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THE SHADOW CONGRESSWOMAN: Bongino\u2019s Explosive Testimony Reveals Omar\u2019s Allegiance to Doha and Ankara<\/p>\n
By A. J. Hamilton, National Security Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n WASHINGTON D.C. \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The quiet procedural dignity of a Senate confirmation hearing was detonated last week in what may be the most significant disclosure of foreign corruption in modern congressional history. During his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, former FBI Deputy Director\u00a0<\/p>\n With a voice described as \u201ca knife through warm butter,\u201d Bongino presented irrefutable evidence of systematic bribery, unregistered foreign agency, and conspiracy, leaving Omar \u201ccompletely speechless\u201d as her meticulously constructed political career dissolved under the weight of financial documents and NSA intercepts. The revelation was stark: Omar was not representing Minnesota\u2019s Fifth District; she was allegedly representing the geopolitical interests of\u00a0<\/p>\n The fallout is immediate, leading to an indictment of 47 federal felonies, the revocation of her security clearance, and a profound crisis of legitimacy for the progressive movement that championed her.<\/p>\n I. The Ambush: A Counterintelligence Operation Unveiled<\/p>\n The scene began with Omar, confident and prepared, launching a planned political attack on Bongino, accusing him of partisan bias. Bongino\u2019s reply was a surgical strike:\u00a0<\/p>\n He then proceeded to read Omar her Miranda rights, transforming the hearing room into an impromptu court of justice. The revelation was not merely a political tactic; it was the calculated execution of a counterintelligence investigation, leveraging the public platform to expose what federal authorities had been tracking for months.<\/p>\n The Qatari Transaction: $250,000 for Seven Votes<\/strong><\/p>\n Bongino\u2019s first piece of evidence detailed a transaction involving the government of Qatar that established a clear quid pro quo:<\/p>\n The Meeting:<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u00a0Omar traveled to\u00a0Doha, Qatar<\/strong>, in December 2022, meeting with high-ranking Qatari officials, including the Prime Minister. Bongino noted she failed to properly notify the State Department, a violation of House ethics rules.<\/p>\n The Payment Trail:<\/strong>\u00a0Twenty-two days later,\u00a0$250,000<\/strong>\u00a0was transferred to E Street Group, the political consulting firm owned by Omar\u2019s husband,\u00a0Tim Mynett<\/strong>. Bongino traced the money through three intermediary shell corporations registered in the Cayman Islands and Delaware, ultimately linking the funds back to the\u00a0<\/p>\n The Deliverable:<\/strong>\u00a0Bongino displayed a timeline showing that Omar subsequently cast\u00a0seven votes<\/strong>\u00a0in the House of Representatives that aligned perfectly with Qatari foreign policy interests, including voting against designating Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization and opposing arms sales to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n The Intercept:<\/strong>\u00a0The most damning evidence was the\u00a0NSA intercept<\/strong>\u00a0of Qatari officials discussing the payment:\u00a0\u201cOmar has been very helpful. The $250,000 investment was worthwhile. She will continue to vote as we require\u2026 The Americans are surprisingly easy to buy when you know their price.\u201d<\/p>\n Bongino\u2019s conclusion was definitive:\u00a0\u201cYou were bought by Qatar for $250,000. That\u2019s not foreign policy disagreement, Congresswoman. That\u2019s bribery. That\u2019s acting as an unregistered foreign agent.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n II. The Turkish Influence: Selling the Armenian Genocide Vote<\/p>\n The Qatari bribery was merely the opening act. Bongino then produced evidence of influence peddling related to Turkey, a country central to US foreign policy and NATO relations.<\/p>\n The Armenian Genocide Reversal<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n The Turkish Payment:<\/strong>\u00a0Omar\u2019s husband\u2019s firm received\u00a0$180,000<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0Bosphorus Strategic Advisors<\/strong>, a company registered in Istanbul and backed by entities connected to the Turkish government.<\/p>\n The Vote Flip:<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u00a0In March 2023, just weeks after the payment, Omar, who had previously voted\u00a0yes\u00a0to recognize the Armenian Genocide (the systematic killing of 1.5 million Armenian Christians), abruptly voted\u00a0no<\/strong>\u00a0on formally recognizing the historical event\u2014a direct alignment with Turkey\u2019s century-long campaign of denial.