Top lawmakers on the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations are asking for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> to provide unredacted documents on Saudi Arabia’s “role” in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/9-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9/11</a> as numerous records on the subject have remained classified.
In a <a href="https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/services/files/4A131859-DDBB-4A6D-8D88-EA7A76631F14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Johnson</a> (R-WI) ask for unredacted documents so they can better understand <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/saudi-arabia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saudi Arabia</a>’s connection to 9/11.
“No one was more affected by these attacks than the families of those whose lives were lost on that day, and who have struggled to obtain accountability ever since. Our inquiry into Saudi Arabia’s attempts to influence U.S. affairs has underscored, yet again, the need for transparency, particularly regarding Saudi Arabia’s connection to the 9/11 attacks,” the senators wrote on Sunday, one day before the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people. 
The senators said that they had previously asked in July for “the U.S. government finally provide full transparency into what it knows about the attacks, particularly as it relates to Saudi Arabia’s involvement,” but had not yet heard back. 
They said that they asked again on August 8 for an unredacted copy of a record on “Operation Encore,” but had not yet received a single document from the FBI or the DOJ. &#8220;Operation Encore&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/11/senate-sept11-saudi-arabia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was</a> the name given by the FBI to describe links between Saudi nationals and the terrorists who crashed the planes on 9/11. 
“Your failure to respond to our letter only adds to our concerns about the U.S. government’s longstanding refusal to provide full transparency to the American public, and particularly for the families of 9/11 victims, about Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks,” the senators wrote. 
Blumenthal and Johnson said that if the federal entities did not respond to their new call for unredacted documents, they could turn to other methods to ensure compliance with their request. 
Families and survivors of the 9/11 attacks have long pushed for more U.S. officials to press Saudi Arabia on the terrorist attacks. Ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia in July 2022, the families and survivors asked Biden to discuss the attacks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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“Please stand where no other President since 9/11 has stood, with the September 11 community in our pursuit for justice, and prioritize a full and complete discussion of the Saudis’ continued denial of their complicity in the attacks,” the families said in a <a href="https://911familiesunited.org/9-11-families-president-biden-must-demand-saudi-accountability-for-the-september-11-attacks/">letter</a>.
Although Biden has released some 9/11 documents, they have remained heavily redacted and lawmakers and victims have continued to push for more information.

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Senators Push For ‘Transparency,’ Unredacted Documents On Saudi Arabia’s ‘Role’ In 9/11

Senators Push For 'Transparency,' Unredacted Documents On Saudi Arabia's 'Role' In 9/11

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A pair of Senate Republicans want to know if <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nine-boxes-of-docs-taken-from-biden-attorneys-office-in-boston" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nine boxes of materials</a> retrieved from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boston" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston</a> office of a personal attorney to President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> contained any pseudonyms or personal email addresses.
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent a <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/johnson_grassley_to_nara_-_biden_records_follow_up1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> this week to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), asking whether the agency has reviewed the contents of the boxes obtained earlier this year from Patrick Moore&#8217;s law firm in Boston after allegedly being moved from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-hasnt-been-interviewed-yet-in-classified-docs-probe-sources-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden&#8217;s former think tank office</a> in Washington, D.C.
&#8220;If so, did any of the Biden records discovered at Mr. Moore’s Boston office include the pseudonyms and email addresses listed below that then-Vice President Biden used?&#8221; they asked. The senators listed: &#8220;RobinWare456@gmail.com,&#8221; &#8220;Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov,&#8221; &#8220;JRB Ware,&#8221; and &#8220;67stingray.&#8221;
NARA <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023-03-07_nara_to_grassley_johnson_biden_records.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notified</a> the senators in March that its staff had fetched the nine boxes from the Boston office at the request of the Justice Department in November as part of an investigation into Biden&#8217;s handling of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-1100-pages-of-biden-docs-found-at-think-tank" target="_blank" rel="noopener">classified documents</a> currently led by special counsel Robert Hur. Grassley and Johnson had asked in prior correspondence whether NARA knew if the same email addresses appeared in any of the materials from Boston, but the agency <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023-03-07_nara_to_grassley_johnson_biden_records.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> that its staff had not reviewed the contents at the time.
Biden&#8217;s suspected use of fake names has started to gain more attention in recent days as a group called the Southeastern Legal Foundation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/law-group-sues-national-archives-demanding-federal-agency-turn-over-5400-biden-pseudonym-emails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> NARA to turn over approximately 5,400 records connected to Biden’s pseudonym accounts.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-seeks-records-of-biden-allegedly-using-pseudonym-as-vice-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter to NARA</a> earlier this month requesting all unredacted records and communications regarding Biden’s official duties as vice president that overlapped with his son Hunter’s activities in Ukraine — specifically mentioning a document allegedly sent to &#8220;&#8216;Robert L. Peters&#8217; — a pseudonym the Committee has identified as then Vice President Biden.&#8221;
For years, Biden claimed to have never spoken to Hunter about his business dealings, but as GOP investigators have uncovered a pattern of millions of dollars flowing to members of the First Family from foreign nationals under suspicious circumstances, the White House has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-snarls-at-lousy-question-about-calls-with-sons-business-partners" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken to saying</a> the elder Biden never did business with his son. Now House Republicans appear to be on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-says-biden-impeachment-inquiry-imminent-as-republicans-call-for-action" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cusp of starting an impeachment inquiry</a>.
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In their latest letter, Grassley and Johnson pressed Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan to declare whether NARA is certain that the roughly 5,400 records that the <a href="https://www.slfliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2023/08/20230828-Complaint-Exhibit-4-Doc.-1-4.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agency told</a> the Southeastern Legal Foundation was potentially responsive to the group&#8217;s Freedom of Information Act request make up the &#8220;complete subset of records that contain Biden’s pseudonyms and personal email addresses used for official government business&#8221; if NARA staff have still not reviewed the boxes from Boston. &#8220;Please explain,&#8221; they added.
Other demands made by the senators include a request for details on NARA&#8217;s efforts to respond to the Southeastern Legal Foundation, including the review of the “approximately 5,138 email messages, 25 electronic files and 200 pages of potentially responsive records.&#8221;
The senators asked NARA to provide the requested information by September 12.
A NARA spokesperson told The Daily Wire that the agency received the letter from Grassley and Johnson but did not comment any further on the matter.

