Brad Birkenfeld person
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Claims (59)
Brad Birkenfeld wrote
Lucifer's Banker documented
“He gets his big fat check for $104 million, which is his payoff for keeping his mouth shut. So he also sued UBS in court for his bonus that they withheld when he left and got that too. So he wrote a book where he hammers UBS executives.…”
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Brad Birkenfeld exposed
UBS book_quoted
“After an analyst reported Swiss bank issues, he was fired. The report buried. The Swiss banker, Brad Birkenfeld, was indicted, convicted, and jailed after he exposed the Union Bank of Switzerland, UBS, terrorist threat finance connection to…”
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Brad Birkenfeld member_of
State Street Bank documented
“started off in American finance, working at State Street Bank, which I found really interesting. And the reason he left State Street Bank is because he was a whistleblower. And as a result of him blowing the whistle on their nefarious finan…”
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Brad Birkenfeld member_of
Credit Suisse documented
“He was never going to get a job inside the United States. So he leaves. He goes to Europe and he gets his MBA in Europe. And he joins Credit Suisse, which is another money launderer, in 1996. He then moves over to Barclays. He gets to UBS i…”
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Brad Birkenfeld member_of
Barclays documented
“He was never going to get a job inside the United States. So he leaves. He goes to Europe and he gets his MBA in Europe. And he joins Credit Suisse, which is another money launderer, in 1996. He then moves over to Barclays. He gets to UBS i…”
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U.S. Department of Justice paid
Brad Birkenfeld documented
“He gets his big fat check for $104 million, which is his payoff for keeping his mouth shut. So he also sued UBS in court for his bonus that they withheld when he left and got that too. So he wrote a book where he hammers UBS executives.…”
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Carl Levin failed_to_report
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“terrorism in the aftermath of 9-11. No interagency team of any military command had been informed about Birkenfeld, which the author blames on Senator Carl Levin and President Obama, whose Senate subcommittees and investigations had been th…”
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Booz Allen Hamilton plagiarized
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“was kept locked behind the DOJ, the Senate, and Birkenfeld was put in jail. Booz Allen Hamilton was also to blame for its counter-terrorist finance training PowerPoint presentation seemed to plagiarize much of Birkenfeld's material disclose…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
James Mattis host_asserted
“He goes through all of these people that he contacted when he was in jail writing. So first of all, he files a whistleblower complaint and basically he hears nothing. Then he sends a letter to Marine General James Mattis, who at that time w…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
John Custer III host_asserted
“sent a letter to John Custer III, who was the director of intelligence at CENTCOM. He gets no response. He sent letters to just about everybody in Congress. He gets no response. He sent letters to literally almost everybody. Let me give you…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
General Martin Dempsey host_asserted
“sent a letter to John Custer III, who was the director of intelligence at CENTCOM. He gets no response. He sent letters to just about everybody in Congress. He gets no response. He sent letters to literally almost everybody. Let me give you…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
General Ray Odierno host_asserted
“General Ray O'Donero, Chief of the Army, Inspector General Lynn Holbrooks of the Pentagon. Not a single answer. The only congressional member that even acknowledged his letter with a form letter was Rand Paul. And it wasn't addressing anyth…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Lynn Hallbrooks host_asserted
“General Ray O'Donero, Chief of the Army, Inspector General Lynn Holbrooks of the Pentagon. Not a single answer. The only congressional member that even acknowledged his letter with a form letter was Rand Paul. And it wasn't addressing anyth…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Rand Paul host_asserted
“General Ray O'Donero, Chief of the Army, Inspector General Lynn Holbrooks of the Pentagon. Not a single answer. The only congressional member that even acknowledged his letter with a form letter was Rand Paul. And it wasn't addressing anyth…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Sean Hannity host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Bill O'Reilly host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Greta Van Susteren host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
S.E. Cupp host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Monica Crowley host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Chris Wallace host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Bill Kristol host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Fred Barnes host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Charles Krauthammer host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Brett Humes host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Neil Cavuto host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Mike Huckabee host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Rush Limbaugh host_asserted
“is going to respond to him. He sends his whole package of information to Fox News. He personally addressed it to Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, S.E. Coop, Monica Crowley, Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol, who was both at Fox an…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Roger Ailes host_asserted
