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From secretaries to secretary of state, Biden documents probe casts wide net: Sources
The federal investigation into President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents prior to becoming president has grown into a sprawling examination of Obama-era security protocols and internal White House processes, with investigators so far interviewing scores of witnesses, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News.
Federal prosecutors and FBI agents from special counsel Robert Hur's office have been interviewing witnesses for nearly nine months, targeting an expansive constellation of former aides -- from high-level advisers to executive assistants and at least one White House attorney. Several sources estimated that as many as 100 witnesses have already been interviewed, with interviews conducted as recently as last week and some witnesses asked to return for follow-up interviews.
Sources who were present for some of the interviews, including witnesses, told ABC News that authorities had apparently uncovered instances of carelessness from Biden's vice presidency, but that -- based on what was said in the interviews -- it seemed to them that the improper removal of classified documents from Biden's office when he left the White House in 2017 was more likely a mistake than a criminal act.
Nevertheless, the special counsel has reached no final determinations and the investigation is ongoing, ABC News was told.
In January, shortly after news first surfaced that classified documents had been found at a personal office used by Biden after his vice presidency, Blinken, a long-time aide to Biden, said he and Biden were both "surprised to learn that there were any government records taken." It's unclear what Blinken told Hur's team in his voluntary interview with them.
For a high-stakes special counsel investigation into a sitting president, Hur has operated largely under the radar since his appointment in January -- avoiding the attention and media scrutiny of special counsel Jack Smith's probes into former President Donald Trump.
But ABC News learned from sources that Hur's team has cast a wide net, gathering documents dating back to the early days of the Obama administration and drilling into questions about the task of securely updating the vice president on highly sensitive matters.
Image Credit: President Joe Biden speaks onstage at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation annual Legislative Conference National Town Hall, Sept. 23, 2023 in Washington, DC. Jemal Countess/Getty Images.
Investigators have shown witnesses email chains dating back to at least 2010 and asked for context about those exchanges, sources said. Witnesses have also been pressed about the use of cabinets and safes, sources said.
It has been publicly reported that investigators searched for documents dating back to Biden's tenure in the Senate.
Sources said investigators are asking witnesses, especially former military aides, granular questions about internal procedures for handling classified materials, apparently seeking to understand the minutiae of how the vice president obtained, consumed, and discarded classified briefing materials.
Of particular interest to investigators, according to multiple sources, was any context surrounding Biden's tendencies for notetaking and document retention, including where he stored documents, briefing books, notes, and notecards. Prosecutors also asked the witnesses about an iPad and cell phone Biden kept for personal use, and whether they were aware if he ever handled classified materials on those devices, the sources said.
Investigators also asked witnesses about how Biden's closest aides handled classified records, according to sources. Michelle Smith, a former executive assistant to Biden who is now deceased, has been brought up in some interviews. ABC News previously reported that Kathy Chung, Smith's successor as executive assistant, met with investigators earlier this year.
Spokespersons for Hur, the State Department, Biden's personal attorney, and the White House declined to comment for this story. An attorney representing Blinken also declined to comment.
Hur has vowed to conduct a "fair, impartial, and dispassionate" investigation, following the facts "thoroughly" and "without fear or favor."
A series of revelations precipitated Hur's ascent to special counsel. In late 2022, the White House told the National Archives that documents bearing classification markings had been discovered at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. -- the location of Biden's private office after his term as vice president expired in early 2017.
From 2017 to 2019, Blinken was the managing director of the Penn Biden Center, and before that he served as Biden's national security adviser during President Barack Obama's first term, with their association going back more than two decades, beginning when Biden was still a U.S. senator.
After the classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Center late last year, Blinken told reporters he "had no knowledge of it at the time" but "would cooperate fully" with the Justice Department's review. The White House similarly said that it would cooperate.
Biden's personal attorney later informed investigators that additional classified records were identified in the garage of Biden's Wilmington, Delaware, home -- a development that marked a tipping point in the Justice Department's decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate further, sources told ABC News in January.
Image Credit: Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Robert Hur speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, July 27, 2017. Alex Brandon/AP, FILE.
In all, about 25 documents marked classified were found in locations associated with Biden.
Biden has sought to downplay his legal exposure. One week after Hur's appointment, in response to reporters' questions about why he did not reveal the documents before November's midterm elections, Biden replied that "we found a handful of documents" that had been "filed in the wrong place" and that he was cooperating with the National Archives and the Justice Department.
"I think you're going to find there's nothing there," he said.