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GOP Investigators Seek Boston Connection In Biden Pseudonym Mystery

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Senate Republicans blasted the “open border” policies of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> during a Thursday press conference, saying that his policies were allowing sex trafficking and the flow of drugs across the border.
A group of Senate Republicans <a href="https://www.republican.senate.gov/2023/07/20/senate-gop-why-doesnt-joe-biden-care-about-85000-missing-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tore into</a> Biden over the border, highlighting reports that the administration had been unable to make contact with the sponsors of roughly 85,000 children who had illegally come across the border and then been released into the U.S. 
“Of the 300,000 children who have been placed with sponsors in the United States,” Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-cornyn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Cornyn</a> (R-TX) said. “In 85,000 of those placements the 30-day wellness call that is typically made by the Administration went unanswered. Not only does the Biden Administration not know where 300,000 children currently reside – whether they are going to school, whether they are getting health care, whether they are being recruited for gangs, whether they are being trafficked for sex, or just simply neglected or abused – the Biden Administration doesn’t know, and the truth is they don’t care.”
As record numbers of unaccompanied minors have crossed from Mexico into the U.S., the Department of Health and Human Services has lost contact with about 85,000 children and was unable to make contact with the children&#8217;s guardians. According to an April <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the New York Times, many of these children are ending up as underage workers. 
Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Johnson</a> (R-WI) said that Biden was culpable for allowing the illicit trafficking, referencing testimony about a young boy who was found left in the field with a phone number on his shoe. 
“We’re not talking about that enough. We’re not talking about the human depredation as a result of President Biden’s open border policy. His open border policy is facilitating the multi-billion-dollar business model of some of the most evil people on the planet,” Johnson said. “It’s about $18 billion we are funneling to these human trafficking, sex traffickers, and drug traffickers.”
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In June, there were 211,575 encounters at the border, meaning over 7,000 people were crossing into the U.S. each day. However, some analysts have said that this number is low, <a href="https://www.fairus.org/immigration-reform-news-press-releases/june-border-data-show-biden-administration-hiding-illegal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that many others have been allowed to enter using the CBP One app or directed to other points of entry where they would be classified differently. 
“Those who are entering through these back channels illegally created by the administration are still illegal aliens and still impose the same burdens on communities and taxpayers struggling to cope with the impact of Biden’s policies. The June encounter numbers are hardly cause for celebration, but rather another example of the administration’s resolute effort to maintain an open-borders policy while claiming they are controlling it,&#8221; Federation for American Immigration President Dan Stein said in a statement.