“Mike Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh, and a few others. He literally heard nothing back from any of them. He also contacted CNN, Jim Cafferty, Wall Street Journal's Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, USA Today's Tom Vanderbrook, The New York Times, Micha…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Rupert Murdoch host_asserted
“Mike Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh, and a few others. He literally heard nothing back from any of them. He also contacted CNN, Jim Cafferty, Wall Street Journal's Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, USA Today's Tom Vanderbrook, The New York Times, Micha…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Tom Vanderbrook host_asserted
“Mike Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh, and a few others. He literally heard nothing back from any of them. He also contacted CNN, Jim Cafferty, Wall Street Journal's Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, USA Today's Tom Vanderbrook, The New York Times, Micha…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Michael Hastings host_asserted
“Mike Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh, and a few others. He literally heard nothing back from any of them. He also contacted CNN, Jim Cafferty, Wall Street Journal's Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, USA Today's Tom Vanderbrook, The New York Times, Micha…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Mitt Romney host_asserted
“LA Times, Washington Post, The Hill, Roll Call, GQ Magazine, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stones. He has a list of them. That's the highlight. No response. None. Then he writes presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his VP nominee, Paul Ryan. The G…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Paul Ryan host_asserted
“LA Times, Washington Post, The Hill, Roll Call, GQ Magazine, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stones. He has a list of them. That's the highlight. No response. None. Then he writes presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his VP nominee, Paul Ryan. The G…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Reince Priebus host_asserted
“LA Times, Washington Post, The Hill, Roll Call, GQ Magazine, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stones. He has a list of them. That's the highlight. No response. None. Then he writes presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his VP nominee, Paul Ryan. The G…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Glenn Beck host_asserted
“Priebus, nothing. He mails this to Glenn Beck, Laura Ingram, Dick Morris that were on TikTok radio shows, no response. Then he tries the think tanks, Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, nothing, no response. At the Heritage Founda…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Laura Ingraham host_asserted
“Priebus, nothing. He mails this to Glenn Beck, Laura Ingram, Dick Morris that were on TikTok radio shows, no response. Then he tries the think tanks, Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, nothing, no response. At the Heritage Founda…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Dick Morris host_asserted
“Priebus, nothing. He mails this to Glenn Beck, Laura Ingram, Dick Morris that were on TikTok radio shows, no response. Then he tries the think tanks, Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, nothing, no response. At the Heritage Founda…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Ed Fulner host_asserted
“Priebus, nothing. He mails this to Glenn Beck, Laura Ingram, Dick Morris that were on TikTok radio shows, no response. Then he tries the think tanks, Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, nothing, no response. At the Heritage Founda…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Jim DeMint host_asserted
“Priebus, nothing. He mails this to Glenn Beck, Laura Ingram, Dick Morris that were on TikTok radio shows, no response. Then he tries the think tanks, Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, nothing, no response. At the Heritage Founda…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
James Carafano host_asserted
“Priebus, nothing. He mails this to Glenn Beck, Laura Ingram, Dick Morris that were on TikTok radio shows, no response. Then he tries the think tanks, Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, nothing, no response. At the Heritage Founda…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
T. N. Perkins host_asserted
“Fulner, Jim DeMint, and James Carafano. At the Family Research Council, he sent separate packages to Tony Perkins, Peter Spriggs, and Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, Army retired. No response. Nobody wanted to touch the story. And the rest…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Peter Spriggs host_asserted
“Fulner, Jim DeMint, and James Carafano. At the Family Research Council, he sent separate packages to Tony Perkins, Peter Spriggs, and Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, Army retired. No response. Nobody wanted to touch the story. And the rest…”
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Brad Birkenfeld contacted
Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin host_asserted
“Fulner, Jim DeMint, and James Carafano. At the Family Research Council, he sent separate packages to Tony Perkins, Peter Spriggs, and Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, Army retired. No response. Nobody wanted to touch the story. And the rest…”
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Hillary Clinton covered_up
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“And according to Birkenfeld, never did. Hillary Clinton at State Department and the coordinator for the counterterrorism, who he actually worked for, and Eric Holder at Justice, and the U.S. assistant attorneys, Kevin Downing and Kevin O'Co…”