Meanwhile, special counsel Smith's team has aggressively pursued former President Trump and two aides in his investigation into Trump's handling of classified records after leaving office. In their indictment against Trump, prosecutors allege a months-long conspiracy to block government efforts to retrieve classified documents from his Mar-a-Lago estate in the summer of 2020, including by allegedly hiding those documents from the FBI and Trump's own attorney.
According to the indictment, when the FBI then searched Mar-a-Lago in August of last year, agents found more than 100 documents marked classified that Trump allegedly failed to turn over in defiance of a federal grand jury subpoena.
In Biden's case, all of the classified documents found in locations associated with Biden were voluntarily provided to the government, Biden's lawyers said at the time.
"We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced," an attorney for Biden said in a statement after Hur's appointment.
Trump and his aides have denied the allegations against them and pleaded not guilty.
-Lucian Bruggeman and Mike Levin, ABC News
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CVS to Close 900 Stores Nationwide, Here’s Why
CVS Pharmacy announced it will close approximately 900 stores nationwide by the end of 2024 due to increases in shoplifting.
The drugstore chain is planning a retail overhaul and transition to a more online-based business strategy.
CVS is “coming to the end of a policy launched in 2021 which will see 300 stores closed each year – meaning 900 will have shuttered by 2024,” Daily Mail reports.
In addition to rampant retail theft, the COVID-19 scamdemic made online shopping a more attractive business model for retailers.
Daily Mail reports:
CVS and other retailers across the US continue to adjust to post-pandemic footfall, with COVID helping turbocharge the popularity of online shopping.
More shoppers are turning to buying online in the wake of the pandemic, as well as rocketing levels of shoplifting affecting sales in stores.
CVS claims that ‘local market dynamics, population shifts, and a community’s store density’ are some of the aspects it has looked into when deciding which stores to shutter.
A spokesman said: ‘Maintaining access to pharmacy services in the communities we serve is an important factor we consider when making store closure decisions.
‘Other factors include local market dynamics, population shifts, a community’s store density, and ensuring there are other geographic access points to meet the needs of the community.’
More customers are getting prescriptions filled online, retrieving personal care items through curbside pickup and visiting with doctors through telehealth.
The outlet noted CVS will close an additional 600 stores by 2027, approximately 10% of all shops.
The announcement follows Walgreens closing 150 stores across the United States and Target closing nine stores in major U.S. cities.
Per USA Today:
Pharmacy chain Walgreens plans to close 150 of its locations in the U.S. and 300 more in the United Kingdom.
This continues ongoing cost-saving initiatives at the company, including more than 500 corporate personnel jobs being cut, Walgreens Boots Alliance executive vice president and global chief financial officer James Kehoe said during the company’s third quarter earnings call Tuesday.
The company has not announced which locations will be closed and did not immediately respond to a request for comment from USA TODAY. The closings are expected to occur before the end of Walgreens’ 2024 fiscal year in May 2024.
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Target said in the release, “We cannot continue operating these stores because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests, and contributing to unsustainable business performance.”
The company added, “Before making this decision, we invested heavily in strategies to prevent and stop theft and organized retail crime in our stores, such as adding more security team members, using third-party guard services, and implementing theft-deterrent tools across our business.”
“Despite our efforts, unfortunately, we continue to face fundamental challenges to operating these stores safely and successfully.”
The company is planning to close its location in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, two stores in Seattle in the Ballard neighborhood and University District, three stores in the San Francisco-Oakland area, and three more in Portland, Oregon. The stores are scheduled to close on Oct. 21.
-Danielle, 100 Percent Fed Up
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Canadian House committee unanimously votes to investigate scandal-plagued Trudeau Foundation
Canadian MPs from the House of Commons who sit on the Public Accounts committee voted 10-0 to have the country’s Auditor General investigate the $125 million taxpayer endowment given to help found the scandal-plagued Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation in 2001.
As per Blacklock’s Reporter, MPs on the committee passed the motion that the “Auditor General investigate the funding agreement between the Government of Canada and the Trudeau Foundation particularly as regards to the Foundation’s compliance with its obligations under this agreement.”
Bloc Québécois MP Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, the motion’s sponsor, noted that she wanted the Auditor General to “look into the original agreement with the Government of Canada which gave $125 million to the Trudeau Foundation.”
“They had criteria to respect,” she added.
Desgagné observed that it was very “unusual” for a foundation “with the name of an individual receive public funds.”
“There are many foundations that have names of individuals, but they never receive public funds like the Trudeau Foundation,” she said. “That imposes some responsibilities and obligations and we need to make sure.”
Desgagné noted that it is “quite clear” the committee is asking for nothing less than a full “investigation.”
