A (12:49)
The. Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm getting feedback back here. I can hear my own voice. Just. Okay, so the thing that I think the Epstein moment gives an opportunity for the American people to understand is that when you say like money from the CIA, there's a, there's a difference between being paid by the CIA and being, and facilitating a CIA transaction where there's something in it for you. So for example, Jeffrey Epstein got his. In terms of where he got his money, the New York Times attempted to answer this question in something like a 20,000 word report. And they said, oh, it's no mystery at all. He got it because he made Bear Bear Stearns partner very quickly within four years in 19, from 1976 to 1980. And the reason he moved up so fast was because he, the head of the firm, set him up with his daughter. So he's dating the boss's daughter right away. And then he kept working with Bear Stearns on deals, on deals, on deals continuously for the next 31 years. And it was these deals that made him wealthy. And then they proceeded to not mention a single deal name. And the thing that, I mean, they interviewed three of his bosses. They interviewed about like a dozen different personnel who worked with Bear Stearns. And they said, oh, they put him on the most lucrative deals and he was untouchable within Bear Stearns because he was dating the CEO's daughter. The same senior executive who recruited him to Bear Stearns in 1976, in 1978, became the CEO. And, and this actually does make a lot of sense. I've, I've worked with investment bankers a lot personally when I was a corporate lawyer and even corporate law firms adjacent where our clients were the, the investment bankers. It works a very similar way in terms of people can be untouchable in the firm because of various nepotistic relationships and things like that, regardless of how skilled they are. But the fact is, is the most lucrative deals at the time in that firm would have been the transactions involving BCCI. BCCI was the CIA's bank. It was, it was created in Pakistan in 1972. And then in the late 1970s it began to be radically upscaled with massive deposits by the CIA and the NSA in order to launder money to run guns to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan by way of Pakistan and bcc. Bear Stearns was. There were three parties in this. There was, on the one hand you had the actual money launder which was the, this Pakistani bank. It was what The Senate intelligence report referred to as the bank of banks within bcci. It was name was Capcom. You had the bank that claimed the money, bcci, a totally fraudulent bank that went down in flames after all this came out. And it was Bill Barr and Bob Mueller who whitewashed this thing. Bill Barr wrote the pardons for the six BCCI officials who were indicted on this. Okay, so they, I mean this is how far in the 90s, okay, in 1991, 92. And Bob Mueller was who the left wing press was blaming for blocking investigation into just how deep the CIA role went because they maintained all these accounts. There's firsthand testimony from the branch managers of BCCI that they frequently spoke with the CIA to covertly structure the funds so that it wouldn't look like it was coming from the CIA. But it was regular contact and upkeep and maintenance from CIA case officers and their contacts. And Mueller and Barr blocked that 30 years ago now, 35 years ago. And that was a Jeffrey Epstein transaction. Bear Stearns cleared about $13 billion in modern currency of transactions of a CIA bank involved in Trump trafficking, cleaning drug money and, and other illicit sources of fund and using clean cash to buy guns to fund Islamo terrorist groups. And then what you see very quickly is, I mean this, by the way, this explains why the State Department leased out the, the second largest property in New York City to Jeffrey Epstein after they seized it from the government of Iran. Because in 1979 when Iran turned over, Epstein was involved in all these Middle Eastern deals, gun deals, like, like I, you know, mentioned many times, this network runs through something called the Safari Club as well as Iran Contra. But it was this money network that explains how he got Adnan Khashoggi, the world's most prolific and richest arms dealer, as his client. It explains how he had clients in the uk, France, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States because those were the main countries involved in the Safari Club. It also explains, for example, how it is that Jeffrey Epstein's deal with the State Department broke up. You know, we've talked about, Benny, go ahead and try to go on Airbnb and rent a property directly from the Department of State. Or you know, it's, I don't know, I can count on zero fingers how many people I've ever even heard of that can personally rent property directly from the State Department in New York City after they seize it from a foreign government. But the fact is, is Jeffrey Epstein got in trouble because he suble, he subleased that property to two people. 