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Eric Holder covered_up
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“attempted foreign plot or perhaps murder against Birkenfeld through betraying his whistleblowing to UBS and a fraudulent letter pretending to have been written by Birkenfeld's Islamic banker friend whose phone they had already tapped but th…”
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Kevin Downing covered_up
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“And according to Birkenfeld, never did. Hillary Clinton at State Department and the coordinator for the counterterrorism, who he actually worked for, and Eric Holder at Justice, and the U.S. assistant attorneys, Kevin Downing and Kevin O'Co…”
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Kevin O'Connor covered_up
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“And according to Birkenfeld, never did. Hillary Clinton at State Department and the coordinator for the counterterrorism, who he actually worked for, and Eric Holder at Justice, and the U.S. assistant attorneys, Kevin Downing and Kevin O'Co…”
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Booz Allen Hamilton covered_up
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“of the Americas, Robert Wolf. Okay. Leon Panetta, while he was the Secretary of Defense, was involved in all of this. And then he gets a position at Booz Allen Hamilton, the company that basically squashed this guy. And just before this boo…”
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Roger Zakheim covered_up
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“when he was submitting his reports to Congress while he was in jail. Okay, so the guy at Booz Allen Hamilton that knew he was going to be trouble was on the Armed Services Committee getting his quote-unquote whistleblower complaints. Not on…”
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Dov Zakheim covered_up
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“when he was submitting his reports to Congress while he was in jail. Okay, so the guy at Booz Allen Hamilton that knew he was going to be trouble was on the Armed Services Committee getting his quote-unquote whistleblower complaints. Not on…”
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Dov Zakheim recruited
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“just like Birkenfeld, crushed him. The missing piece that completed the picture was that Dov Zakim was the man who hired me to leave Washington, D.C. and come down to U.S. Central Command at McGill to work as a terrorist threat analyst for …”
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Dov Zakheim removed_from_power
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“In that position, I tracked and analyzed money supply to terrorists fighting for al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, and the Haqqani network, and now the Islamic State in Syria and ISIS. Strangely enough, he was also the man who fired me from Booz Allen af…”
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Edward Snowden spied_on
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“Dav Zakim and Roger Zakim and others had written checks to make Mitt Romney their man. More information began to seep out and the looming avalanche began to crack and shift. NBC news anchor Brian Williams interviewed Snowden in Russia, in w…”
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Brad Birkenfeld prosecuted_by
U.S. Department of Justice host_asserted
“is that Birkenfeld wasn't prosecuted in Switzerland. He was prosecuted for other stuff in the United States that didn't really seem to be that, you know, that seemed to, you know, kind of go out of its way to prosecute a guy. Yeah. And I me…”
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Brad Birkenfeld disclosed
UBS host_asserted
“These discussions occurred as the financial crisis was heating up in 2008 and suggested that Birkfeld's disclosure to Senator Carl Levin and Barack Obama's Senate subcommittee on investigations about the UBS terrorist finance league and tax…”
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U.S. Treasury Department failed_to_investigate
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“and their Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Unit, which the author had been working with when he was at CENTCOM in the State Department, had basically the ability to undercut the financing of terrorism worldwide and had never talked to B…”
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National Counterterrorism Center failed_to_investigate
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“Also absent was the National Counterterrorism Center, which he had worked with from his perch at the State Department. The NCTC was the primary organization in the United States for integrating all intelligence pertaining to terrorism, incl…”
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Defense Intelligence Operation Coordination Center failed_to_investigate
Brad Birkenfeld host_asserted
“Also absent was the National Counterterrorism Center, which he had worked with from his perch at the State Department. The NCTC was the primary organization in the United States for integrating all intelligence pertaining to terrorism, incl…”
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U.S. Department of Justice attempted_assassination_of
Brad Birkenfeld book_quoted
“and foreign banks. The report explained how one month after meeting with the DOJ officials and giving them his cell number, Birkenfeld's international banking friend from London had received a call from UBS asking him why he had sent them a…”
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Mentions (86)
▶ 8:07
After an analyst reported Swiss bank issues, he was fired. The report buried. The Swiss banker, Brad Birkenfeld, was indicted, convicted, and jailed after he exposed the Union Bank of Switzerland, UBS, terrorist threat finance connection to…
