The U.S. Intelligence Community has awarded more than a dozen sensitive defense grants to researchers affiliated with institutions connected to the Chinese government and its military, according to a report exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Since 2017, at least 14 U.S. defense research projects supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) — which is tasked by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) with investing in “high-risk, high-payoff research programs” — have included investigators simultaneously affiliated with Chinese national laboratories, state surveillance entities, military units and nuclear weapons development institutions, according to the report published by Parallax Advanced Research, a nonprofit funded by U.S. federal, state and municipal governments. Participants in at least two of the IARPA projects cited in the report conducted similar research during the same period with Chinese government-tied institutions, raising serious concerns about U.S. defense technology transfer to a hostile foreign power.
“These studies reveal a deliberate effort by China’s intelligence and public security apparatus, alongside military-affiliated entities, to extract lessons, methodologies, and technical knowledge from IARPA-funded programs,” the report warns. “This includes attempts to reverse-engineer research outputs, replicate experimental designs, and adapt [U.S. Intelligence Community] technologies for use in China’s mass surveillance apparatus and strategic military capabilities.”
Researchers with ties to adversarial nations, like China, should be prohibited from collaborating on U.S. intelligence and defense research, the report’s co-author, L.J. Eads, director of research intelligence at Parallax, told the DCNF.
“What I found most concerning was the sheer number of IARPA funded projects that IARPA itself describes as having clear Intelligence Community value that have involved — and in some cases continue to involve — Chinese institutions and companies, including personnel directly tied to the [People’s Liberation Army],” said Eads.
ODNI and IARPA did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
‘Grave National Security Threats’
In one 2024 case study highlighted in the report, the lead investigator for IARPA’s BRIAR Program was allegedly found to have “a long history” of simultaneous collaboration with Chinese institutions connected to China’s military as well as U.S. government-sanctioned researchers.
IARPA’s ongoing BRIAR Program aims to produce detection and tracking software for individuals by “extracting biometric signatures from the whole-body (e.g., gait and/or body shape) and face,” according to IARPA, and supports U.S. counterterrorism, military force protection, and border security.
The lead investigator for the $11 million BRIAR Program is a Michigan State University faculty member, who has simultaneously collaborated on Chinese government-funded projects with a number of institutions including “Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), in China, on similar gait research,” according to the report.
SUSTech has “documented partnerships across China’s defense research ecosystem,” the report states, citing a threat assessment from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which is a think tank partially funded by that nation’s Department of Defense.
Additionally, the lead investigator for IARPA’s BRIAR Program has also allegedly collaborated on research with the deputy director of China’s liaison office in Hong Kong, according to the report. The U.S. Treasury Department added that deputy director to its “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” list, which flags entities “controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, targeted countries,” resulting in their assets being blocked, according to the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC).
China’s research sectors have “deep entanglements” with U.S. intelligence defense programs, and “present grave national security threats,” former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Cella told the DCNF after reviewing Parallax’s findings.
“[I]t is critical to the U.S. and its Free World allies to do a deep-dive self-assessment and begin the process of de-risking, and in some sectors, de-coupling,” said Cella, who now serves as director of the Michigan-China Economic and Security Review Group.
A Michigan State University spokesperson declined to answer questions related to the report’s findings and referred the DCNF to the school’s policy on academic conflicts of interest and disclosure requirements.
‘Intelligence Applications’
In another case study highlighted in Parallax’s report, datasets from IARPA’s BABEL Program were used by PLA researchers, U.S. and Chinese academics to conduct experiments for a 2018 publication concerning speech recognition technologies.
Operating under the control of the Chinese Communist Party, the PLA “focuses squarely on overcoming the United States through a whole-of-nation mobilization effort,” and aims to achieve “‘strategic counterbalance’ against the United States in the nuclear and other strategic domains” by 2027, according to the Department of Defense.
The BABEL Program aims to support the U.S. intelligence community by developing technologies capable of generating a “speech transcription system for any new language within one week,” according to IARPA.
Despite its value to the U.S. intelligence community, the 2018 publication included a researcher from PLA Unit 62315, who “concurrently filed a related patent in China “with other members of the same unit,” Parallax’s report found.
