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Becoming a A member of the U.S. Army Europe Band & Chorus stands among graves at the Normandy American Cemetery Mortarman: and Memorial on the 75th anniversary of the World War II Allied D-Day invasion, in 97-Year-Old Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on Veteran Recalls June 6, 2019. WWII Stepping back on American soil after the war ended was indescribable for Bruno Stanga: ‘No telling it really. You’re just on air’ 8 2 | OUR NATION Week 45, 2019 Week 45, 2019 OUR NATION | 3

STR/AFP via Getty Images Criticisms Mount to Warren’s Medicare for All Plan

Scott Olson/Getty Images ASHINGTON—U.S. presidential con- tender Elizabeth Warren’s plan to pro- This my-way- vide health care for all Americans, which she estimates would cost just under $52 or-the-highway W trillion over 10 years, was attacked over idea, that either the weekend by Republicans and fel- you’re for kicking low Democrats and parodied on NBC’s everybody off “Saturday Night Live,” the long-running their private television comedy show. plans in four Democratic The “Medicare for All” proposal, presidential which Warren’s 2020 presidential years or you’re for candidate and campaign released on Nov. 1, calls for business as usual, former Vice President Joe cuts in defense spending and passing it’s just not true. Biden speaks immigration reform to increase tax at the Liberty revenue from newly legal immigrants, Pete Buttigieg, and Justice two steps that would face an uphill Democratic Celebration in battle in Congress. presidential contender Des Moines, and mayor of South Iowa, on Nov. 1, It would also be funded by cost-cut- Bend, Indiana 2019.

ting, business contributions, and new R taxes on Wall Street, big businesses, RS/ EUTE and wealthy individuals, all of which cluding Mark Zandi, the chief econo- Barack Obama and previously called Y u carry their own challenges. ri mist at Moody’s Analytics, supporting Medicare for All a “pipe dream,” said G ri

Warren, a U.S. senator from Massa- pa s her calculations. Warren’s campaign would be forever

chusetts, has emerged as a front-run- /F Biden took issue with Warren’s ex- associated with the idea in the future, i ner along with former Vice President let o Pho planation of who would pay for her to its detriment. Joe Biden in the race for the Demo- proposal. “This was Bernie’s idea, and now, she cratic nomination to face Republican “Her plan would create a new tax owns the idea,” he said. “This issue is President Donald Trump in the No- on employers of almost $9 trillion not going to happen, and it is not the vember 2020 election. that would come out of work- way you argue health care.” Warren, a former law profes- ers’ pockets, a new financial On Nov. 3, the Republican National Iranian students climb over the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979. sor, has become known for a transaction tax that would Committee called the price tag of War- bevy of detailed policy pro- impact investments held by ren’s approach to health care “stagger- posals. But she had faced middle-class Americans, ing” on Twitter. criticism for not detailing and a new capital gains tax “Elizabeth Warren’s policies are so how she would pay for the that would affect far more radical, the math doesn’t even come Medicare for All plan. The people than she stated to- close,” Steve Bannon, a former adviser US Calls on Iran to Release Americans on proposal was introduced night,” Biden said in a state- to Trump, said on Fox News on Nov. 3. in the U.S. Senate by rival ment on Nov. 2. Warren’s plan was the focus of a Democratic candidate Bernie Another Democratic presi- nearly eight-minute-long opening 40th Anniversary of US Embassy Takeover Sanders (I-Vt.). dential contender, South Bend, skit on “Saturday Night Live” that Her health care overhaul would Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, was widely circulated on social me- Nichoas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images replace private health insurance, in- said the plan’s elimination of private dia afterward. Petr Svab New Sanctions cluding employer-sponsored plans, insurance was too inflexible. “When Bernie was talking Medicare Also on Nov. 4, the administration with full government-sponsored cov- “This my-way-or-the-highway idea, for All, everybody was like, ‘Oh cool,’ The administration of President Don- imposed sanctions on nine appoin- The Iranian erage, and individuals would no longer Sen. Elizabeth that either you’re for kicking every- and then they turned to me and they ald Trump urged the Iranian regime tees and representatives of Iran’s Su- regime have to pay premiums, deductibles, Warren (D-Mass.) body off their private plans in four said, ‘Fix it, Mom,” said Kate McKinnon, on Nov. 4 to release American citizens preme Leader Ali Khamenei, includ- continues to co-pays, or other out-of-pocket costs. speaks during an years or you’re for business as usual, who plays Warren on the show. “I’ll do in its custody. ing Ebrahim Raisi, who is responsible It would extend Medicare, the U.S. event to introduce it’s just not true,” Buttigieg said on it because that’s what Moms do.” target innocent the “Medicare for The call came on the 40th anniver- for thousands of extrajudicial killings, government’s health insurance pro- All Act of 2017” on ABC’s “This Week” on Nov. 3. To fund the plan, “we’re going to cut sary of the day that Iranian militants including executions of seven children civilians for use gram for people 65 years and older and Capitol Hill on Sept. Sanders told ABC News his Medicare military spending, so ... immediately stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, by the regime, one official said. as pawns in its the disabled, to cover all Americans. 1 3, 2 017. for All approach “will be much more dead in the water,” the actor said. The taking more than 50 Americans hos- Two of the sanctioned people have Warren has said it would provide progressive in terms of protecting the plan also requires that the United tage for over 14 months. also been linked to the 1983 U.S. Ma- failed foreign health care coverage for some 27 financial well-being of middle income States tax billionaires like Jeff Bezos The American captives “are a grim rine barracks bombing in Beirut that relations. million Americans who are cur- families.” Sanders’ campaign has not and big banks, she added. “All we have reminder that the regime is funda- killed 241 U.S. service members, and rently uninsured and that the taxes yet released a detailed plan explain- to do is convince JPMorgan to operate mentally exactly the same as it was the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, Stephanie Grisham, wouldn’t affect the middle class, ing how he would fund the proposal. like a non-profit,” McKinnon said. 40 years ago,” a senior administration Argentina, of the Argentine Israel- White House press while saving American households

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call with reporters, noting that the State Mike Pompeo said in a Nov. 4 OIS W over the next decade. Rahm Emanuel, who was chief of hostage crisis anniversary “is an ex- statement. She released letters from experts, in- staff for former Democratic President From Reuters AL S cellent opportunity for the Iranian re- The sanctions add to an already ex- C Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington on Oct. 31, 2019. H gime to renounce its current practice tensive number imposed on Iran and AE Scott Olson/Getty Images R T of hostage-taking, and immediately its leadership by the administration S/ terrorists and militants across the poisonous scorpion whose nature it is A F P and unconditionally release all unjust- upon Trump’s withdrawal from the v Middle East. to sting and cannot be stopped unless i ly detained Americans on Iranian soil Iran nuclear deal last year. Imaa Getty In September, Washington blamed it is crushed,” Mousavi said in remarks in a sign that they are truly ready to Iran for an attack on oil facilities in carried by state TV.

rejoin the international community.” Violating the Deal g Saudi Arabia that interrupted nearly On Nov. 3, Khamenei, who has the e Four Americans are known to be Iran announced on Nov. 4 that it’s s 58 percent of Saudi oil production ultimate say on all state matters, re- currently detained by Tehran: two on doubled the number of uranium and more than 5.5 percent of the newed a ban on talks with the United espionage charges, one for unknown centrifuges it operates, to 60 from world’s daily output. Iran-backed States. reasons, and one for “collaborating 30, further violating the deal it Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed “Those who believe that negotiations with enemy states,” according to the made with world powers in responsibility. with the enemy will solve our prob- advocacy group Center for Human 2015. “The Iranian regime con- lems are 100 percent wrong,” he said. Rights in Iran. Iran has repeatedly an- tinues to target innocent ci- Iran’s parliament gave initial ap- In addition, former FBI agent Rob- nounced actions in viola- vilians for use as pawns in proval to a measure requiring school ert Levinson is believed to be held by tion of the deal, trying to its failed foreign relations,” books to inform students about Iran, although his circumstances are pressure its European sig- White House press secre- “America’s crimes.” Lawmakers also unknown. The administration an- natories to make up for the tary Stephanie Grisham chanted “Death to America.” nounced an offer of up to $20 million economic impact of the U.S. said in a Nov. 4 release on Both Saudi Arabia and the neighbor- for credible information leading to sanctions since the United the 1979 hostage crisis an- ing United Arab Emirates are believed Levinson’s safe return, an adminis- States withdrew from the deal. niversary. “Until Iran changes to be talking to Tehran through back tration official said during the confer- Tehran has gone from pro- this and its other hostile behav- channels. ence call. ducing about one pound of low- ior, we will continue to impose Levinson disappeared in Kish Is- enriched uranium a day to 11 pounds crippling sanctions.” The Associated Press and Reuters land, Iran, on March 9, 2007. The last a day, said Ali Akbar Salehi, the head She said the regime “has a choice“ contributed to this report. picture his family saw of him alive is of the Atomic Energy Organization between “being the world’s leading from April 2011, the official said. Iran of Iran. Ali Akbar Salehi, state sponsor of terrorism” and put- fbi.gov vice president of previously denied holding Levinson. Iran is currently enriching ura- ting “the Iranian people first.” the Islamic Republic In 2009, the FBI, under Director nium to 4.5 percent, in violation of of Iran and Head of “It can choose peace over hostage Robert Mueller, asked Russian oli- the accord’s limit of 3.67 percent. At the Atomic Energy taking, assassinations, sabotage, mar- garch Oleg Deripaska to spend mil- the 4.5 percent level, it’s enough to Organisation of itime hijacking, and attacks on global lions on an operation to locate and help power Iran’s Bushehr reactor, the Iran, in Brussels on oil markets,” she said. “The United free Levinson, according to a 2018 re- country’s only nuclear power plant, Nov. 26, 2018. States seeks peace, and we support port by investigative journalist John but not enough to develop a nuclear the Iranian people. It is time for the Solomon. weapon. Iranian regime to do the same.” The mission, which uncovered Increased centrifuge capacity could photos indicating that Levinson was allow Iran to cut the time it needs to Khamenei: No Negotiations alive, was thwarted by the State De- produce a nuclear weapon sooner The anniversary was marked in Iran partment, then led by Hillary Clin- than the previously estimated one by protests in multiple cities featuring ton, which was “uncomfortable with year. Salehi also announced that Iran the burning of U.S. flags and chants of Iran’s terms [for Levinson’s release], is working on a prototype centrifuge, “death to America.” according to Deripaska’s lawyer and which would work 50 times faster “Our fight with America is over our the Levinson family,” Solomon wrote, than the ones allowed under the deal. independence, over not submitting to saying Deripaska was still rewarded Trump has criticized the deal for bullying, over values, beliefs, and our by repeatedly being allowed to travel only delaying Iran’s nuclear ambi- religion,” army chief Maj. Gen. Abdol- to the United States, despite allega- tions by about a decade and leaving rahim Mousavi said in a speech at the tions of ties to organized crime. out a plethora of other grievances the rally outside the former U.S. embassy The reward for information on Levin- United States has had with the mullah in Tehran. Missing Retired FBI Agent Robert Levinson in one of the images emailed son, which was first set on $1 million in regime, including the development “They [Americans] will continue anonymously to Levinson’s family in 2012, was raised to $5 million in 2015. of ballistic missiles and supporting their hostilities, like the proverbial 2011. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks to the press before the start of the Liberty and Justice Celebration in Des Moines, Iowa, on Nov. 1, 2019. 4 | OUR NATION Week 45, 2019 Week 45, 2019 OUR NATION | 5 Russia Probe Was Watergate-Like Trump Proposes ‘War’ on Cartels Breach of Trump Campaign, After 9 Americans Killed in Mexico