<\/p>\n The Negotiation:<\/strong>\u00a0Bongino displayed\u00a0email evidence<\/strong>\u00a0from Tim Mynett to a Turkish official named Murat Yilmaz, explicitly stating:\u00a0\u201cIlhan will handle the Armenian vote as discussed\u2026 Regarding the S400 sanctions vote in June, we\u2019ll need an additional payment to cover that\u2026 I suggest $100,000 for that vote.\u201d<\/p>\n Bongino\u2019s indictment was relentless: \u201cYour husband was brokering sales of your congressional votes, and you were delivering the product.\u201d<\/p>\n III. The Ultimate Betrayal: Terrorism and $8 Million<\/p>\n The third folder contained potentially treasonous information, linking Omar to a scheme involving weapons trafficking in her ancestral homeland, Somalia.<\/p>\n Conspiracy to Arm Al-Shabaab<\/strong><\/p>\n The Conflict of Interest:<\/strong>\u00a0Bongino revealed that Omar advocated vocally in Congress to lift the US arms embargo on Somalia, a legitimate policy position on its face. However, she failed to disclose her direct financial interest.<\/p>\n The Arms Deal:<\/strong>\u00a0Omar\u2019s brother-in-law, Ahmed Mynett, was a principal in\u00a0Mogadishu Defense Systems<\/strong>, a company created to import and distribute weapons if the embargo was lifted. The company projected\u00a0$40 million in first-year revenue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Personal Cut:<\/strong>\u00a0Bongino played\u00a0WhatsApp message transcripts<\/strong>\u00a0between Omar, her husband, and her brother-in-law, detailing the negotiation of her personal profit:\u00a0\u201cI need 20%,\u201d\u00a0Omar messaged, citing her political exposure.\u00a020% of $40 million equals $8 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Terror Connection:<\/strong>\u00a0FBI intelligence indicated that Mogadishu Defense Systems planned to divert\u00a020% to 30%<\/strong>\u00a0of weapons shipments to \u201calternate buyers for higher profit margins,\u201d specifically naming\u00a0Al-Shabaab affiliates<\/strong>\u2014a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) that has killed Americans.<\/p>\n Omar\u2019s Knowledge:<\/strong>\u00a0A message from Omar read:\u00a0\u201cAnd nobody can know about the al-Shabaab connection. If that gets out, I\u2019m finished.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou knew the weapons were going to terrorists\u2026 You wanted $8 million,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Bongino declared. The charges immediately escalated from corruption to potential\u00a0material support to terrorism<\/strong>\u00a0and treason.<\/p>\n IV. The Immigration Fraud and Legal Reckoning<\/p>\n Bongino concluded his testimony by confirming years of speculation regarding Omar\u2019s immigration history\u2014a revelation made possible only because the FBI legally obtained her DNA samples during the counterintelligence investigation.<\/p>\n \u00a0The DNA Proof of Sibling Marriage<\/strong><\/p>\n The Allegation:<\/strong>\u00a0For years, conservative media alleged that Omar legally married\u00a0Ahmed Nur Said Elmi<\/strong>\u00a0(from 2009\u20132017) to facilitate his US residency, even though he was her biological brother, and she was living with her eventual husband, Ahmed Hirsi.<\/p>\n The Proof:<\/strong>\u00a0Bongino produced the\u00a0FBI DNA analysis<\/strong>:\u00a0\u201cAhmed Nur Said Elmi shares 50% of his DNA with you\u2026 That\u2019s the DNA match for full siblings.\u201d<\/p>\n The Crime:<\/strong>\u00a0Omar knowingly married her biological brother to commit\u00a0immigration fraud<\/strong>, a federal felony. She also committed\u00a0tax fraud<\/strong>\u00a0for eight years (2009\u20132017) by filing joint returns with Hirsi while legally married to her brother.<\/p>\n The Verdict and the Deportation Order<\/strong><\/p>\n The evidence presented by Bongino was overwhelming: a total of\u00a047 federal felony counts<\/strong>\u00a0spanning bribery, foreign agency, immigration fraud, tax fraud, and conspiracy.<\/p>\n The trial lasted four weeks, with the jury deliberating for only four hours. Omar was found\u00a0guilty on 43 of 47 counts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n At her sentencing, Judge Paul Friedman delivered a scathing final judgment, citing the \u201ccomprehensive betrayal of public trust.\u201d<\/p>\n Sentence:<\/strong>\u00a035 years<\/strong>\u00a0in federal prison (consecutive sentences for corruption, immigration fraud, and obstruction).<\/p>\n Deportation:<\/strong>\u00a0The court revoked her U.S. citizenship, which was obtained through fraud.\u00a0\u201cUpon completion of your sentence, you will be deported to Somalia.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Dan Bongino held exactly one press conference after the conviction, summarizing the ethos of the investigation:\u00a0\u201cIt wasn\u2019t about politics. It was about evidence\u2026 Ilhan Omar\u2019s conduct was criminal. Comprehensively, systematically, deliberately criminal.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0The cop had done his job, and the systemic corruption that hid behind identity politics had been publicly, definitively defeated.