Feds Raid Office of ‘Big Deal’ Immigration Official over Alleged Security Violation

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Feds Raid Office of ‘Big Deal’ Immigration Official over Alleged Security Violation

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Earlier this week, federal cops reportedly ushered a high-ranking U.S. Department of Homeland Security bureaucrat out of its Washington, D.C., headquarters after they conducted a raid on his office.

In a development first reported by the far-left Rolling Stone magazine, multiple media outlets identified the Biden administration official as Brian Sulc, executive director of the Transnational Organized Crime Mission Center.

Sulk “is under investigation for an alleged security violation, bringing a personal electronic device inside the secure office, where phones and electronic devices are prohibited,” Rolling Stone wrote.

DHS has placed Sulc—who has not yet been arrested or charged with any crimes—on administrative leave, pending an internal investigation.

Through a statement, the agency has confirmed that a probe is ongoing, Fox News reported.

DHS declined to comment further, apart from insisting that “DHS is committed to ensuring all operational security protocols are followed and is conducting an inquiry into a reported security incident,” and that “DHS conducts its national security mission with adherence to the highest standards.”

Despite its so-called high standards, however, DHS has allowed millions of unvetted illegal aliens to pour into the U.S. pursuant to the Biden regime’s open-borders, catch-and-release, deportation-averse agenda.

GOP lawmakers have consistently criticized robotic and often-deflecting DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his failure to secure the border—which has created a law enforcement, national-security and humanitarian crisis in that region.

The Federal Protective Service apparently raided Sulc’s office late Monday afternoon and searched the premises.

Authorities have since reportedly enclosed Sulc’s work station with crime-scene tape and sealed the door and keyhole.

“He is a big deal,” one source with direct knowledge of the search of Sulc’s office told Rolling Stone.

“He does the border, all the big issues and crises,” the source added. “This is why this is all so shocking.”

Investigators reportedly questioned him before he was sent home.

A DHS employee for about 15 years, Sulc “is in charge of the office that produces intelligence assessments on border security, the opioid epidemic and other high-stakes policy issues,” Rolling Stone also explained.

AG Garland Outed as ‘Senior’ Admin. Official Burying Hunter Biden Criminal Probe

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AG Garland Outed as ‘Senior’ Admin. Official Burying Hunter Biden Criminal Probe

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Lending credence to what many already suspected, Biden regime Attorney General Merrick Garland has reportedly been identified as the “senior” official implicated in helping to bury the tax evasion case against Hunter Biden.

Garland was the unnamed official referenced in a stunning letter from the attorney of an IRS whistleblower, who claimed knowledge of a coverup in the Hunter Biden criminal investigation, the New York Post reported.

The whistleblower’s attorney, Mark Lytle, told lawmakers that the former IRS agent is ready and willing to testify before Congress.

The letter informed that the whistleblower had information that “contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee” and also showed “preferential treatment” in the criminal probe of President Joe Biden’s son. That “senior political appointee” is Garland, the Post reported.

“Typical steps that a law enforcement investigator would take were compromised because of political considerations,” the whistleblower claimed.

The IRS agent making the blockbuster claims had “already made disclosures to the inspectors general of the Treasury and Justice departments,” the Post reported. “However, due to a quirk of federal law, he needs congressional approval to more fully describe his allegations to his own lawyers, which he wants to do before testifying to lawmakers.”

The allegations are damning and sparked an immediate backlash when Garland was outed as the Biden official interfering with the Hunter Biden investigation. Garland has repeatedly and under oath in testimony to Congress denied any meddling in the first son’s case. Garland could be found guilty of committing perjury in statements given to Congress under oath, if the accusations are accurate.

“The CIA lies for Hunter and Garland blocks all the charges. This is the definition of a coverup and election interference,” one Twitter commentator noted, while another lamented that, “Our justice system is broken.”

“The IRS Whistleblower story is Watergate on steroids. AG Merrick Garland is directly implicated in obstructing an active criminal investigation into the President’s son,” wrote Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk. “House GOP must force leftwing news to cover. Public primetime hearings. Full song and dance.”

Karin Jean-Pierre Caught Lying about Florida Anti-Grooming Law

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Karin Jean-Pierre Caught Lying about Florida Anti-Grooming Law

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) White House press secretary Karine Jean–Pierre has been caught in a lie regarding Florida’s recently-passed anti-grooming law, Fox News reported.