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Republican Wisconsin Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Johnson</a> called for more whistleblowers to come forward and expose “corruption” within the media and the federal government as Republicans look into alleged Biden family corruption.
Johnson made the comments on Twitter alongside a video interview with Newsmax host Rob Schmidt, where he said that the FBI had interfered with his and Republican Iowa Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-grassley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Grassley</a>’s investigation into the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> laptop. 
“For years I&#8217;ve been saying there is a much larger story than Biden family corruption. The corruption inside our federal agencies and MSM is extensive,” Johnson wrote on Twitter. “We need more whistleblowers to come forward and tell us the truth. That is the only way to restore integrity and credibility.”
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For years I&#39;ve been saying there is a much larger story than Biden family corruption. The corruption inside our federal agencies and MSM is extensive.
We need more whistleblowers to come forward and tell us the truth. That is the only way to restore integrity and credibility. <a href="https://t.co/1H70XNO5HB">pic.twitter.com/1H70XNO5HB</a>
&mdash; Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1673676867260280836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Wisconsin Republican added that he “took no joy” in investigating Hunter, but added that he was “concerned if then-candidate Biden would become president he’d be compromised, and he is.” 
Johnson said that the corruption in Washington is “breathtaking” and goes back years, pointing to the Obama-era IRS scandal and the exoneration of Hillary Clinton by the FBI over her email scandal, before focusing in on 2020.
“People didn’t like the fact we were investigating Hunter Biden and his connection to Joe Biden. The mainstream media literally printed more than 100 articles about how we were soliciting and disseminating Russian disinformation,” Johnson said. 
He then said that the FBI knew that the Hunter Biden laptop was “authentic,” yet they told him and Grassley that the two senators were being targeted by Russian disinformation. 
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IRS whistleblower Gary Shapely told Congress in a recently released interview that the FBI had authenticated Hunter’s laptop as early as November 2019. “The whole discussion was about: Can we rely on this information on the laptop, is it Hunter Biden&#8217;s? And their opinion was, it was, and it was not manipulated in any way,” Shapley <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fbi-validated-hunter-biden-laptop-months-experts-falsely-claimed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> of the FBI. 
Johnson’s comments come as Republicans continue to investigate <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/no-biden-claims-ignorance-of-hunters-foreign-business-dealings-in-face-of-mounting-evidence-to-the-contrary/">alleged influence peddling</a> by the Biden family around the world, including in China and Ukraine. Newly released testimony from two IRS whistleblowers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-threatened-chinese-business-partner-for-payment-i-am-sitting-here-with-my-father">alleges</a> that Hunter threatened a Chinese business partner for payment by invoking his father. 
&#8220;We would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,&#8221; Hunter reportedly wrote in a July 2017 text to a Chinese businessman. &#8220;I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.&#8221;
Just 10 days later, Hunter received $5.1 million from a Chinese official linked to CEFC China Energy, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

Sen. Ron Johnson Calls For More Whistleblowers To Come Forward, Details ‘Breathtaking’ Corruption

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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Johnson</a> (R-WI) got a disgusted sigh from Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner on Tuesday after he informed her that he had evidence that President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter had spent thousands on sex-trafficked prostitutes.
Johnson joined the popular anchor for a wide-ranging discussion, and the topic turned to Hunter Biden&#8217;s growing legal woes — and the possibility that he could soon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-urges-feds-not-to-indict-hunter-biden-before-wednesday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">face indictment</a> from the Department of Justice.
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Ron Johnson: 
&quot;We have the evidence that Hunter Biden paid tens of thousands of dollars for prostitutes that were sex trafficked through an international sex trafficking ring.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/aKe1XcrZZ4">pic.twitter.com/aKe1XcrZZ4</a>
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&#8220;One thing we don&#8217;t talk enough about, I know President Biden&#8217;s just &#8216;so proud&#8217; of his son, but let&#8217;s — you know, we have the evidence that Hunter Biden paid for, paid tens of thousands of dollars for prostitutes that were sex trafficked through an international sex trafficking ring.&#8221;
&#8220;Ewww,&#8221; was Faulkner&#8217;s audible reaction.
&#8220;I mean — yes, ick,&#8221; Johnson agreed, adding, &#8220;And President Biden, during about a four to five month period, offered to pay for about $100,000 of Hunter Biden&#8217;s bills when he was spending tens of thousands of dollars on these women who were sex trafficked.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, that is at a minimum morally reprehensible and wrong, and the president is defending that?&#8221; Johnson continued. &#8220;And the media isn&#8217;t even looking into it —&#8221;
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&#8220;Well, wouldn&#8217;t that be a felony?&#8221; Faulkner asked then. &#8220;You&#8217;re doing business with a sex trafficking ring? That&#8217;s more than ethically offensive.&#8221;
&#8220;It is grotesque,&#8221; Johnson agreed, lamenting the fact that by and large, legacy media outlets wanted nothing to do with the story. He noted that the evidence supporting his claim — along with the financial transactions that he had mentioned regarding Joe Biden&#8217;s willingness to <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/27/joe-biden-inadvertently-helped-hunter-pay-russia-linked-escorts-report/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">foot the bill</a> — had been included in his report, but that no one wanted to talk about it. &#8220;It&#8217;s just galling to hear the president talk about how proud he is of Hunter, and he enables this.&#8221;
The segment comes less than 24 hours after liberal Fox News contributor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/juan-williams-gives-impassioned-defense-of-hunter-biden-newt-gingrich-finishes-him-in-five-words" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Juan Williams</a> offered a full-throated defense of both Hunter — who he said was simply an addict — and President Joe Biden, who he claimed was not guilty of anything more serious than acting as a concerned father.

