<![CDATA[Deep Politics Forum - Human Trafficking]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/ Sat, 23 May 2026 05:31:39 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Ritual Abuse in Israel]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=16437 Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:58:07 +0000 Lauren Johnson]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=16437 ISRAEL: Female Rape in Ritual Ceremonies

A recent investigative report by journalist Na’am Barkan for Israel Hayom has revealed the depths of debauchery in Israeli society. This is something that I have written about previously that you can read here.
The report contains testimony upon testimony from women who suffered systematic abuse during childhood, including group rape as a part of religious ceremonies. The rape was often by people they knew, even their closest family members. From the article:
Quote:Over the past few months, we spoke with these women, some of their relatives, and trauma experts in Israel and abroad. What emerges is disturbing, with descriptions that are difficult to read.
Israeli Police: “The matter is known and under investigation. Naturally, we cannot provide further details.”
One testimony from Emunah (a pseudonym, as with all the victims in the article) describes being offered as a sacrificial victim, abused by her own relatives, for “spiritual elevation or redemption” of her abusers.
More than ten women aged 20-45 have confirmed that such ritual abuse is taking place in Israel. Each woman has a different story. The women come from different backgrounds and from different areas of Israel.
Quote:“Maybe the world knows about rape, about incest, but this—the world doesn’t know,” Emunah says.
Ayala: "It's always a dark place. There are between six and nine men there. Tie me to bed with my hands and feet, stand in a circle, mumble prayers or blessings, and there is the rabbi who always leads the situation and says what to do. There's a ceremony, and every one of them rapes me "
The names of certain Rabbis were repeated in separate cases. Complaints filed a various police stations across the country were all closed, relatively quickly. Even when suspicions were previously raised about the existence of a child abuse network in Jerusalem, police investigators were unable to follow up due to an alleged lack of evidence etc.
Dr. Joiana Silberg: "I had hope that in Israel there would be an understanding that this is an international phenomenon, and that there would be cooperation between entities in Israel and other countries. But when a complaint came and a case was opened in Israel - the police did not conduct the investigation as required "
Sometimes the abuse took place in educational institutions, at home, in religious centres or synagogues.
The article represents only a fraction of the hours of interviews and testimony but it is still difficult to read. All the women interviewed are convinced that child sexual abuse is still an ongoing issue.
Quote:Most of the women we met come from religious or ultra-Orthodox communities, though secular testimonies also exist. This is not about one sector—it’s about some of the worst crimes imaginable happening in a hidden, parallel world that looks invisible, but is very dark.
Corinne, whose daughter Eden has been abused:
Quote:“There’s a whole community covering this up. Many people have things to hide. Eden talked about six men who raped her—and they all kept it secret. You can’t fight a whole community.”
Another testimony, from Limor, talks about a pentagram on the floor, usually red. The ceremony was in the woods, the pentagon had candles around it in a circle. The Rabbi, in a white robe, presided over the ceremony that was attended by men in black robes. Boys aged 16-17 who attended the ceremony as a passage into manhood arrived at through ritual rape and abuse.
Quote:“One time, they asked me to dig a hole and laid me in it. Other times, they injected me with something and said, ‘Now you’ll feel better,’ and my body went limp. They repeated Psalms like ‘The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.’ They told me, ‘You’re special, you’re chosen,’ and then… I remember a lulav, Hanukkah candles, a shofar.”
Limor grew up in an ultra-Orthodox home. Her father was routinely violent towards her and her mother. She had been hospitalised several times due to her injuries. She says her father took her to the ceremonies, arranged by relatives, as was the case in many other accounts. Sometimes the ritual would be outside, in the forest, or inside, in an apartment. Limor sometimes saw and heard other children being abused during the rituals. Many other testimonies mention other victims and in some cases, women participated in the abuse.
Dr Anat Gur - psychotherapist and expert in trauma treatment, head of the Bar-Ilan University trauma therapy program:
Quote:“Organized child rape is one of the most horrific things I’ve encountered. It’s likely much more widespread than we think. It’s happening in places we least expect.”
Boaz (pseudonym), a senior religious community therapist, agrees:
Quote:“The abusers are often not fringe figures. One patient told me, ‘Understand—he’s the one who blows the shofar on Rosh Hashanah.’ The shofar is a spiritual symbol—the one blowing it is meant to be closest to God. And he told her she was evil, and that he was helping her atone in this life. Do you grasp the distortion?”
A Crime Without Witnesses

In addition to the women who dared to speak to Israel Hayom, professionals know of other victims—men and women—who report sadistic ritual abuse in childhood. The content is similar.
Most abuse began very early, often at home—by a father, grandfather, or other relative. In other cases, it occurred in schools or treatment settings.
Dr. Gur:
Quote:“Those who experience this suffer unimaginable damage. That’s part of the problem—it’s hard to expose, because the victims are so shattered that it’s hard to believe them. The more sadistic and early the abuse, the less likely the perpetrator will ever face justice—because no one can testify.”
The perpetrators shatter the soul, making this a crime without witnesses—which, of course, allows the abuse to continue.
Dr. Joianna Silberg, international expert in dissociative disorders in children and adolescents, and former president of the International Society for Trauma and Dissociation, worked for five years with 70 children in Israel suspected to be victims of organized abuse. In chapter 14 of her book The Child Survivor, she describes the severe symptoms the children suffered due to physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual abuse.
Ayala is another victim. She is terrified of going to school. It is not a safe place. At school the teachers are scary.
Ayala is 25 years old, psychologically she is 9. Nothing can convince her that the danger is behind her.
Quote:Like many of the casualties we met, Ayala also faces the challenges of dissociation. It is a survival detachment mechanism that protects the child's mind at the time of the injury, which will be clarified later. Ayala grew up in a religious community in a multi-child family. "In many communities, children walk around alone," she says. After years of acute deterioration in her mental state, which included severe anxiety attacks, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, several suicide attempts and ongoing trauma - the clear inner knowledge that she had undergone rape was affecting her.
Prof. Daniel Brom - clinical psychologist and director and founder of "Matib," the Israeli Center for Psychotrauma in Jerusalem
Quote:She [Ayala] talks about rabbis who abuse her and claim that they are in direct contact with God," writes Professor Brom. "The form of conversation is familiar to me as a conversation with a woman with a dissociative identity disorder. I have seen such phenomena in the clinic quite a bit. Since 1990, I have repeatedly met children and adults who talk about organized abuse by men who not only sexually abuse but also photograph their actions.
I heard the stories both personally from my patients and from therapists who came to me for guidance, personal or group. I have no doubt that the phenomenon of sadistic organized abuse exists in the State of Israel, and the stories many times are very similar. It's hard for me to say if all the cases are connected, and I guess there are several groups that employ such methods of abuse. This renders witness testimony “unreliable”.
In my experience, people who have gone through are speaking the truth, but since both the courts and police officers are unfamiliar with the dissociative phenomena, the investigations of these cases do not go well.
Abusers often escape justice as a result.
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Noya: "I told myself nothing happened to me. I had a mantra that I repeated non-stop: 'silence, hide, disappear, move, disguise, turn off, hide, flip, disconnect, forget.' And I really forgot, for a few years "
Noya was sexually abused by teaching staff. Other men were invited to participate in ritual abuse. Severe violence was used alongside submerging her head in water beating with cable. The water was said to be a purification process. The use of powerful sensory stimuli caused a consciousness disconnect.
Noya would explain away the bruises and signs of trauma to her body as the result of seizures on the stairs. She was hospitalised, developed eating disorders and suffered with nightmares.
Children were told that if they did not submit to ritual torture and sacrifice themselves, other children (from the same family) would take their place.
The ritual ceremonies have invented prayers, chants and mantras using religious texts. These enable the disconnect for the victim, but also for the abuser. Immediately afterwards, the abuser can go the synagogue and atone. This kind of disassociation technique is used globally in cases of child abuse.
Quote:It is easy to tell a child that they are impure and so they should suffer now. These mantras have a profound effect, especially when abusing a child almost to the brink of death, certainly mental death - in some cases the child was literally almost killed and then ‘brought back to life’.
When Eden was 25, she began to recall her childhood rape," says Corinne, the mother. “It was a very unusual rape. A group rape that was performed like a theatre in which everyone had a role. During the rape by local men, there was a lot of violence, drugs and nudity. She filed a police complaint. It was closed. This broke her.”
You can read the article for [url=https://www.israelhayom.co.il/magazine/shishabat/article/17668103]yourself here. In some cases I have paraphrased, in others I have corrected the translation from Hebrew.
The full horror of the religious ritual abuse is probably barely touched by the testimony in the investigation. Israel is a pedophile haven. Women are the victims of rape and sexual harassment in almost every institution, including the military. The incidents of sodomy, rape, torture, ritual humiliation and abuse of Palestinian prisoners and civilians, especially children, by the Zionist IOF is extensively documented. Whether they are victims of abuse turned abuser or abusers turned pure evil - the result is the same. A society riddled with depravity, perversion and sadistic reflexes that dehumanise their victims, wherever and whoever they are.
As one X account said:
Quote:This is truly horrendous. Their rot is so deep. The more we learn, the less Israel deserves to remain a state. They've abused every single right of everyone around and within them. They don't have a citizenry they literally have brain-damaged participants in a life of war.
****
Vanessa Beeley is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.]]> ISRAEL: Female Rape in Ritual Ceremonies

A recent investigative report by journalist Na’am Barkan for Israel Hayom has revealed the depths of debauchery in Israeli society. This is something that I have written about previously that you can read here.
The report contains testimony upon testimony from women who suffered systematic abuse during childhood, including group rape as a part of religious ceremonies. The rape was often by people they knew, even their closest family members. From the article:
Quote:Over the past few months, we spoke with these women, some of their relatives, and trauma experts in Israel and abroad. What emerges is disturbing, with descriptions that are difficult to read.
Israeli Police: “The matter is known and under investigation. Naturally, we cannot provide further details.”
One testimony from Emunah (a pseudonym, as with all the victims in the article) describes being offered as a sacrificial victim, abused by her own relatives, for “spiritual elevation or redemption” of her abusers.
More than ten women aged 20-45 have confirmed that such ritual abuse is taking place in Israel. Each woman has a different story. The women come from different backgrounds and from different areas of Israel.
Quote:“Maybe the world knows about rape, about incest, but this—the world doesn’t know,” Emunah says.
Ayala: "It's always a dark place. There are between six and nine men there. Tie me to bed with my hands and feet, stand in a circle, mumble prayers or blessings, and there is the rabbi who always leads the situation and says what to do. There's a ceremony, and every one of them rapes me "
The names of certain Rabbis were repeated in separate cases. Complaints filed a various police stations across the country were all closed, relatively quickly. Even when suspicions were previously raised about the existence of a child abuse network in Jerusalem, police investigators were unable to follow up due to an alleged lack of evidence etc.
Dr. Joiana Silberg: "I had hope that in Israel there would be an understanding that this is an international phenomenon, and that there would be cooperation between entities in Israel and other countries. But when a complaint came and a case was opened in Israel - the police did not conduct the investigation as required "
Sometimes the abuse took place in educational institutions, at home, in religious centres or synagogues.
The article represents only a fraction of the hours of interviews and testimony but it is still difficult to read. All the women interviewed are convinced that child sexual abuse is still an ongoing issue.
Quote:Most of the women we met come from religious or ultra-Orthodox communities, though secular testimonies also exist. This is not about one sector—it’s about some of the worst crimes imaginable happening in a hidden, parallel world that looks invisible, but is very dark.
Corinne, whose daughter Eden has been abused:
Quote:“There’s a whole community covering this up. Many people have things to hide. Eden talked about six men who raped her—and they all kept it secret. You can’t fight a whole community.”
Another testimony, from Limor, talks about a pentagram on the floor, usually red. The ceremony was in the woods, the pentagon had candles around it in a circle. The Rabbi, in a white robe, presided over the ceremony that was attended by men in black robes. Boys aged 16-17 who attended the ceremony as a passage into manhood arrived at through ritual rape and abuse.
Quote:“One time, they asked me to dig a hole and laid me in it. Other times, they injected me with something and said, ‘Now you’ll feel better,’ and my body went limp. They repeated Psalms like ‘The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.’ They told me, ‘You’re special, you’re chosen,’ and then… I remember a lulav, Hanukkah candles, a shofar.”
Limor grew up in an ultra-Orthodox home. Her father was routinely violent towards her and her mother. She had been hospitalised several times due to her injuries. She says her father took her to the ceremonies, arranged by relatives, as was the case in many other accounts. Sometimes the ritual would be outside, in the forest, or inside, in an apartment. Limor sometimes saw and heard other children being abused during the rituals. Many other testimonies mention other victims and in some cases, women participated in the abuse.
Dr Anat Gur - psychotherapist and expert in trauma treatment, head of the Bar-Ilan University trauma therapy program:
Quote:“Organized child rape is one of the most horrific things I’ve encountered. It’s likely much more widespread than we think. It’s happening in places we least expect.”
Boaz (pseudonym), a senior religious community therapist, agrees:
Quote:“The abusers are often not fringe figures. One patient told me, ‘Understand—he’s the one who blows the shofar on Rosh Hashanah.’ The shofar is a spiritual symbol—the one blowing it is meant to be closest to God. And he told her she was evil, and that he was helping her atone in this life. Do you grasp the distortion?”
A Crime Without Witnesses

