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Some of the felons Gwen Moore represents:

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https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/milwaukee-county-board-blm/

Milwaukee County Board Commends BLM Group Linked To Violence

By
Jim Piwowarczyk
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December 15, 2020

Fourteen Milwaukee County supervisors have passed a resolution “commending” the Peoples Revolution protest/riot group. They say the organization – whose member was accused of discharging a gun at a police officer when a “protest” erupted in violence – has made the community “safer.”

The supervisor who proposed the resolution, Ryan Clancy, also announced on Facebook that he had apologized to the Peoples Revolution.

“Milwaukee County Supervisor Ryan Clancy presented The Peoples Revolution with a citation commending the group for reaching the 200-day milestone while apologizing for what he said has been a lack of action by the County Board on issues of importance to the protesters,” Clancy wrote (among other things, the group seeks the defunding of police departments and terminations of police chiefs.)
The resolution is a “disgrace,” according to the head of the Milwaukee police union. . .

Dale Bormann, Jr., president of the Milwaukee Police Association, which represents rank-and-file police officers, told Wisconsin Right Now: “Crime is out of control right now in the city of Milwaukee. The Peoples Revolution is not the organization that advocates peace. They stand at the lines and argue and fight with police. For the County Board to praise them is a disgrace and just plain dumb.”. . .

The resolution leaves out the following information about the Peoples Revolution and its members:

Ronald Bell, a Peoples Revolution member, is accused of a felony for allegedly discharging a firearm at then Wauwatosa Police Officer Joseph Mensah. Numerous individuals engaged in a confrontation with (Mensah’s girlfriend and Mensah) outside of the residence,” the complaint says. “During the confrontation, both (Mensah’s girlfriend and Mensah) were assaulted by numerous individuals and sustained bodily harm.” A second man, William Lofton, was also charged.
Khalil Coleman, a key organizer of the Peoples Revolution, has ties to members and leaders of the Gangster Disciples’ street gang and is an admirer of Larry Hoover, the Chicago gang’s imprisoned founder. He claims to follow Hoover’s principles of “Growth and Development.”
Vaun Mayes, a BLM leader who has shown up at Peoples Revolution protests, is facing federal charges in an alleged molotov cocktail plot to burn down a police station; court records say prosecutors allege he abused his mentoring responsibilities to children by allegedly “encouraging them to attack police and teaching them how to make Molotov cocktails.”
Brian Thomas Anderson, who acted as a communications organizer for the Peoples Revolution and sent the group’s key demand letter to the City of Wauwatosa, is a felon and serial burglar who had open felony criminal cases in two counties at the time. He received a one-year prison sentence in October.
John Larry, the Wauwatosa police and inequities committee chair, was captured on body camera threatening to knock out and slap ‘the sh*t out of’ a police lieutenant this August, according to the video and a citation that Wisconsin Right Now obtained via open records laws. Two other videos obtained by Wisconsin Right Now show that Larry went to the Wauwatosa police station to check into Ronald Bell and William Lofton after they were arrested in the shooting incident against Police Officer Joseph Mensah. In that video, Larry refers to Bell as a “brother of mine and the Movement.” Larry said: “I got word that two of our protesters, two Black males that participate in our protests, the Peoples Revolution’s protests were stopped and arrested here in Wauwatosa, and so I just made my way over here to see what’s going on…”. . .

“Once they began hanging out and hooking up, Roberts witnessed Hunter lighting up a crack pipe and twerking on a pole at the Mpire Club, the high-end ‘gentlemen’s club’ in DC where she also worked.”

