Jack Blum person
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Claims (12)
Jack Blum covered_up
Norwin Menendez host_asserted
“He asked the Justice Department to turn over its files on Menendez and the long-closed Brogman case. He ran into a buzzsaw. He said, quote, we had a terrible, terrible time getting information about Menendez from the fellow who was the U.S.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 45:37
Jack Blum member_of
Edward Kennedy documented
“Kerry's chief investigator in D.C. was Jack Bloom. He detailed some of the charges Kerry's staff had looked into, and he told the senators that, quote, the narcotics are coming into the United States not by pound, not by the bag, but by the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 33:10
Jack Blum member_of
Edward Kennedy documented
“Though the examiner's expose appeared just two days before the House of Representatives was scheduled to take up the highly controversial issue of $100 million of our money to the Contras, not a single major newspaper published this story. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 45:07
Jack Blum member_of
Senate Foreign Relations Committee documented
“I want to introduce to you some people. We have, as I mentioned, the authors of this book were Time Magazine writers, Beatty and Gwen. And they had a man come talk to them whose last name was Bloom, B-L-U-M. He was a lawyer working for the …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 5:11
Jack Blum member_of
Church Committee documented
“investigating for John Kerry's committee into basically drug trafficking, money laundering, and et cetera. And those types of investigations take a lot of effort. He also served as the counsel to Frank Church's commission when it was going …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 5:40
Jack Blum exposed
Lockheed Corporation documented
“which obviously exposed a bunch of the CIA misdeeds. So this isn't just a nobody. He also was involved in exposing Lockheed's bribery scandals in paying off the Japanese officials for buying Lockheed.…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 6:10
Jack Blum asserted
BCCI book_quoted
“From Jack Bloom, who was John Kerry's chief investigator until 1989. He's talking about the lack of cooperation. He says it was so pervasive and so successful in frustrating his efforts to investigate BCCI that he now believes, shocker here…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale @ 20:04
Jack Blum member_of
Church Committee documented
“investigating for John Kerry's committee into basically drug trafficking, money laundering, and etc. And those types of investigations take a lot of effort. He also served as the counsel to Frank Church's commission when it was going on.…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 5:40
Jack Blum exposed
Lockheed bribery scandal documented
“which obviously exposed a bunch of the CIA misdeeds. So this isn't just a nobody. He also was involved in exposing Lockheed's bribery scandals in paying off the Japanese officials for buying Lockheed.…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 6:10
Jack Blum member_of
Senate Foreign Relations Committee documented
“I want to introduce to you some people. We have, as I mentioned, the authors of this book were Time Magazine writers, Beatty and Gwen. And they had a man come talk to them whose last name was Bloom, B-L-U-M. He was a lawyer working for the …”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 5:11
Jack Blum exposed
Kerry Commission host_asserted
“you know, aspect of reality whatsoever. But that was another of them, 2004, when somehow John Kerry managed to lose to his fellow Skull and Bones men. Stunning. Yeah. Let me also point out that Jack Bloom, the guy that was the lead investig…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 53:32
Jack Blum exposed
BCCI guest_asserted
“He says it was so pervasive and so successful in frustrating his efforts to investigate BCCI that he now believes, shocker here, that it was part of a deliberate strategy.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 20:04
Mentions (34)
▶ 20:04
From Jack Bloom, who was John Kerry's chief investigator until 1989. He's talking about the lack of cooperation. He says it was so pervasive and so successful in frustrating his efforts to investigate BCCI that he now believes, shocker here…
▶ 29:46
the drug trafficking remains under the control of the traffickers aligned with the CIA. This confirms the judgment of Senate investigator Jack Bloom a decade ago that America, instead of battling a narcotics conspiracy, has in a subtle way …
▶ 55:42
Blanton's testimony about selling cocaine to the Contras in LA wasn't part of a fantasy. This could have actually happened. I called Jack Bloom, the Washington DC attorney who headed the Kerry investigation, and he confirmed that Norwin Men…
▶ 56:33
It wasn't in the papers, he said, for the most part. We laid it all out and we were trashed, Bloom said. I've got to tell you, there's a real problem with the press in this town. We were totally hit by the leadership of the administration a…
▶ 57:03
We were dumped on by the Iran-Contra committee. They wouldn't touch this issue with a 10-foot pole. There had to have been some reporters who followed this, I protested. Maybe I'm naive, but it seems like a huge story to me. Bloom laughed o…
▶ 57:58
And I'd say, look, the minute I find you a Lutheran minister or a priest who was on the scene when they took delivery of 600 kilos of cocaine at an airbase in Contra land, I'll put them on the stand. But until then, you take what you can ge…
▶ 33:10
Kerry's chief investigator in D.C. was Jack Bloom. He detailed some of the charges Kerry's staff had looked into, and he told the senators that, quote, the narcotics are coming into the United States not by pound, not by the bag, but by the…
▶ 45:07
Though the examiner's expose appeared just two days before the House of Representatives was scheduled to take up the highly controversial issue of $100 million of our money to the Contras, not a single major newspaper published this story. …
▶ 45:37
He asked the Justice Department to turn over its files on Menendez and the long-closed Brogman case. He ran into a buzzsaw. He said, quote, we had a terrible, terrible time getting information about Menendez from the fellow who was the U.S.…