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‘Yes, Ick’: Ron Johnson Grosses Out Harris Faulkner With Comment About Hunter Biden And Sex Trafficking

Ron Johnson Grosses Out Harris Faulkner With Comment About Hunter Biden And Sex Trafficking

Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/antony-blinken" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antony Blinken</a> lied to Congress about his communications with President Joe Biden&#8217;s son Hunter Biden, a GOP senator claimed on Sunday.
A <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blinken-wife-emailed-frequently-hunter-biden-raising-questions-role-laptop-cover-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new report</a>, which revealed emails sent between Blinken and Biden in 2015, led Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) to declare plans to release the transcript from a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/27/biden-adviser-ukraine-probe-disposition-403844" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 2020 interview</a> in which Blinken allegedly said such communications never happened.
&#8220;Now, because of more information that&#8217;s come out, we know that he lied bold-faced to Congress about never e-mailing Hunter Biden,&#8221; Johnson <a href="https://rumble.com/v2la562-ron-johnson-we-now-have-evidence-that-show-blinken-boldface-lied-while-unde.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said during an appearance on Fox News</a> — alluding to what would be a crime that could warrant up to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/07/what-happens-if-you-lie-to-congress.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">five years in prison</a>.
&#8220;My guess is, he told a bunch of other lies, that, hopefully, we will be able to bring him and his wife back in, tell them to preserve their records,&#8221; he added during an interview with &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; anchor Maria Bartiromo. &#8220;You cannot trust Joe Biden. You cannot trust Hunter Biden. You can&#8217;t trust the Biden family. You can&#8217;t trust so many of the people that they have surrounded themselves with.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SecBlinken?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecBlinken</a> lied boldface to Congress about never emailing Hunter Biden.
Biden family co-conspirators inside intel agencies, DoJ, FBI, and the legacy media need to be exposed. They represent the greatest threat to our democracy.
More whistleblowers need to come forward. <a href="https://t.co/z4oRfH6Rmg">pic.twitter.com/z4oRfH6Rmg</a>
&mdash; Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1652707089104396292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Last week, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blinken-wife-emailed-frequently-hunter-biden-raising-questions-role-laptop-cover-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported on the emails</a>, which showed correspondence between Blinken and the younger Biden in 2015, talking about scheduling a meeting at a time when Blinken was serving as deputy secretary of state.
The report also showed emails in 2010 and 2011 between Blinken&#8217;s wife, Evan Ryan, who has held positions in the State Department and White House, and Hunter Biden as well as Hunter Biden&#8217;s longtime business partner, Eric Schwerin.
Upon being reached for comment on Johnson&#8217;s interview, the State Department directed The Daily Wire to <a href="https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-april-21-2023/#post-439830-Misc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a recent statement</a> by an agency spokesperson to reporters and said the State Department has no further comment.
In the referenced exchange, a reporter asked Deputy Press Secretary Vedant Patel if Blinken disputed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-start-calling-for-blinken-to-resign-over-hunter-biden-laptop-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegations that he played a role</a> in prompting an October 2020 statement signed by 51 intelligence veterans suggesting the Hunter Biden laptop story could be part of a Russian disinformation operation. The report also asked if Blinken plans to respond to a GOP letter with a May 4 deadline.
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&#8220;That is not a State Department issue, so I don&#8217;t have a comment for you on that,&#8221; Patel said. Asked whom reporters should contact if not the State Department, Patel simply responded: &#8220;It is not a State Department issue, and I don’t really have a comment on this from the State Department.&#8221;
The White House, where Ryan currently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/us/politics/state-dinner-guest-list.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">works as cabinet secretary</a>, has fired back at GOP investigators. &#8220;House Republicans are weaponizing their power to go after their political opponents and re-litigate the 2020 election with misleading claims,&#8221; White House spokesman Ian Sams <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blinken-wife-emailed-frequently-hunter-biden-raising-questions-role-laptop-cover-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Fox News</a>.
Johnson, who for years has investigated the Biden family and raised allegations of corruption, said Blinken needs to be subpoenaed. But with Democrats in control of the Senate, Johnson pushed for voluntary cooperation and, if that does not happen, held out hope for the GOP-led House to issue subpoenas.
&#8220;We need to get to the bottom of this. We need to show how corrupt these individuals are,&#8221; Johnson said.