▶ 8:34
Scott Bennett was a Booz Allen Hamilton associate and army officer who worked as a terrorist threat finance analyst at U.S. CENTCOM and was indicted, tried, and convicted on charges after he sent two reports up the chain of command. One pre…
▶ 9:03
terrorist threat finance connection. And for those of you asking, he was an army reservist. So he was civilianly employed by Booz Allen Hamilton. Ironically, Birkenfeld and Bennett ended up in the same unit in the same prison and compared n…
▶ 10:03
has even been questioned in the terrorist finance UBS Birkenfeld CIA Booz Allen Hamilton connection ever. Clapper made the least untruthful statement before Congress when he lied about Snowden's NSA monitoring of Americans and failed to dis…
▶ 19:59
and certain agencies in the intelligence community colluded to betray, prosecute, and cover up UBS whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld for exposing and reporting on UBS terrorist threat finance connections. This report was written to Colonel Jeff…
▶ 22:20
against either their complicity or their ineptitude. Fehr also inspired politicians. Addicted to their re-election and neutered by political correctness, they frantically covered their ears, eyes, and mouth, assumed a fetal position of deni…
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may have been made by the Department of Justice against Brad Birkenfeld in the form of a forged letter sent to UBS claiming to be from Birkenfeld's friend portraying that Birkenfeld was revealing priority bank information, i.e. the terroris…
▶ 23:52
and foreign banks. The report explained how one month after meeting with the DOJ officials and giving them his cell number, Birkenfeld's international banking friend from London had received a call from UBS asking him why he had sent them a…
▶ 24:18
and in shock and outrage at being violated, demanded to know what was going on. Birkenfeld then explained he was meeting with DOJ officials but couldn't discuss why. Despite confronting and demanding an explanation from the Justice Departme…
▶ 24:45
would expose accounts and activities by the U.S. government, CIA, which mentally, he calls them mentally medicated politicians simply didn't want to know. So in order to not have to suffer the strain of honesty and give an answer to the Ame…
▶ 25:17
That plan would be to bait Birkenfeld into giving testimony before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Levin, and then switch the discussion to American tax evasion and money laundering issues so that the…
▶ 25:38
cobbled together a rickety legal case against him, then threatened prosecute and silence him with a plea deal that would remove him from the public eye via an NDA as quickly as possible. This is the real reason Carl Levin is rushing to reti…
▶ 27:12
and had nothing to do with the red herring of saving jobs or destabilizing the financial markets. However, despite also being chairman of the Senate Armed Service Committee, Carl Levin refused to share any of the information disclosed by Bi…
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And neither Senator Carl Levin nor President Barack Obama nor any member of the Congressional Committee ever allowed Brad Birkenfeld's testimony or financial information to be shared with the CENTCOM team. It was only after I met Brad Birke…
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Much obscene skullduggery, corruption, and treason may have been committed against our military by allowing terrorist UBS financial networks to remain undisclosed, untargeted for political reasons. It was only after I spent months with Birk…
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not from a professional military analyst, but from an imprisoned civilian banker. And never would we have met had the same government, which imprisoned him for whistleblowing about the Swiss bank financing terrorism, not also imprisoned me …
▶ 1:03:57
on us, at least coming from equities. So I agree on the security side of it, but I'm talking about the blatant cash money laundering. I mean, number one, I think what happened to this whistleblower here was horrendous. Also what happened to…
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And it's kind of funny how any nefarious activity out there is always going to hide behind various duties of confidentiality by everybody working on stuff. Swiss banking secrecy is pretty famous, but the sad part is...…
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is that Birkenfeld wasn't prosecuted in Switzerland. He was prosecuted for other stuff in the United States that didn't really seem to be that, you know, that seemed to, you know, kind of go out of its way to prosecute a guy. Yeah. And I me…
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was that he had recognized the interagency connection between WikiLeaks cables and saw how General Dale Daley, who had been the commander of the JSOC, which is the unit at Fort Bragg, and charged with findings of international terrorist ban…
▶ 4:31
was General Daley had then been made Ambassador Daley, which again is something that we see routinely in Operation Gladio. And President Bush II, coordinators for counterterrorism at the State Department, they had begun to analyze, discuss,…
▶ 5:30
These discussions occurred as the financial crisis was heating up in 2008 and suggested that Birkfeld's disclosure to Senator Carl Levin and Barack Obama's Senate subcommittee on investigations about the UBS terrorist finance league and tax…
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to the author was the fact that he had worked for Ambassador Daley at the State Department's Counterterrorism Office at the time as his liaison officer to U.S. SOCOM. So I knew everything the State Department and U.S. SOCOM was doing in thi…
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Birkenfeld made part of a political solution, which meant prosecuting and silencing him through the Attorney General Eric Holder's office. This entailed having two Chinese Uyghurs that had been being held at Guantanamo Bay relocated to Swit…