“Although extensive searches of Chinese-language sources did not yield public information on the internal mission or structure of PLA Unit 62315, its role using IARPA-provided datasets, combined with the concurrent filing of a related patent by the same unit, demonstrates a clear PLA interest in advancing speech recognition and acoustic modeling capabilities,” the report states.
‘Security Problem’
The report also flags a 2023 IARPA-funded publication that included a researcher from the China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP).
Subordinate to China’s Central Military Commission, CAEP is “the technology complex responsible for the research, development and testing of China’s nuclear weapons” and is on the Entity List, according to the U.S. Federal Register.
The Entity List identifies persons likely involved in “activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States,” and, consequently, prohibits certain items, like semiconductors, from being exported to those entities, according to the federal government.
The 2023 publication involving the CAEP researcher was connected to IARPA’s LogiQ Program, which “aims to advance quantum computing” in order to solve problems “of interest to the Intelligence Community and the U.S. Government as a whole,” according to IARPA.
CAEP’s involvement in IARPA’s LogiQ program “means sensitive U.S. quantum error correction innovations may have been exposed to [China’s] nuclear and quantum military ecosystem,” the report warns.
“This report only scratches the surface of a much larger and more serious research security problem,” Eads told the DCNF.
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Americans have called for officials to face consequences after the July declassification of documents regarding the intelligence community’s (IC) role in the false narrative that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 election, but the Trump administration could face legal hurdles.
A recent poll found that more than two-thirds of Americans want someone held accountable for what is now deemed “Russiagate” — and with JD Vance’s Sunday claim that “a lot of people [are going to] get indicted,” people are curious to see who will be held accountable by the grand jury investigation.
Former President Barack Obama’s Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) James Comey could be high on a list of potential indictments.
Comey headed the agency during the initiation and primary phase of the investigations into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election and accusations of potential connections between members of the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Comey was directly involved in the investigation. He told Congress the FBI had not verified the now-debunked Steele dossier before using it to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Trump’s former campaign adviser Carter Page.
This FISA warrant allowed the FBI to conduct surveillance activities on Page, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) ultimately ruled the two final FISA directives against Page were invalid — including one Comey authorized in 2017.
In a July interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, law professor and author Jonathan Turley questioned whether the remarks made by both Comey and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan in their testimonies amounted to perjury.
Turley said both men are “sophisticated players” who are “very careful in how they word” their testimonies. They claimed in their testimonies there was no “malicious intent” in including the Steele dossier in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), but that mistakes may have been made, Turley told Ingraham.
“Comey portrayed himself as ignorant of all these countervailing sources,” Turley concluded.
Brennan might find himself in the same boat as Comey, especially given whistleblower accusations alleging Brennan played a key role in pushing for the dossier’s inclusion in the ICA.
Trump’s FBI launched a criminal investigation into Brennan and Comey in July, DOJ sources told Fox Digital. Two sources told the outlet the FBI viewed Comey and Brennan’s interactions as a “conspiracy,” but did not reveal specific details of what is being investigated.
President of Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton, told the Daily Caller in an interview that investigating a conspiracy could open the door to related crimes, including perjury and the deprivation of civil rights under color of law.
Perjury is relatively easy to indict over, but not necessarily easy to convict, according to Fitton.
Even if any officials are indicted, there are still hurdles that need to be cleared, namely the statute of limitations, Fitton told the Caller. The standard statute of limitations (or the maximum amount of time to start the legal process) is five years, but the beginning of the Russian interference investigations was nearly 10 years ago.
To bypass the statute of limitations — which is necessary for turning indictments into convictions -— the accusers must prove the involved parties were participating in a conspiracy, not just “a series of desperate acts that don’t have any link” potentially woven together by the opposition party in political animus, Fitton told the Caller.
Clapper, Comey, and Brennan all lied to Congress to hide their role in the Russiagate hoax. They abused their power and exploited the intelligence apparatus to undermine President Trump and America. But thanks to @DNIGabbard and @FBIDirectorKash, their scheme and cover-up failed.… pic.twitter.com/E9ny0fh7gd
Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper wrote a July 30 op-ed in the New York Times (NYT) in an attempt to set the record straight. They claimed the Steele dossier was not used as a source or accounted for in the ICA’s analysis or conclusions, acknowledging the dossier was largely discredited.
