Intelligence Community Reform Needed, Part 2

This article was provided to the New York Analysis of Policy and Government by Brad Johnson, President of Americans for Intelligence Reform. Brad Johnson retired as a Senior Operations Officer and Chief of Station with the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations. He has served domestically and abroad with numerous assignments often during periods of armed conflict.

As buildings burn and businesses are looted, the local majors talk about things like these riots being a summer of love. The truth is there are profoundly serious dangers posed by local law enforcement being associated with violent left-wing organizations who are still rioting daily in certain cities. Since it is indefensible for the violent left-wing rioters to attack innocent people, the left can only trot out extremist political hacks like Mr. German to use scare tactics warning about the right even though these claims are proven completely false.

These facts point to an important danger and that is from activist law enforcement officers, a subject that deserves true national dialog. The problem is that an activist does not care about the law or the US Constitution as their primary concern. We have seen this from activist judges and now from activist law enforcement. What an activist does care about is their own personal political perspective and they push their political agenda above the law. This is what activism is by definition. I doubt anyone could seriously argue former FBI director James Comey or former CIA director John Brennan are anything other than leftist activists. Both famously admitted to voting for a communist candidate for US President in their youth and both have been documented to have manipulated information under their control for political reasons. When you have activists that undermine the laws and security issues for their own political perspective, you have a negative and destructive force and that’s exactly where we find ourselves today. The FBI has had the infamous Weiner laptop for years and they have confirmed there are many classified documents on this personal laptop, perhaps as many as 60,000-70,000 individual classified documents.

Each one of those classified documents is individually a crime to have at home on a personal laptop. People have gone to jail or have had their careers destroyed for only one classified document, yet the FBI does absolutely nothing about tens of thousands of classified documents when the crimes are committed by a Democrat. We see the same thing playing out once again when Hunter Biden’s laptop was also turned over to the FBI about a about year ago which shows clear criminal activity on the part of the Biden family. Yet, once again, nothing is done, and no investigation takes place because the perpetrators are associated with the Democratic party.

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We need to take a close look at the ranks of the FBI, particularly the senior ranks and others serving in intelligence and federal law enforcement levels. It should be readily apparent to everyone that we have a serious problem with activist federal law enforcement officers and activist judges who are the framework of our judicial system. These activists got us into a real mess and years of wasted time and money with the FISA abuses done for activist motives and baseless Russian collusion stories. These activists are now under federal criminal investigation by US Attorney General Barr and US Attorney Durham. The results of the investigation are being held until after elections although there has been one indictment so far.

Political activism is corruption within the government and extends into the rest of federal government and the intelligence community and must be stopped. Current FBI director Christopher Wray was selected to clean up this horrible mess and he has done absolutely nothing to restore the reputation of the FBI and has shown himself to be part of the problem, not the solution. It is past time for him to go.

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Judge Juan Merchan Must Recuse Himself from Hearing the Case of Donald Trump