In addition to the women who dared to speak to Israel Hayom, professionals know of other victims—men and women—who report sadistic ritual abuse in childhood. The content is similar.
Most abuse began very early, often at home—by a father, grandfather, or other relative. In other cases, it occurred in schools or treatment settings.
Dr. Gur:
Quote:“Those who experience this suffer unimaginable damage. That’s part of the problem—it’s hard to expose, because the victims are so shattered that it’s hard to believe them. The more sadistic and early the abuse, the less likely the perpetrator will ever face justice—because no one can testify.”
The perpetrators shatter the soul, making this a crime without witnesses—which, of course, allows the abuse to continue.
Dr. Joianna Silberg, international expert in dissociative disorders in children and adolescents, and former president of the International Society for Trauma and Dissociation, worked for five years with 70 children in Israel suspected to be victims of organized abuse. In chapter 14 of her book The Child Survivor, she describes the severe symptoms the children suffered due to physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual abuse.
Ayala is another victim. She is terrified of going to school. It is not a safe place. At school the teachers are scary.
Ayala is 25 years old, psychologically she is 9. Nothing can convince her that the danger is behind her.
Quote:Like many of the casualties we met, Ayala also faces the challenges of dissociation. It is a survival detachment mechanism that protects the child's mind at the time of the injury, which will be clarified later. Ayala grew up in a religious community in a multi-child family. "In many communities, children walk around alone," she says. After years of acute deterioration in her mental state, which included severe anxiety attacks, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, several suicide attempts and ongoing trauma - the clear inner knowledge that she had undergone rape was affecting her.
Prof. Daniel Brom - clinical psychologist and director and founder of "Matib," the Israeli Center for Psychotrauma in Jerusalem
Quote:She [Ayala] talks about rabbis who abuse her and claim that they are in direct contact with God," writes Professor Brom. "The form of conversation is familiar to me as a conversation with a woman with a dissociative identity disorder. I have seen such phenomena in the clinic quite a bit. Since 1990, I have repeatedly met children and adults who talk about organized abuse by men who not only sexually abuse but also photograph their actions.
I heard the stories both personally from my patients and from therapists who came to me for guidance, personal or group. I have no doubt that the phenomenon of sadistic organized abuse exists in the State of Israel, and the stories many times are very similar. It's hard for me to say if all the cases are connected, and I guess there are several groups that employ such methods of abuse. This renders witness testimony “unreliable”.
In my experience, people who have gone through are speaking the truth, but since both the courts and police officers are unfamiliar with the dissociative phenomena, the investigations of these cases do not go well.
Abusers often escape justice as a result.
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Noya: "I told myself nothing happened to me. I had a mantra that I repeated non-stop: 'silence, hide, disappear, move, disguise, turn off, hide, flip, disconnect, forget.' And I really forgot, for a few years "
Noya was sexually abused by teaching staff. Other men were invited to participate in ritual abuse. Severe violence was used alongside submerging her head in water beating with cable. The water was said to be a purification process. The use of powerful sensory stimuli caused a consciousness disconnect.
Noya would explain away the bruises and signs of trauma to her body as the result of seizures on the stairs. She was hospitalised, developed eating disorders and suffered with nightmares.
Children were told that if they did not submit to ritual torture and sacrifice themselves, other children (from the same family) would take their place.
The ritual ceremonies have invented prayers, chants and mantras using religious texts. These enable the disconnect for the victim, but also for the abuser. Immediately afterwards, the abuser can go the synagogue and atone. This kind of disassociation technique is used globally in cases of child abuse.
Quote:It is easy to tell a child that they are impure and so they should suffer now. These mantras have a profound effect, especially when abusing a child almost to the brink of death, certainly mental death - in some cases the child was literally almost killed and then ‘brought back to life’.
When Eden was 25, she began to recall her childhood rape," says Corinne, the mother. “It was a very unusual rape. A group rape that was performed like a theatre in which everyone had a role. During the rape by local men, there was a lot of violence, drugs and nudity. She filed a police complaint. It was closed. This broke her.”
You can read the article for [url=https://www.israelhayom.co.il/magazine/shishabat/article/17668103]yourself here. In some cases I have paraphrased, in others I have corrected the translation from Hebrew.
The full horror of the religious ritual abuse is probably barely touched by the testimony in the investigation. Israel is a pedophile haven. Women are the victims of rape and sexual harassment in almost every institution, including the military. The incidents of sodomy, rape, torture, ritual humiliation and abuse of Palestinian prisoners and civilians, especially children, by the Zionist IOF is extensively documented. Whether they are victims of abuse turned abuser or abusers turned pure evil - the result is the same. A society riddled with depravity, perversion and sadistic reflexes that dehumanise their victims, wherever and whoever they are.
As one X account said:
Quote:This is truly horrendous. Their rot is so deep. The more we learn, the less Israel deserves to remain a state. They've abused every single right of everyone around and within them. They don't have a citizenry they literally have brain-damaged participants in a life of war.
****
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Was waiting for a bit to post this, to see if some new information was forthcoming, but I definitely should write about this now. There has been a major update in the investigation into the highly suspicious death of Monica Petersen, who worked as a Researcher for the Human Trafficking Center Graduate Program at the University of Denver, very shortly before her death in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in November 2016. Just a month later in December 2016, a single article appeared in the Washington Post about Petersen’s death, by reporter Glenn Kessler. The only information in the Washington Post article about the actual cause of Petersen’s death, was a single quote from Petersen’s employer shortly before her death in Haiti, University of Denver Professor Claude d’Estree. Professor d’Estree was quoted in Glenn Kessler’s article printed right after Petersen’s death, as saying that Petersen “committed suicide but the circumstances are not clear.”

It is *very* important to point out, that up until very recently, this extremely vague statement from the Washington Post about the cause of Petersen’s death in Haiti (“suicide but the circumstances are not clear") is literally the only statement I have seen anywhere in the mainstream press about how Monica Petersen passed away. It is therefore all the more significant, that we now have completely new information from mainstream sources, that directly contradicts what the Washington Post reported back in 2016. According to new reports, Monica Petersen did not in fact “commit suicide” in Haiti. She was murdered.

On 1/14/2025, the Ames Tribune, a Gannet-owned newspaper, reported about an upcoming anti-human trafficking event in Des Moines, Iowa hosted by the anti-trafficking group Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking. The event was headlined by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds. At the event, Governor Reynolds signed a statewide proclamation stating January is “Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness" Month for the State of Iowa. Very very significantly, as the Ames Tribune reported, at this event Governor Reynolds also awarded “anti-trafficking service awards” to several anti-human trafficking activists, including “Ames resident, Monica Petersen, who is being awarded posthumously.” As the Tribune then states, “Peterson [sic] was a research fellow at the Human Trafficking Center and a member of the Colorado Governor’s Human Trafficking Council. She was murdered by traffickers in Haiti.”

I was also able to speak to a close member of Monica Petersen’s family (name not disclosed for privacy), who confirmed to me that members of Petersen’s family did in fact attend this anti-trafficking event in Des Moines, where Petersen received the posthumous award. The family member also confirmed to me that they had also learned that Petersen was “murdered by traffickers in Haiti.” However, the family member did not know any more information other than that, like if the “traffickers” actually meant “human traffickers” specifically, or possibly other criminal groups.

It is extremely important to focus on the fact here that this new information about Monica Petersen’s death, 100% contradicts what the Washington Post (quite obviously a major Newspaper of Record), reported was the cause of Petersen’s death back in 2016. A murder is quite obviously not the same as a suicide. Looking at the basic facts here, Petersen’s death in Haiti was clearly a very high-profile death. The graduate program that Petersen worked for shortly before her death, the Human Trafficking Center, was part of a very prestigious International Studies School at the University of Denver, the Korbel School, with many notable alumni. When you have such a high-profile death, especially in such a politically-volatile place as Haiti, it is all the more suspicious that such a massive contradiction emerges about something so central to the true story of Petersen’s death in Haiti: the actual cause of her death there.

Very significantly, as of this writing I have seen no statement or response from either the Washington Post or Post reporter Glenn Kessler, addressing this new information from the Ames Tribune that Monica Petersen was “murdered by traffickers” in Haiti. Consider again that it was the Washington Post, and only the Post amongst all the major newspapers within the mainstream media, that reported that Petersen “committed suicide but the circumstances are not clear” right after her death in 2016. This complete silence from the Post regarding its own massive contradiction in its own reporting, in my opinion only greatly deepens the suspiciousness about what the full, true story really is regarding Petersen’s death.

It is important to point out here, that in my previous three-part investigative article into the circumstances of Petersen’s death in Haiti, I talk in extensive detail about Facebook posts that emerged publicly after Petersen’s death. These social media posts by and about Monica Petersen, show clear evidence about the actual details of Petersen’s investigation into human trafficking allegations in Haiti, in roughly the 2015-16 time period. Most significantly, in a Facebook post from January 2016, in a Facebook post purportedly by Petersen, Petersen made two very, very significant claims.

First, Petersen claims that in August 2015 the previous summer, she personally visited a small town in northern Haiti called Caracol, for the purposes of talking to and interviewing workers in Caracol who worked for a very large textile plant in the town, called the Caracol Industrial Complex. Direct quote from Petersen: “Caracol is a garment exporting zone, a field site I visited in August to check out the conditions of the workers (conclusion: working conditions okay, working wages too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti.”

Second, in the same Facebook post, Petersen also says the following: “I can’t say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton’s [Caracol] Complex.”
As I point out in detail in my investigative article about Petersen’s death, there is evidence that the Clintons do indeed have extensive personal ties to this textile manufacturing complex in Caracol, Haiti. An article in Politico by reporter Jonathan Katz about the creation of the Caracol Industrial Complex, literally stated that Bill and Hillary Clinton “were instrumental at nearly every step” in the creation of the Caracol Industrial Complex. When the Caracol plant opened in Haiti in 2012, the Clinton’s personally attended the plant’s opening ceremony, where they were pictured in a group photo with a large number of Haitian factory workers employed at the plant:

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Putting the pieces together a bit more here: we know that Petersen made this very specific claim about human trafficking allegedly happening at the “Clinton’s [Caracol] Complex” in January 2016. Less than a year later, in November of that very same year, Monica Petersen was found dead in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. And now, thanks to the information supplied to us by the Ames Tribune, as well as the anti-trafficking event held in Des Moines in January this year that honored Petersen, we also now know that Monica Petersen was in fact “murdered by traffickers” in Haiti.

Supplied with all this information, I think we very much have a legitimate basis to ask some highly, highly significant questions about what really happened to Monica Petersen in Haiti. Since we know that Petersen was “murdered by traffickers,” does this mean human traffickers specifically? Or does it possible include drug traffickers, or other criminal groups, who were involved in the murder of Petersen? As stated above, Petersen was murdered in Haiti less than a year after specifically claiming that human trafficking was happening at the Caracol Industrial Complex. This leads to an obvious question: if the human trafficking ring that Petersen was allegedly investigating in Caracol, was indeed real, were the human traffickers allegedly operating in Caracol, Haiti also behind Petersen’s murder?
If Monica Petersen’s human trafficking investigation in Haiti really did threaten to expose the criminal activities of actual human traffickers operating in Haiti, clearly these traffickers would have all the motive in the world to want to murder Petersen, in order to keep their crimes hidden. Considering what we know now, I think that to truly investigate Petersen’s murder at this point, it is essential to follow up on Petersen’s own lead and try to figure out if a human trafficking ring really was operating in Caracol, Haiti, as she herself claimed before she was murdered by traffickers.

Furthermore, we can obviously not forget that in Petersen’s own words, she claimed that human trafficking was really happening at (in her own words) the “Clinton’s Caraol [sic] Complex.” Petersen’s own social media postings before her death, show she was very much aware of and deeply critical of the Clinton’s conduct in Haiti. She repeatedly derided the Clinton’s for what she considered to be their imperialistic, “crony” behavior in Haiti. For instance, Petersen pointed out in a Facebook post how Hillary Clinton’s own brother Tony Rodham, before he died was on the Board of Directors of a US-based mining company that literally owned a highly-lucrative gold mine in Haiti, the Morne Bossa mine, located very close to the Caracol Complex itself. Petersen openly speculated in the post if the Clinton brother and sister’s “intertwined” interests in both the gold mine and textile sweatshop in Haiti, is indicative of corrupt, “opportunistic” motivations on the part of the Clintons.

