Dedicated to the memories of General John W. Vessey and OC
PREFACE
In April 2019 I walked into the United States Department of Justice and told them the story you are about to read. Ten days later the Durham Squad was announced. I do not know if those two facts are related. After reading this, your guess will be as good as mine.
This is my final installment in the Deep Capture epic. In the future I may use this site to comment on events, respond to articles and journalists, and answer frequently-asked questions, but the 14 year narrative arc of Deep Capture comes to an end here. As this will be a matter not just for lawyers but also for historians, I am going to walk through these events in a more methodical fashion than might be my normal style.
I wrote this last chapter to be the length of a long magazine article (10,000 words main body + 3,000 words of Endnotes) that makes sense on its own, if read in conjunction with a brief clip from that marvelous old TV show Taxi:
The dedicated and inquisitive mind that wishes to gain an understanding of this tale equal to that one would get from, say, a novella, should add to her self-enrichment syllabus these four previous essays:
Maria Butina & I, Part I: Meeting Maria
Maria Butina & I, Part Deux: Romancing Maria
Maria Butina & I, Part III: Betraying Maria
The serious researcher should know that even the reading list provided thus far will give only a partial understanding of the second half of an epic. Said serious researcher who may desire to understand the whole of the second half of the epic will wish to start by reading an essay I wrote 13 months ago, Brace for Re-entry to the World of Deep Capture (which I wrote as I departed Overstock and re-activated this website after a decade’s semi-dormancy), and each of the two dozen blogs I wrote since then (which include the four just listed). Only then will a full understanding of the second half of the epic be gained.
Those scholars, fanatics, or lawyers who wish to understand the entire epic will need to understand this website’s backstory (a tempest that raged between Wall Street and myself in 2005-2008). To understand that backstory, one can read the a one-page synopsis of my claims from that era, published in October 2007, “Introduction to the DeepCapture analysis” (which reads rather presciently, if I say so myself). Those who wish a longer explanation of the Wall Street drama that was backstory to this site can watch a 40 minute presentation I gave in October 2007 to a group of 1,000 hedge funds, “DeepCapture – The Movie” where I explained to them that the financial system was going to lock up due to a settlement system crisis (as Greenspan correctly identified to Congress on October 23, 2008 during the heart of the crisis a year later). Those who really desire to understand the full backstory (and who have both a free afternoon and a masochistic streak) can read, “The Story of DeepCapture”, by former Columbia Journalism Review editor Mark Mitchell, published in March 2008, just months before the ’08 financial meltdown. I do not recommend that journey for the faint of heart, but only those who know that backstory (which is the first half of the epic), will be clear about the entire story.
In truth, however, such completeness of understanding will be of little use to the casual reader, who thus has no need to go that far back. On the other hand, perhaps scanning the four documents linked to above, and certainly watching the above clip from Taxi, will help the following tale of hijinks, intrigue, and quadruple-cross make sense.
It was an honor.
Seltza,
Patrick M. Byrne
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In late 2015, two Men in Black from my distant Wall-Street-fighting past and the then-ongoing Maria Butina matter told me, “We need you to shift to working on something more important. The Bureau is setting Hillary Clinton up in a sting. We need you to facilitate a bribe for her.” They explained using legal jargon (that will be useful for me later):
There are two groups in the FBI investigating the Clintons. There is a group looking into Hillary’s emails, but we think that is a whitewash. Yet there is a group of agents in New York City looking into her finances, and they want to put her ass in stir.
They walked me through the principles distinguishing a good sting from entrapment: An undercover cop can’t just walk down the street, go up to a stranger, and say, “Hey, do you want to buy some cocaine?” That would be entrapment: the target would have been drawn into a trap of committing a crime that likely would not otherwise have happened. Instead, the prosecutor needs to be able to show that the accused already had a prior disposition to buy the cocaine, which is done by proving that the person had already performed one or more predicate acts, such as, “He pulled his car over at a street corner known for drug distribution, he put his car in park, he rolled down his window…” These predicate acts demonstrate that the accused was already disposed to buy the cocaine, and so when the undercover cop approached and sold some to him it was not entrapment, but a crime that was going to happen anyway, so it is a good bust.
Comey had been blocking such “aggressive investigative techniques” (e.g., a sting) on Hillary, the Men In Black told me, claiming there were insufficient predicate acts to establish that she had the prior disposition.
Recently information had come in, however, that Hillary had accepted a bribe in the low tens of millions of dollars. They told me who it was from (a foreign government) and how it was done. The FBI agents in New York had leveraged that information to force Comey to sign off on setting Hillary up in a bribery sting, these agents explained.
Now those New York agents were asking for my help. It was believed that a different foreign government (of a country to which I had never traveled) wanted to pay Hillary a bribe (in the teens-millions) in return for having Hillary privately pledge what one aspect of President Hillary’s policy towards their nation would be. My assignment was the create the following end-state within two months: Somewhere in the world there is going to be a room. Hillary Clinton is going to go into that room, the bagman is going to go into that room, they are going to spend 10 minutes alone together. Then they are going to leave separately.
You take it from there, Byrne.
I said that I thought it was hairy. In my mitzvah/jihad onWall Street (2005-2008), USG and I always did business on a hand-shake (I had always said, “the fewer pieces of paper between us the better”). But now they were asking me to get involved in a federal election and bribe a presidential candidate. I told them that it was that rare request for which I would need one of their “Acts Otherwise Illegal” letters (which are letters Uncle Sam can give you if, as the name suggests, he asks you to do something that would otherwise be illegal).
They were polite and said they would go discuss it with their bosses.
Days later we met again. One agent said: “We’ve been instructed to inform you that you cannot be given a letter, but if you’ll come to DC the Director says you can be shown a letter…”
I said, “Oh, this request is coming from Director Comey?”
Nearly simultaneously, both Special Agents began nodding-coughing into their fists as they glanced and pointed up to the ceiling whilst still coughing.
I asked, “The Director and…. the President?”
This time they held my eyes as they simultaneously coughed into their hands and nodded.
“OK, well, you can tell Director Comey and President Obama that a” (I coughed into my hand in imitation of the agents) “from them is good enough for me. Consider Hillary bribed.”[i]
I will leave out subsequent details, but assume my assignment broke down into Steps A – B – C – D, with “D” being, Hillary Clinton walks into a room alone and spends 10 minutes with that bagman. Within 5 weeks I had achieved A – B – C. In addition, Hillary was 13 hours away from walking into a room alone (using a method which would keep any record from appearing in Hillary’s schedule) to spend 10 minutes with that government’s bagman, where that government’s desires would be expressed and money offered….
…. at which point the curtain came down for me. I had visibility into the operation up to that point, and know that as of 13 hours before the meeting all was on track. And then, as I say, the curtain came down for me. I wasn’t “in the room when it happened” so I could not say for sure what happened over the next 13 hours.
Days later Men in Black summoned me to meet with me me. I was anxious: Had Hillary shown up? Did she take it?
The agents were sober as judges. They did not tell me whether Hillary had made it to the meeting or not. Instead they said, “Patrick, this mission has been scrubbed. We need you to forget every moment of it. We mean it. You must erase every second of this from your memory.” Accompanied by stern, menacing, looks as they gauged my reaction.
Here is the explanation they gave me in a nervous, even panicked, tone:
Hillary Clinton is going to be our next president and nothing can stop that now. The day she becomes President, the first thing she is going to do is send her people over to the FBI and find out who was part of investigating her, and we are all going to be destroyed. That includes you, Patrick. This mission has been scrubbed from the highest level.
I had to ask them to explain it to me again. I went home. It did not sit well with me. A number of things felt wrong about their explanation:
- The agents I met fighting Wall Street were all tough men and women. They get as panicky and nervous as a bag of cement. They were also honorable men and women: it was out-of-character any would go along with such an order. In addition, I had known these two Men In Black back then, and knew they were particularly solid. The vibe they were projecting to me seemed forced. Men In Black don’t scare easy.
- If that was the line of reasoning, they would have performed that analysis and reached that conclusion before they had me do what I had done to facilitate a foreign government bribing Hillary Clinton.
- We were the better part of a year before the election and many months before the DNC convention. They could have had me and other witnesses in front of a grand jury in a week. Indicting Hillary would give the Democrats a chance to pick a new, clean candidate. Else we are going to have a repeat of the 1990’s, with a Clinton in the White House under perpetual investigation.
After a couple-few weeks of stewing, I contacted them and let them know that I would like to meet (which is a rarity: it is generally they who appear in my life, just like that). This time, when I showed up it was the two Men In Black plus a new Man In Black, and what an especially MIB-kind-of-fellow was he. If I showed you a picture of a crowd of 1,000 people with this man in it and said, “Pick out the Man In Black,” you’d pick out this gentleman.
It is hard to describe exactly how that meeting developed. When they want to, feds have a way of saying things without saying things, of leading you to understand what they want you to understand, of nudging you to put pieces together with a minimum amount of help from them. Over the course of the meeting hints were dropped, small pieces exposed, and only occasionally, direct answers supplied. In that fashion, I came to understand Y and W, then over a muffin at a break Z and V, then suddenly I guessed X…. It is hard to say how long this went on, before it finally became clear:
What’s going on, Patrick, is that at this point President Obama has his people across the federal bureaucracy, but especially the Department of Justice. Hillary is going to be president for eight years and nothing is going to stop that, but while she’s president the evidence about bribery you were part of gathering is going to be sitting on a “Bunsen burner” inside the DOJ, and the hand on that Bunsen burner is going to be the hand of one of Barack Obama’s people. If Hillary is a good girl, defends Obamacare etc., that hand will keep the Bunsen burner on “Low”. If she is a bad girl, starts thinking for herself, that hand [mimes twisting a dial] will turn the Bunsen burner to “High”. That way, for the eight years she is President, Hillary is going to be managed by Barack Obama. Then Hillary is going to step down, and Michelle is going to run… And Patrick, that’s the plan.[ii]
I wish to be clear that none of them acted like this was copacetic. Their delivery was not proud or threatening, not “That’s the way it’s going to be, motherfucker.” Just the opposite. Behind gruff MIB-exteriors they seemed to be ashamed, and it was all said in a matter-of-fact and measured fashion, with pauses for me to catch up, and with an air of sad finality (as in, It would help if you just accept this, because we’re all in the deep end together).
I flashed to an odd day in 2006, late summer, when a stack of Senate Institutionalists called me in to say, Help us Obi-wan, you are our only hope.
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We now cut to a flashback from 2006.
Start with my essay, “The SEC & Me, Part I (#MeToo)”: I describe there a relationship that developed 2005-2006 between the Senate Judiciary Committee (chaired by Democrat – turned – Republican – turned – Democrat Senator Arlen Specter) and myself. In that essay, I understated where the relationship led. Not only had I been repeatedly bringing experts and Wall Street whistleblowers to see staffers, but some Senators took the time to get to know me, and came to understand my motivations had something to do with Overstock, and a lot to do with stopping what I knew was going to be a catastrophic failure of our settlement system (which, as Alan Greenspan later testified to Congress in October 2008, was one of the three roots of the crisis we experienced in 2008). They knew that by then I’d spent $10 million of my own on this mitzvah (which over the years became several times that amount).
Eventually I brought a whistleblower to sit with Senator Specter himself. Surprising me, Specter dismissed him after 20 minutes, but kept me for another 45 minutes, walking through more or less my entire biography back to cancer (he was nearly bald but with the wispy hair of a chemotherapy patient: I think he may have had a tube in his neck under his collar), and even my long-forgotten altar boy days.
About a month after the 2006 hearing room meeting I describe in that essay, I was called back to DC. I was told to come alone. I walked into a room to find a group of Senators waiting for me, led by Chairman Specter (with whom I had had had the private meeting described above). At least eight senior Senators took part in what I am about to describe: 3-4 Democrats and 4-5 Republicans, though not all were in the entire meeting (a couple just swung through briefly to shake my hand and endorse the project).
They made a speech. They told me that if one understands the Constitutional structure, one understands that the Senate Judiciary Committee is the bulwark that protects rule of law for the USA. That is because the Senate Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction regarding corruption in the USA (“anything touched by a civil or criminal penalty”). For example, in the executive branch the Department of Agriculture has oversight provided by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. But if the Senate Judiciary Committee gets word of something corrupt going on in the Department of Agriculture, they are going to look into it, and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry does not get to say, “Stay out, this is our jurisdiction!” The Senate Judiciary’s authority to look into corruption trumps the authority of anyone else in government. And given that pretty much any activity one can imagine could be touched by a civil or criminal penalty, in practice this all adds up to the following: in the name of stopping corruption, the Senate Judiciary Committee has the authority to look into anything in the United States of America that it desires.
With senators from both parties standing around me nodding, Chairman Specter told they agreed with me, they thought that I was right about what I had been saying publicly with increasing volume over 2005-2006, that some form of systemic corruption was taking over the United States government. They were not even sure what it was, but that it was like it was a foreign nation subverting our government yet they could not pinpoint it, and they had learned that it could not even be fought from within the government. They did not utter the phrase, “Deep State” (as the expression was then only used with regard to Turkey), but it is what they said.
I realized that they were working up to something, but I had no idea what. When it came, it did not come out as a request. One moment they were saying things about systemic corruption taking down our republic, and I was commiserating along the lines of, I know! I know! That’s what I’ve been saying! How can you even stop something like that?!?!? And they replied, We’re going to stop it because we have you and you’re going to stop it. What you are going to do is you are going do this and you are going to do that… The Chairman said, “We know you’re eccentric, we know you are a horse of a different color — hehehe you sure are a horse of a different color, Patrick – but you are a fighter and we’ve love you!”
Then he held out a letter that he said would sit the rest of my life in a safe at the DOJ. When I reached for it a staffer blurted out, “He cannot touch it!” so another senator held it while I stood bent over with my hands clasped behind my back and scanned it. It was about 1.5 pages. After only 10 -20 seconds, the senators, being senators, were not able to contain themselves and started telling me what was in what I was reading, so static exists in my memory. But as I recall it, the first paragraph had language about their growing concern that some kind of deep systemic corruption was infiltrating and corrupting the federal institutions of the United States Government. The second paragraph started with a sentence along the following lines: The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary requests that Patrick M. Byrne be afforded extraordinary latitude under the laws of the United States of America to pursue his activities investigating and disrupting corruption within the federal government.
Or something like that.
Chairman Specter said, “This is not a pardon, you can’t go kill anyone, but for the rest of your life this letter is going to be sitting in a safe at the Department of Justice, and it will make it extremely unlikely any future prosecutor is going to touch you.”
In sum: Go after the Deep State, try not to kill anyone.
I asked one question: “No take-backs?” Chairman Specter chuckled and said, “No take-backs.”
Someone mentioned, This has not been done in 60 years.”[iii]
There was only one thing I could say: “Sir, I won’t let you down.”
Each senator individually came up to shake hands. One strapping Senator from the Midwest shook my hand: I let him know we had met once 11 years earlier, in a small group that was discussing affordable high-density housing in his home city. Another senator shook my hand as he looked up at me grinning like he thought this was the funniest moment of his life: to him I expressed my admiration for his involvement in the case of SEC whistleblower Gary Aguirre (and he seemed pleased that I knew about it). Another Senator, a fellow my height from out West, shook my hand and quietly looked into my eyes for a long time, until I stupidly said again, “I won’t let you down.” I spoke to another about my favorite moment in life: I was 19 and tapping a hillside of 400 maple trees while up the road Stubby fired up his sugar-shack and the smell of caramelized applewood smoke filled the valley. Another was a senator whom I already knew, a man who on TV seems as mild as a preacher but who in reality is mild like a quick knife in a dark alley is mild. There were 1-3 others. Not all the Senators involved were on the Judiciary Committee, but all were the kind who will likely have their names on buildings someday (as Specter already does). Most of the Senators are still alive and several are still Senators: I think it would be more honorable to let those who wish to acknowledge their participation do so rather than for me to say more here.
I give such details because I wish to assure you, dear reader, this happened.
United States Attorney Brett Tolman, was, in 2006, earlier in his illustrious career, and serving as Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He wrote the first (but not final) draft of that letter for Chairman Arlen Specter. He speaks about me in the first few minutes of this video:
I told two people. I told my Pop, slowly dying of cancer. He thought about it for about a week, asked to see me again, asked if it were true. I replied, “Pop, I swear on my eyes, a bunch of senior Senators from both parties called me to a room in DC and told me they thought I was right about ‘systemic corruption infiltrating the federal institutions of the United States Government’ and that ‘it could not be fought from within the government’ so it’s going to be up to me to stop it for them.” Jack (Air Force ROTC, Rutgers, ‘54) thought for a few seconds, then said with a sad sigh, “Well, at least you know what you’re doing with the rest of your life.” Because I knew I would need a Batcave and a Healer, I also found a Kundalini yogi (Dreadlock Bobcat) and eventually tried explaining it to her: she listened to ≈ 20 seconds before cutting me off, saying, “Yeah yeah I already guessed all that about you.”[iv]
Lawyers say, “There is no such thing as a prophylactic pardon.” On the other hand, I’ve seen the letter, and know that if it’s made public they won’t find 12 Americans who will convict me of spitting on the sidewalk. Thus, while I always show respect and deference to all federal employees (as citizens should), I approach such situations with what Twain called, “the quiet confidence of a Methodist Minster with four aces.” I don’t know the source of their magic juju to give me an order like that, but in 2006 it is indeed the case that 325 million Americans elected a United States Senate as their agent, and that Senate chose as its agent the US Senate Judiciary Committee, and that committee’s agent, its chairman Senator Arlen Specter (a highly-respected former federal prosecutor beloved by both parties and whose name is on the side of at least one federal building these days), gave me mine.
Taking from this flashback (if nothing else) the phrase, “extraordinary latitude under the laws of the United States of America”, we flash-forward almost exactly one decade, to Q1 2016, to a room where three federal agents have just revealed to me that they believe we were all just used in a soft-coup by Barack Obama against Hillary Clinton, Obama’s eight years as president are effectively being extended to 24 years, and I need to erase every trace of it from my memory.
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“I got it,” I ruefully told the three federal agents as I gave a slow, understanding nod to show I understood the gravity of the situation we were in as I thought, I am going to fuck this program up on a world-historic scale….. the moment I get a kill-shot.
Moving on. They explained that in 2008 a law was passed that gave authority to the Director of the CIA to sign a piece of paper and, in a sense, “take the steering wheel” of the FBI regarding certain matters. Maria Butina was just such a matter. For that reason, henceforth when I met with them this third Man In Black would be there reporting back to John Brennan.
