BREAKING NEWS: FOIA Bombshell Reveals Biden Military Gaslit Americans To Cover Up Targeting of Pro-Lifers as “Terrorist Groups,” Calling Slide Label a “Mistake,” Not Inclusion of Pro-Lifers in Terror Training

In breaking news, we just received a new production of records from the U.S. Army outlining the investigation into the “Terror Awareness” slides defaming Operation Rescue and every other pro-life American – and it is not good.

Remember how the U.S. Army, under the Biden Administration, labeled our client, Operation Rescue, pro-life sidewalk counselors, and anyone with a “Choose Life” license plate as domestic terrorists in a terror training session at Fort Bragg/Liberty? We sent a legal letter demanding an apology, but that wasn’t all. We also sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, demanding the records that will expose how such an outrageous assault on Americans and the First Amendment could make it into official Army training materials.

We told you last month about the first round of records we received from the Army, which included the full slide deck used in the presentation. As we said then, “The full presentation reinforces that Biden’s DOD was training soldiers to view pro-life organizations and citizens as equal to Islamic terrorists.”

The production we just received reveals a shocking cover-up conducted by the Biden Army to deceive the American public, especially pro-lifers. The investigation report concluded that “Labelling the slide ‘Terrorist Groups’ was a mistake” instead of recognizing that pro-lifers should not have been included in the entire “Terrorism Awareness” presentation in the first place. This is far more egregious than simply stating that the title of one slide was a “mistake,” as the entire training was about terrorism. Further, the conclusion that the labeling of that slide was a “mistake” is unsupported by a shred of evidence in the investigation file. The attempt to brush this under the rug is glaring.

The sworn testimony in evidence accompanying the investigatory report paints a far more appalling picture, showing that the attack on pro-lifers had been going on longer than we previously realized and was clearly “teaching doctrine” to the soldiers in attendance that pro-lifers are “domestic terrorists” and “will commit an act of terrorism in order to try and further their cause.”

While our legal team will continue to review and analyze the contents, a preliminary review reveals some startling disclosures. 

The investigator was tasked with answering some specific questions, including: “What was the review and approval process for the slides at issue?” and “How long and how many times were the ‘Terror Awareness’ training slides used and approximately how many Soldiers received training using these, or similar, slides?”

The answer? A cover-up . . . in typical government bureaucracy fashion. 

We’re now supposed to believe that it was a “mistake . . . that likely occurred when [REDACTED] sev[eral] slides from a larger, older presentation [REDACTED] inserted group names (not present in the earlier version) into the revised presentation without paying attention to the slide title and without considering how this visually misrepresented what [REDACTED] attempting to convey.” 

However, a few more pages into the investigation report, the investigator specifically states that the original 2011 presentation “explained ‘Special-interest/Single issue’ terrorism by citing ‘Animal rights’, ‘Environmental’, ‘Anti-genetic engineering’, and ‘Anti-abortion’ as examples.” Then he added that “Slides 27-28 were the ‘Special Interest/Single-Issue’ portion of the 2017 presentation,” which contained slides labeled “ANTI-ABORTION (Right to Life and Operation Rescue).”

Clearly, the Army has trained soldiers that pro-lifers are terrorists going back to at least 2011. The investigator tried to cover this up as a “mistake” that was only added in the new presentation, but this was demonstratively false. Not to mention the fact that the investigator completely left out the fact that the presentation included “Choose Life” license plates. The Army should expect much more from its internal investigations – and so should the American people.

But there’s more.

In the aftermath, the Army told us, U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives, and the public that listing Operation Rescue on this slide was a mistake (see PDF p. 7) and, in its words to a congressional oversight committee, had “inaccurately referenced . . . Operation Rescue . . . as [a] terrorist organization,” and that it did “not reflect the views of the XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Liberty, the U.S. Army or the Department of Defense.”