Considering all this, there is an even bigger, “1000 lb. elephant in the room”-type question that emerges here: what role, if any, might the Clintons and/or their political/business “cronies” have played in Monica Petersen’s murder in Haiti?? If human trafficking really was happening at Caracol, you have to ask the question: were the human traffickers allegedly at Caracol conducting their crimes “autonomously,” just acting as their own self-contained criminal group? Or were the alleged human traffickers in Caracol actually answering to someone or some group more powerful then just them? If the answer to this second question is yes, then which powerful person or persons were really directing the alleged human traffickers in Caracol?? Considering the Clintons deep, personal ties to Caracol, it is not too hard to perceive the incredibly dark truths this line of questioning may possibly lead to.

Mapping the “Silence” about Petersen’s Murder: University of Denver & the Korbel School
As stated previously, the Washington Post has remained completely silent about the news that Monica Petersen was really murdered in Haiti. Very notably, this silence has also extended to the University of Denver, Petersen’s former employer. Again, Petersen worked directly for this University as a Researcher for the Human Trafficking Center (HTC) up until the Spring of 2016, and she was murdered in Haiti later that very same year. Up until it permanently closed in Spring 2021, the HTC was literally one of the only, if not the only, graduate programs in the US with a curriculum focused on researching and combatting human trafficking crimes specifically.

Before it closed, the HTC was part of the Korbel School, an International Studies graduate program prestigious enough to have such notable alumni as Madeline Albrecht and Condoleezza Rice. I therefore find it highly odd that when the HTC program shut down, there was literally no press in the mainstream media about its closure at all. NOT one bit. No exaggeration, the only “press” I have seen about the HTC’s closure, was a single Facebook post announcing the HTC’s closing that was posted only on the Human Trafficking Center’s own Facebook page. Also very notably, the only public explanation I have seen given for WHY the HTC was permanently shut down after nearly two decades of operation, was a single statement within this same Facebook page, simply stating that the Korbel School “has decided to close” the HTC. Or in other words, no real explanation at all. For such a prestigious, as well as unique, graduate program, again why the near-total media-blackout about its closure? And why no real explanation for why the graduate program closed?

Significantly, back in 2022 I had a personal email correspondence with the Director of the Communications at the Korbel School at the U. of Denver (name withheld for privacy), regarding Monica Petersen and the closure of the Human Trafficking Center. Below is the email I sent to this person and their response:

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As you can see from this email correspondence, I asked very specific and detailed questions to this Communications Director. I asked for any specific details the Korbel School may have about Petersen’s human trafficking investigation in Haiti before she died there. I also asked for an actual, detailed explanation for why the U. of Denver and the Korbel School decided to permanently shut down the Human Trafficking Center. I further asked if the Korbel School and/or U. of Denver ever plans to publicly release Petersen’s Master Thesis that she wrote while attending the HTC as a student.

In response to these highly specific and detailed questions, all I got back was a terse, “boilerplate” response from the Communications Director. The Comms Director did not address my question about Petersen’s Master Thesis at all. The Director also notably provided me no information whatsoever about Petersen’s human trafficking research fieldwork in Haiti, either. The only information the Comms Director provided me about Petersen’s relationship with the Korbel School, were the two dates that Petersen started attending and graduated from the Korbel School. In regards to Petersen’s death in Haiti, the only responses I received from this U. of Denver contact, was that Petersen’s death was “… a private family matter.” Lastly, the only information the Comms Director gave me for why the HTC was closed, was that the program’s closure was “… due to a lack of financial resources” at the Korbel School.

The suspiciousness of this total “whitewash” of a response from the University of Denver, is only amplified massively by the much more recent news that Monica Petersen was indeed “murdered by traffickers” in Haiti. As the old saying goes, silence speaks louder than words. Considering this level of obfuscation and silence coming from both the Washington Post and the University of Denver regarding Petersen’s murder at this point, I would say silence is speaking a million times louder than words in this particular situation.
Now that we have confirmation that Petersen really was murdered in Haiti, I think now is truly the time to push forward with a real, honest investigation into the truth behind her murder. Let’s demand a REAL explanation for who really is responsible for Petersen’s death, and let’s demand that explanation from the Post, from the U. of Denver, and any other powerful institutions that may be complicit in covering all this up.

As MLK Jr. famously said, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Let us hope that the arc of justice will finally bring us to the truth of Petersen’s murder in the Haiti, and the real truth behind her human trafficking investigation there. The people of Haiti, suffering for years now from brutal gang warfare and massive internal civilian displacement, demand it. The time is NOW.
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Was waiting for a bit to post this, to see if some new information was forthcoming, but I definitely should write about this now. There has been a major update in the investigation into the highly suspicious death of Monica Petersen, who worked as a Researcher for the Human Trafficking Center Graduate Program at the University of Denver, very shortly before her death in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in November 2016. Just a month later in December 2016, a single article appeared in the Washington Post about Petersen’s death, by reporter Glenn Kessler. The only information in the Washington Post article about the actual cause of Petersen’s death, was a single quote from Petersen’s employer shortly before her death in Haiti, University of Denver Professor Claude d’Estree. Professor d’Estree was quoted in Glenn Kessler’s article printed right after Petersen’s death, as saying that Petersen “committed suicide but the circumstances are not clear.”

It is *very* important to point out, that up until very recently, this extremely vague statement from the Washington Post about the cause of Petersen’s death in Haiti (“suicide but the circumstances are not clear") is literally the only statement I have seen anywhere in the mainstream press about how Monica Petersen passed away. It is therefore all the more significant, that we now have completely new information from mainstream sources, that directly contradicts what the Washington Post reported back in 2016. According to new reports, Monica Petersen did not in fact “commit suicide” in Haiti. She was murdered.

On 1/14/2025, the Ames Tribune, a Gannet-owned newspaper, reported about an upcoming anti-human trafficking event in Des Moines, Iowa hosted by the anti-trafficking group Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking. The event was headlined by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds. At the event, Governor Reynolds signed a statewide proclamation stating January is “Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness" Month for the State of Iowa. Very very significantly, as the Ames Tribune reported, at this event Governor Reynolds also awarded “anti-trafficking service awards” to several anti-human trafficking activists, including “Ames resident, Monica Petersen, who is being awarded posthumously.” As the Tribune then states, “Peterson [sic] was a research fellow at the Human Trafficking Center and a member of the Colorado Governor’s Human Trafficking Council. She was murdered by traffickers in Haiti.”

I was also able to speak to a close member of Monica Petersen’s family (name not disclosed for privacy), who confirmed to me that members of Petersen’s family did in fact attend this anti-trafficking event in Des Moines, where Petersen received the posthumous award. The family member also confirmed to me that they had also learned that Petersen was “murdered by traffickers in Haiti.” However, the family member did not know any more information other than that, like if the “traffickers” actually meant “human traffickers” specifically, or possibly other criminal groups.

It is extremely important to focus on the fact here that this new information about Monica Petersen’s death, 100% contradicts what the Washington Post (quite obviously a major Newspaper of Record), reported was the cause of Petersen’s death back in 2016. A murder is quite obviously not the same as a suicide. Looking at the basic facts here, Petersen’s death in Haiti was clearly a very high-profile death. The graduate program that Petersen worked for shortly before her death, the Human Trafficking Center, was part of a very prestigious International Studies School at the University of Denver, the Korbel School, with many notable alumni. When you have such a high-profile death, especially in such a politically-volatile place as Haiti, it is all the more suspicious that such a massive contradiction emerges about something so central to the true story of Petersen’s death in Haiti: the actual cause of her death there.

Very significantly, as of this writing I have seen no statement or response from either the Washington Post or Post reporter Glenn Kessler, addressing this new information from the Ames Tribune that Monica Petersen was “murdered by traffickers” in Haiti. Consider again that it was the Washington Post, and only the Post amongst all the major newspapers within the mainstream media, that reported that Petersen “committed suicide but the circumstances are not clear” right after her death in 2016. This complete silence from the Post regarding its own massive contradiction in its own reporting, in my opinion only greatly deepens the suspiciousness about what the full, true story really is regarding Petersen’s death.

It is important to point out here, that in my previous three-part investigative article into the circumstances of Petersen’s death in Haiti, I talk in extensive detail about Facebook posts that emerged publicly after Petersen’s death. These social media posts by and about Monica Petersen, show clear evidence about the actual details of Petersen’s investigation into human trafficking allegations in Haiti, in roughly the 2015-16 time period. Most significantly, in a Facebook post from January 2016, in a Facebook post purportedly by Petersen, Petersen made two very, very significant claims.

First, Petersen claims that in August 2015 the previous summer, she personally visited a small town in northern Haiti called Caracol, for the purposes of talking to and interviewing workers in Caracol who worked for a very large textile plant in the town, called the Caracol Industrial Complex. Direct quote from Petersen: “Caracol is a garment exporting zone, a field site I visited in August to check out the conditions of the workers (conclusion: working conditions okay, working wages too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti.”

Second, in the same Facebook post, Petersen also says the following: “I can’t say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton’s [Caracol] Complex.”
As I point out in detail in my investigative article about Petersen’s death, there is evidence that the Clintons do indeed have extensive personal ties to this textile manufacturing complex in Caracol, Haiti. An article in Politico by reporter Jonathan Katz about the creation of the Caracol Industrial Complex, literally stated that Bill and Hillary Clinton “were instrumental at nearly every step” in the creation of the Caracol Industrial Complex. When the Caracol plant opened in Haiti in 2012, the Clinton’s personally attended the plant’s opening ceremony, where they were pictured in a group photo with a large number of Haitian factory workers employed at the plant:

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Putting the pieces together a bit more here: we know that Petersen made this very specific claim about human trafficking allegedly happening at the “Clinton’s [Caracol] Complex” in January 2016. Less than a year later, in November of that very same year, Monica Petersen was found dead in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. And now, thanks to the information supplied to us by the Ames Tribune, as well as the anti-trafficking event held in Des Moines in January this year that honored Petersen, we also now know that Monica Petersen was in fact “murdered by traffickers” in Haiti.

Supplied with all this information, I think we very much have a legitimate basis to ask some highly, highly significant questions about what really happened to Monica Petersen in Haiti. Since we know that Petersen was “murdered by traffickers,” does this mean human traffickers specifically? Or does it possible include drug traffickers, or other criminal groups, who were involved in the murder of Petersen? As stated above, Petersen was murdered in Haiti less than a year after specifically claiming that human trafficking was happening at the Caracol Industrial Complex. This leads to an obvious question: if the human trafficking ring that Petersen was allegedly investigating in Caracol, was indeed real, were the human traffickers allegedly operating in Caracol, Haiti also behind Petersen’s murder?
If Monica Petersen’s human trafficking investigation in Haiti really did threaten to expose the criminal activities of actual human traffickers operating in Haiti, clearly these traffickers would have all the motive in the world to want to murder Petersen, in order to keep their crimes hidden. Considering what we know now, I think that to truly investigate Petersen’s murder at this point, it is essential to follow up on Petersen’s own lead and try to figure out if a human trafficking ring really was operating in Caracol, Haiti, as she herself claimed before she was murdered by traffickers.

Furthermore, we can obviously not forget that in Petersen’s own words, she claimed that human trafficking was really happening at (in her own words) the “Clinton’s Caraol [sic] Complex.” Petersen’s own social media postings before her death, show she was very much aware of and deeply critical of the Clinton’s conduct in Haiti. She repeatedly derided the Clinton’s for what she considered to be their imperialistic, “crony” behavior in Haiti. For instance, Petersen pointed out in a Facebook post how Hillary Clinton’s own brother Tony Rodham, before he died was on the Board of Directors of a US-based mining company that literally owned a highly-lucrative gold mine in Haiti, the Morne Bossa mine, located very close to the Caracol Complex itself. Petersen openly speculated in the post if the Clinton brother and sister’s “intertwined” interests in both the gold mine and textile sweatshop in Haiti, is indicative of corrupt, “opportunistic” motivations on the part of the Clintons.

Considering all this, there is an even bigger, “1000 lb. elephant in the room”-type question that emerges here: what role, if any, might the Clintons and/or their political/business “cronies” have played in Monica Petersen’s murder in Haiti?? If human trafficking really was happening at Caracol, you have to ask the question: were the human traffickers allegedly at Caracol conducting their crimes “autonomously,” just acting as their own self-contained criminal group? Or were the alleged human traffickers in Caracol actually answering to someone or some group more powerful then just them? If the answer to this second question is yes, then which powerful person or persons were really directing the alleged human traffickers in Caracol?? Considering the Clintons deep, personal ties to Caracol, it is not too hard to perceive the incredibly dark truths this line of questioning may possibly lead to.

Mapping the “Silence” about Petersen’s Murder: University of Denver & the Korbel School
As stated previously, the Washington Post has remained completely silent about the news that Monica Petersen was really murdered in Haiti. Very notably, this silence has also extended to the University of Denver, Petersen’s former employer. Again, Petersen worked directly for this University as a Researcher for the Human Trafficking Center (HTC) up until the Spring of 2016, and she was murdered in Haiti later that very same year. Up until it permanently closed in Spring 2021, the HTC was literally one of the only, if not the only, graduate programs in the US with a curriculum focused on researching and combatting human trafficking crimes specifically.