Latest incarnation of Bobby Baker’s Quorum Club -> Maureen Dean

Here’s the ruling:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/22-55908/22-55908-2024-06-07.html

HEALTH FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND, INC. V. ALBERTO CARVALHO, No. 22-55908 (9th Cir. 2024)

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2024/06/07/22-55908.pdf

Addressing the merits, the panel held that the district court misapplied the Supreme Court’s decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), in concluding that the Policy survived rational basis review. Jacobson held that mandatory vaccinations were rationally related to preventing the spread of smallpox. Here, however, plaintiffs allege that the vaccine does not effectively prevent spread but only mitigates symptoms for the recipient and therefore is akin to a medical treatment, not a “traditional” vaccine. Taking plaintiffs’ allegations as true at this stage of litigation, plaintiffs plausibly alleged that the COVID-19 vaccine does not effectively “prevent the spread” of COVID-19. Thus, Jacobson does not apply.

Some Paul Weiss connections:

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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3574992/posts

Law Firm Investigating Bolling Was Hillary Clinton Fundraiser, Former Obama Officials
GP ^ | 08/06/17 | Joshua Caplan
Posted on 8/6/2017, 11:25:18 AM by Enlightened1

The Huffington Post’s Yashar Ali reported Friday that FOX News’ Eric Bolling sent numerous female co-workers lewd text messages. Bolling has since been suspended and now Yashar reports law firm, Paul Weiss, will investigate the matter.

The firm has raised campaign funds for Hillary Clinton and Obama officials, such as former DHS Chief Jeh Johnson. . .

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https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/economic-sanctions-aml/publications/us-sanctions-relating-to-russia-and-ukraine-navigating-the-current-landscape?id=25729

U.S. Sanctions Relating to Russia and Ukraine: Navigating the Current Landscape

December 20, 2017

U.S. economic sanctions relating to Russia and Ukraine have steadily evolved since their introduction in 2014 in response to Russia’s occupation of the Crimea region of Ukraine. The Obama administration implemented three types of primary sanctions: (1) traditional blocking sanctions against specific individuals and entities, which have been listed on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) Specially Designated and Blocked Persons list (the “SDN List”); (2) an embargo against Crimea; and (3) “sectoral” sanctions prohibiting certain types of transactions with specific entities operating in particular sectors of the Russian economy, listed on OFAC’s Sectoral Sanctions Identification List (the “SSI List”).

Following the election of President Trump, it was predicted that his administration might rollback these sanctions. Instead, in response to Russia’s cyber activity and continued occupation of Crimea, President Trump signed new bipartisan legislation on August 2, 2017.[1] The “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act” (“CAATSA”) codified existing sanctions targeting Russia issued through Obama-era executive orders, strengthened and expanded sectoral sanctions, and threatened the imposition of secondary sanctions for various activities that lack any nexus with the United States.[2] Members of Congress continue to pressure the administration to accelerate its implementation of CAATSA.[3]

In light of the recent changes and increasing complexity in Russia/Ukraine-related sanctions, this memorandum provides an overview of the sanctions program as it exists today and outlines considerations for both U.S. and non-U.S. companies seeking to manage their sanctions risk.

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https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/economic-sanctions-aml/publications/trump-administration-imposes-new-sanctions-on-russian-oligarchs-and-government-officials?id=26240

Trump Administration Imposes New Sanctions on Russian Oligarchs and Government Officials
PUBLICATIONS
April 10, 2018

On April 6, 2018, the Trump administration imposed new sanctions on 7 Russian oligarchs, 12 companies they own or control, 17 Russian government officials, and a state-owned Russian weapons trading company and its subsidiary, a Russian bank. These specially designated national (“SDN”) designations came just over two months after the Treasury Department met its statutory obligation to provide Congress with a report (the “Report”) on Russian political figures and oligarchs as determined by their “closeness to the Russian regime and their net worth.”[1] The public portion of the Report identified 114 Russian senior political figures and 96 individuals characterized as Russian oligarchs meeting this criteria. The Report was “not a sanctions list”; however, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned at the time that “there will be sanctions that come out of this report.”[2]

Announcing the new sanctions, Secretary Mnuchin stated: “The Russian government operates for the disproportionate benefit of oligarchs and government elites. The Russian government engages in a range of malign activity around the globe, including continuing to occupy Crimea and instigate violence in eastern Ukraine, supplying the Assad regime with material and weaponry as they bomb their own civilians, attempting to subvert Western democracies, and malicious cyber activities. Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government’s destabilizing activities.”[3]

The designations were made pursuant to Obama-era Executive Orders 13661, 13662, and 13582, as well as authorities codified by the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (“CAATSA”). In conjunction with the designations on April 6, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued guidance and two general licenses to minimize immediate disruptions.