Investigative Journalist Says Petr Svab on a dirt road between the states bullet holes that was apparently of Chihuahua and Sonora, both carrying the victims when the Brendon Fallon/The Epoch Times resident Donald Trump has A wonderful family bordering the United States. The attack happened. Petr Svab extended an offer to help Mexico and friends from deceased were members of the “This is for the record,” says wage a “war” to eliminate drug LeBaron family, a breakaway a male voice off-camera in an nvestigative journalist Lee Smith cartels, after at least nine Ameri- Utah got caught Mormon community that settled American accent, choking up says the story of the origins of P cans were killed during a cartel between two vicious in the hills and plains of northern with emotion. “Nita and four of the FBI investigation into Trump shooting in the Mexican border drug cartels, who Mexico decades ago. my grandchildren are burnt and campaign aides can be likened state of Sonora. Mexico Security Minister shot up.” to the Watergate scandal, in the “A wonderful family and friends were shooting at Alfonso Durazo said there was a A family relative, Julian LeB- Isense that it was a break-in—an elec- from Utah got caught between each other. possibility of mistaken identity, aron, called the incident a “mas- tronic one—to rummage through the two vicious drug cartels, who given the high number of violent sacre” and said some family campaign’s communications. were shooting at each other, President Donald Trump confrontations among warring members were burned alive. “If you think about it in terms of with the result being many great drug gangs in the area. In a text message to Reuters, he Watergate, it’s easy to understand,” American people killed, includ- “The convoy made up of subur- wrote that four boys, two girls, he told Epoch Times senior editor ing young children, and some ban vans could have been con- and three women were killed. Jan Jekielek on the Nov. 4 episode of missing,” Trump wrote in a Nov. fused with criminal groups that Several children who fled the “American Thought Leaders.” 5 tweet. fight for control in the region,” attack were lost for hours in the “It was an electronic break-in. The “If Mexico needs or requests Durazo said, alongside López countryside before being located, Clinton campaign wanted to find an help in cleaning out these mon- Obrador. he said. October surprise to dump on Donald sters, the United States stands He said it was unclear who car- Trump.” ready, willing & able to get in- Runaway Violence ried out the attack. Smith, a senior fellow at the con- volved and do the job quickly and While Mexico has used its mili- “We don’t know why, though servative Hudson Institute, recently effectively. The great new Presi- tary to fight cartels for more than they had received indirect threats. released a book, “The Plot Against dent of Mexico has made this a big a decade, drug violence hasn’t We don’t know who did it,” he the President,” in which he lays out issue, but the cartels have become abated. told Reuters. an argument that the presidential so large and powerful that you The government has recorded “My cousin was murdered with campaign of former Secretary of State sometimes need an army to defeat more than 250,000 homicides in her children in the truck,” said Hillary Clinton had the FBI probe the an army!” the past dozen years, including Alex LeBaron, another relative campaign of her opponent, Donald A few minutes later, he added: more than 30,000 in the first sev- in one of the villages inhabited Trump, for damaging information. en months of 2019, most of them by the extended family. He said He further argues that the Obama “This is the time for Mexico, with related to the drug war. And that all the victims were U.S. citizens, administration ran an operation tar- the help of the United States, to excludes an unknown number of and most also held dual citizen- geting Trump possibly since late 2015, wage WAR on the drug cartels disappearances. ship with Mexico. long before the FBI officially opened and wipe them off the face of The violence spills over to the Five children injured in the its counterintelligence probe on July the earth. We merely await a call United States, with a large part attack were transferred to hospi- 31, 2016. After the election, he sug- from your great new president!” of shootings and murders across tals in the United States, U.S. and gested, the operation switched gears, the country related to drug-deal- Mexican authorities said. and has since focused on undoing the Mexican President Andrés Manuel ing gangs. election result. cred López Obrador said he would On top of that, the drugs Mormons versus Cartels speak with Trump about possible smuggled from Mexico are a Mormons set up a colony in Chi- Dossier Origins cooperation on security, provided major driver behind the overdose huahua, Mexico, some 150 years A part of Smith’s work was to try to re- Mexico’s sovereignty was upheld. epidemic in the United States that ago when the United States out- trace the origins of the Steele dossier, “I’ll speak with President Trump cost almost 70,000 lives in 2018. lawed their practice of polygamy. Investigative journalist Lee Smith, author of “The Plot Against the President,” in New York on Nov. 2, 2019. a collection of unsubstantiated claims to thank him for his support, and The drug trade proceeds from The colony has had run-ins that the Trump campaign colluded to see if, in cooperation agree- the United States are then fund- with the cartels for years, facing with Russia to sway the election. in a relationship, or possibly an affair, ficials would have been fired, he said, ligence agencies down the road. ments, there’s the possibility of ing the cartel operations, al- murder, kidnappings, and other No such collusion has been substan- on behalf of Russian intelligence. “but they were going to have to justify “I don’t see how the intelligence getting help,” he told a news con- lowing them to procure heavy crimes. tiated after nearly three years and Certainly, no what they were doing, and many of community comes out of this look- ference. “I don’t think we need the armaments. In 2010, two members of the multiple investigations. American Michael Flynn them wouldn’t have made the cut.” ing the way it does now. There will intervention of a foreign govern- “We’re talking about surface-to- Mormon community, including The dossier is commonly believed to wants to be It was a major part of the anti-Trump “We see, therefore, how important it have to be a profound, thoroughgo- ment to deal with these cases.” If Mexico needs air missiles, grenades. They have one from the LeBaron family, have been created by former British governed by operation, according to Smith, to paint was for these people to flush out Gen. ing reassessment of what purpose the Trump spoke to López Obrador or requests help in armored vehicles. They have big were killed in apparent revenge spy Christopher Steele, who was paid Flynn, a three-decade Army veteran and Flynn, to get Flynn out of the way,” intelligence community is meant to on Nov. 5, “to discuss the recent cleaning out these machine guns on the top of the after the Mormons pressured for the job, through intermediaries, by the intelligence former head of the Defense Intelligence he said. “Conversely, we also see how play,” he said. violence in Mexico and efforts vehicles,” Derek Maltz, former authorities to secure the release of the Clinton campaign and the Demo- community. Agency, as compromised by Russia. important Gen. Flynn’s work was.” “Certainly, no American wants to be to combat the growing violent monsters, the United head of the Drug Enforcement another member of their commu- cratic National Committee (DNC). The main reason was that Flynn Flynn was one of the Trump aides governed by the intelligence commu- behavior of cartels and crimi- States stands ready, Administration’s special opera- nity kidnapped by the cartels. The dossier was used by the FBI Lee Smith, talked about reforming U.S. intelli- probed by the FBI for an alleged rela- nity. ... We don’t want to be governed nal groups in the region,” White willing & able to tions division, previously told The The situation was so serious that to obtain a FISA spying warrant on investigative gence, Smith said. tionship with Russia. by unelected officials. We don’t want House deputy press secretary Epoch Times. the Mormons eventually broke former Trump campaign aide Carter journalist and senior “Gen. Flynn wanted to find out what He pleaded guilty on Nov. 30, 2017, to be spied on by unelected officials. Hogan Gidley said in a release. get involved and do Mexican laws and armed them- Page—an event subject to a Justice De- fellow, Hudson the intelligence community was do- to one count of lying to the FBI, but And we don’t want unelected bureau- Three women and six children the job quickly and ‘Massacre’ selves for defense, Vice reported partment’s review that has reportedly Institute ing: To what extent it was serving the recently went on a legal offensive and crats trying to take out the president were gunned down, with others effectively. A video posted on social media in 2012. turned into a criminal investigation. American people and to what extent it expects to file a motion asking a fed- that has been elected by the American injured on Nov. 4, when cartel showed the charred and smoking Smith believes that the dossier was filling their own wallets and en- eral judge to dismiss the case against public.” members attacked their vehicles President Donald Trump remains of a vehicle riddled with Reuters contributed to this report. wasn’t actually written by Steele, but tertaining their own political desires him, his lawyer, Sidney Powell, said

