Is Leonard Leo's Lawyer a Russian-Born Mob Lawyer Funded By A Compromised Pro-Israel Oligarch?
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The best way to defeat an enemy is to make them just like you. If you’re corrupt, make them corrupt too. If you’re weak, make them weak too.
To some extent, this is the point of diplomacy. It is also the point of the psychological operations.
Harmonize the systems. Import the apartheid. Export the Occupation. Make America less exceptional—just another corrupt country. That way, whenever America makes a more appeal to the world, you can just point out all its sins —sins you brought forth.
You can make America complicit in its own ruin by bribing its politicians and judges. This is what it is meant by Netanyahu’s dreams of a “binational security state” and why it had to confuse Five Eyes to achieve its objective — total control of Israel and then the Middle East.
What you think it’s a coincidence that America is having a fight over the future of the Supreme Court whilst Israel’s government is trying to overhaul theirs?
Or that as Matt Yglesias points out, that confidence in the Supreme Court is at at all time low?
It turns out Martin Luther King Jr. was right. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
Abraham Lincoln too:
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other.
The Israelis want us being just like them — with blacks and Hispanics replacing the Palestinians as the occupied power. This is why one in four Palestinians is held without charges, according to Haaretz.
So, too, do the Russians who wanted us invading Iraq and Libya to drive up the price of oil. This is also why the Russians through their proxies are involved in Niger as well. Russia is always a resource colony and resource colonies like high prices for their commodities.
Both Russia and Israel want us torturing people too. If we do it too how can we dare to lecture the world? That’s what the Alan Dershowitz op — see generally his book Preemption — was all about. There’s no Ukraine war without an Iraq one or an Iraq war without all the Israeli sneak attacks.
You can hear the thinking, “After all, aren’t America and Israel exceptional countries? Don’t they require going the extra mile to protect civil liberties?”
You can see Rivkin artfully play on American and Israeli sense of specialness or persecution in the world. He argues for mistreating enemy combatants, for keeping the US out of the International Criminal Court, and for the Israeli/American “right” of preemptive strikes.
See how clever it is? These mobster advocate to the U.S. public that they fight seemingly unreasonable International agreements for the U.S. interest but it’s really all cover for Israel to do what they always do.
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There are a number of players in our system who look like one thing but are, in fact, quite another. I like to think of them as having a sort of counterintelligence camouflage — a sort of false leads which protect them from the usual scrutiny.
So it is with billionaire hedge funder Paul Singer whose ties to the Russian federation haven’t always gotten the close attention they deserve. To be fair, he’s funded a lot of activity in all kinds of surreptitious ways.
We know, for example, that Singer funded the Fusion GPS dossier that predicated the ridiculous Russia collusion narrative that hamstrung President Trump’s Administration early days. (The Nation’s James Bamford rightly notes that it was Israeli and Emirati collusion not Russia collusion.)
We’re supposed to believe that Perkins Coie took over that effort and continued to pay Fusion GPS. Meanwhile Fusion GPS was working for Russia’s Prevezon around that time—a firm which allegedly stole Russian tax money and was later prosecuted by Preet Bharara.
The line which connects the Russians and the Israelis is none other than Paul Singer, the billionaire hedge fund proprietor of Eliot Management. Singer raised money alongside Russian oligarchs like Len Blavatnik for the 2014 election.
Blavatnik later provided the money for the Broadway play Hamilton. Really. Which raises all sorts of questions about what that was really about. How often is our understanding of our own history some other country’s construction?
In any event Singer is purportedly the person who told Mitt Romney that his running mate was going to be Paul Ryan. Think about that! The power to tell a presidential candidate who their running mate was going to be.
Singer’s also the backer of the Startup Israel initiative which gets Israeli tech into the American tech ecosystem—a key part of Netanyahu’s binational security state. This effort is also key to the Israeli efforts to steal American research and development, productize it in Israel, and then sell it back to us.
A better way to think of Singer is as a kind of go between betwixt American-Russian-Israeli society. Like a lot of billionaire he takes a toll along the way — a vig, if you want. That vig can be large and he splashes the cash all over the conservative movement.
This is a big job and like with everything else, Singer has help. Like any mob boss, he has consiglieres to which we shall now turn.
I should note that I myself was afraid of Paul Singer. When I criticized him once I was told that he would destroy me and my career in the conservative movement. He was also quite close to my would be rapist, Thor Halvorssen, tied as he was to NXIVM.
But I am an American and I don’t bow to mob bosses. Nor do I countenance those who do. Increasingly I’m not fighting that fight alone.