Below, we summarize Treasury’s actions and their implications. As Treasury cautioned, not only are transactions with a U.S. nexus involving these newly designated parties generally prohibited, but non-U.S. persons also face the risk of secondary sanctions for knowingly facilitating significant transactions with these parties even without a U.S. nexus.

Kerry has long-standing ties to Iran (such as Hassan Nemazee) that fit Sfard’s agenda.

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2023/08/14/senior-farc-commander-pleads-guilty-conspiring-distribute-massive

Senior FARC Commander Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Distribute Massive Quantities of Cocaine for Importation into the United States
August 14, 2023

Martin Leonel Perez Castro, also known as “Richard,” pleaded guilty today in federal court in Brooklyn to conspiracy to distribute cocaine internationally, intending and knowing that the cocaine would be illegally imported into the United States. The proceeding was held before United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan. Perez Castro, the commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) 30th Front, a group that operated in southwestern Colombia, was extradited to the Eastern District of New York in June 2022. When sentenced, he faces up to life in prison. . .

“As a senior FARC leader, Perez Castro used violence, power and notoriety to import tons of cocaine from Colombia into New York City,” stated DEA Administrator Milgram. “Today’s guilty plea reflects DEA’s unwavering commitment to hold all drug traffickers accountable and should send a clear message to drug networks across the globe that we will investigate and dismantle organizations that threaten the safety and health of the American people.”

“This FARC senior official maintained a revenue stream that used extortion and direct sales to cocaine dealers to fund the para-military group. In his position, Perez Castro is responsible for distributing thousands of kilos of cocaine in and around the United States. Today’s guilty plea is the result of the great investigative work of DEA and IRS-CI Special Agents and incredible law enforcement partnerships globally,” stated IRS-CI New York Special Agent-in-Charge Fattorusso.

As set forth in the indictment, court filings, and statements made in Court, the FARC’s 30th Front, led by Perez Castro, generated revenue by directly selling cocaine to drug traffickers or extorting payments from traffickers operating in the 30th Front’s territory. The cocaine trafficked by the 30th Front was later smuggled into the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. The 30th Front also attacked rival drug trafficking groups or Colombian government forces to protect or expand FARC territory. As part of his plea, Perez Castro will take responsibility for the distribution of more than 75,000 kilograms of cocaine. . .

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The same author quoted in 2013:

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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2013/01/31/the-long-road-of-accepting-gays-in-the-nfl

Doug Farrar at Yahoo Sports doesn’t consider the case closed yet:

The real question has to do with locker room culture, the possibility of putting people who are different in corners they’re trying to get out of, and taking steps away from the idea of true equality in the NFL.

Everyone will give the right, pat answers when asked whether Culliver’s words are truly representative of the way most players feel. We won’t know for sure until and unless someone is brave enough to test those potentially dangerous waters.
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https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/10/trump-exxon-oil-industry-support/

While a handful of oil company executives are financially supporting Trump’s reelection effort — given his consistent support for the industry — ExxonMobil executives are not. ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods gave $35,500 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and $10,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee, but nothing to Trump. The same goes for other top ExxonMobil executives.

Employees of ExxonMobil have actually given more to Biden than Trump, with nearly $112,000 going to the Democrat compared to Trump’s $69,000. The ExxonMobil PAC, meanwhile, makes 90 percent of its donations to Republican congressional candidates. Like many other major companies seeking influence with the newly elected president, ExxonMobil donated to Trump’s inauguration, giving $500,000.

Oil and gas interests have given $13 million to Trump’s campaign and outside groups backing his reelection bid. Much of that comes from a $10 million donation to pro-Trump super PAC America First Action from Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren. That’s compared to less than $1 million going to Biden’s election effort from the industry.

