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Kid Berwyn's JournalCIA analyst Richard M. Barlow blew the whistle and got ruined.
The Whistle BlowerThe Man Who Told the Truth and Paid the Price
by Tamar Sullivan
Ami, January 28, 2015 - 8 Shvat 5775
Via Project On Government Oversight
Richard Barlow was simply doing his job when he uncovered an illegal network of Pakistani procurement agents acquiring US components to build a nuclear bomb. But his irrefutable intelligence and his intention to go after the criminals were politically problematic, so his rivals sought to discredit him with one of the most dishonest smear campaigns in this nation’s recent history. Despite overwhelming evidence in his favor and President Bill Clinton’s full support while in office, Barlow has never been compensated for sacrificing his career by exposing the facts that could have prevented the bomb from falling into Pakistani hands, leaving us in the precarious global situation in which we find ourselves today.
Barlow’s last request for personal restitution from the White House in 2009 was probably his last. President Obama’s silence in Barlow’s case follows the latter’s two decades of failed attempts to clear his name and receive his pension. After years of backstabbing sabotage and dashed hopes, Barlow laments the reality of this last shot at compensation.
“That was the end of it for me,” Barlow, 60, quietly acknowledges. He now lives in a motor home with his dogs and barely a penny to his name.
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The news of the operatives on American soil enraged many in Congress, and they began to call for a termination of aid to Pakistan under the Solarz Amendment. Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz called for an immediate hearing to ascertain the truth about Pakistan’s nuclear program. Barlow, as the CIA’s top expert on Pakistan, was called to the hearing along with a national intelligence officer, David Einsel. Because Einsel’s priority was to keep intelligence regarding Pakistan from interfering with the Afghan war, his testimony was expected to be purposely deceitful. Barlow’s supervisors and attorneys instructed him to tell the truth when asked.
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http://www.pogoarchives.org/m/wi/ami201_feature_barlow.pdf
That was the PREVIOUS Afghan War, the one where we helped give the Soviets their Vietnam.
Deutsche Bank Bids 'Auf Wiedersehen' To The Least Illustrious German-American In History
Deutsche Bank dumped Donnie immediately upon losing the Presidency in 2020. Gut context on the Unstable Moron and his loan officers.
Deutsche Bank Bids ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ To The Least Illustrious German-American In History
JON SHAZAR
DealBreaker, January 12, 2021
On Oct. 7, 1885, a 16-year-old boy from Kallstadt, a small wine-growing village in what was then Bavaria, boarded ship in Bremen, bound for New York. Like his future grandson, Friedrich Drumpf was doing what it took to avoid military service. Striking out for the West Coast, the man now calling himself Frederick Trump earned a small fortune in hooch, whoring and hotels before returning to his native land to take a wife. He resumed his innkeeping back in New York shortly thereafter, but his wife was not taken in by the charms of der Große Apfel, and they moved back to Germany. Unfortunately for the couple and the world, the erstwhile Drump’s draft-dodging had not gone unnoticed, and Fred and the pregnant Elizabeth were chased out of the country and back to this one.
That, however, was not the end of the relationship between the family Trump and the German nation. For the child carried by Elizabeth back across the Atlantic was the future Fred Trump, and when the heir to his empire of outer borough slums sought to expand the Manhattan holdings he’d so flamboyantly built up after taking the reins from dear old dad, he turned to the old country for financing, specifically to Deutsche Bank.
More than 20 years and more than $2 billion later, Deutsche Bank is calling a halt to the ties that bind the Trumps to their ancestral homeland. Apparently, having helped finance one coup is enough for any global bank.
Deutsche Bank, which has been Mr. Trump’s primary lender for two decades, has decided not to do business with Mr. Trump or his company in the future, according to a person familiar with the bank’s thinking. Mr. Trump currently owes Deutsche Bank more than $300 million, which is due in the next few years.
The bank has concluded that, short of forgiving the debt, it has no way to extricate itself from the Trump relationship before the loans come due.
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https://dealbreaker.com/2021/01/deutsche-signature-banks-fire-trump
Would Deutsche Bank have offered an extension if Trump had stolen the election or gotten the insurrection to “reinstate” him?
