March | 2017 | Auribus Arrectis

…among our headlines of interest for February, 2017…

The top story of the month has been largely obscured by drama of D.C., but of dire consequence – with the potential to displace tens of millions in Japan, and to further poison the Pacific Ocean – Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 is teetering on the brink of catastrophe…

Science Alert – Radiation levels in the Fukushima reactor are soaring unexpectedly

RT – Record high fatal radiation levels, hole in reactor detected at crippled Fukushima nuclear facility

PhysOrg – ‘Scorpion’ robot mission inside Fukushima reactor aborted

ENENews – “Emergency measures” taken at Fukushima plant after “unexpected dents” found on reactor building floor — Situation “much worse than expected” — Experts: It’s like a “burning house”… “I was shocked” by outcome… “Streaming of radiation” may be underway

– Expert: “Potential Global Catastrophe” from Fukushima Unit 2 highly radioactive fuel… Reactor could be destroyed, “making Tokyo area uninhabitable”… This is “most dreaded” scenario — Already “partially liquefying” below reactors

– Nuke Experts: Fukushima plant must be entombed like Chernobyl — Reactors will remain a threat to world “for the rest of time” — “Humanly impossible” to clean up due to shockingly high radiation levels

– Scientists fear Fukushima radiation hitting US to worsen… “A lot of people are very concerned” — Experts: Billions are being exposed… Reactors “will continue to pour water into Pacific for the rest of time”

To the D.C. skullduggery… Target: Trump…

Wayne Madsen Report – February 27-28, 2017 — A “CIA within the CIA” battles against Trump

Even before he was inaugurated on January 20, President Trump faced a virtual “CIA within the CIA” that is bound and determined to derail his intelligence and foreign policy agendas. Past presidents have faced opposition from the Central Intelligence Agency — John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter are prime examples — but the opposition was sub rosa and not out in the open as it is today.

A number of former CIA officers have taken to CNN and MS-NBC to voice their opinions that Trump is a threat to U.S. national security. In addition to venting their own spleens about Trump, they are publicly airing the views of hundreds of their former colleagues currently serving within the CIA.

The conventional punditry in Washington is stressing, without evidence, that Trump’s presidential campaign was helped by “Russian intelligence officials.” A dodgy British memorandum, created by a former MI-6 spook named Christopher Steele, and embellished by the Jeb Bush campaign, which hired him to dig up dirt on Trump, is being used as “proof” of Russian interfered in the U.S. election. However, what is being overlooked is that “Russian intelligence” may be a substitute for “Russian-Israeli mafia.” The Russian-Israeli oligarchs, many of whom are exiled in Britain, Switzerland, and Israel, have no love for Trump and his previous pro-Russian views.

It recently emerged that Ukrainian parliament member Andrey Artemenko met in January with Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to deliver a proposal that would have “leased” Crimea to Russia for 100 years in exchange for a pullout of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. The “peace plan” appears to have been a red herring since there is no documented evidence of regular Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. Artemenko is a shady figure who has been involved with the scandal-plagued Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) and who is a member of the party of the corrupt former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

It was Tymoshenko’s criminal conviction and imprisonment by the government of president Viktor Yanukovych that helped propel the “Euromaidan” revolution and coup that drove Yanukovych into exile in Russia. Artemenko is also close to the former Ukrainian boxer Vitali Klitschko, the current mayor of Kiev, who recently attended the Munich Security Conference along with Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and such anti-Russian U.S. delegates as Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, neocon Robert Kagan, and Kagan’s wife Victoria Nuland, the chief architect of the Euromaidan revolution. At Munich, where the CIA was working overtime to cultivate new relationships and reinforce older ones, the plotters of neo-Cold War intrigue in Ukraine were all present. The CIA would have known about Klitschko’s ties to Artemenko and Artemenko’s meeting on the Ukraine peace deal with Trump’s lawyer Cohen.