Now just to be clear, as Bob Marley sang, “Rasta don’t work for no CIA”. I am proud that I helped law enforcement take on Wall Street back in the day. I feel that if I had done a better job of it then the 2008 financial crises would not have happened (I also feel that if they had listened to me earlier, the 2008 financial crisis would not have happened). I am also proud that in 2002 I helped bring a murderer to justice in Mexico . But the Men In Black knew I had a red line, and that is, Rasta don’t work for no CIA. Yet here was Brennan’s emissary, a big, tough fellow off a GQ cover but looking like he could slice my throat with a piece of dental floss, sitting with the two other Men In Black whom I already knew.
That is how this became the first conspiracy thriller where the CIA was not involved but its director was involved. We were in the FBI’s “car” (so to speak) and Comey was behind the steering wheel. But John Brennan was sitting in the front right seat and he had exercised his prerogative to reach over and take the wheel himself. This new MIB was there as an observer for him. Given that the CIA is the subject of every conspiracy thriller I have ever read or seen, I thought it only fair to say that this time it was not them: other than their Director I did not see CIA involvement. Even regarding the FBI, what transpired turned out to have a special chain-of-command bypassing all institutional chain-of-command, as the reader will soon see.
They asked me to explain why I thought they should pay attention to Maria. I had 2 answers:
- Primarily, because Maria wishes to be a backchannel for peace. She seems to be extremely well-connected in Russia, not just to oligarchs but to reformist elements within the Kremlin, and wants me to visit them. Philosophic liberals (a.k.a. “classical liberals” a.k.a. “libertarians” a.k.a “liberals”) such as myself have always prized peace above all: in the days of the Spanish Empire there were Jesuit and Dominican Scholastics writing against the Spanish crown’s behavior in Latin America (like Thomistic versions of Noam Chomsky). Winston Churchill said, “Better jaw jaw jaw than war war war.” One of my great teachers, General Jack Vessey (Reagan’s two-term Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and a hawk’s hawk), used to warn me about chicken-hawks who do not understand the true horror of war, repeatedly insisting to me over the years, “Any world where the US, Russia, and China get along is better than any world in which they do not get along.” Personally, I have had the greatest of privileges playing a tiny role in some peace events, and I know that stranger things have happened than someone like Maria Butina showing up, talking to the right people, and good things coming about as a result. I have seen it. In this regard, I emphasized to them the significance of Maria’s story that she had been personally selected by General Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov to start this gun rights group as a safe-space for liberals in Russia: if that story checked out, I told them, then we had to be historically myopic not to understand that this is a person worth talking to. Only a bumpkin would not understand that signal. General Vessey was (like Kalashnikov) a WWII veteran, and the only man in US history to have moved from the lowest rank of Private all the way to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (having received a “battlefield commission” at Anzio): he would have understood that signal in a heartbeat.
- Secondarily, I am a little concerned. Maria is here mingling in our political class. Her pillow talk is whisper of how she is to build bridges into the Hillary, Rubio, Cruz, and Trump campaigns, “Moscow” (by which she meant Torshin) having suggested to her that devoting time to Bernie was a waste, as he would never win). Whoever won, Maria is to have a connection in that administration. She checked off Hillary by befriending someone in her circle, now she is schmoozing around these Republicans and gun rights folks, getting to know them all ….
Oddly, the agents shrugged, put away their notebooks, and chuckled when I spoke of these things. No follow-up questions, a dismissive You just met a hot Russian gal who reads Locke [v] and now your all caught up in her attitude. It felt off.
This went on from September 2015 well into the first quarter of 2016.
By February 2016 Maria was still probing me about introducing her to contacts in the world of foreign policy think-tanks who might be interested in discussing a new, less confrontational approach to Russia. I put her off about it, yet at the same time, communicated her desire to the Men In Black. They grasped for reasons to say, “No.”
I proposed, “I’ll just tell her I mentioned her around a think-tank, someone said, ‘Could you arrange a lunch?’ You put one of your guys, tall, slim, grey hair, three-piece-suit, watch fob, State Department-looking guy, in a hotel room. I’ll make sure she shows up for lunch. All he has to do is say, ‘Maria, we understand you’d like to talk about peace between Russia and the USA. What would you like to say?’ If nothing else you’ll have the most interesting 2 hours of your life.…”
“No!” They shouted in unison. Then they gave weak reasons.
“OK then leave me out of it even more. Tap her on the shoulder on a street corner. But you folks are missing something here,” I responded. They were weirdly resistant to any such discussion.
I received an invitation to spend an hour with one of the Republican presidential candidates (a minor one, neither Rand Paul nor one of the other names that first leaps to mind). I told the federal agents and they let me know they thought it was a good idea for me take Maria, telling me: If she’s as connected back in Moscow as you say, it will build your credibility. So I took Maria to my private hour with the candidate. Maria sat quietly to the side and observed. As I recall, we involved her a bit and then after ≈ 10 minutes we gently excused her and finished, just the two of us (but I am a bit foggy on that: it may well have been that I met with the candidate privately for 50 minutes then brought Maria in for 10).
Given what has emerged since then, I have a guess as to me why they had me do this. By having Maria sit in and observe even the first 10 minutes of my meeting with that candidate, it probably allowed them to obtain a FISA warrant to surveil that candidate afterwards.
In February-early March 2016, Maria told me her Republican big-shot friends had been working on arrangements for her to meet Don Jr. privately. A conservative political conference is going to happen in such-and-such a city in the South, Don Jr. will be there, she would stay in a hotel on the other side of the city, on Sunday at 2 PM he is going to come down the elevator, come out the back of his hotel, a car will whisk him to Maria’s hotel for them to spend an hour… Obviously, I assumed, we would not let it happen. I asked, “What are we going to do? Maybe I’ll just whisk her to the Bahamas for that weekend so she cannot make it….?”
They told me, No, stand back and let it happen. Seemed odd.[vi]
Just after that, in March 2016, Maria asked me to come give a talk on Bitcoin & Liberalism in St. Petersburg to a conference hosted by the Ministry of Finance. President Putin would be at the conference, and after I spoke I was going to have a private audience with Putin and Maria for an hour. I communicated this to the Men In Black.
They came back and told me that for safety reasons it had been decided that I should not accept: it would be too dangerous for me to go to Russia. That seemed ridiculous. In my experience, tough guys like Putin are honorable men. Russia was not going to invite me then kidnap their own guest.
One added, “Washington has spent the last two weeks looking at Maria Butina, we think she’s just an ordinary grad student, there’s nothing of interest there for us, but we want you to get her out of your life.”
I did as they asked. I was finishing my second bout with HepC (having failed front-line treatment), I was Stage IV at the time, and I was also being told that I needed a heart operation that would buy me 3-4 years before lights-out. So I said to myself, “I’m tired, if USG does not seize an opportunity like this, I am not going to fight it.” So I sent her a text turning down Moscow and breaking off. A gruff text so she would not come back, blaming it on the fact that she had a boyfriend and I was tired of being the guy on the side (in my defense, I was dying of two things at once, but I should have found the energy to be kinder).
I did not see the feds again for months. From a medical point of view I was crawling through life. I knew the feds were playing me but I could not figure it out. Festering in my head were:
- Fakeness about Maria and inexplicable behavior regarding her;
- The Hillary bribes leading up to, “”…and Patrick, that’s the plan.”
- Maria all over Republicans (e.g., Don Jr.) with no FBI concern.
- Invitation for me to meet Putin, and the US Government saying, “No”.
As Morpheus put it, it was like a splinter in my mind, a taste in my mouth I couldn’t name. I was seeing shadows on the wall of the cave but could not piece them together (my imagination being too naïve). I occasionally found myself thinking about the assignment given me by the 2006 Senate Judiciary Committee. Clearly the soft-coup against Hillary demanded action from me.
In the first week of July, 2016, around the time it became clear Candidate Trump was going to get the nomination, the three Men In Black reappeared in my life and told me: “Oh my God why didn’t we listen to you about Maria Butina and Russia! You were right Russia is up to something, this has become our highest national priority, and we need to ask you to do something. We want you to know that this never happens in the US, we really are the good guys, in all our three careers we have never heard of a request like this, but you are being asked to rekindle a romantic relationship with Maria Butina and discover anything you can learn about her and what Russia is doing here. We three want you to know that, really, this is not how the US Government normally does business, you have every right to turn this request down, and no one will think lesser of you. But if you accept this task, you would still working for the FBI, but [because of that 2008 law which let the CIA Director take the steering wheel of the FBI] this mission being supervised by Director Brennan and Director Comey at the personal request of the President. As this proceeds we will be going from meetings with you directly back to our offices to report over videoconference to Directors Comey and Brennan.”
A-a-a-nd there’s my kill-shot, I thought.
I accepted the assignment, joking, “Hey, it’s not exactly hardship duty!”
Simultaneously I decided that while I would get them the information they wanted, I would actually conduct a mock affair with Maria, shielding (and not shagging) her while I instead set up Brennan and Comey on rape and murder charges.[vii]
I suspected that just the act of shagging Maria in those circumstances might be sexual assault (“sex by deception”, a form of statutory rape). Given that Maria and I had previously dated, however, that seemed like a flimsy charge that might not stick. But I would start with it.
Three months earlier I had callously broken off with Maria by text. It took me two months of wooing by telephone and text to get things warmed up again. Eventually I got her to come to Utah to be my date at our annual corporate party: I squired her around in front of thousands of people, wined and dined her, danced with her and made her and thousands of my colleagues believe that I was falling in love (since the early days of the company I had kept my personal life generally away from Overstock, so this was more-or-less a first).
Yet privately I was entirely gentlemanly to Maria. We agreed we were going to have a proper old-fashioned European courtship, then she was going to decide whether to be with me forever or not, and be married. Only only then would we start sleeping together again. The truth, however, was that I expected that someday every moment of what I was doing would be examined by historians and prosecutors, and knew that as I went about creating the gambit I needed to maintain a clean record with Maria. Doing otherwise would disgrace the USA and insult the Russian people for their daughter’s treatment.
After Maria left town I met briefly with the three federal agents, with the understanding that we would be sitting down for a full debrief soon thereafter. At the end of that short debrief they asked, “So… were you physical with Maria again?” To reinforce the impression that I was indifferent to Maria’s well-being, I replied coarsely, “Yep I’m back in the saddle.” They were startled and discomfited at the roughness, but kept taking notes. I knew they would discuss it among themselves after I had left.
I deliberately delayed the follow-up meeting, simply to make sure that the news had time to get back to DC. I wanted to see how DC would respond. So I stalled for a week or more before agreeing to the follow-up meeting. When it finally occurred, I learned that DC was fine about me being back shagging Maria (or so they believed) and no objections were raised.
I decided to take it further, by leading them to infer that I got Maria inebriated then raped her.[viii] I could not come out and say that I had gotten Maria wasted then raped her: as I said, federal agents are honorable men and women, and if I just came out and said something like that I knew they might ice me on the spot. Even if they just got upset or arrested me, I would be deprived of learning the reaction from Comey and Brennan. So I created a story whose elements all added up to, “I had gotten Maria wasted then raped her,” diagramming it out on a piece of paper the night before, figuring out precisely how to engineer the clue-dropping so they did not come out all at once, but were scattered through a debriefing, even leaving one clue out so that after we parted they would have to look it up (the date Maria had flown to Utah). So after our debrief, the agents would go back, look up that date, snap it together with the clues I had scattered through our meeting, and come to the (false) conclusion that there was an evening in the middle of the visit when I had committed aggravated rape on Maria Butina. They would not figure it out in my presence, but when they digested my clues and checked her ticket date they should form that belief.
When they put all that together in the hour (or maybe even the 10 minutes) after our meeting, what would happen? The whole thing would be shifted to the federal officials overseeing the mission, who in this case were James Comey and John Brennan. So the next time I met the three agents, whatever their response was, was the response from Comey and Brennan.
The next we met, the three agents had lost all friendliness. They were curt and there was hatred in their eyes, as they thought they thought they might be dealing with a rapist. But they did not bring it up. I was confident that they were under orders from their chain-of-command to avoid bringing it up with me. So we met for an hour in a chilled atmosphere.
At the end of that meeting, they asked, “The folks back East want to know if you can really do this without falling in love?”
I pushed things a bit further, replying, “Nietzsche said, ‘Philosophers don’t really fall in love: it would be like seeing delicate little hands on a Cyclops.’ Tell them back East that if they send word, I’ll cut this chick’s head off and bury her in the Utah desert, nobody will know a thing.”[ix]
The most senior of the feds sprung from his seat into a gun-fighter’s crouch and reached for his weapon. He caught himself then reached for it again, then caught himself then reached again as his brain processed what he had just heard. Finally the index finger of his gun hand pointed between my eyes. “Hey!” He said. “Hey!” Searching for words for a moment (during which time I realized the other two Men In Black were also on their feet in gunfighter crouches, hands on weapons, glaring at me in menace), he spit out, “Hey let’s be perfectly clear about something.” Gesturing to the other two agents he said, “We don’t care what instructions come down from DC: if you harm a hair on Maria’s head we’re gonna kill you ourselves.” The other two agents gave nods of quick agreement in a way that suggested it had already been discussed and agreed upon.
I was proud of them, and immediately made a mental note that when all of this came out I had to make clear they had been honorable. They were torn: we were way over any lines (this is not how the USG normally behaves, folks, it truly isn’t), but we were in a national crisis (this occurred in October ’16, when it was well-understood that there was Russian hybrid warfare going on here), they had orders (allegedly) from Comey and Brennan (allegedly at the request of the President), and they had me, a guy with (as they frequently reminded me) “a non-standard relationship with the United States Government” who in my fight with Wall Street had demonstrated a comfort with tasks outside of normal USG parameters. And here I was lying to them an investigating upwards.[x] When I proposed murdering Maria they didn’t know whether to shit-or-go-blind, but insstinctively they did just the right thing: “We don’t care what orders come down from DC, if you harm a hair on Maria’s head we’re gonna kill you ourselves.”
Remember, the agents had taught me (regarding Hillary) that in creating a sting, the the analysis is: the accused must have committed one or more predicate acts establishing there was already a prior disposition which justified the sting. I was thinking in the same terms: “My chain of command has (regarding Hillary and Maria) committed predicate acts A, B, and C, they have amply demonstrated they hold a prior disposition, so by the power vested in me by the Senate Judiciary Committee of 2006 I am authorizing myself to set them up in a sting.”[xi]
Please remember, none of that with Maria really happened. I was simply setting up my chain-of-command (whoever was above these agents). After the Hillary bribery-and-blackmail caper, it seemed like the right thing to do.
In the summer of 2019, Maria was interviewed in her prison cell about these events by the FBI and by a reporter (Sara Carter, as I recall), and my understanding is that she said, Patrick was completely gentlemanly towards me, I’ve net met such a gentleman, he was totally proper with me, so old-fashioned, he had me sleep in the guest room, he treated me like a lady….. I try to be gentlemanly anyway, but knowing that every moment between us would be scrutinized by historians and lawyers might have made me work a bit harder this time. In any case, as I say, she has written a book about it all that I think is coming out in a month. My honor as a gentleman is in the hands of Maria Butina (a gal whom I inadvertently helped railroad into 18 months in jail).
Yet I know Maria and know what she will say: the truth.
I like to think that the responses of those agents is what makes us different. Perhaps in the same situation the Men In Mao-jackets say to their citizen, “Of course you will, Comrade, if you know what’s good for you,” then they go do something cruel to an animal. Perhaps in the same situation the Men In Ushankas say to their citizen, “The Motherland thanks you, we’ll let you know,” then go poetically drink themselves morose about their sad lot in this tragic life. But in the USA, our Men In Black say, “We don’t care what orders come down from DC, if you harm a hair on Maria’s head we’re gonna kill you ourselves.” God Bless America.
I had a strong sense that what was going on was that these agents now despised this mission and me but were being forced to continue by their chain-of-command. Importantly, I knew the message would make its way back up that chain-of-command, and was another way of signaling, “I’m your boy.”
A point worth noting: October 2016 was the month that Candidate Trump was publicly excoriated for saying, “grab ‘em by the pussy” (NB: that was not gentlemanly, Mr. Trump). October 2016 was also the month that Directors Brennan and Comey were informed (mis-informed, but informed) that I had manipulated, seduced, drugged, raped, plotted to murder Maria Butina, and proposed that I do so… and they kept me “romancing” her for five more months. Too funny.[xii]
What happened next is that things got away from me.
After Maria was (they believed) manipulated, seduced, drugged, raped, and sleeping with a guy plotting to and offering to murder her for them, by February-March 2017 she began offering to ditch DC and come live with me in Utah, finishing her degree at the University of Utah. They instructed me to break off again so that she would stay in DC having dinners with people and posting photos about it on Facebook. They told me that the government was learning a lot by watching her to see with whom she met.
Two years later Federal Prosecutor Kenerson stood up in Judge Chutkin’s courtroom to say, Those dinners Maria Butina had around Washington did grave damage to our national security! He and Chutkan then railroaded her, putting her away for 18 months in a windowless closet the size of a shower stall, where three times/day a guard slid a bowl of mush to her through the mail slot in her closet’s door.
How’s that for #MeToo?[xiii]
Again, too funny.
Oh, wait. Maybe it is not funny at all. Maybe it is horrible. You have likely read news stories over the years along the lines of, An American college kid got picked up in North Korea doing something frat-boy (e.g., stealing a poster of Great Leader) and 3 years later what was left of him was sent back to the USA howling from a burlap sack. The Deep State did something pretty close to that to Maria, or so it thought: again, all the rape-murder stuff was fabrication (but my chain-of-command didn’t know that), yet the 18 months of solitary-and-mush was real.
Nous devons rire de l’homme pour éviter de pleurer pour lui, said Napoleon (“We must laugh at man to avoid having to cry for him”). I make light of it because it is so horrible. And yes, I let it happen. I am not going to defend myself. In fact a Machiavellian interpretation of it all is that I caused it to happen: when Maria introduced herself to me, I already had reasons to be suspicious of aspects of our national security establishment (for reasons in which this website abounds, as well as for reasons which do not appear here). I presented Maria as bait to the Deep State, and the Deep State took the bait. I did think I was going to be able to protect Maria better than I did, in the end, but that is a poor excuse.
That said, was all organized and executed in a mission (I was repeatedly reminded) supervised directly by Directors John Brennan and James Comey. I was told that the mission was undertaken at the personal request of President Obama, but I would be shocked if he were apprised of operational details like that. Again, I cannot really say who was behind it. I do know someone was behind the agents: the antipathy and disgust the MIB felt towards it was clear. Someone was giving these agents their orders. But given how much I was manipulated myself, I have no idea what, of all they told me, I can believe and what I cannot.[xiv]
Count me in as one interested reader of John Durham’s Historical Analysis of What Happened in 2015-2016 if he ever finishes writing it. I cannot wait to find out who was in that chain of command. I was told it was Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, James Comey, and John Brennan. One of those men signed off on an aggravated-rape-and-possible-homicide… so that they would have one actual live Russian (and a striking redheaded brainiac shooter at that) to trot before the public when they decided to launch their Russia Collusion Delusion.
