Top Biden National Security Official Served On Pro-Terror Group
Our national security is being dismantled from the inside.
When Jose Padilla, a Muslim terror convert was arrested, Human Rights First became his loudest defenders. The leftist group, originally founded under the auspices of France’s Human Rights League, which historically included many Communists including Ho Chi Minh, was one of the most extreme voices against our effort to fight the Islamic terrorists murdering us.
Human Rights First continues to demand that Gitmo be shut down and warned that even saying the words “Islamic terrorism” was wrong. It bizarrely argued that there is “no reliable data to substantiate a claim that the United States is disproportionately threatened by foreign terrorists”. And it warned that designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group would only fuel more terrorism by the religion that shall not be named lest its members blow us up.
Last year, HRF commemorated the anniversary of September 11 by blasting “the post-9/11 policies that have given rise to anti-Muslim sentiment” and demanded that America “leave behind the short-sighted narrowly focused security approach… in the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11.”
With its own people on the inside, HRF is well positioned to dismantle our national security.
The Biden administration rewarded HRF with two high-profile roles for members of its board of directors. Secretary of State Blinken, who had been the vice chair of HRF’s board of directors, was put in charge of our overall foreign policy, and Matthew G. Olsen was nominated to serve as the Assistant Attorney General for National Security for the Justice Department.
Matthew Olsen, who had made millions working as the chief security officer for Uber, now, in the words of a bio, “leads the Department of Justice’s mission to combat terrorism, espionage, cyber crime, and other threats to the national security.” No one could be less fit for the job.
In the 2016 election, Olsen had authored a Time Magazine op-ed titled, “Why ISIS Supports Donald Trump”. The former National Counterterrorism Center official claimed that ISIS members supported Trump and then a year later joined the board of a group fighting to free terrorists.
Like most leftist smears, Olsen’s accusations were truer of the accuser than the accused.
Olsen went on to provide supportive briefs in Arab American Civil Rights League v. Trump and numerous other court cases filed to stop the Muslim travel ban and the border wall.
In 2019, Olsen co-authored an op-ed declaring, “we served at the highest levels of the U.S. national security community. We’re here to tell you that the president’s claim of an emergency along the border is bogus.” A year earlier, he had co-authored yet another editorial, alongside James Clapper, arguing, “We’ve worked on stopping terrorism. Trump’s travel ban fuels it.”
The one thing you could be certain of when it came to national security and Olsen, whatever he was saying about terrorism and national security, the exact opposite was bound to be true.
In reality, Olsen’s great achievement in counterterrorism had been lying about the Benghazi attack, falsely claiming that the attack was not planned and was a response to a YouTube video.
Olsen later testified that “it came — the discussion of taking the video down was part of our conversation in this call that was really focused on what was going on in Benghazi.”
The point man on national security has built his career on working to undermine it. He is very concerned about the civil rights of Islamic terrorists, much less so that of Americans.
Olsen, who had worked at the Washington Post before starting law school, had a resume that painfully demonstrated that the destruction of our national security had been an inside job.
After starting out as a trial attorney at the DOJ’s civil rights division, a hub of leftist activists, he somehow made the leap to chief of the national security section only two years later and after only being six years out of law school.
From there he became the special counsel to FBI Director Mueller and under Obama, was appointed to head the Guantanamo Review Task Force whose job was to close Gitmo and free as many terrorists as possible. Olsen would later insist that Obama was right and that only “politics” kept him from finishing the job that Biden is aggressively moving forward on.
A year later, he graduated to serving as the general counsel for the National Security Agency.
A fawning MSNBC profile claimed that Olsen’s job “required striking a balance on uncertain and often shifting legal terrain” between the Constitution and spying on people. Under Obama, the NSA would become notorious for spying on Americans, including members of Congress, especially when it was defending its plot to fund Islamic terrorism through the “Iran Deal”.
Olsen was also described as working on the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act.
In the first year of the Trump administration, as the illegal Russiagate surveillance was being explored, Olsen wrote an editorial arguing that forcing the FBI to get a warrant to search for information involving Americans would “severely harm national security investigations”.
When it came to spying on Americans, Olsen suddenly cared about national security.
Another editorial attacked a Trump appointee for advancing what Olsen deemed to be a “conspiracy theory that a secret society within the Department of Justice and FBI worked to prevent Trump’s election.”
A conspiracy? Radicals operating within the DOJ? Absurd.
