Michael Flynn motion to strike attorney non party communications October 8, 2020, Strzok and McCabe attorney letters
“Instead of doing so, the government has continued to defy its
constitutional, ethical and legal obligations to this Court and to the defense, and to hide evidence that it knows exonerates Mr. Flynn. As is the essence of the problem here, instead of protecting its citizens, the “government” is protecting its own criminal conduct and operatives.”…Attorney Sidney Powell October
“her client was “totally set up” because he threatened to expose wrongdoing by top intelligence officials in the Obama administration.
“He was going to audit the intel agencies because he knew about the billions Brennan and company were running off the books,” Powell said, referring to former CIA Director John Brennan.”…Sidney Powell, Vickie McKenna Show
On Judge Sullivan: “if there was any doubt up to this point whether his conduct gives the appearance of partiality, that doubt is gone.”...Judge Rao dissenting opinion
From United States v Michael Flynn October 8, 2020.
GENERAL FLYNN’S MOTION TO STRIKE IMPROPER
COMMUNICATIONS AND TO FORECLOSE
FILINGS OF ANY OTHER NON-PARTIES
General Michael T. Flynn moves to strike the ex parte and unauthorized
extrajudicial communications received by this court’s chambers and improperly
entered into the public docket on September 28, 2020 and October 7, 2020. These attorneys should be addressing their concerns with the government, not emailing the judge in this case; and the letters do not belong in the record.
On September 28, 2020, Aitan Goelman, counsel to former FBI Deputy
Assistant Director Peter Strzok, who was fired from the Bureau after he was exposed for his own bias and extraordinary malfeasance, emailed a letter to the court regarding documents on the record. He did not copy counsel for the parties, nor did he seek leave to intervene. Instead of noting the impropriety of the correspondence, the court immediately entered the letter into the record. ECF No. 258.
Emboldened by the positive reception Mr. Strzok’s letter received, counsel to
Andrew McCabe sent a similar letter to Judge Sullivan’s chambers on October 5,
2020. On October 7, 2020, this court entered that letter, too, into the record of this case. ECF No. 263. Neither Peter Strzok nor Andrew McCabe is a party to this litigation, and their attorneys have no role in this litigation.”
John Brennan’s Failed Soft Coup? December 14, 2016 by former CIA and State Department employee Larry Johnson, Brennan’s agency spread Russia lie
“Butowsky follows the lead, speaks five days after Trump’s inauguration with the legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh by phone. Butowsky says he doesn’t know who Hersh is and records the conversation, which he later shares with others. And the audio recording obtained by NPR shows Hersh referring to an insider source who describes an FBI report reflecting that Rich had leaked information to WikiLeaks.”...NPR
“Ms. Sines’s testimony flatly contradicts the FBI’s claims that (1) it did not investigate matters pertaining to Mr. Rich; (2) it did not examine his computer; and (3) it conducted a “reasonable” search but could not locate any records or communications about Mr. Rich. Specifically, Ms. Sines’s testimony flatly contradicts the affidavit testimony of FBI Section Chief David M. Hardy.”…Attorney Ty Clevenger March 29, 2020
” So why would a “street robbery” investigation need to be classified?”…Attorney Ty Clevenger July 22, 2020
From former CIA and State Department employee Larry Johnson December 14, 2016.
“John Brennan’s Failed Soft Coup?”
“This should be setting off alarm bells throughout the U.S. Government, but especially within the intel community and the military. CIA Director John Brennan appears to have tried and failed to take out Donald Trump. It is his Agency that spread the lie that Russia made it possible for Trump to win the Presidency. This was not the idle opinion of some underling. Someone was given permission to tell elected Legislators a lie. A bald faced lie. Brennan, and no one else, bears ultimate responsibility for this lie.
When the news first broke last Friday that the CIA had told Senators that Russia essentially gave the election to Donald Trump the politicians and pundits infesting Washington were up in arms. Hell, even John McCain and Lindsay “Little Old Lady” Graham jumped on the hysteria bandwagon to voice outrage and threaten Russia. Tonight we learn that Brennan was lying.”