Judge Juan Merchan Must Recuse Himself from Hearing the Case of Donald Trump By John H. Wilson In April and May of 2023, we discussed several of the weaknesses of the criminal case brought against former President Donald Trump. In particular, we described the legal insufficiency of the indictment, which does not “asserts facts supporting every element of the offense charged and the defendant`s…commission thereof with sufficient precision to clearly apprise the defendant…of the conduct which is the subject of the accusation.” We also noted that the majority of the charges brought against Trump are most likely time-barred by New York’s Statute of Limitations. https://www.usagovpolicy.com/is-trumps-indictment-beyond-the-statute-of-limitations/ In both articles, we also noted that the Judge assigned to hear the case against the former President, Juan Merchan, had previously donated small sums to several anti-Trump organizations, and was unlikely to dismiss the charges on either of these grounds. According to the New York Post, Merchan “donated $35 to Democratic causes in 2020, including $15 to President Biden’s campaign and $10 to a group dedicated to ‘resisting … Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.’ Federal Election Commission records show Merchan made three small-dollar donations within the span of two days in July 2020 through ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s preferred online fundraising platform. The veteran judge contributed $15 earmarked for the ‘Biden for President’ campaign on July 26, 2020, and then the following day made $10 contributions to the Progressive Turnout Project and Stop Republicans” . Given the small amounts involved, no one seriously argued that Judge Merchan should be removed from the case after having made these contributions, even though “FEC records show that Merchan listed his occupation as ‘judge’ on the donation form, and his employer as the New York State Office of Court Administration.” This is, however, an issue of some seriousness. Under Rule 100.5(A)(1) of the Rules of the Chief Administrative Judge for the State of New York, “[n]either a sitting judge nor a candidate for public election to judicial office shall directly or indirectly engage in any political activity except (i) as otherwise authorized by this section or by law, (ii) to vote and to identify himself or herself as a member of a political party, and (iii) on behalf of measures to improve the law, the legal system or the administration of justice. Prohibited political activity shall include…(h) soliciting funds for, paying an assessment to, or making a contribution to a political organization or candidate. (Emphasis added.) This means that despite the modest sums donated by Judge Merchan, he is prohibited from making ANY contribution, in ANY amount, to the Biden campaign, or any other political organization. It’s not as if Judge Merchan wouldn’t be aware of these rules. According to CNN, “Merchan launched his legal career in 1994…as an assistant district attorney in the trial division in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office…[i]n 2006, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg…appointed Merchan to Family Court in the Bronx, and Democratic Gov. David Paterson appointed him to the New York State Court of Claims in 2009, the same year he began serving as an acting New York Supreme Court judge.” With more than 23 years of experience as a judge, Juan Merchan would certainly know he is prohibited from making contributions in any amount to political campaigns and organizations. But he did it anyway. Further, under Rule 100.3(E)(1) “[a] judge shall disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” Making campaign contributions to the current President, and then hearing the case of that President’s opponent in this year’s election would certainly qualify as a reasonable question regarding Merchan’s impartiality. But this is only one basis under which Judge Merchan’s removal from the Trump case is both appropriate and necessary. There is more substantial basis for this matter to be taken away from Judge Merchan. Rule 100.3(E)(1) continues as follows; “[a] judge shall disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances where… (d) the judge knows that the judge or the judge’s spouse, or a person known by the judge to be within the sixth degree of relationship to either of them, or the spouse of such a person…(iii) has an interest that could be substantially affected by the proceeding.” According to the website Living DNA, a First Degree of Relationship is a Parent to a Child, while a Sixth Degree is a second cousin. In between are Grandparents and grandchildren, great-grandparents and great-grandchildren, Aunts, Uncles, Nieces, Nephews and First Cousins. It stands to reason, then, that if Judge Merchan had a cousin, or a nephew, or a grandchild who was known to the Judge, and that person had “an interest that could be substantially affected” by a proceeding over which Judge Merchan was presiding, he would have to legally and ethically recuse himself from the handling of that matter. But what if that person is of the first degree of relationship, that is, a child of the Judge? Meet Loren Merchan, who is, according to the New York Post, “president of Authentic Campaigns, a Chicago-based progressive political consulting firm whose top clients include Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who was the lead prosecutor in Trump’s first impeachment trial, and the Senate Majority PAC, a major party fundraiser…Schiff’s campaign for US Senate scored an eye-popping $20 million in aid since he began soliciting donations off the presumptive GOP presidential front-runner’s unprecedented 34-count indictment last April, according to Federal Election Commission records…The Senate Majority political action committee, which supports Democratic Senate campaigns, pocketed $73.6 million since it also began firing off fundraising emails following the ex-president’s indictment…The super PAC has done more than $15 million in business with Authentic since 2019, including email fundraising and branding assistance, while Schiff’s Senate campaign paid Authentic more than $10 million for digital advertising and other consulting services the past year, records show.” Let us understand what the New York Post has revealed here. Loren Merchan is the president of an organization that has been paid ten million dollars by the Senate Majority PAC, which has earned the money to pay Loren’s company by fundraising that is, at least, […]

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