In the past, Federal agencies, despite occasional lapses of ethics, mostly concentrated on doing their assigned tasks, rather than harassing Administration opponents.
That changed sharply during the Obama Administration. The criminal use of the IRS and the Department of Justice to harass groups that were critical of the President was horrific. Attempts to use the Federal Communications Commission to censor opponents were inexcusable.
It has only gotten worse during the Biden Administration. To cite just one example, A study by the Hillsdale College publication Imprimis found that “the DOJ [has been] in the midst of a … campaign of spying on (the Conservative investigative journalist group) Project Veritas—a campaign that involved no fewer than 19 clandestine subpoenas, orders, and warrants obtained from nine magistrate judges. The secrecy of this spying campaign was maintained through the use of wide-ranging gag orders, including at least two that were obtained without notice to the judge overseeing the Project Veritas case. Through this spying campaign, we now know that the DOJ obtained approximately 200,000 Project Veritas emails from Microsoft and countless text messages (and heaven knows what else) from Apple, Google, Uber, and other still unknown companies.”
Heavy-handed Biden Administration efforts to subdue political opposition can also be found in the use of the FBI to persuade social media sites to censor the politically embarrassing news of the Biden Laptop scandal. Clear evidence on the laptop could lead not to criminal charges of tax evasion and punishment for not registering as a foreign agent for China, America’s most serious enemy.
The politicization doesn’t stop there, or with the Department of Justice. There has been an intensive effort to use military leadership to force-feed woke politics down the throats of service members. That has caused a major crisis, as potential recruits shy away from the hyper-partisanship. The Army has missed its recruiting goals by an astounding 25%, and the other branches are falling short as well.
The Pentagon has entered into the realm of elective politics, a serious legal violation. One example comes from American Military News, when it noted that “The Air Force has taken ‘full responsibility’ for leaking a confidential personnel file of a service member and Republican congressional candidate, which revealed a sexual assault she suffered on duty in Iraq, according to Indiana Reps. Jim Banks and Larry Bucshon. The Air Force leaker gave the files to a Democrat research firm in the lead-up to the midterm elections.”
The State Department has misused its assets to sponsor woke ideology as well. A recent Wall Street Journal report found that “The exportation of American culture has long been one of our nation’s greatest soft-power assets. But instead of using it to affirm Western values and U.S. interests, the Biden administration is proselytizing for woke ideology. In an effort to ‘promote diversity and inclusion,’ the State Department is funding ‘drag theater performances.’
The Department of Energy, according to a National Review study, will, begining in fiscal year 2023, require applicants for research funding to explain how their research projects will incorporate the tenets of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
The list goes on and on. These acts are not only criminal acts of embezzlement, an offense defined by Cornell law school as “the fraudulent taking of personal property by someone to whom it was entrusted. It is most often associated with the misappropriation of money. Embezzlement can occur regardless of whether the defendant keeps the personal property or transfers it to a third party.” The personal property in this case is the taxpayer’s funds. This is dangerous to the nation, weakening our defenses, harming our foreign relations, violating the First Amendment, and further placing the government in debt.
Photo: U.S. Treasury Building