A radical activist who has made anti-white comments is no longer in charge of &#8220;diversity&#8221; at the schools children of military members attend — though she hasn&#8217;t been fired or disciplined, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Kelisa Wing, the former Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chief for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-doctors-back-child-sex-changes-blast-red-states">Department of Defense</a> Education Activity (DoDEA) schools, made numerous comments such as: &#8220;I&#8217;m so exhausted at these white folx in these PD sessions this lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too&#8230; I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS.&#8221;
She wrote books with lines such as &#8220;If you are White you might feel bad about hurting others or you might feel afraid to lose this privilege” — as well as one called &#8220;What Does It Mean to Defund the Police.&#8221; She also said that people needed to “agitate, agitate, agitate” for &#8220;revolutionary&#8221; changes, and that “If another Karen tells me about her feelings … I might lose it.”
In September, 22 members of Congress called for an internal investigation, <a href="https://stefanik.house.gov/_cache/files/f/4/f4b99a6c-6592-4505-902a-77c5f51ecd78/61605C94E7788DD3BB41872ED3D3E228.09.16.22---ltr---dodea-letter-final-.pdf">writing</a> that &#8220;we are concerned that Ms. Wing’s rhetoric is not in line with the values and standards of the DoD.&#8221; They asked &#8220;Has Ms. Wing’s radical ideology been integrated into the curriculum proposed by DoDEA?&#8221;
The Pentagon said soon after that it would launch an investigation, but it did not follow up with a letter until three hours before a congressional hearing Thursday examining the impact of DEI policies on the military, <a href="https://stefanik.house.gov/press-releases?ID=A7F5DB61-1BC4-4AEE-8704-0B7EFB3BABE9">according</a> to Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY).
&#8220;The employee was speaking in a personal capacity&#8230; as a result, the Director, DoDEA took no disciplinary action,&#8221; the letter <a href="https://stefanik.house.gov/_cache/files/8/e/8e8f2405-65fe-49e6-8640-52b0595be7fa/BC48923A62FD4075AA3A57BF03E9051E.2023.03.23-letter-to-rep.-stefanik---dodea.pdf">said</a>. &#8220;The Director, DoDEA concluded that it was appropriate for the employee to continue working for DoDEA. Separately, as part of a headquarters restructuring, the employee was reassigned to another position that does not include diversity, equity, and inclusion,&#8221; it added.
Despite taking six months to investigate, the letter&#8217;s author, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gilbert R. Cisneros, seemed unfamiliar with the topic when Stefanik <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVVN9e_o4M">grilled</a> him at the hearing.
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He said he had &#8220;no idea&#8221; what &#8220;caudacity&#8221; meant, though he also said &#8220;I do agree that this is not acceptable. It is not condoned. It is not something that I condone. It is not condoned by DoDEA or the Department of Defense.”
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He would not commit to publicly sharing the results of the investigation, citing Wing&#8217;s privacy. He was unaware that Wing&#8217;s own books were in the libraries of the schools she oversaw.
Stefanik retorted: &#8220;You should know, you are a DoD official … One reason you should know that is in her own presentation as a DoD employee at a DoDEA summit, she stated, ‘My passion work is dismantling disparate discipline systems, and I am hugely passionate about dismantling the school to prison pipeline, I have written a book [called] Promises and Possibilities Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline — shameless plug.’ That’s her words.”
Stefanik said she suspects the &#8220;restructuring&#8221; was due to the public becoming aware of Wing&#8217;s true feelings. &#8220;She should have been fired completely, but she was at least moved somewhere else, not dealing with our kids’ educational systems,” she said.
However, the comments that the DoD determined were merely &#8220;personal&#8221; were only one of the issues raised by <a href="https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/agitate-agitate-agitate-militarys">OpenTheBooks.com</a>, a leading government transparency organization. OpenTheBooks found that while working as a DOD employee, she also ran a consulting firm called Promises &amp; Possibilities LLC that has collected tens of thousands of dollars from other sources.
A FOIA request showed that New Jersey&#8217;s Cresskill School District paid Wing $26,200 simultaneous to her DOD job, before cancelling her contract following news of her offensive statements. &#8220;Despite a full-time job based in Virginia, Wing often spent time during the work week conducting virtual or in-person training sessions for Cresskill staff,&#8221; OpenTheBooks <a href="https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/military-stonewalling-on-controversial">found</a>. The DOD refused to fulfill OpenTheBooks&#8217; FOIA request for timecards and conflict-of-interest disclosures that could show whether this amounted to misconduct. (Wing told the <a href="https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-military/2023/02/10/dod-schools-diversity-chief-responds-to-racism-claims/">Military Times</a> that “I disclose to my employer my private activities as required.&#8221;)
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OpenTheBooks founder Adam Andrzejewski told The Daily Wire Friday that &#8220;Wing had stated that her mission was to &#8216;… uproot, tear down, rip up and destroy inequitable spaces.&#8217; In addition to her six-figure GS-14 government job, Wing was also collecting tens of thousands of dollars through her private consultancy, offering these diversity and equity materials to public schools at large. This included the same professional trainings for staff that she was giving teachers in DODEA schools.&#8221;
&#8220;It took multiple investigations from us and multiple hearings from Congress to finally get some answers and some action from the Department of Defense. Unfortunately, there are still outstanding questions for the Pentagon, including whether they plan to eliminate the role or find a replacement for Wing. The DoD also should account for how much public money is being spent on DEI material and trainings all across the Defense Department,” he said.
A DoDEA web page <a class="c-link" href="https://www.dodea.edu/Offices/DEI/index.cfm?cssearch=650984_3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.dodea.edu/Offices/DEI/index.cfm?cssearch=650984_3" data-sk="tooltip_parent">previously said</a> &#8220;The DODEA DEI Division was established in 2021 to create equitable access to opportunities, resources, and support for students, employees, and families through examination of beliefs, policies, practices, and interactions to eliminate inequities and disparities. The DEI division will advance equity and cultural proficiency by interrupting systems of inequity in our policies, practices, and procedures by creating a climate that ensures diversity, equity and inclusivity for all students, staff and families.&#8221; Now, it redirects to a generic DODEA page.

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Americans who claim to be transgender were the victims of 271 hate crimes in 2021, with few of the crimes being serious, undercutting claims that the community is facing &#8220;genocide,&#8221; according to FBI <a href="https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/hate-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> released this week.
Of the 177 cases where the offender&#8217;s race was known, 81 offenders were black, about 60 were white, 20 were Hispanic, and one was Asian. Still, even that data could be misleading as FBI statistics inflate the number of &#8220;white&#8221; hate crime perpetrators by counting most Hispanics and Arabs as &#8220;white.&#8221; To a limited extent, the data can be adjusted to treat Hispanic as a race separate from black and white, which The Daily Wire did in the above numbers, but in many cases the &#8220;ethnicity&#8221; was not even recorded, forcing them to be treated as white.
Although Arab is counted as a separate category when it comes to the victim, there is no such category for perpetrators, leaving them to generally be counted as white. People of Arab descent have been behind some anti-Jewish crimes and their inclusion in statistics could change the anti-transgender breakdown as well.
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<th style="text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; padding-bottom: 15px;" colspan="2">Anti-trans hate crime suspects by race, 2021 (Source: FBI)</th>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Black</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 100%; float: left;">50%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">White (including Arab and some Hispanic)</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 74%; float: left;">37%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Hispanic</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 24%; float: left;">12%</div>
</td>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Asian</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 1%; float: left;">0.6%</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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<th style="text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; padding-bottom: 15px;" colspan="2">Likelihood of committing anti-trans crime, adjusted for population</th>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Black</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 100%; float: left;">6.5x</div>
</td>
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<td style="width: 30%;">White (including Arab and some Hispanic)</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 15%; float: left;">1x</div>
</td>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Hispanic</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 15%; float: left;">1x</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Asian</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 0%; float: left;">0.016x</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
The data does not support the notion widely pushed by activists and Democrats that there is a &#8220;genocide&#8221; of transgenders underway.
The Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN) said it is planning a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-radicals-plan-day-of-vengeance-in-d-c-alongside-firearms-training">&#8220;Trans Day of Vengeance&#8221;</a> on March 31 in D.C. to &#8220;stop trans genocide,&#8221; and also fundraised for firearms training, which it said was for self-defense.
Of the 271 crimes against transgenders, the FBI data reported two slayings and two rapes. Of the remainder, 70 were incidents of &#8220;intimidation.&#8221; There were 48 aggravated assaults, 87 simple assaults, eight robberies, 14 thefts, and 37 instances of vandalism or damage.
The data comes from law enforcement divisions that report hate crime information to the FBI and includes jurisdictions covering 300 million of the 330 million Americans.It was released March 13 as a &#8220;supplement&#8221; to a less comprehensive dataset previously released. The supplemental data provides less detail, but original data shows one anti-trans killing committed by a black offender, one incident of robbery and sodomy by a black offender, and two instances or rape or sodomy by offenders whose race was unreported.
There were 869 victims of anti-Jewish crimes, by far the largest example of religious bigotry. That vastly outnumbered the 278 victims of anti-trans crimes, as well as the 190 victims of anti-Muslim incidents, despite an effort by groups like CAIR to suggest persistent &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; puts Muslims at risk.
When it comes to all forms of hate crimes, blacks made up 27% of known-race offenders, while making up 13% of the U.S. population.
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<th style="text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; padding-bottom: 15px;" colspan="2">Anti-trans crime victims, 2021 (Source: FBI)</th>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Total</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 93%; float: left;">278</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Killing</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 1%; float: left;">2</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Rape</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 1%; float: left;">2</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Aggravated assault</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 16%; float: left;">48</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Simple assault</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 29%; float: left;">87</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Intimidation</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 23%; float: left;">70</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Robbery</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 3%; float: left;">8</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 30%;">Theft/burglary</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 4%; float: left;">14</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Vandalism</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 12%; float: left;">37</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Based on the FBI data, a black person&#8217;s chance of being the victim of a hate crime in a given year is 98 in a million, a Jewish person stands a 109 in a million chance, and Muslims and transgenders&#8217; chance is less than half of that.