By then, Olsen had left the government and joined WestExec Advisors, a consultancy co-founded by future Secretary of State Blinken, whose top personnel included future press secretary Jen Psaki, as well as Biden’s director of national intelligence, CIA deputy director, deputy attorney general and a host of other positions.
He worked as a contributor for ABC News and joined the board of Human Rights First, alongside Blinken and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mullen. At HRF, Olsen argued that restricting arrivals from terror states to stop Islamic terrorism would only help ISIS.
“The work of Human Rights First on issues ranging from national security to refugee protection has never been more important. I am excited and proud for the opportunity to support the mission of Human Rights First,” Olsen gushed.
The “mission” included calling for the federal government to “halt immigration enforcement during the coronavirus emergency” and opposing a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
HRF didn’t just oppose the use of Title 42 to slow down the migrant invasion, but actually made a submission to the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights accusing the United States of violating the 1951 Refugee Convention and urging the UN to take action.
This was one of a number of HRF submissions to the UN against the United States.
No one has asked Secretary of State Blinken or Olsen whether they support HRF’s work to undermine America through the auspices of the United Nations. While Olsen is no longer a member of HRF’s board, at least one of these submissions seems to have taken place during his tenure.
Olsen’s wife, Fern Shepard, serves on the board of trustees of the radical environmentalist group, Earthjustice. She’s also the president of Rachel’s Network, named after ecohoaxer Rachel Carson, which has worked hard to fight for illegal aliens and against border security.
Earthjustice, where Shephard was a lawyer, and Rachel’s Network, share a backer, the McIntosh Foundation, which dispenses the fortune of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. The Foundation’s ventures include ClientEarth, a legal operation claiming to represent the planet, which operates in a number of countries and collaborates with Communist China.
Communist China has eagerly supported environmentalism as a means of destroying our economy and making us dependent on its resources and industries. And China has also leveraged its own “environmental” policies to accelerate the depopulation of rural areas and to persecute minorities in order to provide a workforce for its industrial machine.
ClientEarth boasts that they “work with China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Supreme People’s Court and other government actors to draft better laws and regulations”, claims to have “have trained 1,200 judges and prosecutors to date” and celebrates the “80,000 environmental public interest cases have been brought by Chinese prosecutors across the country in 2020 alone.”
Working to expand the enforcement mechanism of a brutal totalitarian regime responsible for the mass murder and persecution of millions ought to be a badge of shame, not pride.
The proximity of the wife of the Assistant Attorney General for National Security to an organization entangled with China’s Communist regime raises questions, but there are far more serious issues with his role at Human Rights First. The elevation of a civil rights prosecutor to increasingly senior roles in counterterrorism eloquently speaks to the dismantling of national security. A process that began under Obama and is accelerating rapidly under Biden.
HRF has gone from attacking our security from the outside to dismantling it from the inside.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Report: Pentagon Worries Russian Released in Prisoner Swap May Return to Arms Trafficking
Pentagon officials are concerned that Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer whom the Biden administration freed from U.S. custody Thursday in a prisoner swap, may return to his illicit trade, according to a Politico report.
"There is a concern that [he] would return to doing the same kind of work that he’s done in the past," a senior Pentagon official told Politico. The official said if Bout returns to illegal arms trafficking the U.S. military will focus on urging the United States' allies in Africa not to engage with the arms dealer.
Bout, known as the "Merchant of Death," had been serving a 25-year sentence for conspiring to kill Americans and support a terrorist organization before he was exchanged for WNBA player Brittney Griner. Griner was in Russian custody since February, when she was arrested for possession of cannabis oil, and was imprisoned in a Russian prison colony to serve a nine-year sentence.
Some criticized the Biden administration for freeing Bout, who armed African warlords and is accused of dealing with al Qaeda and the Taliban, especially as former Marine Paul Whelan has remained in Russian custody since 2018. Whelan told CNN he was disappointed more was not done to secure his release.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called Bout's release a "disturbing decision" and said the United States "must stop inviting dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans overseas as bargaining chips."
Biden Saves Woke WNBA Player, Leaves Ex-Marine Behind
If only the ex-Marine had been a black woke lesbian who hated America.
WNBA player Brittney Griner used to ‘take a knee’ or boycott the National Anthem.
“I honestly feel we should not play the National Anthem,” the woke player whined. “I’m not going to be out there for the national anthem.”
