On the hunt: As the Trump administration probes Harvard Law Review over our report on its race-based policies, the journal is launching its own investigation—to identify the leaker of the damning internal documents spelling out those policies.
“The journal’s top editors asked members of the law review last week to come forward with any information that might help identify the leaker, writing, ‘The information contained in the article should not have been shared,'” the Free Beacon‘s Aaron Sibarium reports. “‘We are looking into the matter,’ the editors said Friday in an email. ‘Our inboxes and offices are open to anyone with information about these recent events.'”
Our only question is: Will they consult with Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon in this leak investigation?
The aggressive response is a new one when it comes to how the Harvard Law Review handles leaks. The journal “did not launch any kind of probe when 19 editors did exactly that in December 2023, after the journal voted to kill a controversial piece by a Palestinian scholar, Rabea Eghbariah, that accused Israel of genocide, according to a person with firsthand knowledge of the matter.”
READ MORE: Harvard Law Review Hunts For Leaker in Wake of Free Beacon Report
Spring cleaning: During the Biden administration, a little-known State Department office doled out roughly $1 million to nonprofit groups to probe alleged Israeli human rights abuses. The administration shut the program down before the entity behind it—the Office of Global Programs, part of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL)—could disburse the money, but left the office’s grantmaking authority in place. Not anymore.
The Trump State Department, led by Marco Rubio, “will close down the Office of Global programs, eliminating a 38-person staff of career bureaucrats and transferring remaining grant programs to regional offices,” our Adam Kredo reports.
“The move is part of a broader effort to align federal bureaucrats at Foggy Bottom with the Trump administration’s policy priorities,” writes Kredo. “When it comes to DRL’s grantmaking power, the administration believes that regional offices staffed with political and diplomatic appointees are less likely than career agency employees in Washington, D.C., to contradict those priorities.”
Never meet your heroes: Harvard refers to education lecturer Diana Buttu as an “international human rights” lawyer who served as “the only female negotiator” in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. But she’s taken on other roles over the years, our Chuck Ross reports, like Palestinian Liberation Organization spokeswoman and all-around Hamas shill.
“In an Oct. 22, 2024, interview,” Ross writes, “Buttu praised Hamas as a ‘movement for freedom, for liberation,’ and hailed its leader, Yahya Sinwar, after his assassination in an Israeli drone strike. ‘The Israelis will never understand what it means to die a hero,’ she said of Sinwar.”
Buttu will teach courses on “Women Leaders” and “Negotiation Skills” in June, according to Harvard’s website. She’ll do so as the school “tries to assuage concerns over enabling anti-Semitic and anti-Israel fervor. Harvard released a report on Monday that acknowledged it has ‘mainstreamed and normalized’ anti-Semitic and anti-Israel bias in course work through faculty hiring decisions and other aspects of campus life.”
READ MORE: Harvard ‘Human Rights’ Lecturer Fawned Over ‘Hero’ Hamas Leader
Away from the Beacon:
- Tim Walz, best known for running a “mean pick six,” says Kamala Harris picked him as her running mate to talk to white men. “I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck, doing that. … I was the permission structure to say, ‘Look, you can do this and vote for this.'” Instead, minorities fled the Democratic Party.
- Don’t blame the “unprecedented power outage that hit the Iberian peninsula this week” on renewable energy—instead blame it on “the management of renewables in the modern grid,” reports Reuters. Got that?
- The United States and Ukraine have officially signed their long-awaited minerals deal, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday evening.
This article was originally published at freebeacon.com
