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Inspector Generals Open Probes Into Alleged

Retaliation By Obama Executives

The Pentagon’s Inspector General has launched a preliminary investigation into charges of vendettas

and reprisals against whistle-blowers. Charges include those that James H. Baker, the director of the

Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA), is retaliating against whistleblowers who

warned of “rigged” contracts to outside consultants. CIA, DOE, DOT and many other Agency

The IG is investigating Baker’s actions under Presidential Policy Directive-19, an October 2012

directive designed to protect members of the intelligence community who report waste, fraud and

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abuse. The directive pointedly states that it “prohibits retaliation against employees for reporting waste,

fraud, and abuse.”

Baker is an Obama holdover appointed by Secretary Ashton Carter in May 2015, who remains the

ONA director 11 months into the Trump administration. Lovinger specifically protested $11.2 million

in ONA contracts awarded over a decade to the Long Term Strategic Group (LTSG), a company owned

by Jacqueline Newmyer, a childhood friend of Chelsea Clinton. Clinton and Newmyer first met each

“We submit that Baker’s interest was his awareness of the LTSG-Clinton connection; his presumptive

desire to exploit that to his advantage in the event of a Clinton election win; and the fact that

contractors like LTSG served as a lucrative landing pad for ONA retirees,” Bigley charged in a Sept. 13

letter to Rear Admiral Kevin Sweeney, the chief of staff for Defense Secretary James Mattis.

The IG’s decision to launch a preliminary investigation occurred as former high-profile national

security officials are beginning to publicly weigh in about Baker’s allegedly retaliatory actions.

Richard Perle, Ronald Reagan’s former Assistant Secretary of Defense, said of Lovinger, “He’s been

treated so badly. It’s a disgrace.”

Perle called Baker, “a shallow and manipulative character that should have gone with the change in

administration.”

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“He is a highly respected analyst across the board,” Kemp said, referring to Lovinger. “The way he has

been treated is deeply troubling.”

Lovinger, a GS-15 attorney and strategic foreign affairs analyst, successfully served at ONA for 12

years and each year received the highest possible “E” rating in his performance review. The “E” means

“exceptional” performance.

But Baker poorly rated Lovinger in 2017, after he raised issues about the ONA’s reliance on outside

contractors, including LTSG.

ONA is a highly-classified think tank housed within the office of the Secretary of Defense. It conducts

sensitive strategic research, especially for the Defense Secretary, and the office is supposed to serve as

a model of performance. For 42 years, ONA was led solely by one director, Andrew Marshall, who

Lovinger alleges initially authorized many of the sweetheart deals with outside contractors. Marshall

retired from ONA at the age of 93. Baker took the helm four months later.

IG Fine’s investigation into possible wrongdoing by Baker is being carried out by his “Investigations of

Senior Officials Directorate.” That unit investigates “allegations of misconduct against the most senior

DoD officers (three-star and above and equivalents), senior officials in the Joint or Defense Intelligence

Community, and members of the Senior Executive Service,” according to the latest IG semi-annual

report to Congress that is current as of March 31, 2017.

IG investigations under the Presidential Policy Directive-19 appear to be extremely rare.

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expected to last no more than three hours. The IG office is formally attempting to determine if they

need to intervene in the Baker case, according to a source with direct knowledge of the investigation.

The first inkling of retaliation against Lovinger came Jan. 12, 2017, when Baker suddenly issued a

series of charges against him. This was the same day that the National Security Council officially

invited Lovinger to leave ONA and join the NSC as a senior director.

a bureaucratic arm of the Pentagon, temporarily suspended Lovinger’s security clearance May 1 and

removed him from his NSC post. Lovinger now works at a Defense Department annex where he

currently is doing clerical work.

Baker dropped charges in two of the three of his initial investigations after they were challenged by

Thomas Spencer, Lovinger’s first attorney. Bigley said the allegations against his client are

“demonstrably false” and called Baker “partisan and highly vindictive” in an interview.

Baker has leveled four separate charges against Lovinger. The counts include an “unauthorized” trip to

Israel, taking home unclassified academic papers to read, reading a classified document in an airplane,

and having “unauthorized” contacts with the Indian government.

Baker’s accusation that the trip to Israel was “unauthorized” particularly rankles Lovinger.

Prior to the trip, Lovinger said that he notified ONA of an expected personal trip to Israel to

commemorate his oldest son’s Bar Mitzvah. The Lovinger family traveled with their close family

friends, the Wiesel’s, whose patriarch, Elisha, is the son of legendary Holocaust survivor and Nobel

Lovinger said that they only did “tourist stuff” and did not meet with a single Israeli official.

Another charge is that Lovinger conducted “unauthorized” contacts with the Indian government.

Lovinger’s 2017 performance review includes a statement from Secretary Carter, commending him for

his work with the Indian government. “Two days prior to departing for the NSC, on January 18, 2017,

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the Secretary of Defense highlighted in an official letter Lovinger’s exceptional performance on

collaborative net assessment with the Government of India,” the performance review states.

Nevertheless, in the same review Baker rated Lovinger poorly. “I do not endorse the characterization

set forth in the employee input (that) Adam performed successfully,” Baker said.

Lovinger did carry a document aboard an airplane during a Sept. 14, 2016 official trip. Anthony

Russell, the ONA investigator of the incident, noted in an Oct. 18 memo for the record that the

Russell concluded: “It is reasonable to conclude that there was no compromise given the content of the

document in question and its close control either on Mr. Lovinger’s person or in his assigned lodging

on a military base for a relatively short period of time. For these reasons, no violation is believed to

have occurred.”