Trump, who has surrounded himself with shady characters like Stephen Bannon, Stephen Miller, and Hungarian-American fascist Sebastian Gorka, may not be a “puppet” of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as alleged by detractors. Instead, Trump appears to be an unwitting stooge of the Russian-Israeli mafia that wants a green light to depose Putin and replace him with one of their own, someone, for example, like Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Khodorkovsky, now in exile, is leading the Russian-Israeli oligarchs in their attempt to undermine Putin. International hedge fund tycoon George Soros was also in Munich, rubbing shoulders with Klitschko and his own puppet, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The intrigue on display in Munich may be complicated, but the end result may be a two-for-one deal for the Russian-Israeli gangsters: the overthrow of Putin and the impeachment of Trump. The result would be a Russian president who would complete the privatization of Russian industry and infrastructure to benefit the exiled mafia oligarchs and a committed “Christian Zionist,” Pence, in the Oval Office…

As delegates were packing up to leave Munich, there was another interesting development in nearby Vienna. An Austrian appeals court approved the extradition to the United States of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash where he faces corruption charges. After the Euromaidan coup in 2014, Firtash was arrested by Austrian police on an FBI warrant. Firtash was a close political ally of Yanukovych. Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was a business partner of Firtash. In 2008, Manafort and Firtash were part of a business team that sought to buy Manhattan’s Drake Hotel and demolish it to make way for a new skyscraper called the Bulgari Tower, a deal that may have involved the Trump Organization. The Drake deal involved another Trump adviser, Richard Gates. While she was prime minister, Tymoshenko sued Firtash over the Drake deal. Now, an ally of Tymoshenko, Artemenko, has his fingerprints on a Ukrainian peace plan shopped to Trump’s lawyer Cohen…

Also in Munich with Pence, Mattis, Kagan, and Nuland was Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk, who gave the Trump Foundation $150,000 for a Trump video speech to Pinchuk’s Yalta European Strategy (YES) annual meeting in Ukraine in 2015. Pinchuk, a friend of John McCain, is close to both Poroshenko and Soros and a vocal opponent of Putin.

No one is clean in these machinations but they could very well serve as a basis to impeach Trump under the emolument clause of the U.S. Constitution, which makes any personal profit by the president based on foreign links an impeachable offense.

There are forces within the CIA — the “CIA within the CIA” — that want a return to the days of Boris Yeltsin, when everything and everyone in Russia was for sale and Russia gladly followed the diktats from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Two things stand in their way, Putin and the Putin-admiring Trump, the latter not seeming to want to “get with the program” of returning to the status quo ante in U.S.-Russian relations…

An intelligence game is now being played out by Langley and it involves unsavory mafiosi in Ukraine, London, and Langley, Virginia. In essence, a “CIA within the CIA” is attempting to stage a “soft coup” in the United States and they have a number of willing accomplices in the media and within Mr. Trump’s own inner circle.

Among the mafiosi is Felix Sater, one who has done business with both Trump and the CIA. The latter however is not acknowledged here…

New York Times – A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates

Or here…

Talking Points Memo – A Big Shoe Just Dropped

For the other shoe, we must go here…

Miami Herald (Sept. 8, 2012) – Strange bedfellows: Swindler, Stinger-missile brokers, the CIA

It is of note, then, for all of the Rocky and Bullwinckle Show that is the mainstream media covering Trump’s alleged ties to Russia – ultimately inconclusive, relying on anonymous, dubious official sources – the one tangible lead that could give the story legs is ignored. Precisely, because it bites the CIA. But this is par for the course and nothing new…

Washington’s Blog – Newly-Declassified Documents Show that a Senior CIA Agent and Deputy Director of the Directorate of Intelligence Worked Closely with Owners and Journalists with Many of the Largest Media Outlets

Voltairenet – Anti-Donald Trump: war propaganda by Thierry Meyssan

The first casualty sustained by the Trump administration…

Intelligence Online – Mike Flynn, the security kingpin accused of being Moscow’s eyes and ears

His fall was preceded by CIA Pompeo locking out of Flynn aide Robin Townley…

Politico (Feb. 10) – CIA freezes out top Flynn aide

Disinfo alert – the following is a Sorcha Faal joint, and follows “her” modus operandi: some of the dots are real (the Townley story and Treasury’s Feb. 13 issuing of sanctions against Venezuela’s Tareck El Aissami and Samark Lopez Bello) , but the dotted lines connecting them are questionable, and the conclusion – that Flynn and Townley are now at the State department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) – unsubstantiated and doubtful, given that an Obama holdover Daniel B. Smith remains at INR…

Impious Digest – Trump “Shadow Move” Of General Michael Flynn To Feared Spy Agency Rattles Russia

Putting these events within a larger context (albeit citing Sorcha Faal without qualification), is Larry Chin at…