However, a press release published by ODNI that same day claimed accompanying records show “Clapper and other senior Obama administration officials privately denounced the Steele dossier, despite simultaneously ensuring that the January 2017 ICA included it.”
These documents, like some of the other records declassified by the IC, are based on the testimony of a single, unnamed whistleblower — which could prove difficult in demonstrating malicious intent beyond a reasonable doubt.
A separate anonymous career intelligence officer who worked with House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) Democrats told the FBI in 2017 that then-Democrat California Rep. Adam Schiff allegedly approved leaking classified information with the goal of indicting Trump, according to a memo released Monday.
Schiff’s Senate office previously told the Caller the accusation was a “baseless [smear]” and questioned the credibility of the whistleblower.
Former FBI Special Agent in Charge Jody Weis told NBC 15 on Tuesday that leaking information is a crime.
“Leaking information is a crime, no doubt about it,” Weis stated. “Leaking information with the intent to smear a president, with the intent to perhaps indict a president, that should terrify every American in this country, regardless of party.”
When the whistleblower’s accusation was initially brought before the DOJ, officials allegedly dismissed the allegation of the leaking, claiming, “congressmen have immunity to all speech and actions made on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives,” according to the FBI memos. The DOJ was referencing the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause.
Former intelligence officials are not the only ones who may face indictments. The recently declassified documents from the John Durham 2023 Special Counsel report annex may open the door for criminal charges against Clinton campaign staff and other individuals in the Obama administration.
Information recently released to the public suggested former President Barack Obama planned to snuff out the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information and her use of a private email server. Simultaneously, the records revealed the FBI failed to investigate information alleging the Democratic Party was planning to connect Trump to the “Russian mafia.”
But challenges can still arise in obtaining convictions, even though analysts assessed the declassified emails were authentic, according to documents.
The plaintiff still needs to overcome the statute of limitations and would have to show the courts, beyond a reasonable doubt, the defendant’s alleged actions met the high legal standard for criminal intent.
As the head of a public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, Fitton offered advice on how the Trump administration could overcome many of these hurdles, potentially obtaining indictments or even convictions.
Fitton told the Caller that by focusing their attention on the accusations of criminal activity in 2016, the administration is missing the “low-hanging fruit” of more recent corruption targets.
When will @AGPamBondi prosecute Garland for defying Congress? Why do only Bannon and Navarro go to jail, but Garland gets a free pass? pic.twitter.com/AeUCaTBbU8
“To get at what happened in 2016 is gonna be very complicated; to get out what happened last year, that’s easy,” Fitton told the Caller. “There’s no statute of limitations, so you don’t have to weave in a grand conspiracy claim.”
Fitton gave examples of places the administration should focus its attention, including former Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland’s unprosecuted referral for contempt and Comey’s Instagram post that Fitton claimed “basically threatened the president’s life.”
As for “Russiagate,” Fitton called for Trump to “appoint a special counsel that reports directly to him” to tackle the issue.
“The Justice Department is compromised because they’re going to have to investigate themselves in many of these issues, so is the FBI. So he’s got to have someone who’s free and clear of those bureaucracies, but with all the powers that come with the presidency and prosecuting cases, and that’s done through a presidential special counsel,” Fitton told the Caller.
“Because of the deep state actors that are still floating around … there has to be a more direct presidential intervention,” he added.
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The intelligence community is quietly undergoing structural changes as agencies tackle government bloat, reorganize departments and dismantle the Biden administration’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.
One of Trump’s first directives targeted weaponization in the federal government, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) — which oversees the IC — is focused on uprooting the politicization of the agency.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard launched the Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) in April to end government weaponization and increase transparency, and she recently announced that the agency is now 25% leaner.
“The 25% reduction in the staff includes both permanent ODNI cadre officers and detailees from other IC elements, who will be returned to their home agencies as ODNI streamlines its mission space,” a source familiar told the Daily Caller.