Before it closed, the HTC was part of the Korbel School, an International Studies graduate program prestigious enough to have such notable alumni as Madeline Albrecht and Condoleezza Rice. I therefore find it highly odd that when the HTC program shut down, there was literally no press in the mainstream media about its closure at all. NOT one bit. No exaggeration, the only “press” I have seen about the HTC’s closure, was a single Facebook post announcing the HTC’s closing that was posted only on the Human Trafficking Center’s own Facebook page. Also very notably, the only public explanation I have seen given for WHY the HTC was permanently shut down after nearly two decades of operation, was a single statement within this same Facebook page, simply stating that the Korbel School “has decided to close” the HTC. Or in other words, no real explanation at all. For such a prestigious, as well as unique, graduate program, again why the near-total media-blackout about its closure? And why no real explanation for why the graduate program closed?

Significantly, back in 2022 I had a personal email correspondence with the Director of the Communications at the Korbel School at the U. of Denver (name withheld for privacy), regarding Monica Petersen and the closure of the Human Trafficking Center. Below is the email I sent to this person and their response:

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As you can see from this email correspondence, I asked very specific and detailed questions to this Communications Director. I asked for any specific details the Korbel School may have about Petersen’s human trafficking investigation in Haiti before she died there. I also asked for an actual, detailed explanation for why the U. of Denver and the Korbel School decided to permanently shut down the Human Trafficking Center. I further asked if the Korbel School and/or U. of Denver ever plans to publicly release Petersen’s Master Thesis that she wrote while attending the HTC as a student.

In response to these highly specific and detailed questions, all I got back was a terse, “boilerplate” response from the Communications Director. The Comms Director did not address my question about Petersen’s Master Thesis at all. The Director also notably provided me no information whatsoever about Petersen’s human trafficking research fieldwork in Haiti, either. The only information the Comms Director provided me about Petersen’s relationship with the Korbel School, were the two dates that Petersen started attending and graduated from the Korbel School. In regards to Petersen’s death in Haiti, the only responses I received from this U. of Denver contact, was that Petersen’s death was “… a private family matter.” Lastly, the only information the Comms Director gave me for why the HTC was closed, was that the program’s closure was “… due to a lack of financial resources” at the Korbel School.

The suspiciousness of this total “whitewash” of a response from the University of Denver, is only amplified massively by the much more recent news that Monica Petersen was indeed “murdered by traffickers” in Haiti. As the old saying goes, silence speaks louder than words. Considering this level of obfuscation and silence coming from both the Washington Post and the University of Denver regarding Petersen’s murder at this point, I would say silence is speaking a million times louder than words in this particular situation.
Now that we have confirmation that Petersen really was murdered in Haiti, I think now is truly the time to push forward with a real, honest investigation into the truth behind her murder. Let’s demand a REAL explanation for who really is responsible for Petersen’s death, and let’s demand that explanation from the Post, from the U. of Denver, and any other powerful institutions that may be complicit in covering all this up.

As MLK Jr. famously said, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Let us hope that the arc of justice will finally bring us to the truth of Petersen’s murder in the Haiti, and the real truth behind her human trafficking investigation there. The people of Haiti, suffering for years now from brutal gang warfare and massive internal civilian displacement, demand it. The time is NOW.
SOLIDARITY, STAY SAFE!!!!]]> <![CDATA[Monica Petersen, Haiti and the Octopus of the Deep State (Part 3)]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=16241 Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:18:33 +0000 George Williams]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=16241 **Surviveandheal15 Lives On!!**
Monica Petersen, Haiti and the Octopus of the Deep State
Part 3
(Part 1, Part 2 here)

By: Anonymous
February 26th, 2021

(**Note: This is NOT a QAnon Article. This author does NOT believe in QAnon AT ALL.)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." 
- Marie Curie

"... the real significance of this scandal for me [...] is the link to contemporary slavery and trafficking. I can't say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton's [Caracol] Complex. And mining has always been historically linked to trafficking, slavery, and labor exploitation."
 - Monica Petersen, Research Fellow and Assistant to the Director at the Human Trafficking Center at the University of Denver, in January 2016 Facebook Post (LINK)

The Laura Silsby Case: Another Clinton-Connected Human Trafficking Scandal in Haiti

It is again important to note Monica Petersen specifically wrote about “two huge human trafficking scandals” happening in Haiti that allegedly led back to the Clintons, in her 2016 Facebook post. However, she only specifically says that human trafficking was occurring at the Caracol complex in northern Haiti. So where was the other “human trafficking scandal” in Haiti, if there indeed was one? It is therefore very important to bring up the Laura Silsby human trafficking scandal in Haiti in 2010, that occurred 6 years before Petersen’s death. Unlike Monica Petersen, the Laura Silsby case was actually covered by a pretty wide range of mainstream news outlets at its time around 2010. Since then however, there has ALSO been a resounding “mainstream media silence” about this Clinton-connected scandal as well. Laura Silsby was a supposed Baptist missionary, who along with other “missionaries” from the “New Life Children’s Refuge” charity in Boise, Idaho, travelled to Haiti in 2010, after the devastating January 2010 earthquake in Haiti that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Silsby and her fellow missionaries were supposedly in Haiti to “rescue” children who had been left orphaned by the earthquake. However, only 3 weeks after the earthquake, Silsby and 10 other missionaries from her charity were arrested by Haitian authorities for attempting to illegally take 33 children across the Haitian border into the Dominican Republic. Very significantly, the Harvard Human Rights Journal published an in-depth study of the Silsby human trafficking case by Law School Professor Shani King, titled “Owning Laura Silsby’s Shame: How the Haitian Child Trafficking Scheme Embodies the Western Disregard for the Integrity of Poor Families.” Quoting from Professor King’s article:

“On January 29, 2010, less than three weeks after the earthquake, Haitian authorities arrested ten U.S. Baptist missionaries for attempting to take 33 children by bus across the border into the Dominican Republic without proper documentation. A week later, the missionaries were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association. While the missionaries claimed good intentions and ignorance of Haitian laws, Haitian prosecutors argued that there had been intentional wrongdoing. In the course of a month, President Clinton brokered the release of all the missionaries, except for the group leader, Laura Silsby.

While Laura Silsby awaited trial, the press brought to light several facts that raised serious suspicions about her intent to traffic or smuggle the children as part of a grey adoption scheme. In 2009, Silsby visited Haiti with the stated intent to establish an orphanage. At the time, Silsby faced numerous court cases in the U.S. for bad debt and unpaid wages. In November 2009, she registered her New Life Children’s Refuge charity at an address in Boise, Idaho, and a month later the house was repossessed for lack of payment. In the midst of her personal debt crisis, the January earthquake struck Haiti, and Silsby organized a mission to “gather 100 orphans from the streets” of Haiti and take them to a shelter in the Dominican Republic. The children would be housed in a leased hotel because Silsby’s purported charity did not yet manage an orphanage or own any property in the Dominican Republic. U.S. authorities later stated that New Life Children’s Refuge was not listed as a U.S. nonprofit or as a U.S. international adoption agency. In March, after her arrest, evidence was introduced in Silsby’s case showing that on January 26, 2010, she had previously attempted to take a different group of 40 children across the border. Haitian and Dominican authorities turned her away for lack of authorizing documents. Three days later she attempted to cross over with the second group — the 33 children — again without proper documentation.

[…] After the earthquake, the Haitian government tried to crack down on unauthorized adoptions to avoid child trafficking. In addition, the Dominican consul in Haiti had personally warned Silsby that she lacked the necessary paperwork to take children out of the country and risked arrest. On March 17, 2010, after careful verification of identities by the Social Welfare Ministry of Haiti, 32 out of the 33 children were returned to their families (the last one being returned shortly thereafter), thus confirming that none of the children were orphans. […] Suspicions about Silsby’s intent to smuggle or traffic the children to the Dominican Republic further increased, when on March 19, 2010, Silsby’s legal advisor — Jorge Torres-Puello, an American-Dominican living in the Dominican Republic as a fugitive — was arrested and accused of human trafficking. U.S. authorities revealed that Torres-Puello was ‘linked to a network that trafficked in Haitian and Central American children and [was] wanted in the United States, El Salvador and Costa Rica. His wife was already imprisoned in El Salvador and ‘faced charges of presumed sexual exploitation of minors and women.’

Despite Silsby’s stated intent to take the children over the border to an unauthorized orphanage and her connections to human traffickers such as Torres-Puello, the courts eventually dropped the kidnapping and criminal association charges against her. Silsby was instead convicted under the additional charge of organizing illegal travel, sentenced to time served (3 months and 8 days), and released on May 17, 2010. In the end, her sentence was based on the least polemic charge against her. The pressing issue — whether Silsby intended to deliver the children into trafficking rings or grey adoption markets — was not addressed or resolved.’’

Jorge Torres-Puello, the “lawyer” who mysteriously showed up in Haiti to defend Laura Silsby and her incredibly shady group of fellow “missionaries,” turned out to be a for-real child trafficker who was already on the run from the law himself and wanted in multiple countries, including the US! As if this could not get any sketchier, Professor King at the beginning of his article states that, “Despite evidence of association with child traffickers, the Haitian justice system- prodded in part by President Clinton’s diplomatic efforts on behalf of the missionaries- determined that none of the missionaries were guilty of illegal activities, except the leader Laura Silsby…” So we have a source no less reputable than the Harvard Human Rights Journal, stating that Bill Clinton himself “prodded” Haitian authorities to quickly release all these “missionaries” except Silsby, who herself was quickly released after just a few months also. This was in spite of the fact that the question of whether Silsby and her co-conspirators “intended to deliver the children into trafficking rings” was NOT “addressed or resolved.” Again, based on my own Google search query for “Laura Silsby,” there was a brief flurry of articles and reports from mainstream press agencies about the Silsby case after her arrest in 2010… followed by a virtual “media silence” from then on. The Laura Silsby case was quite obviously a Haitian human trafficking scandal that led directly back to the Clintons… could this have been the other “huge human trafficking scandal” that Monica Petersen was referring to in the January 2016 Facebook post?

Possible Steps Forward for Investigators and Activists
The circumstances of Monica Petersen’s death in Haiti is shrouded in a virtual media silence, accompanied by a trickle of social media posts that shed a deeply disturbing light on what the actual circumstances of Petersen’s death may have been. At the same time, I fully realize that I am writing this in February 2021, only a little over a month after a mob of Trump supporters, many of them quite openly QAnon conspiracy supporters, stormed the US Capitol. Trying to have a serious discussion about Monica Petersen’s investigation of human trafficking in Haiti, and it’s possible connection to the Clintons, is obviously an extremely difficult task. I fully get that putting “Clintons” and “human trafficking” together in the same sentence, invites every kind of ludicrous conspiracy theory imaginable. In my own defense, I have tried to stick to the most reputable sources possible in my investigation of Monica Petersen’s time spent in Haiti and her death there. I strongly feel that in order to “break through” the wall of media-generated misinformation and hysteria generated by the current “QAnon craze,” it is essential to look at the existing facts about Monica Petersen and Haiti as they actually are, and NOT ignore the available evidence that is clearly “hiding in plain site.”

I definitely believe that in order to make any progress in figuring out what actually happened to Monica Petersen, at least as I perceive it, there are four main “areas” that clearly need to be looked at:
1.) What really were Monica Petersen’s contacts with Caracol workers, and possibly their family members and friends, as well as other Haitian activists, during her time conducting human trafficking investigations in Haiti during 2015–16? Do other documented forms of labor trafficking and labor exploitation known to occur at the Caracol factory and surrounding communities, be able to shine more of a light on Petersen’s findings about what may have been occurring at Caracol?

2.) Was there anything at all to Petersen’s speculation that labor trafficking may have been occurring at the Morne Bossa gold mine that is very close to the Caracol complex? Or in other words, was Petersen’s speculation that Haitian workers may have been forced to labor at the gold mine for “little or no wages” in anyway true?

3.) Petersen alleged human trafficking may be happening near Cap-Haïtien in northern Haiti, a region of the country that in particular has a history of being destabilized by right-wing counter-insurgencies against populist movements. These counter-insurgencies are themselves undoubtedly supported by the “covert operations” of foreign intelligence agencies, corporate interests, and private military contractor firms like DynCorp and many others with a presence in Haiti. As seen in Haiti and in many other “conflict areas” in other parts of the world, this kind of highly-unstable social environment can be a “breeding ground” for drug trafficking and other kinds of criminal activities, and in its worst forms, can be an environment that enables child trafficking and human trafficking in various forms. Could this “nexus” of a highly-unstable political situation, drug trafficking and covert operations have anything to do, if at all, with Petersen’s allegation that human trafficking was happening at Caracol?

4.) Monica Petersen worked at the Human Trafficking Center roughly in the time period of 2014–2016. Do any of her academic colleagues, or other students or people connecting with the HTC, possibly have relevant information about the investigations that Petersen was doing in Haiti?

