Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Judicial Watch: Air Force Records Reveal Tens of Thousands of Taxpayer Dollars Spent to House Ashli Babbitt Shooter and His Pet for Several Months in ‘Distinguished Visitor Suite’ at Joint Base Andrews
Judicial Watch ^ | January 6, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 01/08/2023 8:02:12 AM PST by Twotone

Judicial Watch announced today it received 31 pages of documents from the Department of the Air Force, Joint Base Andrews, MD, that show U.S. Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd was housed at taxpayer expense at Joint Base Andrews after he shot and killed U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The records were obtained in response to a September 2022 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after Joint Base Andrews, the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, and the FBI failed to respond to three July 2022 FOIA requests about Byrd’s housing at Joint Base Andrews while his name as the shooter of Ashli Babbitt was being withheld from the public by the government (Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:22-cv-02948)). 

In its complaint, Judicial Watch explained to the court that it had asked all three government agencies for all records relating to the billeting of Byrd at Joint Base Andrews during the period from January 6, 2021, to July 2022, including authorization papers, housing, meals, transportation, and visitor logs.

The documents show that Lieutenant Byrd and a pet stayed in a “Distinguished Visitor Suite” at the “Presidential Inn” (part of Air Force Inns) under a “Capitol Police Presidential Inn Reservation” for the period July 8, 2021, through January 28, 2022.

Judicial Watch was informed by a representative at Joint Base Andrews that a “Distinguished Visitor Suite” is typically reserved for officers at the rank of O-7 (Brigadier General or higher.).

An August 2021 email from the assistant hotel manager indicates that the U.S. Capitol Police had been paying Byrd’s bills by phone “every 10 days.”

(Excerpt) Read more at judicialwatch.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 202108; ashlibabbitt; bribes; byrd; corruption; judicialwatch; michaelbyrd; murder; murderer
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-35 next last

1 posted on 01/08/2023 8:02:12 AM PST by Twotone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Twotone

This was his jail?


2 posted on 01/08/2023 8:03:34 AM PST by existentially_kuffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Twotone

Does this make sense?


3 posted on 01/08/2023 8:05:19 AM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful silave in a new Sociaist America.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pajamajan

It does if he was THEIR paid assassin


4 posted on 01/08/2023 8:13:29 AM PST by madison10
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Twotone

I learned something new from the article:

A footnote details missing evidence: “During the debrief of Lieutenant Byrd, he did recall writing a few sentences on an evidence bag the evening of January 6, 2021, at the request of a crime scene officer. To date, the bag has not been located by USCP or MPD.”


5 posted on 01/08/2023 8:14:32 AM PST by Doctor Congo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Twotone

Just an odd question....Air Force lodging does nothing for free. So who was paying this bill? All out of the Capital Police budget? This room he got....wasn’t cheap (has to be in the $150-to-200 a night).


6 posted on 01/08/2023 8:18:52 AM PST by pepsionice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pajamajan

Sure. He has been called a hero by Biden
He came out of nowhere, a black man, without a warning, at all, and shot a defenseless white woman who was trying to escape Antifa thugs in the hallway, by crawling through a tiny window were she could have been easily restrained.

George Floyd, high on drugs, attacked police officers while committing a crime, and stopped breathing likely because of an overdose of fentanyl, is also a hero. The white police officer is in jail.

Kyle Rittenhouse ran for his life, pursued by prior armed convicted felons. When assaulted over the head, he used his weapon in self defense, killing or injuring three white male pursuers. That black attacker, also a felon, was never charged for hunting an attempting to kill Rittenhouse.

Makes perfect sense. They are reminding you that you don’t live in a Constitutional Republic anymore, without having to openly say that.


7 posted on 01/08/2023 8:20:30 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Twotone

SPJNK.


8 posted on 01/08/2023 8:29:08 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Twotone

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4121757/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4121754/posts

😁👍


9 posted on 01/08/2023 8:29:09 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pete Dovgan

Btt


10 posted on 01/08/2023 8:29:12 AM PST by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Twotone

Officially sanctioned murder.


11 posted on 01/08/2023 8:38:32 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Twotone

The murderer should be in Prison.


12 posted on 01/08/2023 8:39:31 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Twotone

h/t judicial watch


13 posted on 01/08/2023 8:42:26 AM PST by thinden (buckle up ....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pepsionice

Read the whole excerpt.

An August 2021 email from the assistant hotel manager indicates that the U.S. Capitol Police had been paying Byrd’s bills by phone “every 10 days.”


14 posted on 01/08/2023 8:43:50 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beake)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Twotone

Hey US Air Force, what did you think about hosting as a most distinguished guest the guy who murdered a US Air Force veteran?


15 posted on 01/08/2023 8:49:13 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Twotone

Meanwhile, Ashli’s mother was arrested last Friday while demonstrating outside the Capitol for obstruction of traffic and not obeying police commands.


16 posted on 01/08/2023 8:51:08 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
Tucker Carlson Demolishes the January 6 Committee’s Biggest Lies in Must-See Segment

https://beckernews.com/tucker-january-6-48453/

“An anniversary,” Tucker said. “Two years ago today, a Capitol Hill police officer called Michael Byrd shot an unarmed woman in the neck. At the time of that killing Byrd had a documented history of gross negligence with a firearm. He left a loaded Glock pistol in a public men’s room at the Capitol, which for a law enforcement official is a firing offense. But for some reason, Michael Byrd was still in the force that day.”

“The woman he killed was called Ashley Babbitt,” he continued. “Babbitt was a married 14-year-veteran of the US military. She ran a pool cleaning company with her husband in San Diego. Physically, she was tiny. She was also unarmed. Michael Byrd later admitted he had no indication at all that Babbitt was carrying a weapon. She posed no visible threat. He killed her anyway. Under normal circumstances, Byrd would’ve been fired immediately and charged with murder, which he clearly committed.”

17 posted on 01/08/2023 8:56:51 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: zipper

bttt


18 posted on 01/08/2023 9:00:06 AM PST by linMcHlp
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Doctor Congo
A footnote details missing evidence: “During the debrief of Lieutenant Byrd, he did recall writing a few sentences on an evidence bag the evening of January 6, 2021, at the request of a crime scene officer. To date, the bag has not been located by USCP or MPD.”

Great find.

19 posted on 01/08/2023 9:09:29 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: madison10

Yuppers.
.
Ray Epps Too.


20 posted on 01/08/2023 9:09:51 AM PST by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-35 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson