A watchdog group on Monday filed a complaint against President Joe Biden’s nominee for Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman over his previous comments on diversity.

The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) filed a complaint against Air Force General C.Q. Brown over his promotion of “race based hiring” ahead of a Senate hearing on Tuesday to consider his nomination, referencing previous comments Brown made about hiring “for diversity” and referring to the military as a “white boys club.” 

Brown “has made a number of statements about hiring on the basis of race as well as monitoring the private beliefs of employees or potential employees with the intention of censoring those beliefs. If implemented, the statements and views of General Brown on what should be official hiring policy of the U.S. Air Force present a significant likelihood of violating the civil and constitutional rights of military personnel, in addition to violating existing code of conduct for Air Force personnel,” the complaint says. 

The complaint against Brown was sent to Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice. Brown, who was chosen by Biden to replace current Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, will appear before the Senate Armed Forces Committee on Tuesday.

The AAF previously drew attention to a list of comments Brown has made in interviews where he discussed his goal to diversify the military. 

🧵1/ BREAKING: Biden's pick to be the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is so obsessed with race he explicitly says he wants to "tweak the screening process" to favor diverse candidates for promotion.

Here is a thread of his SHOCKING statements

1/ "I hire for diversity" pic.twitter.com/knYacawIbk

— American Accountability Foundation (@ExposingBiden) June 27, 2023

“You can’t let it just be happenstance that brings in the diversity whether it be race, gender, ethnic background, sexual orientation, socio-economic background. You really have to spend some time thinking about it because you may miss an opportunity looking at the slate of candidates and then asking some hard questions,” Brown said. “As we’re looking at some key positions, who are diverse candidates and are we making sure we are grooming them so they have the opportunity?”

The complaint says that Brown’s comments likely violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

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“As the Supreme Court of the United States of America just made clear, racist ‘diversity’ policies at universities are unconstitutional and illegal. Yet Biden’s nominee to be our nation’s top military leader wants to implement those racist policies in the military,” AAF President Tom Jones told The Daily Wire in a statement. “Gen. Brown’s race-obsessed world view is an insult to our brave men and women of all colors. When a young private is sent into battle he needs to know the man commanding him was put there because he’s the most capable warrior, not because of the color of his skin. Especially at a time of increased military competition with China, we cannot afford to fall behind by making racial ‘diversity’ a priory at the cost of military excellence.”

Brown could also face an uphill battle for confirmation as Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has been placing a “hold” on general and flag officer promotions due to the Pentagon’s policy of allowing female service members expense-paid travel and up to three weeks leave for elective abortions.

The man whose story inspired “Sound of Freedom” is pushing back against critics in the media who are tying the hit film to the QAnon movement.

Tim Ballard, portrayed by actor Jim Caviezel in the movie as a former government agent who left his job to save one girl from sex traffickers in Colombia and ended up saving scores more children, told Fox News on Monday there is no justification to accuse the movie of being steeped in conspiracy theories associated with QAnon.

“I can’t explain, and neither can they,” Ballard said. “Every show I’ve seen, they just like to throw the word out, ‘QAnon.’ They make zero connection to the actual story. It’s very difficult to make that connection when it’s actually based on a true story.”

Tim Ballard shreds CNN for slandering Sound of Freedom as a "QAnon film."

"It’s embarrassing and simply grotesque for this guy who knows nothing to start throwing out terms like Qanon and connecting it to a real story." pic.twitter.com/d9WwhBc93y

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 10, 2023

Ballard asked, “where is the QAnon doctrine being spewed in the film and the script?”, and argued that he would know best because he was there for these events that can be confirmed by others.

“This is just some other agenda … who would want to get the backs or run interference for pedophiles and human traffickers? That’s the more important question in all this. Why would you want to lie to push an agenda whose goal is to have children be in captivity? It’s kind of sick,” he said.

Several left-leaning news outlets have published stories that made the QAnon association, including Rolling Stone and The Guardian.

The mainstream media are coordinating with each other to attempt to discredit Sound of Freedom because it exposes real life child trafficking.

These outlets want to hide the truth:

Washington Post
Rolling Stone
Media Matters
Jezebel
The Guardian

📸 @CourageHabit pic.twitter.com/FasQDT37Le

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 9, 2023

Ballard was asked to react specifically to a critique by author Mike Rothschild, who said during an appearance on CNN that the film “is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings that are run by the high-level elites” and that people like Ballard and those who buy tickets to see the movie feel they are the only ones who can stop it.

NEW: CNN vocally opposes the release of ‘Sound of Freedom’, a movie exposing the reality of child sex trafficking, calling it a ‘QAnon’ film.

Imagine being upset about a movie exposing child sex trafficking and thinking you’re the good guys.

“These films are created out of… pic.twitter.com/ED0zMyEwZQ

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 8, 2023

“As that guy is talking — and he’s nobody’s hero by the way — I can’t imagine any kid looking at him thinking he’s going to help them out,” Ballard said. “But I think of the children that are really depicted in that film. I know what happened to them. Those children were the subjects of child rape videos. Those children were being sold for sex.”

Ballard, who noted that more than 100 individuals wound up being rescued, added that it is “embarrassing and frankly, grotesque for this guy who knows nothing to start throwing out terms like QAnon and connecting it to a real story.”