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FBI Stats On 2021 Anti-Trans Hate Crimes Don’t Support Claims Of ‘Genocide’

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The top IT official at a scandal-plagued federal agency led what one participant called “the most partisan meeting I have ever attended” as despondent bureaucrats had a collective meltdown the day after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, internal messages obtained by The Daily Wire reveal.
David Shive, chief information officer for the General Services Administration (GSA), addressed a key technology department during a &#8220;town hall&#8221; On Nov. 9 when he made the shocking comments. The department he spoke to, the Technology Transformation Service (TTS), has since been cited for &#8220;gross misconduct&#8221; and security violations.
&#8220;That was the most partisan meeting I have ever attended in government. <a href="https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/organization/leadership-directory/chief-information-officer">David Shive</a> joking that he dressed like a Republican (because he wore a suit and tie?) and concern about the &#8216;white men&#8217; and what steps needed to be taken to protect us from the new President-elect (&#8216;having allies&#8217;),&#8221; one attendee wrote on Slack later. &#8220;I&#8217;m not even a Republican and I&#8217;m offended! The point of the meeting was to reassure the staff that everything will be all right and that certainly could have been done without the copious partisan overtones.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reported last week that GSA’s inspector general found that the TTS <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tricked federal agencies into violating security standards</a> by omitting facial recognition from software designed to lock up highly sensitive information, privately reasoning that such software was racist. It obtained $197 million in part by falsely telling customers and funders that it was compliant with NIST standards that required biometrics. The IG separately found <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-tech-arm-had-pattern-of-gross-mismanagement-before-equity-induced-cybersecurity-fiasco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“gross mismanagement”</a> that occurred while the group was preoccupied with things like pronouns and building a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-agency-focused-on-leftist-politics-and-pronouns-as-gross-mismanagement-put-cybersecurity-at-risk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social justice robot</a>, and faulted Shive for a lack of oversight.
Now, internal chat records obtained by The Daily Wire through the Freedom of Information Act show the government’s central tech agency having a top-to-bottom psychological meltdown when Trump won the presidency, with the group seemingly believing that their work as government bureaucrats was to advance a Democratic agenda, not provide services at the direction of the government.
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Although at least a few employees were stunned by the partisan tone struck by Shive and another thought the fears were overblown, other employees&#8217; internal messages showed the partisanship was widespread. Messages obtained by The Daily Wire included quotes from and reactions to the Zoom meeting and questions that were submitted to the speakers.
Though they worked comfortable IT jobs and many worked remotely, they said they feared for their &#8220;safety.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to know what we can do to ensure that this remains a safe working environment for everyone,&#8221; said a participant named Shawn Allen.
The Slack screen name for Allen, like several others who expressed fear for their well-being with Trump as the president-elect, listed pronouns.
&#8220;It falls to all of us in the organisation, but most of all to those of us who feel safer than others, to uphold our diversity practices, continually improve them, and spread them throughout government,&#8221; Yoz Grahame (&#8220;SFO, he/him&#8221;) wrote.
“Thank you all for making me feel safe :heart:,” Rebecca Refoy-Sidibe wrote.
Jez Humble (&#8220;SF, he&#8221;) plotted to try to get GSA, which also manages federal real estate, to block the Trump Organization from acquiring a hotel.
&#8220;Quite simply, I believe the GSA should end the contract. They should simply terminate it,&#8221; he wrote.
Noah Kunin, the infrastructure director for 18F, a major component of TTS, told them that Dennis McDonough, Barack Obama&#8217;s chief of staff, had told them not to work, apparently referring to over a three-day weekend. &#8220;Straight from Dennis: *do not work*. Engage in self care,&#8221; Kunin wrote.
Kara DeFrias added: &#8220;The emotional labor will be high all around for awhile, but especially today and this week. Take the time you need. It&#8217;s not easy. Pay attention to what your body is telling you. Pet all the pets. Squeeze all the fam and friends. Listen more than you speak. Embody empathy. Breathe.&#8221;
Some expected to continue to be paid while refusing to work on projects ordered by the Trump administration. Alan Atlas wrote that he “was told on joining that we have always had a policy of not forcing people to do work they were uncomfortable with.”
Eric Schles (&#8220;he or him&#8221;) wrote: &#8220;Question: what is your advice for speaking truth to power? How could / should we engage when we are asked to do things we don&#8217;t necessarily agree with?&#8221;
“We should have space for realignment there that doesn’t mean leaving government,” Kaitlin Devine wrote.
Some managers sought to deflate the pessimism with rhetoric about how their job was to serve America, but the government&#8217;s tech employees were not interested. &#8220;With due respect, we have not always been the beacon of rights. I don&#8217;t want to distract from the larger point, but this nation was built by enslaved people,&#8221; Annalee Flower Horne (&#8220;She/They&#8221;) wrote.
Gail Swanson chimed in: &#8220;I think it’s worth noting that some folks may not be in a place to hear optimism quite yet.&#8221;
Another employee, Patrick Bateman, pointed out that the “real or imagined” idea that they were nonpartisan was being offered as a coping mechanism simultaneously to one that contradicted it. &#8220;On one hand, lots of talk of the non-partisan aspects (real or imagined) and popularity of what we do; on the other hand hearing a lot of &#8216;we have allies&#8217; on the hill, in GSA etc&#8230; can&#8217;t square that,&#8221; he wrote.
Then-TTS Director Dave Zvenyach tried to walk a fine line, apparently first reminding employees that they were civil servants. But the employees painted Trump’s views as being so abhorrent that they went beyond partisanship and into questions of morality.
&#8220;I want to work for a government that respects us and democracy,&#8221; Jesse Taggert wrote.
&#8220;How do we comport the difference between what a president thinks and believes and our own needs (not just values but safety and care)?&#8221; Jessie Posilkin asked.
Zvenyach wrote, &#8220;I kinda want to tell folks: look, if you feel like you want to leave on political grounds, GREAT! that&#8217;s a totally acceptable reason. But don&#8217;t try and make this a moral conundrum to justify your otherwise political decision… I&#8217;m not so fine with a policy that says people can choose not to do work because they don&#8217;t like the politics.”
But Zvenyach appeared to change his tune, perhaps folding to identity politics-fused statements that suggested that a white man like him just couldn’t understand.
&#8220;There are hard questions that many people of color, will have to wrestle with moving forward. It has nothing to do with the oath we swore or our obligation to American citizens,&#8221; Erren Lester wrote.
Zvenyach eventually backtracked: &#8220;My comments on the oath of office are based on personal experiences that &#8212; based on what i&#8217;m hearing from others &#8212; must have sounded totally ridiculous.&#8221;
Though the techies claimed to be motivated by support for government “transparency” through “open data,” their leader seemed to think some facts were better kept secret. &#8220;I&#8217;m wiped out thinking about the morality of the open data APIs we&#8217;ll be asked to build in the next administration [sic],&#8221; Zvenyach wrote.
Billy Griffin wrote: “Sincere thanks to everyone for speaking your minds, and to &lt;@U03V848BQ&gt; for being vulnerable and recognizing your blind spots and being thoughtful about addressing real concerns people have.”
The GSA ignored a request for comment and for video of the meeting from The Daily Wire.
Messages showed that one experienced civil servant tried to tell her colleagues that they were being hysterical.
&#8220;I have 16 years in public service, and I have served under 2 Republican Presidents (soon to be 3), and 2 Democrats…and honestly…neither party has ever had a HUGE effect on my public service. I do not see this one being any different,&#8221; the employee wrote.
History would prove her to be correct: The TTS team continued to carry on as normal and implemented a far-left agenda under the Trump administration, one that would result in the “equity”-inspired cybersecurity vulnerability and false statements identified by the Inspector General this month.
This is the fourth installment in a series.
Part 1: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity">Feds Jeopardized Security Of 1M Americans’ Online Accounts, Citing ‘Equity’</a>
Part 2: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-tech-arm-had-pattern-of-gross-mismanagement-before-equity-induced-cybersecurity-fiasco">Federal Tech Arm Had Pattern Of ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Before ‘Equity’-Induced Cybersecurity Fiasco</a>
Part 3: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-agency-focused-on-leftist-politics-and-pronouns-as-gross-mismanagement-put-cybersecurity-at-risk">Federal Agency Focused On Leftist Politics And Pronouns As ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Put Cybersecurity At Risk</a>