that it was a collective effort on be- and fantasies, how they wanted to see in a recent court filing. Media Involvement REUTERS/Yuri Gripas half of the Clinton campaign to write the bureaucracy shape up on behalf Powell accused the government of Smith portrayed much of the legacy a document for the express purpose of of their interests, not on behalf of the withholding exculpatory informa- media as complicit in the operation, enabling spying on the Trump team. American people.” tion from Flynn and lacking a proper even indispensable to it. “We have the order wrong, right? Flynn went as far as entertaining an reason to investigate Flynn in the first By subscribing to what Smith called It starts with people who know how audit of the intelligence community. place. The prosecutors disagreed. a “conspiracy theory” of Trump–Rus- to write something, how to write a Then-FBI “Flynn was talking about asking the sia collusion, the legacy media has document to get a spy warrant,” he Director James senior intelligence service, hundreds New Look at Intelligence caused “serious” damage to its cred- Comey at bureau said. “It’s not like it comes out of the headquarters in of people across the beltway, for their Community ibility and its survival. blue from Christopher Steele, who’s Washington on resignations,” Smith said. Smith sees the anti-Trump operation “It’s an extinction-level event,” finding all this marvelous stuff and June 23, 2014. That doesn’t necessarily mean the of- fundamentally affecting U.S. intel- he said.

has to go to the FBI. It’s the other Mark Wilson/Getty Images way around.” In Smith’s view, Steele was a “sales- man” of sorts, whose job was to use whatever reputation he had from his previous work with the FBI to market the dossier to the bureau as well as the press. Smith further suggested that the FBI itself may have had a role in composing the dossier. He gave the example of Vladimir Trubnikov, a former director of Rus- sian intelligence, who was allegedly one of Steele’s sources. Trubnikov was, in fact, a source for Stefan Halper, a Cambridge profes- sor who was de facto outed as an FBI informer used to snoop on Trump campaign aides. Halper listed Trubnikov as a source for a document he prepared for a se- cretive Defense Department think tank in 2015–2016. He also invited Trubnikov to teach at the Cam- bridge Intelligence Seminar (CIS) at least twice—in 2012 and in 2015—and Trubnikov obliged him both times, according to a defamation lawsuit filed against Halper by former CIS partici- pant Svetlana Lohkova. Lohkova, a UK-based historian of Russian origin, alleged that Halper fed lies to the media that led to the public gaining a misimpression that she had approached former Trump adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and engaged him President Donald Trump walks out from the White House in Washington on Nov. 2, 2019. Then-FBI Director James Comey at bureau headquarters in Washington on June 23, 2014. 6 | OUR NATION Week 45, 2019 Week 45, 2019 OUR NATION | 7

Becoming a Mortarman: They had fire, mortar guns, Buckingham Palace Pressured ABC to mortars shooting at you. 97-Year-Old Veteran Recalls WWII Bruno Stanga, World War II veteran

