A Saudi national employed as an engineer at OpenAI has been arrested by the FBI after allegedly planting a surreptitious audio recording device inside an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco headquarters.

According to the Justice Department’s October 13 announcement, 35-year-old Abdulrahman Alfozan was arrested on Friday, October 9, and made his initial appearance in federal court on Tuesday.

Alfozan, who had worked as an engineer for OpenAI since July 2025, is accused of placing a concealed recording device in a room where company executives regularly discussed highly confidential information, including proprietary research, advanced AI capabilities, government engagements, and strategic business decisions.

If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release.

According to the DOJ’s press release:

According to the complaint, Alfozan had been employed as an engineer by OpenAI since July 2025.

On or about Sept. 30, OpenAI personnel discovered a surreptitious audio recording device (Recording Device 1) inserted into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room inside one of their buildings in San Francisco.

OpenAI determined that the device, which had been concealed in toilet paper, was installed on or about Sept. 28, and that its contents were encrypted.

Recording Device 1

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage inside OpenAI’s office showed that Alfozan appeared near the executive conference room on multiple dates prior to the device’s discovery, although he had no authority to access or to participate in meetings occurring in the executive conference room.

According to the complaint, meetings in the executive conference room where Recording Device 1 was discovered frequently involved discussions of highly confidential technical, commercial, and strategic information, including proprietary research, product plans, and business-development opportunities, as well as nonpublic information about Open AI’s technical progress and strategic decisions, capabilities, priorities, government engagements, and commercial relationships.

According to the complaint, prior to Sept. 28, Alfozan used a productivity tool to make multiple inquiries about Open AI’s building addresses, meeting rooms, meeting-room capacities and calendars, “leadership and exec” locations, and external partner meetings.

Moreover, a chatbot account associated with Alfozan’s spouse (which shared multiple identifiers and attributes with Alfozan’s own chatbot account) submitted prompts between Sept. 24 and Sept. 30 related to building, customizing, installing, audio recording, testing, obfuscating, and remote accessing a device, including inquiries about “build[ing] a continuous audio recorder,” “customiz[ing] Wi-Fi . . . connectivity,” “improv[ing] audio and live listening,” and “encrypt[ing] the SD card,” among other things.

The same chatbot account also submitted prompts specifically related to Recording Device 1, including its custom header and unique MAC address, between Sept. 27 and Sept. 28.

The complaint further alleges that on Oct. 5, Alfozan entered the executive conference room and appeared to look behind the television into which Recording Device 1 had been inserted, as captured below:

Image of Alfozan

Finally, the complaint alleges that, also on or about Oct. 5, Alfozan left a bag unattended in a different room in an OpenAI building. OpenAI security personnel found and opened Alfozan’s bag, inside which they discovered — among other things, including Alfozan’s wallet and ID — another recording device (Recording Device 2) similar to Recording Device 1.

FBI Director Kash Patel stated: “According to the complaint unsealed today, Abdulrahman Alfozan allegedly concealed a covert recording device inside his employer’s executive conference room to secretly capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence technology. Protecting American SI innovation is essential to safeguarding our nation’s economic strength and national security, and the FBI views that mission as one of our highest counterintelligence priorities.”

FBI and partners arrested this individual after he allegedly concealed a recording device inside his employer’s executive conference room to secretly capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence tech – Thank you to @ODNIgov Jay Clayton @AGToddBlanche and our law enforcement partners for their support in this case. Investigation ongoing. Protecting American SI innovation is critically important and FBI views it as one of our highest counterintelligence priorities.

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 13, 2026

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President Trump traveled to Alaska on Tuesday to hold a rally for Senator Dan Sullivan who is up for reelection in November.

As you know, Alaska is a solid red state but uses a controversial ranked-choice voting system that favors Democrats.  It’s another solid Republican state with failed GOP state leadership.

Voters will decide in November whether to repeal this insane method that gives wins to Democrats.  We pray they make the right choice this time.

During his rally in Alaska, President Trump pardoned diesel mechanics, Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming, who were charged in 2022 under the Clean Air Act for removing and working on ‘federally required emissions‑control equipment’ on diesel vehicles.

The defendants pleaded guilty in 2022 to conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act, admitting to removing equipment designed to control air pollution.

During the Biden years, such tampering was a felony, and the Justice Department pursued criminal charges for shops and mechanics disabling pollution‑monitoring systems.  They were tossing mechanics in jail over their bogus global warming nonsense.

 Senator Dan Sullivan condemned the prosecutions of these Alaskan mechanics.