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GOP Senator Claims Blinken Lied Under Oath About Hunter Biden Contacts

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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Johnson</a> (R-WI) sent a letter to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/federal-aviation-administration-faa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Aviation Administration</a> (FAA) on Friday asking if the agency would investigate reports from pilots who have claimed they had an adverse response to COVID vaccination. 
Johnson, a strong opponent of vaccine mandates, asked in the letter for more information about recent medical testing decisions from the FAA and if it was aware of any adverse events related to COVID vaccination. The letter was sent to Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen and Federal Air Surgeon Susan Northrup. 
“The vaccine injured deserve to be seen, heard &amp; believed,” Johnson said on Twitter. “@FAANews – are you aware of the COVID-19 vaccine injuries in the aviation industry?”
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The vaccine injured deserve to be seen, heard &amp; believed. <a href="https://twitter.com/FAANews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FAANews</a> – are you aware of the COVID-19 vaccine injuries in the aviation industry?
My letter highlights five of these severe adverse events experienced by pilots &amp; an air traffic controller.<a href="https://t.co/BBVaxjBTkA">https://t.co/BBVaxjBTkA</a> <a href="https://t.co/NVOFQwqgPi">pic.twitter.com/NVOFQwqgPi</a>
&mdash; Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1619124289503903745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a> Republican’s <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23589048/2023-01-27-rhj-to-faa-re-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-events.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> covered a variety of topics related to the COVID vaccine, including a question about new parameters adopted by the FAA in October related to AV block. AV block occurs when the heart cannot pump blood effectively because the electrical signal controlling the heartbeat is blocked, or partially blocked, <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17056-heart-block" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Cleveland Clinic. This can cause dizziness, fainting, tiredness, and shortness of breath.
Some had <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-faa-pilots-heart-covid-373861551871" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speculated</a> that the new parameters might be linked to COVID vaccination. According to Johnson, a representative from the FAA told him last week that “the change has nothing to do with Covid vaccinations.” 
“New scientific evidence enabled the FAA to safely raise the tolerance used to screen for a certain heart condition. The update was an effort to save pilots the expense of an unnecessary cardiac evaluation that did not contribute to a fly or no-fly decision,” the FAA rep said. 
Yet Johnson said in the letter that “questions still remain regarding the FAA’s decision to issue this change and its awareness of adverse events connected to the COVID-19 vaccines.”
Johnson’s letter also included a list of five pilots who he said had adverse events related to COVID vaccination. The reported reactions of the pilots included erratic heart rate, chest pain, and high blood pressure. 
“It remains unclear what, if anything, the FAA has done as it relates to these individuals’ experiences or if it is actively monitoring COVID-19 vaccine adverse events in the aviation industry,” Johnson wrote. 
The senator later asked the officials if they were aware of any pilots who had &#8220;COVID-19 vaccine adverse effects,&#8221; or were investigating any incidents of adverse effects. 
The FAA <a href="https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/pilots-and-air-traffic-controllers-may-receive-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-appropriate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on December 12, 2020 that it had “determined that pilots may receive the vaccine under the conditions of their FAA-issue airman medical certification.” Johnson asked for records on how this decision was made. 
Johnson, who has been <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/581360-youtube-temporarily-suspends-johnsons-channel-over-covid-19-misinformation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> from YouTube in the past for vaccine “misinformation,” wants a response to his inquiry by February 10.