Global Research – Trump’s World of Intrigue: Twists and Turns of the Michael Flynn Resignation

Daily Caller – In Final Interview, Defiant Flynn Insists He Crossed No Lines, Leakers Must Be Prosecuted

With focus devoted to Flynn’s Russian contacts, questions are unasked about his Turkish contacts, including president Erdoğan’s cousin Hilal Mutlu. See the Nov. 16, 2016 Daily Caller: Trump Adviser Recently Met With Relative Of Turkey’s President

Moreover, it is on account of Flynn’s speaking out against longtime CIA asset Fethullah Gülen, particularly in a Nov. 8 op-ed at The Hill, where he accepts Erdoğan’s contention that Gülenists were behind the July 15 coup attempt, that the wrath of Langley has been meted out upon him, as David Goldman writes…

PJ Media – The CIA Really Is Out to Get General Flynn

Erdoğan poses a dilemma for the Trump administration, which is poised to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization – one with which Erdoğan is allied. Trump’s “general reactions were positive,” however, to Erdoğan’s requests for extradition of Gülen and for ceasing support of Syrian Kurds, in a call just prior to DCI Pompeo’s visit to Turkey on February 9th…

Washington Post – CIA chief to visit Turkey in sign of improving ties with US

Haber Turk – Pompeo, MİT Müsteşarı Fidan ile bir araya geldi

Sabotaging the negotiations? -McCain visits Erdoğan after traveling to to Saudi Arabia and stopping in Kurdish-controlled NE Syria over weekend of Feb. 18…

Wall Street Journal (also Zero Hedge) – John McCain Makes Secret Trip to Syria in Midst of U.S. Assessment

McCain, a loose cannon that should be muzzled…

American Mirror – AUDIO: John McCain shares insider info with prankster posing as Ukrainian PM

Before acting AG Sally Yates had been fired for failing to enforce immigration ban…

WaPo – Justice Department warned White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, officials say

Manafort and Stone deny allegations of…

New York Times – Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence

Washington Free Beacon – Former Obama Officials, Loyalists Waged Secret Campaign to Oust Flynn

Hillary gets some schadenfreude…

Zero Hedge – Hillary Trolls Michael Flynn On Twitter With PizzaGate Reference – re-tweeting…

“Dear Mike Flynn & Mike Flynn Jr., What goes around COMETS around. And given your pizza obsession…”

Bloomberg (Eli Lake) – The Political Assassination of Michael Flynn

American Everyman – The Edge of Treason: The CIA Waging War Against American President for Threatening to Restructure Their BIG CLUB

Handed out like a pedophile’s lure…

@realDonaldTrump – The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by “intelligence” like candy. Very un-American!

Intelligence community responds…

Infowars – Former NSA Analyst: Intel Community Vows Trump Will “Die in Jail”

Or elsewhere?…

Palm Beach Post – Feds: 12 planes violated Trump air space over weekend

Leaks going not just to the press, but to Al Qaeda?…

American Spectator – Did Democrats Aid and Abet Terrorists Seeking American Secrets?

Liberally Conservative – Treason At State Department – Obama Leftovers Out Navy Seals in Yemen – citing…

Daily Caller – House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee Members Compromised By Rogue IT Staff

– House Dem IT Guys In Security Probe Secretly Took $100K In Iraqi Money

George Webb, in his ongoing Where is Eric Braverman? Youtube series, address the Awan brothers, beginning at Day 127 et seq.

Mint Press News – Rex Tillerson Purges Remnants Of “Shadow Govt” At State Department

Independent – Trump missed his main target in Yemen raid that killed 30 civilians and one US Navy SEAL

ABC News (AP) – US Releases Video From Yemen Raid but Footage Is Dated

WhoWhatWhy (Peter Dale Scott) – Donald J. Trump and the Deep State, Part 1, Part 2

Medium (Nafeez Ahmed) – How the Trump regime was manufactured by a war inside the Deep State

Strategic-Culture (Wayne Madsen) – The Three Trump Administrations

TomDispatch (Rebecca Gordon) – The Enemies of Our Enemy Are Not Our Friends

When they get their way, the doomsday clock inches closer to midnight…

AFP (via Yahoo) – Trump’s Russia reset on hold as White House adds anti-Moscow hawks