“He clearly was the target, for political reasons, of an effort to push him out of government,” Perle said

of Lovinger. “And this was done consciously and deliberately. He’s a Trump loyalist, and it was

launched and sustained by an Obama holdover.”

affect so many people in government,” Kemp said.

someone like that on what appeared to be questionable grounds is potentially problematic for the

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effectiveness of the U.S. intelligence organization,” Kemp added.

Robert Reilly, who served for 25 years in the national security field, including as a senior advisor to

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and as a White House special assistant to Reagan said, “I’m very familiar

with the use of investigations to politically destroy people.” “That they would yank a top security

clearance on what seemed to be unsubstantial grounds is shocking,” Reilly said.

suspicions,” he said. “What was the crime and how does the punishment fit the crime?” Heather Babb,

a public affairs officer who spoke on behalf of ONA stated in an email, “As a matter of policy, we do

The David and the DOE Case -

The United States Department of Energy Inspector General, The FBI and the Pentagon’s Inspector

General have now been informed of over one thousand retaliation, reprisal and vendetta attacks against

those who reported corruption during the Obama Administration. Another case involves a California

man and his technology team.

“David” has been employed since 1973. He worked for his community and his country as a law

vast number of commendation letters from U.S. Presidents, Agency heads and Mayors. He is pictured

in videos, photographs, articles, meetings and personal correspondence with some of the most famous

public and White House figures in America.

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After he, and his team, reported corruption in a trillion dollar Department of Energy embezzlement

scam involving crooked uranium (The Uranium One Scandal is now in the news headlines), lithium,

indium and other mining scams, he was attacked. He reported the crimes to both the DoD and DOE

Inspector Generals in the Obama Administration and got a massive number of attacks aimed at him for

his efforts to help law enforcement.

The pay for his peers, and his own past compensation, started at $10,000 per month in the local

and less experience than him. He has now been forced to try to live on $800.00 per month because of

the attacks by government officials.

He has filed for compensation and reprisal review since 2007 and every year thereafter. He started

filing lawsuits in 2009 and has been filing them against federal agencies ever since. He has received no

day-in-court and no justice, yet, from those lawsuits. The law suits have simply highlighted the epic

degree of stone-walling, “missing hard-drives” and obfuscation that Obama DOJ, DOE and DoD

officials are willing to descend to in order to operate their cover-ups.

He and his supporters believe that he has been intentionally discriminated against as part of a reprisal.

The federal courts and law enforcement have ruled in his ongoing cases, and hold proof, that he was

subjected to reprisal, vendetta and revenge tactics by State and Federal employees. Even though official

proof of the attacks are on public record. Nothing has been done to help him.

In the Energy Department case, his task force helped FBI, GAO and Congress hunt down and terminate

well-known public officials who embezzled taxpayer funds.

Government, he is only afforded the most minimal benefits possible and has received no offsets for the

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His current benefits amount is so low it is impossible to live on. County officials have suggested he

“move to Panama” where it is cheaper. Even Panama, and other third world countries, won’t let you

the “American Dream”?

his life savings and nearly a billion dollars of potential income by intentionally sabotaging and

terminating his operating, Congressionally financed, electric car company and his national energy

To be clear: corrupt State and Federal employees did this because his companies competed with their

stock market holdings. These are the very same public officials who have interdiction capability at the

very same state and federal agencies that decide the fate of his reprisal claims and work benefits. That

is an epic conflict-of-interest.

These public officials, including U.S. Senators, defrauded him by asking him to invest in their program.

It turns out, though, they were using his, and his group’s, business ventures to cover their crimes at the

expense of him and the taxpayers.

Part of his work involved creating America’s next national energy solutions. He worked with the U.S.

Department of Energy, HUD, NAHB and related entities in work with the national weapons and energy

labs since 2000. He worked with nuclear, heavy metals, sintered rare earth metals, extreme solvents and

nano-particulated exotic chemistries and won a historical Congressional commendation, first-ever

patents, industry and press acclaim, customer acclaim and a multi-million dollar lab research grant in

the Congressional Iraq War Bill.

He was one of the people tasked with building America’s back-up energy technologies.

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In the course of his work he, and his Team, uncovered a nearly one trillion dollar Energy Department

corruption matter which led to the termination of senior staff at the U.S. Department of Energy, the FBI

raid on their facilities and an ongoing FBI investigation. This also led to a suspected reprisal exposure

to toxic materials which will remain in his body, at a cellular level, for the rest of his life. This also led

to black-listing and HR database manipulation attacks by attack firms such as Fusion GPS, Stratfor, In-

Q-Tel, Gawker, David Brock Group, PD Group, Black Cube and related contract reprisal services

Because of their service to their country, Adam Lovinger, David, and many others, have been denied

their legal rights, their rights to a home and safety and are forced to live like refugees. Their U.S.

helped law enforcement.

The social media and independent news outlets have picked up on these kinds of cases and are doxing

and exposing the corrupt politicians involved in these cover-ups. The family, friends, supporters,

reporters and the public will now never let these matters lapse without a fair review. Every unbiased

third-party review of this matter has concluded that these whistle-blowers “got screwed” by the federal

and state officials who were supposed to represent them. Those very same state and federal officials

own portions of David’s competitors business and stock market ventures. In the opinion of the

taxpaying public: That us a felony conflict of interest!

have already had rulings confirming the victims assertions) and Congressional investigation case files

prove that government staff corruption and a system of organized vendetta campaigns are operating

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