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Virginia Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/glenn-youngkin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s</a> administration has demanded that a liberal school system cut ties with allegedly Chinese Communist Party-linked groups, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Wire.
&#8220;The news that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) and the TJHSST Partnership Fund (Fund) have accepted significant financial contributions from entities known to have connections with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) raises significant concerns,&#8221; and could affect the goal of removing &#8220;political indoctrination in our children&#8217;s classrooms,&#8221; Secretary of Education Aimee Rogstad Guidera wrote to Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid.
Guidera demanded to know how much money was accepted, how the money was used, whether the &#8220;CCP-linked entities that contributed to the Fund provided any guidance, influence or instructional materials,&#8221; and whether any school materials or student data were provided to the Chinese groups.
&#8220;I am requesting that you direct schools within your division to cut ties with CCP-linked partners. Furthermore, I have asked the Virginia Department of Education to investigate the prevalence of such relationships between CCP-linked partners and local school divisions across the Commonwealth,&#8221; the letter said.
The <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/cheat-sheet-top-high-school-collaborated-chinese-military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Examiner</a> reported, citing documents unearthed by Parents Defending Education, that TJ &#8220;partnered with Tsinghua University High School (TUHS) in 2014 to assist it and China generally with adopting the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and advanced lab research TJHSST is famous for. TUHS is closely tied to Tsinghua University, considered by the Pentagon to be a Chinese military university.&#8221;
The TJ Fund also received hundreds of thousands from the Ameson Education and Cultural Exchange Foundation and a Chinese company called Shirble, both of which have ties to the United Front Work Department, a foreign influence campaign, the Examiner reported.
Youngkin, a Republican, won the governorship in 2021 in part on his education platform.
Democrats last month <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-dems-rejects-new-communism-curriculum-teachers-union-said-could-offend-asians" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> a plan to highlight in schools the outcomes and death tolls associated with Communism — one of the most significant events of the 20th century — with a teachers union official saying that it could cause anti-Asian bigotry since some modern Communist countries are in Asia.
In addition to Democrats routinely saying schools should incorporate leftist lessons like the 1619 Project because they simply want to teach &#8220;whole history,&#8221; that rationale was odd because Virginia Democrats have vigorously acted to decrease the number of Asians in competitive programs like Thomas Jefferson, including by removing the admissions test after Asians tended to score highly. Democrats preferred what they called a &#8220;merit lottery&#8221; instead. The move resulted in a 54% reduction in the number of Asians at the highly competitive magnet school.
Last year, a judge ruled that Fairfax officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fairfax-county-school-officials-broke-law-reducing-asian-american-enrollment-judge-rules" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegally</a> tried to reduce the Asian population of the school, with federal Judge Claude Hilton writing that “discussion of TJ admissions changes was infected with talk of racial balancing from its inception.” The all-Democrat school board has appealed the ruling.
The liberal school system <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fairfax-schools-suspend-kids-call-police-as-system-defies-virginia-governor-on-masks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defied</a> Youngkin after he declared that parents had the right to send their kids to school without wearing masks.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has since opened multiple inquiries into Fairfax schools, most recently after it sent a letter offering college prep classes to black and Hispanic students, <a href="https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/a-second-high-school-tjhsst-excluded-asians-and-whites-in-promoting-college-prep/article_4f67451c-c1ff-11ed-b6d7-43f0b5f805da.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">omitting</a> Asians and whites from the flyer. TJ and other Fairfax schools also withheld merit awards from students, potentially costing them scholarships, while school officials pursued &#8220;equal outcomes without exception.&#8221;
Miyares has discussed how his family <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginias-ag-slams-cnns-acosta-for-claiming-virginia-is-soviet-style-police-state-my-family-fled-cuba" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fled</a> Communist Cuba, saying the country was &#8220;nationalized: in the name of fairness and equity&#8221; and that his uncle was arrested by dictator Fidel Castro&#8217;s secret police. &#8220;In Soviet-style communist states like Cuba, the state diminishes parents. They say, ‘Your loyalty is to the state,’ and parents have less control,&#8221; he said.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-attorney-general-sets-his-sights-on-another-woke-school-district-after-magnet-school-turns-away-from-merit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia Attorney General Sets His Sights On Another Woke School District After Magnet School Turns Away From Merit</a>