💰 TAXPAYER SAVINGS: Not only is @ODNIgov 25% leaner today than it was when I walked in the door and when @POTUS Trump took office, but we have just this morning shut down the IC Human Capital office that became a DEI slush fund, saving $150 million. pic.twitter.com/hTM5dzzXT6
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe is also eying politicization and potential waste in his agency.
“Director Ratcliffe has made it clear that the CIA will pursue President Trump’s national security priorities with laser-like focus,” CIA spokeswoman Liz Lyons told the Daily Caller. “The Agency is determined to provide the President with an unparalleled intelligence advantage and, under Director Ratcliffe, we are aggressively doing just that.”
Ratcliffe vowed to restructure the CIA to “eliminate” politicization during a recent cabinet meeting with the president.
Similarly, Deputy Director Michael Ellis warned against politicization in a February message to CIA staff, noting their work needs “to be free from politics, bias, or any other distraction.”
Conservatives have accused the IC of politicization for years.
The FBI relied on the since since-debunked Steele dossier to accuse former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, of being a Russian agent. The bureau also reportedly surveilled school board parents and raided the homes of pro-life protesters.
Fifty-one former officials signed a letter casting doubt on the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s emails, falsely claiming it had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation, even though when Ratcliffe served as DNI during Trump’s first term, he determined there was no evidence Hunter Biden’s laptop was a “Russian disinformation campaign.”
Now, the IC is dealing with “deep state actors” leaking classified information to the press. Sources leaked to the The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in May about the IC’s plans to surveille Greenland.
Gabbard slammed the leakers as “deep state actors” who are “politicizing and leaking classified information” in a statement to WSJ.
The CIA is being revamped, but Ratcliffe has not made the “kind of broad cuts” required of other agencies, a Thursday report from CNN claimed.
Although Trump’s federal workforce directives can include national security exemptions, Lyons told the Caller that Ratcliffe is zeroing-in on ways the agency can be more efficient.
“Under Director Ratcliffe, the CIA is implementing President Trump’s Executive Orders to ensure that the workforce is responsive to the Trump Administration’s national security priorities,” she stated. “Even if exemptions are available for national security reasons, the Director believes that CIA can improve efficiency, which is why he invited Mr. Musk to headquarters earlier this year for his insight.”
Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), visited the CIA and met with Ratcliffe in April to discuss DOGE’s efforts to improve government efficiency.
Had a great visit and meeting with @ElonMusk to discuss his ideas and progress so far in making our government more efficient! I look forward to working with Elon and his team to ensure that CIA remains the premier intelligence Agency in the world. pic.twitter.com/VbgUAtcCd0
— CIA Director John Ratcliffe (@CIADirector) April 1, 2025
While the agency’s operations are often shrouded in secrecy, Ratcliffe fired officers involved in DEI and dismissed a CIA official who played a key role in Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the military.
The Trump administration plans to reduce the CIA’s workforce by about 1,200 people over multiple years, The Washington Post reported, citing a source familiar.
Ratcliffe emphasized “meritocracy” in an unclassified March 31 CIA memo obtained by the Caller.
“Moving forward, you will be part of a smaller, more elite and efficient workforce,” he wrote. “We will need everyone at CIA to prioritize efforts that add the greatest value and reduce those we can no longer afford to do.”
He added that “the years of growing budgets and resources are behind [CIA].”
The CIA is also reorienting its focus toward Latin America, specifically the drug cartels. This is a shift from the past two decades, where the CIA has been primarily concerned with Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, the New York Times (NYT) reported in 2021.
Trump designated the cartels “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” in one of his first executive orders.
The CIA merged the Western Hemisphere Mission Center (WHMC) and the Counternarcotics Center (CNC) into one unit — the Americas and Counternarcotics Mission Center (ACMC), according to an unclassified April 14 CIA memo obtained by the Caller.
Trump expects the agency to “play a prominent role” in targeting transnational cartels, the memo noted.
The CIA has reportedly been operating a covert drone program to identify fentanyl laboratories in Mexico, anonymous officials told the NYT.
The agency is considering using “lethal force” against Mexican drug cartels, a U.S. official and three people familiar told CNN in April. The CIA is reviewing its authorities and assessing the potential risks of targeting the cartels, according to the outlet.