Those donations to Trump make up a relatively small slice of the oil and gas industry’s $97 million in donations to federal committees during the 2020 election cycle. Roughly 84 percent of the industry’s contributions to candidates go to Republicans. Major companies like Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy make direct corporate contributions to GOP groups that focus on congressional races, but not pro-Trump groups. ExxonMobil doesn’t spend as much at the federal level, though it did give $650,000 to the Republican Governors Association last year.

Millward (a British national residing in Maine) has done this before. Some examples:

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/03/17/donald-trump-bloodbath-chinese-cars-election-ohio-rally/

Trump warns of ‘bloodbath’ if he loses presidential election
Former president ratchets up tension as he addresses supporters at rally in Ohio

David Millward,
US CORRESPONDENT
17 March 2024 • 4:30pm

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2023/11/10/donald-trump-weaponise-government-us-president/

Trump ready to ‘weaponise’ FBI against opponents as US president
Leading Republican candidate for White House plans to get his own back following ‘politically motivated’ cases brought against him

David Millward,
US CORRESPONDENT
10 November 2023 • 7:56pm

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/06/donald-trump-far-right-immigrants-poison-blood-us/

Fury as Donald Trump says immigrants ‘poison blood’ of US
Former president’s remarks likened to Hitler’s Mein Kampf as critics accuse him of nativist and xenophobic rhetoric

David Millward,
US CORRESPONDENT
6 October 2023 • 3:15pm

Also tuck your chin as soon as you feel the belt.

Once the belt is around your neck, very tough without training. Best defense is pre-emptive: know surroundings and exit routes, periodically glance your blind spots as you walk, avoid walking past places attacker can hide, basically keep them from sneaking up behind you. If you felt the belt before it was taut and you realize what’s happening fast enough (a big if), you could try to prevent it from tightening by grabbing the attacker’s wrists and/or the belt, taking a step back with one foot to avoid losing balance, pivoting so you’re facing them instead of being dragged backwards and then use any weapons or techniques you have, if you know how potentially you can force them to cross their wrists and unbalance them but again this last item would be hard without training. Recovery gets significantly more difficult once the belt is tight and they’re pulling you off-balance or you’re on the ground, but in principle you want to regain balance and leverage (whether from a standing or sitting position) so you can counter-attack and run. As she’s being dragged, if she sits and becomes dead weight to slow the dragging while grabbing the belt to relieve pressure on her neck, she has an opportunity to grab one of his wrists and the opposite ankle and unbalance him laterally, grab both ankles and knock him backwards, maim his Achilles tendon or calf or thigh muscles or dig her nails into his wrist to distract his attention from his grip. . .Some ideas just from looking at the video, but this is just brainstorming in answer to your question; would be best to practice with a partner at controlled speed to see what you can come up with that your muscles are going to remember in a real situation.

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Bailey previously represented plaintiffs suing the developers of one of Trump’s hotel condominiums:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Leitman_Bailey

Trump SoHo New York[14] is a $450 million hotel condominium. In February 2011, several prospective buyers of condominiums in the building, including French soccer star Olivier Dacourt, sued the developers in federal court, claiming that they had been tricked into buying the condos by the “deceptive” sales figures, and that the number of apartments sold at Trump Soho had been “fraudulently misrepresented.” The plaintiffs were represented by Bailey. The suit was settled with plaintiffs recovering 90 per cent of their deposits.[15][16] Several years later, the case was described as “a watershed case in the world of condo litigation ... [C]ondo attorneys said that developers are now far more reluctant to disclose sales information to buyers’ attorneys, for fear of legal repercussions if they turn out to be wrong.”[17]

https://keywiki.org/Manolo_de_los_Santos

Manolo de los Santos Executive Director, The People’s Forum

Contents
1 Bio
2 Pro-Hamas Letter
3 Rogatyuk connection
4 References
Bio
From The People’s Forum website:[1],[2]

Manolo De Los Santos is a founder of The People’s Forum and a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His writing appears regularly in Monthly Review, Peoples Dispatch, CounterPunch, La Jornada, and other progressive media. He coedited, most recently, Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War (LeftWord, 2020), Comrade of the Revolution: Selected Speeches of Fidel Castro (LeftWord, 2021), and Our Own Path to Socialism: Selected Speeches of Hugo Chávez (LeftWord, 2023).

