US Institute of Peace's Fired CEO Reports DOGE Break In

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The U.S. Institute of Peace was created by Congress as a nonpartisan, independent body in 1984. The USIP owns and manages its headquarters.

Posted by retort at 12:59 PM | 26 COMMENTS | permalink

The dramatic escalation follows the Trump administration's Friday gutting of the organization's board and tees up another court fight between the administration and an independent organization.[image or embed]
-- CNN (@cnn.com) March 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM

Comments

"Peace? Sounds like a DEI initiative!"

--Magat Scum

#1 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-03-18 01:07 PM

Drag these Muskrats to the DC Jail. I'm sure that someone in there will want to meet "Big Balls", while the others will get an ass-whupping not covered by their Tesla healthcare package...

#2 | Posted by catdog at 2025-03-18 01:16 PM

Jesus Christ, these DOGE-bags are brazen and evil.

#3 | Posted by cbob at 2025-03-18 01:21 PM

The USIP, established in 1984 by Republican POTUS Ronald Reagan, was invaded by Brownshirts. What's next? The US Library of Congress?

cdn.britannica.com

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-18 01:22 PM

The coup will continue until morale improves.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-18 01:24 PM

#3: "Brazen and evil." Yup. Nazis.

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-18 01:26 PM

So now the DOGE douchebags in their rampage are breaking and entering into private buildings?

Arrest them and..

Lock them up!

Better yet ...

Deport them!

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-18 01:30 PM

The nonprofit says it was created by Congress in 1984 as an "independent nonprofit corporation," and it does not meet U.S. Code definitions of "government corporation," "government-controlled corporation" or "independent establishment."

But gets it's funding directly from Congress...

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-18 01:59 PM

"But gets it's funding directly from Congress..."

Doesn't anything that gets funding get its funding from Congress?

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-18 02:06 PM

Can you see it yet? A line is being drawn, my fellow Americans. Choose wisely.

#10 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-03-18 02:06 PM

But gets it's funding directly from Congress...
#8 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

So if they get funding from Congress then why is the Presidents "plumbers " and hatchet men breaking and entering into a private building? It's none of his business.

Arrest them.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-18 02:07 PM

A line is being drawn, my fellow Americans. Choose wisely.

#10 | POSTED BY DUTCH46

I am ready.

Just waiting for the official Purge to start.

Standing back and standing by ...

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-18 02:10 PM

Doesn't anything that gets funding get its funding from Congress?

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-18 02:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

Your heroin dealer doesn't.

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-18 02:13 PM

I must not have the same heroin dealer as RFK Jr.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-18 02:15 PM

So if they get funding from Congress then why is the Presidents "plumbers " and hatchet men breaking and entering into a private building? It's none of his business.

Arrest them.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-18 02:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

If you read the article, you would know they didn't break in.

"Chief of security Colin O'Brien said police on Monday helped DOGE members enter the building and that the private security team for the organization had its contract canceled."

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-18 02:18 PM

"police on Monday helped DOGE members enter the building"

That sounds illegal. Which police? There's over fifty active police forces in the District of Columbia.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-18 02:26 PM

If you read the article, you would know they didn't break in.

So I haz to read the "articles " now?

Why?

I can feel in my gut this wrong. Ain't that how we do it now? No justification needed no proof needed no receipts needed just how one feels right?

So I feel like we should arrest them.

Also there is this:

DOGE has broken into our building," the organization's CEO, George Moose, said...

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-18 02:29 PM

G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt would've approved.

#18 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-03-18 03:21 PM

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Because the police helped means they didn't break in? That is the logic right? Your average "police" officer doesn't understand basic constitutional rights so them helping makes it not a break in? What agency are they with again - these "police" that is? Was there a court order authorizing their entrance?

#19 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-03-18 03:24 PM

13. That's pretty weak.

The contest will eventually be, Who will be the last Trumper to admit they were wrong?

Like the Japanese pilot who lived in a cave for 30 years.

#20 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-18 03:38 PM

Who will be the last Trumper to admit they were wrong?
Like the Biden supporter, who lives in a bubble, and can't bring themselves to admit Biden was mentally incapable of being President
Or those that declared inflation was "transitory".

#20 | POSTED BY DBT2

FTFY

#21 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-18 04:51 PM

we have our own bypass authority to go directly to Congress in order to get our money.

constitution.pdf
ctrl-f
bypass authority
string not found

#22 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-18 06:50 PM

a senior U.S. Institute of Peace official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.

a FORMER senior U.S. Institute of Peace official said. The FORMER official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.

#23 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-18 06:52 PM

whats your point?

#24 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-03-18 06:52 PM

The President is responsible for implementing and enforcing the laws written by Congress and, to that end, appoints the heads of the federal agencies

#25 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-18 07:00 PM

whats your point?

Congress can make agencies, but they belong to the executive after they're born

#26 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-18 07:02 PM

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