The Foundation was granted by Parliament in 2002 a $125 million endowment, with annual interest from the grant being its main source of revenue.
As of late, the Foundation has come under scrutiny after reports surfaced it accepted a large donation linked to the Communist Chinese Party (CCP).
In April, the entire board of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation resigned after a report surfaced detailing how it received a $200,000 donation alleged to be connected to the Communist Chinese Party (CCP).
LifeSiteNews reported that Morris Rosenberg, the former head of the Foundation, admitted he never questioned the fact that a Canadian charity tax receipt for $140,000 was sent by the Foundation to an address in China linked to a TV production company with a Canadian address.
In 2016, the Foundation received a donation from Millennium Golden Eagle International (Canada), which lists a private home address as its business location.
Millennium Golden Eagle wanted a receipt to be mailed to its address in China, which coincidentally is the same address as CCP affiliated agency named the China Cultural Industry Association.
In April, after the CCP-linked donation scandal broke, the foundation said it would return the money.
Also, the Foundation, as per Edward Johnson, its board chair, testified that the organization as late as 2021 held an undisclosed sum in Chinese stock.
The Foundation labels itself as “an independent and non-partisan charity established in 2001 as a living memorial to the former prime minister.”
When the Trudeau Foundation was founded, then-Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien said, “What is a more fitting legacy to the man who symbolized youth, excellence and the innovative spirit?”
Pierre Trudeau is the late father of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and was prime minister from 1968 until 1984 except for a brief lapse from 1979 to 1980. He was known for his praise to the major totalitarian political systems of his day.
When the Foundation was given its funds initially, opposition MPs at the time questioned why this was allowed.
This is not the first time the committee has voted in favor of investigating the Trudeau Foundation’s finances.
In April, the House of Commons Public Accounts committee voted unanimously to start an investigation into how the Foundation is funded after learning about its CCP-linked donation.
It also appears the Foundation ignored warnings from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) regarding accepting certain cash donations.
-Anthony Murdock, Life Site News
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Philly police arrest 52 people in connection with rioting, looting
At least 52 people have now been arrested after a looting spree that took place across Philadelphia on Tuesday evening.
According to Fox 29, police say among the 52 arrested so far are three juveniles. Two firearms have also been recovered.
Police are also investigating an incident that occurred in Northeast Philadelphia on Tuesday night, where seven vehicles were stolen from a car lot. At least one of these vehicles has been recovered.
Authorities are investigating the possibility that a "caravan" of vehicles was involved in the hours-long looting spree, driving from location to location across the city. Interim Commissioner John Stanford said that some of those allegedly involved in the caravan have been arrested.
Lululemon, the Apple Store, and Footlocker in Center City were damaged in what police called a "coordinated attack." Around 100 people, many of which were juveniles, reportedly gathered in Center City.
In Northeast Philadelphia, the owner of Bruce Goldberg Northeast Pharmacy said that 40 bags of prescriptions filled for customers, which included blood pressure and AIDS medication, were stolen.
The wave of looting occurred the same day a judge dismissed charges against former police officer Mark Dial in the shooting death of Eddie Irizarry. Police body camera footage shown at the hearing revealed Irizarry holding a knife as police approached his vehicle during the traffic stop.
One of those arrested, Dayjia Blackwell, who is also referred to as "Meatball," was seen live streaming the chaos, chanting "Everybody must eat, everybody must eat, everybody must eat" as looters were seen entering a liquor store that was broken into.
-Hannah Nightingale, Human Events
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Korean War veteran, Frank Tammaro, 95, kicked out of his New York nursing home at short notice so it could be turned into housing for undocumented migrants overwhelming the city
A Korean War veteran feared he would be left ‘on the curb’ after he was ordered out of his Staten Island nursing home to make way for the migrants overwhelming New York City.
Frank Tammaro, 95, was given six weeks to get out of the Island Shores Senior Residence when it was sold to city authorities last month.
Ten people were arrested amid furious protests when the first migrants were bussed to the facility last week after the last of the elderly residents were thrown out.
‘The thing I'm annoyed about is how they did it, it was very disgraceful what they did to the people in Island Shores,’ Tammaro told a press conference.
‘One day there was a notice on the board, I think that gave us a month and a half to find out where we were going to go.
‘I thought my suitcases were going to be on the curb because I'm not that fast.
‘If it wasn't for my daughter, they would've been on the curb. That was it.
‘I said, 'No, no, no, no, you're not moving me,' and they said, 'Yes, yes, yes we are.'