I.) In regards to Monica Petersen’s time in Haiti, clearly the most important lead is Petersen’s own statement that human trafficking was happening to some unknown extent at the Caracol Industrial Park. Again, was it workers at Caracol who told her this? This would seem most logical, since Petersen said she personally visited Caracol in 2015 and talked to workers about working conditions at the factory. The Caracol Complex, as well as the nearby Morne Bossa gold mine, are both themselves only about 16 and 6 miles respectively from Cap-Haïtien, a major population center and shipping container port for the north of Haiti. There is a 2013 report about the Caracol Industrial Park from “Gender Action,” a gender equality advocacy organization based in Washington D.C.. The report provides a very in-depth field investigation of working conditions at the Caracol factory and other detailed analysis about the lives of workers at Caracol and people in the communities surrounding the Caracol factory, as well as a detailed report about the financing and development of the Caracol Industrial Park. The report was released pretty shortly after the Caracol factory began operating in 2012, and was prepared by American researchers with research support work provided by Faculty members of the Social Sciences Department at the Université d’Etat d’Haïti in Port-au-Prince. These Haitian and American researchers personally visited the Caracol area in Haiti multiple times in 2013 and interviewed over two dozen Caracol workers and people from the communities surrounding the factory complex for this field research report. This was only about 2 years before Monica Petersen herself visited the Caracol complex to talk to workers there in 2015, according to the previously described Facebook post from 2016. The report’s investigation of the Caracol factory in 2013 found that 90% of the textile workers employed by S&H Global, the main employer at the Caracol complex, were female workers. Again, S&H Global is a subsidiary of the South Korean-based, global textile manufacturer Sae-A Traders, that itself has its own very notorious history of labor and other severe human rights abuses at their textile factories both at Caracol and in other parts of the world, as described already here.

The 2013 Gender Action report states that there are two recognized labor unions that represent the workers at Caracol. These unions are the Union of Valiant S&H Global Workers (SOVASHG), and the Union of Global Sae-A Workers (SOGSA). SOVASHG and SOGSA are essentially union “locals” at Caracol, that are each part of different national confederations of workers in Haiti. SOVASHG is organized through “Batay Ouvriye” (“May 1st- Workers’ Fight Federation”), a national workers’ confederation in Haiti that has been active in organizing workers for the Disney corporation and other workers in Haiti since the 1990s. SOGSA is organized through the “Autonomous Federation of Haitian Workers” (CATH), another national labor confederation in Haiti that represents mostly assembly workers and has roots in the Latin American trade union movement. Is it possible Petersen may have also been in touch with trade union representatives from these unions representing Caracol workers? Even if she was not, representatives from these unions, in addition to the Caracol workers themselves, would be potential resources to turn to for information about what has really been going on at Caracol. More up-to-date field reports about conditions at and around the Caracol complex in Haiti would be enormously helpful in this regard. If it was not Caracol workers, then who else in Haiti could have told Petersen about human trafficking at Caracol? Petersen also said in her 2015 Facebook post that she was seeking to work with “pro-sex worker” support organizations in Haiti. Was Petersen able to successfully make contact with such an organization or organizations? If Petersen did really have contacts with Haitian social justice-oriented groups that support sex workers, such a group or groups could have more information about Petersen’s time spent in Haiti, and maybe even about the circumstances of her death.

Labor trafficking is known to occur at the Caracol complex and surrounding communities. By “labor trafficking,” I mean in the broadest sense of the term, the various ways in which workers can be forced, via different forms of coercion of varying severity, to perform all different kind of labor for either no or very little monetary compensation. The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (TVPA), passed by the US Congress in 2000 to protect victims of trafficking, defines “labor trafficking” as follows: “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.” The US Department of Health & Human Services released a “fact sheet” about human trafficking that describes two main forms of labor trafficking: the first is debt bondage or bonded labor, which the report describes as “the most widely used method of enslaving people.” Debt bondage, or “working off a debt,” occurs when workers are forced to provide labor to an employer and/or some kind of loan shark as a means of repayment of money loaned to them, often lent to the workers at very high, usurious interest rates. Workers are robbed of the value of their labor in this situation, because the value of the labor they provide is more than the original sum of the money lent by loan sharks to workers. Workers who have to work off debt therefore loose out on a very significant amount of pay in these kinds of situations. The second and even more severe form of labor trafficking described by the report is forced labor, essentially modern slavery, where “… victims are forced to work against their own will, under the threat of violence or some other form of punishment.” The connections between child sex trafficking and various forms of labor trafficking are clear. As the DHHS report states, “…[worldwide] there are an estimated 246 million exploited children aged between 5 and 17 involved in debt bondage, forced recruitment for armed conflict, prostitution, pornography, the illegal drug trade, the illegal arms trade and other illicit activities…” It is again worth repeating that the Human Trafficking Center, Monica Petersen’s former employer, specifically specializes in researching and investigating all different kinds of labor trafficking at an academic level.

The people of Haiti are long known to suffer some of the worst poverty in the entire Western hemisphere, and various forms of debt labor, or “labor servitude,” can clearly be found in Haiti and throughout the low-wage countries of the third world. It is very important to point out however, that the 2013 Gender Action report described above found through its own field investigation of Caracol, that various forms of debt bondage were definitely commonplace amongst Haitians workers at the Caracol complex. The Gender Action field report found that small-scale money lenders, or loan sharks, were actively lending money to workers at the Caracol complex at often very high interest rates, especially considering the extremely low wages Caracol workers received to begin with. At least in some cases, these money lenders at Caracol were known to take away from Haitian workers their government ID cards or their Caracol work ID cards, as a form of collateral until the money owed to them, plus interest, was paid by the Caracol workers.

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Screenshot from Gender Action Report on Caracol Plant in Haiti, 2013

The Caracol field report includes a picture of the windshield of a Haitian money lender’s vehicle parked right outside the front entrance of the Caracol factory at closing time. The windshield of the vehicle is completely covered in the ID cards of Haitian workers that the money lender had taken from the Caracol workers as collateral, until they paid back the money loaned to them by the lender. Having your ID card taken away from you and being forced to labor at a textile sweatshop until you find a way to repay or work off your debt, is clearly a severe form of debt bondage or involuntary servitude, especially for the extremely low-wage textile workers in Haiti. As the Gender Action report found, the average wage of the Caracol textile workers laboring for S&H Global in 2013 was the equivalent of $4.57 a day. To put this in some context, a more recent 2019 report from the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center, “The High Cost of Low Wages in Haiti,” states that the average minimum wage for export apparel workers (of which the Caracol workers are definitely included) was only 420 gourdes, or $5.07 a day. According to the Solidarity Center’s findings, this wage is more than 4 times less than the estimated cost of living for workers in Haiti.[/url]

The Gender Action report’s interviews with Caracol workers, revealed widespread sentiment from the Caracol workers that they could barely subsist on the wages paid to them at the factory, if they could subsist on the wages at all. The report stated that of the interviews the researchers conducted with a dozen Caracol workers, only one worker interviewed said she could save any money from her wages at the Caracol factory (and she herself lived rent-free with her parents!) As the report also stated, the “daily minimum wage [at Caracol] neither enables workers to climb out of poverty nor provides sustained demand for small business services, needed to develop north Haiti…” One other Caracol worker interviewed said his wages were “just better than nothing at all”, another worker said, “More or less, my life is slightly better now. But the salary isn’t enough and I can’t buy almost anything I need.” Other workers reported planning to return to school to try to find better paying work than what they had hoped for at the Caracol factory. The 2013 report even stated that the small number of food vendors that congregated right outside the Caracol factory to provide meals to Caracol workers on their lunch break, were themselves not able to make ends meet, because they had to sell so many meals on credit to the struggling Caracol workers. Poverty wages were so severe at Caracol that workers were literally going into debt just trying to feed themselves during their workdays. Very significantly, these statements about working conditions from Caracol workers very much corroborate what Monica Petersen herself claimed that she heard herself from workers at Caracol, when she went there to investigate working conditions only two years later in 2015. Again, Petersen reported hearing from workers that wages at Caracol were “too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti.”

These reports clearly show that the Caracol complex and surrounding communities struggle with a high concentration of very low-wage, mostly female workers suffering from various forms of harassment and labor and other human rights abuses. Caracol workers are known to be threatened with sexual harassment while at work, and struggle to make it, if at all, on poverty wages paid at the factory while often being preyed upon by predatory lenders operating nearby. Given this overall environment of poverty and exploitation known to exist at Caracol, it is all the more chilling to consider Monica Petersen’s claim in 2016 that an actual human trafficking operation was happening to some unknown extent at the Caracol complex. Human traffickers and child abusers of all types are well known for preying upon and abusing the most impoverished and vulnerable people in any society. Given the high level of deprivation already clearly existing amongst the workers and surrounding communities at the Caracol complex in Haiti, this makes Petersen’s claim about human trafficking all the more disturbing.

II.) Given the relevant social media information available, I definitely think the Morne Bossa gold mine, located only a little under 15 miles from the Caracol factory in northern Haiti, deserved further scrutiny. Petersen stated the following specific to the Morne Bossa mine in the 2016 Facebook post: “I’d like to go see for myself who’s laboring at Morne Bossa, but I would hypothesize that the Dominicans are doing the contractual oversight of the mining, while marginalized Haitians are being exploited for low or no cost labor in dangerous mining conditions.” To be 100% clear, given the limited context of the Facebook post, Petersen is only speculating here that Haitian laborers might be being exploited as “low or no cost” labor at the gold mine, which I think by any reasonable assessment is a very severe form of labor trafficking. It goes without saying that mining is an extremely dangerous job occupation anywhere. Mining gold in Haiti only massively increases the danger posed by this kind of labor, considering that Haiti has a long history of extreme poverty, and of having a weak state with a very limited ability to enforce its own laws and regulations compared to the law enforcement power of any first world country.

I know this is a bit of my own speculation here, but I think it is safe enough to say that if Petersen was anywhere near correct in her speculation that some kind of labor trafficking operation to provide laborers might have been occurring at the Morne Bossa gold mine, this kind of highly-coerced, debt bondage or forced labor-type situation could probably not occur without significant “outside help.” Having to labor for gold in Haiti for no or almost no pay at all, would definitely seem to require a level of coercion far greater than just taking your ID card away from you until you repay a debt. In my opinion, labor trafficking of this scale could probably only really occur with the complicity of at least some highly corrupted elements of the Haitian and International “security state.” By this “security state”, I mean the Haitian police, armed forces, paramilitary groups and the myriad of private defense contractors with a history of operating in Haiti, including DynCorp and many others, along with the US intelligence agencies undoubtedly “lurking” in the shadows behind many of these private military contractor firms. These foreign-based, private military contractors and intelligence agencies have a long history of training and otherwise propping-up the Haitian armed forces, paramilitary groups and polices services, themselves long-known for their own history of brutal human rights abuses in Haiti.

The Morne Bossa gold mine is located fairly close to another sizable gold mine in Haiti, the Grand Bois gold mine, located only about 18 miles away. The Morne Bossa and Grand Bois gold mines [url=https://stockhead.com.au/resources/gold-explorer-3d-hits-another-haitian-roadblock-now-the-vendors-are-revolting/]reportedly contain an estimated 740,000 ounces, or over 23 tons, of gold. At the current gold price at close to $3,000 an ounce (2025 prices), the current estimated value of the combined gold wealth of the two nearby mines in northern Haiti is over $2.2 billion worth of gold. As previously described in regards to Monica Petersen’s Facebook postings, Petersen clearly deeply believed that the Clintons were engaged in all kinds of nefarious actions to secure at least of a “chunk” of the gold wealth of Morne Bossa for themselves and their political cronies in Haiti and elsewhere. Considering this, there is plenty of evidence independent of Petersen’s observations that Morne Bossa, and the Grand Bois gold mines have a long history of very suspicious owners, including Hillary’s own brother Tony Rodham, and there is plenty of independent evidence that both the Morne Bossa and Grand Bois mines have been excavated to a significant degree, and possibly already mined for an unknown amount of gold for many years now.

High-ranking elected members of the Haitian government have repeatedly made allegations that the Morne Bossa mine has been a site of corruption and theft of mineral wealth also for many years now. As previously stated, the US-based VCS mining company, on which Hillary’s own brother Tony sat on the Board, acquired the gold mining permit for Morne Bossa in 2012, the very same year the Caracol factory went into operation (Tony Rodham himself died in 2019.) As the Washington Post also reported in 2015, after the gold mining permit for Morne Bossa was rewarded to VCS in 2012, members of the Haitian Senate publicly denounced the project, saying that gold mining at Morne Bossa was a potential environmental disaster and “waste of resources,” and ultimately the permit was put on hold. A report from the Inter Press Service states that Haitian Senators have publicly opposed gold mining at Morne Bossa, because they say the mining permits granted for Morne Bossa and other mines are unconstitutional, because the permits were based on a 1997 Mining Convention on Haitian mining laws that was not approved by the Haitian Parliament. According to these Mining Convention laws, the Haitian state only receives a tiny 2.5% of the value of the gold mined at Morne Bossa as a “royalty fee,” which is obviously a scandalously-low amount of compensation for the impoverished Haitian people, compared to the amount of mineral wealth potentially available at Morne Bossa.