This article probably went mostly unnoticed in December of 2016.
And then it disappeared off the internet.
It was retrieved from the Wayback Machine.
Now with recent revelations and documents unclassified, it takes on a whole new meaning.
Respected journalist Seymour Hersh in 2017 stated:
“I have somebody on the inside, you know I’ve been around a long time, somebody who will go and read a file for me, who, this person is unbelievably accurate and careful, he’s a very high-level guy, he’ll do a favor, you’re just going to have to trust me, I have what they call in my business, long-form journalism, I have a narrative, of how that whole fucking thing began. (5:50) – It’s a Brennan operation. It was an American disinformation, and the fucking President, at one point when they even started telling the press — they were back[ground]-briefing the press, the head of the NSA was going and telling the press”
From the Letter to Lindsey Graham from John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, September 29, 2020.
“According to his handwritten notes, former Central Intelligence Agency Director Brennan subsequently briefed President Obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence, including the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”
NPR Seth Rich lies continue despite being sued for same, Oct 7, 2020 report on Twitter subpoena in Rich v Butowsky, Preemptive strike as truth emerges?
“Butowsky follows the lead, speaks five days after Trump’s inauguration with the legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh by phone. Butowsky says he doesn’t know who Hersh is and records the conversation, which he later shares with others. And the audio recording obtained by NPR shows Hersh referring to an insider source who describes an FBI report reflecting that Rich had leaked information to WikiLeaks.”...NPR
“Ms. Sines’s testimony flatly contradicts the FBI’s claims that (1) it did not investigate matters pertaining to Mr. Rich; (2) it did not examine his computer; and (3) it conducted a “reasonable” search but could not locate any records or communications about Mr. Rich. Specifically, Ms. Sines’s testimony flatly contradicts the affidavit testimony of FBI Section Chief David M. Hardy.”…Attorney Ty Clevenger March 29, 2020
” So why would a “street robbery” investigation need to be classified?”…Attorney Ty Clevenger July 22, 2020
NPR is on very thin ice.
The NPR report on the order to require Twitter to respond to the subpoena from Aaron Rich in Rich v Butowsky contains lies.
They are currently defendants in Folkenflik, NPR, et al due to allegations of lying about the Seth Rich case and reporting.
They did change the reporter to Bobby Allyn.
Why would NPR use some of the same lies as before when they are currently being sued?
Best guess: Due to recent revelations such as the Seymour Hersh deposition October 2, 2020 in Rich v Butowsky and continued Justice Dept. revelations, NPR may be getting desperate to cover their tracks and this may be a preemptive strike.
Or maybe they are clueless and believe the fake news.
Read more about what Seymour Hersh disclosed here:
“Judge Orders Twitter To Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy
A federal judge in California has ordered that Twitter reveal the identity of an anonymous user who allegedly fabricated an FBI document to spread a conspiracy theory about the killing of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer who died in 2016.
The ruling could lead to the identification of the person behind the Twitter name @whyspertech. Through that account, the user allegedly provided forged FBI materials to Fox News. The documents falsely linked Rich’s killing to the WikiLeaks hack of Democratic Party emails in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
While Twitter fought to keep the user’s identity secret, U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu in Oakland, Calif., ordered on Tuesday that the tech company must turn over the information to attorneys representing Rich’s family in a defamation suit by Oct. 20.
It is the latest twist in a years-long saga over a conspiracy theory that rocked Washington, caused a grieving family a great deal of pain and set off multiple legal battles.
In a now-retracted story, Fox News falsely claimed that Rich’s computer was connected to the leak of Democratic Party emails provided to WikiLeaks, and that Rich’s slaying was related to the purported leak. The theory was even debunked in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.”
“Disclosure: NPR is involved in one of the legal battles tied to the Seth Rich controversy. Ed Butowsky has filed a defamation suit against NPR and NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik over the network’s coverage of the Fox News story on Rich that has since been retracted.”