In July, 2020, I had an interaction with Uncle Sam where I got to ask a question. My only question was, “Did the rape-murder gambit play?” The response: “It played better than you expected. The agents picked up on the clues and put them together not in the hour after you left the meeting, but in 60 seconds. They freaked out, went back to the office, and recommended the operation be shut down. Said that you had gone crazy. Then after you offered to murder Maria, they demanded the mission be scrubbed.”
“But it wasn’t shut down. It went on for five more months,” I responded.
Uncle Sam replied, “They were ordered to continue. Someone – else – took – all – responsibility,” he said slowly as he looked up at the ceiling and made signing motions with one hand.
That is to say, Peter Strzock, Andrew McCabe, or James Comey (or perhaps John Brennan) signed-off on turning a blind eye to aggravated rape and a potential homicide in the interest of keeping alive a Russiagate setup on the Republican Party that I know they were working on in September 2015, am pretty sure they were working on in July 2015, and suspect they were orchestrating from March 2015 (which is to say, before Donald Trump ever came down an escalator).
That is to say: Russiagate is not about Trump It was setup on the Republican Party that was crafted in 2015. Trump came along, won the nomination and then the White House, but along the way crashed into a pre-packaged scandal that was in the works long before he was President or even nominee, and quite possibly, before he even declared.
The Russiagate scandal is not only not about Trump, it’s not even mostly about Russia. It is primarily a manifestation of corruption at the highest reaches of our own federal government: they set up a bribery-blackmail soft-coup on Hillary as they engineered a Russagate scandal such that any day they wanted to they could grab that Can-O-Scandal, shake it up, crack it open, and spray it all over the Republican Party. I say this as the guy they had bribing Hillary and shagging Maria, so I think I know wherefrom I speak.
Russia has indeed been conducting hybrid warfare against us, enough to get us all chasing our own tails. That is what Putin cares about and we have fallen for it. It did not take much: $100,000 of Facebook ads and some DNC emails (that showed – as everyone seems to forget – that the DNC cheated Bernie out of the nomination on behalf of Hillary).
How did so little go so far? Grifters have a saying, “You can’t con an honest man.” It is the very pathology of our own discourse, the lack of intellectual honesty and rigor, the sheer argumentative partisanship, that has been the accelerant of the fire that Putin started in our home.
Whoever actually signed off on turning a blind eye to the rape-murder, it all happened as part of a scheme initiated and overseen by FBI Director James “Cardinal” Comey and CIA Director John Brennan. While the mission was allegedly done at the personal request of President Obama, again, I would be shocked if he were informed or would have tolerated the rape-murder stuff.
Note that that all these matters were closely examined by such luminaries as the Inspector General of the Department of Justice Michael Horowitz and the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson. Yet somehow it was missed. As a fallback to them, the entire matter was studied for 2.5 years by the Office of the Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller (who personally knows all about my cooperation with the Bureau during my 2006-2008 fight with Wall Street while he was FBI Director). Mueller’s 2017-2019 investigation into Russian penetration of the US political process found precisely one actual Russian, Maria Butina, over whose file my name is splattered because I conducted a three-year on-again-off-again affair with her under the blessing of and then at the direction of federal authorities. Yet somehow, all that was missed. Just as it was missed in a lengthy federal proceeding by such goons as United States Attorney Erik Kenerson and United States District Judge Tanya Chutkan, whose courtroom fact-finding seems to have missed …. pretty much everything. The internal procedures of the FBI, Department of Justice, and Intelligence Community failed to prevent or uncover any of this, the Inspectors General of these organizations studied it and missed it all, then the Office of the Special Counsel looked into it all for 2.5 years… and somehow also missed it all.
I never even got a phone call.
Does that seem odd?
The astute reader will now see the truth in my claim: The Mueller Investigation was not a witch-hunt, as Republicans allege. It was worse. It was a cover-up.
The astute reader may also judge that two claims I made in essays from a year ago may make more sense now than they did when I wrote them. In October 2018 a federale offered what sounded a hell of a lot like a bribe (You need to understand that there are billionaires walking around the earth that we made, and we are prepared to do the same for you, you just need to stay calm, you just need to stay quiet… through the election). I declined. Six weeks later, in early December, 2018, a unit at the SEC that is managed by Peter Strzok’s wife, Melissa Hodgman, opened an investigation into me and my firm, Overstock.com.
Here’s another odd fact about Melissa Hodgman: she was promoted to her position hours after the SEC opened its corner of the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails, so that she (Peter Strzok’s wife) could be in charge of the SEC’s “investigation” of Hillary.
If only there were a pattern.…
The astute reader may wish to revisit the circumstances surrounding my departure from Overstock. In March, 2019, while on the trip to Singapore described in this essay, I learned that the SEC investigation launched in December 2018 against Overstock.com and me had been started by a unit within the SEC Enforcement Division managed by Melissa Hogman, and that she is the wife of Peter Strzok. It was at the point that I began resigning myself to the likelihood that one way or another, I could not remain the CEO of a public company while fulfilling my duties as a citizen (which I was still trying to work through).
When I returned to America I began the process of coming forward publicly. As is disclosed elsewhere on this site, in July of 2018 and then again in November, 2018 I had made contact with a Congressman who had oversight responsibilities and walked him through this (sounding, no doubt, like a nut) so he would know where to dig if I got iced. But it was March, 2019, when I learned that Peter Strzok’s wife Melissa Hodgman ran the part of the SEC that had launched an investigation my firm, that I began coming forward full-on. I had learned my lesson fighting Wall Street, and did not want to go walking into a hail of bullets alone, again. William Barr had been sworn in on Valentine’s Day, 2019. I learned the Congressman was going to visit him, and I sent word to give me his read: Was the new AG willing to go to war against the Deep State? A week later I went to see the Congressman: he told me that Barr wanted to go to war against the Deep State. The guy had been Attorney General at 40, went on to an illustrious law career, had been slipping towards retirement, but postponed it for one reason: to burn down the Deep State and restore the Constitution.
Because it was the second-best quip of my life, I’ll recount what happened next. The Congressman got another politician involved, a Senator, and had me run through the story in 15 minutes for him as we all sat in the Congressman’s office. When I was finished explaining what was in essence a penetration operation against the US Government, authorized by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and tasked to me, the Senator looked absolutely stricken, and said, “Patrick, the Senate does not have the authority to do anything like that. Did they cite any law….?”
“Senator, I don’t do law, I do philosophy: Federalist 47,” I quipped.
While I never did meet General Barr, arrangements were made for me to debrief within the DOJ at a senior level last April 5. Those seniors made arrangements for me to debrief to the senior level of the FBI’s equivalent of “Internal Affairs” on April 30. Five minutes into that FBI debrief the senior agent said, “I’m going to let you skim through this now, but you should understand we are going to be sitting together for weeks going through this in great detail.” I agreed. When that three hour debrief was over, they told me to prepare to meet the next week. Then a message came that something else something else and it would be a little more time before something else something else…. We had three rounds of that, then I never heard from them again.
On June 22, 2019 I went out to see my rabbi. He had never known of these other activities, but I explained in about 20 minutes (by then I was getting good at it). He told me to come forward, insisting I do it quickly, but that I might consider forming a panel of journalists from across the spectrum.
By June 27 I had chosen four journalists, and given them movie trailer of it over the phone. I asked that we all meet before July 4, but I think it came together July 6-7. I walked them through what I have recounted here.
One of those four, Sara Carter, broke the ice by writing a story about it on July 26. Matt Taibbi followed with a piece weeks later). The other two (whom I had given numerous stories in the past) said We’ll wait until there is some official corroboration and We’ll hang back and watch how others report on it and make that part of the story but have never been heard from again (I wonder if the villains had different names whether they would have been so circumspect).
I still hoped I might be able to squeak though, but it did not work out that way. As I have alluded to elsewhere, while the figure-outer executives (generally not from Utah) who built the company implored me to stay, the staff (generally from Utah) who spent their energies scheming rather than helping figure-outers build the firm went to work. The scheming executives were 100% from Utah and they did what they do (as one figure-outer put it to me a couple years ago, “While the rest of us are here trying to build products and businesses, they just build alliances”). They and Chair Allison Abraham played the D&O insurance ruse described elsewhere on an expectation of which Marc Cohodes had convinced them, that the week I was forced out (or in this case, tricked with the D&O ruse) the stock would pop to $100. It did not: in fact, by seven months later it had dropped from $20 to $2.
However, I had always said that, “when the cookie crumbles it will crumble from the outside in,” and that we were building the perfect lean-agile-networked supply chain for that day. I am glad that when the cookie crumbled this Spring the machinery performed as promised: however, because Jonathan made it his goal to drive off all but one or two of the great non-LDS figure-outer-executives, then the great LDS figure-outer-executive who was not from Utah, and then the great LDS figure-outer-executive who was from Utah but who was not particularly devout, the firm has lost all but one or two of the executives that I saw as its figure-outers. So I worry about a day when they need to figure anything out. Perhaps such a day will never come to our post-Covid world. Inshallah. Or maybe they evolve, Inshallah.
They have indeed rock-and-rolled their way through Covid like champions.
And I do not mean to suggest that anyone was wrong to want me gone. I was sleepless myself, wondering if my fiduciary duty was to get as far from the firm as possible. The fact that we were not only once again on the Reg SHO list, but the SEC had even suspended enforcement of the speed-brakes provided by that flimsy regulation, also weighed on my decision. As I wrote in an earlier essay, after my departure was announced internally and hours before I was walking out the door, I found out that a ring of the Utah folks (the folks who spent their time talking to Marc Cohodes rather than figuring anything out) were lying to me about the D&O insurance matters. The same folks and kind of folks who fought having Social Media 2005-2009. And Mobile Commerce 2003-2007. And MarTech from 2011 -2014. And, at times, Blockchain. And, at other times, Retail. Because providing opposition was something they could do besides sitting quietly listening to people figuring everything out and building businesses. I could have used the knowledge of their perfidy to reverse things, or even shit-can them both, but that was the moment I realized, “This has gone since the day I came to Utah, I am out of this toxic relationship.” It’s the 2nd most beautiful thing that can happen in a relationship, when the two parties get sick of each other at the same time.
Given everything else going on, perhaps it was best for all concerned. In the meantime, I took my capital and started a new company. Different industry. The Overstock board had turned it down so I did it on my own.
Over in Indonesia, between waves, dives, and orangutans, I occasionally got enough connectivity to check in on all the Wall Street hoo-hah about my ejecting from the firm I built over 20 years and selling my stock as I did so (after the Top 10 institutional owners pleaded with the Board of Directors to get rid of me, and the Board informed me they were “concerned about the optics of any association with me” and wished to sever all ties). It always made me chuckle, for it was about as accurate as most Wall Street thinking. Why did Byrne do it? Did he go nuts? Did Byrne really leave because he thought the token dividend would not go through? Or did he leave because he thought that the margins in home goods were getting too tight? Or that Club O’s prospects had plateaued…? No, Byrne left because he had been tricked into a soft-coup conducted by Obama and Comey (and Brennan?) against Hillary, and when he realized it Byrne completed his 2006 meta-tasking by setting up the Directors of the FBI and CIA in a sting involving an aggravated-rape-and-murder to which they (or someone in his chain-of-command) signed off. Then the DeepState offered Byrne a billion-dollar bribe and when he told them to fuck off Peter Strzok’s wife opened an SEC investigation of the firm and threatened criminal referrals (not knowing that somewhere in DC there is a Golden Letter from 2006 that says Byrne is to investigate and expose the Deep State and not be prosecuted). That’s why Byrne thought it might be in shareholders’ interests to complete the Retail U-turn (waiting for Retail to be back to EBITDA-positive Q2 2019) then punch out of Overstock (so there was no point in destroying it to get at Byrne) and go public (as I did on Fox News and CNN that evening) about just enough of this (one aspect of the Maria story) to warn the public It’s all a lie, it’s all political espionage while keeping the bribery-blackmail sting and aggravated-rape-and-murder sting quiet (so that the legitimate feds could finish their investigation).
Oddly enough, none of those Wall Street geniuses guessed that particular constellation of facts. Or that maybe they don’t know what they don’t know. Which might tell you something about their Wall Street work more generally.
What happens now?
The first thing that happens is that John Durham is going to finish investigating everything you just read. I think he has a lot of other threads, but I bet this soft-coup one is one of the more important. I wish again to caution the reader against (at this point) believing President and Michelle Obama were part of any of this: this feels more like a CIA Director than a community organizer to me. And since this is such a hall of mirrors, it is entirely possible that some entirely different group within the government rigged the whole thing up.
A “Deep State,” if you will.
So let us see what Mr. Durham has found. For what you have just read, Dear Reader, is a written version of the story I told the Justice Department last April. This is what they are investigating. Among other wicked allegations, I am sure. But I promise you, it’s true.
A second thing that will happen is that people will want to interview me, if only to challenge this tale. As one of the few people in America who know what really went on in 2015-2016, first-hand, I have been distressed at the state of our public discourse. It is so degraded, it so shreds the norms of reasoned discourse, that there is no wonder the truth could stay hidden so long. I am really loathe to engage with it. Psychologists can deal with a lot of pathologies, but the one that they most hate dealing with, I have been told, is narcissism, because the only good way to deal with a narcist is to disengage. I fear that I have come to feel that way about publications and channels that I once respected even just 10-15 years ago. I have truly little interest in giving any interview to anyone who cannot respect the norms of civilized discourse. Yet my Rabbi tells me that when I come forward I have a duty to speak to a variety of journalists across the spectrum.
I hereby offer to do a CNN interview with Chris Cuomo and Anderson Cooper, individually or together. I would prefer together. Why? Because I think it would lead to a more civilized discussion. Chris interviewed me in a civilized fashion once in the early years of Overstock, than had me on last year (Chris, you have my number). Anderson and I had a mutual friend in Fouad Ajama [RIP] (Anderson, if you want me on your show, get in touch with me through Fouad’s widow).
I hereby also offer to do an interview with Rachel Maddow of MSNBC. Ms. Maddow, you and I have a mutual friend in Debra, a Stanford professor whom we both admire. If you want to grill me on your show, contact me through Debra.
A third thing that happens now is that a lot of federals are going to be angry with me. I understand that within the FBI and OGA (Other Government Agencies) my name comes up from time to time, and that folks are split 50/50: half support me, half think I am Snowden but dumb enough to stay in the country. My old chain-of-command (whoever they really were) will feel even more deeply betrayed by… the guy they tricked into doing the dirty work of a soft-coup for them. Federal Judge Chutkan (in whose courtroom Maria was railroaded) and Federal Prosecutor Kenerson, along with Special Counsel Mueller and the Inspectors General, and thousands of Deep State goons of that ilk, will also be angry with me for setting the Deep State up for an aggravated-rape-and-murder charge. The network of goons sprinkled by both parties across the federal bureaucracy (but especially in DOJ’s nooks and crannies in DC and in other cities as well) may come after me. So be it.
They might remember that somewhere in a safe in Washington, DC there is a Golden Letter from 2006, which has been located and had its existence confirmed to two journalists. It says that I am going to take on the systemic corruption subverting the federal institutions of the US Government (or something like that), and asks of the future that I be shown “extraordinary latitude under the laws of the United States of America” when I do it. Which, if I am not mistaken, describes where I found myself in 2015-2016 (realizing the MIB and I had been used in a soft-coup by our chain-of-command), what I decided to do about it (somehow blowing-up that chain-of-command when the opportunity arose), why I seized the Maria Butina opportunity when I crossed with it again (by leading them to infer that I had committed horrific crimes against Maria), and what I am doing now (by going public).
This is the end of the DeepCapure Project. If this does not do the trick, nothing will. From 2006 forward, from my conflagration with Wall Street to the bribing of Hillary and creation of an aggravated rape-murder sting on Brennan and Comey, this 14 year, $40 million project involved essays and actions that were undertaken to support a mission with which, as far as I was concerned, I had been charged by the American people, via their agents the Senate that they had elected in 2006, via its agent the Senate Judiciary Committee (which holds final authority to investigate corruption in the USA), via its Chairman Arlen Specter. My assignment was to take on corruption “across the institutions of the federal government” that had been subverted by a network of goons across the executive levels of regulators such as the SEC, law enforcement, intelligence: in the end, even the Inspectors General and courts and Special Counsels and all the mechanisms that are supposed to locate and curtail corruption have themselves been compromised, as I believe has been demonstrated.
Likely the Deep State goons are going to come after me for the rest of my life. Or maybe they are more worried about paying their own Barr Bill these days. Time will tell.
To the shade of Chairman Arlen Specter and to those other Senate Institutionalists (living or dead) who summoned me alone to a room in Washington, DC one Indian summer day in 2006, and to the 325 million people who elected them, I have a final comment:
You told me to find you the Deep State, I found you the Deep State.
Typo-corrections and tiny edits made through October 25, 2020
ENDNOTES
[i] To the extent that I was smelling skullduggery, this is what I suspected might be happening (and I would have put the possibility at about 1 in 10): “Is President Obama doing this simply to take out Clinton, to get her replaced as his successor by a candidate whom he prefers? A Bernie – Progressive?” As I said, I did not rate that possibility highly, but it did occur to me that mischief was afoot. I was right and wrong. As the reader will discover, there was skullduggery at play, but it was a completely different skullduggery that I imagined.
[ii] I wish to caution the reader at length against believing any of that actually happened: that is, I can promise that what I am writing is the truth, I was in fact told this, but this is such a house of mirrors I don’t know if any of what they told me was true. Maybe they were manipulating me. I have no idea if Hillary really took the first bribe that was described to me: maybe they told me that story to manipulate me into facilitating the second bribe. And as I wrote above, I do not know if the second bribe actually happened. I don’t know if there is any such plan as these agents described (though there were in fact four federal people, of three different varieties, involved with me, and this is a fair account of their belief).
I happen to like Barack Obama and I thought Michelle was a supremely classy First Lady. Suspecting it might be of interest one day, I laid out my thoughts on President Obama a year ago: “Reflections on Barack H. Obama”. I did not vote for him, as I have never voted for a Democrat or a Republican for President (standing in a voting booth in 1988 I invented a lifetime-voting-booth-algorithm to minimize the time I’d need to spend listening to all politicians: I vote first for every Libertarian [because violence is fundamentally immoral and the State is organized violence], then every woman, then I look at the job and if it has to do with social welfare I vote Democrat, if it has to do with money or crime I vote Republican). I even have some reason to suspect that if Barack Obama actually is involved in this, he is not driving: Brennan is driving (at least domestically) and has kompromat on Obama (of a form a decade ago I was told may exist).