World Socialist Web Site – Appointment of “Warrior-Scholar” McMaster signals intensification of anti-Russia confrontation

Politico (April 14, 2016) – The Secret U.S. Army Study That Targets Moscow

Steve Bannon instrumental in ousting Tillerson’s pick for deputy Secretary of State, neocon Iran-Contra convict Elliot Abrams…

N.Y. Post – Rex Tillerson and Trump clash over State Department deputy

AP – Senior Trump appointee fired after critical comments

Penny for your thoughts – Flynn’s Ouster Planned? Robert Harward (Attack Iran?) Frontrunner

Harward, 60, is now the chief executive officer for Lockheed Martin United Arab Emirates.

As noted in our Feb. 3 edition, DNI Dan Coats was a lobbyist for Lockheed, and likely was instrumental in UAE purchase of F-22s. Regardless, however, Harward declined the offer…

ABC News – Harward turns Trump down for national security adviser job

FOX News – Pentagon strikes new F-35 deal with Lockheed after Trump involvement

Alert 5 (Las Vegas Review-Journal) – Aggressors managed to ‘shot’ down 1 F-35A at Red Flag 17-01

Breaking Defense – Air Force Adds Pacific To F-35s’ Foreign Deployments

Aviationist – Gigantic U.S. Global Hawk drone could be tracked online while flying 21-hour mission over Libya

Indian Ocean Newsletter – Nairobi sends Team-A to Washington to save armaments contract

Breitbart – Lawmakers to Request Probe of $418M Arms Sale to Kenya on Obama’s Last Day

Newsbud – A Distillation of DOD Funding Priorities for January 2017

Our hopes that Trump would not be so friendly to the Saudis are dashed…

Washington Times – Trump to approve weapons packages to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain blocked by Obama

21st Century Wire – STOCKHOLM STUDY: US & Europe Top Arms Trade Globally – Saudi Arabia’s Weapons Imports Skyrocket Over 200 Percent

Reuters – Saudi Plane strike hits Yemen mourners, killing 9 women, 1 child: residents

Independent – CIA awards Saudi crown prince with medal for counter-terrorism work

In spite of his shortcomings, let us give him this: The Donald tells it like it is…

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2017

The original deleted for excessive harshness? – as snagged by Zero Hedge…

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @CNN, @NBCNews and many more) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American people. SICK!

Alleluia! Our “ranting and raving” president has answered the call of the furious “SPIT IN THEIR FACES” tirade of KRZOG in June, 2008.

Has a president ever spoken such ugly truth to the American people?…

N.Y. Post – Trump defends ‘killer’ Putin: ‘You think our country’s so innocent?’

Practically channeling Noam Chomsky, at FOX Sports (Youtube)…

O’Reilly: …Putin’s a killer!

Trump: A lot of killers, we’ve got a lot of killers. What, you think our country’s so innocent? [directly] You think our country’s so innocent?

O’Reilly: But I don’t know of any government leaders that are killers…

Trump: Wellll, take a look at what we’ve done too; we’ve made a lot of mistakes. I’ve been against the war in Iraq from the beginning…

O’Reilly: -mistakes are different then…

Trump: A lot of mistakes, a lot of people were killed, OK? A lot of killers around, believe me.

Indeed, we are not so innocent, up to the present…

Xymphora – Assassination is insensitive

Foreign Policy – The United States Used Depleted Uranium in Syria

Penny for your thoughts – US Airstrikes Cut Water Supply In Raqqa

American Everyman (RT) – Turkish Head of Red Crescent (R.C.) Says US Responsible for Attack on Syrian R.C. Headquarters in Aleppo

Military Times – The U.S. military’s stats on deadly airstrikes are wrong. Thousands have gone unreported

Bureau of Investigative Journalism – US strikes in Afghanistan Afghan airstrikes killed and injured record number of civilians in 2016

The New Arab (citing Süddeutsche Zeitung) – Saudi Arabia ‘ready to send ground troops’ to Syria

Alert 5 (Navy.mil) – George H.W. Bush CSG conducts air strikes against ISIL

Al Masdar News – Ballistic missile strikes Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

