Lee Smith is one of the most decent and genuine people I have ever had the good pleasure to meet. In this interview Smith discusses his latest book “The Permanent Coup”.
The Trump-Russia collusion hoax, the Mueller investigation, the impeachment inquiry, the “weaponization of the coronavirus,” and now the riots raging in major U.S. cities are all intrinsically linked, says investigative journalist Lee Smith.
Recorded on May 6th, 2020
A true Renaissance man, Matt Ridley is a British journalist, a member of the House of Lords, a businessman, and the author of many publications, including The Rational Optimist, his very influential book about the innate human tendency to trade goods and services, which he argues is the source of all human prosperity. Ridley’s new book, How Innovation Works, chronicles the history of innovation and argues that we need to change the way we think about innovation, to see it as an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that happens to society as a direct result of the human habit of exchange, rather than as an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan. Ridley also discusses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the world’s economies, the real story of Thomas Edison and why he was one of the greatest innovators in human history, why China may not be the threat it appears to be (at least not technologically), and some predictions as to what the world may look like in 2050.
To view the transcript of this conversation, click here.
The big flap over Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden plagiarizing the words of Canada’s former New Democrat Party late leader Jack Layton is proof positive about how out of touch most mainstream media really is.
Goofy Joe was caught plagiarizing the words of Jack Layton is his farewell before death address to this nation. In absentia, Layton is accused of plagiarizing former Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier from 1916 in his ‘Goodbye To The World Note’.
The main point the mainstream and social media are missing is that ALL Liberals speak the same language and continue to plagiarize each other in order to drive home their talking points—even after joining the ranks of the Dearly Departed.
“At a speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, Biden’s final address included the lines, “For love is more powerful than hate. Hope is more powerful than fear. And light is more powerful than dark.” (National Post, Aug. 21, 2020)
“Biden has been accused of plagiarism in the past. Most famously, he plagiarized a speech in 1987 from former British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock.
“Kinnock’s speech said, “Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Why is Glenys (his wife) the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick?”
“Biden’s speech said, “I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright?”
The late Jack Layton was the biggest socialist carbuncle on the rear of Canadian politics for decades, advancing a political carer from a radical City of Toronto Councillor up to leader of the equally as radical Canadian New Democrat Party.
Layton and his wife Olivia Chow, a school board trustee and city councillor, were proud table-dancing founders of Communist COPE (Committee of Progressive Electors).(Canada Free Press April, 2002, )
Layton was a cheerleader among the throngs that heard Barack Obama’s acceptance speech from an ancient Greek Temple setting in Denver where he waved a a blue and white placard with Obama’s name. (Canada Free Press, Aug. 28, 2008)
Eight years later after Obama’s top election team members, along with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) boosted Justin Trudeau into the prime minister’s office, Biden anointed the now scandal-plagued Trudeau as ‘Leader of the Western world’.
Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday night that the world needs Canada “very, very badly” and that the world will look to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to several media outlets (Politico, Dec. 9, 2016)
“OTTAWA — U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be a defender of the international “rules of the road” to help shepherd the world through a period of deep uncertainty. (Toronto Star, Dec. 8, 2016)
“Biden delivered that message in a stirring speech at a state dinner in his honour in Ottawa on Thursday night, in which he singled out the fight against climate change as the most important issue of this generation.
“Biden didn’t mention president-elect Donald Trump by name but he made veiled references to the uncertainty gripping Europe and the United States since Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and the recent presidential election in his own country.
“Biden said the world would make enormous progress — but only if leaders such as Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stepped up.
“The changes that are going to take place are going to be astronomical,” Biden said.
Empty of everything but rhetoric politicians have always plagiarized the noble words of poets, literary giants and statesmen—the main difference between both groups being, the first group sincerely meant them.
You won’t be reading this article anywhere else on the Internet today because the U.S. media is dominated by Fake News, while Justin Trudeau bought off most of the Canadian Media with $600million before his 2019 re-election to minority status.
Meanwhile, the U.S. which writes off Canada as a passive, quick-to-apologize, somewhat boring country does so at its own peril.
For it is Canada that is the U.S. Democrat Party’s biggest partner in working to turn North America into a thorough Socialist State.
Joe Biden’s biggest crime is not plagiarizing the long dead Jack Layton but ‘plagiarizing’ all socialist principles for the U.S. with ‘Western Leader’ Canadian Justin Trudeau’s help.
