The New Yorker ran a very in-depth piece of investigative journalism, Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies, by Ronan Farrow. The story details how Harvey Weinstein and his lawyers silenced women and reporters from speaking out about Weinstein’s attacks on women. The article is long, but it’s a fascinating read and so eerily familiar:
“According to dozens of pages of documents, and seven people directly involved in the effort, the firms that Weinstein hired included Kroll, which is one of the world’s largest corporate-intelligence companies, and Black Cube, an enterprise run largely by former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies. Black Cube, which has branches in Tel Aviv, London, and Paris, offers its clients the skills of operatives “highly experienced and trained in Israel’s elite military and governmental intelligence units,” according to its literature.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies
Some of Weinstein’s private investigators were hired and managed through Weinstein’s lawyers, with David Boies, directly involved in the hiring and managing Weinstein’s private investigators. This all sounded so familiar, because this is exactly how the Clintons silenced women during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The Clintons used Sid Blumenthal to pull strings and kill stories. Women claimed to have been threatened when they talked to Starr’s investigators. And all the while Clinton mouthpieces and Hillary railed about the “vast, right-wing conspiracy” out to destroy them and how the investigation was just a “witch hunt”.
Weinstein looks like his empire is crumbling, but the Clintons are always above the law.
Along with this Farrow piece, another interesting bit of news generating waves is Donna Brazile’s new book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House.
Brazile claimed the DNC was owned by the Clintons during the Dem. primary, with the Clintons pouring money into the DNC, which was completely broke. Along with the Clinton cash, the Clinton campaign demanded complete control of the DNC hiring and messaging, which assured Bernie Sanders would be sidelined. Brazile excoriated Debbie Wasserman Schultz’ management of the DNC, which left the DNC in such dire financial straits.
Clinton mouthpieces jumped into action countering Brazile’s claims, insisting everything was legal. Clinton loyalists in the mainstream media jumped into action attacking Brazile too. Many Democrats urged Democrats to unite and stay focused on #Resist. And Donald Trump, his info warriors and FOX News pounced on the Brazile revelations as evidence that “Crooked Hillary” rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders.
The mainstream media is already working to bury this story, gleefully getting inflamed about such weighty matters as Trump feeding the koi in Japan… Brazile is quickly backtracking, now insisting the Dem. primary wasn’t rigged.
It looks like once again the Clinton machine has silenced another woman, who dared to challenge Hillary.
The right-wing media and Russian fronts, like Zero Hedge, highlighted Donna Brazile’s odd dedication in her book. She dedicates her book to several family members, her friend and mentor, David Kaufmann, her dog, and “my DNC colleague and patriot, Seth Rich”. The Seth Rich dedication is odd. I haven’t read the book yet, but the rolling out of her book, her feisty defiance over the weekend and now her seeming acquiescence to the Clinton talking points, seems like Brazile has opted to surrender to the Clinton machine.
It’s not surprising.
No one really ever wins against the Clinton machine. Trump won the presidency, but Hillary and her vast network of operatives, many of them in the mainstream media, will tirelessly work until he is taken down. That Trump is as corrupt as the Clintons assures this scorched earth info war will blow hot as long as Trump is president. Trump played dirty, where even his son admits meeting with Russians hoping to collude with them and get dirt on Hillary. The investigations will continue, the corrupt Trump operatives will be exposed, but all the while the Clinton corruption will roll on – always above the law.
Of course, Saint Comey, is ready to launch his new book too… “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership”… One can only wait with bated breath for Comey to explain his “better angels”…
Somehow, I feel sure he will get me nowhere closer to understanding how “extremely careless” differs from “grossly negligent” or how people in positions of high-trust and responsibility should be treated like “celebrities” and their “rights” must be given due deference and more protection than our nation’s most sensitive information. The “higher loyalty” should be to the oath sworn – SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION.
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