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There was also a forged letter sent to UBS, which was interpreted as an assassination attempt against Birkenfeld that the DOJ and the CIA was involved in, as well as the CIA substation in the embassy of Bern, which is Alan Dulles' old stopp…
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and other foreign banks' accounts, and Birkenfeld's revelations threatened their unchecked, unregulated, and likely illegal activity. This is where the story takes the most bizarre turn of all, and it should have immediately triggered a con…
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It appears that Edward Snowden, the Booz Allen Hamilton contractor at the NSA, who turned whistleblower and revealed to the British newspaper, The Guardian, various domestic surveillance programs used by the NSA on American citizens, also s…
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Glenn Greenwald was part of that set of reporters that wrote that article. Snowden describes a particularly formative and disheartening incident in which he claims CIA operatives attempted to recruit the Swiss banker to obtain secret bankin…
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to exploit him. And that paralleled exactly what they had done to Brad Birkenfeld. As a computer network security expert with diplomatic cover and security clearance, Snowden saw all of the intelligence reports, cables, and discussions invo…
▶ 11:29
to betray Birkenfeld through a fraudulent letter sent to UBS, as well as the later false prosecution against him. Snowden would have seen this as not only contradicting the Constitution, but understanding there was no one in the government …
▶ 11:56
So many intelligence agencies and departments were conspicuously missing or hiding from the Birkenfeld case. I wondered if counter-terrorist financing operations existed anywhere other than on paper. The agencies which should have taken the…
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and their Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Unit, which the author had been working with when he was at CENTCOM in the State Department, had basically the ability to undercut the financing of terrorism worldwide and had never talked to B…
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terrorism in the aftermath of 9-11. No interagency team of any military command had been informed about Birkenfeld, which the author blames on Senator Carl Levin and President Obama, whose Senate subcommittees and investigations had been th…
▶ 14:24
and yet never reported any of the intelligence to the armed forces. It sickened the author, not because of incompetence, but he was beginning to see collusion. And the fact that it was leading to deaths on the battlefield was very disturbin…
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targeting process and could have yielded information about the hierarchical structure, vulnerabilities, and capabilities of terrorist finance networks that would have greatly empowered the U.S. SOCOM operations with fusion points of synchro…
▶ 15:23
was kept locked behind the DOJ, the Senate, and Birkenfeld was put in jail. Booz Allen Hamilton was also to blame for its counter-terrorist finance training PowerPoint presentation seemed to plagiarize much of Birkenfeld's material disclose…
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yet never identified him or UBS as the solution the military had contracted them to find. After months of talks, Birkenfeld and the author, while they were in jail, decided the information had to get out to the American people and that Cong…
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It was an unbelievable story of corruption, cowardness, incompetence, and treason. The failure to utilize Birkenfield's UBS terrorist finance intelligence was not only a major discovery, but an ongoing threat that negatively affected the wa…
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to hire Booz Allen Hamilton to do a job. When they did their job so well, they took one of the employees that had stumbled across this UBS terrorist financing and put him in jail on trumped up charges. And the guy that was over in Switzerla…
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He also talks about trying to contact people like Leon Panetta, who was both the CIA director and the Secretary of Defense, which that should never happen. No one should ever be in both of those jobs. So he then says that Birkenfeld…
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was the proof that confirmed my research suppositions and predictions about the terrorist finance network that he had been working on all along. And he talks about the chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, which had Birkenfeld…
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And according to Birkenfeld, never did. Hillary Clinton at State Department and the coordinator for the counterterrorism, who he actually worked for, and Eric Holder at Justice, and the U.S. assistant attorneys, Kevin Downing and Kevin O'Co…
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attempted foreign plot or perhaps murder against Birkenfeld through betraying his whistleblowing to UBS and a fraudulent letter pretending to have been written by Birkenfeld's Islamic banker friend whose phone they had already tapped but th…
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about this issue and to this day hanging the sword over his head in the form of threatening to so he basically proved he was falsely imprisoned he was awarded a 104 million dollar settlement predicated on signing an NDA that he never talked…
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Any other materials relating to Scott Bennett's whistleblowing reports relating to Edward Snowden, Booz Allen Hamilton, UBS, Brad Birkenfeld, the NSA, CIA, and the terrorist threat finance operations? And he goes on and gives them some more…