“Stay frosty and alert.”—Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn) “Aliens”
I believe that life imitates art. Jesus and his boys get depicted through art, which includes painting music, sculpture, and film, as sweet little tinkerpots, versus earth shaking troublemakers who rocked this planet on behalf of a holy God. The church morphed into timid and tepid salvation egoists, who are a neutered fraction of what Christ intended them to be. [These] postmodern “saints” punch-drunk on an emasculated version of Christ and Christianity moved from being barrel-chested freedom fighters for Jesus and his kingdom, to being forlorn and feckless followers…. —Doug Giles “Biblical Badasses: A Raw Look at Christianity and Art”
To say that We the People are feeling a bit antsy these days is to grossly understate things. When I say “We the People” I am referring to that roughly 70% of the population who have somehow managed to immunize themselves against the detrimental effects of the pervasive soul-sapping leftist propaganda spewed at us in a never-ending stream of Hollywood hype and media malarkey.
We the People are definitely feeling way more than a little bit antsy. Metaphorically speaking locked, loaded, and infuriated is more like it – and it will not take much to set off the powder keg.
For the moment, most of us appear to be willing to wait until the elections in November are over before snapping off our safeties. But make no mistake, what follows the elections won’t be pretty; it’ll be downright ugly…and brutal, bloody, cruel, and chaotic. In short, it will be war, civil war. How large and expansive, or contained and tamped down it will remains to be seen.
If the Democrats claim victory in November, We the People will know it is only as the result of historically massive voter fraud – and act accordingly. But if President Trump wins, the Left will ensure that the waters surrounding the elections are so muddied with hysterics and lies that any Trump victory will be foully tainted – a taint that will be aided and abetted by 24/7 non-stop media pearl clutching and faux outrage.
In short, win or lose, the bottom falls out and safeties snap into the off position. It will, of course, be best if Trump wins reelection – the carnage would be toned down and minimized. But the left has been slowly marching its way through the various cultural institutions for over a century, and they know how totally exposed and vulnerable they are at present. They will not go down without a fight.
So, We the People need to be prepared, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. We should get ready to put our game faces on at a moment’s notice – and always be frosty and alert.
Physically we get ready by getting our bodies and environment into the best shape we can. Stock up on survivalist gear and foods – and make sure to have plenty of ammo for your guns…and if you don’t have any guns by now, WTF?
Just so, We the People should practice switching from friendly and genial to kick-your-butt aggressiveness. You never know when such an ability might come in handy, could, in fact, save your life. Which brings us to spirituality.
I know, I know – that last sentence no doubt lost me a good chunk of my readers. A friend calls it “spiritual narcolepsy,” where whenever the topic of spirituality crops up his eyes glaze over and he starts nodding off. It’s okay, we all suffer from it to some degree.
To those of you still with me, let me say that spirituality is of vital importance, both to us as individuals and America as a whole. I will briefly explain some of why I believe this to be true below, in the meat of this article.
First of all, what is spirituality? Well it is not religion, although the two are often conflated. Religion is the vehicle whose precious cargo consists of its core principles of spiritual truth. The more spiritual truth it carries the more valid the religion, and, of course, the opposite is also true.
Religion empty of its spiritual raison d’etre is basically just vapid dogma – can, in fact, be harmful rather than helpful. Religion is basically designed to be an interface between the material and spiritual realms. Spirituality is any valid religion’s essence, its reason for being.
Religion is mainly concerned with our minds, with rules and regulations. Spirituality is concerned primarily with the state of our soul, our psyche, our being…our state of consciousness. It is much more concerned with what we are rather than what we do. There can be much overlap, of course, but religion and spirituality can, and do, sometimes exist quite comfortably independent of each other.
Spirituality is primarily focused on experience rather than book knowledge. I read a book on Zen decades ago that summed this attitude up nicely. To paraphrase the author: If a Zen teacher wanted you to understand sugar, they would not try to describe sugar to you with words. A bit of sugar would be put on your tongue, and no words need be used. It’s the experience, not intellectual knowledge that is of paramount importance in the spiritual realm. Ah so.
