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Kid Berwyn
Kid Berwyn's Journal
Kid Berwyn's Journal
October 10, 2022
When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign.
By DONNA BRAZILE
Politico Magazine, November 02, 2017
Excerpt…
The agreement—signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias—specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.
I had been wondering why it was that I couldn’t write a press release without passing it by Brooklyn. Well, here was the answer.
When the party chooses the nominee, the custom is that the candidate’s team starts to exercise more control over the party. If the party has an incumbent candidate, as was the case with Clinton in 1996 or Obama in 2012, this kind of arrangement is seamless because the party already is under the control of the president. When you have an open contest without an incumbent and competitive primaries, the party comes under the candidate’s control only after the nominee is certain. When I was manager of Al Gore’s campaign in 2000, we started inserting our people into the DNC in June. This victory fund agreement, however, had been signed in August 2015, just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy and nearly a year before she officially had the nomination.
I had tried to search out any other evidence of internal corruption that would show that the DNC was rigging the system to throw the primary to Hillary, but I could not find any in party affairs or among the staff. I had gone department by department, investigating individual conduct for evidence of skewed decisions, and I was happy to see that I had found none. Then I found this agreement.
The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical. If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead. This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity.
Continues…
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/
Donna Brazile found it was no theory.
Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNCWhen I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign.
By DONNA BRAZILE
Politico Magazine, November 02, 2017
Excerpt…
The agreement—signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias—specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.
I had been wondering why it was that I couldn’t write a press release without passing it by Brooklyn. Well, here was the answer.
When the party chooses the nominee, the custom is that the candidate’s team starts to exercise more control over the party. If the party has an incumbent candidate, as was the case with Clinton in 1996 or Obama in 2012, this kind of arrangement is seamless because the party already is under the control of the president. When you have an open contest without an incumbent and competitive primaries, the party comes under the candidate’s control only after the nominee is certain. When I was manager of Al Gore’s campaign in 2000, we started inserting our people into the DNC in June. This victory fund agreement, however, had been signed in August 2015, just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy and nearly a year before she officially had the nomination.
I had tried to search out any other evidence of internal corruption that would show that the DNC was rigging the system to throw the primary to Hillary, but I could not find any in party affairs or among the staff. I had gone department by department, investigating individual conduct for evidence of skewed decisions, and I was happy to see that I had found none. Then I found this agreement.
The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical. If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead. This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity.
Continues…
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/
October 8, 2022
On MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner referred to Trump as a "classified documents terrorist."
Kirschner called for Trump's immediate arrest.
"The evidence is there ten-fold," he said. "It's time to really step up and enforce the laws against Donald Trump the way they would be enforced against any mere mortal."
Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/holy-moley-legal-experts-believe-fbi-inquiry-into-possible-trump-tower-stash-related-to-looming-criminal-case/ar-AA12ITbp
"Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner called for Trump's immediate arrest."
From the link…On MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner referred to Trump as a "classified documents terrorist."
Kirschner called for Trump's immediate arrest.
"The evidence is there ten-fold," he said. "It's time to really step up and enforce the laws against Donald Trump the way they would be enforced against any mere mortal."
Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/holy-moley-legal-experts-believe-fbi-inquiry-into-possible-trump-tower-stash-related-to-looming-criminal-case/ar-AA12ITbp
October 4, 2022
’She Say Anything About Me?’
Trump Was Worried When Ghislaine Maxwell Was Arrested for Sex Trafficking, Per Book
By Ken Meyer
Mediate, October 4, 2022
A new excerpt of Maggie Haberman’s Donald Trump biography says the former president expressed a degree of concern when Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on sex trafficking charges.
The Guardian flagged a portion of Confidence Man, Haberman’s newly-released book filled with intriguing revelations about the 45th president. According to the book, when the news broke of Maxwell’s arrest, Trump asked campaign aides whether she named him among the powerful contacts who might be able to protect her from prosecution over her role as Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice.
“‘You see that article in the [New York] Post today that mentioned me?’” Trump asked his aides. “He kept going, to silence. ‘She say anything about me?’”
Trump was apparently referring to a Page Six article published two days after Maxwell’s arrest. Epstein Hoffenberg, a former affiliate of the disgraced financier, was quoted saying, “Ghislaine thought she was untouchable — that she’d be protected by the intelligence communities she and Jeffrey helped with information: the Israeli intelligence services, and Les Wexner, who has given millions to Israel; by Prince Andrew, President Clinton and even by President Trump, who was well-known to be an acquaintance of her and Epstein’s.”
In 2020, Trump sparked controversy when he reacted to Maxwell’s arrest by saying, “I just wish her well.” Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison earlier this year for helping Epstein sexually abuse young women before he committed suicide while awaiting trial for the charges he faced.
Source: https://www.mediaite.com/print/she-say-anything-about-me-trump-was-worried-when-ghislaine-maxwell-was-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-per-book/
"She say anything about me?"
’She Say Anything About Me?’