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never returned phone calls, emails, or letters. On June 13, 2014, James Bamford at Wired Magazine flew to Moscow and interviewed Edward Snowden, writing a story that further expanded into the CIA operation against Swiss banker whistleblower…
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and then hold that over their head. It had profound impacts on people and the quality of intelligence. What Bamford forgot to mention or intentionally omitted was the $104 million that Birkenfeld was paid by the CIA to cover up the Snowden-…
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Now, I've read his complaint here, but basically he makes the point that using this type of curriculum in the prison is a safety hazard for all Americans. So going on past his complaint, the next section is labeled Brad Birkenfeld. As the s…
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suggest Brad Birkenfeld was the equivalent of the lead character in American Psycho. Only Birkenfeld was smarter and had a decent soul. He was a mastermind of the international banking industry, disarmingly charming and personable and would…
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loyal American patriot. To some low IQ people, he came off while he was in prison as arrogant because he was highly educated sitting in a prison with people who weren't. So he got picked on. In February 2015, the French government requested…
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funding of terrorism, and hiding money. The Miami court reluctantly allowed Birkenfeld to travel to Paris and testify. Conveniently, the French also interviewed Bennett and discussed French intelligence issues relating to the Swiss bank and…
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U.S. dollar services and access to the U.S. financial system with high risk affiliations to high risk clients. This report also allegedly offered recommendations to strengthen correspondence for controlling and combating money laundering. Y…
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Not that they didn't have it because they not only had his, they had Bennett's as well. The biggest whistleblower in the global banking history with the most earth shattering banking intelligence and account information belonging to terrori…
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Union Bank of Switzerland, nowhere in the report. Military terror threat financing, nowhere in there. U.S. Central Command, Joint Intelligence Group, U.S. SOCOM, or Booz Allen Hamilton. And they had information related to that subject on al…
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of $104 million. So we've done our report. We're going to let the guy out early. We're going to pay him off. And we're going to pretend like none of that exists because they gave him an NDA that he couldn't talk about it. On September 25th,…
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must be released in order to clarify hidden finance connections. He has some information on that, and he lists four things. The Zacharias Moussaoui's laptop, which contains a database of Saudi funders of both al-Qaeda and ISIS. A Swiss bank…
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Birkenfeld had pointed out where all of the bodies were buried. Snowden had defined and marked them for the NSA CIA document tombstones. And now it seemed that he was stuck trying to expose the terrorist and finance piece. So he goes on to …
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who was Birkenfeld's, you know, now that he's a millionaire, he could afford a PR person. Jessalyn, sorry, Jessalyn Radak. She was also Edward Snowden's attorney. Radak had been instructed by Birkenfeld to contact me regarding the military …
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Glenn Greenwald Snowden's biographer and distributor of intelligence cables and provided his assistant Andrew Fishman with all of the documents and most importantly the CIA Snowden Birkenfeld connections in Switzerland Fishman responded wit…
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Can you prove that the banker targeted by the CIA for drunk driving was Birkenfeld? Bennett, so rare does anybody respond to him, replies immediately, yes. Send him the proof where Birkenfeld had provided and expected an avalanche of respon…
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Radek, or anyone else associated with Snowden or Birkenfeld. He was puzzled by their silence. So he goes on to say, what would also come to light were the materials suggesting Edward Snowden had communicated top secret documents detailing t…
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lessons that we did it was very personal as far as his presentation of it and he kept referring to the whistleblower of Birkenfeld and so I want to go through who he actually is who Birkenfeld is we talked a little bit about him…
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okay excuse me colonel it doesn't look like rumbles started up yet okay i'll get over there in just a second okay let me get over there all right okay so we're gonna do a summary and this will be the last day that we spend on shell game so …
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private banker. And he is described as someone who invested high wealth people's money in UBS in Switzerland. Okay. And then obviously he became a whistleblower and it's important to understand why he did that.…
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hide their money as well to fund all of the nefarious things that we've talked about over the last several years. So it can be a combination of all of those things. Birkenfeld, leading up to his whistleblowing time, was described as a high-…