However, despite whether or not gold mining at Morne Bossa has been “permitted” by the Haitian government or occurred under illegal conditions, there is plenty of visual evidence to show that mining activity of some sort has indeed occurred at Morne Bossa for many years now. Google Map satellite images clearly show that a significant amount of excavation has occurred at both the Morne Bossa and Grand Bois mines, including plenty of visual evidence that large amounts of soil and earth have been removed from both sites, and clearly-seen roads have been built to provide access to both mining sites.
Based on my examination of the available information on the internet, there seems to be a very limited amount of information available about the true extent of what has been going on at Morne Bossa, which of course has its own very eerie similarity with the media silence about Monica Petersen herself. However, based on the most recent information I could find, there is very good reason to believe the Clinton-connected VCS Mining company still owns Morne Bossa to this day! A 2023 press release states that VCS Mining more recently changed its name to “Resource Générale Corporation”, and owns Morne Bossa through a wholly owned subsidiary.

The world of buying and selling mines and mineral resources is clearly an incredibly elitist and “stratospheric” social and financial world. In this regard, it is very important to point out that back in 2011, the Mercer Gold Corp. mining corporation announced that it had signed a Letter of Intent to purchase a 100% stake in Tony Rodham’s VCS Mining. This was only a year before VCS actually received the permit from the Haitian government to mine gold at Morne Bossa. From what I can tell, Mercer Gold Corp. must have ultimately passed on the deal. Very significantly though, Mercer Gold’s own press report states that VCS Mining was very involved in drilling for gold at Morne Bossa at the time Mercer was considering buying the mine. Mercer’s report states that “…VCS completed 9 drill holes in the last 3 months” at the time of the press release.
So very significantly, there is evidence that VCS Mining was actively drilling, and presumably extracting significant volumes of gold, back when Tony Rodham himself was still alive. Mercer Gold Corp. also owns the “Guayables” gold mine in Colombia, a nation that historically has been one of the world’s great sources of gold. Whether coincidentally or not, it is also worth pointing out that Mercer Gold Corp. happens to share its name with the immensely powerful Mercer family. Robert and Rebekah Mercer of this family, are widely reported as being among the most influential and pivotal financial backers of Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential election campaign.

Significantly, as documented here, Monica Petersen herself said she heard about ongoing mining activity occurring at Morne Bossa. She also discusses how at least one Presidential Administration in Haiti has allegedly worked in a “crony” manner with the Clintons to try to begin mining gold at the Morne Bossa mine through VCS Mining. As Petersen states in Robinson’s January 4 2016 Facebook post, “Mining was set to commence [at Morne Bossa] in 2012, but the Haitian Senate opposed it. President Michel Martelly did not, but has been unable to make progress in the Haitian Mining Conventions & laws in order for VCS Mining to move ahead, as they had hoped for before Martelly left office […] Several articles have pointed out that mining activity at Morne Bossa over the last two decades oddly corresponds to the first & second coups of former President Aristide. Haitian mining laws were revised during both coups when Aristide was ousted from office. Bill Clinton’s administration backed those coups throwing Aristide out.” Significantly, Petersen makes mention here of the incredibly unfair Haitian Mining Convention laws mentioned above. She describes how these mining laws, which grant only a minuscule portion of Morne Bossa’s wealth to the Haitian people, were put into place after the coups against Aristide that were backed by the Clinton Administration. Considering all this, it is again worth considering Monica Petersen’s speculation that labor trafficking of some form could have been happening at the Morne Bossa mine, along with her specific allegation that human trafficking really was occurring at the nearby Caracol factory complex. If there is truth to any of this, the true extent of any potential labor and human rights abuses occurring at the Morne Bossa gold mine definitely need to be investigated.

III.) When it comes to the history of the security state or “deep state” in Haiti, there is clearly a very dark history of multinational corporations acting in deep collusion with the US national security state to repress populist movements in Haiti that have sought to raise living standards in one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere. Significant to Monica Petersen’s human trafficking investigations, is the fact that Cap-Haïtien, close to where Petersen’s alleged human trafficking was occurring, itself has a history of being a “base of operations” for the anti-Aristide counter-insurgency coups that drove Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office. Aristide, a former Jesuit Priest, came to power with the support of the left-leaning, populist “Lavalas” political movement in Haiti. When in office, Aristide made extensive efforts to raise the minimum wage for workers in Haiti, one of the lowest-paid and most-exploited labor forces in all of the Western Hemisphere. He faced two coups that drove him from office twice, once in the early 90s, and another coup in the early 2000s during Aristide’s second presidency. These coups against Aristide were backed by right-wing elements of his own military and security state, including brutal paramilitary organizations like the “FRAPH” death squads. The Human Rights Watch organization states that FRAPH members “… took part in the killing of at least 4,000 people as well as in thousands of rapes and acts of torture.” These coups against Aristide occurred with the active support and complicity of the wealthiest classes in Haiti and the western multinational corporations intent on exploiting an incredibly cheap labor pool in Haiti for themselves. Dr. Paul Farmer’s well-known book “The Uses of Haiti,” details this story in great detail, especially providing evidence of both the Clinton and Bush Administrations’ complicity in the impoverishment of Haiti. In particular, Farmer’s book discusses how America’s ostensible mission to restore Aristide to power after the first coup against him in the early 90s during the Clinton Administration, was really a ruse for forcing him to accept neoliberal concessions in return for being allowed to return to power. These concessions forced Aristide to abandon efforts to raise living standards for Haitian workers and contributed to further impoverishment of Haiti.

In regards to Monica Petersen’s investigation in Haiti, it is important to point out that the counter-insurgents did completely take over Cap-Haïtien for nearly a month in February 2004, and used it as a base to a significant degree, to launch their second coup against Aristide, which was successful in driving him from office a second time in the early 2000s. Cap-Haïtien is very close to both Caracol and the Morne Bossa mine, the known subjects of Monica Petersen’s investigations into human trafficking during her time in Haiti. According to an AP press report, a significant leader of the second coup against Aristide was Guy Philippe, who was a high-ranking Haitian police commander in Cap-Haïtien at the time of the second coup against Aristide. Perhaps not coincidently at all, the same Guy Philippe is also a very high-level drug trafficker. The AP report states that Philippe “received between $1.5 and $3.5 million from drug traffickers from 1999 to 2004” when he was a police commander in Cap-Haïtien. Philippe and other Haitian police “… took the money in exchange for ensuring safe passage for cocaine shipments from Colombia and other countries that went through Haiti on their way to Miami and other U.S. destinations.” In 2017, Guy Philippe was “whisked” out of Haiti to the US on drug money laundering charges. He took a plea deal in a courtroom in Miami where he avoided a potential life sentence for cocaine trafficking.

When people look into the realm of what could be called “deep politics,” there is plenty of evidence to show that there is a long-standing association between drug trafficking and covert intelligence operations conducted by US Intelligence agencies. The history of the US supporting counter-insurgencies that themselves were deeply involved in drug trafficking is nothing new. In the 1980s, the CIA and the US Intelligence community heavily supported the Contras, a right-wing counter-insurgency who fought against the leftist Sandinistas in El Salvador. The Contras themselves were notorious for working with South American drug cartels to traffic huge amounts of narcotics to the US in the 80s. Going further back to the Vietnam war era, the “Golden Triangle” region of Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar in southeast Asia was notorious during the Vietnam War for being a huge source location for opium and heroin, much of which was trafficked out of the Golden Triangle with the complicity of the CIA and the Western intelligence agencies before, during and after the Vietnam War. Books such as Alfred McCoy’s “The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia” and Henrik Krüger’s “The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism,” provide a great deal of information about the significance of the Southeast Asian opium trade as being a very “significant factor” in intelligence-backed covert operations during the Vietnam War era and beyond. In regards to Haiti and its history of counter-insurgency movements supported by narco-traffickers, I definitely recommend reading researcher Jeb Sprague’s 2012 book “Para-militarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti.” In the book, Sprague goes into extensive detail about the history of the formation of the two major right-wing, counter-insurgency movements against Aristide, which as Sprague documents were supported by elements of the US Military, US Intelligence agencies, and the “transnational elite” both in Haiti and abroad. As Sprague describes in detail, there is significant evidence both coups against Aristide were supported by Haitian narco-traffickers, and corrupt elements of the Haitian state and Haitian paramilitary groups who were complicit in the drug trafficking. The new President who assumed power after Aristide was ousted the second time, Gerard Latortue, had a cousin, Youri Latortue, a former Haitian Armed Forces member who was a significant leader in the second coup, and who was also alleged to be a major drug trafficker in his hometown of Gonaïves, Haiti. Sprague’s book also documents Guy Philippe as being a major leader of the second coup, and Philippe is of course documented as being a major drug trafficker as well. The connections between narco-trafficking and counter-insurgency movements are clear in Haiti.

Furthermore, the Haitian civilian population in general, have been victim to decades of extreme paramilitary and death squad-backed violence, violence that has occurred with the complicity and direction of multiple Haitian dictatorships and presidential administrations. The FRAPH death squads that terrorized and murdered Haitian supporters of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the 90s, were according to Sprague and many other sources, arguably a direct descendent of the murderous “Tonton Macoute” death squads. The Tonton Macoute was a paramilitary force that murdered and otherwise committed extreme acts of violence against untold numbers of Haitian civilians for decades. These death squads were notorious for operating as the brutal enforcement arm of the “Papa Doc” and “Baby Doc,” Francois and Jean-Claude Duvalier father-and-son dictatorship that ruled Haiti from the 1950s through the 1980s. It clearly cannot be forgotten that for decades, Haitian civilians across the board have been severely terrorized, and displaced from their families and hometowns, as a direct consequence of all this paramilitary-backed violence against them.

So again, what is the significance of all this to Monica Petersen’s human trafficking investigations in Haiti? We can already see that the region of Haiti Petersen alleged human trafficking was occurring in, has a long history of being severely destabilized by counter-insurgencies driven by paramilitary and military groups known to support themselves extensively through drug trafficking. This drug trafficking itself has a long history of corrupting major elements of the Haitian state. Beyond even this, is the “background” of decades of paramilitary-backed violence against Haitian civilians that has happened throughout Haiti. Considering all this as context, when again you consider Petersen’s claims of human trafficking occurring in Haiti, you have to consider the human trafficking that has horrifically been known to occur in other areas of the world subjected to war and severe trauma and displacement of the civilian population. In particular, the civilian population of Serbia and other Balkan states were terrorized, severely displaced, and otherwise traumatized by the civil war and US and NATO coalition-led prolonged bombing campaign in the 90s and early-2000s. It was amidst this overall environment of displacement and trauma, that human trafficking reared its head. Evidence for this is mostly clearly seen with the conduct of DynCorp and certain DynCorp employees, with their involvement in trafficking underage girls and women during the war in the Balkan states of former Yugoslavia. The connections between conflicts areas, paramilitary and private military contractor groups, and human trafficking can clearly be discerned. Considering all this, I think you again have to consider that DynCorp and other private defense contractors have their own extensive history in Haiti, especially when it comes to training United Nations troops who themselves have been criminally complicit in child sex abuse and child sex trafficking in Haiti. This condition of many civilians in Haiti, seems exactly like the same kind of traumatized, displaced condition of civilians seen in other conflicted regions of the world, where Western intelligence agencies and private contractor firms have their own notorious history of often “pulling the strings” behind the curtains. This “string-pulling” is often seen to involve these Intelligence agencies and defense contractors supporting counter-insurgency de-stabilizations in foreign countries, to the benefit of the wealthiest classes in the US and abroad. In its worst “manifestations”, as horrible as it is to say, this kind of environment seems clearly “ideal” for human traffickers to prey on victims.

Monica Petersen’s investigation of the Caracol complex near Cap-Haïtien in northern Haiti in 2015, occurred in a region with a long history of these kind of criminal elements operating with relative impunity from the weak Haitian state. In terms of specific allegations of human trafficking, all we have to go on is Petersen’s specific allegation that human trafficking of some kind was happening at the Caracol complex. If this human trafficking claim is in anyway true, I think you have to ask: do any of these long-operating criminal elements in Haiti, i.e. the narco-traffickers, corrupt Haitian paramilitary groups, military and police, US defense contractors, and intelligence assets operating deep in the shadows, have anything to do with such an alleged human trafficking operation happening at the Caracol complex?

IV.) Monica Petersen worked at the Human Trafficking Center (HTC) at the University of Denver roughly in the time period of 2014–2016, and took courses at and had an association with the HTC possibly before 2014. Before its permanent closure in June 2021, the Human Trafficking Center had a graduate student staff and many alumni who worked all over the world, conducting research into various forms of human trafficking and forced labor-related situations. In addition, academics from a number of Universities have conducted various kinds of research and taught courses in association with the HTC, while the graduate program was still in existence. With the exemption of Professor d’Estree himself, I am not trying to make any unfair accusations towards anyone in this academic community at all. Could any of these people associated with the HTC be able to shine more of a light on Monica Petersen’s activities and academic research at the HTC? Could any of these HTC-associated academics possibly have information about what Monica Petersen was truly investigating in Haiti? The same questions could be asked to other academics, students, and any people otherwise associated with the larger Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Petersen received her Masters Degree from the Korbel School in 2014, and the HTC was a part of the Korbel School before being shut down by the Korbel School administration. Could any of these people associated with the HTC and/or the Korbel School have information about Monica Petersen’s Masters Thesis from the Korbel School, which again to my knowledge is not publicly available to this day? Considering that Petersen had a history of investigating human trafficking in Haiti, and her Masters Degree focuses on studying human trafficking, there is a real possibility Petersen’s Masters Thesis could have something to do with her investigations in Haiti. Petersen’s Thesis could potentially contain information useful to determining more of what she was really doing in Haiti, and possibly the real circumstances of her death.

