FBI Whistleblower Johnathan Buma Raided By FBI, Vindicated by Ukraine Prosecutor

Chris Christie is going to win this thing and Clearview's Time treatment

Special Agent Johnathan Buma was raided by the FBI in a move that surprises precisely no one who has studied the history of FBI whistleblowers. We had discussed this possibility when he decided he had to go public. He bravely decided to go ahead anyway. That’s the sort of courage that built this country and I’m proud to stand alongside it, come what may.

Buma was forced by his higher ups to close me out as a confidential human source because I was reporting on the Israeli activity in the United States, particularly around January 6th. Buma’s immediate boss appears to have been compromised by the Israelis and there’s a long history of the FBI LA field office being corrupt. Think of it as the sort of place where Mormonism, weird Catholicism and Israeli intrigue all meet up alongside cartels, Chinese mafias, Russian and Israeli gangsters.

I told him that there needed to be justice over what he has done to Americans, especially as concerns Pegasus. Christie promised me that there would be.

When you investigate Rudy Giuliani you’ll discover that he has a lot of friends who owe their careers to him and our post-September 11th farce.

But I suspect that America’s Mayor may well end up in a Ukrainian jail. Good. Indeed there’s some indication that one of Buma’s sources — Miami — was intimately connected with the recent indictment of one of Giuliani’s Russian connected friends.

Isn’t it interesting that all of Buma’s sources that were closed out by the FBI continue to produce for other intelligence agencies and even other bits of the FBI? Anyway…

We are moving from America as the world’s policeman to America as the world’s prosecutor. We are the friends of liberty and of justice everywhere (except it would appear Palestine but some of us are working on that too!)

For what it’s worth I have no regrets about the work I did and will continue to do it in any form I am able to do it in. For what it’s worth I found Buma to be exceedingly careful with all materials he handled.

In a just world Johnathan Buma would be running the FBI’s counterintelligence division. We are not in a just world. But it is absolutely worth fighting for and, if I may be so bold, dying for. I would, of course, prefer to live for it but no one knows the hour of his death. Nobody lives forever.

When I first met Johnathan Buma I told him that I’d meet with him but I was planning to kill myself and that if the FBI did anything funny to me I’d just kill myself faster so they shouldn’t bother with it.

Buma told me that he wanted me to live for my country and my family. I have not forgotten that kindness and I work every day to repay it and pay it forward.

I was recently rewatching the French film L’Affaire Farewell (2009). I had earlier watched The Courier with my father.

“I married an engineer not James Bond!” the French protagonist Pierre’s wife whines in one of her periodic outbursts.

Pierre continues to help Sergei in one of the largest intelligence operations in history.

“We’re going to finish this story — the two of us,” Sergei tells Pierre.

Indeed.

Farewell quotes one of my favorite poems, La mort du loup, which is about a wolf who gives up his life for his children.

I didn’t understand it then but I do now.

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I attended a fundraiser for Governor Chris Christie in Dallas. When my legal matters are mostly settled — I’m in a lawsuit over Clearview.AI and Umbra — I plan to max out to Governor Chris Christie and President Biden. When I register to vote in Virginia I’ll be registering as an Independent.

I came away entirely more impressed with Christie than I already was. In my view Christie should have run for president in 2012 but I’ll support him for the Republican nomination in 2024.

It’s one thing to see someone on TV and it’s quite another to see someone in person. Christie has the look and feel of a winner. He answers questions, despite being tired, extremely well and he has all the confidence of a man on a mission. Christie’s weak on visionary — BIG stuff — but that can be added later when it’s most needed.

Christie gave a pretty great speech, filled with his characteristic humor and storytelling. When it came time for Q&A, I asked a question about whether Christie would have the courage to be the first Republican to call out Netanyahu on a Republican stage.

As the field winnows Christie promised that he would bring up the corruption around Netanyahu and the Trump administration and that we would have that conversation “in due time” and that our Israeli friends would join that conversation with us. I told him that there needed to be justice over what he has done to Americans, especially as concerns Pegasus. Christie promised me that there would be. OK fair enough.

Later I spoke with Governor Christie about Netanyahu, jailing a Kushner, being a confidential informant, you know the usual.

I also thanked Christie on behalf of all of us who have been the beneficiary of prosecutorial discretion. He used to require lawyers he hired at the US Attorney’s office to read the seal “Department of Justice.” “Department of Justice isn’t Department of Prosecutions,” he said and meant.

At the end, right before we were leaving, Christie turned to me, looked me in the eyes and said “we will get Jared too.” My heart sang.

I promised a friend that I wouldn’t post the photo of me and Christie until Christie won the primary. So stay tuned friends.

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As you know I’m currently in a lawsuit with Clearview.AI and my two cofounders, Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz. Schwartz worked for Rudy Giuliani as a lot of the people around Clearview seemingly did including their lawyer Ron K. Giller.

I’m not really supposed to talk about it though Giller’s efforts to gag me have failed thanks to a federal judge who seemingly knows what’s up. Israeli interesting all the efforts to come at me — I get approaches constantly from them — but I’m still standing to borrow a phrase from the wondrous Elton John.

Now there’s a new article about Clearview.AI in Time magazine about the facial recognition company’s efforts which I read in detail, especially this paragraph:

The partnership between the Ukrainian government and the American tech company has been a boon to both sides. Ukraine's tech-savvy government was desperate to use any tools it could find to defend itself against a larger invading army. And Clearview was eager to provide its tools for free—which it is still doing now—to showcase an effective use for its facial-recognition technology, which has been maligned for harvesting its data by scraping billions of public photographs from the Internet, allegedly violating privacy rights, and selling access to law enforcement. [Emphasis mine]

For free. Yeah, totally normal stuff for a government contractor.

The reporter comes out of BuzzFeed world which is, well, it is Israeli interesting though this is seemingly more Israeli deep state than Chisrael. Salesforce founder Marc Benioff’s ownership of Time never gets the attention it deserves.

Way back when Suella Braverman was still Home Secretary the British approached Clearview about working together. (Queue those other great Brits “come together.”)

But then there was no interest by Clearview.AI. There have been a lot of different approaches by intelligence services into Clearview and always no interest. Something is seemingly up there. What is it? We’re going to find out in discovery which should prove fun.

In discovery we’re going to find that Hoan ran away from the FBI when Special Agent Johnathan Buma called him. Buma filed a report after Clearview.AI was hacked by the Israelis/Emiratis and then had their search record put up by BuzzFeed’s Ryan Mac. Mac is now at the New York Times and Hoan got a lot more involved in the Israeli world.

Hey Hoan, let’s chat. Or have our attorneys chat. I may have a buyer for Clearview.

It’s time to sell the company and put it in responsible hands. Those hands are probably not mine and they certainly not yours.

Let’s do the right thing for the world and make sure Clearview finds a responsible home.