The agency has also recently made efforts to improve intelligence collection on Russia and China.
The National Security Agency (NSA) is reportedly also facing cuts under Trump’s new vision for the IC. The agency has been ordered to slash “up to 2,000 civilian roles,” three people familiar told Recorded Future News.
The NSA is a signals intelligence (SIGNT) agency within the Department of Defense (DOD). Trump fired Biden-appointed NSA Director Timothy Haugh in April.
The NSA referred the Daily Caller to DOD for questions about restructuring.
“NSA is focused on carrying out the priorities of the President, Secretary of Defense, and Director of National Intelligence, which include evaluating and making strategic adjustments to its civilian workforce,” a DOD spokesperson told the Caller.
“As a combat support agency, NSA is working with the Department to meet [DOD’s] goals and ensure that workforce adjustments are conducted while we continue to execute NSA’s SIGINT and Cybersecurity missions,” the statement continued.
The DOD intends to target its “bloated headquarters,” Hegseth announced in early May.
He introduced the General and Flag Officer Reductions Policy, or the “Less Generals More GIs” directive in a video.
— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) May 5, 2025
Hegseth ordered at least a 20% reduction of 4-star positions in the Active Component, 20% reduction of the National Guard’s general officers and a minimum 10% reduction in general and flag officers, according to a DOD memo.
“We’re going to shift resources from bloated headquarters’ elements to our warfighters,” Hegseth stated in the video.
He also directed $5.1 billion in “wasteful spending” cuts in accordance with DOGE’s findings in April.
However, the Trump administration has proposed a record $1 trillion defense budget — even though the Pentagon has yet to pass an audit.
The law enforcement arm of the IC is also not immune to restructuring.
Trump’s proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget includes a $545 million cut to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), citing a reduction in “DEI programs, pet projects of the [Biden] administration, and duplicative intelligence activities,” according to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
The proposal’s recommendations concern discretionary funding.
The Caller reached out to the FBI for comment on the budget proposal and examples of any waste, fraud or abuse the bureau has eliminated. The bureau referred the Caller to Patel’s comments during committee hearings.
FBI Director Kash Patel testified in May before the House Appropriations Committee and said the bureau was “trying to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse.”
Patel is reorganizing the agency to “streamline operations,” according to his May 8 opening statement. The FBI is “ensuring that the Bureau is a good steward of taxpayer dollars,” his statement added.
However, Patel pushed back against the OMB’s proposal to slash funding during his hearing. He told congressmembers the budget cuts were not what the FBI had requested.
“The proposed budget that I put forward is to cover us for $11.1 billion which would not have us cut any positions … we need more than what has been proposed,” he told Democrat Connecticut Rep. Rose DeLauro.
Patel appeared to reverse his comments the following day, and he expressed support for OMB’s budget when testifying before the Senate Appropriations Commerce, Justice, and Science Subcommittee.
FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) to Rep. @rosadelauro: “That’s the proposed budget not by the FBI. The proposed budget that I put forward is to cover us for $11.1 billion which would not have us cut any positions…we need more than what has been proposed.” pic.twitter.com/1nJuF9n7IQ
“We will make and agree with this budget as it stands and make it work,” he told Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen during the senate hearing.
“I was simply asking for more funds because I can do more with more money,” Patel added.
Rep. DeLauro asked what positions would be cut due to the funding reduction, and Patel said he is not looking to cut positions.
“Ma’am, at this time, we have not looked at who to cut,” he answered. “We are focusing our energies on how not to have them cut.”
In addition to restructuring the intelligence community’s workforce, Trump has sought to eliminate DEI from federal agencies.
The CIA, ODNI, FBI and NSA have made efforts to comply with Trump’s executive orders, including by removing DEI language from government websites.
Notably, the FBI closed its DEI office in December 2024.
DNI Gabbard told Trump during a cabinet meeting that she closed the IC Human Capital Office, deeming it a “DEI slush fund.”
Additionally, Gabbard fired over 100 intelligence staffers who were in sexually explicit NSA chats.
Former President Biden’s CIA Director William J. Burns prioritized DEI, a CIA official told the Caller.
Under the Trump administration, however, the agency has scrapped its DEI office.