Pro-Hamas Letter
In the wake of a terror attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, Harvard University students signed an open letter blaming Israel. After the students received negative media coverage, the ANSWER Coalition jumped to their defense in an open letter titled: “Open letter against intimidation at Harvard: Defend the freedom to speak in support of Palestine!” Manolo de los Santos signed the letter. Excerpt:[3]

We stand together against the racist harassment and demonization of Pro-Palestine student activists at Harvard and elsewhere across the country. These attacks are designed to intimidate, weaken, and silence people’s right to speak out in support of the Palestinian people’s struggle against occupation and apartheid. Their educational and professional futures are being threatened and right wing political operatives have even rented a TV truck to drive around campus displaying the students’ faces. Some are even receiving death threats...”
Rogatyuk connection
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Denis Rogatyuk with Manolo de los Santos and Eugene Puryear.

References
Staff (accessed October 30, 2023)
Archive Link: Staff (accessed October 30, 2023)
Open letter against intimidation at Harvard: Defend the freedom to speak in support of Palestine! (accessed October 19, 2023)

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https://keywiki.org/The_People%27s_Forum

The People’s Forum
Jump to navigationJump to search
The People’s Forum is a self-described “group of organizers, educators, visionaries, cultural workers, thinkers and fighters committed to the systemic transformation of a society rooted in equity, justice and human dignity”.[1]

Contents
1 Anti-Israel March on Washington
2 Staff
3 China’s Great Road
4 References
Anti-Israel March on Washington

anti-Israel protest dated November 4, 2023
The ANSWER Coalition organized an anti-Israel protest dated November 4, 2023[2] with the following organizations featured on the flyer: Palestinian Youth Movement, U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), The People’s Forum, Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, American Muslim Alliance, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and National Students for Justice in Palestine.

From a mass email dated October 20, 2023:

“The growing coalition of organizations mobilizing for the national march on Washington for Palestine is excited to announce that permits have been obtained! The demonstration will begin at 2:00 p.m. at Freedom Plaza (Pennsylvania Avenue between 13th and 14th streets). Tens of thousands will gather at this historic location in the heart of D.C. to raise our voices for justice.
Now is the time to stand with the besieged people of Palestine! Gaza is being bombed by the hour. Its people are denied food, water and electricity by Israel. Tens of thousands more people are likely to die. We must ACT! People are in the streets everyday in their local cities and towns. Now we must UNITE!
Hundreds of new endorsements are pouring in from across the country for this mass action. As Israel intensifies its genocidal assault on Gaza, more and more organizations and individuals are coming forward to stand with the Palestinian people. Initial co-sponsoring organizations include:
Palestinian Youth Movement
ANSWER Coalition
American Muslim Association
The People’s Forum
National Students for Justice in Palestine
Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)
Maryland2Palestine
Staff
The People’s Forum staff, January 2021.

Claudia De La Cruz Co-Executive Director
Manolo De Los Santos Co-Executive Director
Layan Fuleihan Education Director
David Chung General Manager
Rita Henderson Operations Manager
Belen Marco Crespo Communications Manager
Bryant Diaz Communications Assistant
Ciara Taylor Membership Manager
Kevin Kang Outreach Coordinator
Mary Gana Accountant
Andy Damas Janitor
Belkys Rivera Receptionist[3]
China’s Great Road
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The People’s Forum June 2 2021·

Book Launch: China’s Great Road >> Tomorrow at 7PM ET

Join us in conversation to celebrate the launch of China’s Great Road: Lessons for Marxist Theory and Socialist Practices by author and economist John Ross.