1A lawyer to a lawyer for the defendants in the Pizza connection and for the defendants in the French Connection. Drug cases that have strong links to the Central Intelligence Agency. These are both cases that involved this illicit activity where there was drug money that was being cleaned to support proxy wars. And what. And I can go on and on for his whole career through the Towers financial era in the late 80s to the Les Wexner era. I mean, Leslie Wexner, for example, is the largest donor to the Harvard Candy Center. The Harvard Candy center is the CIA's number one playground on. On American universities for recruiting spies. And. And then, you know, on the Israel side of it, who was, you know, as I mentioned, Epstein ran the money for Adnan khashoggi in the mid-1980s. Well, who was the head of Israeli military intelligence during this operation? Now, again, that was a Saudi middleman for a transaction between the United States and Israel. So this was American intelligence and military intelligence working with Israeli intelligence and military intelligence with Saudi money in the middle. And Epstein is. Is, you know, running the money for the Saudi middleman in the middle. So he's talking. There's both. There's two sides of this. There's the BCCI CIA bank, and then there's the Israeli side, who gets the money, runs the guns into its smuggling network at that time in Iran. Well, the head of Israeli military intelligence from 1983 to 1985 was Ahud Barak. We knew before these files dropped that Ehud Barak visited Jeffrey Epstein's house or residence at least 47 times and had done business with Ehud Barak. Private business in everywhere from Russia to Mongolia to Cote d' Ivoire to the UK to the US itself. Company called Carbine911, a government contractor. And all of this was on military tech, the same sort of evolution of arms dealing that Epstein appears to have been involved in from the very beginning of his career through BCCI and Bear Stearns. What I'm getting at is this. You can. You can understand the Epstein network as being this kind of joint U. S. Israeli money and influence network that has all these allied partners in the middle who he's also doing deals with. And that I. I understand Epstein as a favor bank, financial fixer for private funds and secret intelligence agencies. And this is something that I really think is an important moment for people to understand. Take BlackRock. Okay? BlackRock is the largest asset manager on planet Earth. $10 trillion of assets under management. As I think we've talked about in the past, many the. The chair, the Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute is a guy named Tom Donilon. He's also the Vice chairman of, of BlackRock. He was the National Security Advisor for, for Barack Obama. So he was the Marco Rubio Rubio equivalent for Barack Obama. And it's proudly says on his BlackRock bio that he won the CIA's Director Award. Now, now the New York Times reported that Joe Biden did not first ask Bill Burns to be his CIA director. He asked Tom Donilon. But Tom Donilon had just joined BlackRock and said no to CIA Director. Instead I'm going to be the vice chairman of BlackRock. Obviously makes a lot more money. You know, you're making about 250k with no outside ability to make income as CI director. I can only guess what the vice chairman of BlackRock is making. But the fact is BlackRock's deal making decisions, its portfolio investments, the currencies it goes long on or shorts the debt instruments that it scoops up. They compete in a market and that market is determined by who has access to inside information. And whoever can trade on national security secrets before the market can wins the market and everything else that goes up on the basis of that they, they get in early and they get out before the bottom drops because they know from the inside what the US government is doing. Like Wayne Gretzky said, you skate to where the puck is going. If you know that the Department of War is about to invade Iraq. If you, if you know that the Central Intelligence Agency is about to topple the government of Belarus, if you know that the State Department is about to sanction, you know, the, the banks in Nigeria, well then you know, but way before the market does to buy, invest in oil pipeline infrastructures or the companies that you know are going to get the contracts for that oil in Iraq, you know, to short the currency of Belarus, you know, to you know, basically you know, short financial institutions in, in Nigeria. And this is exactly what we see in dozens of these Epstein files emails. The Lord Mandelson scandal that's playing out right now in the UK is an Inside Access story where quite literally you have the, the Finance Minister who is administering a bailout that is dominating the news, giving advanced knowledge to the guy with a huge fund who can trade that market over overnight way be way be while the market is still hesitant because they don't want to bet one way or the other because it's high magnitude. Entire currencies could fall, entire countries could go into default or they could get saved. And you don't know whether to