Meet USAID’s Samantha Power, The Globalist’s Karen-in-Chief

A career-long busybody and snitch, always eager to tell others what to think and do

In researching the background of Biden’s USAID chief Samantha Power, one dominant theme emerges.

In all of her many roles from journalist to nationalist security adviser to UN Ambassador to human rights activist to administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Power has been, first and foremost, a “Karen,” a busybody, a snitch, never one to shy from telling people what’s in their own best interest.

Born in London in 1970 to affluent Irish parents, Power immigrated to the United States as a young girl and made all the right establishment moves, including a B.A. from Yale and a J.D. from Harvard.

Out of college, Power worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the foundation that famously hired Alger Hiss as president after his communist sympathies became too obvious for the Truman State Department and before he was busted as a Soviet agent.

While serving as a professor of Human Rights at Harvard, Power published her first book, A Problem from Hell. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. Of course.

Her thesis helped formulate the doctrine of the “responsibility to protect,” meaning the responsibility of the United States to intervene in other country’s domestic affairs.

Power’s interventionist zeal put her at odds with another globalist diva, Susan Rice. At an interagency teleconference in April 1994, Rice, then a “rising star” on President Clinton’s National Security Council, offered her own take on the proper response to the ongoing genocide in Rwanda.

“If we use the word ‘genocide’ and are seen as doing nothing,” she asked rhetorically, “what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?”

Rice stunned those who heard her, not by thinking what she said, but by saying it out loud. Rice would later claim she did not recall the incident.

Samantha Power certainly did. Then a 22-year-old journalist for the Atlantic, Power scathingly reported Rice’s quote, causing her future colleague in the Obama administration no small amount of embarrassment.

Giving credit where it was due, Power had a penchant for scolding other Democrats, especially females, if they blocked her ambitions.

As an early champion of Barack Obama, Power had little use for his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton. In a March 2008 interview, she commented frankly on Hillary’s campaign tactics.

“She is a monster, too—that is off the record—she is stooping to anything,” said Power of Hillary. “if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive.”

Lots of prevarication and apologizing followed.

In Obama’s first term, Power served on Obama’s National Security Council with a special interest in human rights. Not surprisingly, she lobbied for American intervention in Libya, which led to the Benghazi fiasco and the collapse of the Libyan state.

In Obama’s second term, she served as Ambassador to the United Nation. In that role, she found herself in an unusual competition with Susan Rice, now Obama’s girl Friday.

In the waning days of the Obama administration, Rice “unmasked” the identities of several incoming Trump officials. She would not have done something this provocative without Obama’s approval.

When the controversy first surfaced in April 2017, Rice played dumb. PBS’s Judy Woodruff asked Rice whether it was true that President Trump and the people around him “may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals in that their identities may have been disclosed.”

Said Rice, “I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman [Devin] Nunes on that count today.”

It was not until her September 2017 appearance before a House subcommittee that Rice admitted that, yes, she had unmasked those individuals.

On the unmasking front, Rice was a piker compared to Power. In September 2017, Fox News reported that in the final months of Obama’s tenure, Power unmasked individuals, many of them affiliated with Trump, at the rate of several a day.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing, Power tried the classic SODDI defense—some other dude did it. Yes, she admitted, there was unmasking going on, but someone else was doing it under her name. As with Rice, Power went unpunished.

For Power, being named administrator of USAID by Joe Biden was like waking up on Christmas morning and finding a pony under her tree. USAID was a meddler’s paradise, a perfect platform for telling people what to say and think.

In that role Power met with executives from You Tube and Facebook among others to help them control “disinformation,” a euphemism for information that displeased her and her allies.

In an exit interview with Politico, a major recipient of USAID’s largesse, Power sung the praises of the still unnoticed deep state slush fund.

“There are many people in both parties who also still believe in the old-fashioned idea that when America projects compassion and earns respect and trust,” she told the reporter, “that kind of soft power, that political capital can be important.”

President’s Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt documented some of the “soft power” contributions from USAID.

—$1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia workplaces

—$70,000 for the production of a DEI musical in Ireland

—$47,000 for a trans opera in Colombi

—$32,000 for a trans comic book in Peru

If anything was “soft,” it was the agency’s soft-core Marxism. “I don’t want my dollars going to this crap,” said the precocious Leavitt. She blasted USAID’s “insane priorities,” and “insane” is as good a word as any to summarize Power’s contribution to global Karenism.

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