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.
Someone needs to check that guys hard drive.
WIKI
Politico wrote that Brock’s newly announced involvement with CREW was a “major power play that aligns liberal muscle more fully behind the Democratic Party” and that CREW would add a “more politically oriented arm, expand its focus into state politics and donor targeting and will operate in close coordination with Brock’s growing fleet of aggressive Democrat-backing nonprofits and super PACs—Media Matters, American Bridge, and the American Independent Institute.” Prior to Brock’s involvement with CREW, the group had aggressively targeted Republican public officials as well as some Democrats. The Center for Public Integrity wrote that “Many key staffers left soon after Brock became its chairman, and since then, the organization has almost exclusively pursued Republicans and conservative organizations through federal complaints and its own investigations.” In April 2016, Bloomberg reported that Republicans had faced the vast majority of CREW investigations in recent months.
Brock left CREW’s board of directors in December 2017, but did not cut ties with the group and continued to fundraise for it. He was replaced by former George W. Bush White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter, “lending the group a bipartisan air,” according to Politico. Painter took a leave of absence from CREW to run as a Democrat in Minnesota’s 2018 U.S. Senate special election.
CREW aggressively targeted the Donald Trump administration, filing its first lawsuit against Trump three days after his inauguration as U.S. president. According to New York magazine, “Since then, it has been launching actions against the administration and its allies in Congress at a rate of about one a day, filing lawsuits and public-record inquiries and lodging complaints with authorities like the Office of Government Ethics.” In June 2017, New York wrote that “CREW is officially nonpartisan, but it’s a thin veneer. For the last few years, it has been loosely aligned with a network of organizations, including the super-PAC American Bridge, run by Democratic operative David Brock. After the election, Brock promised to ‘kick Donald Trump’s ass,’ saying in a fund-raising document that CREW’s litigation strategy would assure Trump would be ‘afflicted by a steady flow of damaging information.’”
In February 2018, Environment & Energy Publishing wrote that Painter was “at the center of more than 180 legal challenges to Trump and his administration as vice chairman of the left-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.”
In 2006, Congressional Quarterly reported, “Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has taken aim almost exclusively at GOP members of Congress. Since its founding in 2003, it [helped] investigate 21 lawmakers, only one of them a Democrat” (Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, in a complaint that also targeted Senator Bill Frist (R-TN), then Senate Majority Leader). A report by McClatchy News Service called CREW “a Democratic-leaning watchdog group”.
In 2007, Ms. Magazine quoted longtime Democratic pollster Celinda Lake as saying, “Corruption was a top issue in the [2006] midterm elections, and CREW was critical to the Democrats’ success.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington
HSAC was started in GWB’s first 4 year term. For 19 of its 23 year existence it has been under GWB, Obama, and Biden. 4 year were during the Trump admin. From this article, sounds like it does more harm than good. My take is it’s a quasi-government entity with loyalty to the deep state. Bookbinder is in HSAC and CREW, which pushed the Colorado ballot effort.
when they say democracy
they mean democrat rule
As a young person it never occurred to me the President of Harvard would be an antisemitic plagiarizer with a degree in grievance studies. A woman who obviously got her job because of the color of her skin...Everything democrats touch turns to sh*t.
The Democrat Party and all of its acolytes are domestic enemies of the United States of America. Period.
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When i was young i read the constitution. Why do people insist on calling our republic a democracy. There is a difference. No democracy in America.
I remember reading about an incident during the Constitutional Convention. Someone accused another attendee of wanting a democracy. They almost had a duel over it. Everyone knew democracies were a disaster.
nymag.com
12/18/23
The Alarming Calm in the Biden Campaign
Aides feel 2024 is under control despite Biden’s negatives
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/joe-biden-2024-election-strategy-trump.html
The fix is apparently in.
Sadly “watchdogs” are useless without their master aiming and shooting.
So as an experiment, I ventured into the pro CO spin sites.
The statement going around is “The 14th amendment says nothing about being Convicted, just participating!”
So they are claiming that Trump has no need to be tried or convicted of anything, he and all other J6/election deniers are barred from office and should be treated as felons.
Interesting take. Connivant even.
Words are cheap - it’s actions that matter. And the term is commonly used. If perverts and DC thugs can call a man a woman then it’s OK with me to use the terms Republic and democracy interchangeable... What matters to me is we get the totalitarian thugs out of office ... vote them out to the dust bin of history.
CREW ping.
bookbinder
Bookbinder: groomed by Leaky Leahy.
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