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THE TRUMP AGENDA
THE EMD JUSTIFIES THE MEANS
Institute of Peace
THE EMD JUSTIFIES THE MEANS
Institute of Peace
Original article: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5202800-us-institute-for-peace-lawsuit-doge-takeover/
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
The Institute of Peace is not a 'government organization' nut a private indepemdemt organization.
Apparently DOGE is trying to take it over like all the agencies of the US Government, even though it has no legel right to do so.
Everyone is aware of Trump in the organization of this post election chaos.
So also are people aware of the role that Musk is playing
But then it gets less clear.
Several weeks ago the Heritage Foundation published a document ... more than 900 pages ... with the title 'America 2025 ...Mandate for Leadership ... The Conservative Promis'. This document is the latest in a series published by the Heritage Foundation going back to the 1980s.
Many of the people associated with the preparation of 'America 2025' have now been appointed to various powerful positions in the Trump administration. Most of these individuals are not well qualified for their positions but are essential foot soldiers in the takeavore of the system.
Some of America's ultra wealthy are making the Trump agenda possible. This starts with Elon Musk ... the world's richest individual ... who has a unique position that it difficult to describe because in some ways he has no position at all!
But there are other ultra wealthy individuals who are involved in support of this Trump agenda. One of these is Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are both part of the so-called Pay-Pal Mafia that worked together in the late 1990s to create the Pay-Pal technology and its massive commercial success.
Peter Thiel has used some of his wealth to fund J.D.Vance in his political career and rise to the position of Vice President in the Trump adminsitration.
Peter Thiel immigrated from Germany, and has become known for his very right wing political views. Vice-President Vance seems to be very much beholden to Thiel!
Peter Burgess
by Rebecca Beitsch
03/19/25 9:43 AM ET
The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) is asking a court to block the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from dismantling the agency, saying it experienced a “literal trespass and takeover by force” by its personnel.
“On March 17, 2025, the attacks culminated in the literal trespass and takeover by force by Defendants, including representatives of DOGE, of the Institute’s headquarters building on Constitution Avenue. Once physically inside the Institute’s headquarters, DOGE personnel and other representatives of Defendants have plundered the offices in an effort to access and gain control of the Institute’s infrastructure, including sensitive computer systems,” the institute wrote in its court filing.
The institute has asked for a temporary restraining order to “stop Defendants from completing the unlawful dismantling of the Institute and irreparably impairing Plaintiffs’ ability to perform their vital peace promotion and conflict resolution work as tasked by Congress.”
Photos included with the filing show photos of the office after DOGE’s arrival, with the institute’s financial documents placed in a bin labeled “shred.” Another showed a collection of letters lying on the ground after the advisory board’s staff apparently ripped down a USIP logo from the wall.
Another court filing includes an affidavit from USIP’s chief security officer, describing a scene in which police facilitated the entry of DOGE staff into the institute’s headquarters. On both Friday and Monday, the group’s staff arrived at headquarters alongside FBI agents.
At one point Monday, the firm’s prior private security firm — whose contract was ended after it coordinated with DOGE — also appeared at the building, at one point “proceed[ing] to walk toward the Institute’s gun safe,” pushing USIP staff to ignite its lockdown policy.
The suit said DOGE officials “plundered the offices in an effort to access and gain control of the Institute’s infrastructure, including sensitive computer systems.”
The institute was one of several small agencies targeted by President Trump in a Feb. 19 order directing that they “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law.”
The Inter-American Foundation, which works on issues across Latin America and the Caribbean, and the U.S. African Development Foundation, which were likewise mentioned in the executive order, have also sued.
The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel argued Trump had the right to boot board members from the board of both foundations, but the memo did not touch on USIP.
But the institute argues its structure is slightly different from other agencies infiltrated by DOGE, describing itself as an “independent nonprofit corporation.” It was established in 1984 to “help resolve and prevent violent conflicts.”
“That Order incorrectly labeled the Institute a ‘governmental entit[y]’ that was part of the ‘Federal bureaucracy,’” the lawsuit says.
And while its board is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, the suit says its members can only be removed for “conviction of a felony, malfeasance in office, persistent neglect of duties, or inability to discharge duties.”
The suit says the Trump administration violated the separation of powers laid out in the Constitution as well as the act creating the USIP.
A judge ordered a 2 p.m. EDT hearing on their emergency motion.
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