Specifically, Jean–Pierre called into question the Florida Board of Education’s recent expansion of the Parental Rights in Education law, which was championed by the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.

She falsely characterized the law as the “dystopian Don’t Say Gay law,” which would, according to her, prohibit all discussion of lesbians or gays in the classroom.

“As this measure takes effect, it will prohibit all students up to seniors in high school from learning about our, or, learning about or even discussing LGBTQI+ people in the classrooms,” Jean-Pierre said.

She also claimed that teachers have had their licenses threatened by the state due to their sexual orientation.

“Teachers in Florida have already faced the devastating consequences of the existing law,” Jean-Pierre said. “Under threat of having their licenses revoked, gay teachers have been forced to take down pictures of their spouses from their desks and censor their classroom materials.”

According to the press secretary, conservatives—particularly “MAGA extremists”—are as guilty of participating in cancel culture as are those on the radical Left.

“Censoring our classes is not how public education is supposed to work in a free country,” she said. “Conservative politicians love to complain about the so-called cancel culture, all while threatening teachers with losing their jobs if they teach something that the MAGA extremists don’t agree with.”

Jean–Pierre was grilled on Twitter for her mischaracterization. Some noted that her claims were all “easily disprovable lies” which are “red herrings all the way down.”

Others pointed out the absurdity of what Jean-Pierre wants to happen in classrooms—discussions of personal sexual orientation and activity.

CIA Recruited 9/11 Hijackers for ‘False Flag Operation,’ Military Investigator Says

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CIA Recruited 9/11 Hijackers for ‘False Flag Operation,’ Military Investigator Says

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A recently released court record revealed shocking new information about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, citing anonymous FBI agents who told investigators that the CIA was monitoring and attempting to recruit two of the airplane hijackers in the lead-up to the attack.

This new information is reportedly contained in a heavily redacted 21-page court document filed at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. The document was never reported on because it was heavily redacted, but veteran national security reporter Seth Hettena said he obtained an un-redacted copy.

The court filing is a sworn statement from Office of Military Commissions investigator Don Canestraro, who summarized the inteviews he’s conducted with FBI agents about the 9/11 case.

According to Canestraro, at least two FBI agents told him that the CIA had attempted to recruit two of the hijackers—Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. The CIA was directing its recruiting efforts through Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi intelligence asset who was acting as a handler for al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar.

One of the FBI agents, identified as “CS-3” in the court filing, said that al-Bayoumi set up bank accounts and rented apartments for the two hijackers in San Diego. CS-3 said this was done at the behest of the CIA through the Saudi intelligence services, according to the filing.

“According to CS-3, prior to the 9/11 attacks, the CIA was under pressure to recruit informants within al-Qaeda,” the court filing states. “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.”

Another FBI agent, identified as CS-23, made similar statements, according to Canestraro.

“CS-23 told me that the attempt to recruit al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar was an operation directed by the Central Intelligence Agency. CS-23 told me that the CIA used their liaison relationship with the Saudi intelligence services to conduct an operation on U.S. soil,” Canestraro said in the court filing.

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.

“At the same time, al-Bayoumi would have been reporting on the hijackers’ activities to Saudi intelligence and ultimately to the CIA.”

In response to these new revelations, a CIA spokesperson reportedly denied that the agency was hiding information, while the FBI declined to comment. The reporter who broke the story, Hettena, quoted an unnamed CIA official who had much stronger words to say about the new information.

According to this CIA official, the FBI is trying to blame the CIA for its own failures.

“For them to say we’re holding out on them now—fuck you,” the CIA veteran reportedly said. “That’s what I want to say to all of you: Fuck you, assholes. Three thousand people dead and 22 years later, and you’re still trying to wash the stain off the FBI.”

Ex-Presidents, sans Trump, Team Up to Bring More Immigrants into Country

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Ex-Presidents, sans Trump, Team Up to Bring More Immigrants into Country

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, partnering with international organizations, have formed a non-governmental organization to fly immigrants into the United States, Breitbart reported.

Their organization, called Welcome.US, describes itself as a “national effort to welcome Afghans, Ukrainians and others fleeing their homelands as they begin the journey to build new lives in the United States.”

