What's It Cost To Own An Acting Director of CIA Anyway? And Other Israeli Deal Making
Is it time to arrest Bibi's accomplices? Or at least send the IRS?
My father and I watched with rapt attention the opening statement of Emma-Jo Morris, a New York Post editor who published the hacked material from Hunter Biden.
The clip was short but packed with information.
There’s a lot of interesting stuff here for those who are paying attention at home.
Why is this video on Forbes—newly purchased by twenty-something billionaire Austin Russell and his shady investors — and not News Corp?
Morris, who is Canadian but most of all Orthodox Jewish, is particularly strident in her testimony and seems to believe she’s deserving of the Pulitzer Prize. “When you’re in political journalism, you’re always trying to be that person who breaks the Snowden story or who breaks the Pentagon Papers story. That’s the big goal of your entire career,” Morris, 29, told the Yated in an interview, “I feel like I kind of done that now.” Poor thing.
Interestingly Ms. Miranda Devine is Australian — her father was a Kiwi-turned-Australian who also worked for the Murdoch empire — and was key to advancing Morris’s career.
Here’s Morris again:
I was born and raised in Montreal. I moved to New York in 2016 because I got hired to produce Hannity. I had no idea at the time what my career was going to look like when I graduated school; I just got that opportunity and took it.
I was doing TV for four years when I met Miranda Devine, who was a columnist at the New York Post. She had just come to New York from Australia and she had this fascinating career. We connected ideologically and personally and we became really fast friends. We were talking and I was saying, “I don’t know if I really like TV. I don’t know if I still want to do it.” Then the position to be an editor at the Post opened up and she told me, “You have to apply, this would be a great position for you.” So I applied and I moved to the Post in 2020.
I was deputy politics editor at the Post in charge of national politics coverage. During the day, I would be assigning stories and then editing them. About a year after I broke the laptop story, I got poached by Breitbart. They called me up and just gave me all these great opportunities that just felt right. I had always been a big fan of Andrew Breitbart, the namesake of the website who died in 2012. He was a huge inspiration for me.
So here we have an immigrant who worked for Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post and now works for Breitbart — a publication that got millions from Rebekah Mercer — being put forward by another immigrant.
Murdoch got $100m from the Bank of China. The Mercers have been hit with one of the largest tax bills in history — $7 billion and counting! Here’s to hoping that that all of Netanyahu’s considerable American donors also get visits from the tax fairy.
Still, Ms. Morris isn’t without her points — assuming, of course, that she wrote her statement which I very much doubt. These sorts of things aren’t left to chance.
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It’s mighty interesting how acting CIA director Mike Morell — who repeatedly aligns with Israeli interests — was just allowed to claim “Russian election interference” in his statement ahead of the 2020 election.
Now, in fairness, these intelligence professionals put together by Morell had their leader call upon them to sign something and they didn’t say it was Russian interference — only that the Hunter Biden material had all the “earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.”
That’s not the most definitive of statements but it was enough. You can almost see the careerist Washington moves running: “If a former acting director of the CIA tells you to sign a letter, you do it.” And this is how “consensus” is “established” in Washington D.C.
The piece was authored by Politico — a publication now owned by AxelSpringer, whose slavishly pro-Israel slant can only be described as a speech code. AxelSpringer is, in turn, owned by KKR, backed as it is by China. I’ve written about this quite a bit and it’s very interesting.
The Politico piece was written by Natasha Bertrand. Natasha Bertrand’s credibility is oftentimes suspect. She falsely claimed, for example, that "yours truly” “may have provoked WikiLeaks outreach to Donald Trump Jr.” — only for Roger Stone to claim that I am “both a psychopath and a bullshit artist.” Remember friends: In insult, autobiography.
I don’t take this stuff personally. But we should have been suspicious there with Bertrand’s oeuvre. Later Erik Wemple of the Washington Post would remark that she took the Fusion GPS dossier way too seriously—and bootstrapped it into a gig with MSNBC. It’s becoming clearer and clearer that if you push the right narratives you get rewarded with podcasts, book deals, and TV gigs.
Chutzpah is the power to say that the Israeli election interference you were doing is Russian interference apparently.
We now know that now Secretary of State Antony Blinken was the one who asked Morell for the letter. One hopes that Blinken was stinging Morell but that would be giving Blinken a lot of credit. One does notice that few, if any, of the former intelligence professionals who signed the letter are doing anything within government these days.
Morell also advises all these weird crypto startups, nearly all of which have weird foreign ties. What’s up with that?
There’s a lot darker stuff there with Morell if you look closer.
How and why Morell resigned his senior fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government after Chelsea Manning, whose personal history looks a lot more British intelligence over time, joined the faculty.
How Morell quickly became the acting CIA director after David Petraeus’s affair was outed. Who did the outing? We don’t know.
How Morell works at Beacon Global Strategies—which counted the Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group as a client.
So who benefited from putting all the attention on the Russians rather than the Israelis?
Qui bono? Bibi bono.
No less a source than The Nation documented that the Israelis worked to help Donald Trump win in 2016 by planning an “October surprise.”
Did the Israelis try to help Trump win in 2020?
Of course they did. Once again, we got an October surprise — this time from Canadienne Orthodox Jew in the pages of the New York Post.
This fear of October Surprises, brought about by hostile intelligence agencies, is why our government has been extending the period during which Americans can cast their votes and pushing new, more moderating policies like rank choice voting.
But “nobody fucks with a Biden.”
You can watch James Bamford discuss this at length.