Kill Epstein-Linked Prince Andrew Story, Courtesy of Neil Thompson Stepping back on “As soon as the war is over, you’re just happy there’s no more hiding American soil after and people shooting at you. By then, Anchor Recorded as Saying most of the Germans took off when the war ended was the army came and left the houses ... Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Mount Sinai Health System indescribable for so we all had homes to get into and Petr Svab the network’s refusal to run the story, sleep. It was pretty decent living. only to see the story proliferate after Bruno Stanga: ‘No It wasn’t digging holes anymore.” he British royal family threatened ABC I tried for three Epstein’s arrest. He was then transferred to News to drop a story about Virginia years to get it “I tried for three years to get it on to telling it really. Czechoslovakia to wait, with the Giuffre, a woman who alleged late -fi on to no avail. no avail. And now it’s all coming out, possibility of having to invade Ja- nancier Jeffrey Epstein used her as an and it’s like these new revelations, and You’re just on air’ pan on the horizon. T underage sex slave for himself and his And now it’s all I freaking had all of it. I’m so [exple- It was in Czechoslovakia, after the friends, including Prince Andrew, ac- coming out, and tive] right now,” she said. fighting, that Stanga saw some of cording to Amy Robach, ABC’s “Good it’s like these Eventually, Robach said she grew Charlotte Cuthbertson the most searing scenes. Morning America” co-host and Break- concerned about the network’s treat- “We saw a lot of the remains of the ing News anchor, who made the al- new revelations, ment of the story. COLUMBUS, Ohio—At 97, Bruno burning grounds. I remember sev- legation in what appeared to be a hot and I freaking “I got a little concerned why I Stanga has a life chock full of memo- eral times going through those ar- mic moment. had all of it. couldn’t get on,” she said. ries. But none stand out so clearly as eas where they had a camp or they The pressure from Buckingham Pal- Robach responded to the video in a those from the battlefield in Europe burned people. Burning hundreds ace was one of the reasons why the Amy Robach, ABC’s statement saying she was disappoint- 75 years ago, during World War II. at a time in the ovens,” he said. network killed the story, Robach said ‘Good Morning ed that the interview didn’t air, but “Some of these stories are vivid in “I seen ditches where they would in a video released by Project Veritas America’ co-host that it lacked “sufficient corroborat- my mind. You never forget,” he said shove the remains in the ditches and on Nov. 5. and Breaking News ing evidence to meet ABC’s editorial on Nov. 1, with his wife, Kay, also 97, cover them with dirt. Some of the “First of all, I was told, ‘Who’s Jef- anchor, in a hot mic standards.” sitting next to him. ditches weren’t covered yet. ... They frey Epstein? No one knows who that moment ABC’s editorial standards have re- Stanga was inducted into the were still killing Jews at that time. is. This is a stupid story,’” Robach was cently come under scrutiny after the Army on Jan. 21, 1943, just a few They didn’t quit doing that—right recorded as saying. “The [Bucking- network repeatedly aired Kentucky months after turning 21. He was World War II veteran Bruno Stanga outside his home in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 3, 2019. to the very end, they were killing ham] Palace found out that we had gun range footage, presenting it as required to register for the draft Jews. Even though they were losing her whole allegations about Prince Turkish incursion in Syria. The net- under the Selective Training and on the rifles. Because I could add shell hole that was about a foot and Aachen, bordering Belgium. “In the war and knew it, they just kept Andrew and threatened us a million work issued a correction. Service Act of 1940. and subtract and put two or three or a half deep. “[We] dug two or three fact, it was one of the first cities that killing the Jews.” different ways.” ABC said in a statement to Project The war had been raging in Eu- four things in the mortar shell, then feet further down and crawled was almost decimated by artillery Stanga said he was relieved when She said the network was afraid of Veritas that it has had a team investi- rope since 1939, but the United judge how far they’d go, I better be down into it.” shells going into it. All our people the United States dropped the losing access to Prince William and gating the Epstein story and will States was only thrust into battle a mortar man.” Stanga’s voice broke up when around us were firing artillery,” he atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Kate Middleton and “that also release a documentary and a after the Japanese bombed Pearl He was issued a pistol instead of a asked to describe what that was like. said. Nagasaki, on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, squashed the story.” podcast on it in 2020. Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. rifle, and had to carry half of the mor- “There’s no description. I mean, His division was faced with a river respectively. “At the time, not all our re- Stanga took a train to Fort Hayes, tar, while the assistant gunner car- it’s hell,” he said. crossing. “We were dug in on one “We knew that we were going ‘Unbelievable porting met our standards Ohio, and spent a couple of weeks ried the other half. About eight others side of the river, and we were going to be shipped on to Japan. They What We Had’ to air, but we have never getting rigorous health screening in the squad carried the mortar shells. to cross this river at about 3 o’clock promised us we’d have three days Epstein was arrested on stopped investigating the and aptitude tests. “You gotta be above ground when one morning,” he said. at home before we had to leave for July 6 in New Jersey on sex story,” the statement said. “They really worked us over,” he you fire that mortar. You can lay on When they started firing “We went across in rowboats—10 Japan,” he said. “Fighting Japan was trafficking charges, which The network didn’t re- said. “We took all kinds of batteries the ground and fire a rifle, but not or 15 men per rowboat with all his going to be worse than fighting the caused broader media to spond to emailed questions of tests. To see what we had done in the mortar,” he said. “But you’re also in your area, you laid gear. And it took time to load it and Germans. The Germans, when they report on decades worth of regarding the pressure from the past, what schooling we had, if 200 yards behind the actual lines.” down and crawled. So we unload it. In the meantime, the Ger- realized you’re beating them, they’d allegations made against him Buckingham Palace and oth- any, what we could do to help the sometimes crawled for four mans knew where the river was. give up. Not the Japanese. They by some two dozen women, in- er statements and allegations army, where and how.” Thanksgiving 1944 They knew what we were doing, would have fought to the very end.” cluding Giuffre. made by Robach. “Do I think he was killed? A hundred Amy Robach in He had spent six months in busi- “There was a major battle around or five hours at a time. and they could see us. They’d shoot But Japan unconditionally sur- New York City Giuffre (previously Roberts) made “This is entirely a matter for ABC,” percent, yes I do. Because do you want ness school and was issued a mili- Thanksgiving ‘44 and I should de- Bruno Stanga, World War II veteran flares so they could see us. They had rendered on Sept. 2, 1945, and Stan- her allegations in a January 2015 said Hannah Howard, deputy com- it? He made his whole living black- on Oct. 14, tary occupation specialty number scribe that one. It was a bad one,” their mortar zeroed in, and that’s ga waited to return home. 2015. sworn affidavit, describing how she munications secretary to the queen mailing people,” Robach said. related to secretarial work. Stanga said. where I was wounded—in that boat was recruited by Epstein’s close as- Jeffrey Epstein of England, in an emailed response “There were a lot of men in those “So every place I went, even His company of about 400 men crossing that river.” Getting Home sociate Ghislaine Maxwell, systemati- appears in a to a request for comment. planes, a lot of men who visited that though I was in the infantry, I were advancing on enemy lines “We lost about 25 percent of our He was hit in the thigh with With 3 million American military photograph taken cally trained as a sex slave for Epstein, for the New York island, a lot of powerful men who wasn’t going to be carrying any across an open, flat field, flanked company going through that field. It shrapnel, but jumped out and made personnel to ship back stateside, a and eventually passed around to other State Division of ‘A Hundred Percent’ came into that apartment.” rifle—I was going to be hauling a by more battalions. was two days. By the third day, our it to the brush piles on the side of the points system was enacted to dis- men, including Epstein’s longtime as- Criminal Justice Epstein was found dead in his jail cell She said she “knew immediately” typewriter,” he said. “Well, good “We walked 15, 20 yards apart— Air Force got the right signals and river to wait for help. cern priority—five points per medal, sociate Prince Andrew, who was at Services’ sex at the Metropolitan Correctional Cen- when the news of Epstein’s death and bad. You don’t get the excite- the whole thing moved forward,” they bombed the tank and got it out “The rest of the guys went further two points for each month served one time sixth in line to the throne. offender registry on ter on Aug. 10 while awaiting trial on broke. ment of battle, but you also don’t he said. “And of course, on the of there. Once the tank was gone, ahead, shooting at the Germans.” abroad, 12 points for children back March 28, 2017. Andrew denied the allegations. Gi- sex trafficking charges. “And they made it seem as though he get shot at near as much.” other side, is the Germans, who then we were much better off.” Getting wounded meant receiving home, and so on. New York State Division of uffre provided a picture of Andrew Criminal Justice Services/ His death was ruled as suicide by the made that ‘suicide attempt’ two weeks Stanga was bounced around are stacked behind the different Stanga said that was the only ma- a Purple Heart medal, but Stanga It took Stanga until December to with his arm around Giuffre’s hip with Handout via Reuters New York medical examiner, who said earlier. But his lawyer claimed that military bases for different types fortifications they had—firing at jor battle he was in, “other battles plays it down. “It was a minor get on a ship home from Marseille, Maxwell in the background. he had hanged himself with a sheet he was roughed up by his cellmate of training and ended up in a spe- us as we were coming. And we’re were skirmishes.” After the losses shrapnel wound—I was only off the France, to New York. The journey Robach said ABC convinced Giuffre from his bed. around the neck, that was all like to cial tank battalion, which would walking across the field, which during this battle, the company was lines for two or three days.” took about a week on a wild, winter to give an interview three years ago However, on Oct. 30, famed pa- plant the seed,” she said, referring to be attached to an infantry division, must be three or four miles wide; put on reserve and missed the Siege Stanga brushed off several que- ocean. and that they managed to corrobo- thologist Dr. Michael Baden told Fox the conflicting explanations regarding as needed. they could see us coming and we of Bastogne in Belgium during late ries about the Bronze Star, saying, Stanga paused when asked to rate her story with accounts of other News that he believes the physical Epstein’s neck injuries after he was By now, the military had a differ- could see where they’re shooting December 1944, which briefly saw “I didn’t do anything especially describe what it was like to reach women and with pictures provided evidence suggests Epstein didn’t take found unconscious in his cell 18 days ent type of problem. So many young from. We had to walk forward or American forces surrounded by the heroic.” American soil again. by Giuffre. his own life. before his death. men had signed up for service that crawl forward, whichever happens. German army. Bastogne was part From there, things slowed down “No telling it really. You’re just on “She had pictures, she had every- He said Epstein’s injuries were “more “That’s why I really believe it, like, the system was swamped. The U.S. When they started firing in your of the larger Battle of the Bulge ef- for Stanga as he made his way to air,” he said, the emotion evident. thing,” Robach said. “She was in hid- consistent with ligature homicidal really believe it,” Robach said. military was made up of fewer than area, you laid down and crawled. fort in Belgium, France, and Lux- Magdeburg, about 100 miles west “Plus the fact that you know that ing for 12 years. We convinced her to strangulation” than suicide. a half-million personnel in 1940, So, we sometimes crawled for four embourg. of Berlin. in three or four days, you’re going come out. We convinced her to talk to Robach seemed fully on board with Update: The article has been updat- prior to Pearl Harbor. By 1942, that or five hours at a time. “I never got into Berlin. We to be back home. We landed on the us. It was unbelievable what we had.” the theory that Epstein didn’t kill ed with a response from a spokes- number had jumped to almost 4 “And, of course, toward evening, Getting Wounded stopped when the Russians took 26th or 27th of December, and [by] Robach was apparently frustrated by himself. woman for the queen of England. million, and it reached 12.2 mil- you dug a hole, crept into it. So they The second battle that Stanga recalls over the city. There was no sense of New Year’s Eve, I was home.” lion by 1945. had fire, mortar guns, mortars vividly is where he earned both his us going any further,” he said. He said that when he looks back With the staggering numbers, the shooting at you, artillery, you’re in Purple Heart and Bronze Star med- It was there that he saw the end of on the part he played in the war, it military couldn’t use everyone at the ground pretty much. You dig als. the war in Europe—on May 8, 1945, seems small. once and many were sent to uni- a hole as far as you can get down.” It was February 1945 in western with the signing of unconditional “It was so little really compared to Screenshot/Project Veritas via YouTube versities to study in the meantime. Stanga said they’d often find a Germany, not far from the city of surrender the previous day. what it could have been.” Stanga spent the end of 1943 and the beginning of 1944 at Dayton Curiosandrelics Post-War University. Stanga married at 30 after studying During the spring of 1944, Stanga optometry in college. He looks over was at Camp Swift, Texas, training to his wife: “I like to tell her I was her for what would be the D-Day in- last choice. She was getting close vasion in Normandy to wrest back to the hill. When you’re 30, you’re German-occupied France. “We over the hill. I’m 11 days older than were waiting to ship overseas, to she is.” be in the first invasion,” he said. The couple has three children, But, as fate would have it, it was five grandchildren, and two great- three months after the June 6, 1944, grandchildren. He practiced optom- assault at Omaha Beach that Stanga etry in Salem, Ohio, for 60 years, ended up being deployed. retiring at the age of 81. He recalls traveling in an armada After fighting tyranny all those of about 70 ships, surrounded by decades ago, Stanga is unimpressed destroyers, that took about 10 days with the push for socialism in the to reach France, zig-zagging all the United States today. way. He was part of the 102nd In- “Half the Democratic power fantry Division. comes from the socialists in “We actually spent that first their group. In fact, these four month and a half living in a French or five young new representa- battlefield, dug into the whole tives are going crazy with of- campground. It was part of the fering more socialism. They say Maginot Line,” Stanga said. The no one has to buy anything any Maginot Line was an elaborate de- more—college is all free, every- fense barrier of concrete forts and thing is free,” he said. ABC’s Amy weapons stations constructed by But he’s hopeful that people will Robach claims on France in the 1930s to deter a Ger- “come to their senses.” hot mic that the man invasion. “I don’t think we’ll ever be a so- network killed her “I was in the mortar squad by cialist country. It’s too nice to be able story on Epstein three years ago, in then,” Stanga said. “They started to do your own thing and have what a video released figuring out who’s going to be on you want to have and earn what you by Project Veritas. the mortars and who’s going to be have to have.” A World War II-Era 60mm M2 mortar used by the U.S. infantry sits next to a helmet. 8 | OUR NATION Week 45, 2019 Week 45, 2019 OUR NATION | 9

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The Growing Epidemic of Suicide Among Men