Welcome US was an integral part of bailing out President Joe Biden after the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

The NGO helped fly nearly 20,000 Afghans to American towns, supported by the following major corporate sponsors: “Walmart, Airbnb, the New York Times, the Business Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Starbucks, the Washington Post, Goldman Sachs, Goodwill Industries, Microsoft, and Chobani.”

The initiative is now collecting donations “to fund the flights for newcomers to travel to the United States.”

The aforementioned presidents are joined on the Welcome US team by former President Jimmy Carter, along with the all the living former first ladies except Melania Trump, who is herself an Eastern European immigrant.

The website purports to help the user make arrangements to “sponsor Ukrainians,” Afghans, Haitians, Cubans and Latin Americans, describing itself as “the largest coalition in refugee resettlement history.”

The coalition, according to the website, was “built to inspire, mobilize, and empower Americans” to welcome huge numbers of foreign refugees into the nation.

They operate on the “evidence” that “direct participation with newcomers transforms both the welcomer and those being welcomed.” What exactly the transformation will look like, however, is not described on the site.

In any case, the coalition exists to give “resources” to current and aspiring immigrants.

“Our ultimate ambition is for every American community—and the nation as a whole—to have the resources and willingness to welcome newcomers, now and in the future,” they wrote.

The website even has a link to “hire a newcomer.”

A subsidiary of Welcome US is the Welcome Corps, which works to “bring communities together while making it easier for refugee newcomers to adjust to life in the United States” by “building on our country’s long tradition of providing refuge.”

In contrast to other pro-immigration agencies, the Welcome Corps “creates new opportunities” for Americans to “engage directly in refugee resettlement through private sponsorship, independent of and complementary to existing avenues for volunteering with resettlement agencies.”

The group also has financial ties to George Soros.

Pentagon Leaks Show Biden Regime Spied on UN Secretary General

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Pentagon Leaks Show Biden Regime Spied on UN Secretary General

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Biden regime officials have been caught spying on the United Nations, snooping on private conversations between Secretary General António Guterres and subordinate officials.

The documents were discovered in the large leak allegedly produced by Jack Teixeira.

Multiple Biden administration officials refused to comment on the reported spying and snooping on the UN .

“The premise of this report is not something we can confirm and, as a matter of principle, intelligence matters like collection methods are not something we would ever talk about,” State Department officials told The Hill.

The Department of Defense and Department of Justice also declined to comment on the espionage. Though the Biden officials did not wish to comment on the issue, the UN’s secretary general of the globalist organization issued a blistering condemnation, according to CNN.

“The Secretary-General has been at this job, and in the public eye, for a long time. He’s not surprised by the fact that people are spying on him and listening in on his private conversations,” Guterres’ office said in a statement. “What is surprising is the malfeasance or incompetence that allows for such private conversations to be distorted and become public. The Secretary-General is not soft on any one country.”

The last comment referred to document details that seem to indicate favoritism towards Russia. One document showed that the secretary general was “not happy” about possibly traveling to Ukraine to meet with Zelensky.

Another document showed the secretarygGeneral angling for preferential treatment for Russia, according to Antiwar.com.

“UN Secretary-General Guterres is taking steps to accommodate Russia in an effort to protect the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which he considers a pivotal UN success and key to addressing global food insecurity, and his actions are undermining broader efforts to hold Moscow accountable for its actions in Ukraine,” one document read.

“Guterres emphasized his efforts to improve Russia’s ability to export, even if that involves sanctioned Russian entities or individuals,” another document reported.

Chicago to Implement Text Alert System in Case of Another ‘Teen Takeover’ Riot

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Chicago to Implement Text Alert System in Case of Another ‘Teen Takeover’ Riot

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Chicago-based nonprofit “I’m Telling, Don’t Shoot,” funded a text alert system to warn citizens about impending “teen takeovers,” like the one that occurred in the downtown area of the city last weekend.

Founder of the nonprofit, Early Walker, put together the initiative, calling it “Parents For Chicago.” Walker provided 90% of the funding for the alert system, which locals can sign up for by texting “CHICAGOKIDS” to 21000, or emailing [email protected].

According to the Daily Wire, Chicago residents decried the rash of shootings, lootings, arson and assault as high-ranking government officials continue to insist there was no chaos.

Sen. Robert Peters, D-Ill., went as far as voicing support for the mob and attempted to spin their obviously destructive intent as a mostly peaceful protest.