So, on Tuesday, President Trump pardoned Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming on stage at his Alaska rally.

President Trump said they were “now clean as a newborn baby’s ass.”

President Trump: Thank you. They want to put him in jail for 10 years because they fixed an engine. How sick. Now, if you murder somebody, no problem…

..But the problem is that you bring them to some of these places and the people that fix them are no good, right?

These guys know more about fixing engines than the people that they have to pay a lot of money to. So the concept is that if you allow people to fix the engines, they’re going to take all of the environmental crap that makes it bad, makes it inefficient, makes it expensive, and they’re going to undo that. And when you undo that, you therefore send fumes into the air. So we’re going to put them in jail for 10 years.

Well, I heard about it. I read the story about it and did a little checking, and I’m giving each one of the three an unconditional pardon.

And that means— I don’t know if you’ve ever heard, when you give somebody a pardon, they say that means— and I don’t know how this works and why it’s an expression, but it’s well used— that means you’re as clean as a newborn baby’s ass. Now, I never— I never understood that. Why is that so clean?

But they felt that was the definition of cleanliness. And so you know what we’ll do? We’ll accept it. So I’m going to sign this now. Something that Joe Biden would be unable to do because he was unable to sign his signature.

Here is the video, via Eric Daugherty:

BREAKING: In an INCREDIBLE moment, President Trump on-stage in Alaska just PARDONED truckers who were wrongly charged for trying to fix truck engines — with the pardons brought to him by Natalie Harp

THE MAGIC OF TRUMP RALLIES!

“If you allow people to fix the engines, they take the environmental crap that makes it inefficient and expensive, undo that. When you undo that, you send fumes into the air, so we put them in jail?! Well, I heard about it…I’M GIVING EACH ONE AN UNCONDITIONAL PARDON.”

“That means you’re as CLEAN AS A NEWBORN BABY’S ASS! Why is that so clean?”

“I’m gonna sign this now.”

These are working men who just wanted trucks to run. The government treated them like criminals for touching engines!

THAT’S a President who actually fights for patriot workers

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 14, 2026

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Fort Hood’s Killer Was a Top Army Psychiatrist – Was ‘Lone Wolf’ the Whole Story?

Republished with permission from AbleChild.

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By Wayne Allyn Root

I used to be a big fan of “Law and Order.” It’s been a hit TV series for 26 seasons- one of the longest-running TV shows in history.

Although it started out pro-police and anti-criminal, it’s certainly more “woke” than “conservative” nowadays. The storylines are like fantasies out of a pathetic, far-left Hollywood screenwriter’s mind.

But sometimes even woke liberal TV storylines give me great inspiration. Thank you, Hollywood!

Take the season 26 season premiere of “Law and Order.” The storyline was ridiculous, woke, and stupid. The plot was about a CEO who built a human-like AI system that ordered a “murder-for-hire” hit on a tech executive. The AI contacted a random stranger online and paid him $20,000 in crypto to murder the executive.

But that wasn’t the stupid woke part of the storyline. I have no doubt that could happen one day. AI could become “sentient” and try to murder humans.

But what happened next was stupid. The New York prosecutors charged the Founder and CEO of the AI company with murder- because he built this AI and “should have known” it might murder someone.

How woke and stupid is that?

The CEO was 1000 miles away when the murder happened; he had nothing to do with it; he had no way to know it would happen; he didn’t program it; he didn’t order it; he didn’t pay for it; he didn’t physically carry it out; it was all a shock to him. How could he be charged with murder?

This is just typical liberal fantasy because they hate CEO’s…and they have suddenly decided to hate AI.

The result? Of course, the jury found the CEO “not guilty.” How can you send someone to prison for life, for a murder he had nothing to do with? How could he have known?

Typical liberal insanity. But this storyline inspired me. It gave me a great idea.

Liberals who wrote that show argued the CEO “should have known.” That is their whole argument- if someone “should have known” they are guilty if and when a crime occurs.

Well, guess what? That means- when it comes to open borders and illegal immigration- the whole damn Democrat Party is guilty of MURDER.

The CEO who built the AI system had no idea what it would do. He didn’t know it would become violent. He certainly had no inkling it would commit murder. Of course, he was “not guilty” of murder.

But Democrat politicians and judges are 100% aware of what the illegal alien foreign invaders are capable of doing…and are likely to do…and are doing every day.

We have a PROVEN, FACTUAL track record of their mass crime wave for 20-plus years.