‘Everything was done behind closed doors – we didn't have a chance to actually make any attempt to stop them because there wasn't enough time.’
More than 113,000 undocumented migrants have arrived in New York after crossing the southern border since last year in a crisis mayor Eric Adams has warned will ‘destroy the city’.
And another 233,000 were recorded crossing the southern border in August.
And around 100 hotels have been turned into shelters including the The Paul Hotel, The Paramount Hotel, and the Roosevelt which alone is now housing some 3,000.
The mayor is planning to spend an extra $1billion on hotel accommodation for migrants over three years, it emerged yesterday, with the city’s public services facing swinging cuts to pay for it.
'The migrant crisis has evolved into a financial boondoggle, with quietly extended contracts fattening the pockets of a few at the taxpayer's expense,' said Democratic Queens Councilman Robert Holden,
City planners have estimated the cost at $4.7billion this year alone, equal to the budgets for the city's sanitation, fire and parks departments combined.
Adams has warned that the cost could reach $15billion over three years, and that library hours, meals for senior citizens, and day care for three-year-olds are at risk as he lops 15 percent of departmental spending.
The city has a legal obligation to give shelter to those who make their way to the metro, and Adams has desperately turned to a variety of city landmarks, makeshift shelters and temporary housing as short-term solutions.
While officials have not revealed how many hotel rooms have been designated for migrants, hotel industry experts believe it's as many as 10,000, as reported by The City.
‘Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to,’ the Mayor said earlier this month. ‘We are about to experience a financial tsunami that I don’t think the city has ever experienced.
‘Every service in this city is going to be impacted from child service to our seniors to housing.
'This issue will destroy New York City.’
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently dispatched a small team to New York City to help determine how the federal government should respond.
The federal government has so far promised the city $140 million to help, although the city has yet to receive any of that money.
Adams condemned the ‘ugly display’ from a ‘numerical minority’ who greeted migrants with protests when they arrived at the Staten Island facility.
'I understand the frustration that New Yorkers are going through and understand the frustration that asylum seekers are experiencing as well,' he added.
But city councilor Nicole Malliotakis said the eviction of seniors shows ‘our country and our city's priorities are backwards’.
‘My blood pressure went through the roof when I found out Homes for the Homeless cut a deal with the City of New York to turn Island Shores into a migrant shelter,’ the GOP lawmaker said.
‘Our tax dollars as citizens of New York should not be utilized to house citizens of other countries, especially at the expense of our senior citizens and veterans who put their lives on the line, paid taxes their whole lives and built our communities.’
-Dominic Yeatman, Daily Mail
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World Economic Forum ‘agenda contributor’ & John Kerry’s daughter, Vanessa, deliberate on how to leverage the ’emotion’ from the ‘pandemic’ to help advance the ‘climate crisis’ narrative, using ‘storytelling’
Vanessa Kerry, the World Health Organization’s special envoy for climate change, spoke on a World Economic Forum panel to discuss how to successfully prey on the public’s fear and emotions following the pandemic to push the “climate crisis” narrative.
World Economic Forum 'agenda contributor' Jemilah Mahmood: "The pandemic was an opportunity, I think all over the world, people realize how important health was…..how now do we take that emotion…of the health factors so critical but guess what guys, the climate crisis is creating more health issues than you can ever imagine, but no one has been able to make that link in the past." ...
Vanessa Kerry: "Covid taught us all these lessons learned, and we should be incorporating that….and the climate crisis is going to be so much worse."
Jemilah Mahmood: "We were just talking about it earlier: ‘have people forgotten about Covid?’ So, I think it’s about the storytelling element. I think that a lot of the things we see on health are very doom and gloom very, very much, even on the climate issue, right, the extent that people feel ‘I can’t deal with this anymore …I can’t do this.’ But telling, you know, really inspiring stories about what is possible if we work together."-Marc Morano, Climate Depot
"Nothing Is Working": Volkswagen's Factories In Germany Paralyzed After Massive "IT Malfunction"
What's being described as an "IT malfunction" has paralyzed Volkswagen Group's central infrastructure, forcing the automaker to suspend production at several plants on Wednesday.
German business newspaper Handelsblatt spoke with a Volkswagen spokesman who said an "IT disruption of network components at the Wolfsburg location" was detected around 12:30 pm local time.
The network disruption has led to production lines at the main auto plant in Wolfsburg, as well as in Emden, Osnabrück, and Zwickau, to halt operations.
"Nothing is currently working in the offices at the Wolfsburg headquarters either. The extent of the disruption is not yet entirely clear," Handelsblatt said.