New Arab – Riyadh military base ‘targeted’ by Houthi rebel missile strike

PressTV – IRGC begins major phase of defense drills in Iran’s Semnan

DEBKAfile – Trump: New Iran sanctions, USS Cole to Red Sea

Breitbart – Arabian Gulf War Games

Bloomberg – Iran Carries Out New Missile Tests After Trump Imposes Sanctions

Ron Paul institute – Pre-Emptive Attack Iran Bill Active in US House

Reuters – In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty – sources

In spite of the sabre-rattling and bull in the China shop diplomacy, can we take solace that there are peaceniks in the Pentagon?…

WaPo – Pentagon chief advocates restraint in response to Iran, China

Zero Hedge – Pentagon Chief’s Ultimatum To NATO: “Boost Military Spending Or The U.S. Will Cut Its Support”

ThereAreNoSunglasses (Tolo) – Russia Hosting 6-Nation Attempt To Jump-start Peace Talks w/Out Inviting US

(Al Jazeera) – Russia’s new game in Afghanistan

– Are the Taliban the “Hand of Russia in Afghanistan”?

Axios – Russian diplomats keep dying unexpectedly

AFP (via Yahoo) – Putin critic leaves Russia for treatment after ‘poisoning’

Un takes out brother Nam?…

Zero Hedge – Kim Jong Nam Assassination Caught On Tape

Wall Street Journal – High Dose of VX Nerve Agent Killed Kim Jong Nam Within 20 Minutes

IntelNews – Observers speak of uncertainty as North Korean leader fires spy chief

Reuters – New nuclear-capable missile test a success, North Korea says

Alert 5 (KCNA) – Images of Pukguksong-2

KBS World Radio – S. Korea, US Agree N. Korea at Final Stage of Nuclear Armament

– S. Korean Military Mulls Show of Force against N. Korea

Arirang – S. Korea-U.S. military exercises to incorporate pre-emptive strike operations

N.Y. Times – Trump Administration Cancels Back-Channel Talks With North Korea

Bloomberg – China Message to Trump With North Korea Coal Ban: Let’s Deal

NBC News – US Aircraft Carrier, Warplanes and Destroyer Begin ‘Routine Operations’ in South China Sea

AP – New Chinese missile makes latest appearance in drills

FOX News – Russia sends spy ship near US coast, deploys banned missiles at home, officials say

Fort Russ (translating Sputnik France) – US spy drone studies the Donbass frontline

(translating Русской Весны) – Ukraine has bombarded 14 Donbass towns 706 times in 24 hours – Basurin

TheDuran – Lugansk Colonel Oleg Anashchenko is the latest assassination victim in Donbass

Voltairenet – Russia recognizes the governments of Donbass and Lougansk

RT – US tanks, infantry fighting vehicles arrive in Estonia amid NATO buildup on Russian borders

– US guided missile cruiser visits Estonian port

ABC News – Russian aircraft buzzed US Navy ship 3 times in a day – in the Black Sea

Al Monitor – ‘Spying imams’ spark new crisis between Europe, Turkey

– Jewish lawmakers rip Trump over two-state walkback

Middle East Observer – Assad tells Belgian reporter Belgium & EU merely obey ‘US master’ on Syria

Consortium News – Tulsi Gabbard vs. ‘Regime Change’ Wars

Antiwar – Civilians Flee Heavy Fighting in Mosul; 223 Killed in Iraq

Reuters – Iraqi forces wage psychological war with jihadist corpses

In Brazil…

Mirror – Bloodthirsty mob takes over city’s streets leaving trail of death and rape after police go on strike

Bolivia next?…

Xinhua – Bolivia seizes arsenal of weapons from U.S.

Columbia Reports – PEACE IS OVER: Colombia’s paramilitaries embark on full-blown terror campaign

Democracy Now – Former CIA Officer Arrested in Portugal for Kidnapping Cleric

ABC News – Trump administration withdrew legal memo that found ‘ample legal justification’ to halt Dakota Access pipeline

Zero Hedge – DHS Suspends “All Actions” On Trump Travel Ban, Reverses Visa Cancelation; Vows To Fight

It’s Going Down – Highly Militarized ICE Raids on California’s Central Coast

Concerning Republican governors’ strategy against Obama’s executive orders on immigration…

Evansville Courier-Journal – Mike Pence’s redacted emails could head to Indiana Supreme Court

Polizette – Soros Fingerprints All Over Anti-Trump Lawsuits

Breitbart – Records: Soros Fund Execs Funded Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John McCain, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham in 2016