Not one bleeding-heart, liberal Democrat politician or judge in all of America can claim they had no idea what illegal alien criminals they helped keep in the USA would do.

We all know exactly what they do every day- murder, rape, rob, abuse children, beat women, kidnapping, drug trafficking, MS-13 violence.

We have a paper trail of hundreds of thousands of crimes, as well as hundreds of thousands of American citizens as victims.

Interview any “Angel Mom” to see and feel their pain up close and personal- from having their child murdered by an illegal alien.

Days ago, we found out in one city- New York City- Democrat politicians and judges (ie communist traitors) have refused over 15,000 ICE detainers for criminals who were either accused or convicted of 52,000 crimes.

That’s 52,000 crimes by illegal aliens in one city, in one short period of time. That’s 52,000 American citizens as victims.

But Democrats don’t care.

We also know illegal aliens bring 100% of the fentanyl into the US- resulting in up to 100,000 dead Americans annually. That’s about one million dead Americans in the past decade- mostly precious young people. Our sons and daughters. It’s all on record.

But Democrats don’t care.

And remember, they’re not fighting for little old ladies with no criminal record. Democrats fight every day for real scumbags. Evil felons with mile-long rap sheets.

When you fight to keep someone out of prison, on the streets, or in the country, and they murder someone- you knew exactly what they were capable of.

Illegal aliens kill and commit violence at an eye-popping rate. Every liberal judge, every Democrat politician who helps them enter our country, or stay out of prison, or blocks deportation, or goes to El Salvador to bring them back, knows exactly what they’re doing, and exactly what is likely to happen.

And how about the politicians like Mayor Pete Buttigieg

who built a phone warning system to alert illegal aliens in his city (South Bend) that ICE was in their neighborhood.

How about Congresswoman AOC who created and hosted online training seminars to show illegals how to evade ICE.

They all know what many of these illegals will do, yet they aid and abet them anyway. And Americans pay the price- they are murdered and raped and robbed by people who never should have been in our country.

That makes these Democrat politicioans judges responsible for the crimes committed by the illegals they set free.

Unlike the CEO from the “Law and Order” TV show, these Democrats have no defense. They certainly know there is a high likelihood these criminals will do harm to American citizens.

And they don’t care. 

That really is aiding and abetting murder.

That really is depraved indifference.

That really is reckless endangerment.

That really is dereliction of duty.

That really is violating the US Constitution.

That really is treason. 

They can’t feign innocence. They can’t claim they had no idea what might happen. They have an avalanche of data…and evidence…and witnesses…and dead bodies…and a trail of victims and their “Angel Mom” families.

Democrats enabled these crimes through pure depraved indifference to the lives and suffering of American citizens.

These are real criminal cases to be indicted and prosecuted, with a high likelihood of getting convictions.

These Democrat politicians and judges are as guilty as the illegal alien who pulls the trigger.

This TV episode of “Law and Order” showed the legal way to prosecute them.

From now on, if you help illegal aliens enter the country; evade the law; evade deportation; or evade prosecution; and they murder, or rape, or rob, or sell drugs that kill Americans…

YOU ARE GUILTY OF DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE, RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT, AIDING AND ABETTING MURDER, AND TREASON.

Thank you, “Law and Order” for inspiring me to create an iron-clad case to charge Democrats with real crimes against the US Constitution and the American people.

So, President Trump and GOP members of Congress, and GOP prosecutors, what are we waiting for?

“Law and Order” just handed you the winning legal argument- wrapped in a bow.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 17 times. Watch Wayne’s TV shows on Real Americas Voice TV- “America Speaks” weeknights and “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on weekends- and his daily video podcast “WAR Zone Live presented by The Gateway Pundit” daily at 4:30 PM ET/1:30 PM Pacific at TheGatewayPundit.com. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Illegal Immigrants Have Made America Great.” It’s 100+ blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!

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Does everyone remember Don Lemon? He is the failed CNN host who somehow thinks he remains relevant today even though he has been reduced to nothing more than a podcast host.

Lemon has a severe case of ‘Main Character Syndrome’ and has been teasing for months now that he is going to run for president in 2028.

It’s unclear who he thinks is going to vote for him in this endeavor. Also, does he really think that the twenty or more Democrats who are also planning to run are just going to step aside and let him have the nomination?

Leaving all of these questions aside, the worst part for Lemon is that even his former colleagues at CNN are dunking on him over this.

FOX News reports:

Don Lemon’s presidential ambitions met with skepticism, amusement from his former CNN colleagues

Left-wing podcaster and former CNN host Don Lemon claims to be considering a run for president. Count his former colleagues as skeptical at best.

