Army Bureaucrats Misused Their Official Government Power to Hunt Down and Dox Critics of Biden's Woke Officer Corps

Kristina Wong @kristina_wong

EXCLUSIVE: An Army three-star general and a West Point associate professor used government resources in an unofficial investigation to hunt down and punish an anonymous active-duty whistleblower who criticized Army leaders and the Biden administration on social media, according to private emails and text messages obtained by Breitbart News.

Army Training and Doctrine Command Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais and Army Maj. Jessica Dawson -- who is also an "information warfare research scientist" at the Army Cyber Institute -- used their official authority and access to government resources to track down the whistleblower and get him identified publicly and punished by his chain of command.

Despite the lack of evidence, they repeatedly accused the whistleblower of being a "counterintelligence" and "insider threat" in a seeming effort to trigger action by Army Criminal Investigative Division (CID) -- an independent federal law enforcement agency with expansive powers designed to investigate serious felonies.

@RepMattGaetz: "From the Department of Justice to our own military, our government has been weaponized by corrupt bureaucrats in order to target Americans who disagree with their leftist agenda."

"Lieutenant General Maria Gervais and West Point Assistant Professor Major Jessica Dawson should be ashamed of themselves for abusing official resources to doxx and target anonymous whistleblowers. Their actions should warrant an inquiry by the House Armed Services Committee, and I'll be urging Chairman Mike Rogers to take action."

Full story at Breitbart. A man criticized woke officer -- and one officer pushing Biden's vaccine mandate on troops -- so these two falsely branded him a threat to national security and made him a literal Enemy of the State to expose him and make him stop criticizing the wokies.

An Army three-star general and a West Point associate professor used government resources in an unofficial investigation to hunt down and punish an anonymous active-duty whistleblower who criticized Army leaders and the Biden administration on social media, according to private emails and text messages obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.

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Pat Wier, a civilian defense attorney and Navy reservist, said a CID investigation would require an assumption or designation of a serious threat and called Gervais and Dawson's trumping up of accusations for exercising free speech rights "wrongful."

"His alleged actions did not rise to the level of a serious crime, or any crime at all," he said.

Rather, it appeared to be an attempt by rogue military officials seeking to use the levers of government to punish political dissent.

Lot of that going around.

Gervais and Dawson ran their shadow investigation for nearly a year, enlisting help from a mob of online associates consisting of progressive current and former members of the military who disagreed with the whistleblower politically.

Their efforts led to the doxxing -- or public "outing" -- of the suspected whistleblower's identity and an Army two-star general's former aide filing an inspector general complaint against him, a weaponization of the IG system in retaliation for critical social media posts.

That complaint then sparked an investigation into the whistleblower by his chain of command (what is known as a 15-6 investigation). The investigating officer found that the suspected whistleblower, Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Samuel Shoemate, had violated Army Regulation 600-20 by "posting derogatory and disrespectful images/memes on multiple social accounts ... towards different Senior Officials and Military Leaders."

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Shoemate, who is planning to begin speaking about his experience publicly, told Breitbart News in a statement:

The DOD publicly boasts about its adherence to the law with numerous checks and balances in place to prevent unlawful conduct, but the shadow policy it actually operates under allows senior officers and officials to act with impunity as seen here. A lieutenant general colluding with various other senior officials to conduct their own unofficial investigation, with the use of government resources, is emblematic of larger, systemic abuses observed within the DOD in recent years.

Despite Dawson's repeated suggestions he was a "counterintelligence" or "insider threat," Shoemate had a flawless military record. His 2019 Officer Evaluation Report (OER) said he "lived, and reinforced, the Army Values, daily." It also said:

[Shoemate's] conduct within the unit was always above reproach, and he fostered an environment that empowered Soldiers, free from sexual harassment or discrimination of any kind. His desire to develop a robust and cohesive team was evidence in the respectful way he approach every interaction and conversation with each member of the team.

Breitbart News exclusively obtained the 15-6 investigative report on Shoemate, which detailed the efforts of Gervais, Dawson, and their associates to silence a whistleblower for critical tweets.

The article reports he posted on a social media site, "Terminal CWO," used for whistleblowing on misbehaving oficers.

The accounts would frequently post information sent from troops who wanted to anonymously blow the whistle on problems in the military. For example, on September 2022, Terminal CWO exposed that jet fuel leaked into the USS Nimitz's water supply, sickening sailors. Commanders had not notified sailors until almost six hours later. The story turned into national news.

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Terminal CWO would also frequently post content and memes critical of Army leaders, which drew the ire of those leaders -- particularly those with progressive followings.

One of those leaders was then-Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe, the commanding general of Fort Benning in Georgia. During the pandemic, Donahoe advocated aggressively for troops to get vaccinated.

At one point, Donahoe got into an online fight with a former Marine who pointed out that far more troops were dying of suicide than COVID-19. Donahoe tagged the Marine's graduate school's social media account and wrote, "Hey @Hillsdale, come get your boy."

Then-Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson slammed Donahoe on his show on July 27, 2021. Carlson said in his opening monologue:

It's also remarkable that Patrick Donahoe is a Major General in the U.S. Army. Now, he is a General, but he doesn't seem as interested in keeping the country safe as he does in promoting a very specific political point of view. So he spends most of his time apparently online harassing political opponents of the Biden administration.

Last week, General Donahoe was lecturing a student at Hillsdale College on the merits of mandatory vaccines. "Hey Hillsdale, come get your boy," wrote General Donahoe. That guy is really a General? That's when another user asked this, quote, "Hey, General, how many wars have you won?" Now, rather than answering that question honestly and of course, the answer is zero, Patrick Donahoe responded this way, quote, "Don't be a shill for Putin."

So here you have a Major General in the U.S. Army accusing apparently an American citizen of being a, quote, "shill" for Putin because that person criticized Joe Biden. Are you comfortable with that? With a highly politicized U.S. military, a military that acts basically as the armed enforcers of the Biden administration? We shouldn't be comfortable with it.

Donahoe would later fall under investigation by the Army Inspector General for various reasons, including social media misconduct and interaction with a junior female officer.

And so an "information warfare expert" in the Army activated the Army's "information warfare" apparatus to crush someone who tweaked a woke Twitter addict.

posted by Ace at 05:30 PM

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