MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein’s letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks demanding an investigation and punishment of NAR-connected U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Brian Eifler
September 13, 2024
The Honorable Kathleen H. Hicks
United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
1010 Defense Pentagon
Washington D.C., 20301-1010
Madam Deputy Secretary Hicks,
It is my sad, yet critically urgent, duty to bring to you today a truly heinous matter of shockingly abject, alleged treasonous malfeasance and misfeasance by none other than the U.S. Army’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, Lt. General Brain S. Eifler.
My name is Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein and I am the Founder and President of a large, First Amendment civil rights advocacy organization called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF: mrff.org).
In its nearly 20 years of hard-fought civil rights battles, MRFF has represented over 90,000 active duty, reserve and national guard members of the American armed forces and veterans as well as individuals at all 18 national security agencies, the Department of Homeland Security (U.S. Coast Guard) and the Department of Transportation (U.S. Maritime Service). MRFF’s central mission is to vigorously protect the Constitutionally-mandated separation of church and state in the aforementioned Federal agencies. Nearly 1,100 courageous individuals work here at MRFF, both paid and volunteers. In this regard, there are MRFF representatives on most DoD installations in the Continental United States (CONUS) and overseas as well as even on nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers et al.
I won’t belabor the tragic point here other than to direct your immediate and complete attention to the breaking news story immediately below. This stunningly revelatory article is authored by MRFF’s Senior Research Director, Ms. Chris Rodda, and is concomitantly being publicly released contemporaneously with this demand letter from MRFF to you, ma’am.
From the incontrovertible information assiduously researched and now publicly released by MRFF with this breaking news story, it appears as though the United States Army Lt. General in charge of ALL its personnel, Lt. General Brian Eifler and his spouse, are apparently inextricably intertwined with one of the most, if not THE most, pernicious and radically extremist Christian nationalist organization on planet Earth; to wit, The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR).
Lt. General Eifler’s alleged despicable and outrageously shameful actions of criminally eviscerating the solemn oath he swore to preserve, protect and defend the United States Constitution (vice his favorite flavor of extremist Christian nationalism) have been boldly and brazenly perpetrated whilst attired in his full United Staes Army uniform where he has officially briefed the Christian extremist attendees at an unknown number of NAR events. MRFF has photos and videos (see breaking news article supra) to substantiate these claims of alleged treason.
Indeed, his alleged, indefensible, abhorrent actions of seethingly sectarian fundamentalist Christian nationalism, bigotry, exceptionalism, primacy, exclusivity, supremacy and triumphalism have savagely ripped asunder the vast array of inter alia DoD and U.S. Army Directives, Instructions and Regulations, Army Core Values and Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) Articles deliberately designed to prevent his alleged, monstrously noxious, and illicit actions.
When your boss, DoD Secretary Lloyd Austin, assumed his current position in January of 2021, he promised ON THE RECORD to America and to Congress that he would proudly serve as a lodestar for religious and racial equality at DoD. He also swore to eradicate racial and religious extremism in the U.S. military ranks.
So, Madame Deputy Secretary, how the HELL do you explain these rancid, alleged actions of exactly THAT by YOUR U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, Lt. General Eifler?!
Fix this unmitigated, disgraceful disaster NOW, Madame Deputy Secretary!
MRFF DEMANDS, IN THIS SPECIFIC REGARD MADAME DEPUTY SECRETARY, THAT YOU TAKE THE REQUISITE, EXPEDITIOUS AND AGGRESSIVE ACTIONS TO HAVE THE U.S. ARMY’S CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DIVISION (CID) THOROUGHLY AND AGGRESSIVELY INVESTIGATE LT. GENERAL EIFLER’S ALLEGED TREASONOUS ACTIONS AND PROSECUTE HIM, AND ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN DETERMINED TO HAVE AIDED AND ABETTED HIM EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO THE FULL EXTENT OF MILITARY AND RELATED FEDERAL LAW AT A PUBLIC TRIAL BY GENERAL COURTS MARTIAL.
Lt. General Brian Eifler (and perhaps an unknown number of colleagues of his throughout DoD?) has allegedly comprehensively disgraced this uniform and the oath he swore to our nation’s Constitution. His alleged actions of support, succor, and advancement of the extremist, Christian nationalist NAR lay to utter waste the good order, morale, discipline, and unit cohesion necessitated to ensure an effective American fighting force.
His alleged radicalized support of the vicious Christian nationalist NAR is a nefarious, metastasizing cancer on our honorable United States military and its nonpareil national security mission.
SO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Madame Deputy Secretary, profoundly and swiftly investigate Lt. General Eifler, and any and all enablers at DoD, and, if his actions of treason to the United States are found to be substantiated as MRFF believes they will be, publicly and visibly prosecute him and any others at general courts-martial proceedings IMMEDIATELY!
Your solemn and official duty to the American people and our beloved Constitution requires nothing less.
Respectfully submitted,
Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein, Esq.
Founder and President
Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF)
505-250-7727
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