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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Putin’s Saber Rattling

Earlier this week, President Biden reversed his 2022 decision, authorizing the provision of antipersonnel land mines to the Ukrainian government. It follows an earlier Administration authorization to allow the use of an advanced American missile system capable of striking as deep as 100 miles inside Russian territory. The US election season may be ending, but both Russia and the West show no indication of stepping down the conflict. Russian propaganda continues to swell as the Kremlin increases its threats to use nuclear weapons against the West. Last week Andrey Sushentsov, program director of the pro-Kremlin think tank Valdai Discussion Club (VDC), published an article on growing nuclear tensions in the region. Official Russian language in the last few years has been threatening. Since the US election, rhetoric like that in the Sushentsov article, has approached the level of nuclear blackmail. The VDC article’s main theme centers on Russia’s intent to directly confront the West militarily if the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) becomes involved in Russia’s conflict with Ukraine. “On the one hand, these threats are intended to frighten the West, but on the other, Russian propagandists themselves are starting to believe in the inevitability of escalation,” according to Ksenia Kirillova of the Jamestown Foundation. On November 11, Sushentsov wrote that “The conflict will reach a completely new level, with unpredictable consequences for Europe and the entire world.” Kirillova points out that Putin’s distorted image of the world is divorced from reality and is causing the Kremlin to issue demands that are impossible to fulfill. Financial and other Russian resources needed to support Putin’s war are growing scarcer at the same time. This week the Kremlin announced a reduction of payments to its soldiers. Recently North Korea acknowledged it was sending soldiers to fight in Ukraine as Putin is running out of bodies to use as cannon fire. The war is not going well for Russia. One question floating around the Washington intelligence community is whether Putin will act out of desperation before President-elect Trump assumes office. In recent months the Russian propaganda machine is spewing out materials from fairly reputable analytical platforms inside the country. Kirillova says that “Kremlin ‘experts’ do not conceal that such threats are only intended to break the West psychologically, as they themselves are not prepared for full-scale nuclear war.” Despite Russia’s lack of preparation for an all-out war with the West, the expanding nuclear rhetoric carries with it an increase in the threat of a full-scale war in multiple theaters of operation. In June 2023 a founder of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Sergey Karaganov, called for “delivering a pre-emptive strike of retaliation” on Poland to force the West to surrender. In the previous month, Dmitry Suslov, a direct of research programs at the policy center proposed organizing “a demonstration nuclear explosion” aimed at intimidating the West. In September, President Putin announced a reappraisal of Russian nuclear doctrine after speaking earlier in the year at the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and jokingly calling Suslov a “scary person.” Pavel Baev, writing in the European Daily Monitor, says “Putin intends his announcement to mark an escalation of nuclear brinkmanship and influence the proceedings of future Ukrainian peace efforts.” Putin is expanding the list of environmental conditions that are acceptable for using a nuclear weapon and incorporating it into Russian military doctrine. Baev adds that “The ups and downs of Russian brinkmanship are disconnected from the kinetic battles of the war, correlating instead with Ukrainian peace offensives, such as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first peace summit in Bürgenstock, Switzerland.” Despite the increase in vitriolic language, in a You Tube video published a week before the US presidential election, Karaganov openly assured the West the primary goal of the escalation is to break the American spirit and that of the West, not outright nuclear war. By Election Day in the US, with political prognosticators predicting a win for former president Trump, Karaganov changed his tune and called for an increased role in nuclear deterrence. Kirillova points out that Western concessions to Russia are unlikely to reduce the risk of nuclear escalation. The distorted reality inside the Kremlin continues to push that President-elect Trump is an adherent of “world government,” that Ukraine will create a nuclear weapon, and Russia must prepare for a nuclear conflagration to achieve its ambitions for a new world order. President-elect Trump has indicated he will not agree to concessions that destabilize Europe, the Middle East or other regions. Going forward a strong US foreign policy may be the most stabilizing course the West can count on to restrain Putin and his intent to rebuild the Russian empire. Daria Novak served in the U.S. State Dept. Illustration: Pixabay

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