Intelligence Community Reform Needed

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.

During the eight years of the Obama/ Biden administration, there was a huge push for political correctness. One of the main objectives of political correctness is to stifle debate so that no other opinion can ever be heard, which is always the methodology of the left and communist or socialist regimes worldwide including the left here in the United States. We are all familiar with the socialist regimes that limit and control the internet and all media including television news and newspapers. This perspective is the position of today’s Democratic party which we can see almost daily.

It is a common tactic for the left to call for a national debate on any issue but what they really mean is we should all listen to their monolog with no opportunity for other opinions or perspectives. We all saw how the IRS targeted conservative non-profit organizations to keep them quiet. This is illegal and went completely unpunished, once again we have to ask ourselves where is the FBI? Similar leftist ideology is apparent in some of the main social media outlets, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have been subpoenaed by Congress to explain their bias when they are allowed to operate under laws which require them to be neutral. The GOP has even filed a complaint against Twitter with the FEC for election interference.

Most people are probably aware that the FBI is part of the intelligence community and not just a bit player, they have a major role in the intelligence community and about a third of the FBI is dedicated to their counterintelligence department (CI) which conducts a wide variety of intelligence related activities. The remaining approximately two-thirds makes up the criminal division. Recently, a former FBI agent named Michael German surfaced again pushing a theme he has championed for years claiming there are widespread close ties between local law enforcement and right-wing violent groups and the dangers he claims this represents.

Mr. German himself is long associated with several far-left leaning political organizations and is something of a poster boy for how the political left uses propaganda to manipulate US government agencies and their information. The irony of a former FBI agent pushing the dangers of right wing groups at the exact moment left wing extremist groups such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and ANTIFA are rioting daily in a number of major US cities, burning down many buildings, destroying businesses and the lives of many not to mention murdering or wounding law enforcement officers as well as other innocent bystanders is stunning. Mr. German makes himself look like a complete left-wing hack and in fact represents a certain level of threat to the public himself by trying to confuse people as to the actual source of danger.

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The dangers of the right wing in the US have long heralded by many other besides Mr. German to certainly include the mainstream media and anyone associated with the Democratic party. There is one huge underlying problem that everyone needs to know about and that is that they are lying through their teeth and are perfectly aware of the fact. A recently completed 218 page two-year study written by Christopher Hull PhD. details and closely documents the malfeasance, lies and manipulations that are used to make these largely unfounded claims of dangers from the right.

While Mr. German pushes the dangers posed by local law enforcement being associated with right wing groups using information that is proven to be false, we see for ourselves on national television a very cozy relationship between ANTIFA and BLM with local law enforcement and politicians in Portland Oregon for example and other democratic controlled cities. We have all watched as innocent passerby’s or bystanders are roughed up by masked men from ANTIFA, while the local police calmly watch and do nothing.

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Ukraine’s Frozen Conflict

As we approach winter in the northern hemisphere, the war in Ukraine is beginning to resemble a “frozen conflict” from many perspectives. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently told the media he hopes the war will end faster once President-elect Trump takes over in January. Opinions in Moscow, however, differ from that of the Ukrainian leader. Russian President Vladimir Putin argues that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) needs to exclude Ukraine from joining in “exchange” for peace. If it does not, he says, then no end to the war is in sight. So far there is no Christmas solution. Several NATO countries, according to Vladimir Socor of the Jamestown Foundation, are tentatively considering “coalitions-of-the-willing” to provide security for Ukraine outside of the formal NATO framework. There is, however, no collective mechanism today under which such an arrangement is viable. According to the NATO Charter, while Ukraine is a NATO partner country, it may not join as a full member since it has not fulfilled the requirements for membership. That has not stopped NATO and allies from continuing “to provide Ukraine with unprecedented levels of support, helping to uphold its fundamental right to self-defence,” according to the organization. Socor says that keeping Ukraine out of NATO will not advance peace with Russia. Waiting for a peace settlement, he suggests, would only serve to encourage Moscow to continue the war indefinitely. Although the Biden Administration officially withdrew its support for Ukrainian membership in 2021, NATO maintains an “open door” policy toward membership-seeking countries. The current White House position led the way for European states to oppose Ukraine’s membership saying that a decision should be delayed until “conditions are met.” Biden pushed for changing “open door” to a “bridge” metaphor. It is not intended as an across-the-board NATO policy and has been implemented in the past on a case-by-case basis, says Socor. “The alliance’s open-door policy was not fully insulated from Russia’s non-statutory blocking power, and NATO-aspirant countries’ path toward membership was not always irreversible.” Russia has successfully blocked states like Georgia from joining, first in 2008 and again after the war in Ukraine began in 2014. Russia recognizes the value add of Ukraine to NATO is enormous and that Kyiv has a better case than some other nations. Putin’s invasion was, in part, intended to foreclose that option. By 2021, Moscow was pushing hard to maximize its war objectives, which included further annexations of Ukrainian territory. A main goal for Putin was, and is, to ensure there is no Ukraine left to join NATO. As President-elect Trump prepares to assume office in January, he is faced with the historical challenges presented by the war. Post-conflict security guarantees were the center of several proposals made during the 2023 military stalemate. The incoming Trump Administration has yet to outline how it intends to handle the Russia-Ukraine war. Analysts in Washington believe that the new Administration will expect its European allies to guarantee the majority of Ukraine’s security needs. As we approach 2025, several European nations have acknowledged that they do not view Ukraine as eligible for NATO membership as it would draw the organization into the middle of the conflict. Others want to wait until the war is over or pending a “peace” settlement before considering Ukrainian membership. Socor reports that some “influential voices” are suggesting that “Kyiv should join NATO after “freezing” the war along a stable armistice line, de facto accepting Ukraine’s partition, with NATO security guarantees applying de jure to the government-controlled territory only.” This would mean starting accession talks soon with the actual talks to commence only after a ceasefire is in place. Trump arrives in Washington at a time when Putin’s hybrid strategies of war in Ukraine have eviscerated commonly-held differences between war and peace. “Absent a political consensus in NATO over Ukrainian membership, certain European allies, including France’s President Emmanuel Macron, are holding informal consultations about post-conflict security guarantees to Kyiv by NATO members outside of NATO’s framework,” according to the Jamestown Foundation. The Biden Administration downplayed the discussions on possible forms of military assistance and defense industry cooperation by sending only an Assistant Secretary of State. For a European peace to hold the Trump Administration would need to formally extend the United States’ nuclear deterrence to Ukraine. Options under discussion in Europe include a “coalition of the resolute” to deploy forces to Ukraine as part of a possible armistice package, deterring further Russian attacks, says Secor. European officials are also debating, without any agreement, whether its military forces could perform non-combat logistical roles to free Ukrainian forces to fight. None of the possible courses of action has moved forward as all eyes are waiting on the incoming Trump Administration for clues about its intended level of support for a NATO framework and other non-NATO proposals. Daria Novak served in the U.S. State Dept.