Instead, she went to Russia and was busted for illegal drugs.
While Griner was using her freakish height to build a career of putting an orange ball through a net and getting new tattoos, Paul Whelan was serving in Iraq after a career in law enforcement.
Both Griner and Whelan appear to have made mistakes in their lives. And both ended up being held hostage in Russian prisons.
But there were fundamental differences between them.
Whelan was the wrong race, the wrong gender, the wrong sexual orientation and had even congratulated Trump on his victory. While Griner, a black leftist lesbian celebrity who hated this country, was everything that the Left loved.
The Biden administration moved hell and earth to get the pothead WNBA player out because she hates America almost as much as they do. And left Whelan behind.
In the old days the ethos was to save women and children first. Today, leftists don’t believe in such things. Or even believe in the existence of women. But they practice ‘equity’ in hostage rescues. The black woke lesbian with a cohort of celebrity fans obviously goes first.
And the straight white male ex-military Trump supporter can rot in prison.
If the Titanic were to sink today, the straight white people would be locked in the hold while access to the lifeboats would go in order of race, sexual fetishes and, above all, leftism.
Biden’s dirty deal exchanged Viktor Bout, the “Merchant of Death”: a Russian arms dealer accused of working with everyone from Al Qaeda to Hezbollah, for a WNBA player. That’s the worst trade since the Sixers swapped Charles Barkley for three guys we never heard of again.
Bout takes lives and wins wars. Griner hates America and plays in a league no one watches.
Our people had spent a long time trying to hunt down Bout. They finally caught him offering to deliver 100 surface-to-air missiles and 20,000 high-powered rifles to Marxist narcosocialist guerrillas to kill Americans who were fighting the drug trade in Colombia.
“We have the same enemy,” Bout had allegedly said.
Biden has traded a monster trying to help Marxist drug traffickers kill Americans for a pothead.
We do indeed have the same enemy. Biden and Griner are playing for the same team. And it’s a team that takes a knee for the anthem and does everything it can to weaken our country. After six years of hysterical accusations that Republicans are in league with Russia, Biden just gave Vladimir Putin his biggest win, offering up Bout without even trying to negotiate a better deal.
Biden might have considered offering some sanctions relief to Russia, the way he is to Iran, instead of releasing the ‘Merchant of Death’ whose freedom will put innocent lives at risk. The next time Americans or other people are killed by Bout’s weapons, the blood will be on Biden’s hands. Along with the hands of every celebrity and leftist activist who clamored for the pothead to come to this country where she can safely light up and then jeer the nation that took her in.
Paul Whelan doesn’t understand why he was left behind.
“I am greatly disappointed that more has not been done to secure my release, especially as the four year anniversary of my arrest is coming up. I was arrested for a crime that never occurred,” he wondered. “I don’t understand why I’m still sitting here.”
He may want to take a look in the mirror.
Paul was unfortunate enough to be born white. He was misguided enough to refrain from any radical sexual experimentation. While he made mistakes in his life, he never took a knee. Had he only put on drag and denounced America, he would probably already be a free woman.
The tragic truth is that we have enemies in Washington D.C. who hate us as much as our enemies in Moscow, Beijing or Tehran. They not only hate our country, but they hate us because of the colors of our skin, the nature of our faith and our other differences from them. And they take pains to remind us of this as a matter of federal policy, in corporate workplaces and across the entertainment industry. Paul Whelan was abandoned by his country because there is no one in the White House to represent that country: only the freakshow treason of Brittney Griner.
It is a mistake to think that the woke coup whose equity and ESG quislings have taken control of our government, our companies and our culture don’t look out for their own. They certainly do.
If you’re a woke black lesbian, they will do everything possible to save you. Or at least sell out our national security which they value almost as highly as most Americans value the WNBA.
But if you’re a straight white male, good luck.
Biden abandoned unknown numbers of Americans in Afghanistan. But had any of them been a black gay WNBA player who boycotted the National Anthem, he would have sent 10,000 troops.
Washington D.C. is a government of traitors whose betrayals have become so successful that it is no longer treason, but an enemy regime that rules us the way the Bolsheviks once ruled Russia. They view us as enemies to whom they owe nothing, but whatever pain and suffering they can inflict in the name of their cause, whom they abandon and betray at the first chance.
And any sensible person ought to return the favor.
