Woke DEI Ruining the Military!
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My previous book, A Republic Under Assault,
The Left’s Ongoing Attack on American Freedom, is a
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detail of the peril.
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Peril provides that way forward.
Judicial Watch Sues Air Force Academy for DEI Details
Diversity, equity and inclusion, DEI, seems like Job No. 1 for our
nation’s military academies. The Biden-Harris Defense Department is
obsessed with indoctrinating our rising military leadership with woke,
anti-American ideology. Judicial Watch filed yet another lawsuit to expose
and stop this abuse of the young men and women in the Air Force Academy.
We filed the lawsuit on behalf
of our steadfast friends at Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in
the Services, Inc. (STARRS) against the U.S. Department of Defense for
records regarding the U.S. Air Force Academy’s diversity, equity, and
inclusion (DEI) plans (Stand Together Against
Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. v. U.S. Department of
Defense (No. 1:24-cv-02712)).
We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the
U.S. Air Force Academy failed to adequately respond to two Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) requests concerning DEI tracking at the Academy.
A November 2021 request seeks:
An assessment mandated by the Superintendent to be produced by September
2013.
“Measurements” referenced in Annex 2,
Goal D5 and Priorities 2.1 and 2.2.
Cadet wing demographics (e.g., race,
ethnicity, and gender) upon entry and graduation for each year between 2003
and 2021 and corresponding representation in cadet commander positions at
wing, group, and squadron levels.
An August 2024 request asks for:
Records of cadet wing demographics (e.g., race, ethnicity, and gender)
upon entry and graduation for the years 2022, 2023, and 2024 and
corresponding representation in cadet commander positions at wing, group,
and squadron levels.
Included in the Air Force Academy’s DEI 2013 report is
the statement by Superintendent Lt. Gen. Michael Gould:
The USAFA Diversity and Inclusion Plan, 2012 Revision, is an action plan
for D, E, & I that Team USAFA will implement over the next five years. The
Annexes are a set of “living documents” for each Mission Partner and
Directorate. My staff and I will evaluate the content found in the Annexes
at the close of each fiscal year, so the first evaluation will take place
in September 2013.
STARRS’ mission
“is to help educate our fellow Americans regarding the criticality of
having a military that focuses solely on the essential readiness needed to
fight and win our nation’s wars.”
Our lawsuits and FOIA requests on Critical Race Theory and other leftist
extremism are extensive.
In June 2024, we sued the Defense
Department for records regarding deletion of the words “Duty, Honor,
Country” from the United States Military Academy at West Point’s
mission statement.
In March 2023, records we
obtained from the Department of Defense showed the Air Force Academy has
made race and gender instruction a top priority in the training of
cadets.
In July 2023, we exposed records
from the United States Air Force Academy that included instructional
materials and emails that address topics such as Critical Race Theory,
“white privilege,” and Black Lives Matter.
In July 2022, we sued the
Department of Defense for records related to the United States Naval
Academy (USNA) implementing Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the training of
naval recruits.
In June, we received records revealing Critical Race Theory instruction at
the U.S. Military Academy at West Point One training
slide contains a graphic titled “MODERN-DAY SLAVERY IN THE USA.”
[Emphasis in original]
As you can see, DEI is an obsession for the Biden-Harris military. We must
expose and get it out root and branch.
Judicial Watch Sues over Break-In by Secret Service Agents Covering
Harris
The Biden-Harris Secret Service broke into a business and tried to cover it
up – and they’re still trying to cover it up.
We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against
the Department of Homeland Security for Secret Service records about a
break-in at a hair salon by Secret Service agents in Pittsfield, MA, during
a campaign fundraising visit by Vice President Kamala Harris (Judicial Watch Inc. v.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(No,1:24-cv--02750)).
We sued after the Secret Service failed to respond to an August 12, 2024,
FOIA request for:
- Communications of the special
agent-in-charge of the Secret Service field office in Boston, as well as
Acting USSS Director Ronald Rowe, Assistant Director Michael Plati,
Assistant Director Brian Lambert, and Assistant Director David Smith
regarding the break-in of the Four One Three
Salon.
- Copies of all complaints filed against
the Secret Service by individuals or businesses impacted by Secret Service
operations in connection with the July 27 Harris campaign fundraiser in
Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
The New York Post reported on August
11: “The Secret Service apologized to a salon owner in Massachusetts who
alleged that individuals broke into her business to use the bathroom during
the agency’s security work for a nearby Veep Kamala Harris fundraiser….
[A] Secret Service officer covered a camera outside her salon with
tape.”