“Director Burns made it clear that strengthening diversity and inclusion at CIA was one of his highest priorities,” the official said. “Under Director Ratcliffe, there has been a significant change — the DEI office has been shut down and mission objectives are prioritized instead.”
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“If a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.” — Frank Church 1975
“You can’t come forward against the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.” — Edward Snowden
“Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.” — Julian Assange
“Here at last you witness the real Barack Obama. The sound you hear in the background is the cracking of Obama’s nimbus of benevolent moderation. This is not ‘change we can believe in.’ It is left-wing radicalism aimed at the foundations of the American system of government.” — Diana West, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character.
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Barack Obama, October 30, 2008.
And, “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
Obama had the worldview, training, organization and talent networks he needed to “fundamentally transform America.”
Two years into his presidency, the conversion of the FBI and CIA, as well as the rest of the intelligence community, had begun.
This is the story of the players and their eventual goals.
Institute for Social Research
The 18 organizations who comprise the US intelligence community have been weaponized against “domestic enemies,” i.e., patriotic American citizens.
Intel has long been infiltrated with cultural Marxism by followers of Gramsci and members from the Frankfurt School, also known as the “Institute for Social Research.” The founding of the Institute marked the beginning of a current of “Marxism” divorced from the organized working class and Communist Parties, which over the decades merged with bourgeois ideology in academia.
Soon after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the Institute first moved from Frankfurt to Geneva, and then to New York City, in 1935, where it found hospitality at Columbia University. The school’s journal, the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (“Journal of Social Research”), was renamed “Studies in Philosophy and Social Science”.
Founded by Carl Grünberg in 1923 as an adjunct of the University of Frankfurt; the Institute was the first Marxist-oriented research Centre affiliated with a major German university. Max Horkheimer took over as director in 1930 and recruited many talented theorists, including T.W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Walter Benjamin.
Frankfurt School members tried to develop a theory of society based on Marxism and Hegelian philosophy. Tied with some of Sigmund Freud’s theories, they utilized the insights of psychoanalysis, sociology, and existential philosophy, along with other disciplines. Marxist concepts to analyze the social relations within capitalistic economic systems became known as “critical theory,” a school of thought and interdisciplinary movement that combines social and cultural analysis with Marxist-oriented political philosophy. It looks at society in a way to challenge power structures.
Both former FBI Director James Comey and Director Christopher Wray are promoting “critical theory” in the entire FBI.
Critical law theory education began to be noticeable in the Clinton administration and attitudes began to change. That’s when we saw the cultural byproducts of American education now taught in our universities. It is the Herbert Marcuse Marxist and Freudian theories which became so influential in the leftist student movements of the 1960s, especially after the 1968 student rebellions in Paris and West Berlin and at New York City’sColumbia University.
From 1934–1942 Marcuse worked at the Institute’s branch at Columbia University. In 1942 he moved to Washington D.C. to work first with the Office of War Information and then with the Office of Strategic Services. Later Marcuse would teach at Brandeis University and then the University of California, San Diego.
Marcuse’s critical law theory is now being taught in almost every university. It is Marcuse’s communist interpretation of using the law as a weapon.
Critical race theory (CRT) makes race the prism through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life, categorizing individuals into groups of oppressors and victims.
The critical theorist argues that to eliminate prejudice, Christianity, capitalism and the traditional patriarchal family all had to be destroyed.
This approach “yielded influential critiques of large corporations and monopolies, the role of technology, the industrialization of culture, and the decline of the individual within capitalist society. Fascism and authoritarianism were also prominent subjects of study.” Published in the institute’s journal, Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (1932–41; “Journal for Social Research”).
The followers of Gramsci and Frankfurt have stretched public opinion and interpretations of law to make incremental gains that are now obvious. They’ve credentialed extremists in mainstream institutions and they’re cultivating new radicals to penetrate, infiltrate and occupy even more institutions.
“With a hat-tip to Chairman Mao,” they’ve succeeded in their long march through all of America’s institutions.
Their end goal is at hand…the actual destruction of our representative republic, our constitution, and removal of a president not chosen by the Marxist infiltrators.
Michael Waller’s book, Big Intel, lays bare how the Marxist worldview has corrupted the entire American intelligence community.