<\/p>\n After Zohran Mamdani\u2019s victory in the New York City mayoral election\u2014making him the city\u2019s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor-elect\u2014Republican leaders in Washington, D.C., signaled plans to try to block him from taking office.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump has accused the 34-year-old Ugandan-born politician of being a communist, after previously warning that he would withhold federal funding from New York City if Mamdani won. Mamdani secured his win last week with a decisive margin, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo by nearly 10 percentage points, though Mamdani barely won a majority of votes overall.<\/p>\n But some Republican lawmakers have vowed to block him from taking office. Some Republican lawmakers have demanded investigations into Mamdani\u2019s naturalisation process, calling for him to be stripped of his US citizenship and deported. They have accused him of involvement in communist and \u201cterrorist\u201d activities and figures linked to terrorism.<\/p>\n \u201cIf Mamdani lied on his naturalisation documents, he doesn\u2019t get to be a citizen, and he certainly doesn\u2019t get to run for mayor of New York City. A great American city is on the precipice of being run by a communist who has publicly embraced a terroristic ideology,\u201d Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said in an October 29 news release, after asking US Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the mayor-elect,\u00a0<\/p>\n the Economic Times reported.\u201cThe American naturalization system REQUIRES any alignments with communism or terrorist activities to be disclosed. I\u2019m doubtful he disclosed them. If the information is confirmed, put him on the first flight back to Uganda,\u201d Ogles added.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a campaign finance watchdog\u00a0has filed two criminal referrals against Mamdani, accusing the leftist socialist of taking illicit donations from overseas contributors.<\/p>\n The Coolidge Reagan Foundation sent the recommendations to the Department of Justice\u2019s Criminal Division and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s office last week. They say that Mamdani may have broken the Federal Election Campaign Act and the New York Election Code.<\/p>\n The recommendations were made after the New York Post reported earlier this month that Mamdani\u2019s campaign got about $13,000 in donations from at least 170 people who live outside the US, including one from his mother-in-law in Dubai.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are not isolated incidents or clerical errors,\u201d Dan Backer, a national campaign finance expert and president of the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was a sustained pattern of foreign money flowing into a New York City mayoral race which is a clear violation of both federal law and New York City campaign finance rules,\u201d Backer added. \u201cMamdani\u2019s campaign was on notice for months that it was accepting illegal foreign contributions, and yet it did nothing meaningful to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n The Coolidge Reagan Foundation has previously filed complaints against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign, and the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n The watchdog told Bragg and the DOJ to look into and arrest Mamdani for the campaign cash that may have come from Australia, Turkey, France, Canada, Germany, and other countries.<\/p>\n The group said that Mamdani\u2019s campaign had shown a \u201csystematic failure to comply\u201d with the rules about campaign money.<\/p>\n The Federal Election Campaign Act says that it is against the law to \u201caccept or receive\u201d donations from people who are not US citizens in any federal, state, or local election.<\/p>\n People who knowingly accept donations from other countries could face big fines and jail time.<\/p>\n \u201cThe law is crystal clear that foreign nationals may not participate in American elections, and that includes making contributions,\u201d Backer continued. \u201cYet Mamdani\u2019s campaign repeatedly accepted donations from individuals abroad, some even tied to regions and individuals openly sympathetic to hostile actors.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhether through negligence or intent, this conduct undermines the integrity of the democratic process.\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani\u2019s campaign for mayor of New York City sent back about $9,000 in donations from people outside the U.S., the Post reported.<\/p>\n New emails have surfaced suggesting that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), encouraged federal employees to destroy government records related to the origins of COVID-19.<\/p>\n The revelations come from a series of emails obtained by congressional investigators and highlighted by Senator Rand Paul, who has long pressed for transparency regarding Fauci\u2019s handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n \u201cWe now have clear evidence that Dr. Fauci instructed federal employees to delete official records,\u201d Senator Paul told the\u00a0New York Post<\/em>. \u201cThis is a violation of federal law and contradicts his sworn testimony.