David Brown white men commit suicide continues the globe. In almost every country, to increase until briefly leveling off from Ireland to Japan, from Russia to Commentary In the current at 39.5 per 100,000 at 45 to 54 years Bahrain, men kill themselves 3 to 5 The National Cen- political climate, old, before spiking to 58.8 over the times more often than women. The ter for Health Sta- age of 85. reasons for this are complex, widely tistics has released proposing policies In an equally depressing contrast, debated, and further muddled by its report on teen specifically aimed American Indian and Alaskan Native what is known as the Gender Para- deaths by suicide and at white and male males have the highest suicide rate at dox of Suicide. homicide. The numbers il- 5 to 44 years old, peaking at 62.9 sui- Women across the globe attempt sui- lustrated in the report and by the Cen- Americans is a cides per 100,000. While the suicide cide at a rate of three to five times ter for Disease Control are staggering. nonstarter. rate for white males remains high and more than men, despite men suc- Between 2007 and 2017, the suicide even increases in later years, Ameri- cessfully committing the majority of rate among individuals aged 15 to 24 can Indian and Alaskan Native men suicides. Men are less likely to seek rose by 50 percent. While the causes see a steep decline as they age. mental health treatment than women, for this dramatic rise are being widely Even in comparison to groups that less likely to ask friends and family for debated in the media, many media have widely been reported on for their help, face different societal pressures, outlets are focusing specifically on disturbingly high rates of suicide, and are more likely to use methods of the rise in minority and female sui- white and Native American men have suicide that have a greater chance of ay cides, as well as the elevated risk that b significantly higher levels. success, such as firearms. xa Pi LGBTQ-plus teens face. Recent statistics / Active duty military personnel Irrespective of the exact causes for

indicate a growing rate r e s The suicide rate for women aged 15 commit suicides at a rate of 24.8 per the disparity in gender and race, more

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African Americans of the same age P age from media outlets and politicians aimed at white and male Americans group rose by 75 percent, to 10.7 in 2017 across the country for having a rate of is a nonstarter. Even acknowledging from 6.1 in 2007. These numbers suicide considerably higher than issues specific to “privileged” groups demonstrate a crisis among the national average of 14.5. can lead to a caustic backlash. The rate American youth, yet most In the Annual Suicide Re- of suicide is growing at an alarming National Security Council Director for European Affairs Alexander Vindman arrives for a closed-door deposition at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 29, 2019. of the reporting on the is- port released by the De- rate across almost every demographic sue has glossed over an partment of Defense, in the United States, all of whom de- even larger crisis: the the Pentagon states serve to be acknowledged and helped. suicide rate for men, that these figures In 2017, more than 47,000 Ameri- primarily non-His- are misleading. cans intentionally took their own lives: Questions for panic white men, According to the 37,000 were men, and 30,000 of them and American In- report: “On the were non-Hispanic white men. The in- dian and Alaskan surface, suicide creased rate of suicide among minori- Native men. in the military ties and women is a burgeoning crisis, Nationally, men appears to be but the suicide rate among men, par- Lt. Col. Vindman commit suicide markedly higher ticularly white men, American Indians, at a rate of almost than the U.S. pop- and Alaskan Natives, is already a crisis, four times that of ulation. ... Never- one that has been ignored for decades. Diana West sufficient reason for Ukrainian -offi I am going to be very clear in case any military aid under the program of women. Across ev- theless, the direct cials to tap Vindman as their source #FakeNewsies are listening: It isn’t the Lend Lease. ery ethnic and age comparison of mili- After graduating from the Univer- Commentary If The New for “advice” about the interests of the role of any White House adviser to strat- About Faymonville and Gen. James range, men commit tary suicide rates and sity of Florida in 2014 and from Flor- Halloween is over, York Times U.S. president. egize with officials of a foreign govern- Burns, the other Army officer Hop- significantly more sui- the U.S. military popu- ida State University in 2017, David but Lt. Col. Alex- is accurate, We need more information about ment against the president of the United kins elevated to oversee Lend Lease in cides per 100,000. From lation is misleading. It is Brown spent several years working ander Vindman’s Vindman, his relationship to the States. Foreign governments have their Moscow, U.S. ambassador to the Soviet 2007 to 2017, the suicide rate well established that males at the Government Accountability mask is still on. Vindman’s Ukrainian government, and what- own nationals for that. Union Adm. William H. Standley would for 15- to 24-year-old white have a nearly four times higher Institute, where he researched cor- That’s because his loyalties ever “advice” he may have offered it, This isn’t to say that foreign gov- write, “General Burns is of the same be- men jumped by 46 percent. Though risk of suicide death than females.” ruption in politics. Brown special- media and political pa- are divided whether “typically communicated” in ernments don’t go to great trouble liefs as Faymonville; Russian interests a smaller increase than other groups, What the report fails to expand izes in health care, economics, and trons are doing everything they can English or any other language. That’s to acquire sources such as National come first, last and all the time.” the per-100,000 number reached an as- upon, beyond a brief acknowledg- foreign policy. to keep it from slipping. between two because, if The New York Times is Security Council staffers to advance Standley was more right than per- tonishing 27.2, compared to 5.8 for all ment, is that more than 70 percent of They hold up his uniform, his ranger governments. accurate, Vindman’s loyalties are di- their interests. This comes under the haps he knew. Fifty years later, doc- women nationally. suicides in the military are committed Views expressed in this article are tab, his Purple Heart, his immigrant vided between two governments. At a rubric of espionage. umentary evidence from Soviet ar- Suicide is the second-leading cause specifically by white males. the opinions of the author and do status, to create a facade that isn’t only minimum, this disqualifies Vindman chives indicate that in 1942, the same of death for white males between the The vast discrepancy between male not necessarily reflect the views of impervious to questions but withering from serving the American people in Espionage and ‘Agents of Influence’ year the pro-Soviet Faymonville was ages of 5 and 34. The rate at which and female suicides exists across The Epoch Times. to them. How dare anyone question the sensitive field of national security In the context of espionage, as the New promoted to become a U.S. Army gen-

Vindman’s commitment, his loyalty ever again. York Times reports imply, this officer eral, he became a recruited agent of Spencer Platt/Getty Images to this country? Look at his uniform, Doubtless, such an attitude is shock- may well have strategized with a for- Soviet intelligence. his ranger tab, his Purple Heart, his ing to the “Old Gray Lady.” A globally eign power against his commander- It’s surely an odd detail of the Vin- immigrant status. oriented organization like The New in-chief. That would make Vindman, dman case that Alexander’s twin, It’s a thin disguise. There are grave York Times—ironically, while report- in the most generous reading of events, Yevgeny, also works on the National reasons to scrutinize and question ing on Vindman, also explaining to a patsy or “dupe.” Depending on what Security Council. History tells us of Vindman’s behavior, regardless of readers the potential for controversy else he did, he may also be some type brothers-in-espionage, too. There whether he’s a decorated veteran, an in playing “The Star-Spangled Ban- of a foreign intelligence asset. was the infamous duo of Alger and openly partisan Obama holdover, an ner” on TV—is institutionally incapable Categories vary widely. Many are Donald Hiss, both State Department immigrant from the old USSR, or all of perceiving anything negative about familiar with paid agents, such as officials in the 1940s while working on of the above. a White House staffer with divided former Navy Chief Warrant Officer behalf of the Kremlin. As for immi- The questions begin with Vindman’s loyalties, so long as one of them is anti- John Walker, who supplied the So- grant-spies, among the many Kremlin activities as a staffer on the president’s Trump. viets with military secrets, but there agents secretly embedded inside the National Security Council. Alarming Indeed, a second New York Times re- are other types of agents, including Roosevelt White House were Cana- reports indicate Vindman served as port on Vindman further rationalized “agents of influence,” whose mission is dian-born Lauchlin Currie, who had a source for the Ukrainian govern- the Vindman–Ukrainian communica- to influence policy-making on behalf immense powers as a special assistant ment inside the White House. This tions as being a logical result of his of foreign interests. to the president, and Currie’s British- news may be padded by his protectors “heritage” (see “unique insight,” also Top FDR adviser Harry Hopkins, born assistant Michael Greenberg. and muted by our general ignorance “Mr. Trump’s pressure campaign”): for example, appears to have been In other words, it—the infiltration of of the intelligence wars waged against “His heritage gave Colonel Vind- one such agent of influence (my book the U.S. government by secret agents— this country, typically masterminded man, who is fluent in both Ukrainian “American Betrayal” sets forth the evi- can and did happen here, through the by the Kremlin, but it’s nonetheless and Russian, unique insight into Mr. dence for consideration). The Russians covert exertions of many Americans deeply concerning. Trump’s pressure campaign; on nu- have a category they call “special, un- who, on the surface, appeared to be Further, given the sophisticated pen- merous occasions, Ukrainian officials official contact” into which, accord- patriots. The incalculable damage they etration talents of the Russian intelli- sought him out for advice about how ing to defector Sergei Tretyakov, they caused to this country and the wider gence services, it’s the height of fool- to deal with Mr. Giuliani.” placed Bill Clinton’s top Russia adviser world cannot be relegated to histori- hardiness to assume that Vindman’s On “numerous” occasions? But Strobe Talbott (also Raul Castro). cal footnotes. This is what makes the Ukrainian connections end in Kyiv. the uniform, the Ranger tab, the The terrible fact is, the history of reflexive taboo against even question- The New York Times first reported Purple Heart, Vindman’s protectors our government, including our White ing Alexander Vindman so dangerous. the news about Vindman’s Ukraini- will chant. Yes, indeed, I would re- House, is jam-packed with these vari- When it comes to the loyalty of gov- an communications by rationalizing ply. Wearing the uniform of the United ous, rampaging national security ernment officials entrusted with our them: States compounds the gravity of the threats, even if our history books fail national security, in uniform or not, security scandal unfolding as the un- to make note of them. the stakes can’t be higher. The Ameri- “Because [Vindman] emigrated from asked questions mount. In consideration of the obstacles cur- can people are not only entitled to ask Ukraine along with his family when We are told that on these “nu- rently being thrown up against any questions, they are bound to do so. he was a child and is fluent in Ukrai- merous occasions,” Ukrainian offi- questioning of Vindman, it becomes Our nation’s survival depends on it. nian and Russian, Ukrainian officials cials sought Vindman’s advice. What, relevant to note that such bad actors sought advice from him about how to pray tell, was his response? Did the in our past include decorated Army Diana West is an award-winning deal with Mr. Giuliani, though they White House staffer and U.S. Army of- officers, brothers, and immigrants. journalist and author, whose latest typically communicated in English.” ficer on these “numerous occasions” tell Take Gen. Philip Faymonville, book is “The Red Thread: A Search these Ukrainian officials (names, please) known in military circles as “the for Ideological Drivers Inside the I’m sorry. “Because” the Ukrainian- that, as a member of the president’s na- Red colonel” for his communist sym- Anti-Trump Conspiracy.” and Russian-fluent Vindman and tional security team and an officer of the pathies at the time of World War II. A man is lowered down by police after he threatened to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on May 22, 2014. family (including twin brother Yevg- U.S. Army, he offered advice only to the That’s when Harry Hopkins, over the Views expressed in this article are eny, also an Army lieutenant colonel president of the United States? objections of Army intelligence among the opinions of the author and do on the National Security Council) If that wasn’t his reply, Lt. Col. Vind- others, placed Faymonville into a key not necessarily reflect the views of emigrated from Ukraine in 1979 isn’t man should be fired ASAP. position at the sluice-gate of Soviet The Epoch Times. 10 | OUR NATION Week 45, 2019 Week 45, 2019 OUR NATION | 11