This is the story.
Ayers, Obama and Radicalism
In 1995, a radical Illinois state senator saw promise in Barack Hussein Obama and introduced him to Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, the 1960 radicals. Ayers’ network, The Weathermen, was a political faction elected in 1968 to lead the radical group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). They were responsible for domestic violence, bombings, shootings, and murders across the United States and were allied with cop-killers, mass shooters and other violent extremists. They built radical union affiliated cells, and a block-by-block structure of “community organizing.”
SDS also gave us the Chicago Seven, a group of political activists who were arrested for their antiwar activities during the August 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Mayor Daley instituted a 10 p.m. curfew, and called out the National Guard to quell the violence throughout the city. Daley’s television announcement told Chicago that he ordered the police to shoot to kill any arsonists, and shoot to injure any looters. Tanks rolled down the streets on the north side of Chicago.
The SDS members worked to force universities to hire radical allies as professors, who are today major influencers throughout academia. Ayers ended up as a professor at the University of Chicago. Herbert Marcuse, prominent member of the Marxist Frankfurt School of critical social analysis, had been Ayer’s professor and advisor.
Angela Davis, a Black Power militant, who bought the weapon used to kill a California state judge, was a student of Frankfurt School’s Herbert Marcuse. She then moved to Communist East Germany to receive a Ph.D. and later, in Moscow, to receive the Lenin Peace Prize from Brezhnev.
In the 70s, we left a church in Bloomington, Indiana because congregant funds were being sent to support communist, Angela Davis.
Valerie Jarrett
The Frankfurt “red-thread” was passed from Marcuse to Ayers and Dohrn and finally to Valerie Jarrett and onward to Michelle and Barack Obama. FBI files obtained by Judicial Watch reveal that the dad, maternal grandpa and father-in-law of President Obama’s trusted senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, were hardcore Communists under investigation by the U.S. government. Her father-in-law had a relationship with Frank Marshall Davis who decades later would mentor young Obama.
According to FBI files, Jarrett’s relatives were heavily involved with a group, Communist Party USA, whose mission was to “fundamentally transform” the American form of government and way of life.
Jarrett and her commie friends were instrumental in working with other Communist Party radicals to elect Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and Senator Carol Moseley Braun. The Senator had a penchant for calling close associates, “comrade.”
Current and former aides said, “Obama has said he consults Jarrett on every major decision.”
In her book, The Red Threat, Diana West writes, “Obama himself recalls attending ‘socialist conferences’ in the 1980s at Cooper Union in New York City. Later, Obama was the political protégé of a lifelong pro-Moscow and pro-communist operative named Alice Palmer, who launched Obama’s political career inside the home of SDS and Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who spent the 1960s and 1970s ‘in treasonous cooperation with revolutionary Communist governments in China, North Vietnam, and Cuba.
“Obama’s key political aides on the road to the White House were Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod, both descended from and mentored by Communist and/or Soviet operatives who were also closely associated with Frank Marshall Davis in Chicago, historically a hub of communist/Soviet activity in the USA.”
The real Kremlin puppet was never Donald Trump, rather Barack Hussein Obama II.
Eric Holder
President Reagan appointed Holder as a District of Columbia superior court associate judge. Clinton made him U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and then tapped him for deputy attorney general under Janet Reno. Holder met Obama in 2004 and they immediately clicked. He had been a student radical at Columbia and belonged to a militant group tied to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). He became a fanatical devotee of the Black Panthers who embraced Marxism-Leninism and openly called for Maoist-style guerilla warfare in the United States. Holder became part of the armed mob that took over a vacant Naval ROTC office for a five-day occupation. They wanted the space because of “the general racist nature of American society,” and claimed Columbia was also racist.
With Obama, Holder returned to his radical roots. He clashed with Republican legislators in the wake of Operation Fast and Furious, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigation of gun trafficking on the U.S.-Mexico border from late 2009 to early 2011. Border agent Brian Terry died as a result.
After Holder failed to respond to a congressional subpoena of documents relating to the operation, and in spite of an assertion of executive privilege by Obama, the Republican-led House voted in June 2012 to find Holder in contempt of Congress. The vote marked the first time that a sitting member of the cabinet had been cited for contempt. Unlike Peter Navarro, and Steve Bannon, Holder wasn’t sent to prison.