Trump Was Worried When Ghislaine Maxwell Was Arrested for Sex Trafficking, Per Book
By Ken Meyer
Mediate, October 4, 2022
A new excerpt of Maggie Haberman’s Donald Trump biography says the former president expressed a degree of concern when Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on sex trafficking charges.
The Guardian flagged a portion of Confidence Man, Haberman’s newly-released book filled with intriguing revelations about the 45th president. According to the book, when the news broke of Maxwell’s arrest, Trump asked campaign aides whether she named him among the powerful contacts who might be able to protect her from prosecution over her role as Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice.
“‘You see that article in the [New York] Post today that mentioned me?’” Trump asked his aides. “He kept going, to silence. ‘She say anything about me?’”
Trump was apparently referring to a Page Six article published two days after Maxwell’s arrest. Epstein Hoffenberg, a former affiliate of the disgraced financier, was quoted saying, “Ghislaine thought she was untouchable — that she’d be protected by the intelligence communities she and Jeffrey helped with information: the Israeli intelligence services, and Les Wexner, who has given millions to Israel; by Prince Andrew, President Clinton and even by President Trump, who was well-known to be an acquaintance of her and Epstein’s.”
In 2020, Trump sparked controversy when he reacted to Maxwell’s arrest by saying, “I just wish her well.” Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison earlier this year for helping Epstein sexually abuse young women before he committed suicide while awaiting trial for the charges he faced.
Source: https://www.mediaite.com/print/she-say-anything-about-me-trump-was-worried-when-ghislaine-maxwell-was-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-per-book/
October 3, 2022
by Josh Marcus
Yahoo, Oct. 2, 2022
A former US Army combat medic and counterintelligence agent named Perla Huerta reportedly recruited migrants for Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s controversial flights in September carrying Venezuelan asylum-seekers to Martha’s Vineyard.
Police officials, a lawyer, and migrants who encountered her pointed to Ms Huerta as the recruiter for the flights, The New York Times reports.
Ms Huerta served tours in Afghanistan and Iraq and was discharged last month after two decades of service, the Times reports, citing her military records.
It is unclear if Ms Huerta worked for the state of Florida or Texas.
Continues…
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-army-intelligence-agent-helped-000546028.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Well.
What a small world.
Perla, DeSantis' Migrant Recruiter, ID'd as Ex-Army Intel
Former Army intelligence agent helped DeSantis recruit migrants for Martha’s Vineyard migrant flight: reportby Josh Marcus
Yahoo, Oct. 2, 2022
A former US Army combat medic and counterintelligence agent named Perla Huerta reportedly recruited migrants for Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s controversial flights in September carrying Venezuelan asylum-seekers to Martha’s Vineyard.
Police officials, a lawyer, and migrants who encountered her pointed to Ms Huerta as the recruiter for the flights, The New York Times reports.
Ms Huerta served tours in Afghanistan and Iraq and was discharged last month after two decades of service, the Times reports, citing her military records.
It is unclear if Ms Huerta worked for the state of Florida or Texas.
Continues…
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-army-intelligence-agent-helped-000546028.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Well.
What a small world.
October 1, 2022
A last meal, like.
When most everything in the world is winner-take-all, most everyone becomes a cheater by necessity.
September 30, 2022
A 2006 intelligence assessment reveals that officials had concerns about the infiltration of police departments for years but failed to warn the public.
Alice Speri
The Intercept, September 29 2020
THE FBI HAS long been concerned about the infiltration of law enforcement by white supremacist groups and its impact on police abuse and tolerance of racism, the unredacted version of a previously circulated document reveals.
The FBI threat assessment report was released by Rep. Jamie Raskin, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee, ahead of a hearing about the white supremacist infiltration of local police departments scheduled for Tuesday.
A heavily redacted version of the 2006 document had previously been published, one of a handful of documents revealing federal officials’ growing concern with white supremacists’ “historical” interest in “infiltrating law enforcement communities or recruiting law enforcement personnel.” A different internal document obtained by The Intercept in 2017 had also noted that “domestic terrorism investigations focused on militia extremists, white supremacist extremists, and sovereign citizen extremists often have identified active links to law enforcement officers.”
The unredacted version of the first document sheds further light on the FBI’s concerns, as early as 2006, about “self-initiated efforts by individuals, particularly among those already within law enforcement ranks, to volunteer their professional resources to white supremacist causes with which they sympathize.”
“Having personnel within law enforcement agencies has historically been and will continue to be a desired asset for white supremacist groups seeking to anticipate law enforcement interest in and actions against them,” the report notes in a section that was previously redacted.
Continues…
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/29/police-white-supremacist-infiltration-fbi/
Weird how Corporate McPravda failed to follow up on this story.
Lot of LEO have a lot of explaining to do.
UNREDACTED FBI DOCUMENT SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON WHITE SUPREMACIST INFILTRATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENTA 2006 intelligence assessment reveals that officials had concerns about the infiltration of police departments for years but failed to warn the public.
Alice Speri
The Intercept, September 29 2020
THE FBI HAS long been concerned about the infiltration of law enforcement by white supremacist groups and its impact on police abuse and tolerance of racism, the unredacted version of a previously circulated document reveals.