I personally believe the focus on Twitter @whysprtech is a diversion and mostly irrelevant.
For simplicity sake, the following paragrah is featured:
“In a now-retracted story, Fox News falsely claimed that Rich’s computer was connected to the leak of Democratic Party emails provided to WikiLeaks, and that Rich’s slaying was related to the purported leak. The theory was even debunked in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.”
In this one paragraph we have.
Fox News falsely claimed that Rich’s computer was connected to the leak of Democratic Party emails provided to WikiLeaks. That has not been proven false and there is a mountain of evidence that it may be true.
Rich’s slaying was related to the purported leak. That has not been proven or disproven.
The theory was even debunked in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.” Mueller’s report has been debunked, not the theory.
NPR looks desperate to me.
It is foolish to continue their fake news narrative in the midst of their being sued.
General Flynn filing Oct 7, 2020 of newly released FBI notes Jan 25, 2017, Another smoking gun, “We know truth of something being falsely stated to public”
“Instead of doing so, the government has continued to defy its
constitutional, ethical and legal obligations to this Court and to the defense, and to hide evidence that it knows exonerates Mr. Flynn. As is the essence of the problem here, instead of protecting its citizens, the “government” is protecting its own criminal conduct and operatives.”…Attorney Sidney Powell October
“her client was “totally set up” because he threatened to expose wrongdoing by top intelligence officials in the Obama administration.
“He was going to audit the intel agencies because he knew about the billions Brennan and company were running off the books,” Powell said, referring to former CIA Director John Brennan.”…Sidney Powell, Vickie McKenna Show
On Judge Sullivan: “if there was any doubt up to this point whether his conduct gives the appearance of partiality, that doubt is gone.”...Judge Rao dissenting opinion
From United States v Michael Flynn October 7, 2020.
“FIFTH SUPPLEMENT IN SUPPORT OF AGREED DISMISSAL
On May 7, 2020, the Government moved to dismiss the prosecution of General
Flynn. ECF No. 198. Until this case is dismissed with prejudice, the Government
has a continuing obligation to provide to the defense all evidence that is exculpatory of General Flynn, establishes misconduct by the Government in its many capacities that contributed to this wrongful prosecution, or otherwise is favorable to the defense. Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). The defense has a continuing obligation to make a record that mandates this dismissal. Today the Government produced a single page of FBI notes from January 25, 2020 taken by a lawyer in the FBI’s Office of General Counsel. In that meeting it was clear, the day after the FBI’s interview of General Flynn, that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a Logan Act charge regarding the December 29, 2016 phone call with Ambassador Kislyak, which was similar to communications by “other transition teams.””
Cal Cunningham investigated by Army Reserve over affair, NC senate candidate officer Lt. Col. James “Cal” Cunningham, Uniform Code of Military Justice
“Cal Cunningham, who is a married father of two, has focused his U.S. Senate campaign against Republican Thom Tillis on Cunningham’s service as a veteran in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Cunningham is evidently engaged in extramarital activity with the wife of a fellow veteran.”…National File October 1, 2020
“Aside from being a Democrat, there was something about Cal Cunningham I didn’t trust. Now I know why.”...Citizen Wells
“The secret of life is honesty, and fair
dealing. If you can fake that you’ve got it made.”…Groucho Marx
From The Army Times October 7, 2020.
“Army Reserve investigating Senate candidate Lt. Col. Cunningham over affair
Army Reserve officer Lt. Col. James “Cal” Cunningham, a Democrat running for a crucial U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina, has been facing public scrutiny over an extramarital affair just weeks away from Election Day.
Now, Army officials say they’re also taking a look at the situation involving the 47-year-old married father of two, which could violate rules concerning adultery under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
“The Army Reserve is investigating the matters involving Lt. Col. James Cunningham. As such, we are unable to provide further details at this time,” said Army Reserve spokesman Lt. Col. Simon B. Flake in a statement to Army Times.