Liz Cheney wrote Rick Wilson is wrong -- subpoena enforcement coming.
https://twitter.com/RepLizCheney/status/1446530469936472069How Fox News Has Made Every Single Moment of the Last 25 Years Worse
How Fox News Has Made Every Single Moment of the Last 25 Years Worse
THE NEW ABNORMAL
The network is celebrating a quarter-century of ruining our society—and the latest episode of The New Abnormal counts the ways. Plus, curbing Facebook, Roe’s future, and more.
The Daily Beast, Fri, October 8, 2021
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Yes, it’s been 25 years since Fox News came on the air—25 years of “refracting the absolute most absurd and destructive and deadly disinformation and misinformation from the right wing fever swamps,” Carusone tells co-hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Jesse Cannon on the latest episode of The New Abnormal.
And “everything is worse because of it,” Carusone adds—and the pandemic is just the biggest example. “There’s not a single moment, whether big or small—as big as the pandemic, as seemingly small as an appointment in the Department of Education—where Fox has not gotten in there and made it worse.”
Carusone offers a glimpse at what could ultimately rein in the network’s worst excesses—and it’s not just advertisers. “The cable companies are the ones that are really going to decide what Fox News is allowed to get away with,” he concludes.
Elsewhere in the conversation, he talks to Molly and Jesse about Facebook’s big moment in Congress this week, and what year was pivotal in making the social network the disinformation breeding ground it is today.
Source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-fox-news-has-made-every-single-moment-of-the-last-25-years-worse?ref=home?ref=home
Today the Senate Committee on the Judiciary reported...
The Committee continues to investigate Trump’s efforts to involve DOJ in his election subversion scheme, including by pursuing Trump White House records that NARA has thus far been unable to produce and additional witness interviews as appropriate. Given the gravity of the misconduct the Committee has uncovered to date, however—and in the interest of making a public record of Trump’s efforts to compromise DOJ’s independence—the Committee is releasing this interim staff report. The report makes six primary findings:
FINDING 1: President Trump repeatedly asked DOJ leadership to endorse his false claims that the election was stolen and to assist his efforts to overturn the election results.
FINDING 2: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows asked Acting Attorney General Rosen to initiate election fraud investigations on multiple occasions, violating longstanding restrictions on White House-DOJ communications about specific law-enforcement matters.
FINDING 3: After personally meeting with Trump, Jeffrey Bossert Clark pushed Rosen and Donoghue to assist Trump’s election subversion scheme—and told Rosen he would decline Trump’s potential offer to install him as Acting Attorney General if Rosen agreed to aid that scheme.
FINDING 4: Trump allies with links to the “Stop the Steal” movement and the January 6 insurrection participated in the pressure campaign against DOJ.
FINDING 5: Trump forced the resignation of U.S. Attorney Byung Jin (“BJay”) Pak, whom he believed was not doing enough to address false claims of election fraud in Georgia. Trump then went outside the line of succession when naming an Acting U.S. Attorney, bypassing First Assistant U.S. Attorney Kurt Erskine and instead appointing Bobby Christine because he believed Christine would “do something” about his election fraud claims.
FINDING 6: By pursuing false claims of election fraud before votes were certified, DOJ deviated from longstanding practice meant to avoid inserting DOJ itself as an issue in the election.
Source: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Interim%20Staff%20Report%20FINAL.pdf
So. It looks like We the People can prove Trump is a traitor.
That's what NAZIs always say.
Why We Don't Know Much About Right-Wing TerroristsConservatives Fired The Guy Studying Them in 2009
Why Don’t We Know Much About Right-Wing Terrorists?
Conservatives Fired The Guy Studying Them
JAMESON PARKER
AddictingInfo, JUNE 18, 2015 4:41 PM
After a mass shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, left nine people dead and a right-wing white supremacist arrested, the country once again faces the uneasy question of just how many so-called “home-grown” terrorists are out there – heavily armed, ideologically driven, and violent.
It’s a good question, but it may be tough to answer because for reasons that are astoundingly dimwitted, the Department of Homeland Security pushed out the guy who was in charge of watching them, and dismantled his team all the way back in 2009.
The beleaguered hero of this story is Daryl Johnson, a top government counterterrorism analyst working at Homeland Security who spent six years with the agency amassing a wealth of data on far-right extremist groups that posed various degrees of threat to citizens in the United States. In 2009, in the months after President Obama assumed office, he watched as these groups veered even further right, and began to fear that America’s first African-American president could be the catalyst of a major uptick in hate crimes and anti-government attacks.