In 2017 Holder became chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and took time off from Covington and Burling law firm to travel to various states to formulate a centralized strategy for gaining control of the redistricting process.
Holder’s law firm, Covington and Burling was fired by General Mike Flynn after he sought new counsel with Sidney Powell.
Centralizing Intel Agencies
Post 9/11, FBI Director Robert Mueller was kept on for two more years by Obama, after his ten-year term under President George W. Bush was up.
Excuses for the tragedy of 9/11 included the failure of intelligence communities to communicate with each other. Mueller added a top-heavy bureaucracy to the FBI to ensure future cooperative knowledge by creating 63 new executive positions at headquarters and doubling the size of the Bureau. The Homeland Security Act of 2002 consolidated various domestic security entities all in the name of fighting terrorism. Congresses and presidents had deliberately dispersed the intelligence duties across the government to avoid consolidation of power. But in the name of fighting terrorism, Bush and Congress merged twenty-two of them into one concentration of power under the 2003 Department of Homeland Security.
Within six weeks of the 9/11 attack, the predatory American Security State was born with the passage of the USA Patriot Act; it was to expire in four years. It authorized unprecedented surveillance of American citizens and individuals worldwide without traditional civil liberties safeguards. It beefed up surveillance procedures and warrantless wiretapping under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to enable the government to spy on American citizens. FISA was just reauthorized by Speaker Mike Johnson, without protections against warrantless search and seizure. The Patriot Act finally expired in March, 2020 without being reauthorized, but federal law enforcement agencies retain most of the authorities granted by the act.
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act created a new government agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) which mushroomed to a force of two-thousand and grew a brand-new headquarters in DC.
The US Intelligence community had been decentralized among thirteen autonomous agencies, both civilian and military, but after 9/11, it became an octopus with tentacles reaching into every facet of the federal government and out into the corporate world.
John Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Obama, and James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence under Obama, both signed onto the Democrat concocted FISA applications authorizing domestic spying on the Republican Party presidential team. Deputy FBI Director, Andrew McCabe, Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and Secretary of State, John Kerry also signed on.
The Marcusian five-year plan was completed in Obama’s second term. The Intelligence Community Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Enterprise Strategy was unveiled in 2015. It was the beginning of the new cultural “Marxist commissariat” which allowed James Clapper to impose Diversity, Equity and Inclusion throughout the entire intelligence community.
In Obama’s second term, he appointed his aide, John Brennan as CIA Director. Brennan had served at the top of the CIA under Clinton and Bush 43, but like Clapper, he had a radical past. When he first applied to the CIA, during the Carter administration, he didn’t think they’d accept him since he had voted for communist Gus Hall for president. They somehow cleared him despite his background being closely aligned with Holder and especially Valerie Jarrett. Brennan executed Obama’s diversity order by increased hiring and promoting consistent with Obama’s critical theory criteria. Some analysts called Brennan’s politicization of the CIA “soft totalitarianism.” Link
The pieces were all in place for the “radical transformation of America.”
Planned Military Coup
Into the limelight came Donald John Trump, and the Obama apparatus went to work.
Georgetown University’s Professor Rosa Brooks heads up the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) founded in 2019. The Project was created to play out different outcomes from the 2020 Presidential election and see how each outcome would be handled. The result was obvious, peaceful outcomes with Biden, explosive riots and protests with Trump. If the transition from Trump to Biden wasn’t orderly, the military would intervene to remove Donald Trump.
Two weeks after Trump was elected in 2016, Brooks wrote that they had to find a way to remove him from power. At the same time, she called for getting rid of civilian control of the military, but didn’t state who would take it over.
It doesn’t end there.
A military coup is planned. Rosa Brooks claims that if Trump is elected in 2024, they must find a way to remove him. This is being planned through Georgetown University Law Center, the premier law school in DC. “It’s a feeder school to the Justice Department, to Supreme Court clerks and to the entire intelligence community. Everything is planned there.”
In Part Two, we’ll let you in on what the Transition Integrity Project has planned.