To quote the philosopher/linguist/author Ludwig Wittgenstein (who knew a thing or two about words), “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” An obvious problem pops up here that needs be addressed. If the spiritual realm can be experienced, but is beyond words, beyond verbal description (ineffable) doesn’t that leave room for a vast amount of misunderstanding, not to mention intentional chicanery? Glad you asked. Yes, it does indeed leave a vast amount of room (infinite room to be precise) for misunderstanding and intentional duplicity.
Which means that the spiritual journey can be an arduous journey indeed – replete with dead ends, false starts, pit falls, and traps for the naïve and/or unwary. I definitely do not claim to be any sort of expert on the topic, but I have been engaged on a spiritual journey (often of the three-steps-forward-two-steps-back variety) since the 1960s and have, in spite of myself, acquired a bit of insight over the years.
I have found the teachings of the late Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012) to be of great value – especially as outlined in his Map Of Consciousness (MOC). His MOC goes a long way toward explaining the dangerous disconnect that exists between the political left and right in this country (indeed globally), and therefore is well worth being acquainted with. Although I have read every book that Dr. Hawkins published (some of them multiple times) I cannot claim to speak for the man, and apologize in advance for any and all errata I may commit.
I have found the teachings of the late Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012) to be of great value – especially as outlined in his Map Of Consciousness (MOC). His MOC goes a long way toward explaining the dangerous disconnect that exists between the political left and right in this country (indeed globally), and therefore is well worth being acquainted with. Although I have read every book that Dr. Hawkins published (some of them multiple times) I cannot claim to speak for the man, and apologize in advance for any and all errata I may commit.
In a nutshell, Dr. Hawkins’s MOC consists of a graphic illustration/chart of the main levels of human consciousness – from the lowest up to the highest. Moving up the MOC from its bottom level of consciousness (Shame) we progressively rise through the levels of Guilt, Apathy, Grief, Fear, Desire, Anger, and Pride (the top of the bottom of the heap, so to speak). After Pride comes the vital level of Courage.
The MOC level of consciousness is so important because it is the level where one begins to take personal responsibility for their reality, it is the entryway to the spiritual realm. People whose state of consciousness is below Courage play the “blame game” – everything is his, hers, or its fault – never theirs. People who exist mainly below the level of Courage have scant experience of true love, whereas those above the level of Courage exponentially experience increasing amounts of love (true love) eventually culminating in full enlightenment.
Jesus was, of course, adamant about the importance of love: “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” The importance of the word “as” in Jesus’s commandment cannot be overstated. Jesus is talking of divine love (agape as the Greeks called it).
Here a few words about “love” are in order. “Love” is without doubt one of the most abused, misused, and misunderstood labels in the English language.
We often associate the word “love” with romantic love – by which we most often mean a somewhat toxic mixture of lust, desire, want, and need. It is, to be sure, a very powerful mix indeed (it can, has, and will, lead to murder and/or suicide), but it is not truly what love is. Love is not an emotion, it is a state of being, a state of consciousness. Unfortunately, relatively few of us ever experience the level of unconditional love, let alone the ineffable experience of divine love. But those of us who have reached the level of Courage (personal responsibility) at least possess the ability to strive toward love – as opposed to those who are immersed in the “blame game” of the lower states of consciousness.
Tomorrow: Part II
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is headquartered in Akron, Ohio, where it was founded in 1898. Since that time, it has grown to be a massive corporation with operations all over the world. Today, it is the third largest tire company in the world with 63,000 employees. In addition, Americans have become accustomed to seeing one of the nine Goodyear Blimps at major sporting events across the country.
Unfortunately, this company with a very patriotic image is led by left wing activists who are doing their best to squelch free speech, especially if it is promoting conservative causes.
This week, audio from an instructor and a slide from a diversity training demonstration at their facility in Topeka, KS were leaked on social media. In a discussion of the company’s “zero tolerance” policy, an unnamed area manager declared that wearing clothing for certain causes was “acceptable” but for others it was “unacceptable.” Among the “acceptable” causes were “Black Lives Matters” and “LGBT” pride; however, “unacceptable” causes included “All Lives Matter,” “Blue Lives Matter” and “MAGA Attire.”
The employee who leaked the slide said that the instructor claimed the “zero tolerance” policy emanated from corporate headquarters. The unnamed employee was fearful of being fired, so remained anonymous. This courageous whistleblower claimed the policy was “discriminatory” and clearly did not like the left-wing bias of the training seminar, and leaked portions of the presentation.