Daily Signal – ‘Indivisible,’ With Ties to George Soros, Sows Division Against Trump, GOP Lawmakers

Washington Free Beacon – Town Hall Project Founded By Former Clinton Staffer

FIRE – First National Survey of ‘Bias Response Teams’ Reveals Growing Threat to Campus Free Speech

Obama = POTUS Gladio, the “stay behind” president…

N.Y. Post – How Obama is scheming to sabotage Trump’s presidency

(citing Guardian op-ed co-author Rasmea Yousef Odeh) – Meet the terrorist behind the next women’s march

Haute Macabre – W.I.T.C.H. PDX: Portland Brings Back The Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell

Zero Hedge – Inside The Black Bloc: “We’re Gonna Shut It Down… Whatever It Takes”

Wall Street Journal – New Wave of Anti-Semitic Threats Rattle U.S.

Alternet – Here Comes the Police State: New Laws Aim for Brutal Crackdown on Protest

SHTFPlan – Army Preps for Urban Warfare in MegaCities: “Mass Migration, Disaster and Inner-City Turmoil”

Washington Times – Pentagon plans full-scale demo of TERN; ‘high-endurance’ drones will blanket globe

Intelligence Online – Peter Thiel has big GEOINT 2.0 plans

– Thiel carves niche in US intelligence imagery

Guardian – Boston Dynamics unveils ‘nightmare-inducing’ hybrid robot

New York (Bruce Schneier) – Click Here to Kill Everyone

Cryptome – Schneier’s Internet Security Agency – bad idea because we don’t know what it will do

Techdirt – Amazon AWS S3 outage is breaking things for a lot of websites and apps

Reuters – U.S. Homeland Security employees locked out of computer networks: sources

– NSA contractor indicted over mammoth theft of classified data

Daily Sheeple – The Mystery Of Wikileaks’ Cryptic “Vault 7”: Do You Know What This Means?

WikiLeaks – CIA espionage orders for the 2012 French presidential election

Scout – The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine

Atlantic – The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism

Free Thought Project – Leaked Docs Expose Media Matters Conspiring with Facebook & Google to Censor Alternative Media

Would they censor this?…

Wayne Madsen Report – February 17-20, 2017 — Labor pick Acosta part of Epstein-Trump underage sex crime cover-up

Alexander Acosta, President Trump’s pick to replace failed nominee Andrew Puzder as Labor Secretary, has his own political baggage stemming from his actions as U.S. Attorney for Southern Florida in the sweetheart plea deal involving billionaire pederast Jeffrey Epstein. Acosta agreed to a rather unprecedented non-prosecution agreement (NPA) struck with Epstein and his attorneys on October 30, 2007 that saw the federal government waive any future prosecution of Epstein or any of his associates named or unnamed by underage female sexual abuse victims of Epstein. Epstein pleaded guilty to one state of Florida charge of soliciting prostitution from a 14-year old girl.

Although Acosta later mildly criticized the plea deal in an open letter he write in 2011, he did not respond to WMR’s request in January 2015 for an interview on the civil case in which four of Epstein’s victims sued the U.S. government, claiming that the NPA violated their rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. The victims, who are now adults, claimed that the federal government’s NPA with Epstein violated the 2004 CVRA. Acosta was clearly aiming to protect Epstein’s high-powered friends, including the person who just nominated him as Labor Secretary. Acosta’s letter states: “Our judgment in this [Epstein] case, based on the evidence known at the time, was that it was better to have a billionaire serve time in jail, register as a sex offender, and pay his victims restitution than risk a trial with a reduced likelihood of success.” Epstein’s 13-month “jail time” included the stipulation that he only had to stay in prison in the evening and was free to leave during the day. The Palm Beach Police Department was outraged by Epstein’s plea deal.

The NPA was signed on behalf of Acosta by A. Marie Villafana, the then-Assistant U.S. Attorney for Southern Florida who later became the U.S. Attorney under Attorney General Eric Holder. The plea deal with Epstein was concluded after the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami and the FBI investigated Epstein separately from the investigation conducted by the Palm Beach County Police Department and the Florida State Attorney’s Office. The deal cut between Acosta and Villafana and the state of Florida, which was then under the governorship of Republican Governor Charlie Crist and Republican Attorney-General Bill McCollum stated that the federal government would defer to Florida on the prosecution of Epstein. Acosta went on to become the dean of the law school of Florida International University in Miami.

