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Title: The Hastert Scandal: What the Media Isn't Telling You
Published: 2015-10-14
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urz-79upuLg
Title: The Hastert Scandal: What the Media Isn't Telling You
Published: 2015-10-14
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urz-79upuLg
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in may of this year a federal grand jury indicted former speaker of the house John Dennis Hastert the charges that he'd structured withdrawals of over nine hundred fifty thousand dollars from various bank accounts to skirt bank reporting laws and that he had lied to federal agents about these withdrawals according to the indictment the withdrawals were part of a bid to pay three point five million dollars2/36
in blackmail to cover up past misconduct from his time as a high school teacher in Illinois the story seemed perfect fodder for the tabloids corporate press it featured a former high ranking politician blackmailing intrigue and just enough details about Hastert's former life as a teacher and wrestling coach to suggest that the past misconduct referred to a salacious scandal of sexual abuse of a minor but for3/36
some reason the story faded from the headlines almost as quickly as it appeared and now that Hastert's legal team has announced that they are seeking a plea deal with prosecutors in order to avoid a trial it seems the story is likely to disappear completely but a series of revelations from FBI whistle blowers reveal that this story is just the tip of a very seedy iceberg one4/36
that implicates Hastert his top aide other Congress members and government officials in a criminal network involved in sexual intrigue foreign espionage blackmail and drug money in two thousand two Gilbert Graeme especially gent in the Washington field office of the FBI blew the whistle on an illegal surveillance program being conducted out of the bureaus Washington headquarters according to the unclassified version of his complaint obtained by the5/36
National Security whistleblowers coalition in two thousand seven green alleged violations of the foreign intelligence surveillance act in conducting electronic surveillance as a subterfuge to acquire evidence of criminal activity these allegations were backed up by a former FBI counterintelligence specialist in Washington field office who told the national security whistleblowers coalition you're looking at covering up massive public corruption in espionage cases to top that off you have6/36
major violations of FISA by the FBI Washington field office in headquarters targeting these cases everyone involved has motive to cover up these reports and prevent investigation and public disclosure according to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds revealing the details of this program for the first time in a series of podcasts in the wake of the Hastert revelations this illegal surveillance program dubbed COINTELPRO too by the agents who7/36
were asked to implement it dates back to the mid nineteen nineties when the Clinton White House was being rocked by a series of sex scandals in mid nineteen nineties still bogged down with the Paula Jones the scandal the case that refuse to quote quickly go away while preparing for another sexual scandal the Monica Lewinsky case Bill Clinton and his top White House team put together at8/36
political retaliation plan men's to retaliate J. and then neutralize the Republican Party and tea elected Republican officials the main objective of the plan was to one collect majored jerk on T. Republican officials to use the information to blackmailed those Republicans as a means to prevent impeachment three streets cheaply release the cases of those who did not back down by blackmail if the impeachment process work to9/36
proceed the plan implemented with the help of Clinton appointees Janet Reno when Louis Freeh was remarkably effective in December nineteen ninety eight on the eve of the house debate on Clinton's impeachment hearings Washington was rocked by house speaker elect Bob Livingston sudden announcement of marital infidelity and resignation from the house as the Chicago Tribune reported at the time speaker elect said those investigating him were trying10/36
to find indiscretions which maybe exploitable against me in my party on the eve of the upcoming historic vote on impeachment Livingstone did not give details of any affairs and said he was admitting them only because he had learned that unnamed individuals have been working with news organizations at the time Larry flint claim credit for forcing Livingston's resignation saying that he had an audio tape of the11/36
congressmen engaged in Ranchi phone sex this audiotape according to admins came directly from the FBI's counterintelligence unit and the COINTELPRO to program Livingston's resignation was only the latest in a string of high profile Republican sex scandals that involved information leaked to the media by unnamed sources in the wake of the Lewinsky scandal representatives Henry Hyde Helen shin with and Dan Burton's adulterous relationships were all added12/36