Fittingly Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who has been targeted by the Barre Seid/Leonard Leo network, was once a federal prosecutor who took on the mob in Rhode Island.
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Which brings me to David Rivkin Jr., the attorney/consigliere/fixer to billionaire Paul Singer and Judge Sam Alito. Did I mention that Rivkin was also Leonard Leo’s attorney? Rivkin has told Leo to resist complying with congressional subpoenas under the mistaken view that they are “unconstitutional.”
Born in Saint Petersburg, Rivkin is a curious case. He’s a Jew but not a refusenik as his family came to the United States in the 1960s. You’re not allowed to ask if his family was sent here and for what purpose.
Rivkin famously challenged the constitutionality of Obamacare, a case which he took unsuccessfully all the way to the Supreme Court. The Affordable Care Act has its problems — I’ve discussed how genomics can solve the asymmetry of information issues elsewhere — but it’s unquestionably clear that the ACA was hated by the very same Russian-Jewish mob world that Rivkin has represented throughout his career.
Rivkin defended the Bush administration’s torture program and its lack approach to addressing global warming — both policies that would represent the Russian-Israeli oligarchs, many of whom have oil interests.
Rather curiously Rivkin was deeply involved with the Bernie Madoff case. (Madoff was involved with the Russian-Jewish mob.) Is Paul Singer paying Leonard Leo’s legal bills? Singer, of course, has close ties to a number of Russian oligarchs, which we previously discussed. Rivkin currently represents another Venezuelan oligarch — Alex Saab — and God only know what’s going on there.
Most recently Rivkin landed a on-the-record interview with Alito after the Supreme Court took up his weird tax case.
What’s so unusual about this Rivkin-Taranto interview is that James Taranto once told me that they only do interviews, or WINTERs in the Journal’s parlance, one-on-one. So we have a two-fer here — the compromise of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and the Supreme Court. I should have the emails floating around somewhere.
We should be asking the question of whether or not Paul Singer is paying Leonard Leo’s legal bills to avoid his own problems and a necessary Senate inquiry. Singer is slippery.
When I told my then congressman Devin Nunes that Paul Singer had funded the Fusion GPS dossier, Nunes interviewed Singer in his office and Singer proceeded to hold fundraisers for Nunes.
The rot runs deep and throughout much of the neoconservative movement. We’ve discussed at length the connections between the neocons and Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and of course the attendant ties to probable KBG asset Natan Sharansky, whose turgid The Case For Democracy (co-authored with Israeli spy Ron Dermer) became a go to for the Bush administration and a favorite of the Paul Singer network.
Rivkin worked for the Sharansky-linked Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), a Paul Singer-funded think tank which seemingly never found a country it wasn’t willing to invade. Singer put millions into these efforts.
Naturally, good neocon that he is, Rivkin signed onto a letter opposing the Iran Deal, a key deep state initiative that would have helped Iran be less reliant on blackmarket fossil fuel exports to China or Israel.
Singer donated lots of money to none other than the Claremont Institute where this past week its senior fellow John Eastman was outed talking about the right to revolution in a lengthy interview with its chairman Tom Klingenstein. As fate would have it, I was a Claremont Publius fellow in 2012 and watched as Eastman freaked out that Rivkin’s case had failed at the Supreme Court.
At the time of Singer’s donations I raised questions about how advisable it was to take his money—and then I was told to shut up.
The Singer assets are all over the conservative right. There’s Ilya Shapiro and much of George Mason, backed as it is by Chisraeli gangster Barre Seid. We are living through a kind of occupation, enabled to some extent by the considerable technological axis between Israel-Russia-China. That so much of this speech takes place pseudonymously or anonymously compounds the problem.
When my Clearview cofounders Hoan-Ton That lied about meeting Richard Schwartz he said that they met at a Manhattan Institute event. Paul Singer is one of the Manhattan Institute’s top donors. If NSO Group has taught us anything it’s that if we are going to have powerful facial recognition in the United States, it needs to be controlled by Americans and American institutions.
I decided to put my money and efforts elsewhere. I donated to Sheldon Whitehouse when I went public with some of the crazy things I had seen among the mad right.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has been key to exposing some of these networks but he needs to understand that Rivkin isn’t just merely a lawyer but an asset.
It isn’t hard to imagine that Rivkin might be a kind of sleeper agent in American life but we live in strange times.
Such times are scrambling what it means to be a conservative or a liberal.
This is the last hurrah of a school, of which Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is a member.
Might I ask, sir, no more half measures?
Let’s finish the job. Let’s break the omertà of the Federalist Society, the PayPal Mafia, and the Singerites — get them where they belong.