Glenn Youngkin

Virginia Demands Schools Cut Ties With Communist China-Linked Groups

China

Communism

Virginia

A federal tech agency recently caught <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">risking the nation’s cybersecurity</a> by violating rules and lying in the name of “equity” is dominated by a cabal of perpetually triggered leftists obsessed with politics and pronouns, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire</a> investigation shows.
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Service (TTS) — whose employees have included a self-proclaimed Marxist organizer and a man who identifies as transgender who raised money from colleagues to “void their gender warranty” — spent its time on projects like creating a social justice robot. The efforts came as the unit lost millions of dollars, repeatedly lied, and put the security of sensitive data at risk with wanton noncompliance with basic security rules, according to watchdog reports and other records reviewed by The Daily Wire.
The Daily Wire reported last week that GSA’s inspector general found that TTS <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tricked federal agencies into violating security standards</a> by omitting facial recognition from software designed to lock up highly sensitive information, privately reasoning that such software was racist. It obtained $197 million in part by falsely telling customers and funders that it was compliant with NIST standards that required biometrics. The scandal affected Login.gov, a service to authenticate Americans’ identity before giving access to sensitive data, and in particular the nearly one million accounts that were sold as conforming to higher-level NIST standards which would have required facial recognition. GSA said it was &#8220;completely unacceptable&#8221; and that it is pursuing discipline.
TTS — which began as a project called 18F that still operates as one of its largest units — matters because of the importance of technology to modern government and because, like other GSA departments, its work fans out into other federal agencies.
President Joe Biden is planning an executive order that would push Login.gov to every American, <a href="https://fcw.com/digital-government/2023/02/white-house-mulls-scaling-login-dot-gov-reach-every-american/383142/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FCW</a> reported last month. The IRS plans to implement Login.gov to allow Americans to file their taxes directly to it this April, despite concerns by one of the software platform’s own former leaders that it could <a href="https://fcw.com/it-modernization/2023/03/plans-approve-use-login-dot-gov-tax-day-nears/383934/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not handle it</a>. Though the IRS originally planned to use <a href="https://fcw.com/digital-government/2022/02/irs-backs-away-facial-recognition-technology/361674/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facial recognition</a> technology — which could cut down on billions of dollars of fraud from people filing tax returns in others&#8217; names — it ultimately decided not to.
The Login.gov cyber-vulnerability and deception disclosed this month was just one of a series of serious rule violations, financial losses, and cyber-vulnerabilities that the GSA acknowledged were the result of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-tech-arm-had-pattern-of-gross-mismanagement-before-equity-induced-cybersecurity-fiasco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“gross mismanagement.”</a> But the breakdown also occurred because the unit, which spent only half of its time working on actual billable projects, was consumed with a shocking level of partisanship.
In 2016, the agency’s inspector general <a href="https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/ipa-reports/OIG%20EVALUATION%20REPORT_Evaluation%20of%2018F_%20JE17-001_October%2024%202016.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> 18F for spending more than $4,000 in manpower on “bots” such as one that corrected gendered language in internal messages between employees.
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<h1>Users shouldn&#8217;t say &#8220;no problemo&#8221; because it &#8220;arose as a way of devaluing Spanish in favor of an &#8216;English-only&#8217; United States.&#8221;</h1>
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“The ‘Slackbot’ polices a user&#8217;s text for the pronouns &#8216;guys,&#8217; ‘guyz,’ and ‘dudes.’ When the bot detects these pronouns, it prompts the user to consider replacing the pronoun with an option, like ‘team,’” the IG wrote.
Staff only doubled down after being called out, prompting the creation of a far more expansive social justice robot.
“Pretty soon, we realized that we could introduce a lot more language nudges than just ‘guys,’ and we renamed ‘guys bot’ to ‘<a href="https://18f.gsa.gov/2022/11/14/improving-inclusion-continuously-how-we-iterated-on-our-bot-to-promote-more-inclusive-and-thoughtful-language/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inclusion Bot</a>,’” 18F officials wrote in November 2022.
The new bot <a href="https://github.com/18F/charlie/blob/main/InclusionBot.md">objects</a> to calling something &#8220;nuts&#8221; and suggests replacing it with &#8220;bananas&#8221; because we &#8220;want to avoid stigmatizing mental illness.&#8221; It discourages saying something is &#8220;like crack&#8221; because &#8220;We want to avoid stigmatizing addiction. Crack cocaine usage has also been racialized, resulting in discriminatory policies that target Black people.&#8221;
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Users shouldn&#8217;t say &#8220;no problemo&#8221; because it &#8220;arose as a way of devaluing Spanish in favor of an &#8216;English-only&#8217; United States.&#8221; And they shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;circle the wagons&#8221; because &#8220;this term arose from colonization,&#8221; nor &#8220;hold down the fort&#8221; because &#8220;this term arose as a military phrase.&#8221; They shouldn&#8217;t conduct a &#8220;postmortem&#8221; because &#8220;This term can trigger emotions related to death.&#8221;
After the 2016 election, top honchos tried to shield TTS — which has its roots in a program architected by Barack Obama — from layoffs by claiming it was nonpartisan. &#8220;We have people from different political stripes on the team … We don&#8217;t think technology is partisan,&#8221; TTS Commissioner Rob Cook told <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2016/11/16/technology/trump-innovation-white-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>, which also noted that Republican Kevin McCarthy supported the unit.
But records reviewed by The Daily Wire depict a team of far-Left partisans that impacted agencies across the federal government through their web and data work. Choose any name on 18F’s roster and there’s a good chance you’ll find openly far-Left sentiment and a fixation on identity politics. For example, <a href="https://meritalk.com/articles/gsa-names-ann-lewis-new-director-of-tts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ann Lewis</a>, who was hired as TTS’ director in December, was previously chief technology officer of MoveOn.org, the leftist political fundraising group.
TTS Design Director Cordelia Yu last year raised money from colleagues (including former 18F director Aaron Snow) for &#8220;gender-affirming surgery&#8221;&#8211;billed in tech-speak as &#8220;Help Cordelia <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-cordelia-void-their-gender-warranty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Void Their Gender</a> Warranty&#8221;&#8211;in a GoFundMe organized by a friend. Yu&#8217;s blog mimicked <a href="https://cordy.news/agile-broke-my-brain">&#8220;the 18F</a> project reflection template&#8221; and stated: &#8220;Goals for the last three months: Turn a penis into a p****.”
Leah Bannon, a former product lead who worked on <a href="https://ash.harvard.edu/people/leah-bannon">immigration at 18F</a>, is now an organizer for Bread and Roses Democratic Socialists of America, a self-described &#8220;national caucus of <a href="https://twitter.com/leahbannon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marxist organizers</a>.&#8221;
<a href="https://twitter.com/apetersen/status/1625343636379512833" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anne Peterson</a>, a graphic designer for 18F, wrote this month on Twitter: &#8220;Hi: my name is Anne and my pronouns are they/them. My name or appearance should not lead to a presumption of gender. Your assumption may harm me whether or not you intend it to.&#8221; She complained about the lack of bathrooms for nonbinary people.
After Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, 18F infrastructure director Noah Kunin — who the inspector general said repeatedly plotted to circumvent rules and made false statements — wrote a blog post saying he was quitting because of his hatred of Trump.
&#8220;The people with the matches are inside the house &#8230; It’s now on fire because the people in charge want to burn it down,&#8221; he <a href="https://medium.com/@noahkunin/why-im-leaving-18f-48970131d547">wrote</a>.
He also claimed Trump had converted a position overseeing the unit from a civil servant to political appointee role in order to demand “loyalty.” In private correspondence, Kunin’s supervisor fretted that the blog was false, and an IG report showed that it was false in a deeply ironic way: In reality, Obama’s GSA head, Denise Turner Roth, had pushed for the position to be converted to a politically appointed one as she sought a way to fire a civil servant who blew the whistle on the “politicization” of 18F during the Obama years. The IG found that Roth improperly retaliated against that whistleblower.
The day after Trump’s election, TTS held a “town hall” where high-paid tech employees — many of whom worked remotely — expressed fears for their “safety” and plotted to continue getting paid while refusing to do work asked for by the Trump administration, according to records obtained by The Daily Wire under the Freedom of Information Act.
Some employees transcribed quotes from the bosses in Slack for those who could not tune in to the video meeting. Shawn Allen quoted one seemingly suggesting that they stay in government in order to resist Trump: &#8220;you guys don&#8217;t run away from a fight; you run _to_ the fight.&#8221;
The next reply came from the social justice bot the team had created, objecting to the gendered language.
“Did you mean *mates*?” it asked.
This is the third installment in a series.
Part 1: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity">Feds Jeopardized Security Of 1M Americans’ Online Accounts, Citing ‘Equity’</a>
Part 2: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-tech-arm-had-pattern-of-gross-mismanagement-before-equity-induced-cybersecurity-fiasco">Federal Tech Arm Had Pattern Of ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Before ‘Equity’-Induced Cybersecurity Fiasco</a>

Federal Agency Focused On Leftist Politics And Pronouns As ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Put Cybersecurity At Risk

Federal Agency Focused On Leftist Politics And Pronouns As 'Gross Mismanagement' Put Cybersecurity At Risk

Social Justice

Technology

A still-ongoing program devised by President Barack Obama to bring Silicon Valley tech types into the federal government to foster innovation instead descended into repeated rule violations, massive financial losses, and retaliation against a whistleblower who called attention to potential violations of the law, government records show.
The Daily Wire reported last week that the General Services Administration (GSA) Inspector General found that GSA&#8217;s disruptive tech unit, the Technology Transformation Service (TTS), <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tricked federal agencies into violating security standards</a> by omitting facial recognition from software designed to lock up highly sensitive information — reasoning internally that such software was racist. It falsely told the agencies that its solution met the security standards, obtaining $197 million in part on the basis of the false representation. GSA said it is pursuing disciplinary measures.
But a series of other government probes show that the team of highly-paid computer programmers at TTS — also known as 18F — has repeatedly put cybersecurity at risk for years. Despite the staff overwhelmingly being far-Left partisans who supported big government, they also seemed to believe that the rules that define big government did not apply to them, all while operating in the risky terrain of government cyberspace.
In May 2016, the IG issued an emergency alert of a <a href="https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/ipa-reports/Alert%20Report-GSA%20Data%20Breach%205.12.16.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“data breach,”</a> writing that “Due to authorizations enabled by GSA 18F staff, over 100 GSA Google Drives were reportedly accessible by users both inside and outside of GSA during a five month period, potentially exposing sensitive content such as personally identifiable information and contractor proprietary information.” The breach involved a misconfiguration in the use of Slack and OAuth, neither of which were supposed to be used.
The IG later said that 18F waited five days to inform management of the long-running breach, then falsely told the public and its customers that sensitive information was not exposed.
“In response to our alert report, the 18F Executive Director [Aaron Snow] and Director of Infrastructure [Noah Kunin] co-authored a public blog post on May 13, 2016, stating, ‘We did a full investigation and to our knowledge <a href="https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/05/13/how-18f-handles-information-security-and-third-party-applications/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no sensitive information</a> was shared inappropriately.’ 18F also subsequently issued emails to external partner agencies stating that ‘this was not a hack or data breach in any way, and this misconfiguration did not cause any sensitive information to be shared inappropriately,’” the IG wrote.
But a <a href="https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/ipa-reports/OIG%20EVALUATION%20REPORT_Evaluation%20of%2018F%20IT%20Security%20Compliance_JEF17-002_February%2021%202017.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 2017 IG report</a> on &#8220;18F’s Information Technology Security Compliance&#8221; said the claim by 18F wasn’t true. “GSA IT found that the vulnerability exposed content containing PII to unauthorized users. As of February 2, 2017, the 18F blog post had not been updated to reflect the results of GSA IT’s review,” it said.
The report found that &#8220;18F routinely disregarded and circumvented fundamental security requirements related to both the acquisition of information technology and the operation of information systems.&#8221; When 18F wanted to do things that were not permitted, it took it upon itself to do them anyway and call it &#8220;pre-authorization,&#8221; it said. And its employees used personal email accounts for sensitive government business.
When Kunin got tired of oversight from Information Systems Security Officers (ISSO) from the GSA, whose job it was to ensure that federal data was secure, he named himself ISSO for 18F, something he had no power to do, the IG said.
Kunin — who later quit the government because of his hatred of Donald Trump — admitted to the IG that the unit was “definitely not compliant.” He told investigators he “had no training on GSA IT policies,” but the IG “found that he completed the mandatory training, received a copy of the IT Security Policy from GSA IT, and had frequent discussions with the Chief Information Security Officer.”
“We sought to determine the cause of 18F’s widespread violations of fundamental GSA information technology security requirements. We concluded that management failures in GSA IT and 18F caused the breakdown in compliance,” it wrote. “When we asked 18F Executive Director Snow why there was a breakdown in 18F’s information technology security policy compliance, he answered, ‘I honestly don’t know,’” it said.
The failures also extended to finances. 18F had little concern about taxpayer dollars: 18F&#8217;s Director of Operations said privately: &#8220;To be frank, there are some of us that don&#8217;t give rip about the losses,&#8221; the IG uncovered.
In June 2017, the IG found that “18F had a $31.66 million cumulative net loss from its launch in March 2014 through the third quarter of FY 2016” and hired 200 people anyway. This occurred in part due to wildly inaccurate projections by its leaders. “For example, although 18F projected over $84 million in revenue for FY 2016, by the third quarter the actual revenue was less than $28 million,” it said.
Meanwhile, the staff spent much of its time on self-promotional activities, vanity projects, and social justice initiatives. “The OIG found that less than half of the 18F staff’s time was spent on projects that would recover FAS’s ASF investment in 18F,” it said, referring to the Federal Acquisition Service.
18F performed work without a contract in place despite dozens of warnings to stop the practice. It billed clients incorrectly in most cases reviewed by the IG, such as undercharging one by $5.5 million. It did not maintain billing records and spent nearly $25 million without approval, the IG found.
Thomas Sharpe, the GSA’s Commissioner of FAS, believed that the entire way the tech group was financed was illegal. He alerted the Inspector General. The IG found that others, including GSA’s own lawyers, believed that GSA was circumventing Congress’ intent with the tech shop. One lawyer in the GSA’s Office of General Counsel wrote that GSA appeared to attempt “an administrative repeal of prior legislation and a stealth re-creation of a service Congress specifically abolished via the GSA Modernization Act.”
The IG found in June 2017 that Obama’s GSA Administrator, Denise Turner Roth, <a href="https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/foia/Investigation%20of%20GSA%20Whistleblower%20Reprisal%20Complaint%20June%202017.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retaliated</a> against Sharpe for blowing the whistle. In April 2017, the GSA responded to the Office of Special Counsel, which policies whistleblower retaliation, <a href="https://osc.gov/Documents/Public%20Files/FY17/DI-17-0642/DI-17-0642%20Agency%20Report.pdf">conceding</a>: &#8220;Many violations identified in the IG&#8217;s October 24, 2016 report are the result of gross mismanagement.&#8221;
&#8220;The legal foundation of TTS is legally permissible. However, [our own] report does identify problems with the implementation of the legal foundation that was provided by the Office of General Counsel, which resulted in a violation of 31 USC §1535 and of GSA policy as well as gross mismanagement,&#8221; the GSA continued.
Still, little seemed to change. The far-Left technologists continued on through the Trump administration and into the Biden administration. The IG caught them the latest time this month in what could be its most dangerous misstep yet, the fiasco which caught the unit telling federal agencies that their data was secure with its login product, when in fact it violated required standards by removing biometric requirements in the name of “equity.” The deception imperiled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly one million</a> online accounts.
This is the second installment in a series.
Part 1: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Feds Jeopardized Security Of 1M Americans’ Online Accounts, Citing ‘Equity’</a>
Part 3: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-agency-focused-on-leftist-politics-and-pronouns-as-gross-mismanagement-put-cybersecurity-at-risk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Agency Focused On Leftist Politics And Pronouns As ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Put Cybersecurity At Risk</a>
Part 4: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chat-records-reveal-epic-meltdown-in-federal-agency-after-trump-win" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chat Records Reveal Epic Meltdown In Federal Agency After Trump Win</a>