In a landmark report released just months into Obama’s term, and now looks downright clairvoyant, Johnson made the case that radical Islam is only a small piece of the terrorism pie:
“Do not overlook other types of terrorist groups,” the report warned, noting that five purely domestic groups had considered using weapons of mass destruction in that period. Similar warnings have been issued by the two principal non-government groups that track domestic terrorism: the New York-based Anti-Defamation League and the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center.
An annual tally by the latter group of what it calls “Terror From the Right” listed 13 major incidents and arrests last year, nearly double the annual number in previous years; the group also reported the number of hate groups had topped 1,000 in 2010, for the first time in at least two decades.
In response to that report, Johnson was destroyed. It wasn’t his integrity or claims that got him in trouble, his facts were solid. Instead, it was the inconvenient truth that much of the threat comes from right-wing conservatives, and even more awkwardly, radical right-wing conservatives who say and think a lot of the same things mainstream right-wing conservatives say and think.
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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/18/why-dont-we-know-much-about-right-wing-terrorists-conservatives-fired-the-guy-studying-them/
That was from 2015.
Internet Archive Waybac, if link doesn’t work:
http://web.archive.org/web/20150910045015/http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/18/why-dont-we-know-much-about-right-wing-terrorists-conservatives-fired-the-guy-studying-them/
"Obstruction of Justice" in plain sight.
At Trump’s request, former advisers to defy subpoenas from Congressional Jan. 6 committee: report
By DAVE GOLDINER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | OCT 06, 2021
Four of Trump’s most loyal aides are reportedly poised to defy subpoenas by the House select committee investigating the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows and onetime political supremo Steve Bannon plan to resist the legal summonses from the panel, along with social media guru Dan Scavino and Pentagon aide Kash Patel, The Guardian first reported.
The panel demanded all documents, emails, and call records related to the Capitol attack by Thursday and to testify behind closed doors next week.
Trump’s defense lawyer, former deputy White House counsel Patrick Philbin, intends to tell the aides that they cannot testify without breaching Trump’s right to get confidential advice from aides, otherwise known as executive privilege.
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Trump’s strategy of stonewalling Congress closely hews to the plan he used to prevent House Democrats from deposing his top advisers about other scandals, including the investigation into Russian collusion with the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.
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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-capitol-riot-congressional-committee-subpoena-20211006-shlgd2wwqbcsrohelukyva5g3u-story.html
Dim Donnie can claim “Executive Privilege” until the Devin Nuneses come home, but the facts show he is doing all he can to avoid a charge of conspiracy to commit treason.
Rich DEM Donor: 'Tax Rich People Like Me' or He's Done With the Party
Here’s one person I wish were a DUer:
https://twitter.com/NickHanauer/status/1444039780275089409
Megarich Democratic Donor Says 'Tax Rich People Like Me' or He's Done With the Party
To "Democrats in Congress who know me and ask me for money continually," he says: "Pass the Biden infrastructure plan or never ask again. Ever."
ANDREA GERMANOS
Common Dreams, October 4, 2021
Amid ongoing negotiations over how wealth will be taxed to fund the proposed safety net and climate package known as the Build Back Better Act, one superrich Democratic donor suggested he's ready to stop writing checks to the party unless it passes the legislation with a $3.5 trillion price tag—not less—and with the proposed tax increases on the wealthy and corporations.
The proposed tax hikes, tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer wrote in an essay published Monday at The New Republic, offer common-sense benefits.
Instead of allowing the cash to be "hoarded" by "zillionaires" like himself, Hanauer argued that the tax increases could "create the foundation for broad-based prosperity," including through the extension of free public education, "meaningfully" tackling the climate emergency, and paid family and medical leave.
Recent evidence of the failure of so-called trickle-down economics is clear, Hanauer wrote, citing as one example Republicans' 2017 tax cuts, when "corporations chose to enrich their own executives and shareholders" rather than investing in their employees.
Without naming any specific lawmaker, Hanauer went on to accuse Democrats who are pushing for a lower price tag on the reconciliation bill or are resisting bigger taxes on the rich of "sabotaging an economy that will deliver broad-based prosperity for years to come."
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/04/megarich-democratic-donor-says-tax-rich-people-me-or-hes-done-party
PS: Kid Berwyn is not solely responsible for the lack of content in his pockets. Even were I rich as a hedge fund manager, I would encourage Mr. Hanauer to continue in the Good Fight — with or without the money.
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