Flake was unable to answer follow-up questions, including whether an Army Regulation 15-6 investigation has been opened. But because Cunningham is a reservist, the extramarital affair may not be punishable unless he was serving on active duty at the time of the indiscretions, according to the Reserve Officers Association.”
Michael Flynn motion to disqualify Judge Sullivan October 7, 2020, Judge Sullivan: “cast an intolerable cloud of partiality over his subsequent judicial conduct”
“Instead of doing so, the government has continued to defy its
constitutional, ethical and legal obligations to this Court and to the defense, and to hide evidence that it knows exonerates Mr. Flynn. As is the essence of the problem here, instead of protecting its citizens, the “government” is protecting its own criminal conduct and operatives.”…Attorney Sidney Powell October
“her client was “totally set up” because he threatened to expose wrongdoing by top intelligence officials in the Obama administration.
“He was going to audit the intel agencies because he knew about the billions Brennan and company were running off the books,” Powell said, referring to former CIA Director John Brennan.”…Sidney Powell, Vickie McKenna Show
On Judge Sullivan: “if there was any doubt up to this point whether his conduct gives the appearance of partiality, that doubt is gone.”...Judge Rao dissenting opinion
From United States v Michael Flynn October 7, 2020.
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 455(a), (b)(1), and (b)(5)(i), General Michael T. Flynn
moves to disqualify Judge Emmet G. Sullivan from further participation in this case. At least by the time of his failure to follow the mandamus of the D.C. Circuit panel and his decision with his own retained counsel to take the unprecedented and improper step of filing his petition for rehearing en banc, Judge Sullivan “cast an intolerable cloud of partiality over his subsequent judicial conduct” and “risk[ed] [] undermining the public’s confidence in the judicial process.” In re Al Nashiri, 921 F.3d 224, 237, 239 (D.C. Cir. 2019). ““[A]ll that must be demonstrated to compel recusal,” then, is “a showing of an appearance of bias…sufficient to permit the average citizen reasonably to question a judge’s impartiality.”” Id. at 234. Judge Sullivan satisfied that standard when he actively litigated against General Flynn. He has since far exceeded it—rising to the level of demonstrating actual bias. The
court’s contempt and disdain for the defense was palpable throughout the hearing on September 29, 2020, including when defense counsel made an oral motion for his immediate disqualification, which he refused to allow even to be fully stated for the record. Hr’g Tr., United States v. Flynn, No. 17-232, (D.D.C. Sept. 29, 2020) at 64-65 (hereinafter “Hr’g Tr. 09-29-20”). Accordingly, the defense files this motion to confirm the oral motion made at the hearing.”
Assange Extradition Case, “Why’s MSM Largely Ignoring It?”, ANSWER SIMPLE: Assange destroyed their Russian DNC hack narrative, Knows who leaked
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”…George Orwell
“Not every item of news should be published: rather must
those who control news policies endeavor to make every item
of news serve a certain purpose.”… Joseph Goebbels
“We are being lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell.”…Citizen Wells
Hillary Clinton, the DNC, the deep state with the help of the Obama Administration and MSM created and perpetuated the narrative of the Russians hacking the DNC data and colluding with the Trump associates.
We now know that as a confirmed fact.
From the get go, Julian Assange stated that it was not the Russians.
And he knows.
Journalist Ellen Ratner met with him in 2016 and he allegedly told her it was an insider.
Ellen Ratner allegedly told Ed Butowsky it was Seth Rich.
From the first sentence in the article below:
“The silence of journalists in Britain and the US over the extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is making them complicit in the criminalisation of newsgathering by the American government.”
The MSM has been and continues to be complicit in the “criminalisation of newsgathering .”
“Journalism is all about disclosing important news to people so they can judge what is happening in the world – and the actions of their government in particular. The WikiLeaks disclosures in 2010 only differed from other great journalistic scoops in that they were bigger – 251,287 diplomatic cables, more than 400,000 classified army reports from the Iraq War and 90,000 from the Afghan War – and they were more important. [Full disclosure: I gave a statement read out in court this week seeking to explain the significance of the Wikileaks revelations.]
