Take It From Me: The Dutch Are Right to Sanction Clearview.AI!
The EU should hold Clearview "chief legal officer," John Kerry aide (and Israeli Spy) Jonathan Winer personally liable
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Today came word that the the Dutch Data Protection Authority issued its highest fine to date — a record $33 million fine and a threat to hold Clearview.AI’s executives personally liable.
As many of you know I was a cofounder of Clearview.AI. I raised money for the company, hired employees, and advised on strategy. I even introduced my other two cofounders — Richard Schwartz and Hoan Ton-That.
So while it may surprise some of you I actually approve of the European Union countries sanctioning Clearview.AI and I hope it holds its executives, including Israeli spy Jonathan Winer, personally responsible.
If requested by Dutch or any other legal authorities, I’ll gladly make myself available at my own expense to testify against Clearview.AI and its so-called leadership.
Why? Clearview.AI’s management has shown itself to be criminal in mismanaging the public trust and in serving the interests of the country above their own personal enrichment.
Naturally I’m currently suing Clearview.AI in federal court for fraud. When I alerted the media to what was going on at Clearview.AI, they stole my equity. That theft took place so that Clearview.AI’s CEO could sell more equity in the company.
I’m also suing one of its board members, Hal Lambert, for cheating me out of my equity in a separate legal matter. Clearview, like Pavel Durov’s Telegram, often behaves like a rogue company, catering to the whims and fancies of its cofounder, Hoan Ton-That, who like his gambler father, seems not to know when to fold them. Ton-That, who cheated the FBI coming after him before, may well think he’s invincible. He isn’t.
Clearview.AI’s board — which includes the foreign and morally compromised Hal Lambert — seems not to want to hold Ton-That accountable so its falling to government regulators to force the company to behave itself.
This is extremely welcome news as I prepare for my deposition and it comes on the heels of Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Ukraine. Schoof led the General Intelligence and Security Service as director-general from 2018 to 2020 so when he says that he will support Ukraine he means it.
Ton-That, by contrast, cut off all support for Clearview.AI in Ukraine when he didn’t get a contract to his liking. Shameful stuff, really. I wouldn’t have done that sort of thing.
Might I recommend that they hold Jonathan Winer, the former chief legal counsel and John Kerry aid, personally responsible as well?
I think when our allied intelligence services look closely they’ll find that Jonathan Winer, formerly Clearview’s “chief legal officer,” was instrumental in many of the bad decisions that Clearview.AI has made.
It was highly irresponsible for German broadcaster DW to interview Israeli spy Jonathan Winer in a documentary about Libya.
Think about this:
I’m told that France24 even has an interview where Winer is exposed as an Israeli spy. It hasn’t been released but it obviously should be.
The closeness between the U.A.E. and France should also occasion France getting Winer fired from the U.A.E. funds — and quickly.
Winer, who has lied about me routinely and on the record, was involved with at least one Russian and Likud disinformation operation. He’s even been on the payroll of Russian interests!
Winer’s government career effectively came to an end when he was involved with Russian disinformation and the Fusion GPS report.
By now it’s become clear that the dossier was funded by neoconservative donor Paul Singer and that Singer is closely backed by the Russian and Russian Jewish world.
Winer didn’t want that stuff to get out so in 2018 he ran cover for the role of Likud and Israel in the efforts to elect Donald Trump president and blamed the Russians.
I wish I could say that Winer merely had bad judgment but it’s become a pattern of Arabs and others dying.
Winer was reportedly involved in advising then-Secretary John Kerry to help filmmaker Arnon Milchan get a visa after Milchan was exposed participating in an Israeli nuclear espionage effort.
Kerry, acting on behalf of Netanyahu and receiving Middle East advice from his longtime confidant Jonathan Winer, gave Milchan the visa. Milchan, in turn, paid bribes to Netanyahu. Those bribes led Israeli authorities to investigate and charge Netanyahu. Netanyahu was facing his trial right around the time that the Hamas war kicked off.
Could all of this Gaza War had been adverted if Milchan had been denied a visa and arrested for nuclear espionage as he conducted? One wonders.
Now Winer complains about Russian interference in Libya but that’s an excuse. Libya was drawing closer to the American orbit—and Winer, along with Russophile Sid Blumenthal, advised to do regime change in Libya.
Saif Gaddafi was correct when he said that there was a conspiracy led by Nicolas Sarkozy against his father’s government. The former French president will be tried in 2025 over allegations he took money from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2007.
Toppling Gaddafi led to a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean. We know the Russians have used that migration crisis as a weapon against our European allies. Was Winer compensated by the Russians while working for the UAE’s Middle East Institute? Winer’s currently on DW talking about how Winer supports the return of Said Gaddafi — something wanted by both the Likud and the Russians.
When I protested Winer’s obvious ties to Likud and the Russians I was told not to go there with Winer given his closeness with Secretary Kerry but Kerry was shown the door by Joe Biden over his quixotic campaign to do “carbon credits” — a campaign I’ve long come to think is a Russian distraction effort.
We’re not going to price carbon more; we’re going to produce less carbon through electric vehicles by safeguarding sources of essential minerals. That was the argument that the United Arab Emirates delivered at the last COP28.
Shortly thereafter Vladimir Putin regularized his intelligence sharing agreements with the UAE — and John Kerry was removed as Climate Envoy.
Winer’s role as a fixer for the Kerrys should give us pause.
We should also ask if Winer introduced Kerry to his second wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry.
“They were just having a great time, being light with one another and physically affectionate,” said Jonathan Winer, John Kerry’s longtime legal counsel (1983-1997). “It made everybody feel good. I just saw a growing comfort.”
Saw it? Or engineered it?
Winer, who was a partner at Alston & Bird, worked as a lobbyist for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in the years preceding the Fusion GPS dossier.
This wasn’t disclosed me when I hired Alston & Bird to represent me; I’m now represented by Bernie Kleinman.
According to Winer’s Senate testimony Winer also worked on behalf of the Russian government’s nuclear agency in 2010 and 2011.
Winer told the Senate that in his private-sector jobs, he “was still engaged in various types of Russian representation all over the map.”
Did that extend to his involvement with Clearview.AI?
Winer doesn’t particularly care if the work was anti-Putin or pro-Putin.
“It was any work that was consistent with their needs and my values.”
Given that the FBI was unable — or unwilling — to stop this sort of foreign interference in our democracy by cretins like Winer, it makes you wonder why the compromised Senate Intelligence committee was so keen on targeting yours truly after I met with Julian Assange.
Could it be because Senator Mark Warner has a zipper and dirty cash problem known to the Israelis and the Russians and Senator Richard Burr was an insider trader who got millions from Russian-backed Paul Singer?
The Clearview.AI counterintelligence moves create a great opportunity for our European allies to clean up America and to expose the many players who taken Russian money.
I’ll make myself available to help any journalist, any government, any person sincerely interested in these efforts.
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Wow! It's amazing how your life crisscrosses so many of these characters. Thank you for sharing.