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Federal Tech Arm Had Pattern Of ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Before ‘Equity’-Induced Cybersecurity Fiasco

Federal Tech Arm Had Pattern Of ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Before 'Equity'-Induced Cybersecurity Fiasco

Barack Obama

Politics

Scandals

Silicon Valley

The FBI may have abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on the very congressman tasked with overseeing FISA, according to revelations at a congressional hearing Thursday.
Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said at a committee hearing that he has reason to believe that he is the unnamed congressman who, a recently declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) admitted, FBI agents wrongfully conducted a search on.
LaHood is leading a working group tasked with oversight and renewal of Section 702 of FISA, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-rep-lahood-says-unlawfully-monitored-by-fbi-under-fisa-during-hearing-director-wray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reported. Last month, President Joe Biden asked Congress to reauthorize FISA provisions, calling it a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-asks-congress-to-reauthorize-fisa-surveillance-powers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;top legislative priority.&#8221;</a>
&#8220;I want to make clear the FBI&#8217;s inappropriate querying of a duly elected member of Congress is egregious and a violation not only that degrades the trust in FISA, but is viewed as a threat to the separation of powers,&#8221; LaHood said at the hearing, according to Fox.
&#8220;I have had the opportunity to review the classified summary of this violation, and it is my opinion that the member of Congress that was wrongfully queried multiple times solely by his name was in fact me,&#8221; he said.
The ODNI report covering December 2019 to May 2020 <a href="https://www.intelligence.gov/assets/documents/702%20Documents/declassified/24th-Joint-Assessment-of-FISA-702-Compliance.pdf">says</a> the FBI searched the name of a local political party and the name of a congressman, despite not being &#8220;reasonably likely&#8221; to reveal foreign intelligence or evidence of a crime.
An agent &#8220;conducted approximately [redacted] queries in [redacted] using only the name of a U.S. congressman. The 707 Report describes the specific facts that led the IA to conduct these queries. These queries retrieved unminimized PISA-acquired information, including Section 702-acquired products that were opened. FBI advised that no unminimized FISA-acquired information was disseminated or used in any other way. NSD and ODNI assess, based on these facts, that these queries were not compliant because they were overly broad,&#8221; it said.
FISA allows intelligence agencies to spy on foreigners, but the agencies have allegedly weaponized it to wrongfully target Americans, including political opponents. Warrants must be approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, but that court is shrouded in secrecy and appears to rarely reject requests for warrants.
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In 2019, the Department of Justice&#8217;s Inspector General found <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ig-report-finds-fbi-fell-far-short-made-serious-errors-in-fisa-application-to-surveil-trump-campaign">&#8220;serious&#8221;</a> abuses of the FISA process as the FBI targeted Trump officials. In 2020, FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ex-fbi-lawyer-to-plead-guilty-in-durham-criminal-investigation-for-allegedly-falsifying-evidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guilty</a> to falsifying evidence submitted to the FISA court to get a warrant to wiretap Donald Trump aide Carter Page.
A common thread in the Russia-Trump investigation run by Peter Strzok and other partisan FBI officials is the way it relied on people who were offshore or neither American nor Russian, such as former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele; Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor; and Trump aide George Papadopoulos, who became embroiled after speaking with an Australian diplomat abroad.
Last year, ODNI said the FBI conducted up to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-snooped-on-americans-data-at-record-pace-last-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3.4 million</a> searches of U.S. data drawn from the National Security Agency, a record high.
This week, Trump&#8217;s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn sued the government for wrongful prosecution, seeking $50 million. The FBI recorded a call between Flynn and a Russian ambassador, then attempted to prosecute him for lying when his recollection of the call differed from the transcript that, unbeknownst to him, the FBI had.
&#8220;Without the FISA warrants, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation would likely have been closed in its entirety, and the prosecution of General Flynn likely would never have occurred,&#8221; the suit said.

FBI May Have Used FISA To Spy On The Congressman Overseeing FISA, Whose Renewal Is ‘Top Legislative Priority’ For Biden