in the run up to impeachment with Burton admitting to fathering a child out of wedlock Livingstone was replaced as speaker by Dennis Hastert a congressman no stranger to scandal himself in two thousand five Vanity Fair drew one FBI insiders FEC filings sworn testimony and other documents to report on some of the information the bureau dug up on Hastert this included FBI wiretaps capturing Turkish agents boasting13/36
of tens of thousands of dollars in payments they had used to assure Hastert's flip flop on the U. S. congresses Armenian genocide resolution of all mankind lobbying reporter by the mainstream press because there's no factual evidence reporter did not have a transcript of any wiretap conversations that we don't want any real we did it's preposterous the speaker does not have any connections to American Turkish interests14/36
shortly after leaving the house in two thousand seven Hastert registered as a foreign agent lobbying on the hill for the Turkish government but the dirt on Hastert and his associates went much deeper than this information on Hastert's nefarious and illegal sexual activities between nineteen ninety six and two thousand two is far more explosive than the activities expose in the recent so called revelations Hastert's sexual activities15/36
were videotaped and thoroughly recorded not only by two U. S. government agencies but also by a foreign network it criminal foreign network headquartered in Chicago and involved in NATO CIA clad you operations between nineteen ninety six and two thousand two Dennis Hastert engaged in illegal fundraising activities in Illinois these activities included receiving and laundering foreign sourced cash funds some of them drug money several other high16/36
level elected officials were also involved in these illegal activities representative Dan Burton was a key figure the mayor of Chicago the governor of Illinois and at least three high level staff members were involved as well Hastert's nefarious into legal sexual activities have been broached in media reports going back at least a decade since the time that Hastert the speaker of the house helped cover up the17/36
mark Foley scandal involving the sexual abuse of male house pages not only as Hastert's sexual relationship with his live in chief of staff Scott Palmer been repeatedly hinted at in articles by the likes of former U. S. Senate staffer Lawrence o'donnell but as far back as two thousand six investigative reporter Wayne Madsen was tying the Foley scandal and Hastert into Tom delay Jack Abramoff Southeast Asia18/36
and child sex prostitution state department sources of also reported that the visits of Hastert and other congressional leaders and staff members to certain southeast Asian nations and the northern Marianas should come under the scrutiny of the house ethics committee now officially investigating page gate the northern Marianas became infamous in the scandals involving Tom delay and Jack Abramoff because of the presence in the U. S. slave19/36
labor territory of Asian children being used as prostitutes conveniently fully co chaired the house caucus on missing and exploited children which would of had authority to investigate charges of child prostitution in the northern Marianas Manson reported adding Hastert visited Vietnam along with Palmer in April of this year and spent three days in the country Hastert along with Illinois GOP representative ray lahood canceled the visit to20/36
Thailand and Vietnam in January two thousand six Hastert was also in Thailand in January two thousand to this lines up with the information that FBI insiders have been trying to blow the whistle on for years since nineteen ninety six the FBI has had tons of information on Dennis Hastert which was gathered in Chicago by the FBI should field of the incriminating criminal evidence in those files21/36
range from bribery extortion fraud and money laundering Ghanaian Basil mint two sexual crimes against minors and participation in foreign operated drug operations since nineteen ninety seven the FBI has had much hard evidence on Dennis Hastert gathered by the FBI's Washington field office documented deeds range from espionage to farm bribery but that's not all the FBI also has had hard data accounts third sexual violations outside the22/36
United States the involved countries included Vietnam Thailand Turkey and Morocco among others this also included sexual favors as means of foreign bribery interestingly the CIA had big documenting those sexual activities outside the United States for many years and not only on Hastert but like many others elected and appointed so why has this information never surfaced before and why is one tiny sliver of information that might23/36
provide a window into the story emerging now nearly a decade since Hastert left office and over a decade since the FBI wound up its surveillance operation realizing the FBI's New dragnet was scooping up information on elected officials and political appointees across the board not just presidential enemies and with FBI agents increasingly outraged over the activities they were documenting the White House the DOJ and the FBI24/36