The newspaper noted, "An attack from outside is considered unlikely." However, nothing is confirmed amid a spate of recent cyberattacks across the Western world (remember Vegas a few weeks ago).
How long until Russia is blamed?
*Developing...
-Tyler Durden, Zerohedge
‘Green’ buildings face a flood of doubts
More than 800 U.S. buildings certified as “sustainable” are at extreme risk of flooding — and may have to be abandoned as the planet continues to overheat.
That’s because the U.S. Green Building Council — an influential nonprofit that works to make buildings more climate-friendly — has for years largely overlooked the impact of extreme weather. Its point-based Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification generally offers new building projects just four points out of a possible 110 for taking steps to protect projects from flooding.
LEED certification is a big deal: It’s subsidized or required by more than 350 local and state governments as well as the General Services Administration, which manages the vast federal building stock.
But the LEED system has a significant shortcoming
The Green Building Council has affixed its coveted three-leaved seal to 830 new buildings in the past decade that have as much as a 50 percent chance of flooding every year, according to an analysis by POLITICO’s E&E News and the First Street Foundation, a nonprofit that models likely climate impacts.
Design experts said the findings suggest that tens of millions of tax dollars have been directed toward new projects that may need to be repeatedly repaired or torn down before the end of their expected life span. That raises questions about whether some green buildings are truly sustainable.
“It’s a contradiction to call something sustainable if it’s also prone to hazards like flood,” said Samuel Brody, the director of Texas A&M University’s Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas.
It’s difficult to know how many new LEED buildings have flooded because the Green Building Council doesn’t track that information and most states don’t require building owners to disclose such details. But E&E News visited two LEED-certified buildings in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that were damaged in a recent deluge and found several others across the country that had been temporarily shuttered due to floodwaters.
The Biden administration and industry groups are working to better integrate resilience into local building codes and the LEED rating system. Yet the Green Building Council said any improvements to LEED won’t happen until 2025 at the earliest.
In the meantime, dozens or hundreds more LEED buildings could be constructed in ways and locations “that are destined to flood or burn,” said Alice Hill, who served as the National Security Council’s resilience policy chief during the Obama administration.
-Corbin Hiar, Politico
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Has
made a deal with George Soros and Alex Soros to get the rights to her music back in exchange for getting Zoomers registered to vote Democrat against President Trump ahead of the 2024 Presidential election? Gen Z + Taylor Swift = Gavin Newsom in the White House. The only way
gets to the White House is if people with influence start normalizing his radical policies like vaccine mandates and late term abortion.
is 100% backed by George Soros, and he is the nephew of Nancy Pelosi. In his old age, George Soros has turned his political empire over to his son, Alex Soros. In 2024, Zoomers are officially set to replace Boomers as the largest voting demographic in America. Last week, Taylor Swift registered over 40,000 voters with a single Instagram post, and most of them were zoomers. She has decided to engage in an anti-Trump tirade in which she is using her platform to make abortion and fear mongering about divisiveness as the number one issue to get people registered to vote. She has more followers than President Trump has on both X and Instagram. And now she’s dating a pro athlete
who just signed with
to push the COVID vaccines to millions of sports fans and zoomers, even though data shows us that young people and athletes who take the vaccine are developing myocarditis and dropping dead from health issues like cardiac arrest. Kelce embraces anti-American values because he kneeled for the National Anthem in 2017. Taylor Swift also just launched a world tour, and after she travels the world this year, she’s coming back to the US right before the US elections for what looks to be her version of an October surprise. She spending 3 days in Miami, FL in the last week of October 2024 where she will likely make a big push to get people to the polls. Florida is the largest swing state in the nation and also happens to be where
signed a six week abortion ban. The Eras global tour that Taylor Swift is currently on is supposed to be a tour featuring *all* of her albums. However, she has lamented in the past that Alex Soros and George Soros bought the rights to her music and her first 6 Albums when
sold it to a private equity firm tied to the Soros family for $300 MILLION. Do you think that in their efforts to beat Donald Trump in 2024 and destroy America that
would have made a deal with Taylor Swift to help give her back the rights to all of her albums as long as she helps get Democrats elected in 2024? $300 MILLION isn’t a lot of money when you realize the 2020 Presidential election cycle was the most expensive election season in US history with a price tag of $14.4 billion, according to Open Secrets. This is nearly double the cost of the election season in 2016 when
defeated
. How is Taylor Swift doing a world tour with all of her albums if George Soros and Alex Soros helped strip her of her rights to her first 6 albums, as she claimed in an old Instagram post below? Were deals made between the Soros family and Taylor Swift in a Presidential election year? I have provided the receipts below.