Catherine Herridge
BREAKING: @DNIGabbard “Actively Working to Declassify” Directed Energy Weapon and COVID-19 Information Before June 30 Departure As Watchdog Group Sues Multiple Government Agencies Over Alleged Cover-Up
This week on Straight to the Point, I sat down with Chris Farrell, Director of Investigations and Research at @JudicialWatch for an in-depth interview on the watchdog's new Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the DOJ/FBI,CIA, DoD, Homeland Security and ODNI for Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) records including the reported purchase of a device by Homeland Security Investigations.
Farrell says the intelligence agencies are “stonewalling” the release of information related to Judicial Watch’s February 2026 FOIA requests that followed our team's exclusive investigations with DEW attack survivors. Farrell argues their non-response, combined with years of reported gaslighting of injured government employees and civilians could reveal a coordinated effort to conceal the facts of directed energy weapon attacks – also known as Havana Syndrome or Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs) - including questions about foreign technology and why some government personnel may have been deployed to the same high-risk locations.
Farrell told us that DNI Tulsi Gabbard and the White House have the discretionary authority to release the records immediately without waiting for litigation.
An ODNI Spokesperson said “As DNI Gabbard told Chairman Crawford during the Annual Threat Assessment hearing in March, she believes the Biden-era ICA[Intelligent Community Assessment] on AHIs should be retracted.”
Asked if Gabbard would release reports before she leaves, an ODNI official said “She is actively working to declassify information about the COVID-19 pandemic and Anomalous Health Incidents before June 30.”
Asked about alleged CIA spying on Gabbard’s investigative team, an ODNI official said, “We have confirmed that the Intelligence Community Inspector General is aware of the allegations and is working, alongside ODNI and interagency partners, to uncover the truth about any potential wrongdoing.”
A CIA official said the agency “has been and will continue to be supportive of any IG investigation into past conduct by the CIA on this issue.”
The CIA official disputed allegations that the agency had frustrated the investigation by DNI Gabbard’s team: "CIA worked to provide the DIG with access to information responsive to the Executive Orders prior to its disbandment by the DNI.”
On AHIs or Havana Syndrome, the CIA official said the CIA Director “…has been clear, including in sworn testimony before Congress, that CIA defers to ODNI leading an interagency analytic review of AHIs.”
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0:41 Government Stonewalling: Directed Energy Weapons
1:10 Government Watchdog: “Embarrassment or Outright Cover-Up”
1:45 Injured US Government Personnel: Government’s “Guilty Knowledge”
2:50 Judicial Watch Filed Freedom of Information Act Requests: “Public Has A Right to Know” Foreign and Domestic Incidents
3:55 FBI Counterintelligence Counter-Espionage Intelligence Collection
5:10 CIA Request: Documentation Foreign Attacks + Foreign Adversary Capabilities
6:05 CIA Leadership: Who Knew What, When and What Action to Mitigate DEW
6:44 Deploying USG Personnel to Same Locations, Housing Where Attacks Allegedly Took Place: "Definition of Insanity”
7:35 Government Employees With Legitimate Medical Claims: “Gaslighting”
8:30 DNI Gabbard’s Investigative Team Assessed Biden Intelligence Reports Were “Defective”
9:05 Homeland Security Records: Reported Purchase of DEW Weapon
11:00 CIA Whistleblower James Erdman III: Credible Witness Alleges CIA Spying
11:44 DNI Gabbard Resignation Could Accelerate Release of Records
12:30 Judicial Watch Files FOIA Lawsuit After Herridge Investigative Reporting
13:10 Farrell: “People Lie, Records Don’t”
13:50 We Ask Unpleasant Questions From Republicans and Democrats
14:43 Herridge Debrief: New Reporting About Biden Intelligence Assessments
15:35 Alleged CIA Spying and Investigative Blocks
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