Nearly a year later, it is clear that the document was not mere rhetoric. Rather, it has served as an operational blueprint to disrupt and dismantle progressive and left wing organizations through surveillance, harassment, infiltration, and legal prosecution.
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NSPM-7 turns one, notches its first prosecutor to quit and its first DA to be referred, same week
As it ran on the front
A year ago the administration signed a memo nobody outside a few staffers noticed, a national security directive ordering federal agencies to disrupt organizations the White House filed under "left." A year is enough time to see what a blueprint becomes once people with subpoena power get handed it and nothing to lose. Early this month, two U.S. senators opened an inquiry into reports that the Internal Revenue Service was drafting a plan to point its exam division at left-leaning nonprofits, the kind of penalty that doesn't need to win in court, because the audit itself is the sentence, and it arrives before anyone gets a hearing. Wyden and Warnock called it what a senator can call it in public: an investigation. The document itself, read straight, is a targeting memo with a congressional inquiry sitting on top of it like a lid that doesn't seal.
Two weeks later, a federal judge in Philadelphia did the same. District Attorney Larry Krasner, who has spent public time insinuating that the president is a 35-time felon, was referred by that judge to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation. The Washington Examiner ran the referral as poetic justice.…
…(cont) Then this week the machine produced its first defector. Sheri Mecklenburg, a career federal prosecutor, resigned from Justice and put it in writing: U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros "personally directed" the prosecution of the Broadview 6, and it ended her career. She is the staff — the person who does the paperwork instead of writing the memo, and instead of staying quiet, she quit and told a reporter why, which is the only alarm a bureaucracy has left once everyone above her stopped answering to anyone outside it.
Put the three next to each other and the word "blueprint" in that anniversary story stops sounding like a metaphor. A directive turned one this month, and in the same few weeks it produced an audit plan under Senate inquiry, a resignation letter naming a sitting U.S. attorney, and a district attorney referred to federal prosecutors for the opinion Krasner holds about the man who signed the memo. Nobody had to leak an org chart. It filed itself, one press release at a time, and the only person in the story who quit is the one who was working inside it.
“They wrote a memo a year ago telling every agency in Washington who counts as the enemy, and now we've got the receipts running in real time — an IRS plan aimed at nonprofits, a judge shipping a DA to federal prosecutors for having an opinion about a verdict, and the one woman who actually worked the case quitting and naming her own boss on the way out. That's not law enforcement, that's an org chart with a target list stapled to it, and the only person resigning in protest is the one who was inside it. Next quarter it's not somebody else's nonprofit losing its exemption, it's whichever group runs your kid's after-school program.”
“The IRS looking at nonprofit compliance isn't persecution, it's called an audit, and audits happen to everybody eventually — did I say everybody, I mean the ones flagged for cause, which is different, forget I said everybody. Judge Diamond referring Krasner has nothing to do with politics, a sitting DA publicly musing about felony counts is a conduct issue, the judiciary doesn't do politics, it does conduct. And Mecklenburg quitting? People leave DOJ all the time, that's called turnover, not a symptom — why did I say symptom, that's not the word I meant.”
The receipts
Sheri Mecklenburg resigned from the Department of Justice this week, penning a scathing letter in which she said U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros "personally directed" the Broadview 6 prosecution that she says ended her career.
· Judge referring Trump-hating Philadelphia district attorney to DOJ for criminal investigation is poetic justice from the morgue, 17 Sep 2026
· How Charlie Kirk’s murder drove Trump’s crackdown on ‘radical-left lunatics’ from the morgue, 10 Sep 2026
· 'Tomorrow, It Could Be Any of Us': Dems Probe Trump Plan to Aim IRS at Left-Leaning Nonprofits from the morgue, 3 Sep 2026
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