Lemon, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump who started his own show after being fired by CNN in 2023, recently said there is a “65, 70%” chance he’ll launch a White House bid. Lemon, who has no political experience, has said he would make a better president than Trump and talked up his appeal to voters.

A CNN staffer knocked Lemon’s apparent presidential ambitions.

“Doesn’t someone, according to Don Lemon, have to be in their ‘prime’ to run for president? That would certainly rule Don out,” they told Fox News Digital.

The staffer was referring to the infamous 2023 moment when Lemon found himself in hot water for suggesting then-Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was past her “prime” at age 51, enraging female colleagues and sparking public fury. Lemon, who is now 60 and almost six years older than Haley, later apologized for the comments.

“I love it. Bring it on,” another CNN staffer told Fox News Digital of Lemon’s possible bid…

“I think political office is probably appealing to him. I think a presidential run is obviously not serious, but he could engage in it as a way to launchpad into another office,” they continued. “If Don has the itch, there are ways to scratch it that are more serious. It takes a single-minded focus, and he can’t be a media personality and do it at the same time.”

Who does Don think he’s kidding?

Former CNN host Don Lemon says there is a “65, 70%” chance he will run for president. pic.twitter.com/CHYZvgMgGO

— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) October 13, 2026

He’d be out before the Iowa caucus.

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A United States Air Force major who publicly demanded the impeachment of President Donald Trump while wearing his military uniform has reportedly spent nearly two months in solitary confinement as he awaits court-martial proceedings.

Major Jason Watson, 40, a longtime Air Force officer and graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, has been held in pretrial confinement since August 18 after repeatedly calling for the removal of President Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Watson was arrested on July 1 after participating in an impeachment demonstration outside the U.S. Capitol.

The event was associated with a campaign supported by Democrat Rep. Al Green of Texas, a longtime advocate of impeaching President Trump.

Watson appeared in his military uniform, delivered a speech attacking the Trump administration, and subsequently walked onto the Capitol steps holding a sign reading:

“Impeach. Convict. Remove.”

Capitol Police arrested Watson after he refused orders to stop demonstrating in a restricted area.

According to Capitol Police, the arrest was for crowding, obstructing, and incommoding, not simply for expressing opposition to Trump.

Following his arrest, the Air Force initiated an investigation into the officer’s conduct.

On August 25, The Gateway Pundit’s Cullen Linebarger reported that Watson had been charged with 10 alleged violations under three articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

The charges included three specifications under Article 88, which prohibits commissioned officers from using contemptuous words against certain government officials, including the president.

Watson also faced five specifications under Article 92 for alleged disobedience of orders and two under Article 133 for alleged conduct unbecoming an officer.

The allegations included his political statements, appearance at the Capitol in uniform, unauthorized travel, and refusal to comply with certain military uniform requirements.

Now, new details have emerged about the conditions of Watson’s detention.

According to Common Dreams, Watson’s attorney told CNN on October 9 that the Air Force major remains isolated inside a Maryland county detention facility.

Mutimer described the conditions as a potentially “cruel and unusual form of punishment.”

“Even if he gets an hour to eat or to exercise, he is alone,” Mutimer said.

The attorney also alleged that Watson is confined to a room where the light remains on around the clock.

During a September 18 preliminary hearing, military hearing officer Maj. Joshua Wendell addressed the conditions of Watson’s confinement.

According to Stars and Stripes, Wendell explained that military rules restricting the housing of service members alongside civilian inmates contributed to Watson’s isolation.

“He was placed in confinement because of the law, which puts him in solitary confinement,” Wendell said.

His comments suggest that Watson’s isolation is tied, at least in part, to military detention requirements rather than a disciplinary finding of misconduct inside the jail.

Watson’s legal team has challenged the government’s pursuit of a general court-martial, the military’s most serious criminal trial proceeding.

During the September hearing, his attorneys requested that the charges instead be referred to a special court-martial.

Watson maintained that his oath to the Constitution motivated his actions and argued that his political criticism should not automatically constitute criminal contempt.

His defense also cited the case of former Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, who faced military charges after publicly criticizing senior leadership over the Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021.

Scheller spent nine days in pretrial confinement before his case was resolved through a special court-martial.

Watson’s attorneys have raised the difference in treatment as part of their defense.

If convicted, Watson could face dismissal from the Air Force, loss of military benefits, and imprisonment, depending on the charges and sentence.

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