Astonishingly, British and American commentators are in a state of denial when it comes to seeing that what happens to Assange could happen to them. They argue bizarrely that he is not a journalist, though the Trump administration implicitly accepts that he is one, since it is pursuing him for journalistic activities. The motive is openly political, one of the absurdities of the hearing being the pretence that Trump-appointed officials provide a reliable and objective guide to the threat to the US posed by the WikiLeaks revelations.
Why has the British media been so mute about the grim precedent being established for themselves, were they to investigate the doings of a US government that makes no secret of its hostility to critical journalism. Ten years ago, The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and El Pais published extracts from the WikiLeak documents on their front pages for days on end, but they long ago distanced themselves from its founder. Yet, however much they may wish the contrary, their future is wrapped up in his fate.”
Cal Cunningham long time affair exposed by lawyer Erin Brinkman, Since 2012, Brinkman worked on Cunningham’s failed 2010 U.S. Senate campaign
“Cal Cunningham, who is a married father of two, has focused his U.S. Senate campaign against Republican Thom Tillis on Cunningham’s service as a veteran in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Cunningham is evidently engaged in extramarital activity with the wife of a fellow veteran.”…National File October 1, 2020
“Aside from being a Democrat, there was something about Cal Cunningham I didn’t trust. Now I know why.”...Citizen Wells
“The secret of life is honesty, and fair
dealing. If you can fake that you’ve got it made.”…Groucho Marx
From National File October 5, 2020.
“North Carolina-based lawyer Erin Brinkman stated on Facebook that her friend has been having an affair with married Democrat North Carolina Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, a married father of two, since 2012.
The friend was reportedly “devastated” upon finding out that Cunningham is involved in a romantic relationship with another woman, the wife of a U.S. Army veteran, named Arlene Guzman Todd, after National File’s reporting.
Now, Brinkman, a criminal justice lawyer who graduated from Harvard and spent time in North Carolina, says she has a “good friend” who has been in an affair with Cunningham since 2012. Brinkman previously worked on Cunningham’s failed 2010 U.S. Senate campaign.
“He’s been having an affair with a good friend of mine since 2012. Not the woman mentioned in the story. Needless to say, my friend was devastated. But my feeling is, if they’ll cheat WITH you, they’ll cheat ON you!,” Brinkman writes on Facebook. Brinkman does not appear to be partisan, as her Facebook page features a John F. Kennedy quote stating, “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.””
Guilford County Schools Fall 2020 staff handbook omits obesity as Covid-19 higher risk but quotes CDC, Educators fail to educate, Legal negligence
“Having obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above, increases your risk of severe illness from COVID-19.”…CDC
“Severe obesity puts those with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at particularly high risk of death, more so than related risk factors such as diabetes or hypertension”… Kaiser Permanente study
“This is a wake up call. About 42% of adults in the U.S. are considered obese. This puts people at a highrer risk for Covid-19 complications and other health issues.”…Citizen Wells
“Long before Covid-19 happened, we already had an epidemic in the US.
Obesity.
The elephant in the room.
Nobody wants to talk about it including the fake news media.
Recently I learned of the death from Covid-19 of a young woman in her mid twenties. The mother stated that her daughter had no pre existing conditions.
The photo of the young woman appeared to reveal that she was overweight.”
The staff working at public schools are a subset of the US population.
Many are obese.
Many concerns and questions have been offered as schools around the country reopen.
Masks are required as well as social distancing and extra cleaning measures.
The Guilford County NC (Greensboro) school system, one of the largest in the nation, produced a handbook for their staff.
Fall 2020 Staff Handbook.
“Persons at Higher Risk
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), persons at high-risk for severe illness from COVID-19 include people 65 years and older, people with underlying medical conditions such as heart disease, lung disease, asthma, diabetes, kidney disease requiring dialysis, people with liver disease and people with compromised immune systems. ”
This is not only a concern for school staff, but for the family members of children.