take a big Bet one way or the other. Well, if you know, as a matter of. Of certain fact that you know from. From the person doing that classified deal, then you get to make a huge amount of money in the market. And you also. And what I'm saying is, is this is the same thing that played out in the late 1970s, early 1980s, where you had this web of private financiers and intelligence agencies serving the highest levels of government. This is what played out with deals in the Middle East. You know, I've documented many, many cases of that as well. Even beyond Epstein. This is what was happening in the 1990s during all the accords around Camp David. This is within the special economic opportunity zones that are being set up in countries. If they did a certain amount of business with Israel at the behest of the United States, you need a fixer class to arrange those transactions, to herd the cats of donors. And. And there's an amazing audio file where Jeffrey Epstein was secretly recording the. The man who was then the head of the Israeli military, longtime friend, who Barak, who Epstein surely would have known of if not worked directly in the 1980s while he was working on the extended BCCI transactions in Iran Contra related transactions, because Ehud Barak, 40 years earlier, 35 years earlier, was the head of Israeli military intelligence then. But what you have is a secretly recorded audio tape from 2013 where HUD Barak is still the Minister of Defense, their equivalent of Secretary of War, their equivalent of Pete Hegseth. He's still running the Israeli military, but one month later, he will leave and go private and make millions in the private sector. And a private businessman, a civilian now. And before he goes and makes the jump, he has a conversation with his fixer, Jeffrey Epstein, who tells him, stop marketing yourself about, you know, how good you are at doling out government contracts about, you know, to, for you know, the best, tanks or Iron Dome type stuff. Nope. Nobody cares about what you're good at. The only thing that matters is who owes you favors. I want you to create a human index of IOUs, people who have. Who owe you something, they owe you a job, they owe you their life. Because you help them out of something, they owe you a favor. This is the. This is. If you remember the 1987 book, Bonfire of the Vandies, there's an incredible chapter in there called the Favor bank, and it describes the crookedness of the New York City criminal justice system. And, you know, the whole. The whole book is a kind of disillusionment of how justice works in New York City. And there's a whole chapter that explains the inner workings of how it got corrupt and how the system works. And it's called the favor bank. And it's, it's about how all career advancement and all decisions within the New York District Attorney's office operate through a favor bank system. You put, everyone wants to put a favor in the favor bank for the, for the people that are higher up and the people that are on the outside whose jobs they want to apply to afterwards so that those people owe them favors in the form of a job, in the form of some sort of sponsorship or some sort of financial relationship. And so the prosecutors in the, in the District Attorney's office do not make prosecutorial decisions on the basis of what justice is. They make prosecute prosecutorial decisions on the basis of whether it places a favor in the favor bank for people up and over them. And Jeffrey Epstein represents the over them side of that equation. My concern, you know, Joe Rogan asked me, are there other Epstein's out there? And I said, there's a million of them in the State Department. There are these Jeffrey Epstein figures who loom around you in the think tank world, in the NGO space. I ran the Cyber Bureau with, you know, over 100 people under me in three different divisions. They're all careers. They need to decide which, whether to do what I ask them to do because I'm their boss or they, or what an outside think tank or ngo who, them, them deceiving me or going against me will do a favor for them. And you can see this by the way, in the form of Eric C. Or C. The CIA senior political or he was a mid level political analyst who was for the Europe and Eurasia desk for the CIA, who was the one who leaked the Trump phone call in 2019 and kicked off the Ukraine impeachment. And then everyone flanked around him to protect him from any scrutiny. His name was banned on Twitter for a week. It was banned on Facebook messenger. Well, he was making the, the salary range for someone in his position was between 90,000 and $130,000 per year. That's the salary range for someone at his level. Where did he go right after? If that was a Trump political, by the way, with no like, you know, fixer to be able to hook him up with an outside thing. He would be working at UberEats. He would be a convenience store clerk. There'd be no job for that person other than the gig economy. But instead he went straight to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which is a Think tank funded by foundation money that