Sunday, October 23, 2022
Biden DOJ Wants $34 Million To Keep Targeting J6 Defendants
"We don't have the manpower," said one official told the outlet, noting that many J6 participants who will eventually be charged haven't been arrested yet.
Another official said that the cash crunch was a "culmination" of various factors - including the need to provide support for cases moving to trial.
A third official called it a "work-in-progress" as prosecutors from US attorney's offices around the country are recalled to their offices.
The request comes after federal officials have made around 850 arrests in the nearly 19 months since the incident - just a fraction of the 2,500 people who entered the Capitol, and the "hundreds more who committed serious crimes outside but haven't yet been arrested."
The massive trove of evidence — be it body camera and surveillance video or damning content generated by suspects themselves — presents a tremendous challenge for an enormous bureaucracy working with technology that's often a few years behind the times, at best.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, which is overseeing the Capitol siege investigation, is also running separate inquiries exploring the fake electors scheme and a conspiracy to obstruct the Jan. 6 electoral vote certification, both of which touch on Trump's actions in the lead-up to Jan. 6, as well as on the day of the attack. -NBC News
The requested funding comes after it was slashed from the omnibus spending bill passed in March.
In an interview earlier this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland told NBC News that he was "confident" the DOJ would be able to handle the workload regardless of what Congress does.
"Of course, we’d like more resources, and if Congress wants to give that to us, that would be very nice," Garland said on Tuesday. "But we have people — prosecutors and agents — from all over the country working on this matter, and I have every confidence in their ability, their professionalism, their dedication to...
Chinese Lab’s Purchase of US Land for Primate Breeding Facility Draws Scrutiny
JOINN Laboratories CA Inc., the California subsidiary of a biotech firm headquartered in Beijing, in July purchased more than 1,400 acres of land for building a primate facility in Florida’s Levy County, county records show.
With a combined value of $5.5 million, the 10 parcels of land purchased from L & T Cattle & Timber represents one of the largest known Chinese acquisitions of U.S. land in recent years. While construction has not begun, the deal has attracted public attention at a time of heightened concern about Chinese investments in the United States over security and other risks.
The purchaser’s parent company JOINN Laboratories describes itself as a leader in non-clinical drug screening in China. According to its website, the company was founded in 1995 and employs over 1,500 staff. It has wholly-owned subsidiaries in major Chinese and U.S. cities, including Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, San Francisco, and Boston.
Zhou Zhiwen and Feng Yuxia, the couple who founded and control JOINN Laboratories, both graduated from China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences, in 1989 and 1992 respectively. The school is the Chinese military’s top medical institute, which was added to a U.S. trade blacklist last year for supplying biotechnology to the Chinese military.
After graduating, both Zhou and Feng went on to work as researchers at the academy before establishing their business venture, according to Chinese media reports. Zuo Conglin, a board member of JOINN Laboratories, also graduated from the same academy.
These links with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should raise red flags, according to Rep. Scott Franklin (R-Fla.).
“The idea that we would permit a … biotech firm with ties to the Chinese military to breed lab monkeys on U.S. soil is baffling, especially after China unleashed the Covid-19 pandemic on...
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #1180
Before You Click On The "Read More" Link,
Please Only Do So If You Are Over 21 Years Old.
If You are Easily Upset, Triggered Or Offended, This Is Not The Place For You.
Please Leave Silently Into The Night......
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1880
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
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