I feel the most important thing to end with is this: I truly believe that if Monica Petersen was correct that human trafficking was happening at the Caracol complex, then the VOICES of the WORKERS at CARACOL need to be HEARD and understood to make any sense of this situation. The Caracol workers themselves, and their family and friends in the surrounding communities in Haiti, are clearly the only ones who can give the full scope of any alleged criminality occurring at Caracol. Unless their voices are heard, I do not believe there will be justice for Monica Petersen and the People of Haiti.

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Monica Petersen, Haiti and the Octopus of the Deep State
Part 3
(Part 1, Part 2 here)

By: Anonymous
February 26th, 2021

(**Note: This is NOT a QAnon Article. This author does NOT believe in QAnon AT ALL.)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." 
- Marie Curie

"... the real significance of this scandal for me [...] is the link to contemporary slavery and trafficking. I can't say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton's [Caracol] Complex. And mining has always been historically linked to trafficking, slavery, and labor exploitation."
 - Monica Petersen, Research Fellow and Assistant to the Director at the Human Trafficking Center at the University of Denver, in January 2016 Facebook Post (LINK)

The Laura Silsby Case: Another Clinton-Connected Human Trafficking Scandal in Haiti

It is again important to note Monica Petersen specifically wrote about “two huge human trafficking scandals” happening in Haiti that allegedly led back to the Clintons, in her 2016 Facebook post. However, she only specifically says that human trafficking was occurring at the Caracol complex in northern Haiti. So where was the other “human trafficking scandal” in Haiti, if there indeed was one? It is therefore very important to bring up the Laura Silsby human trafficking scandal in Haiti in 2010, that occurred 6 years before Petersen’s death. Unlike Monica Petersen, the Laura Silsby case was actually covered by a pretty wide range of mainstream news outlets at its time around 2010. Since then however, there has ALSO been a resounding “mainstream media silence” about this Clinton-connected scandal as well. Laura Silsby was a supposed Baptist missionary, who along with other “missionaries” from the “New Life Children’s Refuge” charity in Boise, Idaho, travelled to Haiti in 2010, after the devastating January 2010 earthquake in Haiti that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Silsby and her fellow missionaries were supposedly in Haiti to “rescue” children who had been left orphaned by the earthquake. However, only 3 weeks after the earthquake, Silsby and 10 other missionaries from her charity were arrested by Haitian authorities for attempting to illegally take 33 children across the Haitian border into the Dominican Republic. Very significantly, the Harvard Human Rights Journal published an in-depth study of the Silsby human trafficking case by Law School Professor Shani King, titled “Owning Laura Silsby’s Shame: How the Haitian Child Trafficking Scheme Embodies the Western Disregard for the Integrity of Poor Families.” Quoting from Professor King’s article:

“On January 29, 2010, less than three weeks after the earthquake, Haitian authorities arrested ten U.S. Baptist missionaries for attempting to take 33 children by bus across the border into the Dominican Republic without proper documentation. A week later, the missionaries were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association. While the missionaries claimed good intentions and ignorance of Haitian laws, Haitian prosecutors argued that there had been intentional wrongdoing. In the course of a month, President Clinton brokered the release of all the missionaries, except for the group leader, Laura Silsby.

While Laura Silsby awaited trial, the press brought to light several facts that raised serious suspicions about her intent to traffic or smuggle the children as part of a grey adoption scheme. In 2009, Silsby visited Haiti with the stated intent to establish an orphanage. At the time, Silsby faced numerous court cases in the U.S. for bad debt and unpaid wages. In November 2009, she registered her New Life Children’s Refuge charity at an address in Boise, Idaho, and a month later the house was repossessed for lack of payment. In the midst of her personal debt crisis, the January earthquake struck Haiti, and Silsby organized a mission to “gather 100 orphans from the streets” of Haiti and take them to a shelter in the Dominican Republic. The children would be housed in a leased hotel because Silsby’s purported charity did not yet manage an orphanage or own any property in the Dominican Republic. U.S. authorities later stated that New Life Children’s Refuge was not listed as a U.S. nonprofit or as a U.S. international adoption agency. In March, after her arrest, evidence was introduced in Silsby’s case showing that on January 26, 2010, she had previously attempted to take a different group of 40 children across the border. Haitian and Dominican authorities turned her away for lack of authorizing documents. Three days later she attempted to cross over with the second group — the 33 children — again without proper documentation.

[…] After the earthquake, the Haitian government tried to crack down on unauthorized adoptions to avoid child trafficking. In addition, the Dominican consul in Haiti had personally warned Silsby that she lacked the necessary paperwork to take children out of the country and risked arrest. On March 17, 2010, after careful verification of identities by the Social Welfare Ministry of Haiti, 32 out of the 33 children were returned to their families (the last one being returned shortly thereafter), thus confirming that none of the children were orphans. […] Suspicions about Silsby’s intent to smuggle or traffic the children to the Dominican Republic further increased, when on March 19, 2010, Silsby’s legal advisor — Jorge Torres-Puello, an American-Dominican living in the Dominican Republic as a fugitive — was arrested and accused of human trafficking. U.S. authorities revealed that Torres-Puello was ‘linked to a network that trafficked in Haitian and Central American children and [was] wanted in the United States, El Salvador and Costa Rica. His wife was already imprisoned in El Salvador and ‘faced charges of presumed sexual exploitation of minors and women.’

Despite Silsby’s stated intent to take the children over the border to an unauthorized orphanage and her connections to human traffickers such as Torres-Puello, the courts eventually dropped the kidnapping and criminal association charges against her. Silsby was instead convicted under the additional charge of organizing illegal travel, sentenced to time served (3 months and 8 days), and released on May 17, 2010. In the end, her sentence was based on the least polemic charge against her. The pressing issue — whether Silsby intended to deliver the children into trafficking rings or grey adoption markets — was not addressed or resolved.’’

Jorge Torres-Puello, the “lawyer” who mysteriously showed up in Haiti to defend Laura Silsby and her incredibly shady group of fellow “missionaries,” turned out to be a for-real child trafficker who was already on the run from the law himself and wanted in multiple countries, including the US! As if this could not get any sketchier, Professor King at the beginning of his article states that, “Despite evidence of association with child traffickers, the Haitian justice system- prodded in part by President Clinton’s diplomatic efforts on behalf of the missionaries- determined that none of the missionaries were guilty of illegal activities, except the leader Laura Silsby…” So we have a source no less reputable than the Harvard Human Rights Journal, stating that Bill Clinton himself “prodded” Haitian authorities to quickly release all these “missionaries” except Silsby, who herself was quickly released after just a few months also. This was in spite of the fact that the question of whether Silsby and her co-conspirators “intended to deliver the children into trafficking rings” was NOT “addressed or resolved.” Again, based on my own Google search query for “Laura Silsby,” there was a brief flurry of articles and reports from mainstream press agencies about the Silsby case after her arrest in 2010… followed by a virtual “media silence” from then on. The Laura Silsby case was quite obviously a Haitian human trafficking scandal that led directly back to the Clintons… could this have been the other “huge human trafficking scandal” that Monica Petersen was referring to in the January 2016 Facebook post?

Possible Steps Forward for Investigators and Activists
The circumstances of Monica Petersen’s death in Haiti is shrouded in a virtual media silence, accompanied by a trickle of social media posts that shed a deeply disturbing light on what the actual circumstances of Petersen’s death may have been. At the same time, I fully realize that I am writing this in February 2021, only a little over a month after a mob of Trump supporters, many of them quite openly QAnon conspiracy supporters, stormed the US Capitol. Trying to have a serious discussion about Monica Petersen’s investigation of human trafficking in Haiti, and it’s possible connection to the Clintons, is obviously an extremely difficult task. I fully get that putting “Clintons” and “human trafficking” together in the same sentence, invites every kind of ludicrous conspiracy theory imaginable. In my own defense, I have tried to stick to the most reputable sources possible in my investigation of Monica Petersen’s time spent in Haiti and her death there. I strongly feel that in order to “break through” the wall of media-generated misinformation and hysteria generated by the current “QAnon craze,” it is essential to look at the existing facts about Monica Petersen and Haiti as they actually are, and NOT ignore the available evidence that is clearly “hiding in plain site.”

I definitely believe that in order to make any progress in figuring out what actually happened to Monica Petersen, at least as I perceive it, there are four main “areas” that clearly need to be looked at:
1.) What really were Monica Petersen’s contacts with Caracol workers, and possibly their family members and friends, as well as other Haitian activists, during her time conducting human trafficking investigations in Haiti during 2015–16? Do other documented forms of labor trafficking and labor exploitation known to occur at the Caracol factory and surrounding communities, be able to shine more of a light on Petersen’s findings about what may have been occurring at Caracol?

2.) Was there anything at all to Petersen’s speculation that labor trafficking may have been occurring at the Morne Bossa gold mine that is very close to the Caracol complex? Or in other words, was Petersen’s speculation that Haitian workers may have been forced to labor at the gold mine for “little or no wages” in anyway true?

3.) Petersen alleged human trafficking may be happening near Cap-Haïtien in northern Haiti, a region of the country that in particular has a history of being destabilized by right-wing counter-insurgencies against populist movements. These counter-insurgencies are themselves undoubtedly supported by the “covert operations” of foreign intelligence agencies, corporate interests, and private military contractor firms like DynCorp and many others with a presence in Haiti. As seen in Haiti and in many other “conflict areas” in other parts of the world, this kind of highly-unstable social environment can be a “breeding ground” for drug trafficking and other kinds of criminal activities, and in its worst forms, can be an environment that enables child trafficking and human trafficking in various forms. Could this “nexus” of a highly-unstable political situation, drug trafficking and covert operations have anything to do, if at all, with Petersen’s allegation that human trafficking was happening at Caracol?

4.) Monica Petersen worked at the Human Trafficking Center roughly in the time period of 2014–2016. Do any of her academic colleagues, or other students or people connecting with the HTC, possibly have relevant information about the investigations that Petersen was doing in Haiti?

I.) In regards to Monica Petersen’s time in Haiti, clearly the most important lead is Petersen’s own statement that human trafficking was happening to some unknown extent at the Caracol Industrial Park. Again, was it workers at Caracol who told her this? This would seem most logical, since Petersen said she personally visited Caracol in 2015 and talked to workers about working conditions at the factory. The Caracol Complex, as well as the nearby Morne Bossa gold mine, are both themselves only about 16 and 6 miles respectively from Cap-Haïtien, a major population center and shipping container port for the north of Haiti. There is a 2013 report about the Caracol Industrial Park from “Gender Action,” a gender equality advocacy organization based in Washington D.C.. The report provides a very in-depth field investigation of working conditions at the Caracol factory and other detailed analysis about the lives of workers at Caracol and people in the communities surrounding the Caracol factory, as well as a detailed report about the financing and development of the Caracol Industrial Park. The report was released pretty shortly after the Caracol factory began operating in 2012, and was prepared by American researchers with research support work provided by Faculty members of the Social Sciences Department at the Université d’Etat d’Haïti in Port-au-Prince. These Haitian and American researchers personally visited the Caracol area in Haiti multiple times in 2013 and interviewed over two dozen Caracol workers and people from the communities surrounding the factory complex for this field research report. This was only about 2 years before Monica Petersen herself visited the Caracol complex to talk to workers there in 2015, according to the previously described Facebook post from 2016. The report’s investigation of the Caracol factory in 2013 found that 90% of the textile workers employed by S&H Global, the main employer at the Caracol complex, were female workers. Again, S&H Global is a subsidiary of the South Korean-based, global textile manufacturer Sae-A Traders, that itself has its own very notorious history of labor and other severe human rights abuses at their textile factories both at Caracol and in other parts of the world, as described already here.