FBI May Have Used FISA To Spy On The Congressman Overseeing FISA

Congress

Director of National Intelligence

FISA

An attorney for the so-called “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/qanon-shaman-sentenced-to-41-months-in-prison-over-capitol-riot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">QAnon Shaman</a>” Jacob Chansley asked federal prosecutors repeatedly for all videos showing his client inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, yet told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> he never received the bombshell &#8211; and potentially exculpatory &#8211; footage aired Monday night by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-jan-6-video-changes-narrative-brings-knives-out-for-tucker-carlson-says-ben-shapiro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a>.
Albert Watkins, whose client Jacob Chansley pleaded guilty to felony charges in connection with the Capitol riot and was sentenced to 41 months in prison, said Department of Justice prosecutors were legally bound to turn over the footage. Clips shown on Carlson&#8217;s Fox News Channel program show Chansley walking freely and peaceably through the building, often accompanied by multiple police officers.
“We did not receive that video footage,&#8221; Watkins said. &#8220;We asked for it, and not just once or twice. Whether we asked for it or not is irrelevant because the government had an absolute, non-compromisible duty to disclose that video and they did not do so.&#8221;
&#8220;And all the while, they were actively representing to the court and the American people that Jake was a leader, leading the charge into the Capitol,” he said. “They did not disclose that footage because it ran contrary to their rote narrative.”
Watkins, an attorney for nearly 40 years, told The Daily Wire he was stunned to see the footage, which he could have used to defend Chansley.
“I’ve never seen anything so vile as what I&#8217;m seeing right now,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a departure from a pretty high standard they&#8217;ve maintained for a long time. Anyone who needs to have belief in the integrity of our justice system, whether they&#8217;re a left-wing New England academic or a raging right-winger, needs to say that this is really wrong and f&#8212;ing it up for everyone.”
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Watkins said anger now being focused on Carlson for locating and airing the footage should be directed at prosecutors who appeared to violate rules established in the landmark Supreme Court case U.S. v Brady, which cemented that prosecutors must turn over relevant information to defense attorneys, particularly exculpatory evidence.
“Looking at the news, half of it is getting mad at Tucker,&#8221; Watkins said. &#8220;What the f&#8212; does Tucker have to do with any of this? Except that he was smart enough to get it in our faces.&#8221;
“It&#8217;s appalling,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Whether you&#8217;re right-leaning, you like Tucker Carlson, you hate Tucker Carlson, is irrelevant. This is about putting a dagger in the heart of our justice system. And the person holding the dagger and thrusting it with all its might is our Department of Justice. This required collaboration from the top of the Justice Department right down to the Assistant U.S. Attorney lying to me, a fellow officer of the court, knowing I had a duty to put my client in the best position I could based on the evidence.”
Chansley in September of 2021 pleaded guilty to unlawfully obstructing an official proceeding. Watkins no longer represents him.
Kimberly Paschall, the assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia who Watkins said lied, did not immediately return a request for comment. A spokesman for her boss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, declined to comment even though Chansley&#8217;s case is not ongoing.
Federal Judge Royce Lamberth, who presided over the case, should sanction the federal prosecutors, Watkins said.
“This is as egregious a violation of the trust as I have seen, with the exception of hiding DNA evidence in a murder case,” he said. “If I’m a federal judge and find out that indeed I was played a fool, I was duped by an assistant U.S. attorney that lied to me repeatedly while Mr. Watkins was yelling that no one was more peaceful than Jacob, and I’m making rulings based on what the government is saying, I’d be one pissed off federal judge.”
Those issues should be considered in the many January 6 cases still open, Watkins said. Since Chansley was sentenced more than a year ago, the judge no longer has jurisdiction over the case, he said. The remedy is a “special writ of habeas corpus—it’s an extraordinary remedy but one that’s warranted here.”
Court <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29100583/62/1/united-states-v-chansley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filings</a> in Chansley’s case corroborate Watkins&#8217; claim that he repeatedly asked for all videos of his client.
“Our position is that the government must identify any evidence it believes to capture [defendant], regardless of whether it intends to rely on the same in its case in chief,” one said.
In another discovery request, Watkins wrote that “I am also concerned about the thousands or tens of thousands videos the government has received from public sources, particularly how the government is searching, indexing, and storing these videos, and whether the government is withholding any video footage in its possession; Based on my review of the discovery thus far, there is official video surveillance and publicly sourced video footage that is exculpatory to the defendants. Many of those videos show [defendant] and other[s] peacefully walking around the Capitol. In these videos, they, like thousands of others, are doing nothing illegal with the possible exception of being present in the building, all of which is potentially exculpatory.”
Paschall <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29100583/76/united-states-v-chansley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in the case September 17, 2021 that the government was setting up a &#8220;global&#8221; video dump for all defendants to use. It would be hosted on &#8220;evidence.com for voluminous digital media materials (e.g., body-worn-camera footage and U.S. Capitol Police (‘USCP’) surveillance footage),” she wrote. “Further, we will ensure that all Capitol Breach legal defense teams will have access to the same platforms, including technological functionality commensurate to that available to the government, for the purpose of receiving and reviewing discoverable materials.”
But by that time, Chansley had already entered a guilty plea which allowed him to get out of solitary confinement. Even when Watkins looked at the evidence platform&#8211;he has represented four January 6 defendants&#8211;it did not actually allow lawyers to filter and navigate the videos using the same methods available to law enforcement, he said; it was merely a giant dump of generically presented videos, he said. noting that even now, he has not been able to find the video played by Tucker Carlson using the government’s system. He said the government’s responsibility is to provide evidence pertaining to specific defendants, not a giant dump of all Capitol videos—and that they do have such technology on the government’s side.
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In numerous other January 6 cases, the government has admitted to using <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59937716/47/united-states-v-moat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facial recognition software</a> to identify which videos show which people. The high-tech methods used to navigate each frame of Capitol video footage were so advanced that it even connected <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1545946/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drivers license photos</a> to a system to identify who was in which video.
“They have a team of IT people that are able to say this camera is covering this area, we&#8217;re doing this for Jake, and they can go from camera to camera, sweep it up and spit it into a government dropbox,” Watkins said.
On February 27, Ryan Nichols, a January 6 defendant who is headed to trial, filed a <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59293148/212/united-states-v-nichols/">motion</a> that said Tucker Carlson gained access to 41,000 hours of CCTV footage, “more than double the amount of CCTV footage previously thought to exist. Undersigned Counsel has obtained permission to examine the totality of the abovementioned footage. Importantly, since this newly discovered evidence was made available, we have already learned information directly relevant to Defendant’s case. Defendant’s position is simple and straightforward: there is no justifiable reason why this newly available evidence had not been made available before today.”
Nichols also moved to remove a protective order that has gagged defense attorneys from sharing video with the public, saying that law enforcement openly appealed to “crowdsourcing” to help identify January 6 suspects, and crowdsourcing is also needed to comb through the footage for exculpatory evidence.
“Because it would take a single individual over five years to view 44,000 hours of video, it is impossible for any one Defendant to review this discovery comprehensively,” Nichols’ lawyers wrote.

‘It’s Appalling’: QAnon Shaman’s Lawyer Says DOJ Lied, Withheld Videos Aired By Carlson

'It's Appalling': QAnon Shaman's Lawyer Says DOJ Lied, Withheld Videos Aired By Carlson