Flight manifests of Epstein’s Gulfstream jet and Boeing 727 indicate that Epstein’s passengers included a mix of underage sex traffic victims and some of the world’s most powerful politicians and businessmen. These include Bill Clinton, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Chicago Pritzker family chieftain and Hyatt Hotels executive chairman Thomas Pritzker (the first cousin of President Obama’s Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker), and failed Palm Beach mayoral candidate Gerry Goldsmith. Underage passengers included on the manifest include Virginia Roberts and Cindy Lopez and others listed by their first names: Colleen, Tatianna, Margarita, Carolina, Lisa, Margaret, Dana, Julie, and Jessica. Epstein’s two major “procurers” of underage girls are also frequent flyers on Epstein’s “Pederast Airlines” — Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of the late publishing tycoon and Mossad asset Robert Maxwell, and Sarah Kellen (now Sarah Kensington), the girlfriend of NASCAR driver Brian Vickers. Up to 40 women were identified as being the victims of sexual abuse by Epstein. Court records indicate the number may be higher with one reference to a Jane Doe 103.

In a later lawsuit filed on September 26, 2016 by another Jane Doe, identified as Katie Johnson, it is alleged that there were three additional underage victims of Epstein — as well as Donald Trump — in 1994. They are Jane Doe (Johnson), Joan Doe, and Maria, the latter a 12-year old girl who Jane, Joan, and a third witness, Tiffany Doe, allege may have been “disappeared” by Trump after he sexually assaulted and raped her at the Wexner Mansion in Manhattan.

Epstein pleaded the Fifth Amendment when asked by FBI agents, “Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?” Epstein also took the Fifth when the FBI asked him: “Have you ever socialized with Bill Clinton in the presence of females under the age of 18?” Fourteen private phone numbers for Trump and members of his family, including his media-shy brother Robert Trump, Robert’s wife Blaine Trump, Donald Trump ex-wife Ivana Trump, and Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, are found in Epstein’s address book. [image]

The Senate Labor Committee has an opportunity to ask Acosta about the Epstein plea deal during his confirmation hearing. However, do not expect committee chairman Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to proceed down such a road of inquiry. Alexander’s chief of staff, Ryan Loskarn, was arrested at his Washington, DC home in December 13 and found with an entire computer hard disk full of child pornographic videos and photos. Loskarn, who was remanded to his Maryland parents’ custody while awaiting arraignment in federal court in Washington, was found hanging in his parents’ basement in January 2014. The cause of death was determined, without a full autopsy, to have been suicide.

AP – Trump vows to fight ‘epidemic’ of human trafficking

Wayne Madsen’s comment: Trump should start his anti-trafficking campaign by seizing Jeffrey Epstein’s planes and Little St James Island. But then, Jeff may release the pics, audio & video of the Wexner mansion from 1994.

Tallahassee Democrat – 12 arrested in high-profile sex sting

One, Michael Chmielewski, was the manager of the Florida House of Representatives page and messenger program who oversaw hundreds of teenagers each legislative session since he was hired in 2012…

In another Florida case, Timothy Sedlak had kiddie porn on his computer and was attempting to access the Clinton Foundation computer network…

Reuters – Florida man pleads guilty in attempted hacking of Clinton Foundation

WaPo – Doug Coe, spiritual power broker who convened National Prayer Breakfast, dies at 88

TheIndyChannel – Trump administration has draft of Indiana-like RFRA executive order

N.Y. Times – Steve Bannon Carries Battles to Another Influential Hub: The Vatican

See also the Nov. 18, 2016 Church Militant: Trump Chief Strategist Steve Bannon: Church Militant Must Combat ‘New Dark Age’

Of all things, this – if not more fake news – should earn Trump his impeachment…

Telegraph – United States could become an ‘associate member’ of the Commonwealth

Free Thought Project – (Wall Street Journal) – Rothschild Bank Now Under Criminal Investigation Over Missing $4 Billion in Global Corruption Probe

– Pablo Escobar’s Son Reveals His Dad “Worked for the CIA Selling Cocaine”

Reuters – Big U.S. banks to push for easing of money laundering rules

The Local.de – Germany moves 100 tonnes of its gold from New York to Frankfurt