Alex Wong/Getty Images ing a whistleblower to have first-hand knowledge were amended to eliminate that requirement, and after the whistle- Sebastian Gorka on ‘The War for America’s Soul’ blower reached out to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) for guidance. Together with -/INTERCONTINENTAL/AFP via Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Irene Luo & Jan Jekielek traditions, the strength of the working in government for 20 Schiff, who apparently collaborated with family, civic society, and so forth.” years, and I know better.’” Trump’s accuser and read a fictitious ver- When conserva- So they adopted a different As a deputy assistant to Presi- sion of the Trump–Zelensky call into the tive radio show strategy. Instead of openly at- dent Donald Trump, Gorka wit- congressional record, is now leading the host Sebastian tacking traditional institutions, nessed that firsthand—what he impeachment charge. Gorka was 8 “you organize inside of existing perceived as a total disregard for To recap, what we know now is that years old, he structures until you can radical- the president’s wishes by indi- the anonymous whistleblower worked was happily play- ize them wholeheartedly from the viduals within the federal bu- for the CIA, was assigned to the Nation- ing on the beach inside,” Gorka said. reaucracy. al Security Council while at the White during a family “That is exactly what they’ve “That rank-arrogance is the an- House, coordinated his complaint in ad- vacation in the done in America. If you look at tithesis of what our republic was vance with Schiff, that the whistleblower south of France the key elements of our society, founded on, and it’s the antithesis regulations were amended to allow the when something whether it’s the press, whether it’s of the principles that the founding filing of the hearsay complaint, that the caught his eye. Hollywood, whether it’s the edu- fathers built this nation upon,” whistleblower (almost surely) had anti- As his father was cation system, these institutions Gorka said. Trump lawyers write his complaint, and emerging from a swim in the have been targeted over decades, that the whistleblower had professional ocean, Gorka noticed white lines and they have been taken over by Betrayal of Middle America ties to Biden. on his father’s wrists—something radicals.” “The left and the right fundamen- he’d never noticed before. A Soviet tank on St. Joseph Boulevard in Budapest, Hungary, on Nov. 6, Saul Alinsky founded modern tally betrayed middle America in Trump Says Complaint False, “Hey Dad, what’s that?” Gorka 1956. Soviet Army tanks crushed the short-lived, anti-communist uprising in community organizing and ar- the last 60 years,” Gorka said. Demands Live Testimony asked. Budapest on Nov. 4, 1956. ticulated his tactics in “Rules for He points to the bestselling The president contends the anonymous “Son, that’s where the secret Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times Radicals.” At the very beginning memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. whistleblower’s letter “gave false infor- police bound my wrists together of “Rules for Radicals,” Alinsky Vance, who details what it was mation.” Sound familiar? with a wire behind my back, so penned an acknowledgment of like growing up in a poor Rust Team Trump now demands the whis- they could hang me from the Lucifer—“the first radical known Belt town. tleblower testify at the impeachment ceiling of the torture chamber,” to man who rebelled against the As jobs were outsourced abroad, inquiry, and expose himself to cross- Gorka’s father said. establishment and did it so effec- manufacturing in America de- examination by Trump’s lawyers. Whis- “That’s when my life changed,” tively that he at least won his own clined, millions of Americans Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe waits for the beginning of a hearing on Capitol Hill on May 11, 2017. tleblower lawyer Mark Zaid now says the former Trump White House kingdom.” were left unemployed, and pros- his anonymous client will only answer adviser said in an interview with When Hillary Clinton studied at pering towns became shadows of written questions submitted to him by The Epoch Times for the “Ameri- Wellesley College, she wrote her their former selves. “That’s how Trump’s lawyers, while maintaining his can Thought Leaders” program. senior thesis on Alinsky’s model. generations were destroyed,” The Case Against Anonymity anonymity. Besides shielding the whistle- “From that moment onward, I “This is a plan that’s been gestat- Gorka said. blower from live cross-examination, this knew at a genetic level, at a vis- ing for 80 years, and that’s how we As Gorka writes in his book, artifice permits the whistleblower’s legal ceral level, at the level of my soul, get to the Democrat Party that is “Entire communities faced eco- team to mull over and carefully craft his that the word evil isn’t reserved typified by radicals, communists, nomic decline, neighborhoods for the Whistleblower responses. for mythical stories of minotaurs socialists,” Gorka said. deteriorated, social bonds frayed, Now, Schiff says the whistleblower’s and dragons,” Gorka said. “Evil and into this environment of soul- testimony may no longer be needed. How is real. Evil lurks in the hearts of Big Government, Small Citizen crushing despair came an influx Stephen Meister the Clinton campaign,” referencing a information to Steele to interfere with the convenient. men, and is done by men unto In Gorka’s view, the fundamental of drugs that made captives of “lengthy footnote” in the FISA applica- 2016 election, in Clinton’s favor. other men.” Dr. Sebastian Gorka, conservative radio host of America First, at his office at basis of modern leftist ideology hopeless people.” Commentary The FBI likely tion about Steele, not plainly identifying Imagine how much easier it would have Trump Has Right to Confront Gorka’s father had been an ar- Salem Radio Network in Arlington, Va., on Oct. 22, 2019. is a belief in the perfectibility “Along comes a man, a billion- A controversy has wouldn’t have told Steele or disclosing Clinton’s backing. been for the FISA court to assess probable Whistleblower dent anti-communist dissident of man. aire from Manhattan, who says, ‘I emerged over wheth- the FISA court After flatly saying “no” in response to cause, had the DOJ’s FISA application said Whistleblower laws protect whistleblow- in Hungary, and as a result, he AP Photo “Whether you’re Karl Marx or am going to stand up for the for- er the anonymous that Steele’s Dunleavy’s first question—refusing to say it was based on information from Steele, ers from employer retaliation; they don’t was arrested, tortured, and sen- “It wasn’t a function solely of the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the gotten men and women,’” Gorka “whistleblower”— ‘reporting has what in the dossier the FBI had verified or that Steele was an ex-MI6 agent who dis- guarantee the whistleblower’s perma- tenced to imprisonment for life. eight years of Obama.” common thread, the connective told The Epoch Times. whose complaint not, and when, McCabe responded to the liked Trump intensely, and that Simpson nent anonymity, and certainly don’t Six years later, he was liberated by “In large part, we are respon- tissue, between AOC and the “Donald Trump became presi- about the July 25 call been corrobo- second question about disclosure: “I will had hired Steele, on behalf of Clinton and trump the confrontation clause. the short-lived Hungarian Revo- sible. The right is responsible be- founder of communism is this dent despite the GOP, not thanks be- tween President Donald rated’ and was wait as I am sure you will eagerly to see the DNC, to dig up dirt on Trump. There’s a reason the Sixth Amendment lution of 1956, which was swiftly cause we allowed them to imple- belief that human beings are just to the GOP,” Gorka said. It was a Trump and Ukraine President Volody- ‘reliable’ had what Mr. Horowitz’s conclusions are in Imagine how much harder it would to our Constitution—the confrontation crushed by Moscow. Gorka’s fa- ment a plan which they call ‘the malleable, they’re like animals, Republican president, Richard myr Zelensky led to the impeachment Steele’s identity that report ... as you’ve mentioned, there have been, had Steele, Clinton, Simpson, clause—guarantees that “in all criminal ther eventually escaped to Austria long march through the institu- you can change them, you can en- Nixon, who opened relations inquiry—should be identified and appear been disclosed, was an extensive and detailed explana- and the identities of Steele’s Russian-spy prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the by crawling through a minefield tions.’” gineer them, and you can create with communist China. Commu- as a live witness or anonymously answer given that the FBI tion inserted by the Department of Justice “sub-source(s),” all been disclosed, for right ... to be confronted with the wit- with the 17-year-old daughter of a Drawing inspiration from An- perfection on earth,” Gorka said. nist China was then given Most written questions submitted by Trump’s into that FISA package that ... I believed anti-Trump forces at DOJ and the FBI, to nesses against him.” It’s the same reason fellow prison inmate—who would drew Breitbart’s book “Righ- This is fundamentally at odds Favored Nation status and World lawyers. had just termi- accurately reflected what we knew about have duped the FISA court, even in an God included among the Ten Command- later become Gorka’s mother. teous Indignation,” Gorka out- with the conservative worldview Trade Organization membership We’ve seen this movie before. nated Steele as Mr. Steele.” ex parte application such as a FISA ap- ments a proscription against bearing false “That background, my family’s lined what he sees as the origins that believes “man is fallen, man and welcomed into the interna- As I wrote on these pages recently, the an informant for plication. witness: It’s easy to lie. history, that experience, shaped Saul Alinsky, of radical leftism in “The War for can never be perfected,” Gorka tional community. In Gorka’s Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI sub- lying. McCabe was referring to footnote 8 (one The FBI likely wouldn’t have told the Only through skilled, live cross-exam- everything I do,” Gorka said. author of “Rules for America’s Soul.” said. Conservatism tells people view, U.S. leaders were motivated mitted the now-infamous Steele dossier of 18 footnotes) in the DOJ’s 412-page FISA court that Steele’s “reporting has ination—where the accuser has to imme- In his new book, “The War for Radicals,” in Chicago The ideological beliefs of po- to “conserve those things that by the “absolutely absurd” belief to the Federal Intelligence Surveillance FISA application (including exhibits). been corroborated” and was “reliable” diately respond without having his law- America’s Soul,” Gorka details on Feb. 20, 1966. litical leaders on the left, such as have been proven over centuries that if “we economically liber- Act (FISA) court in 2016 to obtain a war- Good luck deciphering the footnote; had Steele’s identity been disclosed, given yer craft a response—will we ever know if with alarm how the political left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or millennia to work.” alize our relations with a com- rant to spy on Trump campaign volunteer the full text of which, to the extent not that the FBI had just terminated Steele as his accusations are true or just made up was radicalized and how socialist, (D-N.Y.), former President Barack “And you understand that munist dictatorship, then it must Carter Page. Most of what Steele wrote redacted, reads: an informant for lying. Of course, no mat- and part of a Deep State coup to overturn communist ideology managed to Obama, and Hillary Clinton, can there’s only one paradise, and become democratic in the end.” in the dossier has since been discredited ter how “reliable” Steele was portrayed the voters’ election of Trump. penetrate and subvert core Amer- all be traced back to the Italian it’s not on this earth; it’s in the Instead of facilitating the de- Vi if not proven false, and special counsel ori ct “Source #1 [redaction] ... has been an to be, the substantive reporting all came While it’s true that the confrontation ican institutions. Marxist philosopher Antonio afterlife,” Gorka said. mocratization of China, U.S. pol-