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January 6

The federal government&#8217;s central technology arm jeopardized nearly one million online accounts by rejecting facial recognition technology when it was required for the high-security accounts, then cited “equity” to justify years of lying about its compliance with federal rules, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> has learned.
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) technology group was tasked with creating Login.gov, a service that federal agencies would use to create accounts permitting access to government websites detailing personal or sensitive information. The service was required to follow rules set by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and included offering a hacker- and impersonator-resistant option for agencies dealing with the most sensitive data, which must conform to a NIST standard called Identity Assurance Level 2 (IAL2).
GSA earned $187 million off the service after telling a government funding board that its solution met NIST’s exacting standards, and $10 million more from agencies who purchased the highest-security solution from GSA on the basis of its representations.
But GSA knew that its system was anything but compliant with IAL2, because it disregarded one of its most important security features: Using biometrics such as facial recognition, eye scans, or fingerprints to prove those seeking access to sensitive data were who they claimed to be. Officials opted to simply ignore that category because they said facial recognition technology might discriminate based on skin color, the <a href="https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/GSA/GSA-Misled-Customers-Logingovs-Compliance-Digital-Identity-Standards-JE23-003Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GSA Inspector General found</a> in a new audit.
“Put simply, Login.gov opted to ignore the standards and instead focused on selling Login.gov to customers without regard to NIST requirements,” the IG wrote. The audit said GSA “misled their customer agencies” and “knowingly billed” them for a product they were not receiving.
In response to IG, GSA acknowledged wrongdoing.
“Given that employees misled customer agencies about Login.gov&#8217;s compliance with NIST standards,&#8221; the director of Login.gov was reassigned, employee misconduct actions had been opened, and a “top-to-bottom review” of Login.gov had been ordered, officials said.
The audit found that top officials ignored insiders who pointed out that a product whose sole aim was cybersecurity was not actually secure, and that once they were caught, they misled agencies into believing they were withdrawing the webcam security feature because of new policy on “equity.” In reality, it had been out of compliance the whole time, with GSA having tricked agencies into using insecure software for years—sending federal agency officials tasked with online security into a tailspin when they learned the truth.
“As of May 2022, Login.gov had 906,187 users of Login.gov services that GSA purported to be IAL2 but did not comply,” the IG said. “Notwithstanding GSA officials’ assertions that Login.gov met [the] requirements, Login.gov has never included a physical or biometric comparison in production. Login.gov officials informed us that biometric comparison was not included in products offered to customer agencies, initially because the feature required testing before implementation and later because they further delayed it due to equity concerns.&#8221;
At multiple points, senior leaders with GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), the division under the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) in charge of the project, &#8220;learned that Login.gov did not comply with IAL2 requirements. They did not, however, notify customer agencies of the noncompliance. The inability to meet IAL2 NIST standards became the topic of discussions among Login.gov leaders and personnel at least as early as 2019, and included concerns that using individuals’ selfies to verify their identity could impact Login.gov’s rejection rates based on physical traits, such as skin color and tone,” it said.
&#8220;GSA misled the Technology Modernization Board in securing funding for Login.gov,&#8221; the IG wrote in September 2021.
GSA secured $187 million in federal funding after TTS Director/FAS Deputy Commissioner Vladlen “Dave” Zvenyach, then-GSA Chief Financial Officer Gerard Badorrek, and GSA Chief Information Officer David Shive attested that &#8220;Login.gov is currently used in production and complies with NIST’s 800-63-3 standard for strong authentication (AAL2) and identity verification (IAL2).&#8221;
Back in 2019, the GSA touted its “selfie” feature in marketing materials, stated in an “Agency Authorization to Operate” that the system “can support user validation at Identity Assurance Level 1 or 2 (IAL1 or IAL2),” and authorized agencies who were required to use IAL2 authentication to use Login.gov, even though a former Login.gov Product Manager told the IG “that the team knew that Login.gov did not comply with NIST 800-63-3 [another name for IAL2] as early as 2018.&#8221;
By January 2020, a senior advisor went to the top to sound the alarm about noncompliance, telling then-GSA Assistant Commissioner Dominic Sale and others. Sale &#8220;told him that because he was not the Director of Login.gov, it was not the Senior Advisor’s role to pursue the issue,&#8221; the IG found. In August 2020, a consultant flagged the same issue for a TTS employee, but the employee did not do anything about it because &#8220;he believed that everyone knew that Login.gov was not compliant.&#8221;
Zvenyach was put in charge of TTS in January 2021, and his boss, FAS Commissioner Sonny Hashmi, told the IG that &#8220;Zvenyach told him clearly that Login.gov met the IAL2 standards, and they were signing interagency agreements that stated they met the standard.&#8221;
Yet internal records showed that by June 24, 2021, not only was it not compliant, but Zvenyach had disavowed taking any steps that could get it into compliance. “The position of TTS is that the benefits of liveness/selfie does not outweigh any discriminatory impact, and therefore should not be used as a proofing requirement,” he wrote to staff in a Slack message.
The IG noted that there was no formal &#8220;documented justification&#8221; of this, &#8220;Zvenyach did not notify customer agencies when TTS suspended efforts to implement selfies to meet the NIST biometric comparison requirement,” and GSA “continued to withhold information from customer agencies about Login.gov’s lack of biometric comparison capabilities.”
The jig was up in January 2022, when a federal agency asked point-blank how the login system could possibly be compliant when it didn&#8217;t use webcams, fingerprints, or eye scanners. On January 20, 2022, the GSA released an &#8220;Equity Action Plan&#8221; that it said was required by the Biden administration, and days later, the GSA relied on the new policy to say that it would not meet NIST standards with Login.gov.
“On February 3, 2022, seven months after Zvenyach’s June 2021 internal announcement, GSA finally notified customer agencies that the IAL2 service included in their interagency agreements, for which they were paying, did not comply with NIST requirements,” the IG wrote. It told them with a statement that cited the days-old equity policy and &#8220;linked the lack of a biometric comparison feature to equity concerns. It omitted any mention of the duration and nature of Login.gov’s noncompliance with NIST’s IAL2 requirements.”
Federal security officials were shocked that they could no longer count on a secure login. &#8220;I reiterate how frustrating this is,&#8221; one wrote. &#8220;We have been promoting the use of IAL2 solutions pretty heavily,&#8221; another wrote. “Having a clear understanding of this is critical.”
&#8220;This is quite an issue. &#8230; You are now stating that IAL2 is no longer available as of today?” a third wrote. But the truth was worse&#8211;contrary to the message that misleadingly blamed a new equity policy, the agencies had unknowingly been out of compliance the whole time.
Agencies who relied on secure logins from GSA told the IG that &#8220;Login.gov’s noncompliance with the IAL2 standard created a greater risk of fraud for the customer agency,&#8221; &#8220;had an impact on the credibility of their program,&#8221; and could create liability because &#8220;the customer agency would be held responsible for allowing access to individuals at the wrong level.&#8221;
The IG said that after learning of TTS&#8217; equity-justified misrepresentations, GSA &#8220;reviewed the agreements for other misrepresentations,&#8221; and found that its authentication system was also not in compliance.
GSA Deputy Administrator Katy Kale notified the Technology Modernization Board that its proposal made statements “that could be interpreted to say Login.gov’s service meets NIST guidelines.” The IG slammed Kale for attempting to soften it, noting that “in fact,” GSA explicitly stated that it did verbatim.
“On August 16, 2022, the GSA Administrator announced the Zvenyach’s departure from GSA,” the IG said.
This is the first installment in a series.
Part 2: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-tech-arm-had-pattern-of-gross-mismanagement-before-equity-induced-cybersecurity-fiasco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Tech Arm Had Pattern Of ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Before ‘Equity’-Induced Cybersecurity Fiasco</a>
Part 3: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-agency-focused-on-leftist-politics-and-pronouns-as-gross-mismanagement-put-cybersecurity-at-risk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Agency Focused On Leftist Politics And Pronouns As ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Put Cybersecurity At Risk</a>
Part 4: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chat-records-reveal-epic-meltdown-in-federal-agency-after-trump-win" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chat Records Reveal Epic Meltdown In Federal Agency After Trump Win</a>

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Feds Jeopardized Security Of 1M Americans’ Online Accounts, Citing ‘Equity’

Feds Jeopardized Security Of 1M Americans' Online Accounts, Citing 'Equity' 

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Facial Recognition

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Jill Biden said in a new <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/jill-biden-declares-her-love-for-hunter-biden-amid-gop-probe-i-ll-support-him-any-way-i-can/ar-AA18kccM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> that she responds to criticism of the materials on stepson Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop by having &#8220;a different perspective,&#8221; saying &#8220;I love Hunter and I&#8217;ll support him in any way I can.&#8221;
That profession of support comes despite Hunter Biden saying on that laptop that &#8220;my mom tells [President Joe Biden] things like I’m <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-reveals-disturbing-information-about-presidents-son-underage-relative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sexually inappropriate</a> with the children&#8221; &#8212; as well as talking about Jill in ways that are decidedly more negative.
In December 2018, Hunter Biden told his sister-in-law-turned-girlfriend, Hallie Biden, that Jill was a &#8220;f&#8212;ing idiot.&#8221;
&#8220;F&#8212; my step mother for always being as much of a selfish silly entitled c&#8212; as you,&#8221; he added the next day, according to a Daily Wire review of messages on the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware repair shop.
He told Hallie: &#8220;This is what my therapist like every therapist I’ve seen has said: &#8230; &#8216;You’re avoiding being the chosen one, because you were not the chosen one, by your step-mother.&#8217;”
In other texts, one of Hunter Biden&#8217;s therapists, Keith Ablow, paints Jill Biden as the source of the erratic addict&#8217;s troubles. &#8220;Have you ever wondered whether teetering on the edge of oblivion is your subconscious way of asking for the love you lost when you lost your mom and when you were distanced from your aunts and grandmother and, instead, left to effort love from your less-than-loving step-mother?&#8221; Ablow wrote.
Hunter Biden was two years old when his mother died in a car accident, and seven when Jill Biden became his stepmother.
The British paper <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/5733242/hunter-biden-jill-biden-vindictive-moron-argument-rehab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Sun</a> previously reported that some of the outbursts against Jill Biden were explained by her desire for him to get sober.
&#8220;You do know the drunkest I&#8217;ve ever been is still smarter than you could ever even comprehend and you&#8217;re a shut (sic) grammar teacher that wouldn&#8217;t survive one class in a ivy graduate program,&#8221; he wrote.
&#8220;So go f&#8212; yourself Jill let&#8217;s all agree I don&#8217;t like you anymore than you like me,” he added.
But messages also suggest that Jill Biden took seriously&#8211;though seemingly did not report to authorities&#8211;concerns raised by Hallie that Hunter was being sexually inappropriate with a minor relative.
On July 15, 2018, Hunter Biden indicated in a text with his dad that it was Joe’s idea that Hunter should not be around the minor relative (who The Daily Wire is not naming) without the now-president’s personal supervision. “While [Hallie] tells people I’m m gettin off sexually with [the relative] then there is no family and there never was,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-reveals-disturbing-information-about-presidents-son-underage-relative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter wrote</a>, The Daily Wire previously reported.
On March 16, 2019, Hunter Biden told Hallie&#8217;s sister Liz that he himself “started to believe” Hallie because he craved the approval of her and Jill Biden, who he worried also believed the allegations. He wrote: “Why wouldn’t they believe exactly what Hallie tells them. Or my mom tells him things like I’m sexually inappropriate with the children.”<a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"></a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-sought-job-for-wuhan-lab-linked-scientist-studying-herpes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden Sought Job For Wuhan Lab-Linked Scientist Studying Herpes</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-bidens-laptop-repairman-explains-how-the-fbi-buried-a-bombshell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden’s Laptop Repairman Explains How The FBI Buried A Bombshell</a>

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Jill Biden Praised Hunter. His Take On The First Lady Is Different.