was run by Bill Burns for seven years, who would become CIA director right when Eric Sierra Mella got there. And he's making 280k a year. So you know you're making over twice as much for doing a favor. And do you, does anyone doubt that the fixer conversation was not. Do you think he cold applied to the Carnegie Endowment when he was out of a job for six months? You line this up before you make the jump and you, because these events are all over this city. The, the foundation events, the think tank, the ngo and they're sponsored by funds. In, in Epstein's case, you had the Rothchild bank and you had, you know, all these private foundations and they're at those events and in the emails that you get and in the, oh, I got to introduce you to this person, they have the talk. And it's not just a one off talk, it's a continuous one. And if you don't follow the devil's temptation and do what? Would do a favor for that outside group with, with your government power, you begin to resent the people who are doing the right thing. You begin to feel like, oh, I'm a, you know, my, I'm not as good, I'm not a good provider to my, my wife and family, but I, if I did this thing, then, you know, my wife would be so proud of me, I could afford private school for my kids or a college fund. And you think, well, Gez, you know, maybe what they're telling me to do isn't so bad. You know, they're pitching it like it's, it would be the right thing for the world. And you know, my, my boss was a dick to me the other day. What am I doing this for? What am I sacrificing for? The presence of the Epstein class makes it so that United States policy in every important government agency, State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of War, usaid, people do not make decisions on the basis of what's best for this country. They make it on the basis of what's best for the favor bank. And the, in this Jeffrey Epstein fixer class is that sticky glue between effectively the, the parties you're making favors for and yourself. And the fact is, is because he represents that people want to do favors for Jeffrey Epstein. What you see in these Epstein files are extremely. The highest level government officials in multiple countries going out of their way to keep Epstein informed, to give him private access. You saw Kathy Rummler, the White House counsel, the top lawyer for Barack Obama Leaking things, even saying completely non public things that an award she won from the Central Intelligence Agency, which is still not public to this day. But she told Jeffrey Epstein just hours after she got it from John Brennan. And, and this is something that Kathy Rummler then gets hooked up to represent the Rothschild bank in the private sector after she leaves government. Her job's making 200k a year with, with no opportunity for outside consulting gigs, sitting on board sinecures fellowships. How much you think she made as a Rothschild banker? Corporate. Corporate, you know, lawyer. And by the way, even then she negotiated a favorable settlement for the Rothschilds on the basis of a bank secrecy act she appears to have played a role in that was set up by the Obama Justice Department while she was the White House National White House counsel. So it's like the things that she's involved with in government are a favor to those on the outside. She's doing favors or sweet talking the fixer and then she goes to directly profit herself. So it makes you wonder, is, is that law? Was that made in the first place as a fa. Was it, was it really? Because we just like giving Swiss bank accounts total secrecy and freedom from, from punishment. I mean that's basically what it did. Allow them to move money to the United States without, you know, without suffering, you know, all these AML and KYC restrictions that they were under, you know, criminal query. It's like, okay, so is, did we do that because it's for American interests or did we do this actually because it allows outside banks to, to launder money and get away with it? And this also gets back to why I, I believe the money laundering and financial fixer element of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal is so important. People don't even know that this is the way the world works, let alone that these institutions exist to do it, let alone that they have the influence they do on our daily lives and our ability to actually have government, good government policy in the United States. And, and I think that the rush to explain Epstein's protection by the Justice Department and his, you know, apparent ability to skate through these crimes for decades is explainable solely because of, you know, a international child sex trafficking prostitution ring. I think that while elements of that are true, you know, in whatever degree that is, that is not in my view the key or anywhere close to the key to understanding Epstein's protection or his role. And I think that that has been a, the vacuum of a lack of other explanation was filled early by that. And I am, I'm trying to present a more extended version of the universe to fill that, fill that void.