In essence, what I am saying is, “Don’t believe me until you read what Durham reports when he investigated this!” Because he has been investigating this, I promise.
[iii] Offline, not in that meeting, someone involved explained to me that in WW II the US had worried about Nazi sympathizers within the government, and some American businessman from Wall Street who had opportunity to interact with the USG was asked to interact and find them. Which he did by becoming one, of course. Memories and Washington being what they are, so that some future administration would not hang him as a traitor, he was given such a letter. I do not know what the truth is, but that’s what I was told.
[iv] She probably saved my life on a few occasions when I was in-and-out of hospitals (I have spent over 800 nights in hospitals at this point, and this spring I had surgery #113), feeling pounded by life, unable to continue, until she reminded me of this. “Who gets to do this stuff?” She’d ask. “Who gets to take on Wall Street bandits, who gets to take on Organized Crime, who gets asked to go after corruption in his own government?” So I would rally.
[v] If you want a precise sense of how smart Maria is, download an app called “Lumosity”. Designed by cognitive scientists, one uses this app daily to exercise several cognition-muscles. Each day it tells you how you scored against the other million eggheads who use it. Maria saw that I was using it each morning for 10 minutes to get my brain working. She began using it, and soon our daily love-notes were nothing more than our respective morning Lumosity scores. Once she had gotten used to it Maria began hitting 99% every day, then 99.1%, 99.2%, 99.3%…. Download the paid version (the free version is subtly more easy) and see how you do versus Maria Butina.
[vi] My understanding is that this meeting with Don, Jr. never happened, but that Maria did meet Don Jr. in passing at a small banquet.
[vii] I wanted to structure things so as to avoid incriminating the three federal agents. My experience was that these MIBs are great Americans, so I wanted to keep them exculpated while I created a bank-shot-sting against the officials overseeing them. Who, in this case, were allegedly John Brennan and James Comey. I thought it was unlikely that the gambit would ensnare Obama, and frankly, I hoped it would not (setting aside my dismay that I was used in a soft-coup, who among us does not feel admiration for Barack Obama, for what he stands for in our country’s history?) Yet in the end I figured that would take care of itself. Word of what I had said would move up the ladder either until it reached someone non-corrupt (who would pull the plug on the operation), or to the highest corrupt official who would sign off on it. So I had tricked these agents: I had presented the information in a way that was too fragmented for them to respond to in that meeting. But I was sure they would put it together immediately afterwards: what I wanted to know was, how high would it go before someone killed it or signed off on it?
[viii] I have a woke (yet otherwise lovely) niece who tells me that one cannot just slide over things like this without also using the opportunity to explain and educate. So for all readers new to the liberal tradition: our atomic concept is “consent”. If two rational agents consent to something that harms no one else they can do it (“unless,” as Oscar Wilde put it, “they do it in the street and it scares the horses”). Consent is agreement between or among rational agents. Apparently young men even at good universities still do not understand (or else still think it is somehow cool, tricky-trick-trick-tricky), that one cannot get a young woman drunk, strip her and email photos to friends showing her in a stupor, have sex, then later say it was “consensual.” Similarly the recent move to normalize sexuality of children, mutatis mutandis. Newsflash from a true liberal: children and drunk women are not “rational agents.” Saying that one of them gave consent is like saying, “My cat gave its consent.” If it’s not a rational agent, it cannot “consent.” All it can do is, “Go along with”.
[ix] If such an instruction had come, my plan was to say I would fly Maria to LA for “a surfing lesson from which she’ll never come back,” make dinner reservations at San Diego’s Coronado Hotel, romance her there over wine, pop over to Tijuana, fly her to Mexico City, then home to Moscow: I instructed her always to travel with her passport when she met with me. As a back-up plan (and in case DC instructed me to stick to my offer to murder her in Utah), I visited a small airport near Salt Lake City and identified a slew of aircraft that I would be able to steal on a moment’s notice (planes are much easier to steal than cars), all with the range to fly Maria on a no-flight-plan dash from Salt Lake City to Nogales, Mexico (≈650 nautical miles).
However, the truth is that I thought the chances that I would receive such an order were extremely remote: there was no purpose to it, and these agents would not have delivered it in any case. The point of my saying that was for me to have made the offer. I wanted to see how Comey and Brennan would react.
[x] This idea of investigating upwards often brought to mind the trilogy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a classic of “Comedy Science Fiction” (an arcane genre if there ever was one). As I recall, it is in the fourth and final book of the trilogy (So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish) that we learn two important things. One is that some species on Earth have actually been extraterrestrials, visiting to study the planet before it gets demolished for an Interstellar Hyperspace Bypass (on the last day the dolphins evacuate in their own spaceships, their last message being: “So long, and thanks for all the fish!”) We also discover who the smartest extraterrestrials in the universe are: white mice. They have been in our laboratories, exhibiting certain behaviors then studying what we humans inferred from the behavior, then exhibiting other behavior and studying what the humans inferred, and in this way mapping human cognition. They were the scientists mapping us.
While I had my fight with Wall Street 2005-2008 I often thought of that story. Why did I take it all those years, going to hedge funds and bankers’ conferences and sitting with journalists, just to get kicked around? Because I was studying them, and helping Men In Black figure out who was in on what and how they were doing things. Expert Networks, FTD’s, learning about Costa Rica and the Caribean…. It all came from kicking around and getting kicked around in financial circles (which is why it was so rewarding when the FBI put about 200 of them in handcuffs a decade ago). Similarly, once the Hillary bribe-sting played out as it did, I went into the mode of exhibiting behaviors and seeing how the chain of command beyond the Men In Black reacted, trying to map their human corruption.
[xi] I should explain my thinking. A memory that frequently crossed my mind during those days came from a day in 1983 when I sat on a riverbank in Guilin, China, watching a fisherman floating on a narrow raft fishing with a bird called a “鸬鹚” (luci). The bird had a string-collar tied around its neck, and would dive under the water, surface a minute later downstream with a fish in its beak, and swim back to the raft to deposit it. The fisherman would occasionally remove the bird’s string-collar and let it eat one of the fish it had caught.
Similarly, when in 2006 those senators requested that I take on the systematic corruption infiltrating the federal institutions of the United States Government (the letter literally has language like that), I thought of that old line about the bank robber Willy Sutton. Someone asked him, “Why do you rob banks, Willy?” Willy Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” Similarly, if someone asks you to take on the corruption of our federal government, where are you going to go? So I dove in, figuring I would surface years downstream with a whopper of a fish in my beak.
Years later, in 2016, that is in fact what I had: two Directors and possibly a President committing a soft-coup on the 97% likely new President, Hillary Clinton. And, when I tested my chain of command, whoever they really were, they were more-or-less willing to turn a blind eye to something I had tricked them into believing: aggravated-rape-and-possible-homicide on Maria Butina. I figured the Maria Butina matter established their corruption, and the Hillary matter established corruption and an attempt to hijack the federal government, so I naturally felt that I had located the “corruption taking over our federal government” that I had been asked to stop.
But knowing what to do with that fact was not as obvious as it might seem in retrospect, because everyone on the scene was corrupt. The Directors were corrupt, their IG’s were corrupt, and the senior brass of the FBI was corrupt. It is not like I was going to go to Loretta Lynch with the news. I thought of going to the Senate Judiciary Committee, but at the time it had two members, one senior Republican and one senior Democrat, with whom I have jousted in years past (search DeepCapture for Shelby and Schumer). While I have heard that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham was smart, I had (and still have) never met him, and I was not sure he would have the spine to cash a check his predecessor wrote 14 years ago. If it were 20 years ago I would have thought, “I know, I’ll just go to the press!” Even a cursory acquaintance with DeepCapture and review of my 2005-2008 fight will show the reader why that thought just made me chuckle at myself (like the memory of being 18 and walking into a two-by-four makes me chuckle at myself now).
So I was left believing that my best bet was to hang back and wait until we returned to having rule of law with a proper Department of Justice, and until then, observe.
I tried not to think too hard about what would happen if Hillary won, but I had a vague idea that if she did I would go to the Clintons (I figured it would be easy to use money to get to Bubba and thence to Hillary) then give her a proposition: I know you are being blackmailed by Obama for those two bribes. I know because behind the scenes I facilitated that second bribe, and they told me about the first to get me to do that. In the process, I discovered that Obama was actually just developing blackmail material on you, and so I took the initiative of developing aggravated rape-and-possible-homicide charges with which you can tag Comey and Brennan, and get out from under the blackmail. Doing that seemed like a second-best outcome, but still preferable to one where anyone, retired president or Directors of FBI and CIA or any other Deep State, managed Hillary through kompromat.
But as I said, that was all a distant second to the possibility that someday we might start being the United States of America again.
[xii] I have been asked, Why did you let this all happen? Didn’t you have any feelings for Maria? The answer is that I had plenty-o-feelings for Maria. She is a remarkable woman, not only a Lumosity 99%+ but Greater Moscow Amateur Powerlifting Champion (Deadlift + Clean & Jerk), straight A+ through school & university, Master’s degree, American University, beautiful, stylish, knows literature and science as well as reads Hayek and Friedman… She’s a rarity indeed. I also had an assignment tasked to me by the 2006 Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of 325 million Americans, to “investigate and expose the systemic corruption taking over our federal institutions,” and Maria Butina represented the perfect instrument by which to accomplish that. I knew they were going to reveal themselves. I thought I would be able to shield her from harm, but she ended up being collateral damage to my enquiry.
It is the case that when Maria was arrested, I secretly (and perhaps illegally) got private word slipped to her lawyer that the more he made the case about me the more it would go away. It turns out that he tried to do so, but the federal prosecutors lied to him and to the court by denying me. In any case, in the interest of protecting me, Maria overruled her lawyer and insisted that he keep me out of things. Rather than risk harming me, she sat for 18 months in a windowless closet eating mush. Again, that says something about the woman.
Maria and I will never meet again. The courtroom-goons who railroaded her also sent her back to Moscow fixed up with a special warrant such that for the rest of her life, if she ever sets foot outside of Russia into any of the 194 member-countries of Interpol she will be arrested. If I ever set foot in Russia they will bury me under the Lubyanka. I have apologized to Maria Butina from the bottom of my heart, and to the Russian people for how their daughter was treated while sojourning in America as an idealistic grad student trying to build bridges of peace with total openness about her connections in Moscow and her intentions in Washington, no different in intention than dozens of idealistic American foreign exchange students I have come across in remote corners of the world for 40 years. Maria has accepted my apology (which again tells you about the stuff of which the woman is made). But given what happened to her here, maybe America will do something nice for her someday.
A gentleman normally does not say, but in the interests of full disclosure (Maria is writing a book about all this, and knowing her she will be perfectly and precisely honest): after six months of this faux-romantic folderol, in March 2017 there came a point where Maria and I knew we were saying goodbye again. We spent a last evening together, she liked me, I liked her, and when Greater Moscow Amateur Powerlifting Champion Maria Butina takes you down she takes you down. Somewhere in that moment of, “Well she wants me this to happen and the Directors of FBI & CIA and President want me to do this, but the Directors of FBI & CIA and the President want me to do this which means I really should do just the opposite and set them up, but on the other hand I just adore her and think she’s so high-octane….” that was just a lot to think about and in the heat of the moment I lost track of whether the right thing to do was to follow or foil my orders. The spirit is strong but the flesh is weak, as they say.
[xiii] The peculiarities of Maria’s prosecution and incarceration have been closely studied by noted author James Bamford, who is writing a book about it. Bamford is one of the nation’s leading writers on intelligence: formerly from that community himself, he later shifted to work on the Church Committee, then wrote half-a-dozen books on the Intelligence Community, including two classic works on the NSA, The Puzzle Palace and The Shadow Factory. Bamford, an honest man of the Left (yes, they exist) has made clear to me he thinks that the prosecution and imprisonment of Maria Butina was a remarkable judicial travesty, a hoax perpetrated for political reasons. He is writing what he believes will be his masterpiece, a scorcher of a book, on this subject. I think it will be published in November. Warning: He has every right to portray me as a ruthless demon regarding Maria, and probably should.
[xiv] As I wrote, in fairness I maintain a presumption against believing that President Obama knew about this. I believed (and still believe) that it would have been more likely that in order to provide the President with “plausible deniability,” Comey and Brennan would not have informed him of such matters (and I assume he would have stopped them if they had).
That said, the beauty of the aggravated-rape-and-murder gambit (if I say so myself) was that it either would be signed off on by the highest corrupt official involved (and in the process generate a CAT-Scan of corruption within the chain of command beyond the Men In Black), or it would rise to a non-corrupt official who would stop it.
Please remember, the Men In Black were good men clearly being used by their chain-of-command just as I was, which is why I had to bank-shot my aggravated-rape sting past them by scattering the details into different pieces, and why, when they heard me mention murder, instinctively responded correctly: We don’t care what orders come down from DC, if you harm a hair on Maria’s head we’re gonna kill you ourselves. God Bless America. That’s why we’ll get through this.
Thank You for your courage Patrick.I never met you,but I hope I get the chance some day.Godspeed.
So what are We The People who value basic principles like truth/freedom/goodwill/integrity/Non Aggression principle/Golden Rule going to do about all the corruption in government and big tech/media/pharma/finance?The best way I can think of to counter that is for people to unite behind these principles and become an economic force.Money talks and it could be used to say GOOD things in contrast to all the bad things it is also used for.
Most politicians won’t care about these principles until We The People show them We care about
these principles.
All political parties are easily co-opted & corrupted.
No matter how many political parties exist,there will always be the temptations and pitfalls of bribery,intimidation and corruption.
Most politicians who claim to serve the public are really serving themselves and their cronies.
Therefore,We The People must unite to make change.Social media and networking make this possible.
I wrote up an Action Plan that I gave my word I would not post on this site anymore because I posted it so many times before.If anyone is interested in seeing it here is a link to my MINDS page. This is the best idea I can think of to make positive change in a peaceful,productive manner.
Anyone got a better idea?I’m listening……
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/943148464663228416?referrer=truthfreedompeace
https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo/status/1313537879377879045?s=20
Will government or media ever demand answers to these accusations of horrific crimes from Clinton Chronicles?Probably not,but I hope We The People will.
Not a peep from Mainstream Media.Not even from most famous “conservative” media personalities.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VqOcWTAZcWS4/
The parents of the 2 murdered boys detailed at 26:00 of this video are STILL seeking justice 30 years later…..
What happened?
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2016/08/26/the-boys-on-the-tracks-are-back
Always loved this song in my teenage years,but didn’t until recently realize the importance of the lyrics..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PXddU0T4d8
If anyone can watch this Pizzagate video and not believe it merits investigation,I don’t know what does.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/idDnki7lJgQJ/
Clinton Cash documentary
https://www.bitchute.com/video/v5AKrU3lpzDk/
“The first thing that happens is that a fellow named John Durham is going to finish investigating everything you just read here.”
Most of us are losing faith in Durham, not to mention Barr, at this point. Barr is great for catching street criminals, arsonists and pedophiles, but his own DOJ or FBI? Can’t touch those with a 10′ pole, apparently. And remember, this is the AG who allowed Epstein to be killed and openly covers it up with “suicide”, making himself look like an idiot, or worse. All these scams where everything just goes silent afterwards, like Las Vegas, etc. Pathetic.
As one person said on BitChute, “Durham is a coward and a pussy.” That probably sums it up, sadly.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your efforts Dr Byrne.
Signed, El Pontificus Q Maximus Rex.
PS I played lumosity for a month or two a few years ago. Composite score when I stopped was 98.4
You’re most welcome, it was my honor, and color me impressed on the 98.4.
aw shucks, thanks. Do me a favor and keep on living and fighting. I really want to meet you some day. My dream since I was a young adult around 2001 was to become massively wealthy and be something of a “batman”. So your story, aside from its historical ramifications which will reverberate for generations (I will help make sure of it) are an inspiration.
You are a true American. I often wonder if therearemen of character like the founding fathers and you sir have given me hope for the future. Amazing story of your life!!!
Patrick,
It has been a privilege to get a peak into the inner workings of the Deep State and how you have navigated through it in your courageous pursuit to root out corruption!
I didn’t know who you were or what you were about until I caught a couple of Podcasts from Dr. Jerome Corsi.
14 hours later, with no sleep, I feel like you are an old friend that I would be honored to be in the presence of.
Your Irish fighting spirit resonates with me, a common “deplorable” of Irish and Norwegian decent with a few other things mixed in.
Wow, how very enlightening Patrick. Thank you for all of your efforts for the betterment of our nation. You are a true Patriot.
My honor.
Bravo.
Thank you for your efforts to restore the Republic. As we fall down the rabbit hole- those same entities and individuals must be exposed for Jonestown, 911, Sir Allen Stanford, Epstein, drug and human trafficking evils. You may be the tip of the spear that wins back constitutional rights for the American People.
Which Constitution ???
How about for a real interview we go with Joe Rogan experience or Glenn Greenwall. The ones you mentioned are clearly bias.
With this story you might have moved from the 2nd most interesting man in the world into 1st place. If I’m ever so blessed to sit down and have a beer with you I’ll tell you the story of Janos Papp or Erol Jing as the FBI know him. Who among other things imported cocaine for 7 years under the employment of the FBI.
I would be honored with either. Feel free to make it happen.
Thank you Patrick. You are a great American and true hero.
It is disappointing that there’s no one covering your story. I didn’t expect Deep State MSM to but had hoped at least one of the sites I frequently visit would after I sent them your article. Nothing but crickets. If you do get asked to appear on network or cable TV, please let us know.
Here’s the best explanation I have found as to why big government is fighting so hard to maintain control. Why is it always follow the $$?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/10/03/covid-fear-isnt-the-kitchen-sink-but-its-close/
You should consider running for public office. There are very few with any chance of being elected as honest, intelligent and as true a leader as you. You are the real deal.
Thanks again for willingly sacrificing your security for our freedoms. Courage never gives up.
“You should consider running for public office. There are very few with any chance of being elected as honest, intelligent and as true a leader as you. You are the real deal.”
When it has scientifically been proven that hell has frozen over.
I would vote Joe Rogan or Glenn Greenwall For your interview as they are not corporate shrews.
After this story you might just have moved in 1st place for the most interesting man in the world. If I’m ever lucky enough to sit down and have a beer with you I’ll tell you about my good friend Janos Papp. His 7 years as ‘Erol King’ importing cocaine for the FBI and on US navy frigates is just one of his amazing adventures. After hearing his 1st hand accounts of governmental corruption, since the nineties, I have no doubt that absolutely everything you said here is true, except the part were you give the Obamas a pass. We know the Clintons are as corrupt as they come and the fact that they wanted to play them as presidential puppets rather than put them in jail speaks to the depth of the corruption the Obamas possess. I also did not vote for Obama but I did harbor the hope that he would bring about change and thought as had an air of class we had not seen in a while. Unfortunately the truth speaks differently.
