Posted on 09/18/2018 6:46:50 AM PDT by vannrox
(Washington DC) Today, Project Veritas released the first installment in an undercover videoinvestigation series unmasking the deep state. This video features a State Department employee, Stuart Karaffa, engaged in radical socialist political activity on the taxpayer’s dime, while advocating for resistance to official government policies. In addition to being a State Department employee Stuart Karaffa is also a ranking member of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America (Metro DC DSA.)
Metro DC DSA is a socialist group that works to advance progressive causes in the metropolitan DC area.
Mr. Karaffa’s loyalties seem to be with DSA, not with his employer.
Karaffa told an undercover Project Veritas journalist that he performs DSA activism while at work for the State Department. He explained that he drafts DSA communications while on the job at State Department:
“… I’m careful about it. I don’t leave a paper trail, like I leave emails, and like any press s**t that comes up I leave that until after 5:30. But as soon as 5:31 hits, got my like draft messages ready to send out.”
Karaffa also admits that on behalf of DSA he monitors Virginia political news online while at work:
“You could put two and two together probably. With like web traffic…. So with web traffic, I mean I could make the case before a court of law that- I’m going to the Virginia sort of, campaign finance website- that I’m just interested in what people are doing politically. But if they also go and look at like DSA minutes and like Officer positions they’ll be like, ‘that’s weird, you were the co-chair of the electoral caucus, and you spent three hours on a Virginia campaign finance website.'”
Karaffa does not believe that he will be caught and punished by the appropriate authorities, saying, “Maybe someday I’ll go to board of elections jail, probably not.”
Karaffa does not seem to be concerned about disciplinary action from the State Department: “I have nothing to lose. It’s impossible to fire federal employees.” When asked if his supervisor at the State Department knows about his activism, Karaffa reveals that “nobody knows” about it.
Some government employees are required to regularly submit disclosure forms to help management identify any potential conflicts of interest that may interfere with job responsibilities. Despite disclosing his political activities and officer positions on his financial disclosure form, Karaffa alleges that:
“… somebody just rubber stamps [the form] and it goes forward… I don’t know if [the ethics officer is] all there. He’s so checked out…”
In one exchange, Karaffa’s attitude towards the current administration’s official policies appears to conflict with his duty to be impartial as a State Department employee. Karaffa says:
“Resist everything… Every level. F**k sh*t up.”
Stuart Karaffa is just the first federal government employee that Project Veritas has recorded in an undercover series unmasking the deep state.
“We’ve heard a lot about the Deep State; holdovers from the previous administration resisting change or nameless and faceless bureaucrats slowing things down or leaking secrets in an effort to undermine this administration,” said Project Veritas President James O’Keefe. “What is truly striking is their boldness, they are not afraid. They are even boastful about a warped reality, where they won’t get caught and can’t get fired even if they did.”
More deep state investigation reports will be released soon.
I thought that was Superman . . . and his latest movie chopped that to "Truth and Justice".
Bump
You are correct. Federal employee unions were created by at Executive Order of John F. Kennedy. They can be eliminated by an EO. I am thinking the best timing would be early in President Trump's second term.
So why aren’t Federal Marshals flash-banging this assh*le at 3am and hauling his ass off to jail?
Trump has done fantastic.....there is no way he can know who is good and who is bad, let alone fire away....
if it can happen on other sites, it can happen here....deliberate baiting to violence by suspect postings....
Well; I know for a FACT that Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is only about 2/3's correct.
“the Left will feel that they can get away with this.”
They already DO feel that they can get away with this simply because they ALWAYS do get away with it. Shameful.
He’s running for office! His webpage is still up!
What is an ANC? Ostensibly, they are local neighborhood groups, akin to city councils, that make up much of how Washington DC neighborhoods run. But their real purpose is to do something more sinister: siphon federal money from Congress and give it to these neo-Nazi organizations who use the funds for their personal use, then come out with events that go to the usual left wing purposes.
Karaffa is actually going for ANDC1, the prime neighborhood money pit.
QUESTION: Unless you were a criminal government organization, would you want Karaffa running your organization?
SHUT IT DOWN!!
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