Judicial Watch: Records document Biden’s dog attacks on Secret Service employees

“Can we please find a way to muzzle this dog?” – Secret Service officer

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it 116 pages of records from the United States Secret Service (USSS) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that reveal details of several incidents in which Secret Service members were bitten by President Biden’s dog, Commander, sometimes requiring medical attention.

The records are from a February 2024 study. legal action which was filed after the Department of Homeland Security failed to respond to a FOIA request dated September 27, 2023 (Judicial Watch v. the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:24-cv-00429)). Judicial Watch requests:

All records related to aggression and bite incidents involving the Biden family dog, “Commander,” including, but not limited to, communications from and to USSS officials from the uniformed and non-uniformed divisions involved in White House operations, as well as the Division of Presidential Protection.

Newly preserved records include an entry dated September 12, 2023. E-mail between intelligence officials who stated:

POTUS took Commander (on a leash) to Kennedy Garden for a walk this evening. While POTUS and Commander were at Kennedy Garden, I was standing halfway between the Book-Sellers and the Family Theater. POTUS opened the door of the Book-Sellers and said (redacted). As I walked up to him to see if he needed help, Commander ran between his legs and bit me on my left arm through the front of my jacket. I pulled my arm away and screamed no. POTUS also screamed (redacted) to Commander. Then POTUS (redacted). I complied and Commander let me pet him. As I turned to close the door, Commander jumped again and bit me on my left arm for the second time. POTUS screamed at Commander again and attached the leash to him. My jacket has 3 holes, 1 of them all the way through. No skin was broken.

On September 14, 2023, an agent of the Presidential Protective Detail, whose name is redacted, sent a letter with the subject line “12.05.2021” an email to a colleague with several attachments, including photos of suits, estimates for repairs, and a “Damage to Personal Property” form stating that a dog bite incident had occurred on May 12, 2021. In the damage form, the agent demands $943 for a new suit because: “Without my fault or negligence, the coat was torn by a dog bite.”

On September 25, 2023, a sergeant in the Uniformed Division emails a colleague that the commander had bitten an agent that day.

Currently (redacted) and (redacted) after 20:55 are available.

FYI, there was a dog bite and the officer may need to go to the hospital.

(Redacted) represents (redacted), who was at (redacted).

Good shift!

A Secret Service report from the same day reported that on September 25, 2023 at 20:06:

OFC. (redacted) (POST (redacted) REQUESTED BY FAMILY HOME AND SECTOR OFFICIALS.

SGT. (redacted) ASKED EMT FOR RESPONSE.

At 20:08 the logbook notes:

OFC. (redacted) (redacted) INFORMED: WHITE HOUSE MEDICAL POSTS RETAINED (redacted).

OFC. (redacted) (redacted) RECOMMENDED: FAMILY, PETS, 2ND FLOOR APARTMENT.”

The last entry in the log reads “(8:58 p.m.) – CAPT. (redacted) REQUESTING JOC (Joint Operations Center) LOG DELETION.”

The next day, CNN reporter Betsy Klein said Emails The Secret Service asks: “Can you confirm that a uniformed USSS officer was hospitalized last night for a biting incident involving Commander Biden?”

Anthony Guglielmi, Head of Communications, replies:

Yesterday at approximately 8 p.m., a Secret Service Uniformed Division officer came into contact with a First Family pet and was bitten. The officer was treated by medical personnel at the complex and I am not aware of any hospitalization.

The CNN report produced Multiple queries from different media. Guglielmi sent everyone the same answer.

A 27 September 2023, E-mail A Secret Service Workers’ Compensation agent from the Division of Safety, Health and Environment writes to several colleagues: “Attention and FYI. TMZ just reported on a dog bite at the White House! Can we please find a way to muzzle this dog?”

A colleague asks, “How does TMZ know this before we do???” An officer from the same department responds, “Not sure. We need to muzzle this dog.” Another responds, “Oh my gosh…” A third adds, “Unbelievable!”

Two days earlier an article was released, noting: “President Biden’s dog handler reportedly bit seven people.”

“These documents show that Joe Biden is personally responsible for his dog Commander’s attacks on Secret Service personnel,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch. “It’s no wonder the Biden White House forced us to bring these documents to federal court.”

FOIA Act (judicial surveillance) Inquiries and complaints exposed initial White House falsehoods about the severity and number of attacks by Major, the Bidens’ former dog. Judicial Watch then received a tip that Commander also attacking Last July, Secret Service agents uncovered documents documenting ten biting incidents.

According to a Judicial Watch source, President Biden mistreated his dogs. The source revealed that Biden hit and kicked his dogs.

In February 2024 Judicial Watch receive 269 ​​pages of records of the commander’s aggression, including at least 23 biting incidents. After one incident, public tours of the East Wing were interrupted for about 20 minutes because of blood on the floor. These records include a Spreadsheet of 22 incident reports between October 2022 and June 2023, 10 of which required medical treatment.

On May 14, 2024, Judicial Watch filed a separate legal action after the Department of Homeland Security failed to respond to a FOIA request dated February 28, 2024 (Judicial Watch v. the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:24-cv-01397)). Judicial Watch calls

All emails and text messages sent to and from the following officials regarding the filing of CA-1 forms (“Notice of Traumatic Injury and Eligibility for Wage Compensation or Compensation”) related to bites by Biden family dogs: Director Kimberly Cheatle, Deputy Director Ronald Rowe, Chief Operating Officer Cynthia Radway, Deputy Director Michael Plati, Deputy Director Brian Lambert, Chief Human Capital Officer Denise Walker Hall, Deputy Director David Smith, Deputy Director Miltom Wilson, Chief of the Uniformed Division Michael Buck, Chief Counsel Thomas Huse, and Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi.

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