I love reading your writings as they truly are a window into your soul. When one writes from the heart it paints a very complete picture of the author.
But, Patrick, where is the truth about James Foley? You can’t leave us hanging like this. I guess you can, but…
Given the DOJ press conference this morning, where Foley was a topic, this would be a good time to remind us of what really went down.
What did they say about Foley?
They are bringing a few of “the beatles” to the US to prosecute them.
OK, here’s the truth about James Foley. I already let his family know a year ago, but I will quietly let you know now, here. Foley was not really kidnapped by Isis. He was kidnapped by a little Bandito group in Syria. They Offered to sell him to the USA for $250,000. The offer went to Barack Obama, he sat on it for three days, and then he sent an instruction to decline it. The Bandido group received the refusal, and a week later they turned around and sold foley to Isis for $1 million. As I recall, Isis offered to sell Foley back to the USA for a much larger sum (In the tens of millions of dollars, as I recall). Obama refused again. Then they beheaded him.
Patrick, I’ve been following your story with great interest the past year. Thank you, thank you, thank you. There are a few good guys left in this world.
Patrick – it’s clear you met with Durham/Aldenberg and their team. Were you called in as a witness for a grand jury? If you were, you’d be allowed to tell us from a legal POV.
My goal is to give you a Preview of Coming Attractions. Not to provide spoilers.
Damned kids, anyway! They never want a person to ponder! They always want people to divulge the plot and spoil the movie before you get to watch it!
When and where was that charming photo of Maria Butina taken?
Are you part of the misdirection campaign?
Paige’s text’s say Obama wanted briefed on everything.
Have you not read the texts?
Obama is implicated. If you still shill for him, you’re part of the cover-up.
This story smells funny
Thank you Oscar Mayer. I was thinking the same damned thing myself. While I am suspending my judgment on Mr. Byrne for the moment, his dogged allegiance to BO smacks of either deliberate misdirection or else just the tired lefty tendency to fellate the Obama’s in an orgy of reverse racism. (Maybe this explains that weird commercial a few years ago for Overstock – “O, O, O, the big, big O” to the tune of Jingle Bells, remember? – LOL) Either way, I’m unimpressed at best – at worst, highly suspicious.
You aren’t a very deep thinker, are you?? Completely ridiculous that anyone w/at least 2 brain cells together to believe O to be a “major player” in this dumpster fire that has been masquerading as our “Representative government”!!
2006 Senate Judiciary Members.
Majority
Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa
Jon Kyl, R-Arizona
Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama
Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina
John Cornyn, R-Texas
Sam Brownback, R-Kansas
Mike DeWine, R-Ohio (Former)
Minority
Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vermont
Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts
Joe Biden Jr., D-Delaware
Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin
Dianne Feinstein, D-California
Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin
Chuck Schumer, D-New York
Dick Durbin, D-Illinois
2016 Republican Presidential Candidates
Jeb Bush—Former Governor of Florida
Ben Carson—Neurosurgeon
Chris Christie—Governor of New Jersey
Ted Cruz—U.S. Senator, Texas
Jack Fellure
Carly Fiorina—Former Hewlett-Packard CEO
Jim Gilmore—Former Governor of Virginia, 2008 presidential candidate
Mike Huckabee—Former Governor of Arkansas, 2008 presidential candidate
John Kasich—Governor of Ohio
Andy Martin
Rand Paul—U.S. Senator, Kentucky
Marco Rubio—U.S. Senator, Florida
Rick Santorum—Former U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania; 2012 presidential candidate
Donald Trump—The Trump Organization CEO
I think John Brennan is feeling the heat about now
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/dni-releases-cia-documents-on-hillary-clintons-plan-to-tie-trump-campaign-to-russia-to-distract-from-email-scandal/
Seems he has been collecting all the NSA data to his private company. The video is hard to find but here is a copy https://humansarefree.com/2020/08/millie-weaver-abducted-by-the-deep-state.html
With 524k tweets and still going there is so much news I don’t think people have digested your post yet
https://twitter.com/search?q=Brennan&src=trend_click&vertical=trends
Given the recent declassifications by DNI Ratcliffe which indicate that Obama was briefed by Brennan about Hillary Clinton’s plan to use the Russians to “vilify” Trump in an attempt to distract from her use of a private email server and torpedo his campaign, have your feelings about Obama and his potential involvement in or knowledge about your situation at the time changed at all?
Patrick I understand you’re making it clear that Hillary was a victim in this particular case as IC wanted a way to control her after her supposed victory.
However, curious as to why you give so much benefit of the doubt to Obama, especially given the revelations yesterday that Brennan briefed him in 2016 about the baseless Trump setup organized by Hillary (which you seem to allege was a generic “off the shelf” scandal for the eventual winner of the Republican primary)?
My last question is why you seem to give the benefit of the doubt to Obama and his admin in not being directly involved, and why you had so much faith in Barr to do anything other than conceal the wrongdoings of his institution.
I’m a huge fan and admirer of yours, and pray that you are healthy and happy.
Hi Jack Straw,
I figure it this way. My duty is to present the truth as it was created for me. So I am being clear that I was told Comey, Brennan, and Obama were involved in the Maria stuff, and Comey and Obama in the Hillary (though I sensed Brennan in the background of the Hillary stuff, too). So yes, I am using those names: Brennan, Comey, Obama. However, it is a hell of a thing to accuse a President of a coup, so I think I also have an obligation to make clear, and to raise in the reader’s mind, the possibility that even the reality which I was shown, was itself not the truth. I can say what I witnessed, but cannot vouch beyond that. I just like to be crystal clear about what I know and what I don’t.
If Durham comes out and said, “Yes, Obama knew about it,” then I’ll believe it. But if this was really some side project being run by Comey and Brennan, they would have known that the way to get me to help was to tell my Obama requested it. I would never turn down a request from a President.
Thanks for the response, looks like the Golden Letter given to you all those years ago was a reflection of your integrity. The fact that there are senators who recognized this gives me hope that all will not be shoved down the memory hole by the freshly re-installed Brennan cabal.
I am not sure how letting us know that Shillary took two bribes from foreign countries is letting her off the hook. This does not make anyone look good, not even those “offended” FBI agents. If private citizens participated in this type of corrupt activity, even while saying they did not like what their “boss” is making them do, they would still be criminals. Unless they wanted to turn states evidence with the clause that if they lied or withhold any evidence they would loose their immunity. I might have a little sympathy for their crimes if they were whistle blowers. People can get shown in the light in the strangest of places if they look at it right.
Thanks for making that point about Hillary.
You are incorrect about private citizens and no one “made” made do anything. One can cooperate with law enforcement and do things that would be criminal in normal circumstances, but for which they give you a free pass. Read the Wall Street stories on DeepCapture: you think everything we were doing was completely kosher? Here is an article about a cross-site scripting attack we conducted on Yahoo! We might have stolen tens of millions of passwords. We didn’t, we stole one. As this article describes.
https://www.theregister.com/2009/09/08/yahoo_message_board_vuln/
Think that was legal?
In 2008~9 I was working for a pink sheet company and being paid in stock. I was also invested in another company GTEL that was under massive manipulation. That was when I found deepcapture and started reading about you and it. And I have read everything.
At that point I did not know you were a libertarian or had any interest in the FSP but I am also into all of that having campaigned for Ron Paul back in 1985. It was not until I found RVN back in march of 2018′ that I learned about your political views.
You probably got my ID off yahoo at that time also
Stallions run with stallions.
And as far as your yahoo ID… No, we only stole one. It was that awful reporter Carol Remond. She was sharing a Yahoo Mail Account with Marc Cohodes and David Rocker: she was being left pre-written stories in her draft folder, and then publishing them as DowJones stories. Cohodes and Rocker were writing next week’s news, and then trading in front of it. Which is something like insider trading, only different I suppose, because at least with regards to our company, it was all just made up. None of it was true. But they had the benefit of being able to know what Carol Remond was going to be publishing it in Dow Jones days away, which is a rather crazy advantage Over the rest of the market. I’m not a lawyer, but I’m not even sure that was illegal for them to do, because the information was not “inside” (other than in the sense that the information was “inside” Rocker’s ass, and he just pulled it out). And yet, even if it is not illegal, it gives a lot of the benefit of true insider trading.
https://www.deepcapture.com/2008/12/carol-remond-tells-a-joke-about-copper-river-that-she-doesnt-get/
Wow! I am impressed. Well written and I am especially impressed by your will to take down corruption. This is the first article of yours I have read. Now, I need to read your previous articles. Great article.
You’re going to fall down the rabbit hole.
Patrick you’re one of the last of the Mohicans. A good an honorable man and a non elected steward and servant of our country.
I believe the decision and plan to change this country happened years ago and it is finally being implemented. Injustice and corruption in government is the root of all the problems. Racism, immigration, climate change and a criminal justice system in desperate need of real justice.
Some people or groups don’t love America anymore because of the way some government officials and agencies have executed the law for personal gain rather than upholding the laws of the land.
This no doubt has disillusioned many.
America did not fail the people, some corrupt government leaders failed America and cast a shadow upon her.
There is a bigger picture though… The spitual war between good and evil is intensifying. There is a reckoning coming.
First Repulican vs Democrat
Then Right vs Left
Then liberal vs Conservative
Then Sheep vs Goat.
In the end the first three don’t matter but the last one is the deal breaker. Either you’re a sheep or a goat. Nevermind what body politic you describe yourself.
In the end…the final end, the good guys win.
Thank you for your patriotism and service to our country. Wish there were more like you. Men of character.
If you need help with a problem like I do, you can’t find any men like you around.
Where have all the good men gone. America needs a few good men.
Testing
Why do you call Comey “Cardinal” with a capital C? Is it remotely possible that he could be an “In Pectore”? An operative of both the American AND Italian Deep State, AND the Deep Church?
No. Because it’s his nickname.
Well, I suppose anything is possible. My point is, that is not why I call him, “Cardinal”. It is because that is his nickname.
https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2020/06/06/archbishop-vigano-to-president-trump-beware-the-deep-church-as-well-as-the-deep-state/
Thousands and thousands of videos and articles, and then the diamond in the rough. Thank you. This type of information is on par with finding engines on the ground after 9/11, that type of engine, that’s never been sold to any of the airlines involved that day. Knowing the accomplishments of unit 8800 just prior to the attacks or tidbits of information like the air conditioning systems in the Twin Towers… which leads to the understanding of why 1993 and 2001 occurred the way they did. For me, this type of information isn’t so much about Clinton taking bribes, it reveals the infighting of folks supposedly on the same team. I may not know what game is being played and for what endgame but I sure as heck can tell who’s on which team.
Welcome to the jungle.
Fascinating stuff. Glad you’ve been able to talk about it. Shocked that it hasn’t gotten more traction given your public stature. Has anyone who wrote about you previously followed up? Taibbi, maybe?
No. They all hid under their desks.
0_AGL, it was WTC7 that opened my eyes. I found the Loose Change docu informative — however, I have heard nothing about the jet engines, ‘unit 8800’, or TT air-conditioning details, and would appreciate a link or other point of reference. Thanks.
And everyone has forgotten about the plane that blew up over Queens. That was shoe bomber #1 but they did not want to alarm the public so that made up a story about O2 canisters.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-83806/More-250-feared-dead-New-York-plane-crash.html
My Hero – They just don’t make ’em like you anymore….or Maria, for that matter.
Thank you, Sir for all of it! 🙏🏼 I hope whatever ails you is healed and your next chapter is filled with radical change & peace in the world so you may behold the rewards of your many sacrifices.
Insh’allah.
A good account(although partial visibility). My guess is, Mr. Obama wanted Mr. Biden to be his successor , also knows Clintonista very well. the soft coup is to get her out of the race. Mr. Biden could not make up his mind (now, based on we know now) even Biden(s) have had their election campaign fund via Ukraine and China(happened in 2012 and 2016), what you miss in my opinion is, Mr. Bernie Sanders wife is also investigated by FBI during that time, only when Mr. Biden dropped off they pulled Mr. Sanders into WH meeting, and probably they might have blackmailed him, and he dropped off, and then it became clear for MIB, that she is going to be next president. Now, after these 3.5 years unwinding, I feel Mr. Trump seems to be an absolutely clean guy, and that’s very hard to say…
“Mr. Trump seems to be an absolutely clean guy” hahahhahahahhaha funniest thing I have read all week. Thanks for making my day.
Well, compared to what all this just revealed, he is hardly dirty like these traitors. Maybe you can elaborate on why you think its funny? I mean did Trump spy on Biden, set up Kamala, or approve a hit on Manafort?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ucfLNlnJWlQ
https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/news-and-politics/2008/06/details-on-larry-sinclairs-arrest.amp
https://www.google.com/search?q=delaware+ag+2008&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
Also… sounds big and perhaps complementary to the above… another angle on Clinton Foundation corruption….. if it ever gets traction…. Strzok/Comey ignoring another serious scandal and lying to Congress….. it’s all about who you know and who they favor/disfavor…. Adam Housley says more to come imminently, hope so!!
Adam Housley
@adamhousley
Exclusive: early Jan 2017, a Retired SR state department official wrote a letter to the FBI as a whistleblower after he uncovered evidence he says showed classified info was being misused by the Clinton Foundation. Two weeks later after he got no response, he walked into the
FBI office in DC to deliver the intelligence/info in person. This info/intelligence was completely ignored by James Comey & Peter Strzok. He also alleges he has proof of lying to Congress. He was not low level. You’ll see this story more in depth in other
places in the next few days. Again it shows the pick and choose power play in DC that crosses party lines. You heard it here first tho.
https://twitter.com/adamhousley/status/1314430998059261953
Paul Cohen Says:
Wow, how very enlightening Patrick. Thank you for all of your efforts for the betterment of our nation. You are a true Patriot.and you have exposed the Deep State.
Spread the word.
If we get as much justice and restitution here as there was from the market manipulation that robbed America and the world that lead to the crash of 2008, why then nothing is changed at all.
Our bottle of justice is just seltzer.
CMKX certificate holder
Well let’s hope Patrick’s article gets some traction because it looks like Durham/Barr have pushed everything off beyond Nov. 3:
“Barr tells Republicans Durham report won’t be ready by election”
https://www.axios.com/barr-durham-report-election-3c02ec6a-7613-4083-b35c-4844de6da16b.html
“Attorney General Bill Barr has begun telling top Republicans that the Justice Department’s sweeping review into the origins of the Russia investigation will not be released before the election, a senior White House official and a congressional aide briefed on the conversations tell Axios….”
“Barr has made clear that they should not expect any further indictments or a comprehensive report before Nov. 3, our sources say.”
All along there have been conflicting signals about whether Durham could issue any kind of “report” (not the norm for prosecutors with the Dept of Justice which normally either issue indictments or nothing)…. but in any case, if the Axios sources are right (always a big “IF” in contemporary journalism) there may not be anything much coming from Durham before Nov. 3. All through the spring and summer many of us said it was getting very late for any action before the election, and now it seems that the clock has run out.
A very interesting read. Re: The Hillary Bribery Sting. You would be in a position to know: who or what entity was playing the role of bribe-offerer; (possibly) how the funds would have been conveyed; and, the policy position the bribe was being paid to achieve. The government agents told you the whole thing was cancelled. Maybe they “lacked candor” and desired you to believe it was over when it was not. To your knowledge now, did Hillary or her network ultimately receive $ from the entity, and was the policy position desired in the sting scenario put into place?
hmmm…. what do you think? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/87b017593e04e7af7aecfdf263875a534fc35e5b370497263442af7f0f5701ae.jpg
Some months ago, in the course of being probed about this story, I was shown a photo of a document that would be consistent with Bribe #2 having happened. I will tell you that much. In the narrative above, however, I stuck precisely to the truth as I witnessed it, however, and therefore did not share that. But again, yes, I have been shown a document this year that is consistent with Bribe #2 having happened.
Yes I do know the entity behind it. I do know how it was done. The policy position… I’m a little blurry on (it was just mentioned in passing and it didn’t matter to me). But I think I recall. It just was not germane to my assignment.
Thank you for your response. I appreciate your resistance to speculation and overdriving the facts you personally know. For me to muddy the waters with uninformed speculation isn’t
helpful, but here is an outside observation: The FBI/CIA guys almost certainly misled you about their “purposes” for the sting, going in and going out. An operation designed to give Obama leverage over Hillary after she was elected was logical if immoral; cancelling the sting because she was going to be … elected, implies the predicate was b.s.). Though it would be difficult for you to divine them, the true motives (and what became of the operation after you were cut out of it) are the keys to unlocking a much bigger picture. Perhaps Durham will shock us by figuring it out and doing something redeeming about it. I admire your courage and persistence — it’s outrageous that you were ever dragged into this mess.
Sometimes it’s easier to see the information voids rather than dealing with the disinformation.
I sense one giant information void over this entire saga – and its name is Bill Browder.
Since this is in fact all in my imagination, I believe you might comment about Browder’s non-existent part in this whole affair?
I have heard of Hermitage capital and the troubles he had. But no, I’ve never cross paths with him and he has nothing to do with this as far as I know
Patrick, my mind is still being blown up by all of this, trying to absorb it…. I do hope that your courageous move to come forward will help to spur a lot more media and public attention, deeper investigations and prosecutions, real political change, etc.
I vote for Russell Crowe to play you in the movie, ha ha. You would be a Gladiator for Freedom, as so appropriate.
I think ol’ Russell has packed on a few pounds.
ha ha ok, but many actors prove proficient at major weight loss (or gain) as appropriate in preparing for particular roles…. he could “train” for the role for a few months…… ok what about Matt Damon from the “Bourne” movie days? he was rather studly in spy drama I thought…… not that I am a good judge of men…. I prefer to judge the candidates for “Maria”….. a “Bond girl” with brains….
Maybe Maria should play Maria.
That meets with my approval!! It might take some legal wrangling (unless all her scenes are to be shot in Russia), but it would be another reason to get her freed from this ridiculous Interpol warrant or whatever she still faces….
I’ll play Maria.
One quick comment: that secret-in-the-safe letter from Senator Specter sounds incredible (along with the memorable meeting with Senators on the SJC), what a wonderful expression of trust and confidence in you (though so sad that it could be necessary in our country)….. but how could you actually retain confidence that there would ever be access to said letter if you really needed it? (same may go for the later “otherwise illegal acts” letter)… i.e., you could be in a tight spot and the feds could simply deny that such a letter existed, or “whoops, we’ve looked high and low and can’t find such a thing”….
