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Organization Trends
The FBI’s Bad Apples: The Bureau’s Worst Days Are Worth Remembering
For most of the 20th century the FBI has owned the reputation of being America’s police force. The list of the FBI’s “good apple” accomplishments includes crippling Soviet espionage during…
Ken Braun

Organization Trends
The FBI’s Bad Apples: The Dirty Dossier
The Inspector General found the omission of key information to be “among the most serious” errors in the FISA renewals. While the investigation did not reveal “evidence of intentional misconduct,”…
Ken Braun

Organization Trends
The FBI’s Bad Apples: More Jewells
Several innocent men have wandered into the crosshairs of FBI’s search for terrorists. Steven Hatfill was the FBI’s first suspect in the investigation anthrax attacks after 9/11 that left five…
Ken Braun

Organization Trends
The FBI’s Bad Apples: Mueller and Mistakes
Like all else in the American security state, the FBI and its mission was transformed after 9/11. The entire American political establishment allowed Robert Mueller to stamp his leadership image…
Ken Braun

Organization Trends
The FBI’s Bad Apples: Hoover’s Return
Defenders of the Bureau might point to solutions and reforms implemented after each of its scandals. But one of those reform eras should have begun after the December 2019 report…
Ken Braun

Organization Trends
The FBI’s Bad Apples: Bad Apples
Throughout its history the FBI has had too many “bad apples” for a government agency that controls immense and dangerous power. Not enough has been done to fix this systemic…
Ken Braun

Foundation Watch
97% of Political Contributions by Employees of Top Foundations Went to Democrats in 2019-20
Progressive philanthropists now regularly admit to politicized charitable contributions. But to our knowledge, no one recently has examined how professional philanthropic elites—those who work at the nation’s largest foundations—spend their…
Kristen Eastlick

Green Watch
RE100: Crusaders Against Atomic Energy
Driving quickly to “zero carbon” requires the energy equivalent of a Corvette. The RE100 folks want to get there with a Trabant, an option so unreliable it is unlikely to…
Ken Braun

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #230: The Dictatorship of Woke Investing
We’ve discussed “woke capital” on the podcast before with author Stephen Soukup and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy. But now we turn to a related topic: Environmental, Social, and Governance — “ESG”…
Michael Watson

Labor Watch
Red For Ed: An Activist Arm of the NEA
Red For Ed is an activist organization on a mission to route more money and resources to public schools to benefit students. It earned its reputation as an activist organization…
Ashlyn Covington