Robert Mueller was unable to verify the a J o ne FBI source since [redaction]. Source #1’s from his “sub-sources,” whose identities clause doesn’t apply in civil matters, In Gorka’s view, there’s a war Gramsci, in Gorka’s view. “If you believe in the ‘perfectibil- icies and the avid investment of dossier after his lengthy investigation. reporting has been corroborated and were presumably unknown to the FBI. the impeachment inquiry must involve being waged for the soul of Amer- The forefathers of the modern- ity of man’ argument, who’s going Western business and financial s / The dossier included salacious allega- PA the FBI assesses Source #1 to be reliable. “high crimes or misdemeanors”; other- ica, namely “the collective prin- day left in America—individuals to do the perfecting? It’s not the leaders instead allowed the Chi- v i tions that Trump had engaged in de- a AP Source #1 has been compensated by the Anonymous Source, Part II: wise, there’s no constitutional grounds ciples, the first principles, upon such as Gramsci, Gyorgy Lukacs, individual! It’s the state. Yes! The nese Communist Party to exploit praved sexual acts with Russian pros- FBI and the FBI is unaware of any deroga- The Whistleblower for impeaching Trump. How can it be that which this nation was founded Max Horkheimer, Herbert Mar- elite is granted this magic power, its trade relationship with the titutes, accusations about Page having tory information pertaining to Source#1. Get ready for the sequel: The new “Source Trump is being accused of “high crimes” by the founding fathers.” The first cuse, and Saul Alinsky—“had an the philosopher-king power, to United States and steal Western met with and received a bribe from “Source #1, who now owns a foreign #1” is the anonymous CIA whistleblower; yet does not have the constitutional right principles refers to a strongly held epiphany: They realized the flaw mold society as they deem fit. technology to its own advantage, associates of Vladimir Putin, for- business/financial intelligence firm, Biden is the new Clinton. all U.S. citizens possess to confront his belief in the “individual and the in Karl Marx’s writings and in En- “That’s why the hoary old saying Gorka said. Along the way, it also mer Trump lawyer Michael Co- was approached by an identified U.S. After Intel Community Inspector accuser? God-given rights of the individu- gels’s writings,” Gorka said. is so true: ‘Big government, small allowed fentanyl to be pumped hen having met with Russians person, who indicated to Source General Michael Atkinson disclosed Schiff, Pelosi, and company are now al—what Reagan called that ‘shin- “The attempt to create a com- citizen.’ The more you cramp the into the United States, devastat- agents in Prague, and former #1 that a U.S.-based law firm had that the whistleblower had “a profes- arguing that revealing the whistle- ing city on the hill,’” Gorka said. munist nation failed almost ex- individual” and restrict the liber- ing communities in the heartland. Trump campaign manager Paul hired the identified U.S. person to sional tie to a 2020 Democratic can- blower’s identity will put him or her The subversion of first principles clusively in every single place that ties of the individual, “the more China is the largest source of illicit Manafort having conspired with conduct research regarding Can- didate,” the Washington Examiner in harm’s way. Nonsense. Trump isn’t is evident on today’s campuses. was tried, with the exception of power you give to an elite. And fentanyl in the United States, ac- the Russians. didate #1’s ties to Russia (the identi- reported, “[the] 2020 Democratic candi- a murderer. Regardless, that concern “How is it that you can go to an countries like Russia or China, unfortunately, in many cases, cording to a November 2018 report Despite none of those statements fied U.S. person and Source #1 have a date with whom the CIA whistleblower doesn’t override either Trump’s con- Ivy League college today in Amer- where there wasn’t a developed members of that elite aren’t by the U.S.–China Economic and being true, and also a complete lack long-standing business relationship). had a ‘professional’ tie is Joe Biden, ac- stitutional right to confront his ac- ica to major in English literature, middle class, and where the so- elected.” Security Review Commission. of probable cause, the FISA court is- The identified U.S. person hired Source cording to intelligence officers and for- cuser or the people’s need to know and for four years not study Wil- called revolution could leverage “That’s what we’ve seen in the Trump connected with the sued the requested warrant, relying on #1 to conduct this research. The identi- mer White House officials.” the truth. We’ve already seen the wit- liam Shakespeare ... because he’s a peasant class,” he said. last three or four years in Ameri- Americans whose commwwuni- information from the Steele dossier—even fied U.S. person never advised Source #1 In response, the whistleblower’s law- nesses vacillating between, there was white, he’s male, and he’s a het- “If you tried communist revolu- ca, this concept of the ‘deep state’ ties had been devastated by poli- though, in the FISA’s application, Steele’s as to the motivation behind the research yers said he had worked only “in the no quid pro quo, maybe there was, erosexual, and therefore, he’s an Dr. Sebastian Gorka’s tion in robust, healthy Western or the permanent state. These bu- cies of both the left and the right, identity and the fact that he was paid by Christopher Steele, into Candidate #1’s ties to Russia. The FBI executive branch.” The Washington maybe there wasn’t, but Trump al- oppressor?” Gorka said. book “The War for nations like America, they’d be reaucrats who say, ‘Well, presi- and “that’s how we elected the Hillary Clinton’s campaign and Demo- former British intel- speculates that the U.S. person was likely Examiner reported that “he is a career ways said there wasn’t. Gorka was compelled to write America’s Soul.” doomed to failure because of the dents come and go, but I’ve been first non-politician, non-general, cratic National Committee (DNC) weren’t ligence officer in looking for information that could be used CIA analyst who was detailed to the Na- If the whistleblower didn’t want to be “The War for America’s Soul” after KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images to the highest office in the land,” revealed. London on March 7, to discredit Candidate #1’s campaign. tional Security Council at the White cross-examined, he or she shouldn’t have an incident at his daughter’s col- Gorka said. It was only much later—after the dam- 2017. “Source #1 tasked his sub-source(s) to House and has since left.” Of course, blown the whistle. lege graduation. “Since 1776, we’ve never elected age was done—that Steele and the source collect the requisite information. After the whistleblower, as a CIA employee In front of crowds of graduat- a president who wasn’t either a of his funding were revealed. Source #1 received information from the detailed to the White House, needn’t The Anonymity Lesson ing students and their families general or a former politician. In a televised interview on Oct. 30, subsource(s), described herein, Source #1 have been formally employed by Biden The DOJ and FBI have taught us—courtesy and friends, a girl walked up to From Washington to Obama, ev- former FBI Deputy Director Andrew provided the information to the identified to have interacted with him. of the Steele dossier—just how adept they Gorka to say, “[Expletive] you, you eryone was a senator, congress- McCabe joined a panel with former CIA U.S. person and to the FBI. [redaction] The anonymous whistleblower, al- can be in misleading a professional trier of [expletive] Nazi!” man, governor, or a general like Director John Brennan and other ex-CIA “Notwithstanding Source #1’s reason though he never heard the Trump–Zel- fact if their sources remain anonymous. “When you call somebody— Eisenhower. officials John McLaughlin and Michael for conducting the research into Candi- ensky call and had only hearsay knowl- We had best learn our lesson. As Enlight- whose parents suffered under “The American people sent a Morell to discuss the intelligence com- date #1’s ties to Russia, based on Source edge, filed a nine-page, single-spaced enment philosopher Edmund Burke cau- fascists, under Nazi occupation—a very interesting message to the munity’s role in the 2020 election. #1’s previous reporting history with the complaint, containing a dozen footnotes, tioned, “Those who don’t know history Nazi ... what have you done to the world, when we said, ‘We’ve had it During the interview, Jerry Dunleavy, FBI, whereby Source #1 provided reliable accusing Trump of having abused his po- are doomed to repeat it.” content of that word?” Gorka said. with that schlep. We want some- a reporter at the Washington Examin- information to the FBI, the FBI believes sition by asking Zelensky to have Ukraine Trump’s legal team must not back off “When everybody you disagree body who has no connections to er—citing the forthcoming release of the Source #1’s reporting herein to be cred- to open an investigation into Joe Biden their demand to confront the whistle- with is a fascist or Nazi, you’ve de- the swamp.’ That was a historic much-awaited report by DOJ Inspector ible. [redaction]” and his son, Hunter Biden, who had taken blower by live cross-examination. We’ll nuded that word of any content,” moment that bears repeating.” General Michael Horowitz on possible a $50,000-a-month consulting job with never know the truth if they do. Gorka said. FISA abuses by Obama-era officials Footnote 8 Decoded Ukraine energy company Burisma. “That’s why I wrote ‘The War for “American Thought Leaders” is against the Trump campaign—asked “Source #1” is Christopher Steele, “Can- Biden is on videotape bragging he threat- Stephen Meister is a founding partner America’s Soul’: to explain how in an Epoch Times show available McCabe pointed questions about the didate #1” is Donald Trump, the “identi- ened to withhold more than $1 billion in of Meister, Seelig & Fein LLP, a law firm America, the country that people on Facebook, YouTube, and the Steele dossier: fied U.S. person” is Glenn Simpson, the U.S. aid to Ukraine unless the Ukraine headquartered in New York; a pub- flee to for their freedom, you have Epoch Times website. founder of Fusion GPS, the opposition prosecutor then in charge of investigating lished author; and an opinion writer. a 19-year-old girl with that level “Would you be able to say with speci- research company that Clinton and the Burisma, Victor Shokin, was fired. Shokin Opinions expressed here are his own, of brainwashing behave the way ficity what the FBI verified in the Steele DNC hired to dig up dirt on Trump, and was then fired, the investigation was aban- not his firm’s. she did in public,” Gorka said. dossier before using it in FISA applica- the “U.S.-based law firm” is Perkins Coie, doned, and Ukraine got the U.S. aid. Then–Democratic presidential tions? And also if there is an explanation which was acting on behalf of Clinton The whistleblower’s complaint, which Views expressed in this article are Captured By Radicals nominee Hillary Clinton, then– President Barack Obama (L), for why, in the FISA applications, the FBI and the DNC when it hired Simpson. was obviously written by a lawyer or the opinions of the author and do The radical left’s takeover of and former president Bill Clinton didn’t just say directly or indirectly that Ironically, Source #1’s “sub-source(s)” team of lawyers, was filed only after not necessarily reflect the views of America’s core institutions “didn’t wave to the crowd after a rally in Christopher Steele was being paid by were likely Russian agents providing dis- federal regulations previously requir- The Epoch Times. happen overnight,” Gorka said. Philadelphia, Pa., on Nov. 7, 2016. 12 | OUR NATION Week 45, 2019