“I would look at the behavior of young people as a political act and statement,” said Peters. “It’s a mass protest against poverty and segregation.”

Chicago’s embattled Lori Lightfoot ensured that the teenagers who committed crimes would face charges, but argued that casting the occurrence as “mayhem,” as reporters suggested, was an over-exaggeration.

“I’m not going to use your language, which I think is wrong, to say there’s ‘mayhem,’” Lightfoot said in a public statement.

Nearly 100 teenagers rioted in the Chicago loop throughout the weekend. Three teenagers were shot, the youngest one being 14 years old. Police arrested 15 rioters in the aftermath.

The mob attacked a young couple, Devontae Johnson and Ashley Knutson as they exited a Nordstrom. When the group threatened to kill them, a passerby intervened.

The woman who saved the couple called out Lightfoot for “sugarcoating” the situation.

“I can’t be involved in any level of sugarcoating what I saw,” said Dennis. “That was mayhem.”

Chicago Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson also defended the teenagers and argued that it is the local government’s responsibility to provide spaces for teenagers to gather safely.

“It is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities,” said Johnson. “Make sure that young people know that they’re supported.”

Facebook Censoring Seymour Hersh’s Nord Stream Investigation

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Facebook Censoring Seymour Hersh’s Nord Stream Investigation

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Facebook is censoring Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh’s article about how the Biden administration committed an act of eco-terrorism by sabotaging Russia’s Nord Stream natural gas pipelines last September.

Hersh’s story has caused an uproar internationally in recent months, even though U.S. officials have denied and largely ignored the reporter’s findings. The New York Times initially purported to debunk Hersh’s story with an article about a “pro-Ukrainian group” sending divers from a 50-foot pleasure yacht to attack the pipelines, only to backtrack earlier this month and admit that its story is tenuous—while also calling for the truth of the matter to be ignored.

Despite Hersh’s reporting being validated thus far, Facebook has decided to censor it. This was discovered by reporter Michael Shellenberger on Wednesday.

“There is a big debate over who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. Instead of allowing the debate, Facebook has decided to take a side,” he said. “It is censoring Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh. And instead of explaining, Facebook sends readers to an article in Norwegian.”

Shellenberger also pointed out that the fact-checking organization used by Facebook to flag the article is a partnership with a Norwegian government-owned media company, NRK, which has a direct self-interest in censoring the story.

“By contrast, Hersh makes his own money through Substack and won a Pulitzer for exposing U.S. government abuses in Vietnam,” Shellenberger wrote.

“Whether Hersh is wrong or right, his reporting should be debated publicly, not censored. Facebook’s actions are antithetical to America’s tradition of free and open debate and its rejection of secretive, authoritarian censorship.”

Facebook has apparently softened its stance since Wednesday. Instead of marking Hersh’s story as “false” when posted on Facebook, the social media company now labels it as “partly false.”

“Yesterday, [Briahna Joy Gray] revealed that when she tried posting the article, Facebook warned that she might be punished by Facebook for doing so. The company’s censorship is thus both authoritarian and erratic,” Shellenberger said of the sudden change.

“They got caught,” Twitter CEO Elon Musk added, referring to his rival, Facebook.

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

Former Top House Dem. Made $70K Lobbying for TikTok

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Former Top House Dem. Made $70K Lobbying for TikTok

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) According to a public filing, former Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., made $70,000 as a lobbyist for TikTok in the first quarter of 2023.

The representative served as a high ranking chair of the House Democratic Caucus, where he also worked as a lobbyist for TikTok. Crowley represented the video platform under a firm known as Dentons LLP, according to a Congressional disclosure required by the Lobbying Disclosure Act.

Former Republican Rep. Jeff Denham of California also filed as a lobbyist for the foreign tech company, the Daily Caller reported.

TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, faced criticism for suspected invasion of Americans’ data privacy. Company officials were grilled in a round of Congressional hearings, after which several GOP congressmen attempted to ban the app altogether.

Crowley acted as a lobbyist for the company throughout the course of the hearings. Reports indicated that he arranged introductions for the company’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, with high-level Democrats prior to the hearings in preparation.

ByteDance has several political figures on their payroll and even advertises in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway lines, Politico Playbook and in congressionally-focused newspaper The Hill in order to maintain sway over America’s capitol.

The platform has over 150 million accounts in the United States.