Once the policy was revealed, there was an outcry on social media from supporters of law enforcement and President Trump. This led to an initial statement from Goodyear representative Melissa Monaco that the company allows employees to “express their support on racial injustice and other equity issues but ask that they refrain from workplace expressions, verbal or otherwise, in support of political campaigning.”
Her statement did not quell the criticism, instead it intensified. Soon thereafter, the Chairman, CEO and President of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Rich Kramer, clarified the official corporate position. He said, “The slide in question was created by a plant employee to try to explain what is acceptable to wear in the workplace. The slide was not approved or distributed by Goodyear Corporate or anyone outside of that facility.”
It is good that the company will allow “Blue Lives Matter” apparel; however, the continued ban on “All Lives Matter” and “MAGA Attire” illustrates the leftwing mentality of Goodyear executives. Kramer said the company will continue to support “equal justice,” which is why the “Black Lives Matter” apparel is allowed. However, if the company truly supported “equal justice,” then clothing supporting “All Lives Matter” would be permitted. Nothing is more equal than wanting the life of everyone to matter.
Clearly, Goodyear is doing what so many corporate and political leaders have been doing in recent months, espousing support for “Black Lives Matter” at the exclusion of other racial and ethnic groups. In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, there has been a rush of large corporations expressing encouragement for “Black Lives Matter.” Despite the stampede, nothing changes the reality that the founding organization, created at the infancy of this movement, is extremely left wing and overtly political.
The “Black Lives Matter” organization was created by individuals who continue to espouse a radical ideology. In fact, they have admitted that they were trained Marxists. It is also an organization which is anti-nuclear family among other extreme views.
If wearing “Black Lives Matter” clothing or showing support for that cause is “acceptable,” then showing support for a political cause that is pro-family and pro-capitalism should be “acceptable” as well. Unfortunately, displaying any attire revealing support for President Trump or with a “MAGA” insignia is not allowed by Goodyear.
In the warped and woke corporate headquarters of Goodyear, supporting all lives or President Trump or making the country great again is a political statement, whereas support for “Black Lives Matter” is just an “equal justice” issue.
Not surprisingly, at his Wednesday press conference, President Trump directly addressed this issue. He said he would be “very much in favor if people don’t want to buy there.” He also tweeted, “Don’t buy GOODYEAR TIRES – They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less! (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!).”
It is time that Trump supporters followed their President’s lead and fought back against discriminatory corporate policies. In this case, after initial criticism, Goodyear made slight modifications to their policy to allow pro-police garb. If the pressure continues, the company might relax their ban on “MAGA Attire” and other political clothing.
If “Black Lives Matter” is allowed, support for President Trump must be allowed. Either we have a First Amendment, or we do not. The arbiter of what is permissible free speech is not Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, it is the United States Constitution and our Bill of Rights.
At the virtual Democrat National Convention last week––where the Democratic National Committee removed the word God from the Pledge of Allegiance––the public was treated to tasteless and remarkably unfunny jokes from Hollywood’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and a video featuring Donna Hylton who spent 27 years in prison for the grisly murder and torture of Thomas Vigliarolo, a NY businessman found stuffed inside a steamer trunk and left to rot in Harlem.
Then there was Michelle Obama telling Americans to ‘go high’ after her husband tried to destroy candidate and then President Trump by weaponizing all of our intelligence agencies against him. Ironically, this is the same woman who proved that you can’t go any lower than the sentiment she expressed at the age of 44 that she was never proud to be an American until her husband was nominated to the U.S. presidency. Imagine, this Princeton and Harvard Law graduate lived almost five decades having to tolerate the bitter taste of American citizenship. And to prove plus ça change, her speech demonstrated that the bitterness bitterly lingers on.
REPRESENTING THE RELIGION OF PEACE
Then there was speaker Noman Hussain, an Imam affiliated with the Texas-based Qalam Institute, which advocates for “the use of female sex slaves, the killing of adulterers, and the incitement of hatred against Jews.”
THE PARTY’S MORAL COMPASS
Americans also got to see what one pundit called “the Party’s moral compass,” Bill Clinton, whose speech was preceded by the release of a photo showing one of Jeffery Epstein’s accusers giving the former president a shoulder massage.