\u201d<\/p>\n One email from February 2020 was particularly damning. It came shortly after a high-level call with virologists about the origins of COVID-19. According to congressional memos, the email included instructions to \u201cdelete\u201d messages that discussed the possibility of a lab leak.<\/p>\n The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released a memo describing \u201cserious misconduct and potentially illegal actions\u201d by Fauci\u2019s senior adviser, Dr. David Morens.<\/p>\n \u201cDr. Morens unlawfully deleted federal COVID-19 records, used a personal email to avoid FOIA, and repeatedly acted unbecoming of a federal employee,\u201d the subcommittee memo stated.<\/p>\n Emails from Morens also appear to implicate Fauci directly. In one exchange, Morens wrote that Fauci \u201cis too smart to have things in writing,\u201d adding that he would help keep certain discussions \u201coff the record.\u201d<\/p>\n Lawmakers say this proves Fauci was aware of efforts to destroy records. \u201cThese revelations demonstrate that Dr. Fauci was not only complicit but may have personally directed the destruction of federal records,\u201d Rep. Brad Wenstrup, chair of the subcommittee, said in a press release.<\/p>\n The alleged cover-up centers around the controversial February 2020 paper,\u00a0The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2<\/em>, which dismissed the lab leak theory as a conspiracy. Critics argue Fauci\u2019s behind-the-scenes influence shaped that narrative while publicly denying any involvement.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing now is evidence of deliberate deception,\u201d Paul said. \u201cFauci told the American people one thing while working behind the scenes to suppress alternative theories.\u201d<\/p>\n The emails also reveal an ongoing effort within the NIH to avoid Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Morens admitted in one exchange that he would \u201cdelete anything\u201d that might be requested by watchdogs.<\/p>\n \u201cI always try to communicate via Gmail because my NIH email is FOIA\u2019d constantly,\u201d Morens wrote in an email subpoenaed by Congress.<\/p>\n Senator Paul blasted this as a clear violation of federal transparency laws. \u201cThe law is very clear\u2014federal employees cannot use private emails to conduct official business and then destroy records to avoid oversight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In response, Paul sent a letter to the Department of Justice demanding a full investigation into Fauci and Morens. \u201cThe DOJ must investigate whether Dr. Fauci and his associates engaged in the unlawful destruction of records,\u201d Paul wrote.<\/p>\n The\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0reported that Fauci has been called back to Congress for further questioning. Lawmakers want him to explain the newly released emails that appear to contradict his past testimony.<\/p>\n \u201cFauci testified under oath that he never instructed anyone to delete records,\u201d Wenstrup said. \u201cThese emails suggest otherwise, and that raises serious questions about perjury.\u201d<\/p>\n The controversy is not new. In 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) warned the NIH about potential violations of federal recordkeeping requirements.<\/p>\n In a letter obtained by\u00a0archives.gov<\/em>, NARA said NIH staff had allegedly been ordered to \u201cshred notes and other documents\u201d referencing its work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n \u201cIf proven true, these are unauthorized dispositions of federal records,\u201d the letter from NARA stated.<\/p>\n Conservative lawmakers say the implications are massive. \u201cIf Fauci ordered records destroyed, that is criminal,\u201d Rep. Jim Jordan said in a Fox News interview. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about one of the most consequential cover-ups in U.S. history.\u201d<\/p>\n Paul went further, accusing Fauci of intentionally misleading Congress. \u201cThis is about accountability,\u201d he said. \u201cNo federal employee, no matter how powerful, is above the law.\u201d<\/p>\n Fauci, however, has denied wrongdoing. In past interviews, he insisted he has always complied with federal transparency rules. \u201cI have nothing to hide,\u201d Fauci said in July when asked about earlier reports of email deletions.<\/p>\n Still, lawmakers say his denials don\u2019t match the evidence. \u201cHe told us under oath that he never destroyed records,\u201d Wenstrup said. \u201cNow we see emails where his top adviser brags about deleting them on his behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE SHADOW CONGRESSWOMAN: Bongino\u2019s Explosive Testimony Reveals Omar\u2019s Allegiance to Doha and Ankara By A. J. 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