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A whistleblower alleges that the FBI’s Security Division suspends or revokes the security clearances of agents on the basis of their political affiliations or lack of COVID-19 vaccination.

(LifeSiteNews) – The Security Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is abusing security clearance approval to oust agents believed to be politically conservative, according to a whistleblower complaint reviewed by the New York Post.

The Post reported that the unidentified whistleblower alleges that the nation’s top law enforcement agency suspends or revokes clearances of agents on the basis of their political affiliations or lack of COVID-19 vaccination, because “if an FBI employee fit a certain profile as a political conservative, they were viewed as security concerns and unworthy to work at the FBI.” 

The allegations directly contradict sworn testimony denying the practice to Congress last year by Jennifer Leigh Moore, the Security Division’s assistant director.

A nonprofit called Empower Oversight is representing the whistleblower and submitted his claims to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) on June 28. Empower president Tristan Leavitt also told Congress in a letter that the FBI is also retaliating against the agent for what he is trying to expose. 

“The outcomes of clearance investigations and adjudications were often pre-determined by the Division’s acting Deputy Assistant Director and the acting Section Chief responsible for security clearance investigations and adjudications, who often overruled line staff and even dictated the wording of documents in the clearance process,” Leavitt wrote. “Over the last few years, the FBI has used the clearance process as a means to force employees out of the FBI by inflicting severe financial distress: suspending their clearance, suspending them from duty without pay, requiring them to obtain permission to take any other job while stuck in this unpaid limbo, and delaying their final clearance adjudication indefinitely — even years.”

One victim of such practices was former FBI staff operations specialist Marcus Allen, who last year was revealed to have lost his security clearance for circulating news articles and opinion videos related to the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot for “situational awareness,” according to an interim report by the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. “Because these open-source articles questioned the FBI’s handling of the violence at the Capitol, the FBI suspended Allen for ‘conspiratorial views in regard to the events of January 6th.’”

The FBI responded to the latest news by claiming it “takes seriously its responsibility to FBI employees who make protected disclosures under whistleblower regulations,” and that the “security clearance adjudication process requires multiple levels of review to ensure decisions are in compliance with applicable policies and procedures. Those policies and procedures do not allow security clearance actions to be taken for improper reasons such as an individual exercising First Amendment protected rights, to include an individual’s political or medical views, or ethnicity or any other protected class.”

Nevertheless, the story adds further detail to an ongoing picture of a federal law enforcement apparatus that critics say has been weaponized against the political opponents of the current administration and like-minded entrenched federal bureaucrats.

The use of agencies such as the FBI to retaliate against political opponents while treating more ideologically aligned lawbreakers more softly has been one of the most alarming facets of Joe Biden’s presidency, from prosecuting pro-life activists while neglecting pro-abortion violence and painting parents critical of left-wing classroom indoctrination as dangerous, to disproportionate prosecution of January 6 attendees for nonviolent offenses and retaliation against FBI agents who objected.

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Former House Speaker says ‘time is running short,’ for Biden to decide if he’ll stay in race.

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Lauded by LGBT activists as a tool to prevent deaths due to sexual orientation, in practice the measure seems designed to prohibit a person from engaging in self-defense from a hostile homosexual or gender-confused person.

(LifeSiteNews) — The LGBT agenda is about the score yet another victory under pro-abortion Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

During the last week of June, state lawmakers in Michigan voted in favor of legislation that bans “gay panic” defenses in court.

MLive.com reported that “under the proposed Michigan law, a person would not be justified in using force against another based on the discovery or knowledge of the victim’s sex, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.”

Back in 2013, the American Bar Association recommended banning the defense, which it said seeks to “partially or completely excuse crimes such as murder and assault on the grounds that the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity is to blame for the defendant’s violent reaction.”

While lauded by LGBT activists as a tool to prevent the deaths of persons due to their sexual orientation, in practice the measure seems designed to prohibit a person from engaging in self-defense from a hostile homosexual or a gender-confused person.

Pro-LGBT website Advocate has highlighted one such instance of the “gay panic” defense. In 2014, two black men were arrested for using physical force against two gender-confused men who came onto them while they were using the city’s public transit system. One of them told local media that he doesn’t “hate gay people at all” but that he had to defend himself when they wouldn’t stop harassing him.

Another instance would be if a man who goes on a date with someone he believed to be a woman but later finds out he is biologically a male, the man might react with force to remove them from their presence or dwelling space. The law could presumably be used to find them guilty of a crime.

Thus far, 19 states have outlawed the defense, according to MLive.com.

Testimony for the bill was first heard last fall, but lawmakers did not vote on it until last month. The measure passed along party lines with Democrats holding narrow majorities in both chambers of Michigan’s legislature.

Bisexual Democratic state Rep. Laurie Pothusky of Livonia sponsored the bill, claiming that “this defense (makes) crimes against the community carry less weight, because we are inherently less human, and therefore less valuable.”

States that have enacted “gay panic” legislation include New Jersey, California, New York, Maine, Hawaii, Nevada, Illinois, and Connecticut, among others.

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New German data shows that a record number of welfare recipients are foreigners.

Germany is experiencing exploding welfare costs under the ruling far-left government, with recipients receiving a record €42.6 billion in “citizens’ money” in 2023 compared to €36.6 billion in 2022. 

There are now a record 5.49 million citizen’s benefits (or allowance) — which is what Germany calls its welfare system — and approximately 47.3 percent were non-German foreigners, which is four points more than in 2022.

In addition, there was another record €6.3 billion worth of administration costs for the citizen’s benefit program, which is €300 million more than 2022, according to government data obtained by AfD MP Rene Springer after a parliamentary request. If this administrative money is added, then total welfare costs equaled €48.9 billion. Bild notes this figure is 14.8 percent higher than in 2023, 18.4 percent higher compared to 2020, and 23 percent higher compared to 2015.

Now, the largest business association in Germany, the DHK, is accusing the left-liberal government of deliberately creating problems that are eroding Germany’s fiscal strength and worsening the unemployment situation.

The AfD released a statement about the soaring costs of the citizen’s allowance, writing: “Which country in the world allows itself to be exploited in this manner?” The statement continues, noting that “the percentage of people receiving benefits has more than doubled compared to 2010 (19.6 percent). And we are only talking about people who do not have German citizenship. German citizens with a migration background are not included in the 47.3 percent.”

The AfD is noting that many German recipients may have recently been foreigners but since obtaining German citizenship, they are simply listed as Germans in the statistics. The German government does not track the migration background of individuals once they receive German citizenship, which is also the same case for German crime statistics, which nonetheless show that 41 percent of all crimes and 6 out of 10 violent crimes are committed by foreigners.

The data pokes a major hole in the claims that newcomers will help pay for German pensions and help fill demand from German industry, which is desperately searching for skilled workers. In fact, the data shows that the German state spent €48.2 billion on migrants, including social housing, medical costs, education, integration courses, and other expenses.

The Christian Democrats (CDU), which were largely responsible for many of the migrants arriving in Germany under Angela Merkel, also condemned the rising costs. Economic expert Jens Spahn told Bild: “The citizen’s allowance is constantly setting negative records for hindering jobs and spiking costs. A large majority of Germans find it completely unfair.”

He said that many people can earn more simply being unemployed, which weakens the economy.

“The citizen’s allowance should be abolished,” he said.

The Federal Employment Agency indicated that 2.6 million citizen’s allowance recipients were foreigners, a jump of 368,000 or 16.5 percent from 2023.

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Child rapist sentenced to five years for crimes other than sex assault on minor

An illegal alien authorities are calling a “child rapist” has been sentenced to five years in prison for crimes other than sexual assault, authorities say.

Jhoan Esau Lemus Ramos, a Honduran citizen who is illegally present in the country, was sentenced at U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on June 27, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Monday.

While the Department of Justice (DOJ) asserts Lemus Ramos illegally entered the U.S. in 2021 at an unspecified location, ICE previously stated he was arrested in 2020 by Border Patrol near Clint, Texas, and determined to be an “unaccompanied minor.”

Conflicting reports indicate Lemus Ramos may be either 21 or 23 years old.

In February of 2022, he made contact with a 13-year-old girl via Snapchat, according to court documents.

“In March 2022, Lemus Ramos met the victim in a parking lot in Herndon. When the victim attempted to resist Lemus Ramos’ sexual advances, he forcibly raped her,” the DOJ explained in a press release.

“For the next several months through at least August 2022, Lemus Ramos repeatedly asked the victim for nude or semi-nude photographs. She eventually complied and sent the photos via cellphone. When she wanted to stop interacting with him, he used the photos to threaten her and force her to have sex with him.”

On July 18, 2023, Lemus Ramos was brought to Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on charges of carnal knowledge, possession of child pornography, and manufacturing child pornography.

“Upon being served with the criminal charges, the magistrate immediately gave this individual a $1,000 bond on each of his three charges. The individual then paid that bond and was released at 11:45 p.m. on the same day, July 18, 2023,” the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office explained in a statement in January.

ICE has issued contradictory press releases stating that Enforcement and Removal Operations agents arrived at Lemus Ramos’ residence in Springfield, VA — on either December 4, 2023, or January 4, 2024.

While being taken into custody, Lemus Ramos struck one officer in the face, causing an injury that required stitches.

“Jhoan Esau Lemus Ramos, 23, a Honduran national who raped a 13-year-old victim, was sentenced today to five years in prison for receiving child sexual abuse material and assaulting a federal officer.,” the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia recently announced.

Oddly, no official statement from any government agency mentions a rape conviction.

InfoWars has been documenting the surge of crime fueled by the ongoing Biden border invasion.

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Vessel full of illegals slams into dock at Mission Bay hotel hours before another boat intercepted by U.S. Coast Guard

A boat carrying illegal aliens was intercepted in San Diego waters just hours after another vessel full of illegals landed at hotel in the same area, according to reports.

On Sunday morning, a pleasure craft carrying around 10 people reportedly slammed into a fuel dock at the Hyatt Hotel in Mission Bay.

Eight suspects were arrested and taken to a Customs and Border Protection facility for processing, Fox 5 reports.

A short time later, another smuggling boat was interdicted at the entrance to Mission Bay by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG).

“This one never made it to a dock unlike the one reported earlier that crashed into the Hyatt fuel dock,” local journalist Amy Reichart reported on Tuesday, citing an inside source.

“The U.S. Coast Guard transferred 7 people from Mexico to the Border Patrol.”

As Reichert pointed out, many illegals who choose to enter the U.S. by such covert means often do so because their criminal records or deportation histories could likely lead to their removal.

The USCG Southern California says 21 suspected smuggling operations involving 106 people were detected between July 1 and 7.

“Alarmingly, 6 tried to swim to the USA,” USCG SoCal stated on social media.

On July 1, three smuggling boats reportedly landed on San Diego beaches but no suspects were located at the time.

InfoWars regularly reports on human smuggling busts in U.S. waters, many of which occur on the West Coast.

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