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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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.