Posted on 12/20/2023 5:42:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The left-wing legal organization behind Colorado’s decision to remove former President Donald Trump from its Republican primary ballot has a direct link to the Biden administration.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) President and CEO Noah Bookbinder is a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) tasked with giving real-time advice to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS website says. (RELATED: Immigration Courts Add A Whopping One Million Cases To Backlog As Border Crisis Worsens)
CREW brought the Colorado case against Trump and celebrated the Colorado Supreme Court’s 4-3 ruling to keep Trump off the state’s GOP primary ballot.
“Our Constitution clearly states that those who violate their oath by attacking our democracy are barred from serving in government. It has been an honor to represent the petitioners, and we look forward to ensuring that this vitally important ruling stands,” Bookbinder said in a press release.
Bookbinder is a former trial attorney for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) public integrity section and former chief counsel for criminal justice for the Senate Judiciary Committee. He repeatedly donated to former President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign during his tenure with the Senate, Federal Elections Commission (FEC) records show.
The DHS appointed Bookbinder and 32 other new members to HSAC in March 2022 ahead of the council’s first meeting under Secretary Mayorkas.
“Together, we will ensure that the Department is best positioned to meet the challenges we confront today, foresee and be ready for the challenges of tomorrow, capitalize on the power of technological innovation, and serve our country by living up to our highest ideals. Our Department is privileged to benefit from the experience, vision, and creativity of these incredibly accomplished individuals,” Mayorkas said in a March 2022 press release.
WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 6: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Department of Justice on December 6, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Department of Justice announced today that four Russian military personnel have been indicted for war crimes committed against a U.S. national living in Ukraine, the first of such charges ever to be brought under the U.S. war crimes statute. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
HSAC has met numerous times and produced reports for Secretary Mayorkas on issues ranging from “disinformation” to supply chains and innovation. Mayorkas convened the council’s fourth in-person meeting in September 2023 and Bookbinder attended the meeting, which focused primarily on artificial intelligence, meeting minutes show.
HSAC met multiple times in summer of 2022 to discuss the preliminary and final versions of the “disinformation” report written by the Disinformation Best Practices and Safeguards Subcommittee. One of the preliminary proposals adopted by the council was dissolving the Disinformation Governance Board after widespread criticism of “disinformation” czar Nina Jankowicz and false statements she made online. (RELATED: Biden’s Former ‘Disinfo’ Czar Registers As Foreign Agent)
Bookbinder attended an August 2022 meeting about the final disinformation report and questioned a section on how the DHS can be more transparent with its “disinformation” operations.
READ THE MEETING MINUTES:
“I just had one clarifying question. Clearly, a couple of the issues that are discussed in the report, particularly disinformation around the election and disinformation around COVID, are issues where information and disinformation has become highly politicized. And because of that, I think efforts to correspond to disinformation has been attacked as perhaps political,” Bookbinder said, according to the HSAC meeting minutes.
“It was my sense that the recommendation five under transparency was really intended in part to inoculate the department against accusations that correcting disinformation was political. But I just wanted to clarify if that was a part of the intent of that particular set of recommendations,” he added.
Jamie Gorelick, “disinformation” subcommittee chair responded to Bookbinder by pointing him to the final report’s lengthy appendix full of term definitions and graphics on how to correct supposedly inaccurate information.
The appendix contains a list of insights from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a DHS subdivision central to the department’s efforts to censor speech online ahead of the 2020 election. Then-President Donald Trump was among those targeted by CISA and its third-party affiliates when they pressured social media platforms to censor election-related speech, according to a report by the House Judiciary Committee.
Appointed by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas – March 2022
The Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) leverages the experience, expertise, and national and global connections of the HSAC membership to provide the Secretary real-time, real-world, and independent advice to support decision-making across the spectrum of homeland security operations. (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Benjamin Applebaum)
Bookbinder worked on a report produced by the Openness and Transparency DHS Subcommittee report in March 2o23 with recommendations for how DHS can become more transparent without compromising its law enforcement mission.
The report suggests increasing funding for transparency initiatives and using a combination of training and data to make the department more accountable to the public.
