Former Ambassador Ric Grenell speaking at a ‘Save America’ rally at Country Thunder Arizona in Florence, Arizona, January 15, 2022. (Photo: Gage Skidmore)
Ric Grenell & America First Legal Sue Biden Admin Over DHS Committee With Members Who Signed Hunter Biden Laptop Letter
Shady group of former Obama Administration intelligence officials’ creation done in illegal manner
By Katy Grimes, November 7, 2023 4:51 pm
Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Richard Grenell along with America First Legal are suing the Biden administration, over formation of a shady group of former Obama Administration intelligence officials to “advise DHS on intelligence and national security efforts regarding issues such as ‘terrorism, fentanyl, transborder issues, and emerging technology,’ DHS announced,” the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.
In September, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and former CIA Operations Officer Paul Kolbe, were among 48 other former intelligence officials who signed the letter indicating that the Hunter Biden laptop was likely a “Russian information operation.” They are now joining the DHS federal “expert” board handling issues of national security, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), DCNF reported.
The lawsuit alleges that the group’s creation was done in an illegal manner and that it lacks credible members, according to the copy of the lawsuit.
“We needed to file this lawsuit because the Washington media didn’t even criticize this blatantly partisan move,” Richard Grenell told the Globe. “We need to have government agencies that include every viewpoint in their analysis. As Ambassador and Acting Director, I demanded we include voices that I didn’t always agree with so we could include every viewpoint. To me, if you are afraid to listen to opposing viewpoints then you aren’t very secure in your own beliefs.”
Like a bad penny that always turns up, this highly partisan group of double-dealing Obama Administration officials who lied to Congress are the very people who should be kept far far away from DHS.
The lawsuit names Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.
The September formation of the Experts Group is “to provide advice” “on intelligence and national security efforts to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the Office of Counterterrorism Coordinator,” the lawsuit says.
However on the same day the group was formed the lawsuit says:
“…in an interview, a Department official said of the Experts Group that ‘they are giving us advice about a lot of the thorny issues we’re dealing with.’ He continued: ‘these are people who have tremendous experience and insights,’ and ‘we then walk out really enlightened about issues that we’re dealing with.’ Emphasizing the group nature, he said, ‘[t]hat, to me, is the best way for people to get advice.’ He compared the Group to ‘other panels around the government’ but reiterated that ‘it’s really impactful.’ The official confirmed that ‘we had a meeting.'”
“The Defendants have violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
The Federal Advisory Committee Act became law in 1972 and is the legal foundation defining how federal advisory committees operate. The law has special emphasis on open meetings, chartering, public involvement, and reporting.
“The Experts Group’s members are political allies of the Biden Administration. Most members have applauded the Administration’s decisions and fervidly condemned former President Trump’s America First approach to foreign policy. They have overwhelmingly donated to President Biden or other Democrats. Defendant Mayorkas selected members that are agreeable, not balanced.”
The lawsuit also notes that the Experts Group is meeting without noticing the public, “without timely notice in the Federal Register. It has also failed to make all ‘records, reports, transcripts, minutes, appendixes, working papers, drafts, studies, agenda, or other documents which were made available to or prepared for or by’ the Experts Group ‘available for public inspection.’”
Even a neighborhood association knows it has to notify the public of meetings, and maintain and provide records. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) requires transparency, proper notification to the public, and “Interested members of the public must ‘be permitted to attend, appear before, or file statements with any advisory committee.'”
That the same players so deeply involved in the Russian Disinformation scheme are involved in the DHS secret committee should make every voters’ blood boil.
For a refresher course, the lawsuit details the Brennen and Clapper history of misinformation and disinformation:
- John Brennan: He knowingly participated in the conspiracy fabricated by Dem- ocrat political operatives to falsely accuse former President Trump of colluding with Russia during the 2016 election. In the 2020 election, Brennan publicly and falsely declared that Hunter Biden’s laptop had all the hallmarks of “Rus- sian disinformation” to cover up the Biden family’s political corruption. But the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained the Biden laptop in or about No- vember 2019 and shortly thereafter verified the authenticity of its contents. Upon information and belief, Brennan had actual knowledge that the Biden laptop was genuine and that its contents had been verified by federal law en- forcement at the time he cast aspersions on its origins. Brennan has long op- posed America First policies.
- James Clapper: He knowingly participated in the Russia collusion conspiracy by leaking information from the fake “Steele dossier” to friendly reporters, and in the Biden laptop coverup to hide Biden family corruption and influence ped- dling. A former Obama Administration official, he falsely testified that the Na- tional Security Agency did not collect American’s telephone records. He op- poses America First policies to protect the homeland and our allies.
You can read the entire lawsuit here. There are many more deep state players named in the lawsuit who do not represent a fair balance of viewpoints, as required by law.
And read the Daily Caller article here.
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It’s heartening to see this lawsuit that goes after these odious, crooked, and infuriating ‘deep state’ characters.
Although we know it is not ideal because the outcome can never give us full justice; that is, what is the remedy when these rats and their clones have purposefully and relentlessly affected the course of a presidential election which then affects so much damage that follows? To the point that we are now living in an alternative universe?
But never mind, whatever rooting out and corrective action CAN be done has to be done nonetheless.
God bless Ric Grenell for pursuing this. Grateful to him in all of his efforts.
The evidence of the relentless corruption and dishonesty of these clowns is easily accessed. YouTube has countless videos of the perpetrators “testifying” before congress. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is a perfect example. He refuses to answer even the most straightforward questions. He either can’t remember or repeats canned answers that have nothing to do with the actual questions. If Mayorkas worked for a private company and responded to his employer’s questions in this manner he would be fired on the spot. Every registered voter in the United States should be required to watch videos of his congressional testimony. Unfortunately voters won’t. Even if they did I don’t know if enough of them would comprehend the implications. For God’s sake, the people of Pennsylvania elected a person with brain damage to the US Senate. It may be hopeless.