Especially with all the rather extreme problems we’ve had in the past few years with DOJ, FBI, and other fed agencies seeming not to “find” key docs, I would never want to be in a position to trust any of those people to produce such a letter.
Hope the point is moot now, and I really don’t want to add to your worries, but just wondering how such a letter can be counted upon when it really might matter…
p.s. Biden was on the Senate Judiciary Committee in that 2006 era…. any comment on him or are you purposely leaving him out?
To Patrick and others reading this:
We have endless examples of corruption,bribery,intimidation,censorship,surveillance and worse by politicians,government agents,big tech/media/pharma/finance etc.
So what are We The People going to do about it?
Does anyone have ideas for solutions?
I will start by offering an immediate and longer term idea for solutions in the links below which are the best ideas I can think of to counter such problems in a peaceful,productive way and make the world a better place.
This link is an Action Plan For Immediate Change which contains mostly simple steps anyone can choose to take and share with others: https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/943148464663228416?referrer=truthfreedompeace
This link was an idea for Overstock/Medici to work with We The People to change the world which I suggested a while ago but have failed in convincing them to take up: https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/919937833449545728?referrer=truthfreedompeace
I was shut down by twitter many times and will no longer use their site,but for the record here is one of the tweets about that idea. https://twitter.com/Worldstock777/status/1192821970087362560
It’s hard to take any of this seriously when you don’t give dates, locations, names. If it’s important, than you should. If it’s not important enough, fine. But I have to take it as a shaggy dog story. One that I admit to only reading half of. [You need to realize how tired we all are of the the hopium Twitter tease game.]
No, I disagree. Giving you names, dates, locations…. That is not my responsibility. My job is to tell you the Big Picture. Does it matter which nation paid Hillary Bribe #1? Or Bribe #2? If it does, wait for the Durham report. I am just giving you a Preview of Coming Attractions.
Patrick you’re one of the last of the Mohicans. A good an honorable man and a non elected steward and servant of our country.
I believe the decision and plan to change this country happened years ago and it is finally being implemented. Injustice and corruption in government is the root of all the problems. Racism, immigration, climate change and a criminal justice system in desperate need of real justice.
Some people or groups don’t love America anymore because of the way some government officials and agencies have executed the law for personal gain rather than upholding the laws of the land.
This no doubt has disillusioned many.
America did not fail the people, some corrupt government leaders failed America and cast a shadow upon her.
There is a bigger picture though… The spitual war between good and evil is intensifying. There is a reckoning coming.
First Repulican vs Democrat
Then Right vs Left
Then liberal vs Conservative
Then Sheep vs Goat.
In the end the first three don’t matter but the last one is the deal breaker. Either you’re a sheep or a goat. Nevermind what body politic you describe yourself.
In the end…the final end, the good guys win.
Thank you for your patriotism and service to our country. Wish there were more like you. Men of character.
If you need help with a problem like I do, you can’t find any men like you around.
Where have all the good men gone. America needs a few good men.
Thank you for your integrity and courageous sacrifices on behalf of our country. May your story help turn the tide of Deep State subversion. If so, books and movies will be made in heroic epic form to preserve the tale for history. I hope you survive to enjoy them.
I’m disappointed (maybe horrified) at the current lack of uptake of your story anywhere, even at The Conservative Treehouse, where I’ve posted a link twice, getting almost no response.
I went back and also read your naked short-selling narrative, about which I knew a little bit, and may re-read it more carefully someday, if I can think of a plausible course of action to take to help rid our public financial markets of the host of bad faith hedge fund illegal market-manipulation behavior.
In sum, I would say your good work back then saved Overstock.com and showed others wrongfully targeted how to fight back, and maybe gained a few helpful reforms, but those were mainly cosmetic, with virtually no accountability for the people who made the most money, the journalists who told the most lies, the corporate media who continues to favor the liars, over real journalism, the corrupt actors within the SEC or other regulatory agencies who aided and abetted, the Congressmen and Senators who didn’t sign your letter but instead prevented those letter signers from doing anything systemic, leaving them to turn in their powerlessness to you.
I remain hopeful that this time, with President Trump in the White House, deeper excision of the systemic corruption might occur, but that hope is a flickering candle in what I fear is the fading evening of our Republic.
My questions to you:
1. have you compared your own timeline with those prepared by others, such as The Conservative Treehouse, e.g., https://clintonfoundationtimeline.com/category/independent-researchers/conservative-treehouse/? While I deeply respect your separation of what you know from what you might speculate based on other information, I fear no one is connecting all the dots, and that each dot has its own defense wall built around it designed to impede the search for truth. I further fear that no one in government, other than maybe President Trump who is otherwise fully engaged, really wants to connect all the dots, but is instead tied up with or by one or another defense wall. In the absence of a concerted effort to get at the truth, do you feel any responsibility to expand your own efforts?
2. have you considered FOIA requests or other civil litigation you or a supportive organization might file that might help pry important pieces of the truth out from the claws of the Deep State? Partnering with Judicial Watch? Or maybe suing the MIB you dealt with and their John Doe superiors for wrongs they did to you? Involving you in criminal activity under cover of government activity whose illegal purpose was contrary to what they told you the lawful purpose was? Maybe, some sort Bivens-like theory, combined with a basic fraud claim: under false pretenses they tricked you into actions that, instead of constituting lawful assistance to the FBI, instead constituted illegal bribery of a government official, plus illegal use of Kompromat to unlawfully coerce official action, or conspiracies to commit those crimes. It seems to me this fraud ended up forcing you to resign from Overstock.com and sell your shares, at substantial personal damage to yourself.
Also, the enforcement action brought against Overstock.com by the SEC, perhaps by Peter Strzok’s wife, after you declined the offer to allow the Deep State to make you a billionaire, seems like something deserving of its own action for bad faith abuse of SEC enforcement powers. That certainly cost a class of shareholders substantial value.
Again, thanks for your heroic efforts today, and I will keep you in my prayers.
Been reading that time line, great reporting…
Have you looked at the Biden timeline https://www.baldingsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/KVBJHB.pdf
Also, Sy Hersch was at one time considering a “long form investigative journalistic” piece, with some early insight from some FBI or DOJ source, which he shared in a telephone rant posted on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAD9EqiNKQE
Do you know if he is aware of your narrative? He is one who can tell a long narrative expose.
I do not know if he is aware.
Damn Patty boy, you’re a hell of a patriot, thanks for your service to the country. My big fear is Barr letting them all get away with it, what do you think? Is he an institutionalist shill or will he try to slay the dragon?
He is a dragon-slayer.
Patrick, do you have evidence beyond the perspective of an unnamed congresscritter that Barr is a dragon-slayer? If so, can you share it?
I have no inside info, but every one of the scattered crumbs point to him being part of the problem, not the solution. He started his career as a CIA intern. He has long occupied positions the take-over Specter feared would only allow someone they controlled in. The ‘Durham report’ being delayed past the election to give the clearly on team corrupt/compromised/controlled Bidens the opportunity to re-assert control against the power of justice. Barr’s prisons allowed Jeffrey Epstein to be called to protect the powerful. Barr’s FBI continued covering up and redacting their ’16 FISA corruption. Barr’s FBI sat on Hunter’s laptop since Nov ’19; while Barr’s boss was going through impeachment process for trying to look into Ukraine corruption…Barr’s FBI literally sat on evidence that would have proved that corruption.
If Barr is actually a dragon-slayer…he is truly extraordinary at playing possum. Why do you think he is actually trying to slay the dragon, rather than suss out every threat to the dragon, and ensuring every threat is neutered? Because that is what it looks like to me, but I hope to God I am wrong. Like that clip from Taxi…I’d love to owe Barr an apology. You give me some hope that there are enough good guys left, but it seems to me that our society and government has been subverted very, very thoroughly.
No, he’s good. he inherited a shit-show. The whole Washington Establishment is “turtles all the way down.” His own DOJ is filled with SwampRats, as are other agencies. I do think he probably did not get how bad it was when he joined. But Christ, he has been there 19 months. Give him another year before you make up your mind.
“….he has been there 19 months. Give him another year before you make up your mind.” Hahaha…….so you’re saying that Trump is going to retain the presidency and that Barr will still be USAG? Hahaha……
Conspiracy theorists are EXACTLY THAT – Theorists with no PROOF!
If Barr was a Rat, we wouldn’t have taken out Iran’s Solemani. He would’ve known we were coming through the media!
Barr IS rat! Just not the type you think!
A lot about the “Deep State” in the new documentary, “The Plot Against the President” (based upon the Lee Smith book). Focuses upon how some key details were revealed….
Great interview clips with many who have helped to unravel the “Russiagate” nonsense…. Devin Nunes is a hero and the execrable Adam Schiff should be driven from office and locked away in a cell.
I highly highly recommend this movie, should be circulated to all Americans.
Maybe a forerunner to the great feature film, “Patrick Byrne: Taking Down the Deep State”
https://twitter.com/patpmovie?lang=en
Excellent film review of “The Plot Against the President” —
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/13/compelling-new-documentary-tells-story-of-russian-collusion-hoax/
Devin Nunes is the devil incarnate! Dick sucking Trumper……
“You are OF YOUR father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” (John 8)
WHO is the devil incarnated is, that’s you, SHILL rebe!!!
Patrick,have you considered releasing a video of just yourself describing your story before you do any interviews?
I believe that would gain much more public attention than your article and you wouldn’t have to wait for any journalist to do it.
Where would I release it?
You could just release it on here,twitter and Minds and people will start sharing it all over internet/social media.I suspect there are many who would watch your video that wouldn’t read your article,especially when I think of the tendencies of most people that I know well.
There is definitely a significant amount of people on the web who don’t like reading and only want to watch videos and I think you have represented yourself well on the many videos I have seen of you.Cheers
Rumble is good and you can embed it on Twitter and such. Upload to ALL channels…when they take it down oh well. People can use https://www.y2mate.com/ to download and upload again.
At lbry.ty. the block chain alternative to YouTube. Can’t be censored
Yes,LBRY and bitchute
https://lbry.com/
Browser version and sign up page
https://lbry.tv/
Or release on Rumble with info on it promoted thru Parler. No deep state censors there.
Patrick, was glad to share this article with friends and family. I thanked you on Twitter I’m Scott @clairvoyantdude. To many of my friends and family they live in a MSM bubble . I told them that this happened to a patriot and it is factual beyond a reasonable doubt. Just like your OSTK naked shorting scandal. I did however have certain advantages to keeping an open mind on situations. Terri Savage from CBOE taught me in high school in the 80’s about markets as I won her stock market game over 2 K classmates . 20 year. career later at 6 broker dealers I witnessed the seven “types” firms hold securities in. Well DVP type doesn’t exist after the Lehman debacle because counter parties were no longer trusted . Everyone in order room at Etrade loved the deep capture PowerPoint . Just want to wish you the best in any and all future endeavors. Scott
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Great story! I second the Glenn Greenwald, or Joe Rogan interview. There is still some objectivity left in those 2 gentlemen. Glenn did a good job I thought with the Snowden affair. Will Biden getting elected bury this once and for all as far as the Durham investigation and the truth coming out? That is my fear. I don’t like Trump and don’t think he can get rid of the deep state, but maybe the investigation can continue???? Why has Durham not released much of anything at this point. It seem he is either running out of time or just stalling. Can you force this conversation into the mainstream public that will make the American people see what there government is doing to them? I appreciate any comments on these questions. I fear the titanic may be already sunk.
You might also reach out to Jan Jekielek at Epoch Times for an interview. He does long interviews and is a better listener than most.
Three times on the 10th and 11th I tried to make the same post but it has not posted. I can only assume it is because I spoke about PB’s 3rd act. The tools he gave us to free the world.
I will try again unless you can confirm the reasons the post was not allowed
Where did you try to post?
Here as a response and as a stand alone post. I will try one more right after this one.
no luck, I must be shrilling ravens too much…
This was an incredibly long story that boils down to “the deep state told me they were going to blackmail Hillary Clinton but then didn’t.” The story doesn’t make sense. It implies that the deep state was going to rig the election so Clinton won, but she didn’t. It also seems to imply that the “deep state” would have no way to blackmail Trump, which is laughable. The guy does something every day you could blackmail him for.
That’s ridiculous. That is not at all what the story boils down to. Choagie
Let me guess. Other than reading this story you have not done any due diligence on any of this story, any of the back stories or Patrick Byrne himself. The ignorance of your post is very Trump like, as if you gave this a cursory look over and then proclaim to know the gist better than anyone one else. Thank you for boiling this down for us, your synopsis is a HUGH help to everyone trying to understand the facts.
Maybe you would be more entertained by reading the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop. https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/hunter-biden-emails-show-leveraging-connections-with-dad-to-boost-burisma-pay/
If you like I can boil it down for you. Biden and Kerry lobbied congress for 5+ billion dollars in aid for Ukraine. Much of the aid went through a company which hired Biden’s son and Kerry’s former campaign manager, Archer, for their board of directors. It might also be mentions that Son Biden, Archer and Kerry’s step son are all partners in an investment firm. The the real leader of this company, Ihor Kolomoisky, ran the money through his bank, PrivatBank, and out of the country and in to the mist. Then Biden bragged about getting the Ukrainian prosecutor fired that was looking in to all of this.
I could give you facts, documents, intercepted phone calls to back all of this up but you have already demonstrated that you don’t want to be bother with real information.
Trump’s self corruption is so deep that he is impervious to outside corruption. He is a rapist, a racist and a criminal. He is also our only hope. He may be the only person on the planet that could withstand every scandal they throw at him because he has spent a life time spinning and spending his way out of horrendous self created scandals. His delusional self importance is so great that he would gladly sacrifice his own family for his person gain, and has done so many times in the past.
Patrick has shown us that the corruption reaches the highest offices. This organized cancer has turned on the tumor that is Trump and this tumor is eating the cancer as the cancer eats him.
BWTFDIK
I am not sure why it took a year and 10 articles to tell this story. It boils down to, “The deep state rigged the election so that Hillary Clinton would win and then blackmail her.”
Except…Hillary didn’t win, and you specifically say that they ended up not blackmailing her.
This story also seems to assume that you wouldn’t be able to blackmail Trump which seems very dubious given his various shady financial dealings.
^^ Weird that almost identical comments were posted just 6 minutes apart under two different names
Indeed.
Not that weird. I posted it twice because it didn’t show up the first time. I used two names because this site uses technology from 19995 and you can type in whatever you want. I’ll use a third name in this comment.
Haha cool cool, you’re so triggered you wrote it twice in slightly different ways. Funny, thanks for letting me know 😀
Pat
contact John Soloman or Sarah A. Carter – they are both all over this story.
I am disappointed that you have decided to “wait”, as the American people deserve to know the whole story BEFORE the election.
God speed and hopefully you will change your mind.
bobo
I’m not waiting anymore. Feel free to contact them yourself and get them to pay attention to this.
Hey I tried and tried. The MSM including Fox silenced me.
Hi Patrick –
Hope you don’t find this question offensive or stupid. It’s not intended to be either. Are you convinced that setting up Hillary Clinton to take that bribe was legit? Do you think it might have been a ruse to test how much and what you were willing to do?
Whoops! Sorry. Read the story, but commented before I read the endnotes. I see you address this in the second one.
No. They tested and found that out a long time ago.
I’ll just leave this here.The next couple months should be crazy.
“BREAKING: WHISTLEBLOWER DROPS HARD EVIDENCE, BIDEN, OBAMA, HILLARY EXECUTED SEAL TEAM 6, AUDIO PRO..”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/rCybWf1g9K8/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyYX2fiUZOc
https://twitter.com/Annakhait/status/1316317833211473921
Patrick Byrne interview with Paula Schmitt (just released)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yaH1bmOnoQ&feature=emb_logo
Patrick Byrne interview (just released)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yaH1bmOnoQ
For Patrick and Deadhead (not sure why I can’t reply to your comment – would be nice if the comment section worked a little better – every article half the comments are about the comments):
I actually have read all of these posts. I have listened to Patrick’s interviews and I have met Patrick in person at Overstock. If you want to say the whole story is about Hunter Biden and Burisma why not just say that? Why write so many articles about this and never once mention Biden? Seems very strange or maybe you have it wrong Deadhead?
Again, what is the deep state conspiracy? That they rigged the election for Hillary Clinton so they could control her?
I recommend doing a video interview with Jan Jekielek of The Epoch Times. To get a sense of his style, watch the Steve Bannon interview from last year (below). Real questions, not gotcha questions. Then later you will probably be invited to appear on shows like Tucker Carlson, Hannity, Laura Ingraham, or Dan Bongino. Do NOT be seduced into appearing on leftist mainstream media. They will smear you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCrpSK5r9HY
Pam,
You have always given me such good advice here. I will follow it this time.
I’ve been having trouble reaching Mr. Jekielek. Anyone reading this as a way to contact him, please flip him the story with a request to get in touch with me.
Pam,
I have emailed him. Let us see if he responds.
Thanks for the update. I just watched your excellent interview with Jason Goodman. He is a good researcher/interviewer but I’d like to see your story reach a wider audience, which is why I suggested The Epoch Times. Fingers crossed!
My other idea was for you to contact Steve Bannon or Raheem Kassam at War Room Pandemic. They are rolling out the Biden laptop emails now, so your story might not be a top priority. However, Bannon is one of the best media strategists so might point you to other outlets and sources.
Steve Bannon is a giant bigot.
Have you tried Jekielek or Raheem Kassam via their Twitter accounts?
Look at the list of videos on America’s Thought Leaders channel to see who he’s interviewed in the past. You might spot someone you know who would have contact info. If no luck there, I might have another idea. Good luck!
Patrick – some advice, take it or leave it. If you want people to take you seriously maybe stop retweeting stupid anti-mask stuff.
Bill – some advice – take it. STFU about things you know nothing about.
Yep and I’m sure you are an epidemiologist.
The fact is Patrick (like a lot of people on Twitter) whines when something doesn’t get as much engagement as he thinks it should. The reason is simple, and its not because there’s a big tech conspiracy against them. Its that most people find them dumb.
This site is a massive echo chamber where if you say anything slightly critical people jump on you, its embarrassing.
Patrick, there is a really interesting article which Steve McIntyre links to… it is on Facebook (link below) and not a professional piece, but seems plausible to me….. You/we/America may be up against even more journalistic resistance and malfeasance than previously recognized. Even some journalists who are supposed to be more open to criticisms of the Deep State reportedly passed on handling the Hunter Biden email story.