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is followed by reporters as he exits a closed session on Capitol Hill on Oct. 23, 2019. Security Risks: Why President Trump Is Right Not to Trust Adam Schiff or the House Intelligence Committee

Trevor Loudon nese-supported organizations. Many “If the CDSs [Sandinista Defense have close ties to Marxist groups such Committees] maintain and advance Commentary The House as the Democratic Socialists of Amer- their autonomy and continue to serve Many Congress Intelligence ica or pro-China groups Communist the role they have served they will members simply Party USA and Liberation Road. Many help insure that the people of Nicara- cannot be trusted Committee, Congress members are sympathetic gua may have the kind of participatory to keep the United like every other to the United States’ enemies such as role in their own destiny they were States’ important committee in Cuba, China, or Venezuela. Some on promised under sandinismo.” national security se- both sides of the aisle have ties to front Himes was elected to Congress in crets. Let that sink in. Congress, is groups for known terrorist organiza- 2008 with help from the Communist After U.S. forces killed Abu Bakr al- shot through tions such as Hamas. Party USA and has worked closely with Baghdadi, the founder of ISIS, during a with ‘security There are several currently serving a Party front, the Connecticut Alliance midnight raid on Oct. 26, House Intel- members of the House Intelligence for Retired Americans, ever since. ligence Committee Chairman Adam risks.’ Committee with problematic ties. The fourth-ranked Intelligence Schiff (D-Calif.) complained that he Many of them would probably strug- Committee Democrat, André Carson hadn’t been notified of the operation. gle to get a security clearance to drive of Indiana, is one of three Muslims President Donald Trump told report- a school bus or sell stamps at the post currently serving in the House of ers in Washington on Oct. 28 that the office. But that doesn’t prevent them Representatives. White House didn’t notify the House from serving on a congressional com- Carson received money from the Intelligence Committee about the raid mittee with oversight of the FBI, CIA, Iranian American Political Action due to a concern that the information Drug Enforcement Administration, Committee during the 2018, 2016, and would be leaked by Schiff. National Security Agency, and a dozen 2014 election cycles and was an early The Hill reported Trump as saying: other national security organizations. backer of President Barack Obama’s “Well, I guess the only thing is, they Schiff, for example, has close ties to failed “nuclear deal” with Iran. were talking about why I didn’t give the Committee of 100 (C100), which es- Carson has long worked closely with the information to Adam Schiff and sentially runs “influence operations” the Council on American Islamic Re- his committee. And the answer is, for the communist Chinese regime. lations and its founder and current because I think Adam Schiff is the Schiff attended C100 conferences in spokesman Nihad Awad. biggest leaker in Washington.” 2009 and 2016 and has also met with In 1994, Awad revealed at a forum The president certainly has a valid high-ranking Chinese Communist at Florida’s Barry University that he point. And it doesn’t just apply to Party officials C.H. Tung, now vice- had once supported the pro-Soviet Schiff. The House Intelligence Com- chair of the Chinese People’s Political terror group the Palestine Liberation mittee shouldn’t be entrusted with Consultative Conference, and former Organization. When the Soviet Union the White House grocery list, let alone mayor of Shanghai and president of “collapsed,” Awad switched his alle- the details of a highly sensitive mili- the Chinese Academy of Engineering giance to Hamas. tary operation that could put many Xu Kuangdi, all arranged through In February 2017, three Pakistani American lives at risk. C100 contacts. American brothers, the Awans, who There are virtually no serious secu- During the 2018 election cycle, Schiff managed office information technol- rity protocols in Congress. There are also received funding from the Iranian ogy for members of the House Intel- no background checks for Congress American Political Action Commit- ligence Committee, including Carson members serving on any commit- tee, reportedly a front for the Iranian and other lawmakers, were abruptly tees, let alone the especially sensitive government. relieved of their duties. The brothers armed services, Homeland Security, The second-ranked Democrat on the were suspected of accessing congres- or Intelligence committees. Is it pos- Intelligence Committee, Jim Himes of sional computers without permission. It President Donald sible that the United States’ enemies Trump announces Connecticut, traveled to pro-Soviet was later revealed that the three broth- may be aware of this glaring weakness that ISIS leader Nicaragua in the late 1980s to research ers had access to the computers of more in the United States’ national security Abu Bakr his undergraduate thesis “The Sand- than a dozen congressional Democrats, network? Is it likely that they might al-Baghdadi has inista Defense Committees and the some for more than a decade. try to exploit it? been killed in a Transformation of Political Culture in According to the Daily Caller, military operation Many U.S. Congress members re- in Syria, at the Nicaragua.” Himes essentially white- the father of the brothers allegedly ceive money from Iranian-backed White House on washed these civilian spy networks for “transferred a USB drive to a Paki- entities. Some work closely with Chi- Oct. 27, 2019. the Marxist-Leninist regime: stani senator and former head of a Pakistani intelligence agency.” However, no espionage charges were ever brought. The House Intelligence Committee, like every other committee in Con- gress, is shot through with “security risks.” Is it any wonder that Trump is un- willing to share sensitive information with Schiff and his junior committee members?

Trevor Loudon is an author, film- maker, and public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on main- stream politics.

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