Journalist Matt Vespa offered this critique: “It was a rather flat repudiation [of Trump] if anything. Bill just doesn’t have the mojo to deliver the heavy hits anymore. He looked tired… [he] did this as a Party favor.” But “unlike his succubus wife, [he] has political skills. He is personable. He is likeable. He’s framed Joe as the anti-Trump…[but] it’s not enough to win. Romney was the anti-Obama. John Kerry was the anti-Bush. Both guys lost.”
Speaking of Kerry, “it took approximately 20 seconds” for the former Secretary of State “to drop the first flagrant lie…when he claimed that the Obama administration’s so-called Iran deal had ‘eliminated the threat of an Iran with a nuclear weapon,’” wrote journalist David Harsanyi.
Kerry knew, Harsanyi continues, “that Israel uncovered a giant cache of documents with instructions on how to jump-start a program to build a nuclear arsenal. Time keeps proving John Kerry wrong. He’s just mad that Trump’s foreign policy is working far better than his.”
And who can forget the oleaginous Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, who presented himself, according to Jake Lahut of BusinessInsider.com , “as a standard-bearer for the nation’s fight against the pandemic, calling for a better federal response than the Trump administration’s,” which Cuomo called “too sluggish.”
That’s really funny, coming from the guy who desperately called the president because of his own failure to order ventilators, which the president delivered in record time. Cuomo is also the guy who in a state of hysteria told the president he didn’t have enough beds and the president sent two massive, medically-outfitted ships and set up other medical facilities in world-class time, only to learn that Cuomo didn’t know what he was talking about––no additional ventilators or beds were needed!
Worse, according to journalist Daniel John Sobieski, Gov. Cuomo is a serial killer, guilty of “criminal negligence in ushering patients infected with the Chinese Wuhan virus”––which Cuomo calls the European virus––“into New York nursing homes, sentencing tens of thousands of vulnerable seniors to death.”
Sobieski says Cuomo’s distortions and invented facts and vilification of President Trump are all “obscene lies.” He cites New York Post columnist Miranda Devine who recently noted that Cuomo was still sending COVID patients into nursing homes, not only failing to protect the most vulnerable but deliberately putting them at risk.”
And to top it off was the candidate himself, who was proud to admit that his daughter is so enamored of the recently indicted rap singer Cardi B that he agreed to an interview with her, but mercifully did not play her newest hit, WAP, perhaps the filthiest “song” I’ve ever heard.
Ole Joe got through his speech creditably, notwithstanding the disturbingly vacant look in his eyes.
But oh no! Say it ain’t so, Joe! As journalist Breck Dumas reported, even during the broadcast of Biden’s acceptance speech, a Twitter storm was “accusing Biden of lifting the words of departed liberal Canadian politician Jack Layton, who passed away in 2011––comparing the parting words of Biden’s speech to the final words of Jack Layton’s farewell letter before his death.”
Biden’s speech, a tweeter noted, said: “For love is more powerful than hate. Hope is more powerful than fear. Light is more powerful than dark. This is our moment. This is our mission.” Layton’s quote read, “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
Of course, Biden has been accurately accused of plagiarism for decades. But in this case, we can only conclude that his handlers and writers are plagiarists too.
The convention even had fireworks. Only one thing was missing. In the entire event, there was not ONE WORD mentioned of the months-long violence taking place in Democrat-run cities throughout our country––the short list includes Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Baltimore, New York City––and the massive destruction wrought by the communist group Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa: widespread arson, massive destruction of property, including historic statues and local white and black businesses, wanton attacks on innocent people, intimidation and harassment, et al.
And not ONE WORD about the actions of the emboldened BLM and Antifa thugs as they marched into the suburbs of Seattle and demanded that those over-privileged, capitalist, bad bad bad white people give their homes to Black people.
Why? Because as you can see by the behavior of the mayors who run those cities, it’s perfectly okay with them as long as they serve the “big picture” goal of the Democrat Party, i.e., to have things get so bad that there is no choice but to turn to Big Government to intervene, take over, and run all of our lives from cradle to grave.
That is why your vote in November is really between Communism and Freedom!
QUESTION: Hi Marty,
I am so grateful to you for your blog and what you are doing, fighting the good fight with your words of clarity!