Are they being educated???
From Houston Methodist.
“A person’s weight alone can increase his or her risk
By now, you’ve likely heard that older adults and people with underlying health conditions, such as diabetes or heart disease, are more vulnerable to developing a severe case of COVID-19.
But, even if you feel healthy, just being heavily overweight can increase your risk of severe illness as well.
“In fact, obesity is the number one risk factor for developing a severe case of COVID-19 in people under the age of 55,” warns Dr. Stephens. “People don’t always see obesity as abnormal, since it’s quite prevalent, but it’s important to know if your weight is putting you at risk for COVID-19, as well as other health conditions.”
A person is considered obese if he or she has more body fat than what’s considered healthy for his or her height. A quick measurement called body mass index (BMI) is used as a screening tool for obesity.
“Having a BMI of 30 or higher increases a person’s risk of developing a severe case of COVID-19 by 27%,” Dr. Stephens says. “And a BMI of 40 or higher doubles a person’s risk.””
KAISER STUDY: SEVERE OBESITY BOOSTS RISK OF COVID-19 DEATH, ESPECIALLY FOR THE YOUNG
“Severe obesity puts those with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at particularly high risk of death, more so than related risk factors such as diabetes or hypertension, according to a study of patient records that researchers from Kaiser Permanente published today.”
“This risk was most striking among those aged 60 years or younger and men,” the authors wrote.”
“Not only does being severely obese make it harder to breathe, but the adipose tissue fuels mechanisms that act like magnets for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19.”
Seth Rich DNC leaks bombshell, Seymour Hersh court deposition filed Oct 2, 2020 affirms 2017 statements: Seth Rich Involvement and John Brennan role
“the Democratic Party overlooked the ethical red flags and made a pact with Mr. Clinton that was the equivalent of a pact with the devil. And he delivered. With Mr. Clinton at the controls, the party won the White House twice. But in the process it lost its bearings and maybe even its soul.”…Bob Herbert, NY Times February 26, 2001
“They found, what he had done, he [Seth Rich] had submitted a series of documents, emails from DNC — and, by the way, all this shit about the DNC, you know, was it a ‘hack’ or wasn’t it a ‘hack’ — whatever happened, it was the Democrats themselves wrote this shit, you know what I mean? All I know is that, he offered a sample, he sends a sample, you know, I am sure dozens of emails, and said ‘I want money’. Later Wikileaks did get the password [SETH RICH DID SELL WIKILEAKS ACCESS INTO HIS COMPUTER.] He had a drop-box, a [password-]protected drop-box, which isn’t hard to do.”…Seymour Hersh
“If This Story Gets Out, We Are Screwed”…Wikileaks: Doug Band to John Podesta
Since the 2016 elections we have depended on the following to find the truth about who leaked the DNC docs, the Trump administration, Hillary Campaign and Obama Administrations roles and General Micchael Flynn’s guilt or innocence.
Mainstream media.
Justice Department investigations.
Prosecutions/Persecutions of Michael Flynn, et al.
Lawsuits.
Non mainstream media, “citizen journalism.”
Mainstream media: Not only were they not helpful, they generally colluded with deep state and media forces to mislead and lie to the public. Tell the big lie and keep repeating it.
Justice Department: Deep State and Obama administration holdovers controlled the Justice Dept. and worked with the mainstream media to create an Orwellian type narrative of Russian collusion, involvement in the DNC leaks and guilt of Michael Flynn, et al. It has only been through the efforts of some in Congress and revelations from the Flynn and Seth Rich court and FOIA revelations as well as the growing concerns from Attorney General Barr that finally got the truth ball rolling.
Michael Flynn prosecution and multiple Seth Rich lawsuits: Private sector attorneys such as Sidney Powell and Ty Clevenger were able to bring Justice Dept. chicanery into the light of day helping to awaken the Attorney General. Numerous FOIA requests were enlightening despite repeated efforts by staff such as FBI’s David M Hardy to kept records hidden.