Jill Biden Praised Hunter. His Take On The First Lady Is Different

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Jill Biden

An attorney with the far-left nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was arrested Sunday for allegedly committing domestic terrorism to stop a police facility from being built.
The Atlanta police department said Sunday night that Thomas Webb Jurgens was among the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/atlanta-rioters-face-domestic-terrorism-charges-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">23 people charged</a> after a &#8220;group of violent agitators used the cover of a peaceful protest of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center to conduct a coordinated attack on construction equipment and police officers. They changed into black clothing and entered the construction area and began to throw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police officers.&#8221;
According to the <a href="https://gabar.reliaguide.com/lawyer/32801-GA-Thomas-Jurgens-395724" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Bar</a> of Georgia, Thomas Webb Jurgens is an attorney for the SPLC who was admitted to the bar in 2021. He is one of only two of the 23 alleged agitators who were actually from Georgia, according to the police.
On LinkedIn, Jurgens says he is a staff attorney for the SPLC&#8217;s Economic Justice Project, a former assistant public defender in Orlando, and a graduate of the University of Georgia. Public records reviewed by The Daily Wire matching the name and birthdate provided by Atlanta police match up with the job history on LinkedIn, showing the study of law at the University of Georgia and past residency in Orlando.
SPLC&#8217;s website says its Economic Justice initiative seeks to reform the criminal justice system, &#8220;stopping the use of &#8216;offender-funded&#8217; services such as private &#8216;probation&#8217; companies&#8221; and &#8220;working to <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/our-issues/economic-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reform bail systems</a> that discriminate against the poor and to stamp out abusive practices by bail bond companies.&#8221;
The SPLC did not return a request for comment. Jurgens&#8217; cell phone was turned off.
Jurgen&#8217;s arrest was first noted by Republican operative <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1632813829674377216" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Price</a>, who pointed out that the FBI has relied on SPLC&#8217;s judgments about who is a &#8220;hate group.&#8221; Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) asked in response: &#8220;Will the SPLC be listing itself as a hate group?&#8221;
Last month, an FBI whistleblower leaked a document showing that the FBI was investigating those practicing &#8220;radical-traditionalist <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/09/breaking-fbi-rescinds-radical-traditionalist-catholic-ideology-document-citing-southern-poverty-law-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Catholic</a> ideology&#8221; as potential domestic extremists, in part by citing that the SPLC listed the faction among its &#8220;hate groups.&#8221; The FBI rescinded the document after it leaked, saying it &#8220;does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI.&#8221;
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The FBI previously called the SPLC &#8220;a well-known, established and credible&#8221; organization, and it has briefed the FBI on purported domestic terror, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-lawmaker-wants-answers-on-fbis-alleged-southern-poverty-law-center-ties" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reported.
In 2013, a man <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/02/06/justice/dc-family-research-council-shooting/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot</a> an employee of the Family Research Council (FRC), targeting it, he said, because SPLC said it was a hate group. He said he planned to kill as many people as possible there and smear Chick-fil-A sandwiches on them as they died.
SLPC raises millions of dollars through fundraising solicitations suggesting that they&#8217;re stamping out groups like the KKK. In reality, it has branded a wide variety of conservative groups as &#8220;hate groups,&#8221; and conducts generic liberal advocacy such as opposing school choice.
SPLC has enormous influence in the public school system through Learning for Justice, its initiative which produces highly activist curriculum and gives it to teachers for free, encouraging them to use the outside lesson plan, which teachers find enticing because it saves them time of creating their own.

Tom Jurgens

Southern Poverty Law Center Attorney Charged With Terrorism In Atlanta Riot

SPLC Attorney Charged With Domestic Terrorism In Atlanta

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A group of transgender activists is planning a &#8220;Day of Vengeance&#8221; in Washington, D.C., for March 31-April 2 while raising money for firearms training this week, according to its online materials.
The Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN) said on Twitter that &#8220;The time is now, enough is enough,&#8221; and uploaded posters to <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@transcomrade36/video/7203807886093471018">TikTok</a> that said, &#8220;We want more than visibility. Trans Day of Vengeance. Stop trans genocide. Save the date: April 1st &#8211; 11:00 AM / March 31st &#8211; TBA.&#8221;
The self-professed Virginia chapter of the group said on Twitter that it would host a dance party at a Richmond club on Tuesday to raise money &#8220;benefiting firearm/self defense training for trans Virginians. Come boogie with us and defend trans life!&#8221;
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We hope to see you in DC or online :)! The time is now, enough is enough. This country is full of hate and hate is NOT welcomed in this country. We are human beings and we will always exist. You are all worth it, let’s unite. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TransDayOfVengeance?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TransDayOfVengeance</a> 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ <a href="https://t.co/F5x6TRZh3G">pic.twitter.com/F5x6TRZh3G</a>
&mdash; Trans Radical Activist Network (@Trans_Radical) <a href="https://twitter.com/Trans_Radical/status/1629205749007290368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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DANCE PARTY FUNDRAISER!! March 7th 8pm-2am <a href="https://twitter.com/falloutrva?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@falloutrva</a> 18+, $10 suggested admission 
Benefiting firearm/self defense training for trans Virginians. Come boogie with us and defend trans life! <a href="https://t.co/FWL73ASA72">pic.twitter.com/FWL73ASA72</a>
&mdash; VA TRAN (@VA_TRAN22) <a href="https://twitter.com/VA_TRAN22/status/1623845388472950784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The national group&#8217;s <a href="https://www.transradicalactivistnetwork.org/transdayof-vengeance">website</a> for the Day of Vengeance says, &#8220;Like the Stonewall Riots the gays and lesbians were experiencing what the trans community is facing now. This cycle of hate needs to end in fact it must. Allies, siblings we need you now more than ever. &#8216;I was a radical revolutionist. I still am a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall Riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, &#8216;My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here?&#8221; -Sylvia Rivera.&#8221;
&#8220;TRAN will be hosting an event in DC, time and location TBA on 3/31-4/1. The online event will be hosted on 4/1-4/2, time TBA. If anyone is interested in organizing in their state, please fill out the contact form,&#8221; it says.
The group&#8217;s website says one of its co-founders is &#8220;Noah Buchanan; I am a transgender male and have been out since 2018 &#8230; I have 10+ years of working in the mental health field &#8230; What motivated me to start TRAN was the fact I was bullied to the point where I attempted to end my own life. The person that bullied me was a fellow member of the LGBTIA+.&#8221;
Buchanan did not return a request for more information about the Day of Vengeance.
It says another co-founder is &#8220;Tsukuru&#8221;: &#8220;As a graduate of a high school in Hiroshima where 350 young lives were brutally taken on August 6, 1945, Tsukuru is an anti-nuclear/anti-war/human rights activist &#8230; After his brief marriage to his best friend and the birth of his child, he first came out as lesbian at age 29 and as a transgender man at age 50.&#8221;
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It said of its Virginia chapter leader: &#8220;Bo Belotti is a trans masculine non-binary person &#8230; While working in their state’s legislator they helped craft trans affirming state wide policies. Recently Bo has left the campaign world to pursue more radical changes and activism &#8230; They are a successful organizer and founder of Virginia’s chapter of TRAN, reaching 100 members in just 4 months.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://news.vcu.edu/article/2022/12/bo-belotti-activist-scholar-while-pursuing-change-at-the-local-and-state-levels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia Commonwealth University</a>, Belotti worked as a fellow for Del. Elizabeth Guzman, who floated a plan that could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-democrat-bill-would-criminally-prosecute-parents-who-dont-affirm-their-kids-as-transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sic Child Protective Services</a> on parents if they did not affirm their child as transgender.
Belotti also worked for Del. Joshua Cole as a legislative aide and helped draft HB 145, which required the state to create model transgender policies for public schools, VCU said.
The model policy document that resulted described how to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-replaces-democrats-mandatory-transgender-policy-with-parents-rights-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hide</a> the gender transitioning of children from their parents, saying “a plan may include addressing the student at school with their name and pronoun consistent with their gender identity while using the legal name and pronoun associated with the sex assigned at birth when communicating with parents.”
The model policy said schools should “eliminate gender-based practices” to avoid leaving out transgender students. The policy cited father-daughter dances and homecoming kings and queens as examples. It spelled out how school districts should create gay clubs, allow for transgender students to share bunks with children of the opposite biological sex during sleepaway events, and ordered teachers to be trained to be “LGBT+ affirming.”
On TikTok, Buchanan&#8217;s account @transcomrade36 also called on transgenders to take part in a &#8220;day of trans joy and rage&#8221; on March 10 in Sacramento to drown out the voice of detransitioner Chloe Cole.
Though the Day of Vengeance was planned prior to CPAC, the group&#8217;s rage grew following The Daily Wire&#8217;s Michael Knowles&#8217; comments at the conservative conference.
&#8220;Today in what the actual fuck news: Everybody knows that the Daily Wire is garbage. So Michael Knowles had his show recently and was &#8230; denying the fact that the trans community is facing a genocide,&#8221; it said March 2, playing aggressive music over a clip of Knowles alongside images that said &#8220;killing members of the group&#8221; and &#8220;trans day of vengeance.&#8221;
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<a title="greenscreenvideo" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/greenscreenvideo?refer=embed">#greenscreenvideo</a> there is so much to unpack here. But if anyone is denying that this is occuring please wake up. We are scared and we need your help. <a title="transliberationnow" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/transliberationnow?refer=embed">#transliberationnow</a> <a title="translivesmatter🏳️‍⚧️" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/translivesmatter%F0%9F%8F%B3%EF%B8%8F%E2%80%8D%E2%9A%A7%EF%B8%8F?refer=embed">#translivesmatter🏳️‍⚧️</a> <a title="transdayofvengeance" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/transdayofvengeance?refer=embed">#transdayofvengeance</a> <a title="protecttransyouth" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/protecttransyouth?refer=embed">#protecttransyouth</a> <a title="stoptransgenocide" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/stoptransgenocide?refer=embed">#stoptransgenocide</a> 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️
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