The Government Accountability Project forwarded a 25-page whistleblower disclosure to four congressional committees on behalf of former DOJ civil rights attorney Haley Van Erem. It’s a damning indictment of the Department of Justice’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, an initiative set up to deal with the rise in anti-Semitic threats and violence, but that mostly operates as a cudgel to reverse engineer probes and legal attacks against institutions of higher learning in an effort to harass schools into settlements where no cognizable violations existed.
Law and fact “were subordinate to political priorities rather than the enforcement of civil rights,” the underlying disclosure explained. “[A]nd were implemented at the expense of regular decision-making and enforcement processes that exist to protect against constitutional and statutory violations and unwarranted, arbitrary and capricious agency actions in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.”
Among many redactions throughout the disclosure, one jumps out. As The Atlantic’s Quinta Jurecic noted:
You’re not alone!
Van Erem isn’t the only whistleblower in this case, and others aren’t named in the public version, which is presumably why this section is blacked out. But the important revelation is that DOJ attorneys have started to realize that their work for this administration — work that routinely involves misleading tribunals, ignoring court orders, and, as here, pursuing bad faith claims — is likely to end up...
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