Non mainstream media: Citizen Journalists, smaller media outlets, investigative entities like Judicial Watch, and independent journalists like Seymour Hersh played a crucial role in revealing the truth.
Bombshell News.
Some of you will get this, some may not.
Please read and digest the following carefully.
Seymour Hersh:
“Seymour M. Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter, author and regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine, is this year’s William Allen White Foundation National Citation recipient.
Hersh’s journalism and publishing awards include the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for exposing the My Lai massacre and cover up during the Vietnam War, in 1969. He has also received five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting.
In 2004, Hersh exposed the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in a series of pieces in The New Yorker. Early in 2005, he received the National Magazine Award for Public Interest, an Overseas Press Club award, the National Press Foundation’s W. M. Kiplinger Distinguished Contributions to Journalism award, and his fifth George W. Polk award, making him that award’s most honored laureate.
Hersh also has won two Investigative Reporters & Editors prizes, one for “The Price of Power,” in 1983, and the other for “The Samson Option,” a study of American foreign policy and the Israeli nuclear bomb program, in 1992. In 2004, Hersh won a National Magazine Award for public interest for his pieces “Lunch with the Chairman,” “Selective Intelligence,” and “The Stovepipe.”
Became embroiled in Seth Rich controversies beginning in 2016. He is both a plaintiff and defendant in lawsuits involving the Seth Rich family.
He has also been attacked by the mainstream media for questioning their Orwellian narrative regarding the DNC leaks and Seth Rich’s possible involvement.
Caution: Suspend any tendencies you may have for messenger shooting and disregard any preconceived ideas planted in your brain by the media. Examine the following facts.
First of all, Ed Butowsky had contact with Ellen Ratner soon after she met with Julian Assange late in 2016. She allegedly told him that the DNC leaker was an insider and he has alleged he was told Seth Rich. Ratner has admitted her claim in public. Ellen Ratner, after numerous subpoena attempts, has been engaged for a court ordered deposition.
The following is from a phone conversation Ed Butowsky had with Seymour Hersh in 2017:
“What I know comes off an FBI Report … The kid [Seth Rich was] … a nice boy,
twenty-seven. He was not an IT expert, but he learned stuff. He was a data
programmer … Here’s what nobody knows … when you have a death like that,
DC cops … have to get to the kid’s apartment and see what you can find … so
they get a warrant … They go in the house and they can’t do much with his
computer … They have a cyber unit in DC, and they’re more sophisticated. They
come and look at it. The idea is that maybe he’s had a series of exchanges with
somebody who’s said ‘I’m going to kill you, you motherfucker’ … and they can’t
get in … So, they call the FBI cyber unit. The DC … Washington Field Office is
a hot shit unit … There’s a cyber unit there that’s excellent … The Feds get
through and here’s what they find. This is according to the FBI Report … What
the Report says is that sometime in late Spring … early Summer, he [Seth Rich]
makes contact with WikiLeaks. That’s in his computer … They found what he
had done. He had submitted a series of documents … juicy emails from the DNC
… He [Seth Rich] offered a sample, an extensive sample … of emails, and said I
want money. Later, WikiLeaks did get the password. He had a … protected
dropbox … He also, and this is in the FBI Report, he also let people know with
whom he was dealing … The word was passed, according to the FBI Report, ‘I
also shared this box with a couple of friends, so if anything happens to me, it’s not
going to solve your problems’ … WikiLeaks got access before he was killed.”
Because Hersh is such a respected journalist with extensive contacts, what he stated had to be taken seriously.
At that point , we had statements from respected journalist Seymour Hersh used in a lawsuit, subject to question in the light of day.
The game changer, the bombshell, happened in a court filing from October 2, 2020 in
Aaron Rich v Ed Butowsky, et al.
From Citizen Wells October 3, 2020.
Seymour Hersh Deposition filed October 2, 2020.