Yet the sworn statements of the soldiers interviewed tell a VERY different story. One recalled that the presenter “did not speak on the groups” by themselves, but instead, “the groups that were on the slides were just used as examples as domestic terrorist groups, it was more so we had a general understanding that these groups don’t just come from foreign nations.” (PDF p. 52)

And in another Q&A session:

Q: “Were any of the organizations listed described by [REDACTED] as Terrorist Groups?”
A: “Yes they were used as examples for domestic terrorists.” (PDF p. 52)

And more:

Q: “Did [REDACTED] discuss the organizations listed on that slide? What [REDACTED] say about them?
A: He spoke briefly about a couple of them not all of them mainly [REDACTED] that there were terrorist groups out there and how they are on our home front and how they ease their way into American businesses and how terrorist groups can easily corrupt American citizens. (PDF p. 49)

Another soldier recalled “pro life groups” on the list and described the presentation as “just teaching doctrine.” Further, “All of the groups that he described to my knowledge from what I remember were considered potential terror watch groups.” (PDF p. 61)

In fact, the investigator emphasized a nearly completely redacted sworn statement of someone involved in the training that, regarding

the section of the training dealing with special interest and single-issue organizations (slides 27 and 28 that show animal, environmental and anti-abortion groups), [name redacted] clarified that these single-issue groups can have “individual bad actors within the group that believe in their cause so passionately . . . and their views can and have in the past become extreme and they will commit an act of terrorism in order to try and further their cause.” (PDF p. 10)

By emphasizing this testimony, the investigator was clearly DEFENDING the inclusion of pro-life groups, like our client, in this “Terrorism Awareness” training.

Does this sound like a mistake? Of course not. No, they trained on it. They discussed it. It was “doctrine” – in the context of comparing Operation Rescue to ISIS, making the express point that “these groups don’t just come from foreign nations.” This is incredible, and it comes from the Army’s own records. The sworn testimony of the soldiers contradicts the Biden Army’s own conclusion and what they told everyone in the aftermath.

We may have an answer now on where this shocking content came from.

More records undercut the Army bureaucracy’s narrative and expose that the outrageous content did not come to be on its own or as a mere accident. According to a sworn statement contained in the investigation report: “All training content and updates to the terror awareness program were done with and from references found in open source materials/documents provided and or published by Government Agencies like the FBI, DHS, DNI, CIA, and other counter-terrorism experts.” (Emphasis added.) (PDF p. 30)

The investigation report is riddled with inconsistencies and errors unsupported by the sworn statements in evidence. One clear example of this is the basic fact of how many soldiers received this training since 2017. The investigator estimated the total as “9,100” (PDF p. 11), including a citation to a sworn statement (Exhibit C) provided in the report that stated “11,000 from 2017 to current” (PDF p. 33) had received that training.

While our investigation has now confirmed this fiasco truly was far worse than we feared, another concern has emerged: Did Biden’s Army intentionally mislead Congress?

In response to our demand letter, the Army sent us a copy of the Assistant Secretary of the Army’s sworn statement to Congress about the incident. In that statement, the Army’s representative said, “These training slides were related to the Army’s anti-terrorism policy, not the Army’s extremism policy,” and then after that premise, asserted that “[t]he slides inaccurately referenced nonprofit, public advocacy organization groups such as . . . Operation Rescue . . . as terrorist organization [sic].” (Emphasis added.) In light of the records we just received, proving that the entire slide presentation is called “Terrorism Awareness” and was presented as part of terrorism training, the Army’s response does not appear truthful. The 2011 presentation still included “anti-abortion,” i.e., pro-life, “groups” as “domestic terrorist groups,” and the only change that occurred in 2017 was specifically naming said pro-life groups.

At the very least, it sure looks like the Army isn’t sorry; it’s just sorry it got caught. Now that we’re investigating, it’s looking worse and worse.

We are preparing a letter to the Secretary of Defense urging him to hold the Army accountable by taking swift, decisive action to truly get to the bottom of this. You will hear more from us next week!