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John Paul Mac Isaac was an introverted Delaware computer repair man until his life was destroyed for trying to do the right thing, with authorities thwarting or ignoring him at every turn, he said in a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Injustice-Battle-Expose-Truth/dp/1637586841/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book released Tuesday</a>. &#8220;&#8216;If you see something, say something&#8217;, we&#8217;re told. I did see something, and I did say something. I was vilified for it,&#8221; he wrote.
Mac Isaac said that a boozy Hunter Biden dropped off three laptops for repair on April 12, 2019, and agreed to pay $85 to recover files from one of them, whose password was something like &#8220;analf&#8212;69.&#8221; The now-First Son came back a few days later to bring an external drive, then never responded to the call informing him that the recovery was complete.
Mac Isaac immediately saw homemade porn littering the desktop, along with financial records detailing millions of dollars in foreign transactions. He wanted nothing to do with a political scandal, but he figured it would be a moot point, as Joe Biden seemed too old to advance in the Democratic primary.
But when then-President Donald Trump was subjected to impeachment proceedings related to his allegedly pressuring Ukraine president to investigate the Biden family&#8217;s business dealings there, Mac Isaac sensed injustice. &#8220;I was sitting on evidence that could exonerate the president and justify his actions. Whether you like a person or not, everyone is entitled to a fair trial,&#8221; he wrote. And under his contract, abandoned property legally became his.
Reviewing the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-reveals-disturbing-information-about-presidents-son-underage-relative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">laptop&#8217;s contents</a>, Mac Isaac had seen that in 2014, Hunter and his business partner Devon Archer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-bidens-laptop-documents-at-least-459-legal-violations-watchdog-group-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plotted</a> a business venture in Ukraine that overlapped with U.S. actions. They discussed buying burner phones at a 7-Eleven. On April 16, 2014, Vice President Biden met with Archer at the White House. Five days later, the vice president traveled to Ukraine. The day after that, Archer was awarded a position on the board of directors of the country&#8217;s oil and gas firm Burisma, with Hunter joining weeks later, &#8220;to the tune of $1,295,000 each,&#8221; Mac Isaac wrote. The computer&#8217;s contents also showed Hunter telling his daughter that unlike his father, he wouldn&#8217;t make her give him half the money she earned.
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<h1>&#8220;You better lawyer up and don&#8217;t talk to anyone about this,&#8221; the FBI agent said, according to Mac Isaac. &#8220;The door is on the left.&#8221;</h1>
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Vadym Pozharskyi, Burisma&#8217;s number-two official, wasted no time in asking for Hunter and Archer&#8217;s &#8220;advice on how you could use your influence to convey a message/signal, etc, to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions&#8221; related to an investigation into Burisma, he wrote. On April 17, Pozharskyi &#8220;thanked Hunter for the opportunity to meet his father,&#8221; he wrote.
Hunter and Archer hired a company called Blue Star Strategies &#8220;to perform the heavy lifting between Burisma and the White House,&#8221; and Blue Star began providing Burisma with sensitive executive-branch information, Mac Isaac wrote. In December 2015, Joe Biden visited Ukraine and threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees unless the prosecutor who had investigated Burisma was fired.
Mac Isaac became convinced that federal authorities needed to see what was on the hard drive, but he was concerned about bringing it to Delaware-based agents because of the Bidens&#8217; sway. His father was a former Air Force colonel who had spent time at the CIA, so on October 9, 2019, the elder Mac Isaac flew to Albuquerque, New Mexico to deliver a copy of the drive to an FBI field office there. But the agent refused to accept it, instead grilling Mac Isaac&#8217;s father on whether the computer repairman might have broken the law, he wrote.
&#8220;I consulted with a regional legal officer, and he suggested you should get a lawyer,&#8221; the FBI agent said, according to Mac Isaac. &#8220;You better lawyer up and don&#8217;t talk to anyone about this&#8230; I don&#8217;t have anything else for you, and the door is on the left.&#8221;
In November 2019, Special Agent Joshua J. Wilson of the FBI&#8217;s Baltimore/Wilmington division contacted the Mac Isaacs. Impeachment hearings were under way in the Senate. On November 19, 2019, Wilson and another agent with the last named DeMeo visited Mac Isaac&#8217;s apartment. Mac Isaac printed out key emails and slid them to the agents, saying &#8220;This collection of emails shows preferred access to the State Department as well as the vice president&#8217;s travel schedule, all sent to private Ukrainian citizens.&#8221;
&#8220;Have you spoken with anyone else about this?&#8221; Wilson asked, according to Mac Isaac. The agents left without taking the emails — taking only the contract that showed whether Mac Isaac was the legal owner of the laptop, he wrote.
On December 9, 2019, they showed up with a subpoena to take the original laptop computer, instead of taking a cloned copy as originally discussed. On their way out, DeMeo allegedly remarked, &#8220;It is our experience that nothing ever happens to people that don&#8217;t talk about these things.&#8221;
They said they were taking the physical computer so the FBI&#8217;s top computer experts could assess it. But someone named Matt soon called with the most basic questions about how to read a Mac hard drive. And he was attempting to boot up the operating system directly, which could spoil the intact nature of the evidence. Mac Isaac said they could come back to the shop so he could show them how to recover a hard drive. DeMeo was standing in the room with Matt. &#8220;Absolutely not. We&#8217;re done; hang up,&#8221; Mac Isaac heard him say, according to the book.
&#8220;I sat back and pondered the multitude of possible reasons these FBI agents had chosen to give the laptop to someone who clearly knew very little about computers,&#8221; he wrote. The weeks passed, and Trump&#8217;s impeachment proceeded, with the laptop still unknown to the world.
Mac Isaac was just an ordinary person with no experience dealing with the media, politicians or government. With no movement from the FBI, his father tried to get it to the offices of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Jim Jordan, but got no bite, he said.
Mac Isaac sent a tip to Sen. Ron Johnson&#8217;s office, and received back only an unsigned note that asked a few terse questions that seemed to probe into his own actions more than the substance of the laptop. Johnson&#8217;s office then leaked Mac Isaac&#8217;s identity to investigative reporter John Solomon without his consent, he claimed. When Mac Isaac pressed for a substantive conversation with a Johnson aide, the aide called and said that two National Security Administration officials were also on the line, who proceeded to take over the call and grill Mac Isaac about his own actions — such as asking if he had ever been to Russia — again with little interest in the hard drive itself, Mac Isaac claimed. (Johnson&#8217;s office did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire.)
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It was not lost on Mac Isaac that the Trump impeachment trial revolved around a whistleblower whose identity had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-leftist-activist-lawyer-ukraine-impeachment?itm_source=parsely-api" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruthlessly shielded</a> — with social media blocking his name and major media avoiding reporting it, even though some outlets reported that the whistleblower was a former aide to Joe Biden who would have had a clear agenda. &#8220;Why was I being made to feel so guilty by the people I was trying to help, for doing the right thing?&#8221; he wrote.
Mac Isaac ultimately took the drive to Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for Trump, as a last resort. Robert Costello, who worked for Giuliani, promptly responded to a tip and asked him to FedEx a copy of the drive on August 27, 2020. Costello immediately began going through it.
Through Giuliani, the New York Post obtained access to the laptop, leading to a story that landed on October 14, 2020. The Post neglected to redact the address of Mac Isaac&#8217;s store, leading to a glut of threats and vandalism.
Mac Isaac hoped that, with Giuliani briefing him based on the contents of the hard drive, Trump would bring the truth to America in the presidential debate. But Trump failed to clearly communicate what was on the laptop, Mac Isaac said.
To suppress the Post story, former intelligence operatives traded on their credentials to push a storyline that suggested that the kilt-wearing Scotsman with albinism was actually a Russian agent. &#8220;Did they actually think I&#8217;d come to Wilmington ten years earlier and opened up a Mac repair business as a cover, just waiting for an intoxicated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/collections/the-hunter-biden-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter</a> to one day stumble in with a damaged laptop?&#8221; he wrote.
The day after the election, he closed down his business and left the state. &#8220;I felt like I was being punished for having done the right thing. As if the powers that be were setting an example for others who might have the same notion,&#8221; he wrote.