Just as no leftist government would do anything to free Whelan because he’s a straight white male Trump supporter, no conservative government should do anything to free someone like Griner. Whether we like it or not, we’re in a war and it’s time we recognized that hard reality.
As Obama once urged, punish your enemies. His successor is doing just that.
Will any conservative administration finally have the guts to do it too?
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Nolte: Left-wing NBC Edits Brittney Griner Story to Benefit Biden White House
The former news agency called NBC was caught editing its story about Brittney Griner, and doing so, naturally, in a way that benefits the Biden White House.
The original story is titled, “Family of Paul Whelan, American imprisoned in Russia, says they were warned about Brittney Griner’s release,” and lays out how the family of former Marine Paul Whelan is dealing with the news that he was not part of this prisoner swap. Whelan has been imprisoned by Russia since 2018.
According to the story, Whelan’s family knew it would be Griner who was released in exchange for the notorious “Merchant of Death,” Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. Bout has served about half of his 25-year U.S. prison sentence.
Griner, a U.S. Woman’s Basketball Champion, has been imprisoned in Russia only since February. Griner pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis vape cartridges and was sentenced to nine years.
For reasons no one needs to explain, people are outraged that it was Griner who was released as opposed to Whelan.
We’re all happy Griner has been returned, but she’s only been in prison since February. Whelan has been rotting away for more than four years.
Other people question the idea of releasing an arms dealer into the world, of trading an infamous criminal who spreads death and war, for anyone. There’s no question Russia got the best of that deal. America got a woman who plays a sport no one watches. Russia got a death merchant capable of destabilizing entire countries to benefit his sponsor country.
One way the White House has sought to stifle criticism of the trade is with the claim His Fraudulency Joe Biden was given no choice by Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was Bout for Griner and no one else. In other words, the White House was not given the option of Bout for Whelan. Except…
That’s not what former news outlet NBC initially reported on Thursday morning [emphasis added]:
A senior U.S. official told NBC News that the U.S. government had sought to have both Griner and Whelan released as part of a swap with the Kremlin, which wanted the return of Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who has served 11 years of a 25-year sentence in the U.S. But the official said Russia has treated Whelan differently because he is an accused spy, and that the Kremlin gave the White House the choice of either Griner or Whelan — or none.
So, a “senior U.S. official” is far-left NBC’s source that the White House freely chose a woman who’s been in prison for 10 months over a Marine who’s been in prison for more than four years.
Phoenix Mercury fan Carley Givens takes a photo of a “Black Lives Matter” mural depicting Brittney Griner outside the Footprint Center on December 08, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. WNBA player Brittney Griner was released after being detained in Russia since February as part of a prisoner swap that involved Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
But, later that same day, the good dogs at NBC News quietly edited away that inconvenient report without an explanation. Now the good dogs are telling us Russia never offered Whelan as an alternative to Griner: “…the Kremlin ultimately gave the White House the choice of Griner or no one after different options were proposed.”
NBC did add this sorry explanation:
CORRECTION: (Dec. 8, 2022, 4:09 p.m.): An earlier version of this article misstated the choice the Biden administration was given over hostages. It was to swap for Griner or no one, not a choice between Griner or Whelan.
That’s not an answer. Who misstated? NBC or its source? The article didn’t misstate anything. The article is incapable of misstating. The article did not write itself. Either NBC or NBC’s source misstated. Who was it? NBC won’t say because NBC is no longer a news agency.
But NBC sure is a good dog.
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CA HAS THE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE PRISON SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY. HALF THE INMATES ARE MEX ILLEGALS.
OF THE TOP 200 MOST WANTED CRIMINALS IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, 186 ARE MEXICAN.
ACCORDING TO HEATHER MACDONALD OF CITY JOURNAL, 93% OF THE MURDERS IN LOS ANGELES ARE MEXICANS,
ACCORDING TO FORMER CA ATTORNEY GEN., NEARLY HALF THE MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEX GANGS.
Want some perspective on why so many blue sanctuary cities have so many homeless encampments hovering around?
Try the reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free public housing by the U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated, unskilled, and largely unemployable. Those are the criteria, and now importing poverty has never been easier. Shockingly, this comes as millions of poor Americans are out in the cold awaiting that housing that the original law was intended to help.
Thus, the tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these emerging shantytowns are in blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal immigrants - Orange County, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is there a connection? At a minimum, it's worth looking at. MONICA SHOWALTER
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