Recently, the Russians have announced they have a vaccine for COVID-19. Immediately the mainstream media hyperventilated about it, or ignored it. If I was forced to choose between the vaccine endorsed by the “benevolent” Mr. Gates’ and the Russian one, I would choose the Russian one. Do you have any view on the game the Russians are playing here? Somehow I doubt they are into A population growth agenda, seeing as they offer cash to moms for having kids.
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ANSWER: I agree. I would trust Putin before Bill Gates. He can deny the various conspiracy theories all he wants. This man is very dangerous, and I know for a FACT that people he is in partnerships with sold stocks and bonds at the top and even said it was because of a “virus.” He has pushed the destruction of the world economy and has strategic investments in everything he is pushing, right down to alternative meat production. He even had the audacity to tell Bloomberg News this will not end before the conclusion of 2021. He also said: “It’s ironic that people are questioning vaccines and we’re actually having to say, ‘Oh, my God, how else can you get out of a tragic pandemic?’”
I have stated that my cousin was taken to the hospital with COVID-19; they gave him hydroxychloroquine, and he was released in two days. Gates continues to put out false information claiming hydroxychloroquine carries with it the risk of “severe side effects” and arguing that medical officials should instead pursue the numerous “good therapeutic drugs” currently in development. He is absolutely lying! This would defeat his vaccine, which he intends to profit off of by charging each person on the planet $3 annually.
Gates has been funding experiments around the world, and nobody will dare stop him because, I believe, he has been bribing politicians from India to Africa and most other countries. He even launched an experiment in Italy. Gates has stated he wants immunity from lawsuits. Total immunity was given to vaccines by Congress. They can kill you, and you cannot sue. This is what is going on. If they are so safe, then why can you not file suit for damages? They can’t be that safe when they also ask for immunity. No other industry asks for such immunity. If auto manufacturers knew that your engine could blow up and kill you, but they were immune from suit, they would never fix the problem. Yet, Gates’ vaccine companies are completely immune. That does not give me any confidence in dealing with Gates or any company associated with him.
On Tuesday August 18th, I had the opportunity to talk to, be interviewed by, and brief the person described as the “main guy”, the “central investigator”, “the guy who coordinates all investigative aspects” behind the John Durham investigation.
His name is William Aldenberg, and before getting to the substance of the conversation some background context is needed.
On June 7, 2018, an indictment against Senate Intelligence Committee Security Director James Wolfe was unsealed.
Approximately six weeks later, July 21, 2018, the DOJ mysteriously declassified and publicly released the Carter Page FISA application. That’s when I noticed the first two documents were related. The FISA application was the “top secret classified document” described in the Wolfe indictment.
Immediately I recognized it wasn’t just any copy of the FISA application that was released by the DOJ; but rather a very specific copy of the FISA application. What the DOJ released was the exact copy used in the leak investigation of James Wolfe. The ramifications of this specific copy being publicly released were immediately noted, although almost everyone seemed to gloss over the issue in favor of discussing the content.
Over the course of the next several months the ramifications became more clear. Despite overwhelming evidence James Wolfe was never charged with leaking the FISA application on March 17, 2017. Quite the contrary, even to this day the official position of the FBI, DOJ and U.S. government is that Wolfe *did not* leak the FISA application. There’s a very big reason for that; as both myself and special agent William Aldenberg discussed.
First, in order to fill in another corner of the interview foundation it must be remembered the goal of the DOJ under former AG Jeff Sessions, despite his recusal on all things Trump, was the removal of political influence in the DOJ. That same objective has been repeated ad infinitum by current AG Bill Barr. This approach is why everyone in/around any issue that skirts on the investigative tissue keeps saying: “a very delicate balance is being navigated”, and “very sensitive approaches” are needed.
None of the former -and some remaining embed- officials in the FBI, DOJ, or Special Counsel actors, had any aversion to the use of weaponized politics in their corrupt investigations of President Trump. However, in the current investigation of the former weaponized political investigations the primary avoidance filter is politics.
As expressed by almost everyone in and around the issue, any evidence that comes from inside the political silo is considered unusable. This sets up a rather challenging approach… hence the overused “delicate balances” etc.
This overlay, the aggressive need not to use political information, is also frustrating.
Some are beginning to question whether it is actually a shield to justify a lack of accountability or institutional preservation. Keep up the pressure, the concerns are valid. The public doesn’t draw distinctions from the origin of evidence.