Reportedly not even Bret Baier, Sara Carter, Sharyl Attkinson, or John Solomon would touch the Hunter Biden emails/story. Maybe they thought there was a legal problem but normally journalists have been so eager to receive “leaks” and “inside” info.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10223548529850281&set=a.2260949452148
Evidently Twitter and Facebook have declared war on users trying to post links and comments about the Hunter Biden story. In case Fakebook takes it down soon, here is another link to the article, by a retired US Air Force General:
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2020/10/20/the-back-story-of-hunters-computer-being-found-must-read/
Is Brett Baier affiliated with Fox News? What is your assessment of Fox News coverage of George Soros? My assessment is Fox News is fake news in some areas. Murdoch wanted the Hunter hard drive exposed through the NY Post.
There is no record supporting what you said about Sara Carter or John Solomon..
Carla, so sorry I never saw your comment before now. This site does not make it easy to notice comments and replies… so far as I can tell one has to re-read the whole thread (which I was doing just now, many weeks later) to catch up with any replies such as yours. Not good.
Anyway, yes, I have also seen that initial claims that Sara Carter, Sharyl Atkisson, and John Solomon may have ignored the Biden whistleblower seem to be inaccurate (though I do not know if they followed up much since the story became news). In any case, just sending an email to a journalist’s website may be a very unreliable way of trying to get attention to a “tip” or story, since they all must get inundated with hundreds and thousands of emails… mostly not newsworthy. I do not know the solution to trying to break through, either to individual journalists or to the public more widely, but it is a difficult problem for many newsworthy stories that are neglected.
The Biden scandals merited far more attention and criticism than they received, but of course the MSM was/is functioning as footsoldiers and lackeys for the Democrat Party.
BREAKING: this is huge….. a new whistleblower has emerged on the Bidens…. sounds very legit…. blows apart credibility of Joe Biden forever…..
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/21/bombshell-statement-biden-insider-claims-he-was-recipient-of-the-email-says-he-witnessed-joe-hunter-discussing-deals/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Patrick, great interview with Jason Goodman. I believe you, and thank you for coming out with it before the election – even though you were warned not to. I am looking forward to combing through your site and maybe pick up some insight on blockchain and XRP. Also found your Tzero site! Thanks
https://youtu.be/CchL0Brbch4
Would be nice to see the letter from the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2006.
Majority
Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa
Jon Kyl, R-Arizona
Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama
Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina
John Cornyn, R-Texas
Sam Brownback, R-Kansas
Mike DeWine, R-Ohio (Former)
Minority
Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vermont
Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts
Joe Biden Jr., D-Delaware
Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin
Dianne Feinstein, D-California
Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin
Chuck Schumer, D-New York
Dick Durbin, D-Illinois
Without direct proof, I don’t believe any of these people are against the deep state that has come into view since the 2016 election, through today. These people are among the perpetrators of the deep state, so they never would have sent anyone hunting for it.
The Girl, The FBI & Everything – The Amazing True Story of Patrick Byrne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CchL0Brbch4&feature=emb_logo
Here’s the link from LBRY for Patrick’s interview in case youtube censors it
https://lbry.tv/@besthiking1:8/The-Amazing-True-Story-of-Patrick-Byrne—The-Girl,-The-FBI—Everything:9
This was such a great interview! Thank you for sharing it with the rest of us. Regular internet searches do not include this. I am a subscriber on minds as well, perhaps sharing it there would also be great?
I did also share it on MINDS after you reminded me.Cheers
https://theamericanreport.org/2020/09/28/introductory-overview-excerpt-part-1-of-3-from-the-august-19-2020-book-the-hammer-is-the-key-to-the-coup-the-political-crime-of-the-century/
https://youtu.be/NPByXz5hSfs
https://youtu.be/r1h8yeTy8Yg
Thank you for sharing your story Dr Byrne, it helps connecting some more dots now.
😊
The 60 Minute Interview prematurely released by President Trump touches on Biden, Obama, and Barr at the 34:40 minute marker at about which time the President abruptly ends the interview.
Stahl asks him if he wants to lock up Biden, and then Obama? The President ducks the questions with “no answers” deflecting upon how horrible it was to have them spying on his campaign in 2016, and then proceeds to defer to Attorney General Bill Barr as a “gentleman” saying it more than once and suggesting he doesn’t know what is going to happen.
Dr. Byrne has given former President Obama a few passes of his own during his own narrative, so it may well be that The United States of America’s Deep State does not experience “the rule of law” as true patriots would expect. I will be happy to be proven wrong, however.
Our global order is run by a Cabal of Criminals known deeply by The Devil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaa_84jWeaw
Dr. Byrne,
Maybe you should snuggle up to Peter Strzok’s wife? Maybe you could turn on your charms, get her to flip on her hubby, employer, and other Wall Street swamp rats?
She is not as attractive as Maria, but really, who is?
I wouldn’t follow Peter Strzok into a bus.
But that’s not to say I did not think of the same thing. I figured seducing Strzok’s wife would be a 6 inch putt, and good for a laugh if nothing else. But I follow a wise old adage handed down from father to son since time immemorial, “Never stick your d—k in crazy.”
Dear Patrick,
Just finished reading this piece. Hands down the best thing I have read in the last four years!
You are an amazing man (with a touch of crazy) to have taken on Wall St. then the swamp!
Stay well & stay safe!
Lori
Thanks
Uh….just “a touch” of CRAZY?! Slight mis-charaterization….
Dear Patrick
I find the story and background articles fascinating and well written. You appear to be a very charming and likable person and present it in an earnest way
but
In order to get some journalist traction you would need to present some evidence in addition to “These people know me” .. some (one) evidence of something we don’t already know. Barr and Durham might very well come out with something that collaborates your own account in the future, like you say but “In the future” is not good enough for credibility now.
What you present here is a grand love story. This is not a whistle blower account.
much respect
I should add …
The whole Butina story line appears much clearer to me now so I don’t mean to suggest that the information is worthless ..simply that we lack evidence like names, times and places which could be collaborative to the portions of the story which develop new information
corroborative not collaborative :/
Thanks.
When I went on television a year ago, they sent me a message: “you owe us 15 years for that, Byrne.” I think with what I have written here, I probably owe them the other 85. So if they want, I already owe them the next hundred years in prison.
Let’s not push for bonus points on that.
Except you didn’t commit a crime.
Dear Patrick,
you are one of my real heros in this life. I can not think of anyone who has analyzed this deep state corrupted financial and political system better. Will we see this naked short polluted capital market along with its criminal minions in Washington, in the CIA, FBI, DTCC, DTC etc. get rectified any time soon? In our lifetime?
Time for vindcation is overdue. I look forward to see you soon again on television and spill some serious beans, Maria’s book, tZero should become mandatory implementation on all exchanges. Am I asking for too much? CMKM Diamonds shareholder restitution?
Godspeed
Thomas
Lieber Gott, wo ist unser ByrneBuster? Bitte, Danke.
https://www.axios.com/barr-durham-report-election-3c02ec6a-7613-4083-b35c-4844de6da16b.html
Is it newsworthy that the nationally televised 60 Minutes documentary with Leslie Stahl and President Trump completely eliminates the questions surrounding whether or not President Trump believes that former President Obama and Vice President Biden should be “LOCKED UP” versus the prematurely released interview when the President ended the interview and walked out, with respect to the earlier provided tape supplied to this website?
In the video taped rally that 60 Minutes used to incriminate the President regarding the Michigan Governor, it did seem that he jested what the crowd was chanting, specifically, “lock her up,” before proceeding to say, “lock em all up.”
I will say it again that, “Our global order is run by a Cabal of Criminals known deeply by The Devil.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/president-trump-vice-president-pence-60-minutes-interview-lesley-stahl-2020-10-25/
Time for another video Patrick
the story is not getting out there
kinda like the Biden pay for play, its being hidden
another interview or independent video is needed
thanks
Feel free to make one.
OT: hi Patrick, I thought you might be interested in this item about your old nemesis that crook Steve Cohen…. I’m usually no fan of Mayor DeBlasio but I will will certainly applaud if the Mets do not go to Steve Cohen (no relation to my pseudonym)…..
“Bill de Blasio is trying to kill Mets sale to Steve Cohen”
“That language that de Blasio is most interested in precludes “[a]ny Person that has been convicted in a criminal proceeding for a felony or any crime involving moral turpitude or that is an organized crime figure” from leasing Citi Field.”
https://nypost.com/2020/10/28/bill-de-blasio-is-trying-to-kill-mets-sale-to-steve-cohen/
Today, Friday Oct. 30….2:30 pm (Eastern) there will be a Q&A session with Patrick at this online radio program, to follow up the terrific hour-long interview he already did at this link (well worth a listen):
https://radioinfluence.com/2020/10/26/dark-to-light-an-interview-with-patrick-byrne/
Dark To Light: An Interview With Patrick Byrne
Radio Influence Staff October 26, 2020
It is one heck of a show today as Tracy Beanz of UncoverDC.com does a solo interview with Patrick Byrne, the former CEO of Overstock.com, who tells his story long form in an hour-long conversation you DO NOT want to miss. Patrick was kind enough to agree to come back this Friday to answer questions and talk more with us. We are encouraging people to send their questions to [email protected] for consideration.
Patrick, that was a very good interview you did on Free the People’s channel. You were calm and focused without being boring.
Thanks. I will shoot for more like that.
But alas, the Cone of Silence has again descended.
Not sure where to put this where you will see it, but Tracy Beanz house was gutted by fire yesterday. Fire Dept. took half an hour to get there! She called into Frank’s QuiteFrankly show, very upset but grateful that humans and animals escaped. She didn’t think it was nefarious but I guess the insurance company will decide. Thought you might want to know, if you contacted her again and got no response. I realize you are busy with the election fraud investigation.
Patrick, you mentioned HUD.. have you read https://dillonreadandco.com/hud-is-a-sewer/
you should read the entire story https://dillonreadandco.com/
Patrick deleted two new subjects related to Deep State Corruption as well as insurrection being planned by the Far Left. No longer necessary it seems, with the Leftists having their way at the Presidency soon to be announced. Byrne is going down like Jerry Quarry, The Great White Hope, and his OSTK company earlier; without a bang not even a whimper! He was being attacked by a Leftist at the same time, and has now stood down!
Shame on you Dr. Byrne inclusive of censoring me again the other night!
Remember this Patrick? Imagine a criminal calling someone like The President of the United States a criminal? That coWhore is a wicked bastard who should be sent away. Listening to him on OSTK conference calls makes me want to puke. Unimpressive weak mind just a stock operating, manipulating insider criminal.
https://investors.overstock.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rocker-pays-5-million-overstockcom-settle-lawsuit
Lou Dobbs wants to know where Patrick’s “JUSTICE” Department is too? AG Barr is MIA on the sidelines. I still believe you will ensure that our nation figures this out, and the perps will find the ending so justice somehow does prevail, Patrick Byrne! Don’t let THE PEOPLE down. Your Rabbi has demanded it, right, and even if it’s counter to his personal political bias historically?
https://news.yahoo.com/as-vote-count-swings-toward-biden-trump-backers-hit-the-caps-lock-on-twitter-223931950.html
The assassination of the top four leaders of the political left in the five year period – President John Kennedy in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968 – represented nothing less than a slow-motion coup on the political scene.
The web of deceit surrounding the now officially debunked Democratic led Russia-gate propaganda operation that has strengthened Trump to double-down on his anti-Russia operations (a Democratic goal) is an example of the perfidious and sophisticated mutuality of this game of mass mind-control.
Yes, it is. As she rightly claims, the CIA takeover of America in the 1960s is the story of our time. And our time is now. None of this is ancient history. That is so crucial to grasp. For those who think that learning the truth about the 1960s assassinations is an exercise in futility reserved for those who are living in the past, they need to think again. Our descent into endless war and massive media propaganda to support it is part of a long-term project that began with the elimination of JFK, Malcom X, MLK, and Robert Kennedy. They were killed for reasons, and those reasons still exist, even if they don’t physically, but only in spirit. Their killers roam the land because they have become far more deeply part of the institutional structure of government and the media.
Pease says:
It was horrible that Robert Kennedy was taken from us far too soon. It is horrible that one man has borne the guilt for an operation he neither planned nor willingly participated in. It’s horrible the conspiracy was so obvious that bullets had to be lost and switched to hide it. And it’s horrible that the mainstream media has never dared to tell the people of this country that the government lied to us about what they really found when they looked into this case. Until the media can deal with the truth of the Robert Kennedy assassination, and until the people can be made aware of the CIA’s role in slanting the truth on topics of great importance, America’s very survival is in jeopardy….We’ve come perilously close to losing democracy itself because of fake, CIA-sponsored stories about our history. Should America ever become a dictatorship, the epitaph of our democracy must include the role the mainstream media, by bowing to the National Security state, played in killing it.
https://www.unz.com/article/the-cia-takeover-of-america-in-the-1960s-is-the-story-of-our-times/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7456521/Robert-F-Kennedy-assassinated-Thane-Eugene-Cesar-Sirhan-Sirhan-says-RFK-Jr.html
http://rfktapes.com/5-the-girl-in-the-polka-dot-dress/
Here’s a timeline of historic facts and events that lead us to much within your topic from the early years of the 1800’s through 2019. It exist today, including mass corruption. fbcoverup.com
Patrick,
You are mentioned 65 times in this investigation: https://clintonfoundationtimeline.com/category/independent-researchers/conservative-treehouse/
You should reach out if you have not had contact with them already.
Byrne’s story, as told to CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on “Cuomo Prime Time,” and in earlier interviews broadcast on Fox Business News and Fox News, also includes allegations that top officials in the Obama administration, including James Comey, the former FBI director, approved of the bureau’s requests of him.
It has not been verified by the agencies, and spokespeople for the Justice Department and FBI declined to comment. Reached Thursday evening by CNN, Comey called Byrne’s claim “ridiculous.”
“The FBI doesn’t work that way,” Comey said.
Former FBI deputy director and CNN contributor Andrew McCabe said he hadn’t heard of Byrne until the former CEO revealed his relationship with Butina.
“His allegation that his potential cooperation with the FBI was somehow discussed at the highest levels certainly never happened when I was there,” McCabe, who held the No. 2 role at the agency beginning in 2016 until his firing in 2018, said Friday on CNN’s “New Day.”
McCabe said it was “certainly possible” that Byrne volunteered information about Butina to the FBI, but disputed the claim that agents would have told Byrne to “engage in a romantic relationship with a suspected Russian intelligence agent.”
“That is simply not the sort of thing that the FBI does,” McCabe said.”
Hi Patrick. I’ve followed your story carefully for many years… you even had your pal tulos check me out. Your story has always reminded me Catherine Austin-first saga… referenced above… as well as Martin Armstrong’s difficult journey.
It’s always seemed to me that you’re like three blind people in room holding different parts of an elephant and telling all who can hear that you have got the drop on what’s wrong with our society. Each of you is accurately describing what you are grasping but missing the big picture… the elephant in the room as it were.
Have you ever corresponded with the others? Would you like to? MM knows how to reach me if you’d care to correspond.
sometimes people you think are your friends are not really. you are just a tool or money source to what they want to use. you are not responsible for other peoples actions.it does not matter if you put your dick in crazy or high iq…your dick does not know the difference…often men get the wrong head caught in their zipper.
the interview you did with the guy- was excellent –stick with that source.
he is right you were used by con artist either for money or personal gain.
the woman was more like googoo blah blah
perhaps others see that and are afraid to become involved because people
that are dishonest who have access to tech(deep state)can do whatever they want.
that means scare,harass.kill etc.
i think you are a honest person and i hope you are safe. i have nothing and because
someone hates me they play with tech to hurt me. so i worry about your safety.
do not carry that suitcase it is not healthy.
I have recently come to realize, as I trudge along in my week to week mundane life, razing kids and worrying about retirement, that I know the motivations of my friends, family and colleagues. I don’t have to worry for the most part that I am being used in some way for someones else gain. There is a richness to life in this that you loose with monetary wealth.
Dr. Byrne: Patriots across the U.S. are all in with you, as are we. We are also hopeful that your “Rabbi” has seen the light and is supportive of the rule of law being implemented to ensure this Presidential Election was fair, transparent and not corrupt by verifying that ALL LEGAL VOTES are counted!
And, if I may offer a cheap plug here at the same time….If your Rabbi has seen the light regarding this election contrary to his own political bias, we remain hopeful that he is seeing THE LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES(LUMN) FIBER LIGHT at about this time which he was seeing with Bill Gates, Walter Scott, Jim Crowe and some others more than 22 years ago as part of his interest in Level 3 Communications(LVLT).
God speed, Patrick Byrne!
thanks for nothing patrick….go back to sleep
????
Obama Get out of Jail Free….
“EXCLUSIVE: Top FBI officials revealed on the Thomas Paine Podcast that the Feds have been asked to ignore compelling evidence linking Barack Obama and Joe Biden to the U.S. government’s illegal counterintelligence investigation waged against the 2016 Trump campaign. In shocking detail, the Feds reveal Attorney General William Barr has provided de facto immunity to Obama and Biden — to spare the duo from any prosecution from federal prosecutor John Durham’s probe. Listen above
Why would Barr do this, protect the two highest ranking targets of Durham’s alleged sweeping probe? Paine explains why and details the shocking revelations from Justice Department insiders miffed at trying to conduct such a complex and high-profile investigation while handcuffed by Barr.
https://truepundit.com/exclusive-the-untouchables-top-fbi-reveal-ag-barrs-immunity-agreement-to-protect-biden-obama-from-prosecution-by-john-durham-probe-of-spying-on-trump/
Interesting intelligence person relating to your link and the podcasts you presented, Deadheded. Wouldn’t that person be someone Dr. Byrne needs to contact to share his story?
I will say that the presenter cemented in my mind that “nothing is going to be done.” It’s all a big scam on The American People throughout their history, and believing in some “greater good” who will fight their battles is continuing to appear both ignorant and naive.
Meanwhile, the good Dr. Byrne is finding it amusing how technology companies are succeeding at stealing first amendment rights from being expressed. Is that really the best that can be expected from you at this hour in history, Patrick? The sucker in me continues to pray and hope not!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtZt4LDv828
Hmm, President speaking Patrick’s language now.
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They, and many others, got caught. DO SOMETHING!!!
Well hell, if President Trump just tweets more to @TheJusticeDept (which is merely DOJ’s PR office) we can be sure something will happen!!
I don’t know why Trump was unable to break the logjam at DOJ and FBI but the Wray and Sessions appointments were catastrophically bad…. and Barr does not seem to have turned out much better, though I had hopes…..
But whatever might or might not have worked to get clean-up and prosecutions, tweeting about it in mid-Nov. 2020 (to the PR office!!!) does not seem like a sign of anything except desperation.
Yet another week gone…. no sign of action from DOJ on Durham/Russiagate:
https://twitter.com/1GigiSims1/status/1327297762828963842
Gigi Sims
@1GigiSims1
Breaking: It’s Friday,
@jsolomonReports said our failing
@TheJusticeDept was finally going to deliver justice this week.
It didn’t happen…again.
