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Anonymous wrote:Wtf MPD

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5331354/doge-staff-enter-the-u-s-institute-of-peace-d-c-police-help

The US Institute of Peace, was the scene of a dramatic standoff between a Department of Government Efficiency team and Institute members on Monday. DC police attended the scene after being contacted both by USIP staff and the DOGE team on site.

Former diplomat and President and CEO OF USIP George Moose told NPR "DC police showed up at my office and said it is time for you to go." USIP is a think tank funded by Congress.

NPR spoke to him on the steps of the Institute just across from the State Department during the day long standoff on Monday.

Some members of DOGE, as the Elon Musk efficiency team is known, tried several times to get inside to install a new president.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly, posted on X Monday evening, along with a screenshot of a resolution from USIP's three remaining board members appointing Kenneth Jackson USIP's acting president on March 14.

Moose was fired last week along with most of the board members. According to USIP's website, the bipartisan board of directors is composed of 12 members plus four "ex-officio" members including the US Secretaries of State and Defense.

But Moose and the USIP is challenging the administration in court. He was held up in his office for some time on Monday before being escorted out by police. Moose called it a sad day.

(f) Removal from office

A member of the Board appointed under subsection (b)(4) may be removed by the President—

(1) in consultation with the Board, for conviction of a felony, malfeasance in office, persistent neglect of duties, or inability to discharge duties;

Seems legit.

https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/legal/guidance/consultation-requirement-process

Oh? Do tell us what conviction of a felony, malfeasance in office, persistent neglect of duties, or inability to discharge duties was evidenced by USIP management.

Failed to follow an executive order: persistent neglect of duties. They explicitly thumbed their nose. FAFO.

https://www.usip.org/press/2025/02/operating-status-united-states-institute-peace

This from an administration that ignores court orders. Can't get any more lawless than that.

Are you suggesting that the executive branch is separate from the executive branch?

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen that building? Wow its such as waste of tax payer money, no one knows what they do but it sounds like another rogue USAID operation that does whatever it wants funding anything they feel that can be in direct violation of the sitting president or congress's direction.

Elon posts all the time about his beliefs about non-profits that are funded by the government (as the Institute for Peace is) -- that they are de facto governmental institutions.

Why should we give a flying fig about Elon’s views on anything? As far as I can tell he’s a nepo baby who doesn’t actually know much about how anything works, and no one has elected him to do anything and is just some sort of rogue operative bossing around some know-nothing teenagers at the behest of a lawless President who thinks he has absolute power.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen that building? Wow its such as waste of tax payer money, no one knows what they do but it sounds like another rogue USAID operation that does whatever it wants funding anything they feel that can be in direct violation of the sitting president or congress's direction.

I didn’t know Trump was on DCUM. Of course, this a bit too articulate for him, plus no all caps.

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Anonymous wrote:How much cash were the cops paid? And why?

Not how it works. Bribery is thankfully rare.

My guess is the police just screwed up, possibly seeing "official" documents and not understanding the situation. Police leadership should be briefing police at roll call every day to call management for further clarification. And police should have their attorneys up to speed on everything that's going on.

Knowing MPD, they probably have not thought this through

As a former OAG attorney, yes, this. I wonder what MPD's general counsel has to say about this.

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Anonymous wrote:How much cash were the cops paid? And why?

Not how it works. Bribery is thankfully rare.

My guess is the police just screwed up, possibly seeing "official" documents and not understanding the situation. Police leadership should be briefing police at roll call every day to call management for further clarification. And police should have their attorneys up to speed on everything that's going on.

Knowing MPD, they probably have not thought this through

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Anonymous wrote:I’m fine with this.

That’s because you support authoritarianism and giving Trump unchecked power. Don’t call yourself a real American; what you are is a traitor to our country and our Constitution and are worthy of our deepest contempt.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen that building? Wow its such as waste of tax payer money, no one knows what they do but it sounds like another rogue USAID operation that does whatever it wants funding anything they feel that can be in direct violation of the sitting president or congress's direction.

Elon posts all the time about his beliefs about non-profits that are funded by the government (as the Institute for Peace is) -- that they are de facto governmental institutions.

Anonymous wrote:I’m fine with this.

Anonymous wrote:WHY are the dc police doing this???
They may think they will get that 1 B back but it ain’t happening.
They will soon be out of jobs too.
I won’t forget this betrayal.

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Anonymous wrote:Wtf MPD

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5331354/doge-staff-enter-the-u-s-institute-of-peace-d-c-police-help

The US Institute of Peace, was the scene of a dramatic standoff between a Department of Government Efficiency team and Institute members on Monday. DC police attended the scene after being contacted both by USIP staff and the DOGE team on site.

Former diplomat and President and CEO OF USIP George Moose told NPR "DC police showed up at my office and said it is time for you to go." USIP is a think tank funded by Congress.

NPR spoke to him on the steps of the Institute just across from the State Department during the day long standoff on Monday.

Some members of DOGE, as the Elon Musk efficiency team is known, tried several times to get inside to install a new president.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly, posted on X Monday evening, along with a screenshot of a resolution from USIP's three remaining board members appointing Kenneth Jackson USIP's acting president on March 14.

Moose was fired last week along with most of the board members. According to USIP's website, the bipartisan board of directors is composed of 12 members plus four "ex-officio" members including the US Secretaries of State and Defense.

But Moose and the USIP is challenging the administration in court. He was held up in his office for some time on Monday before being escorted out by police. Moose called it a sad day.

(f) Removal from office

A member of the Board appointed under subsection (b)(4) may be removed by the President—

(1) in consultation with the Board, for conviction of a felony, malfeasance in office, persistent neglect of duties, or inability to discharge duties;

Seems legit.

https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/legal/guidance/consultation-requirement-process

Oh? Do tell us what conviction of a felony, malfeasance in office, persistent neglect of duties, or inability to discharge duties was evidenced by USIP management.

Failed to follow an executive order: persistent neglect of duties. They explicitly thumbed their nose. FAFO.

https://www.usip.org/press/2025/02/operating-status-united-states-institute-peace

This from an administration that ignores court orders. Can't get any more lawless than that.

Anonymous wrote:What?

New York Times:

Aishvarya Kavi
March 17, 2025, 6:21 p.m. ET3 hours ago
Aishvarya Kavi

Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, known as DOGE, has forced its way into the offices of the U.S. Institute of Peace with the help of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department, a lawyer for the institute said.

“DOGE just came into the building — they’re inside the building — they’re bringing the F.B.I. and brought a bunch of D.C. police,” said Sophia Lin, a lawyer with the firm Picard Kentz and Rowe. She was speaking on the phone from the street outside the institute’s building after she, her co-counsel and the institute’s chief security officer were forced out, she said.


Lin said that the U.S. Institute for Peace called the D.C. police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the D.C. police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.

Before the D.C. police arrived, the Musk team had tried for hours to enter the building. They attempted to enter on Friday, but that effort was unsuccessful.

Anonymous wrote:It’s unfathomable how far we have fallen this quickly.