The FBI threat assessment report was released by Rep. Jamie Raskin, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee, ahead of a hearing about the white supremacist infiltration of local police departments scheduled for Tuesday.
A heavily redacted version of the 2006 document had previously been published, one of a handful of documents revealing federal officials’ growing concern with white supremacists’ “historical” interest in “infiltrating law enforcement communities or recruiting law enforcement personnel.” A different internal document obtained by The Intercept in 2017 had also noted that “domestic terrorism investigations focused on militia extremists, white supremacist extremists, and sovereign citizen extremists often have identified active links to law enforcement officers.”
The unredacted version of the first document sheds further light on the FBI’s concerns, as early as 2006, about “self-initiated efforts by individuals, particularly among those already within law enforcement ranks, to volunteer their professional resources to white supremacist causes with which they sympathize.”
“Having personnel within law enforcement agencies has historically been and will continue to be a desired asset for white supremacist groups seeking to anticipate law enforcement interest in and actions against them,” the report notes in a section that was previously redacted.
Continues…
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/29/police-white-supremacist-infiltration-fbi/
Weird how Corporate McPravda failed to follow up on this story.
September 30, 2022
Con Jr smears Greta Thunberg with Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
The same guy who sicced rabid Texas nutjobs in trucks on Kamala Harris’ campaign bus wants to give the treatment to a kind-hearted young woman via his daddy’s bankrupt social media.
Donald Trump Jr shares meme accusing Greta Thunberg of Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
Johanna Chisholm
Yahoo News, Fri, September 30, 2022
Donald Trump Jr shared a meme accusing Greta Thunberg of being behind the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, echoing a conspiracy theory that has been picked up in conservative circles in the last week since the natural gas lines erupted.
The meme, which shows the young climate activist photoshopped in front of Nord Stream with explosives strapped around one of the pipelines, was shared by the former president’s son on Truth Social on Thursday night.
“I could be wrong but my understanding is this is not photo shopped,” wrote Mr Trump Jr alongside the meme, which has since gained traction on Twitter.
CONTINUES…
https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-shares-meme-123719832.html
Greta Thunberg is a great human being.
Sad to be a Trump.
Really sad.
September 30, 2022
LBJ Tapes on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Source: John Prados, The White House Tapes
(New York: The New Press, 2003)
Excerpt…
President Johnson: and he's saying you've got to study it further, and say to Mansfield, "Now the President wants us, you, to get the proper people." And we come in and you say, "They fired at us. We responded immediately. And we took out one of their boats and put the other two running. And we kept our..., we're puttin' our boats right there, and we're not running on in."
Secretary McNamara: And it's hard to destroy.
President Johnson: That's right
Secretary McNamara: Right. And we're going to, and I think I should also, or we should also at that time, Mr. President, explain this Op Plan 34-A, these covert operations. There's no question but what that had bearing on. And on Friday night, as you probably know, we had four TP [McNamara means PT] boats from Vietnam manned by Vietnamese or other nationals, attack two is lands. And we expended, oh, a thousand rounds of ammunition of one kind or another against them. We probably shot up a radar station and a few other miscellaneous buildings. And following twenty-four hours after that, with this destroyer in that same area, undoubtedly led them to connect the two events.
President Johnson: Well say that to Dirksen.
Secretary McNamara: That's what I know he'll like.
President Johnson: You notice Dirksen says this morning, that "we got to reassess the situation, do something about it." I'd tell him that we're doing what he's talking about.
Continues…
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/tapes.htm
And that’s why I prefer to make up my own mind when it comes to the official version of fact.
That's for sure. Ask Lyndon B. Johnson about the Gulf of Tonkin.
He swore up and down North Vietnam attacked the US Navy with torpedoes, officially.
Who knew he was lying? As JFK was dead, no one with authority to change policy.
LBJ Tapes on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Source: John Prados, The White House Tapes
(New York: The New Press, 2003)
Excerpt…
President Johnson: and he's saying you've got to study it further, and say to Mansfield, "Now the President wants us, you, to get the proper people." And we come in and you say, "They fired at us. We responded immediately. And we took out one of their boats and put the other two running. And we kept our..., we're puttin' our boats right there, and we're not running on in."
Secretary McNamara: And it's hard to destroy.
President Johnson: That's right
Secretary McNamara: Right. And we're going to, and I think I should also, or we should also at that time, Mr. President, explain this Op Plan 34-A, these covert operations. There's no question but what that had bearing on. And on Friday night, as you probably know, we had four TP [McNamara means PT] boats from Vietnam manned by Vietnamese or other nationals, attack two is lands. And we expended, oh, a thousand rounds of ammunition of one kind or another against them. We probably shot up a radar station and a few other miscellaneous buildings. And following twenty-four hours after that, with this destroyer in that same area, undoubtedly led them to connect the two events.
President Johnson: Well say that to Dirksen.
Secretary McNamara: That's what I know he'll like.
President Johnson: You notice Dirksen says this morning, that "we got to reassess the situation, do something about it." I'd tell him that we're doing what he's talking about.
Continues…
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/tapes.htm
And that’s why I prefer to make up my own mind when it comes to the official version of fact.
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