In September, following up on reports that the Biden Secret Service denied
President Trump’s requests for additional Secret Service protection, we
sued the
Department of Homeland Security for all Secret Service and other records
regarding potential increased protective services to former President
Trump’s security detail prior to the attempt on his life at his July 13
campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
In August we released records showing that the Secret Service has made it a
top priority that “diversity and inclusion is not just ‘talked about’
– but demonstrated by all employees through ‘Every Action, Every
Day.’” [Emphasis in original]
On July 31, we reported that the
United States Secret Service completely denied multiple FOIA requests for
documents about the assassination attempt on former President Trump.
On July 22, we announced a
lawsuit for records of an incident in which a Secret Service agent assigned
to protect Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly got into a scuffle with
colleagues
In February we released documents
showing that Assistant Director Michael Plati ordered his staff not to
respond to a request for information from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s head of
security.
To be blunt, the Secret Service is a dysfunctional agency overcome by
political corruption, incompetence, as well as diversity, equity and
inclusion (DEI) obsession. And, as the near assassinations of Trump show,
this dysfunction is deadly dangerous.
Biden-Harris Administration Sues Landlords that Ban Tenants with
Criminal Records
Leftists seem to like people who break the law. If you’re a landlord,
they will force you to take them in. Our Corruption Chronicles blog
explains:
To keep with an Obama era housing rule that prohibits landlords from
banning tenants with criminal records, the Biden administration is going
after property owners that use background checks to screen prospective
renters. Under the civil rights law known as the Fair Housing Act, housing
discrimination is prohibited based on race or color, religion, sex,
national origin, familial status or disability, but Obama’s U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued an order in 2016 adding
criminals to the protected class. In the document Helen R. Kanovsky, then
HUD General Counsel, wrote that a policy or practice that restricts access
to housing on the basis of criminal history has a disparate impact on
individuals of a particular race, national origin, or other protected class
and that violates the Fair Housing Act even if the discrimination is
unintended. “Because of widespread racial and ethnic disparities in the
U.S. criminal justice system, criminal history-based restrictions on access
to housing are likely disproportionately to burden African Americans and
Hispanics,” HUD’s top legal official wrote.
To abide by the Obama order, the Biden
administration has aggressively pursued landlords that do not want to rent
to criminals. This month the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit
against the owners and managers of a residential property in Kinloch,
Missouri, for engaging in a pattern or practice of race and/or color
discrimination against prospective black tenants by banning renters with
felony convictions and certain other criminal histories. The agency alleges
in its complaint that the
defendants violated the Fair Housing Act under the same skewed
interpretation delivered by Obama’s HUD General Counsel. The residential
multifamily rental apartment complex, Suburban Heights, is around 15 miles
from St. Louis and has 102 units in six two-story buildings. Since 2015
management has enforced a categorical ban on tenants with criminal
histories, “which are known to have significant statistical
disparities,” the DOJ writes, adding that by choosing to use that policy
defendants deterred prospective black tenants from applying to rent and
excluded them from housing opportunities at their property.
“It is well documented and known that
there are statistical Black-White racial disparities in conviction and
incarceration rates,” the DOJ complaint states. “Incarceration data
indicates that Black individuals are significantly more likely than White
individuals to have the types of convictions covered by Suburban Heights’
Criminal History Ban. This is true nationwide and, to an even greater
extent, in St. Louis City and St. Louis County. Black individuals are at
least four times, and often more than five times, more likely than White
individuals to be incarcerated in prisons, both at any given point in time
and over the course of their lifetimes.” As an example, the agency offers
that the national black-white disparities in prison incarceration rates are
consistently five to one. In the St. Louis area, the black-white
incarceration disparity is worse at seven to one, according to the federal
complaint. “These Black-White statistical disparities in incarceration
rates are an appropriate proxy and the best available evidence for the
statistical disparities in rates of the types of convictions covered by
Suburban Heights’ Criminal History Ban,” the lawsuit says, adding that
the property managers chose to adopt and enforce a policy which predictably
excludes black tenants at a higher rate than white tenants.
The DOJ is using the same argument to
go
after local governments
and law enforcement agencies across the
country that have implemented measures to curb an epidemic of crime, drugs
and gang violence in rental properties. The popular laws, enacted by
thousands of cities nationwide are commonly known as “crime-free” and
“nuisance” programs that restrict housing based on criminal and arrest
records and punish landlords and tenants with excessive calls to police and
emergency services or those engaged in criminal activity. To improve living
conditions in mainly low-income rentals 2,000 cities across 48 states have
adopted crime-free and nuisance policies, according to the DOJ, which has
legally challenged many of the measures in the last few years claiming that
they are discriminatory and therefore violate federal law because they
“unfairly penalize communities of color.” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke,
who heads the Biden DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, claims that “even when
well-intentioned, these programs can disrupt lives, force families into
homelessness and result in loss of jobs, schooling and opportunities for
people who are disproportionately low-income people of color – all in
violation of federal law.”
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