@ryanjreilly IMO, this Kirkland & Ellis/Alfa Bank infiltration at the DOJ is extremely relevant, given last week’s news that Russian spy Konstantin Kilimnik gave internal RNC polling data to Russian intelligence.
@ryanjreilly And Alex van der Zwaan, son-in-law of Alfa Bank owner German Khan, who was convicted and imprisoned for lying to the FBI, regularly communicated with Kilimnik in Russian via encrypted apps.
@ryanjreilly Not to mention the mysterious data packets being exchanged, during the runup before the 2016 election, between Alfa Bank, Trump Tower, and Betsy DeVos’s Spectrum Health.
@ryanjreilly Everybody remembers that Betsy DeVos is the sister of the infamous Blackwater founder Erik Prince who arranged the Seychelles meeting to establish a secret communication backchannel with Russia, right?
@ryanjreilly And that the equally infamous Paul Behrends (who btw died under very mysterious circumstances) is who arranged for Prince to work in Dana Rohrabacher’s congressional office.
@ryanjreilly And is if all of this wasn’t already weird enough, may I please point out this tidbit from the Behrends article above? “Prince even credits Behrends with helping to convert him to Catholicism.”
@ryanjreilly Do you know who else is a radical Catholic? Bill Barr.
@ryanjreilly Side note: Hypothetically might Russian intelligence operatives try to leverage with kompromat a priest who was hiding sexual his own assault crimes?
@ryanjreilly Anyway Barr, Hanssen, Louis Freeh, Antonin Scalia, Rick Santorum, Katie O’Beirne (National Review), Richard Gephardt, and other shady Washington insiders all attended the same suburban church at St Catherine of Siena.
@ryanjreilly And, this is maybe the best part, Billy Barr’s former speechwriter, John Wauck, later went on to become an Opus Dei priest. And (you can’t make this stuff up) his sister, Bonnie Wauck, was married to convicted Russian spy Robert Hanssen!
@ryanjreilly Everybody understands that the Kremlin has figured out how to weaponize conservative religion, right? I mean, I’m not making this up. People much smarter than me have already drawn these conclusions.
@ryanjreilly Well it seems like a crazy coincidence that “Al Qaeda” translates to “The Base”. 🤔
@ryanjreilly WRT the relationship between Bonnie Wauck, John Wauck, Robert Hanssen, Louis Freeh, & Opus Dei, we should mention that Bonnie & John’s other brother, Mark Wauck, was also an FBI agent. He reported Hanssen in 1990. The Bureau failed to act until 2001. Freeh was DIRFBI from 93-01.
I have a probably-naive question: I’ve been thinking about the various organized crime figures who’ve managed to avoid serious legal consequences by serving as confidential informants on terrorism related cases. And this has made me consider the reasons that certain crime states
Clearly some of this is part of their hybrid warfare strategy to use proxies to attack, divide, and weaken the target societies. Some of this is presumably to divert law enforcement and NATSEC resources away from other endeavors.
“Today, Mr. [William] Sessions (father of TX GOP congressman Pete) is a lawyer for one of the FBI's "Most Wanted": Semyon Mogilevich, a Ukraine-born Russian whom the FBI says is one of Russia's most powerful organized-crime figures.” wsj.com/articles/SB117…
Hiring the best lawyers to help Kremlin proxies launder funds and assist with foreign policy undertakings.
“Shnaider’s rise to become one of Canada’s wealthiest men (he was on Forbes’ list of billionaires by the age of 36) was helped by Boris Birshtein, his father-in-law and mentor in business.”
“FT spoke with a former KGB officer who worked in the 1980s in the agency’s foreign intelligence arm. He explained how, as the Soviet Union was collapsing, the Communist party and the KGB scrambled to stash money abroad.”
“in the late 1980s, Birshtein was one of the western businessmen whose companies became linked with KGB figures involved with the agency’s efforts to build up international business interests.”
Ok @clearing_fog@sisu_sanity@Ex67T20@csFraudAnalysis@BullMeechum3 we’ve all talked often about: 1. The infiltration at DOJ from former Alfa Bank attorneys from Kirkland and Ellis: Barr, Benczkowski, Clark, Rosen. 2. The mysterious data transfers between Trump Tower, Alfa Bank
...and Spectrum Health. 3. The many Russia connections between Erik Prince, Paul Behrends, Dana Rohrabacher, Opus Dei, Robert Hanssen, yada yada. 4. The Andy Khawaja Allied Wallet laundering large cash donations into campaigns disguised as multiple small payments
5 Wirecard et al
But @Ex67T20 just tipped me off to the fact that former Kirkland and Ellis Alfa Bank attorney Brian Benczkowski quashed the investigation into the mysterious data transfer.