrorist attack. Instead of apprehending al-Hazmi, the CIA allegedly tried to make him an informant, according to a sworn statement from Office of Military Commissions investigator Don Canestraro.

In a sworn statement published earlier this year, Canestraro said at least two FBI agents told him that the CIA had attempted to recruit two of the hijackers—al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, the latter who had a valid visa.

“According to [one FBI agent], prior to the 9/11 attacks, the CIA was under pressure to recruit informants within al-Qaeda,” said Canestraro. “Responding to this pressure, [an unidentified CIA official] and his/her colleagues at the CIA were attempting to recruit al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar via a liaison relationship with the Saudi GID.”

Along with the FBI agents, Canestraro spoke with former Deputy National Security Advisor Richard Clarke, who has spoken about the CIA-recruitment theory publicly.

Clarke reportedly told Canestraro that the reason the CIA was recruiting the hijackers was for a “false flag operation.”

“According to Mr. Clarke, this ‘false flag’ operation would have involved al-Bayoumi befriending the two hijackers by attempting to convince them that he was sympathetic to their cause,” Canestraro said in the court filing.

More recently, DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari revealed in a June 28 report that U.S. Border Patrol agents blundered last year, when they released a Colombian national on the FBI’s terrorism watch list. While that wasn’t a visa overstay issue and the Colombian was arrested about a month after his improper release, it does further illustrate the U.S. government’s unwillingness or inability to keep terrorist foreigners out of the country.

Judicial Watch didn’t go so far as to suggest that the U.S. government is purposely allowing visa overstayers to plot the next terrorist attack, but the organization did call for congressional inquiries into the matter.

“The latest figures included in the Fiscal Year 2022 Entry/Exit Overstay Report illustrate that the problem is much worse than previously reported,” Judicial Watch said. “This is very disturbing and deserves congressional scrutiny.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

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