More boob bait for bucks.
12:10 PM · Nov 13, 2020
Does the DoJ get involved with military tribunals? I think not, but I could be wrong. That might be why Barr may appear to be dropping the ball. It also gives the traitors a false sense of security so they get careless.
Patrick, I listened to your latest interview on Dark to Light and was gobsmacked to learn your family was from South Jersey. So is mine!
There will never be “military tribunals” or Guantanamo Bay involvement for US domestic civilian cases. Never. For a variety of legal, constitutional, and political reasons…. Even terror cases from within the USA do not get sent to Gitmo, and non-terrorism cases most definitely will never be sent offshore or to military tribunals anywhere. That is Q/Qanon style silliness which has infected too many minds… and no, the DOJ has nothing to do with military tribunals or vice-versa. If anything is going to happen with regard to Russiagate and the “Deep State” it will involve the Department of Justice. IF anything much happens, which seems in doubt. It would not be surprising to see some prosecutions from Durham et al., but probably not on the scale that we are hoping for.
Yes, military courts can bring charges of insurrection, sedition, or treason against civilians. A lot of information in this article.
Panic in DC. Enjoy the show!
https://gobeyondo.com/military-tribunals-civilians/
rofl that “article” is worthless garbage and you (and that author) obviously do not understand either the materials in the article or what Kavanaugh was discussing with Graham in the hearing. Nothing there contradicts what I said, that US “civilians” are not going to be sent out of the USA to Guantanamo for military tribunals. Q/Qanon fantasists do not know the first thing about either US criminal law or “the law of armed conflict” and designated “enemy combatants.” If there are non-terror prosecutions for federal charges arising within the USA to be done in 2020/2021 they will most certainly be conducted by DOJ prosecutors in domestic federal/civilian courts.
Tossing around terms like insurrection, sedition, and treason will get you exactly nowhere in wishing for domestic civilians to be sent to Gitmo for military tribunals. It is never going to happen. Pure Qanon silly fantasies.
That would depend on who you’re calling ‘US civilians’….Elected officials?
The Qtards thought it was a slam dunk to get Mike Flynn freed but in the end, President Trump had to pardon him (which is NOT the preferred outcome compared to total exoneration).
That is how little “Q” knows…. despite claims of “we have it all” and “enjoy the show” they could not even help Mike Flynn… never mind change the entire course of US history.
Q/Qanon was always a moronic propaganda show for ignorant gullible people.
Amen Brother! \\//_
The rumor mill (anonymous source) says Durham’s investigation is dead. Oh, and the rumor mill (a different anonymous source) says Durham’s investigation is still “full-speed ahead”…. ya can’t make this up. Maybe yes, maybe no…. Maybe we just don’t know. Ask John Durham. Oh wait, he’s not talking….
I suppose we can speculate more, or we can just wait and see.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1328153519489245185
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
A source familiar with Durham’s ongoing investigation of the bogus Russian collusion operation tells @FDRLST: “Durham isn’t doing anything. Dropping his investigations. He’s worried about blowback from Biden. What an absolute disgrace.”
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
Another source familiar with Durham’s investigation rejected entirely the characterization that Durham is dropping his probe: “John Durham’s investigation remains at full-speed ahead.”
Why can’t Republicans get prosecutions on any of this? What can regular Americans do at this point?
Call your local Congressional reps and let them know how you feel.
Dear Patrick,
Thank you so much for this insight. I felt like I was watching a movie reading through. This is the first article of yours that I’ve read and I’m going to now read your previous articles. I admire your honesty and accountability in coming out and just sharing your story with the American people and all who desire to know more about what’s happening in the Deep State.Your courage to take on the deep state is commendable and huge. Many blessings!
Patrick, did you see that Carter Page is suing Comey, McCabe, and a slew of other FBI miscreants? I don’t know if he will get anywhere with our cesspool legal system, but at least let there be some good “discovery”….. of course the defendants will try like crazy to use FISC and classification excuses to avoid discovery, probably with much assistance from DOJ and FBI.
BUT… maybe some judge will finally show some independence and character to require extensive discovery and document releases…. it is all too rare, but once in a while a judge is offended by govt abuses and decides to act…..
BREAKING: It’s Black Friday….for @carterwpage
https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1332400052661313541
Patrick, have you had any contact with attorney Leslie McAdoo Gordon? She says she is a libertarian and represents a lot of cases vs. US federal govt abuses. I only know of her from her Twitter postings but she seems very sharp, and might be useful to you for any consultations and/or possible legal activity, given all the b.s. you have gone through. At the very least it may be useful to make sure she is fully aware of all that you have observed…. as she may have a lot of helpful contacts in and around DC.
She is leading the Carter Page lawsuit:
https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1332419313274384386
Leslie McAdoo Gordon
@McAdooGordon
It is my privilege to represent Carter Page in his suit against the officials who violated his rights in an outrageous abuse of govt power. #Winterishere.
We’re a team of lawyers working for justice for Carter as you can from this link to the complaint:
Patrick, Thank you for telling your story. While I can’t confirm the authenticity, the narrative makes sense when I stand back and look at it. My question would be regarding the “Deep State”. Is it possible the Deep State is not some organized cabal from within our country but from another country, namely the CCP? The vehicle to infiltrate our government from within would be Money (among other things of value). Much of this has been brought to light in the Hunter Biden Laptop saga. The CCP is playing the long game to undermine our democracy. They only have 2 options to overthrow our country. 1). By brute force (Not going to happen). 2). The slow erosion from within by means of bribery and blackmail.
I know you don’t know how high everything was coming from. To me it seems very possible the Executive Branch would be involved in this. This would be achieved through Joe Biden who was point man on many countries foreign policy during the Obama administration. If we add in the fact the the Hunter Biden was bagging money all over the world, especially China, it dovetails well. Throw in the fact that there is a picture of Hunter Biden in the Oval Office with Obama. Who took the picture? (Joe Biden?) For what? Hunter Biden emails also contained emails from someone named Peter Henderson (A Tom Clancy Character who infiltrates the US government as a mole) One of these emails ( To Hunter) ended with “Love Dad”. Most of the subject matter sent to Hunters email from Peter Henderson revolved around Hillary, which dovetails well with your narrative that Hillary was going to be held over the burner.
Thoughts and prayers to you on your health and as you continue to shed light.
Hahaha…..it’s fantastic, what imaginations you conspiracy theorists have! Hahaha….ROFLMAO. Hunter Biden’s computer….hahaha….very conveniently popped up out of nowhere a couple of weeks before the election. Don’t you think the timing is rather curious? Uh..the computer store owner CANNOT say WHO the computer belongs to……KINDA important don’t ya think?! Oh yeah…..that’s because it’s BULLSHIT!
You’re a bunch of Einsteins…….NOT!
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-groundwork-hunter-biden-conspiracy-deluge-n1245387
Whats the deal with the report that you tried to offer Butina a million dollars to have your kid?
Hmmm. Sounds like something Maria might have told a boyfriend to explain why she was coming to see me. 🤣😂🤣😂
The second you said that Obama and the Mooch had nothing to do with the whole mess just discredited you and this whole article.
rofl, the moment you posted a comment with this “Qanon” b.s. you discredited yourself….
BREAKING: AG Wm. Barr appointed Durham as Special Counsel under same statute as Mueller was appointed…. gives some assurance that Durham’s team can continue unimpeded well into 2021, although a Biden presidency or new AG would still have power to remove Durham… and ofc MSM would leap to rationalize such a move….
Anyway, does not look like Durham will be announcing big results anytime soon (surprise!) but maybe something will still happen…. too little too late….
Oh, and Q/Qanon is still full of bull droppings…..
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/catherine-herridge-breaking-william-barr-just-named-john-durham-as-special-counsel-to-continue-spygate-probe/
Patrick, thanks for telling this story. The corruption at the highest levels of our federal government is alarming. You are a true patriot for the way you handled yourself and told your story.
My nagging question is how does this Steve Pieczenik factor into all this? He made a claim before 2016 election that a coup was occurring and he was right, but he never really said how it was going to play out. He now says that all these arrests are going to come down….God willing he is right. How far off the rails is Alex Jones?
So…..I was interested in Patrick’s piece on: – Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections. So, this is the blockbuster that’s going to expose…..well I don’t know WTF it’s SUPPOSED to expose……is on Pay Per View! It’s the “shit”! Literally…
Patrick, Are you ever concerned that you handed over all the goods on The Deep State to The Deep State?
Patrick, are you following revelations on the Democrats and a CCP spy…. Rep. Swallowell possibly compromised but the FBI gave him a “defensive briefing” by mid-2015 and almost immediately his Communist China paramour flees the country…. possibly tipped off by Swallowell???
It will be most “interesting” if it is ever possible to publicly compare detailed info of facts and timelines between this case and the Maria Butina case…. since in the China case we have an ACTUAL spy (well established, apparently) linking up with a variety of Democrats including an ACTUAL member of Congress (Swallowell) with whom she reportedly had an ACTUAL affair….
Yet unlike the case of allowing Maria Butina to continue networking with Republicans, in the China case the FBI takes decisive steps to protect the Democrats and the ACTUAL spy is able to flee the country…..
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcenany-swalwell-china-spy-story-democrats-foreign-influence
“Eric Swalwell, a Chinese ‘honeytrap’ and FBI double standards”
“No one connected to the president was found to have colluded with Russia, though the FBI tried awfully hard to pin that charge on Carter Page. Why didn’t the bureau give Page and the other Trump advisers it was examining a defensive briefing when it became concerned that Russia might be using them?”
“Instead, the bureau lied to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to get repeated permission to spy on Page — which came to nothing, wasting FBI resources and ultimately harming the agency’s reputation. Was the Obama FBI really as apolitical as disgraced Director Jim Comey claims?”
https://nypost.com/2020/12/09/eric-swalwell-a-chinese-honeytrap-and-fbi-double-standards/
Buh bye Barr….
AG Barr is out.
”Q” says “Trust the Plan”!
Qooktards all grin and pant and lap up the latest like they expected it all along.
i still can’t believe those Qooks have blighted conservative MAGA circles for 3+ years.
What a disgrace! Maybe they can bring Jeff Sessions back!
When Barr said, on national TV, Epstein committed suicide I knew he was an agent of the swamp… PB still seems to give him a pass but you can’t try and push that crap on down our throats and be on the good guys side.
It does not matter how big the corruption or who it would take down, EVERYONE involved with child exploitations or looking the other way should be exposed and put in jail, no matter how damaging it is to the country. Not giving individual victims justice, no matter how damaging that justice could be to our republic, is a clear violation to their constitutional rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Good Morning! And IT IS a glorious day! Hey Patrick – how are your cyber sleuths and hackers doing with finding all the “fraud” in the 2020 election? One word – CRICKETS! No news is NO NEWS. The Right has tried everything to get some “traction” on overturning the election. Trouble is there is no “there” there! Trumpers…..GET OVER IT. #SoreLosers. It’s all a CONSPIRACY……Hahaha, y’all are very entertaining……that’s for SURE! Oh…..buh by BARR!
Wow! A sheep named “Wolf”! Haha
Listen, I know you’re going to find this hard to believe but the scent of any “there-there” is being covered up by the stinch of corruption of your news sources. In fact, it’s so ridiculously obvious that I credit you and anyone else with too much intelligence to not see it. Only the corrupt would claim this election was legit.
Anonymous,
Wow….an asshole named Anonymous. Hahaha, go figure. I brains were gunpowder, you wouldn’t have enough to blow the nose off your face. Besides, I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person. Go away little man.
Increase your credibility by doing a better job of editing before you publish. You’ll wish you “had had had” done so when the sloppiness is pointed out.
The content of this entire site clearly demonstrates that there are much bigger fish to fry than grammatical errors. Good grief!
Amen! Where the hell did all these macadamia nuts come from?
Patrick, God Blessed you with Courage, I Thank God for you, and for God to Keep a protective hand on you. Warriors like you are Inspiring!
And as for the nut jobs that are “Anonymous” your credibility is reflected in your FEAR of not revealing who you are. Increase your credibility by STANDING UP! Your comments on Had,Had,Had reflects your shallowness!
Do you see my typos??
Talking about nut jobs…….you’re right there buddy “Agent-Al”! BTW….you wouldn’t be one of Paddy’s “MIB” buddies he fantasizes about…..would you? Another pigment of his quickly deteriorating imagination!
Hello Patrick/Mr, Byrne,
It’s no surprise to me to see you in the thick of this business.
America needs more like you.
I stopped by because I saw a tweet attributed to you indicating that you were in the room with President Trump, Sidney Powell, and General Flynn on Friday. There was supposedly a discussion of martial law that was shot down by POTUS advisors, according to the MSM. PDJT himself has said there was no such thing.
Your tweet seconded that but suggested that the President was getting terrible advice and was essentially being told to defer to the media.
I fail to understand why a conspiracy of foreign and domestic enemies against the lawful government of the USA should not be a proper basis for using the emergency powers of the executive and whatever armed force was needed to ensure that the physical evidence of fraud is retained, the illicit votes expunged and the election redone constitutionally.
My understanding is that this is the precise DUTY of the president.
If President Trump passes on doing so, General Flynn should perhaps be pressed into service to perform the task. He seems well up to it.
My question.
Would you support that move and if not, why not?
Lila,
I can’t believe the number of Americans that fell for DJT’s bullshit “fake news”, constant conspiracy theories about the Dems “stealing” the election! Hahaha…..SO MANY dimwitted people, willing to believe such nonsense! Even Trump’s own – Bill Barr said there is NO EVIDENCE of such! Yes, there is always a miniscule percentage of voter “fraud”, but to believe that the Dems “stole” the election is LUNACY! The Great and Powerful Oz, our Dr. Byrne HIMSELF was taken in on this! WTF?! Just goes to show, you can be a brainiac…..and STILL be an IDIOT!
We’re ALL STILL WAITING for Dr. Byrne’s hackers and cyber sleuths to come up with the “evidence”! FACT – They can’t find any, because THERE IS NONE!
You’re lovely Commander in Chief
Grifter in Chief
I’m new to your site. Thank you so very much for keeping us informed!
Patrick,
I didn’t know much about you until I ran across a couple of Dr. Jerome Corsi Podcasts and this wonderous site.
12 hours later, I feel like you are a friend that is fighting for everything America has fought so hard keep. Thank you so much for your articulation of a peak inside the Deep State and your courageous pursuit to root out the corruption within it!
Being of Irish and Norwegian decent, among other things, your fighting spirit resonates with this common “deplorable”!
I hope that you hook up with Steven K Bannon sometime soon on one of his War Room: Pandemic Podcasts.
Hello Patrick
Recall me, Ousmane, met in Switzerland at a train station?
Truth be told, even since I read this speech of yours about your cancer ordeals, delivered at PMC, I got more and more drawn to you, of course in a philosophical manner of course.
It seems odd though, that in a matter of 15 minutes our meeting lasted, we talked about issues that subsequently have had so much echo in your life: my not liking Obama and Hilary, my love for Dostoievsky and his Brothers Karamazov (hum mother Russia), …
Wish you good luck and would pay more to see you again as I did when I came to see you in Utah for 5 mn.
Fondly
Ousmane
Thank you for your extraordinary service to our country, Dr. Byrne.
Please consider sharing this story on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
We the People do not trust special counsels, recounts, or the lawyers to get this right.
This story in its entirety needs an alternative/specialized mass media platform to let the light in and offer a shot at (a version) of justice in the court of public opinion.
It would be a banger.
– Grateful
As much as I appreciate Dr. Byrne for his efforts, why is it that everything he attempts in the spirit of enforcing fairness, and transparency including “the rule of law,” disintegrates in his face? Overstock.com and now POTUS. After gleaning this “reality” t.v. show and not allowing myself to be immersed in it because of these things I know, I only confirm contrary to Dr. Byrne who likes to talk about “bitch slapping” people in Prez. Trump’s White House, but then says he doesn’t condone violence, it becomes clear that only “violence” in the face of “tyranny” is the means to the proper ending for ensuring “justice.”
Sadly, the American People have become too fat, lazy, and dumbed down to “bear up arms” against the insidious “technology” enemy who has wrested control of their nation.
Munger told me in 2008 at Cal Tech, that if “China should outweigh The Mungers’ in wealth, then so be it.” Well, so it has become, since our children and grandchildren will feel the effects of Communist Rule during the next 20 years.
What a travesty, but at the same time, what a joke of an effort to put an end to it. One of my friends in the media biz said, this was a way for the incumbent President to create his own T.V. channel in order to continue his media personality going forward.
Just like Wall Street, Patrick, politics is a rigged game controlled by The Globalists who now own DuhMerika!
This is a very sohpisticated piece of psyops. Mossade possibly?
This is a very sohpisticated piece of psyops. top knotch Mossade possibly?
All’s quiet on the Western Front. Hey Patrick…..I’m waiting for you to deliver the “goods”. I’m sure you’re familiar with the saying, “All hat, NO cattle”. Seems to me that description fits here.
Hi, Patrick – Good long read followed by the (expected) life-threatening from the MIB. I cannot help but think of something my suicidal philosophy teacher taught – Derivative Thinking. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to achieve the right goal.
Res Ipsa Luquitur – The thing eats itself.
Exactly…….the Republicans are EATING THEMSELVES! They mortgaged their SOULS, their vaunted conservative “values”, for what? BULLSHIT – Aura popularis vobis
I must say, it’s great that thanks to you and the MIB, Hillary was arrested as soon as Trump took office.
Wait, what? She wasn’t arrested?
Hmmmm
“In my experience, tough guys like Putin are honorable men.”
Wait….what?
Yes. In the narrow sense of, “not going to invite me as a guest then take me hostage. Unless I do something dumb.”
I’ll take things that never happened, for 600 Alex.
You’re a great writer, but this is almost completely fiction. A Washington soap opera. You expect me to believe people in the government were actually concerned with a “deep state”, but didn’t think to look into it until 2008? And that they had no idea who it could be? And you were the guy they picked to find out who? If that were true, then we never stood a chance. This is a joke. FBI agents aren’t honorable, they are among the least honorable people on the planet.
But for argument sake, lets say it is true. I bet now, even 15 years later, if you were that character you portray yourself as, you would have no idea. But you’re not.. your money, your status, tells me you know exactly who they are. I wish I could get someone like you in a room alone, the so-called collaborators, and find out how they poisoned you and so many others just like you all around the world to betray their own people and go against the interests of all that is good and just. It can’t simply be blackmail. I think what compels traitors like you is knowledge. Or rather, fake knowledge, which is so widely accepted by your peers, for so long that it has become doctrine. You were contained to that lavish luxurious echo chamber and thought that it must be, having never considered you were actually the [necessary] obstacle.
You were right about one thing though, historians will remember your names.