With John Ross (author), Wang Wen (Renmin University of China), Radhika Desai (Renmin University of China), Vijay Prashad (Executive Director of Tricontinental), and Brian Becker (Director of the ANSWER Coalition).

References
[1]
National March for Palestine: Saturday, Nov. 4 in Washington, D.C. (accessed October 20, 2023)
[2]
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https://keywiki.org/Tricontinental_Institute

The Tricontinental Information Center (TIC) or Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, was formed in 1967 after a worldwide Soviet/Communist conference known as the Tricontinental Conference was held in Havana, Cuba in 1966 to promote the worldwide “socialist revolution”.

The TIC was the U.S. affiliate of the Tricontinental organization, and was founded mainly by key members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), including Michael Myerson and John Gallo.

Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director. . .

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The list is here:

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000

Common names:

John Brennan
James Clapper
Paul Kolbe

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/09/19/secretary-mayorkas-announces-establishment-homeland-intelligence-experts-group

The Experts Group members are the following:

John Bellinger, Partner, Arnold & Porter (Former Legal Advisor, Department of State and National Security Council)
John Brennan, Distinguished Fellow, Fordham University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin (Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency)
James Clapper, CNN National Security Analyst (Former Director of National Intelligence)
Rajesh De, Partner, Mayer Brown (Former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy and NSA General Counsel)
Thomas Galati, Senior Vice President, East Coast Security Operations, NBC Universal (Former New York Police Department, Chief, Intelligence and Counterterrorism)
Tashina Gauhar, Senior Director, Compliance, Strategy and Policy, The Boeing Company (Former Associate Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, Department of Justice)
Asha M. George, Executive Director, Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense (Former Subcommittee Staff Director, House Committee on Homeland Security)
Karen Greenberg, Director, Center on National Security, Fordham University School of Law
Emily Harding, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Former Deputy Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence)
Paul Kolbe, Senior Fellow and former Director of the Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center (Former Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency)
David Kris, Co-Founder, Culper Partners LLC (Former Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, Department of Justice)
Michael Leiter, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center)
Elisa Massimino, Executive Director, Human Rights Institute, Georgetown Law
Gregory Nojeim, Senior Counsel and Director, Security and Surveillance Project, Center for Democracy & Technology
Francis Taylor, Principal, Cambridge Global Advisors (Former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, DHS)
Caryn Wagner, Former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, DHS
Benjamin Wittes, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution, and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief, Lawfare

Reinhard Marx’s successor at Trier. . .

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Ackermann

. . .

Ackermann appointed the South African Eifel priest Stefan Hippler in the archdiocese of Cape Town; Hippler where he would be involved in the development and expansion of aid projects for AIDS-infected people – on behalf of the local archbishop. In the German Bishops’ Conference, he became chairman of the Liturgy Commission the Universal Church Commission. [8]

Child Abuse Controversy

While being the German Bishops Conference’s spokesman on child abuse issues he encouraged victims of child abuse to come forward, but later neglected actively to pursue investigations or impose harsh penalties.[9][10] Ackermann had to issue a public apology after failing to immediately suspend a suspected pedophile priest in 2011 yet ignored press revelations about seven other cases of priests in the bishop’s diocese who are suspected of having abused minors.[11] In January 2011, the police informed his office that a pastor from Saarbrücken, the state capital, had allegedly abused minors. According to the guidelines of the German Bishops’ Conference, prompt action had to be taken in such suspected cases, and the priest in question could be suspended until the accusations have been cleared up; nevertheless, despite these guidelines, and despite his status as the Church’s spokesman on abuse issues, Ackermann allowed one suspected pedophile to remain in office. The priest continued to celebrate Mass and even held a dedication ceremony for a Catholic kindergarten in the summer. In the fall, another ceremony was held to mark his 70th birthday.[12]

. . .

Reform of Sexual Morality

In 2014, Ackermann said that the Roman Catholic Church should reform Roman Catholic sexual ethics. Same-sex marriages should be accepted and not be described as immoral[13]. . .