Specific policy recommendations in the report address the DHS’ ability to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) records requests and additional monitoring of facilities used to detain illegal immigrants.
The southern border reportedly saw a record high of over 12,600 encounters Monday as border patrol agents struggle to process record amounts of border crossings.
DHS and CREW did not respond to requests for comment by the time of publication.
As Tucker Carlson noted, that is "the actual end of democracy."
The actual end of democracy. pic.twitter.com/OXA4SHnNug — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 20, 2023
The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves...
When you were young did you ever think you’d live in a time when a pervert President would push for pornography to be put in public schools?
To save democracy, according to these Democrats, we have to prevent people from having the choice of voting for a Republican.
To save democracy, we can only have Democrat candidates on the ballot for people to vote for.
How is this fundamentally different than elections in communist countries, where the only candidates on the ballot are communists?
When I was young, did I ever think Jews would be chased into offices and otherwise attacked on campuses of universities? Did I ever think that presidents of said universities would give word salad answers when questioned about campus policies? Did I ever dream that palescumians and their brain dead sympathizers would block traffic and paint graffiti on public buildings and monuments, and would probably get away with it?
Didn't even cross my mind.
Dimmocraps are absolutely bringing rack and ruin to this country. For my money, they can drop dead.
We really need a new Nuremberg style Trials just for the criminals in all levels of the US government.
The corruption keeps getting deeper and deeper.
I think I’ve heard of this Bookbinder miscreant in the past. A total rat. Knowing that there are jerks like this who have burrowed their way into the federal government, and that there are legions of them, let us know that the administrative state is one of the biggest dangers to our freedom.
WOW, direct line??? Next will they tell me water is wet?
DEMOCRATS are the ENEMY!!!!! No ifs ands or butts about it!!
Well, Well, Well
I was wrong. I said the Democrats, Uniparty Republicans and the Deep State were just waiting for a judge to rull that President Trump was disqualified to run for president. Lo & behold they got a state Soopeme Court to make the ruling.
Now we get to see at least 5-10 more rulings in the next six months or so.
Then, I will be awaiting the ball to open.
“Saving Democracy” by destroying the Republic, doncha know?
The Deep State and the Rats play dirty to win.
The RINOs just bend over and take it.
The dems of course sued and the NJ Supreme Court ruled that the law wasn't important, what mattered was that the people of NJ have a proper democrat that was able to win be on the ballot. I Anot even reqlly exaggerating. They said an unelectable democrat being the only choice (because republicans don't count, I guess) was undemocrating and unfair so they said they law should just be ignored, put Frank Lautenberg on. Lautenberg as a former Senator but had dementia so he had not run again some years back. They kept it quiet so the public didnt know really but those clowns on the court that said it was neccessary for an electable democrat to be on the ballot surely knew he was a vegetable, but also that he'd win and that's all that mattered.
So 20 years ago the NJ Supreme court said that no matter what the law says, you cannot keep a bad candidate on a ballot and prevent him from being replaced because it's too important that the voters have a real choice. And now another state's Supreme Court says that if democrats say you did something bad, then you MUST be kicked off because it's more important that democrats get their way than voters get a choice.
I'm sensing a trend in the way lawfare works, it seem to favor one side pretty heavily.
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The Dems are engaging in insurrection.
2020 was stolen..im convinced of that and have been since I saw it with my own eyes. You could be excused, however, if you were skeptical outnof the gates. After seeing how these people have acted since they seized power does anyone really doubt that these are the type of people who would rig an election?
It’s not Joe Biden’s Deep State. He’s the Deep State’s Joe Biden.
He used a 501c3 organization for the lawsuit. That’s supposed to be a charitable organization not involved in partisan politics.
Not that FedGov will enforce that law in this case.
Google:
“CREW is a leading ethics watchdog organization that takes relentless legal and investigative actions holding people in power to account.”
-> “relentless”
the administrative state is one of the biggest dangers to our freedom.
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No doubt about it. I wonder to what extent it and the Deep State are one and the same cabal of Democrat Party and RINO apparatchiks attempting to destroy our Constitutional Republic.
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