To the Editor:

This is in response to James Spickard’s “Broken Oaths” letter (1/30). Mr. Spickard mentions “the Freedom Index, a function of the John Birch Society, the foremost organization and authority dedicated to upholding the U.S. Constitution.”

Since fact checking is absolutely needed in this era of fake news and undermining of the truth through cognitive manipulation on all media, with its eloquent leader Mr. Trump, here are the Wikipedia facts about JBS:

February 6, 2019