sought a way to put a stop to the flow of embarrassing information in nineteen ninety nine the FBI COINTELPRO to program was transferred from the FBI counterintelligence unit to the criminal unit ostensibly to pursue prosecutions but as the program had been founded on FISA violations FBI agents were informed that the information couldn't be used in a courtroom it was this attempt to sweep these cases under25/36
the rug that infuriated many of the lower level agents and because Gilbert green to file is complete in two thousand two but by then it was already too late the FBI surveillance was messy and involve too many agents who could potentially blow the whistle in the wake of nine eleven be internal surveillance program was shifted from the bureau to the NSA and it was not long26/36
before those surveillance powers were being directed against politicians and officials in yet another attempt to gather dirt and find blackmail worthy material on these individuals as NSA whistleblower Russell Tice told the corporate report in two thousand thirteen he had first hand knowledge of the surveillance which included politicians judges military personnel and even the future president of the United States yeah it was it wouldn't Bob journalists27/36
they were it was bombed members of Congress of both houses Senate and not in the house well I'm a specially on the intelligence committees in the armed services committees and all and judiciary committees Adam and and as well as the senior leadership in both the house and the Senate it was judges alone as federal judges and around it picked up every member of the Supreme Court28/36
all nine of which I held the the initial phone but what about targeting of judge Alito in my hand when they when judge Alito was being put up for the home you know his position on the Supreme Court so I sold my soul the legal paperwork in market about physically Tom it was our own it was members of %HESITATION of but a few members of of29/36
bush's own staff alone in in the White House now who mostly they went after a lot of lawyers and law firms I noticed in your interview in boiling frog post you you mentioned specifically a general Petraeus yes Labor Day when after singer or military leaders clown with my satellite stuff I soul are sold how they went after the win after all and the state department they30/36
went after Colin Powell sector state they went after general Sasaki but and then on the terrestrial slide until the paperwork is they were going after all in general Petraeus was Barack Obama targeted by this well yes he was as a matter fact I was in two thousand and four probably didn't know late summer timeframe %HESITATION and he was he was a candidate for center he'd already31/36
won his primary in Illinois and that's when I saw all of them you know Braga Bob is singing in short this scandal is too deep too dark and covers too many people from both sides of the political aisle for it to ever proceed in public if it were to be exposed it would uncover a tale of surveillance scandal drug money child prostitution and blackmail that could32/36
blow up all over Washington and make Watergate look like a minor footnote in the history of political scandal knowing this it comes as little surprise that Hastert's legal team already having been granted two extensions to continue negotiating a plea deal with prosecutors pushed back the deadline for pre trial motions to October fifteenth when a trial date is expected to be set all specifics about the case33/36
are being kept under seal since as the AP reports judge Thomas Durkin agreed to a request by the US attorney's office to keep material secret with prosecutor citing law enforcement and privacy interests if these allegations of the FBI insiders of an illegal White House approved surveillance dragnet are true and if the scandal does envelopes several high ranking politicians and appointed officials in both the democratic and34/36
Republican parties it is not difficult to imagine that Hastert's lawyers could greenmail prosecutors asking for evidence that the government could never turn over without opening up the whole scandal and so we arrive at the present stalemate where it looks increasingly likely that the case will be plea bargained away and further inquiry will be stopped before the case can be blown wide open given the deafening silence35/36
on the accusations around the steeper scandal from the media the evident refusal of the department of justice to look into the complaints agreement other FBI whistle blowers and of course the reluctance of the government to even acknowledge the claims the task falls the everyday motivated citizens to raise awareness of this story and create the space for more insiders to come forward with their knowledge of these36/36
cases in the meantime stay tuned to boiling frog post dot com for continuing coverage of the case its history and for the revelations he was brought to you by the subscribers of boiling frog spoke tradition on this and other topics please go to boiling trucks both dot com for more information and commentary from James Corbett please go to court report dot com