Regardless of whether information comes from HPSCI ranking member Devin Nunes; and/or Senators Grassley, Johnson or Graham (political silo); or from the DOJ itself via John Bash, Jeff Jensen or John Durham; the public is absorbing all it. However, the current AG Barr instructions imply the non use of evidence emanating from the political silo in very direct terms.
After discussions with people familiar with the overall information flow I was prepared to hear about concerns of politics from the DOJ.
Exactly as anticipated lead special investigator William Aldenberg affirmed this concern multiple times. “Did anyone on The Hill assist your assembly?” …. “Did anyone related to, connected to, or in association with The Hill; or any member or person connected directly or indirectly, aid, assist, direct or by any method ‘provide‘ any of the information we are discussing?”
Various iterations of these questions were repeated several times.
Agent William Aldenberg is a polite, courteous and friendly person. He was well prepared with the materials prior to discussion and detail oriented on the specifics. He was everything one might hope from a solid investigator.
There was one month between first contact and our ultimate briefing/discussion on details. He was well prepared, open and engaging.
After introductions and formalities, Aldenberg’s first question -with a rather pronounced Boston accent- was: “how did you find me?” Again, this was not unexpected… no-one knew his role and it was completely accidental how I was able to discover him despite layers of concealment. The silo approach was/is very effective at isolating him.
With the documents in hand to walk through and review, here is the essential story as evidenced within many seemingly disconnected public records. This is what we discussed:
FBI Washington Field Office Special Agent Brian Dugan was given a task in early 2017 to see if he could track down and identify people who were leaking information related to national security. Dugan used a Top-Secret Classified Information request by SSCI Vice-Chairman Mark Warner to begin a very specific leak investigation.
On March 17, 2017, Brian Dugan picked-up a copy of the Carter Page FISA application from the FISA Court. He personally delivered that “read and return” copy to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Security Director James Wolfe. Shortly after 4:02 pm that same day, Vice-Chairman Mark Warner reviewed the FISA in the senate “scif”.
It is not known if any other SSCI committee member viewed that FISA (there is a great deal of circumstantial evidence to indicate only Wolfe and Warner saw it); however, what is factually certain – is that on the same day as Wolfe and Warner reviewed the FISA, Security Director James Wolfe leaked it to journalist Ali Watkins.
Both the New York Times and Washington Post began reporting on the FISA application.
As soon as Ms. Watkins wrote an article for Buzzfeed, April 3, 2017, outlining Carter Page as “person one” in the application, Dugan knew the FISA had been leaked.
Dugan tells us in the Wolfe indictment how the leak took place. The original FISA application is 83 pages with two mostly blank pages. Wolfe sent Ali Watkins 82 text messages (pictures), and later that evening had a lengthy phone call about it. Dugan put Wolfe under physical surveillance for several months as he gathered more information.
Dugan obtained enough evidence surrounding Watkins participation to gain a search warrant for her email, electronic communication and phone records. At the same time it appears Dugan obtained the text messages between Chris Steele’s lawyer, Adam Waldman, and Vice-Chairman Mark Warner. The dates of both captures are very similar.
After more investigative paths were followed; and after more surveillance was conducted; eventually Wolfe was confronted. He lied three times over two dates until eventually Dugan put the direct evidence in front of him, and on December 15, 2017, Wolfe admitted to the leak. He was fired from the SSCI.
Sometime around mid-January 2018 Dugan wrapped up his investigation. However, because the special counsel held investigative authority over everything Trump-Russia, which included the FISA application, Dugan’s entire investigative file had to transfer over to the special counsel for review before going to the DC U.S. Attorney for a grand jury. That moment is when things get really troublesome.
Dugan’s delivery of the investigative file to Main Justice (mid January ’18) was the first time the special counsel knew of the totality of the investigation, and the issues with a trail of evidence going back to a serious SSCI compromise. The special counsel group took the Dugan file apart and began providing cover for their political allies. That’s why the Mark Warner text messages were released on February 9, 2018.
The Wolfe leak was toxic to the purpose of the special counsel. There were also serious issues with an intelligence compromise, a national security compromise, an SSCI compromise, a gang-of-eight compromise, and a compromise between the legislative and executive branches of government. The special counsel was in damage control mode.
Despite recommendations and normal procedures, “Top FBI leadership”, including FBI Director Chris Wray, made decisions not to do a national security damage assessment based on the identified intelligence compromises. The ramifications are rather stark. Everyone was in cover-up mode.