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Republican Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Johnson</a> has defeated Democratic candidate Mandela Barnes in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin">Wisconsin</a> Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2022-election">election</a>, according to a projection from DecisionDeskHQ.
Decision Desk made the <a href="https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1590243871685910528">projection</a> at 2:23 a.m. EST on Wednesday. Hours later, other outlets projected Johnson as the winner as the Republican was ahead by just over 27,000 votes out of over 2.5 million ballots cast.
Prior to most outlets calling the race, Johnson declared victory saying that it was not mathematically possible for Barnes to make up the difference.
&#8220;The corporate media is refusing to call a race that is over,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;Truth has prevailed over lies and the politics of personal destruction.&#8221;
Barnes conceded the race Wednesday saying that he was &#8220;disappointed,&#8221; but that he had &#8220;fought the good fight.&#8221;
Polls for the race, which was one of the most closely watched midterm races, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/wi/wisconsin_senate_johnson_vs_barnes-7758.html">flipped</a> in the months leading up to the election with Barnes leading in many polls early in the summer, but Johnson jumping into the lead during the fall. 
The Wisconsin race was seen as critical for both parties, with it being a must-hold seat for Republicans to have a chance to gain control of the chamber, which is deadlocked at 50-50. Democrats saw the seat as a possibility to build on the technical majority they held with Vice President Kamala Harris casting tie-breaking votes. 
During the campaign, Johnson focused on inflation and crime, accusing Barnes of being soft on law and order and pointing to his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-candidate-critical-of-over-bloated-police-budgets-has-expensive-police-security-bill">links</a> to groups that support defunding the police. Republicans in the state also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senate-candidate-who-posed-with-abolish-ice-t-shirt-under-scrutiny-for-immigration-positions">pointed</a> to a photo of Barnes holding an “Abolish ICE” T-shirt, though Barnes’ campaign claimed he did not support ending the immigration enforcement agency. 
Johnson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-political-exercise-ron-johnson-say-democrats-are-using-jan-6-hearings-to-distract-from-policy-failures">told</a> The Daily Wire in July that he expected the race to come down to the wire and said Republicans would focus on stopping the “Biden agenda that is destroying our country” if they should take power.
The Wisconsin Republican has been a favorite target of many on the Left, as he has been a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/troubling-track-record-ron-johnson-questions-youtube-over-covid-censorship">frequent</a> critic of tech censorship, gone after Hunter Biden, and promoted alternative treatments for COVID. 
Throughout the campaign, Barnes, Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor, portrayed himself as a progressive who touted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-makes-endorsement-in-senate-race-crucial-for-majority">endorsements</a> from far-Left figures like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). 
He made abortion a centerpiece of his campaign, pledging to fight for “reproductive justice” and cited his mother as an example of a woman who needed to have an abortion. 
“I’m an only child, but I’m not my mother’s only pregnancy. Before I was born, my mother had a complicated pregnancy, and she had an abortion. She shared her story because she wanted others to know that they aren’t alone and then it was her decision to make,” Barnes <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/only-child-senate-candidate-defends-abortion-says-mother-had-one-before-he-was-born">said</a> during a debate with Johnson. 
Barnes has criticized Johnson, 67, a former plastics company executive, for his wealth and took aim at the Republican over the January 6 Capitol riot. 
During the campaign, the lieutenant governor came under scrutiny for his stance toward ICE and the police, his expensive security detail, and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-senate-candidate-mandela-barnes-repeatedly-criticized-police-russian-propaganda-outlet">appearances</a> on Russian television where he criticized the police. 
His path to the Democratic nomination was ensured after his major opponents, including Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry and State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski dropped out before the primary. Both Democrats endorsed Barnes following the suspension of their campaigns.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a> Lt. Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-candidate-critical-of-over-bloated-police-budgets-has-expensive-police-security-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mandela Barnes</a> (D) used the example of his own mother having an abortion before he was born to defend abortion during a Senate debate against Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Johnson</a> (R-WI).
Barnes, who has featured his mother in previous campaign ads, made the statement during a Friday evening debate in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/milwaukee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milwaukee</a>, where he faced off against Johnson — who has taken the lead in several recent polls in the purple state. 
&#8220;I&#8217;m an only child, but I&#8217;m not my mother&#8217;s only pregnancy. Before I was born, my mother had a complicated pregnancy, and she had an abortion. She shared her story because she wanted others to know that they aren&#8217;t alone and then it was her decision to make,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/five-takeaways-first-wisconsin-senate-debate-ron-johnson-mandela-barnes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
Johnson, who is pro-life, responded by saying that Barnes supports abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. 
“The most extreme position here would be no limits on abortion whatsoever,&#8221; the incumbent Republican said. &#8220;Allowing abortion right up to the moment of birth, which is what the lieutenant governor supports.”
Barnes had attacked Johnson for his support for the Supreme Court Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/roe-v-wade" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roe v. Wade</a> and effectively returned abortion legislation back to the states. 
The two candidates also sparred over crime at the debate, which was hosted by the Wisconsin Broadcast Association. Johnson said that Barnes was soft on crime and pointed to his association with groups and individuals who support defunding the police, though Barnes has denied he supports the movement. 
“The first thing you do is support law enforcement and unfortunately the lieutenant governor has not done that,&#8221; Johnson <a href="https://fox11online.com/news/state/mandela-barnes-ron-johnson-republican-democratic-first-debate-wisconsin-broadcasters-association-milwaukee-senate-senator-abortion-crime-inflation-lieutenant-governor">said</a>. &#8220;He has a record of wanting to defund the police. He says it pains him to see fully funded police budgets.”
Barnes responded by claiming that Johnson had “supported” the January 6 Capitol riot. 
The debate mirrored the strategies taken by the candidates on the campaign trail, with Barnes attempting to motivate Democrats over abortion issues and Johnson emphasizing crime. 
Polling has flipped in recent weeks, with Johnson jumping into the lead after trailing Barnes for much of the early polling with just weeks to go before the election. Johnson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-political-exercise-ron-johnson-say-democrats-are-using-jan-6-hearings-to-distract-from-policy-failures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Wire in June that he expects the race to come down to the wire, saying that his race was “crucial to stop the Biden agenda.”
The next debate will be at Marquette University on Thursday, October 13.

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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Johnson</a> (R-WI) sent a letter to the CEO of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/youtube" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a> this week asking for information on the company’s “troubling track record” of censorship. 
Johnson, who has been suspended twice from YouTube, is demanding that YouTube turn over documents and emails pertaining to his suspensions and the formation of the tech giant’s COVID misinformation policy. 
“YouTube has displayed a troubling track record of censoring a sitting United States Senator, the proceedings of the United States Senate, journalists that interview me, and the display of data that is entirely generated from U.S. government health agencies,” Johnson wrote in a <a href="https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/services/files/24293888-95D8-4F5D-9670-E9380CAF1789" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a> senator, a frequent critic of big tech companies, has also been vocal about his support of potential alternatives treatments for COVID and his opposition to vaccine mandates.  
“Your company has suspended me twice for advocating for the early treatment of COVID-19, opposing vaccine mandates for children and workers, and advocating for the vaccine injured,” he said in his letter. 
In June 2021, Johnson had his channel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-bans-republican-senator-for-discussing-covid-19-treatment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> for a week for suggesting that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin might be effective drugs to combat COVID. At the time, YouTube did not allow claims that said either of the two drugs were “effective treatments for COVID-19.”
Later in November, Johnson was again <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/581360-youtube-temporarily-suspends-johnsons-channel-over-covid-19-misinformation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> after posting a video discussing numbers from the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System (VAERS), a self-reporting database. 
“Once again Big Tech is censoring the truth,” he stated after his account was handed a one-week suspension. “Why won’t they let the vaccine injured tell their stories and medical experts give a second opinion? Why can’t we discuss the harmful effects of mandates?”
Fellow Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-not-sure-when-youtube-became-an-arm-of-the-government-rand-paul-slaps-back-after-youtube-suspension" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clashed</a> with YouTube over its policies regarding what it deems to be misinformation. Paul was given a suspension on the platform after he posted a video where he voiced skepticism about masks. 
“I’m not sure when YouTube became an arm of the government, and I’m not really sure it’s good for journalism to also be an arm of the government without any repercussions or push back,” the Kentucky Senator said after his suspension.
In his letter to YouTube, Johnson also says that the company should have flagged President Biden for misinformation regarding several of his claims about COVID, but that the company never did. 
Johnson asked the company that it responds to him with the requested materials by October 5.

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