Despite its best attempts to rid the country of TikTok, the GOP has been largely unsuccessful on the national level. Critics slammed the initial bill, titled the “RESTRICT Act,” as an ill-advised effort that would end the remaining internet freedom and privacy that still exists.

“If the RESTRICT Act becomes the RESTRICT law, any site that refuses to cooperate with future efforts by the US government to suppress certain stories and individuals on social media could find itself accused of working to advance the ‘strategic objectives of a foreign adversary,’” said retired GOP congressman Ron Paul.

Sitting Republicans switched gears, instead aiming to ban members of Congress from using the app on the grounds of concern for national security and privacy.

Government officials are mainly concerned with the location of the platform’s primary servers, which are located in China. The country’s national security law also requires all Chinese companies yield any collected data to the Chinese Communist Party.

DeSantis Draws from Trump Policies, Reagan Rhetoric in Major Pre-Campaign Speech

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DeSantis Draws from Trump Policies, Reagan Rhetoric in Major Pre-Campaign Speech

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The murmured undertones in every corner of the Heritage Foundation’s leadership summit spoke to a Republican identity crisis as the party tries to reconcile two very different visions.

The summit brought together many policymakers with close ties to the Trump administration and even some who had been integral in the prior Reagan administration as it found itself in a similar spote in the shell-shocked aftermath of the Jimmy Carter presidency.

It was their burden to embrace the best part of both of these constrasting worldviews without seeming overly schizophrenic.

Helping them in that effort was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the event’s keynote speaker, who brough together some notably Trumpian policies on immigration, energy and other crucial issues—while also courting the conservative establishment by quoting Reagan twice and trying to capture his overall spirit of fearless optimism over grievance.

“Leaders get ahead of public opinion, chart the course, and then people follow,” DeSantis said.

He also said that America needed a “determined and disciplined chief executive to root out politicization and corruption in Washington, D.C.

Some Capitol Hill insiders speculated that he was likely to make his own entry into the GOP presidential primary promptly after the end of the Florida legislative session on May 5.

DeSantis avoided making direct references to Trump but did indirectly address the ex-president’s recent criticism of his standoff with Walt Disney World.

Addressing attacks earlier in the week from Trump and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, DeSantis said it was not conservative but rather “corporatist” to roll over to companies like the woke Disney leviathan.

But he came out strongly in favor of Trump’s signature 2016 policyto address the ongoing immigration crisis.

With immigration “you need to do a lot of things, but you do need to actually construct a wall along the southern border,” he said.

He quickly followed up by touting his experience getting construction projects done like rebuilding the Matlacha Bridge to Pine Island completed after it was destroyed by Hurricane Ian.

Despite projections that it would take weeks, DeSantis said he was able to get the construction done in three days.

“I just raised that because I’m willing to send those guys in Florida to the southern border to build a wall, so come on, Joe,” he said addressing President Joe Biden who has been hammered for ignoring the open-border problem altogether.

DeSantis also called for America to regain its energy independence as it succeeded in doing under Trump, and he waded into cultural issues such as fighting the corporate ESG movement that allows an “end-run around the Constitution” through corporate bullying and coercion.

Like Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who spoke the previous day, DeSantis openly channeled the spirit of Reagan and appeared determined to drive home the parallels by twice quoting the Gipper.

He made reference to Reagan’s famous joke that the most terrifying words someone can hear are “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

On a more serious note, DeSantis recalled the words from Reagan’s 1967 inaugural address as governor of California that “freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.”

“I think Reagan was right,” DeSantis said. “Our freedom is fragile. Our freedom needs someone to stand up for it.”

Despite the bleak picture that the current political landscape has painted about the country’s future, “we need to reject the pessimisim that is in the air,” he said, because freedom is a choice.

DeSantis’s speech came as the Heritage Foundation released an 880-page treatise, Mandate for Leadership, that it hoped would be a road map for the next Republican president to enter the White House battle-ready.

The book drew expertise from more than 50 chapter authors and sought the consensus of roughly 300 experts.

Lead editor Paul Dans said that the book sought to be “candidate agnostic” and serve as a resource to any future leader, regardless of who prevails.

That, he said, would include Trump, even though the former president has rarely yielded to other opinions that don’t fall in step with his own instincts and values.

The book’s authors did “such a good job that you cant help but embrace [it],” Dans said. “You kind of ignore this a little bit at your peril.”

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

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