▶ 46:04
right-wing true believer as ever came down the road and who was bound and determined to prevent anyone from learning anything about the case, Bloom said. He and the Justice Department flipped out to prevent us to getting any access to the p…
▶ 34:10
to target specific enemies and thus ensure the drug traffic remains under the control of the traffickers that the CIA controlled. This confirms the judgment of Senate Investigator Jack Bloom a decade ago that America, instead of battling na…
▶ 32:47
Probably the major impasse comes down to whether the principles of the Sherman Antitrust Act are good or not good for the world and oil, unquote. His paper, which predicted the extraordinary accuracy of Middle East oil embargo and inflation…
▶ 33:23
who we've talked about, great investigator, was an investigator as part of the multinational subcommittee in Congress, questioned him about his paper, Funkhauser. Blum said, what I am especially struck by is the date, September 10th, 1950.…
▶ 53:32
you know, aspect of reality whatsoever. But that was another of them, 2004, when somehow John Kerry managed to lose to his fellow Skull and Bones men. Stunning. Yeah. Let me also point out that Jack Bloom, the guy that was the lead investig…
▶ 54:30
It was the seventh largest bank in the world, 100% money laundering, narcotics and weapons. George Bush had an account there. Noriega had an account there. Saddam Hussein had an account there. Aidan Khashoggi used that bank almost exclusive…
▶ 54:59
flabbergasted in many statements that he made about how they had limited that investigation. Warhamster, go ahead. Yeah, to all along's point, and I think Colonel Touchstone pretty much said the same thing I was going to say. You look at th…
▶ 20:11
Others like Jack Bloom and author Mark Hasenball says some is and some isn't, and it's hard to tell the difference. The jurors in Beneke's trial in Portland believe Beneke over the witnesses from the CIA, Secret Service, and Donald Gregg. A…
▶ 5:11
I want to introduce to you some people. We have, as I mentioned, the authors of this book were Time Magazine writers, Beatty and Gwen. And they had a man come talk to them whose last name was Bloom, B-L-U-M. He was a lawyer working for the …
▶ 5:40
investigating for John Kerry's committee into basically drug trafficking, money laundering, and et cetera. And those types of investigations take a lot of effort. He also served as the counsel to Frank Church's commission when it was going …
▶ 6:10
which obviously exposed a bunch of the CIA misdeeds. So this isn't just a nobody. He also was involved in exposing Lockheed's bribery scandals in paying off the Japanese officials for buying Lockheed.…
▶ 6:28
And his investigation led to the gelling of Tanaka, who was the prime minister of Japan. He also did an investigation for the Senate that led to the abdication of the Queen of Netherlands. He was involved in the investigation into ITT's inv…
▶ 6:49
This is somebody of significance in understanding how Operation Gladio worked, because I just described to you at least two of their operations in his resume. And it also is interesting to note that his investigations and the Kerry Commissi…
▶ 8:46
how they slow walked it, how they covered it up. And that's what Jack Bloom was telling these Time reporters. Yes. Well, but I'm even talking about the Times reporters. They wrote this book. In this book, they are very hesitant to lay at th…
▶ 10:43
So they could see and monitor where they were spending their money. OK, so Bloom gets picked up in 1986 to 87 or excuse me, 86 to 88 to be an investigator on John Kerry's committee for drugs, contra and money laundering. That was basically …
▶ 11:11
Bloom first meets with Beatty out in California to talk about the BCCI. He mentions his knowledge that he gained from the Cary Commission. He also mentions that he only refers to him as Blanton, who was a Panama diplomat that worked for Gen…
▶ 11:39
also served as his general counsel, had testified in a closed session of Congress about BCCI's role and the fact that Noriega had his bank account for his quote-unquote CIA drug networking payouts at BCCI. So that was all captured, accordin…
▶ 15:58
That it was the most important money laundering bust that had ever occurred in the entire United States history. But that DOJ allowed minor plea bargainings and slaps on the wrist as far as both he and Bloom was concerned. And that both of …
▶ 17:00
And very disgruntled as a result of, as was Bloom. So Bloom obviously wanted BCCI investigated under the Kerry Commission. And basically, towards the tail end, after all of this happens and they get their little fish, not only is BCCI still…
▶ 20:45
Yeah. Well, okay. So should we talk about the John Kerry connection? Okay. We're going to get to that. Okay. Let's go through just a little bit more of the setting up of Bloom. So Bloom starts asking all of these questions and he finds out …
▶ 21:11
They had shares bought in banks in San Francisco, in Los Angeles, Houston. As you said, they owned a bank in Florida. And there were other shares bought in banks, not only just the one in Miami, which was Centrust, but Tampa and Boca Raton …
▶ 21:41
And he gets a call from an executive at BCCI who had left the bank while, and Bloom is still on the Senate investigative staff when he gets this phone call. So he had basically taken all of the transcripts and subpoenaed documents and files…
▶ 29:58
The Columbian Bank, which is a branch of BCCI, was set up for drug and money laundering. You also had one in Panama. And in walks a guy by the name, from Bloom's perspective, a guy by the name of Amjad Awan. Now, what I have not done, and I…
▶ 30:27
First thing that popped into my head when you said Awan. Yeah, so Amjad Awan is another witness that worked with Bloom to expose, but he worked for BCCI. And I would bet, because he's from Pakistan, and I would bet that somehow he's related…
▶ 20:04
From Jack Bloom, who was John Kerry's chief investigator until 1989. He's talking about the lack of cooperation. He says it was so pervasive and so successful in frustrating his efforts to investigate BCCI that he now believes, shocker here…