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Charges Dropped Against Gold Star Father Who Heckled Biden

Charges Dropped Against Gold Star Father Who Heckled Biden

State of the Union 2024 TW UNITED STATES - MARCH 7: Steven Nikoui, whose son, Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, was killed during the U.S. withdrawal of Afghanistan, heckles President Joe Biden during the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 7, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
State of the Union 2024 TW UNITED STATES – MARCH 7: Steven Nikoui, whose son, Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, who was killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, heckles President Joe Biden during the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 7, 2024. (Tom Williams/C-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

OAN’s Abril Elfi
6:10 PM – Wednesday, March 20, 2024

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/charges-dropped-against-gold-star-father-who-heckled-biden/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

Charges against the Gold Star father, who was arrested after harassing President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address, have been dropped. 

“A Gold Star Family is the immediate family member(s) of a fallen service member who died while serving in a time of conflict,” according to hopeforthewarriors.org.

Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D-D.C.) withdrew charges against the Gold Star father, who was detained after heckling President Biden during his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Republican lawmakers confirmed.

Representative Brian Mast (R-Fla.) told Fox News on Tuesday night that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) assisted in getting the charges against Steven Nikoui, 51, dropped for protesting during Biden’s speech. He was protesting in response to an earlier pleading from Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).

“Though he interrupted the event, what Mr. Nikoui voiced out loud was a cry for the acknowledgment of the loss endured by the families of the 13 who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country,” Issa wrote in a letter to Capitol Police chief Thomas Manger on Tuesday.

Nikoui was taken into custody by U.S. Capitol Police after he yelled “Abby Gate!” and “Second Battalion, First Marines!” during Biden’s speech.

At a Capitol Hill hearing on the withdrawal from Afghanistan on Tuesday, he informed reporters that he remained charged despite calls from Mast, Issa, and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) to have the case dismissed.

On August 26th, 2021, an ISIS suicide bomber outside Hamid Karzai International Airport killed 13 U.S. service members, including Nikoui’s son, Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui.

According to Fox News, the District of Columbia Attorney General’s office defended its decision not to prosecute Nikoui by citing instances of previous protesters who were not charged.

Although Nikoui claims he had no intention of interrupting Biden, he grew irritated when the president only brought up the death of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, rather than his son or the other twelve U.S. service members who perished in the Abbey Gate explosion. 

“I’ve waited three years, I paid $3,000, and I’ve traveled 3,000 miles to finally hear my son’s name in the State of the Union,” he told DailyMail.com. “That trip to the State of the Union—wwhat a kick in my ass.”

Nikoui had been charged with “crowding, obstructing, [and] incommoding Congress,” which is a misdemeanor that typically results in release after paying a $50 fine. 

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U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Charged With Selling Military Secrets To China

OAN’s Taylor Tinsley
11:51 AM – Friday, March 8, 2024

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/u-s-army-intelligence-analyst-charged-with-selling-secret-military-information-to-china/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

Sergeant Korbein Schultz was arrested on Thursday by the Department of Justice at Fort Campbell in Kentucky.

A federal grand jury indicted the 24-year-old on six counts, including charges of “conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, exporting technical data related to defense articles without a license, conspiracy to export defense articles without a license, and bribery of a public official.”

The indictment alleges that from June 2022 up until the time of his arrest, Shultz conspired with an individual based in Hong Kong, identified as “Conspirator A,” in order to disclose “documents, plans, wiring, photographs, maps, and notes” related to national defense information.

Prosecutors also noted that Conspirator A recruited Schultz to gather a variety of some of the most sensitive military documents.

“Specifically, Conspirator A tasked Schultz with gathering information related to a variety of U.S. military weapons systems, including classified information, and information related to the United States’ potential plans in the event that Taiwan came under military attack,” a press release stated on the arrest.

“This included documents and info related to advanced fighter aircraft, advanced military helicopters, intercontinental ballistic missiles, high mobility artillery rocket systems, defensive missile systems and Chinese military tactics,” said attorney Henry Leventis.

Conspirator A sent at least 14 payments to Schultz, which totaled an estimated $42,000.

Schultz joined the army back in 2018. He had been working as an army intelligence analyst with the First Battalion of the 506th Infantry Regiment at Fort Campbell before his arrest. Prosecutors also said that he had a “top secret security clearance.”

He is scheduled to make his first appearance in a Tennessee court on Friday.

Schultz’s arrest comes after another Air Force member was charged with transmitting classified information regarding the Russia-Ukraine war to a woman on a dating website who claimed to reside in Ukraine. 63-year-old David Slater was arrested on Saturday. Prosecutors said that from February to April of 2022, Slater was asked to provide classified national defense information to an unnamed woman who referred to him as her “secret informant love” over email.

Meanwhile, on Monday, 22-year-old former Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira was similarly accused of leaking highly classified Pentagon documents. He pleaded guilty to six counts. He will serve up to nearly 17 years in prison, but no less than 11, followed by three years of supervision.

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