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where UBS agreed to pay $780 million in fines and disclose their client names in exchange for none of them going to jail when all of them should have went to jail because they knowingly were doing this, especially in any Americans that was …
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started off in American finance, working at State Street Bank, which I found really interesting. And the reason he left State Street Bank is because he was a whistleblower. And as a result of him blowing the whistle on their nefarious finan…
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He was never going to get a job inside the United States. So he leaves. He goes to Europe and he gets his MBA in Europe. And he joins Credit Suisse, which is another money launderer, in 1996. He then moves over to Barclays. He gets to UBS i…
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by managing offshore assets for Americans. He even recounted one guy smuggling diamonds in toothpaste tubes. He also sponsored US events like horse races and yacht expeditions and boating races. And he did this.…
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on a conservative side, which was equivalent to hiding $7.2 million in taxes that he should have paid. So it wasn't until they raided one of his clients that the guy got a little moral. And that prompted him because when you start going up …
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all of the inside practices of UBS for lack of a better word, insurance. And UBS then start kind of honing in on him because his client got raided. So they're getting a little nervous. And so he resigned and in 2007 filed his whistleblower …
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He approached the U.S. authorities with his evidence, including client lists and internal documents. Congress miraculously had just passed new whistleblower rewards programs. And it's interesting to also note that originally when he approac…
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Throw that out there. I found that incredibly interesting based on everything that we know. So back to Birkenfeld. All right. So after this guy has the dime dropped on him and all of his stuff is raided and they penalize him, not obviously …
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Birkenfeld gets a moral spur in his saddle and decides that he's going to start collecting information to protect himself. He takes that to the DOJ. Supposedly, he's supposed to have immunity. But despite his cooperation, the DOJ turns arou…
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He gets his big fat check for $104 million, which is his payoff for keeping his mouth shut. So he also sued UBS in court for his bonus that they withheld when he left and got that too. So he wrote a book where he hammers UBS executives.…
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primarily Christian Beauvais, B-O-V-A-Y, and U.S. officials for protecting the bank while punishing him, which is true. Olenkov later sued him and UBS, but the case was dismissed because obviously he was guilty. Birkenfeld does not go into…
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in any way in his book, in public statements, in his testimony, nor was he ever asked in his testimony because they don't want to disclose that to the American public. Anything about the terrorist funding that comes specifically from Scott …
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hunting terrorist in the CENTCOM SOCOM state department arena he was comparing the list of entities that Birkenfeld made public to information that he had that indicated some of the same entities that Birkenfeld with these offshore…
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Bennett is alleging. According to Bennett, Birkenfeld provided him with extensive documentations, including 19,000 UBS account names, cell phone numbers, hotel records, meeting dates, emails, bank statements, WikiLeaks cables, reports, lett…
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Bennett described Birkenfeld's information as a ring of power. Bennett claims that Birkenfeld initially exposed the UBS terror financing connections to the U.S. Department of Justice, intel agencies, and Senator Carl Levin's permanent subco…
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The testimony focused only on tax evasion and money laundering and would not ask any questions about any of the other uses of that money. So Bennett alleges that Birkenfeld $104 million settlement was basically a payoff to keep him quiet.…
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Because Bennett had shared with him the terrorist links while they were in prison. But obviously Birkenfeld, who is a very materialistic type of guy, and only has morals when it's to his best interest to have morals. And so Bennett's...…
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allegation that it was basically a payoff makes a lot of sense when you take all of that information into perspective. He was going to be set up with a nice nest egg, and he wasn't going to ruffle any feathers. But Bennett claims that CENTC…
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people consulting him as far as how you do this, how you set up this trust versus that. And there's so many tentacles to what, he was just a much more seasoned Birkenfeld. He had his fingers in everything. Birkenfeld, obviously.…
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kept his constraint to the financial piece of this. But we can, in every avenue in which Epstein operated, we can give you someone that operated in that same footprint at a different time period in all of the information that we've been wor…
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If you look at this particular case, you have the one guy, Birkenfeld, who was told that he can do all of these things. And if he does all of these things, he's going to have immunity. And then they send him to jail anyway. And then they gi…