Biden Admin 'Invited' Fani Willis To Get Lucrative Grant While She Prosecuted Trump

The DOJ under the Biden administration “invited” disgraced Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to apply for a generous taxpayer-funded grant as she prosecuted President Donald Trump.

The arrangement came to light after Willis referenced the grant in December 2022 correspondence with DOJ Senior Advisor Scott Pestridge of the Office of Justice Programs.

The document was first revealed on Thursday by Just the News through open records requests filed by the outlet and nonprofit America First Legal.

According to Just the News, Willis referenced the Office of Justice Programs’ Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative grant, which ultimately awarded her office $2 million.

The timing of the award coincided with her office’s aggressive prosecution of Trump, who at the time was running for president against then-President Joe Biden.

“I want to document your recognition of our progress and services provided with dynamic partners, as we complete sole source steps for our new grant award, a grant in which you invited us to apply,” Willis wrote to Pestridge, according to Just the News.

Willis described the award as a “sole source” grant, indicating her office faced no competing applicants.

The $2 million award was part of roughly $18 million the Biden DOJ provided to Willis’s office between 2021 and 2024.

She claimed the funds would help “at-risk” youth avoid falling into crime or assist with reintegration into society, according to Just the News.

Documents released by Willis’s office in response to open records requests show her office maintained consistent coordination with the DOJ after Trump left office in 2021, when she became one of several left-leaning prosecutors pursuing cases against him.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-invited-fani-willis-get-lucrative-grant-while-she-prosecuted-trump

Altman Pitches Pentagon On Anthropic Alternative As WSJ Does Deep-State Concern-Trolling Over Grok

As today's 5PM ET deadline looms for Anthropic to militarize Claude AI for the Pentagon, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman waded into the fray - telling staff on Thursday night that his company is working with the Department of War to see if their models can be used in classified settings in a way that maintains the same safety guardrails that are about to get Anthropic booted from the Pentagon.

"We are going to see if there is a deal with the DoW that allows our models to be deployed in classified environments and that fits with our principles," Altman wrote in a Thursday night note to staff, reported by the Wall Street Journal. "We would ask for the contract to cover any use except those which are unlawful or unsuited to cloud deployments, such as domestic surveillance and autonomous offensive weapons."

Altman says he wants to "try to help de-escalate things," aka - they want to be the ones deeply embedded in the Pentagon's most sensitive systems.

Red Lines

Altman says OpenAI understands the government's position that a private company should not have control over significant national-security issues [laughs in Palantir], but says they have the same issues as Anthropic when it comes to use cases.

"We have long believed that AI should not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons, and that humans should remain in the loop for high-stakes automated decisions. These are our main red lines," Altman wrote.

"We believe this dispute isn’t about how AI will be used, but about control. We believe that a private US company cannot be more powerful than the democratically-elected US government, although companies can have lots of input and influence. Democracy is messy, but we are committed to it."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/altman-pitches-pentagon-anthropic-alternative-wsj-drops-deep-state-concern-trolling-over

The ad, which dropped Thursday, features Trump stating, “If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.”

Republicans rose in applause while Democrats remained glued to their seats, with overlays labeling the divide and accusing Dems of siding with “illegal immigrant criminals.”

https://youtu.be/uZo9PSCBGec

US Homeland Security News

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Bill Clinton

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As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals.

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