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Government Corruption

Pentagon's new military education list includes school filled by Hunter Biden laptop letter signers

2026-03-19

A long list of connected names from previous anti-Trump projects are explained at the link.

[JTN] Pentagon removed leftwing Ivy League schools from military fellowship program, but a replacement school proposed by the Pentagon has an entire center staffed by Trump foes, many of whom participated in what could only be called a "disinformation" campaign to deny the legitimacy of Hunter Biden's infamous laptop.

The Pentagon recently removed a host of elite and Ivy League schools from the War Department’s senior service college fellowship program, but its new list of professional military education schools includes a haven for signers of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter and is home to fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in late February that the Pentagon was canceling nearly one hundred Senior Service College fellowships at nearly two dozen institutions. These fellowships are not to be confused with ROTC programs. Among the proposed replacement institutions announced by Hegseth late last month was George Mason University — home to a center bearing the name of and led by signers of the October 2020 laptop letter, home to an institute advised by laptop letter signatories, and featuring the Trump foe McCabe as a key professor.

The Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security (found within George Mason’s Schar School of Policy and Government) and the school’s National Security Institute or NSI (found within its Antonin Scalia Law School) both count a host of Hunter Biden laptop letter signatories and other Trump foes as top leaders and key advisors.

THE CABAL OF "LAPTOP DENIERS" STILL HOLD SWAY
The October 2020 laptop letter contributed to the baseless narrative that the Hunter Biden laptop stories were nothing but a product of Russian disinformation — a narrative happily seized upon by Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and spread by some of the laptop letter signers.

Hegseth announced in early February that Harvard University’s “partisan faculty” holds a “negative bias towards military actions and discourages alternative viewpoints” and that “this bizarre and unacceptable bias reduces the return on investment for Service members attending Harvard.” A review of the Hayden Center’s BlueSky account also shows numerous posts just this year alone opposing Trump policies and his national security officials.

The memo from Hegseth late last month said that “Professional Military Education institutions are among our most sacred and essential means to restore and maintain the warrior ethos” and that “we will no longer invest in institutions that fail to sharpen our leaders' warfighting capabilities or that undermine the very values they are sworn to defend” as he said the Pentagon was canceling 93 fellowships at 22 institutions, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Brown, Columbia, MIT, and George Washington University.

Hegseth’s memo said the Pentagon was also “Realigning Senior Service College Fellowships” and listed 21 “Potential New Partner Institutions” — including George Mason. The Pentagon memo contended that “these institutions meet the following criteria: intellectual freedom, minimal relationships with adversaries, minimal public expressions in opposition of the Department, and Graduate-level National Security, International Affairs, and/or Public Policy Programs.”

But all the Hayden Center’s leaders and multiple members of the NSI’s advisory board are Hunter Biden laptop letter signatories — in addition to multiple additional officials tied to the Hayden Center and the NSI being well-known foes of Trump, his administration, and his Pentagon — and McCabe has been a thorn in Trump’s side since 2016.

The list of schools included in the memo is dynamic, and reflects a set of institutions that could host Senior Service College Fellowships, beginning in the 2026-27 academic year, a War Department official who declined to be named told Just the News. These Senior Service College Fellowships are designed to provide our military leaders with education, not indoctrination, preparing them to think critically, independently, and creatively, he said.

George Mason University and the Hayden Center did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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