THE DOJ TRACKER: PART V — THE EIGHT ARCS
Mechanisms of Institutional Interference
Each arc isolates a single mechanism of control.
Each one turns an internal function of justice into an external instrument of power.
Arc 1 — Ethics Offswitch → Target Pipeline
Core Line: Control begins with the capture of internal oversight.
Once ethics is subordinated, any prosecution can be aimed or erased.
Anchor Events:
Jan 27 – Brad Weinsheimer removed; ethics authority moved to politicals.
Mar 11 – Public Integrity Section gutted.
May 18 – Proposal to indict Members without Integrity review.
Jun 24–25 – Whistleblower Reuveni alleges Bove ignored court orders; Bove confirmed anyway Jul 29.
Sept 25 – Comey indicted after direct presidential demand.
Consequence: The Department’s ethics apparatus is reversed—from shield to weapon.
Oversight no longer restrains power; it legitimizes it.
(Source: Justice Connection — DOJ Tracker)
Arc 2 — Civil Rights Inversion
Core Line: The machinery built to protect citizens from the state is retooled to protect the state from its citizens.
Anchor Events:
Jan 22–24 – Civil-rights litigation frozen; staff reassigned.
Apr 18 – Immigration records granted to political operatives.
May 3 – Voting Section redirected to “voter fraud.”
Apr 22 & Jul 17 – Civil Rights Division aligns with White House agenda and seeks leniency for Breonna Taylor killer.
Sept 8 – Schools warned for teaching “gender ideology.”
Consequence: Civil-rights law becomes a mechanism for ideological enforcement, not equal protection.
(Source: Justice Connection — DOJ Tracker)
Arc 3 — Immigration Court Capture
Core Line: Judicial function is replaced with administrative obedience.
Anchor Events:
Jan 20 – Immigration judges fired.
Feb 14 – Additional bench purges.
Aug 27 – Qualifications loosened for new judges.
Sept 2 – Military lawyers installed as replacement judges.
Consequence: The nation’s largest judicial system is re-engineered to produce policy outcomes, not legal decisions.
(Source: Justice Connection — DOJ Tracker)
Arc 4 — FBI Restructure & Purge
Core Line: Loyalty supplants competence; oversight becomes fragmented by design.
Anchor Events:
Jan 31 – Eight senior executives fired.
Mar 15 – Command structure decentralized.
May 20 – Internal Auditing office closed.
Jul 10–11 – Polygraph loyalty tests and mass firings.
Aug 21 – Recruitment standards lowered.
Consequence: The post-9/11 intelligence apparatus is replaced by a loyalty-filtered network incapable of self-correction.
(Source: Justice Connection — DOJ Tracker)
Arc 5 — Corporate Immunity Track
Core Line: Economic power is shielded while public-integrity cases are starved of resources.
Anchor Events:
Feb 10 – FCPA enforcement paused.
May 12 – White-collar investigations cut.
Jun 9 – Anti-bribery unit halved.
Jul 29 – Trump donor tax-fraud case dismissed.
Consequence: The law is re-tuned to punish disloyalty but forgive corruption — re-establishing a patronage economy.
(Source: Justice Connection — DOJ Tracker)
Arc 6 — Epstein File Leverage Loop
Core Line: Sensitive case files become political currency.
Anchor Events:
Mar 25 – Plan to publish unredacted Epstein files.
Jul 17 – Trump orders release of grand-jury transcripts.
Jul 18 – FBI told to flag Trump mentions.
Jul 24 – Hundreds of employees diverted to file review.
Consequence: Evidence and victims become instruments of leverage; privacy is replaced by utility to power.
(Source: Justice Connection — DOJ Tracker)
Arc 7 — Budget Starvation & Program Collapse
Core Line: When overt control meets resistance, funding becomes the quiet weapon.
Anchor Events:
Mar 25 – ATF/DEA merger proposal.
May 2 – 8 percent budget cut; $2 billion in grants eliminated.
Apr 23 – Hundreds of justice grants cancelled.
Oct 1 – Closure of Access to Justice, CRS, and OCDETF.
Consequence: Public-service functions disappear through attrition and defunding, masking ideological control as fiscal policy.
(Source: Justice Connection — DOJ Tracker)
Arc 8 — Press & Information Control
Core Line: Public narrative is treated as a security risk to be contained.
Anchor Events:
Apr 15 – Social-media penalties for employees.
May 1 – Reporter surveillance ban reversed.
Apr 27 – Memo allowing compelled journalist testimony.
Oct 1–3 – Shutdown messaging scripted to blame Democrats.
Consequence: Truth is centralized, speech disciplined, and silence codified as policy.
(Source: Justice Connection — DOJ Tracker)
Closing Statement
The pattern is not subtle:
Capture oversight. Invert mission. Starve resources. Control speech.
What remains of the Department of Justice is an administrative frame still called by its old name — but no longer governed by its old laws.
(Compiled and consolidated from Justice Connection’s DOJ Tracker records — January through October 2025.)
End of Series
The DOJ Tracker: 2025 Interference Report — Parts I–V
(Justice Connection / Drift Engine Consolidation Edition)