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Chuck DarwinFather Arne set up another initiative called the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Leonine</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Forum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Forum</a>, a program for top graduates designed to provide them with “intellectual and spiritual seriousness.” It, too, brought in generous donations from wealthy Catholics keen to steep the leaders of tomorrow in Church teachings. As ever, the Opus Dei name was kept out of any promotional material — but, even so, such events deepened the organization’s presence among America’s most influential Catholics. For Father Arne, the ultimate goal of this outreach was transforming the political sphere, almost every aspect of which had grown more and more secular over the years. He believed that policy simply couldn’t be made by people who weren’t versed in the universal truths of the Church. His mission was to reverse this creeping secularism — and put Opus Dei at the heart of a spiritual awakening. Around the same time, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Luis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tellez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tellez</a>, a celibate member of Opus Dei at Princeton, organized a conference at the Vatican that was billed as “an interreligious colloquium on the complementarity of man and woman.” While the initiative was officially the idea of the Princeton academic <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robby</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/George" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#George</a>, Tellez and his Opus Dei colleagues in Rome oversaw the organization of the conference. The "Witherspoon Institute", an organization set up by Tellez and George, made a large donation to the Opus Dei university in Rome around the same time. “Oftentimes, Robby will open the door, you know,” Tellez explained. “I’m a nobody.” The Humanum conference created some additional cachet for Opus Dei operatives in the United States, who used this important gathering of religious leaders as an enticement to woo big-name Catholic conservatives. Leonard Leo was one of those invited to participate. The invitation dovetailed with a wider effort at the Catholic Information Center to entice Leo into the Opus Dei orbit. At around the same time as the Humanum conference, Leo was invited onto the CIC board. Their two worlds were already entwined. Leo’s children went to the two Opus Dei schools — The Heights for the boys and Oakcrest for the girls — and he and his wife played an active part in school life, donating thousands of dollars a year in addition to the many thousands they were paying in tuition for their various children. The Leos were also regulars at a deeply conservative church in McLean, not far from their home, that was popular with many of the city’s Opus Dei members. Both parties were also becoming ever more aggressive politically. In 2011, Leo teamed up with Clarence Thomas’s wife <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ginni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ginni</a> to co-found another nonprofit that successfully opposed an Islamic center being built near the site of the 9 ⁄11 attacks in New York, denigrated as the “Ground Zero Mosque.” A year later, he joined the board of the Catholic Association, another non-profit linked to the Corkerys, that funded campaigns to oppose same-sex marriage. For its part, the Catholic Information Center — despite in theory being apolitical — had also joined a suit against the Obama administration, challenging the requirement that employers provide and pay for contraception, sterilization, and abortion-causing drugs as part of employee health insurance plans. The appointment of Leo came despite misgivings among the Opus Dei national leadership, and illustrated a transactional attitude toward this increasingly influential figure with deep connections to dark money. “He’s a figure in Washington, and he may have had kids in the school down there,” explained Father Tom Bohlin, who headed Opus Dei in the United States at the time — and who met Leo at the Humanum conference in Rome. “I’m not sure he even understands Opus Dei, but at a certain level, he likes what we do — certain things — and wants to support that.” The appointment of Leo marked a shift in the CIC board. For years, it had been run by Father Arne, another priest, and a smattering of volunteers drawn from the congregation. The makeup of the board was decidedly unpolitical — a mix of academics, lawyers, and volunteers who helped run the bookshop. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pat</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cipollone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cipollone</a>, a lawyer who had been an assistant to Attorney General Bill Barr in the early nineties but who had since returned to the private sector, was the only board member who was remotely connected to the Washington political scene. But in 2014, all that changed. Alongside Leo, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bill</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Barr</a>, the former attorney general, was also appointed.

Chuck DarwinA team of Iranian hackers impersonated <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ginni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ginni</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thomas</a>, the wife of conservative Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Clarence</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thomas</a>, in an effort to extract information from people close to former President Donald Trump, CNN reported.An indictment unsealed on Friday alleges that the three Iranian men gained access to the email account of a Trump campaign official this summer, which allowed them to steal debate-preparation material and information on possible vice presidential candidates. The practice is known as “spear phishing” among hackers. Among the people whose accounts were compromised were <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roger</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stone</a>, the veteran Republican dirty trickster previously pardoned by Trump before he left office.Between April and May 2024, email was used as part of a phishing campaign that targeted, among others, a former security adviser to a former president.Ginni Thomas was one of a number of identities fraudulently used by the hackers to target the Trump campaign. The others have not been named but the victims detailed by the Justice Department include a series which appear closely linked to Trump, suggesting that the use of names such as Ginni Thomas was a successful move by the Iranians. Among those who fell for the phishing scam were a former deputy director of the CIA, a former ambassador to Israel, an ex-State Department adviser who appears to have advised the failed Nikki Haley campaign for president, and a former presidential homeland security adviser.Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri and Yasar Balaghi face charges of identity theft and wire fraud. The indictment says they were acting on behalf of Iran’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Islamic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Islamic</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Revolutionary</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Guard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Guard</a> Corps.Although Ginni Thomas is not mentioned by name in the indictment, it says that the hackers created a fake email using the identity of a “spouse of a sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justice.”In addition to being the wife of a Supreme Court justice, Thomas is a conservative activist. She made headlines for sending texts to Donald Trump’s then Chief of Staff <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mark</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Meadows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meadows</a>, on Jan. 6, 2021, urging him to overturn the election —as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.One read, “Biden and the Left [are] attempting the greatest Heist of our History.”Thomas, a conservative firebrand, claims that she does not influence her husband.<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-donald-trump-campaign-got-spearfished-by-fake-ginni-thomas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-donald-trump-campaign-got-spearfished-by-fake-ginni-thomas</a>

cowboybanjobiker 🤠🪕🚴<a href="https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@heidilifeldman</a> It shows that the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> campaign expected <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ginni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ginni</a> to do something useful with it.

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