·”BY MR. QUAINTON:
·6· · · · Q.· ·So in this portion of what the —
·7· ·your first source, it was — this was
·8· ·information that we just listened to.· This was
·9· ·information communicated to you by the first
10· ·source?
11· · · · A.· ·Could — I couldn’t — yes, Your
12· ·Honor.
13· · · · Q.· ·And in the information that was
14· ·communicated to you here, the information was
15· ·specifically that Seth Rich had shared this
16· ·drop box with friends of his.
17· · · · A.· ·That —
18· · · · · · ·MS. GOVERNSKI:· Objection.
19· · · · A.· ·That’s what I was told.”
“·MR. QUAINTON:· Would you read back
17· · · · the question that we had before?
18· · · · (The reporter read from the record as
19· · · · follows:· “It’s true that you had a
20· · · · trusted source whom you had known for 31
21· · · · years who communicated information to you
22· · · · about the FBI examining Seth Rich’s
23· · · · computer, finding emails from Seth Rich to
24· · · · WikiLeaks, and requesting payment in
25· · · · exchange.· That is a true statement, is it not?”)
·MS. GOVERNSKI:· Objection to that
·4· · · · question as well as to the — Mr.
·5· · · · Quainton’s intro into it.
·6· · · · A.· ·My — my answer is it’s absolutely
·7· ·true.· I had a source who communicated
·8· ·secondhand information to me about the issues
·9· ·you raise.”
Seymour Hersh, in a sworn deposition affirmed what he stated in 2017.
This is monumental.
What he also stated in his 2017 conversation, especially in light of subsequent events, is very powerful.
“I have somebody on the inside, you know I’ve been around a long time, somebody who will go and read a file for me, who, this person is unbelievably accurate and careful, he’s a very high-level guy, he’ll do a favor, you’re just going to have to trust me, I have what they call in my business, long-form journalism, I have a narrative, of how that whole fucking thing began. (5:50) – It’s a Brennan operation. It was an American disinformation, and the fucking President, at one point when they even started telling the press — they were back[ground]-briefing the press, the head of the NSA was going and telling the press, the fucking cocksucker Rogers, telling the press that we [they] even know who in the Russian military intelligence service leaked it. All bullshit. They were telling. I worked at the New York Times those fucking years, they’re smart guys, but they’re totally beholden on [to] sources. If the President or the head of the CIA tells them something, they actually believe it. I retired at the Times at the end of the Vietnam War 1972, because they were just locked-in. So that’s what the Times is, these guys run the fuckin’ Times, and Trump’s not wrong, I wish he would calm down, get a better press secretary, you know, not be so — Trump’s not wrong to think they all fucking lied about him.”
From the Letter to Lindsey Graham from John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, September 29, 2020.
“Chairman Graham,
SEP 2 9 2020
In response to your request for Intelligence Community (IC) information related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, I have declassified the following:
• In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee. The IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.
• According to his handwritten notes, former Central Intelligence Agency Director Brennan subsequently briefed President Obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence, including the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”
• On 07 September 2016, U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to FBI Director James Corney and Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok regarding “U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server.”
The Fusion principals — I assume that was Mr. Simpson and Mr. Fritsch,
although I don’t know that — approached Mr. Elias in April, I believe, of 2016 and told him that they had been working for essentially a Republican entity during the course of the Republican primaries, developing information on Mr. Trump. And they were seeking to continue that work and were seeking a contract from Perkins Coie, which had the authority to contract with outside vendors to do research on behalf of the campaign. And that relationship was entered into, I believe, in April of 2016 and extended till October 31st of 2016.”
“MR. PODESTA: — and a separate arrangement with the campaign.
But the payments to Fusion, as I understand from their statements at the
end of October, were that those payments to their vendor were paid for 50 percent from the DNC and 50 percent from the campaign.
MR. CONAWAY: Okay. Fusion GPS was a 50-50 split?
MR. PODESTA: Yes.”
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