The transfer of the investigative file into Main Justice is how the special counsel gained custody of the exact March 17, 2017, version of the FISA application which they released on July 21, 2018. Additionally, only nine days earlier, July 12, 2018, the special counsel was telling the FISA court the Carter Page FISA application was adequately predicated.
When the Brian Dugan investigative file was returned, the evidence of the Wolfe leak was scrubbed. Wolfe was only charged with lying three times to investigators. Absent the indictment for the leak Wolfe’s lawyers knew they had leverage; they threatened to subpoena the SSCI senators (remember, it’s likely only Warner was a participant in the March 17th FISA review – so the real target of that threat was Senator Mark Warner).
After the threat DC U.S. Attorney’ Office, Jessie Liu, agreed to a plea deal. They dropped the three counts of lying to federal investigators down to one count while simultaneously the media ran from the story.
On December 14, 2018, WFO Special Agent Brian Dugan filed an attachment, Government Exhibit 13, to the final sentencing recommendation – and in that two page sworn statement, under penalty of perjury, SSA Brian Dugan attested to Wolfe leaking the FISA application for the final time.
Everyone ignored it.
The cover-up was complete.
All of the direct evidence of this series of events, and a lot more not in this written summary, is included in a series of public documents released over a period of about twelve months. Because the documents were released out of sequence and seemingly disconnected no-one caught on to the backstory.
This evidence was directly provided to special investigator William Aldenberg who was very apt at asking questions as each document was reviewed. By the end of our discussion there were no questions remaining; and none of it was based on supposition, innuendo, speculation or inference.
Mr. Aldenberg could not affirm or attest to the implications of the information as provided; however, he did accept the briefing was clear and articulately grounded on the evidence within the documents provided.
After answering a series of questions about how this was found; direct inquiry into the provenance; and several questions surrounding how I was able to retrieve this information into a singular timeline of sequential events that seemed disconnected over two years; I reminded Mr. Aldenberg that SSA Brian Dugan was still employed at the FBI Washington Field Office and it should be a very simple conversation to confirm.
Mr Aldenberg and I exchanged direct contact information, and concluded our conversation.
It was always the primary objective to carry this information directly to those badges who are positioned to do something about it. That mission is accomplished.
DOJ investigators are now aware of the issues and evidence that has remained hidden for years. More importantly they now know that we know.
Perhaps even more importantly, none of this evidence comes from within a political silo; all of it was attained from outside the DC system; none of the more illegal activity is based on political lies; and all of issues point to a direct national security threat, including the overarching possibility of blackmail against those who are currently charged with intelligence oversight. Lastly, all of the events to cover-up the Wolfe leak involve direct criminal conduct.
Now you know why I focused on James Wolfe. It’s not political, it’s criminal.
Be of good cheer.
Sundance
The sequence is critical:
1. Adam Waldman text messages. (release date Feb 9, 2018)
2. Justice Dept. Letter to journalist Ali Watkins (release date Feb 13, 2018)
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4498451-Justice-Department-Records-Seizure.html
3. James Wolfe indictment (release date June 8, 2018)
4. FISC / Senate Judiciary Letter (public release April, 2020 – event date July 12, 2018) The letter from DOJ-NSD (Mueller Special Proseuctors) to the FISC is important.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/2018-doj-letter-to-fisc&download=1
5. Carter Page FISA application (release date July 21, 2018) Only need the first application section. 83 pages of original application.
https://www.scribd.com/document/384380664/2016-FISA-Application-on-Carter-Page#
6. Government Sentencing Wolfe Case memo and recommendation for upward departure and/or variance. Filed December 11, 2018
https://www.scribd.com/document/395499292/James-Wolfe-DOJ-Sentencing-Memo-December-11
7. Govt. Reply to Defendant (Wolfe) sentencing memo (date Dec 14, 2018) Govt. Exhibit #13 (two page attestation is critical).
https://www.scribd.com/document/395775597/Wolfe-Case-DOJ-Response-to-Defense-Sentencing-Memo
Misc:
July 27, 2018, – Wall Street Journal – Wolfe lawyers threaten SSCI subpoenas.
Dec 11, 2018 – Politico – Senators seek Leniency –
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/11/senate-intelligence-committee-leaking-james-wolfe-1059162
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