The 2013 Gender Action report states that there are two recognized labor unions that represent the workers at Caracol. These unions are the Union of Valiant S&H Global Workers (SOVASHG), and the Union of Global Sae-A Workers (SOGSA). SOVASHG and SOGSA are essentially union “locals” at Caracol, that are each part of different national confederations of workers in Haiti. SOVASHG is organized through “Batay Ouvriye” (“May 1st- Workers’ Fight Federation”), a national workers’ confederation in Haiti that has been active in organizing workers for the Disney corporation and other workers in Haiti since the 1990s. SOGSA is organized through the “Autonomous Federation of Haitian Workers” (CATH), another national labor confederation in Haiti that represents mostly assembly workers and has roots in the Latin American trade union movement. Is it possible Petersen may have also been in touch with trade union representatives from these unions representing Caracol workers? Even if she was not, representatives from these unions, in addition to the Caracol workers themselves, would be potential resources to turn to for information about what has really been going on at Caracol. More up-to-date field reports about conditions at and around the Caracol complex in Haiti would be enormously helpful in this regard. If it was not Caracol workers, then who else in Haiti could have told Petersen about human trafficking at Caracol? Petersen also said in her 2015 Facebook post that she was seeking to work with “pro-sex worker” support organizations in Haiti. Was Petersen able to successfully make contact with such an organization or organizations? If Petersen did really have contacts with Haitian social justice-oriented groups that support sex workers, such a group or groups could have more information about Petersen’s time spent in Haiti, and maybe even about the circumstances of her death.

Labor trafficking is known to occur at the Caracol complex and surrounding communities. By “labor trafficking,” I mean in the broadest sense of the term, the various ways in which workers can be forced, via different forms of coercion of varying severity, to perform all different kind of labor for either no or very little monetary compensation. The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (TVPA), passed by the US Congress in 2000 to protect victims of trafficking, defines “labor trafficking” as follows: “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.” The US Department of Health & Human Services released a “fact sheet” about human trafficking that describes two main forms of labor trafficking: the first is debt bondage or bonded labor, which the report describes as “the most widely used method of enslaving people.” Debt bondage, or “working off a debt,” occurs when workers are forced to provide labor to an employer and/or some kind of loan shark as a means of repayment of money loaned to them, often lent to the workers at very high, usurious interest rates. Workers are robbed of the value of their labor in this situation, because the value of the labor they provide is more than the original sum of the money lent by loan sharks to workers. Workers who have to work off debt therefore loose out on a very significant amount of pay in these kinds of situations. The second and even more severe form of labor trafficking described by the report is forced labor, essentially modern slavery, where “… victims are forced to work against their own will, under the threat of violence or some other form of punishment.” The connections between child sex trafficking and various forms of labor trafficking are clear. As the DHHS report states, “…[worldwide] there are an estimated 246 million exploited children aged between 5 and 17 involved in debt bondage, forced recruitment for armed conflict, prostitution, pornography, the illegal drug trade, the illegal arms trade and other illicit activities…” It is again worth repeating that the Human Trafficking Center, Monica Petersen’s former employer, specifically specializes in researching and investigating all different kinds of labor trafficking at an academic level.

The people of Haiti are long known to suffer some of the worst poverty in the entire Western hemisphere, and various forms of debt labor, or “labor servitude,” can clearly be found in Haiti and throughout the low-wage countries of the third world. It is very important to point out however, that the 2013 Gender Action report described above found through its own field investigation of Caracol, that various forms of debt bondage were definitely commonplace amongst Haitians workers at the Caracol complex. The Gender Action field report found that small-scale money lenders, or loan sharks, were actively lending money to workers at the Caracol complex at often very high interest rates, especially considering the extremely low wages Caracol workers received to begin with. At least in some cases, these money lenders at Caracol were known to take away from Haitian workers their government ID cards or their Caracol work ID cards, as a form of collateral until the money owed to them, plus interest, was paid by the Caracol workers.

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Screenshot from Gender Action Report on Caracol Plant in Haiti, 2013

The Caracol field report includes a picture of the windshield of a Haitian money lender’s vehicle parked right outside the front entrance of the Caracol factory at closing time. The windshield of the vehicle is completely covered in the ID cards of Haitian workers that the money lender had taken from the Caracol workers as collateral, until they paid back the money loaned to them by the lender. Having your ID card taken away from you and being forced to labor at a textile sweatshop until you find a way to repay or work off your debt, is clearly a severe form of debt bondage or involuntary servitude, especially for the extremely low-wage textile workers in Haiti. As the Gender Action report found, the average wage of the Caracol textile workers laboring for S&H Global in 2013 was the equivalent of $4.57 a day. To put this in some context, a more recent 2019 report from the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center, “The High Cost of Low Wages in Haiti,” states that the average minimum wage for export apparel workers (of which the Caracol workers are definitely included) was only 420 gourdes, or $5.07 a day. According to the Solidarity Center’s findings, this wage is more than 4 times less than the estimated cost of living for workers in Haiti.[/url]

The Gender Action report’s interviews with Caracol workers, revealed widespread sentiment from the Caracol workers that they could barely subsist on the wages paid to them at the factory, if they could subsist on the wages at all. The report stated that of the interviews the researchers conducted with a dozen Caracol workers, only one worker interviewed said she could save any money from her wages at the Caracol factory (and she herself lived rent-free with her parents!) As the report also stated, the “daily minimum wage [at Caracol] neither enables workers to climb out of poverty nor provides sustained demand for small business services, needed to develop north Haiti…” One other Caracol worker interviewed said his wages were “just better than nothing at all”, another worker said, “More or less, my life is slightly better now. But the salary isn’t enough and I can’t buy almost anything I need.” Other workers reported planning to return to school to try to find better paying work than what they had hoped for at the Caracol factory. The 2013 report even stated that the small number of food vendors that congregated right outside the Caracol factory to provide meals to Caracol workers on their lunch break, were themselves not able to make ends meet, because they had to sell so many meals on credit to the struggling Caracol workers. Poverty wages were so severe at Caracol that workers were literally going into debt just trying to feed themselves during their workdays. Very significantly, these statements about working conditions from Caracol workers very much corroborate what Monica Petersen herself claimed that she heard herself from workers at Caracol, when she went there to investigate working conditions only two years later in 2015. Again, Petersen reported hearing from workers that wages at Caracol were “too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti.”

These reports clearly show that the Caracol complex and surrounding communities struggle with a high concentration of very low-wage, mostly female workers suffering from various forms of harassment and labor and other human rights abuses. Caracol workers are known to be threatened with sexual harassment while at work, and struggle to make it, if at all, on poverty wages paid at the factory while often being preyed upon by predatory lenders operating nearby. Given this overall environment of poverty and exploitation known to exist at Caracol, it is all the more chilling to consider Monica Petersen’s claim in 2016 that an actual human trafficking operation was happening to some unknown extent at the Caracol complex. Human traffickers and child abusers of all types are well known for preying upon and abusing the most impoverished and vulnerable people in any society. Given the high level of deprivation already clearly existing amongst the workers and surrounding communities at the Caracol complex in Haiti, this makes Petersen’s claim about human trafficking all the more disturbing.

II.) Given the relevant social media information available, I definitely think the Morne Bossa gold mine, located only a little under 15 miles from the Caracol factory in northern Haiti, deserved further scrutiny. Petersen stated the following specific to the Morne Bossa mine in the 2016 Facebook post: “I’d like to go see for myself who’s laboring at Morne Bossa, but I would hypothesize that the Dominicans are doing the contractual oversight of the mining, while marginalized Haitians are being exploited for low or no cost labor in dangerous mining conditions.” To be 100% clear, given the limited context of the Facebook post, Petersen is only speculating here that Haitian laborers might be being exploited as “low or no cost” labor at the gold mine, which I think by any reasonable assessment is a very severe form of labor trafficking. It goes without saying that mining is an extremely dangerous job occupation anywhere. Mining gold in Haiti only massively increases the danger posed by this kind of labor, considering that Haiti has a long history of extreme poverty, and of having a weak state with a very limited ability to enforce its own laws and regulations compared to the law enforcement power of any first world country.

I know this is a bit of my own speculation here, but I think it is safe enough to say that if Petersen was anywhere near correct in her speculation that some kind of labor trafficking operation to provide laborers might have been occurring at the Morne Bossa gold mine, this kind of highly-coerced, debt bondage or forced labor-type situation could probably not occur without significant “outside help.” Having to labor for gold in Haiti for no or almost no pay at all, would definitely seem to require a level of coercion far greater than just taking your ID card away from you until you repay a debt. In my opinion, labor trafficking of this scale could probably only really occur with the complicity of at least some highly corrupted elements of the Haitian and International “security state.” By this “security state”, I mean the Haitian police, armed forces, paramilitary groups and the myriad of private defense contractors with a history of operating in Haiti, including DynCorp and many others, along with the US intelligence agencies undoubtedly “lurking” in the shadows behind many of these private military contractor firms. These foreign-based, private military contractors and intelligence agencies have a long history of training and otherwise propping-up the Haitian armed forces, paramilitary groups and polices services, themselves long-known for their own history of brutal human rights abuses in Haiti.

The Morne Bossa gold mine is located fairly close to another sizable gold mine in Haiti, the Grand Bois gold mine, located only about 18 miles away. The Morne Bossa and Grand Bois gold mines [url=https://stockhead.com.au/resources/gold-explorer-3d-hits-another-haitian-roadblock-now-the-vendors-are-revolting/]reportedly contain an estimated 740,000 ounces, or over 23 tons, of gold. At the current gold price at close to $3,000 an ounce (2025 prices), the current estimated value of the combined gold wealth of the two nearby mines in northern Haiti is over $2.2 billion worth of gold. As previously described in regards to Monica Petersen’s Facebook postings, Petersen clearly deeply believed that the Clintons were engaged in all kinds of nefarious actions to secure at least of a “chunk” of the gold wealth of Morne Bossa for themselves and their political cronies in Haiti and elsewhere. Considering this, there is plenty of evidence independent of Petersen’s observations that Morne Bossa, and the Grand Bois gold mines have a long history of very suspicious owners, including Hillary’s own brother Tony Rodham, and there is plenty of independent evidence that both the Morne Bossa and Grand Bois mines have been excavated to a significant degree, and possibly already mined for an unknown amount of gold for many years now.

High-ranking elected members of the Haitian government have repeatedly made allegations that the Morne Bossa mine has been a site of corruption and theft of mineral wealth also for many years now. As previously stated, the US-based VCS mining company, on which Hillary’s own brother Tony sat on the Board, acquired the gold mining permit for Morne Bossa in 2012, the very same year the Caracol factory went into operation (Tony Rodham himself died in 2019.) As the Washington Post also reported in 2015, after the gold mining permit for Morne Bossa was rewarded to VCS in 2012, members of the Haitian Senate publicly denounced the project, saying that gold mining at Morne Bossa was a potential environmental disaster and “waste of resources,” and ultimately the permit was put on hold. A report from the Inter Press Service states that Haitian Senators have publicly opposed gold mining at Morne Bossa, because they say the mining permits granted for Morne Bossa and other mines are unconstitutional, because the permits were based on a 1997 Mining Convention on Haitian mining laws that was not approved by the Haitian Parliament. According to these Mining Convention laws, the Haitian state only receives a tiny 2.5% of the value of the gold mined at Morne Bossa as a “royalty fee,” which is obviously a scandalously-low amount of compensation for the impoverished Haitian people, compared to the amount of mineral wealth potentially available at Morne Bossa.

However, despite whether or not gold mining at Morne Bossa has been “permitted” by the Haitian government or occurred under illegal conditions, there is plenty of visual evidence to show that mining activity of some sort has indeed occurred at Morne Bossa for many years now. Google Map satellite images clearly show that a significant amount of excavation has occurred at both the Morne Bossa and Grand Bois mines, including plenty of visual evidence that large amounts of soil and earth have been removed from both sites, and clearly-seen roads have been built to provide access to both mining sites.
Based on my examination of the available information on the internet, there seems to be a very limited amount of information available about the true extent of what has been going on at Morne Bossa, which of course has its own very eerie similarity with the media silence about Monica Petersen herself. However, based on the most recent information I could find, there is very good reason to believe the Clinton-connected VCS Mining company still owns Morne Bossa to this day! A 2023 press release states that VCS Mining more recently changed its name to “Resource Générale Corporation”, and owns Morne Bossa through a wholly owned subsidiary.

The world of buying and selling mines and mineral resources is clearly an incredibly elitist and “stratospheric” social and financial world. In this regard, it is very important to point out that back in 2011, the Mercer Gold Corp. mining corporation announced that it had signed a Letter of Intent to purchase a 100% stake in Tony Rodham’s VCS Mining. This was only a year before VCS actually received the permit from the Haitian government to mine gold at Morne Bossa. From what I can tell, Mercer Gold Corp. must have ultimately passed on the deal. Very significantly though, Mercer Gold’s own press report states that VCS Mining was very involved in drilling for gold at Morne Bossa at the time Mercer was considering buying the mine. Mercer’s report states that “…VCS completed 9 drill holes in the last 3 months” at the time of the press release.
So very significantly, there is evidence that VCS Mining was actively drilling, and presumably extracting significant volumes of gold, back when Tony Rodham himself was still alive. Mercer Gold Corp. also owns the “Guayables” gold mine in Colombia, a nation that historically has been one of the world’s great sources of gold. Whether coincidentally or not, it is also worth pointing out that Mercer Gold Corp. happens to share its name with the immensely powerful Mercer family. Robert and Rebekah Mercer of this family, are widely reported as being among the most influential and pivotal financial backers of Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential election campaign.

Significantly, as documented here, Monica Petersen herself said she heard about ongoing mining activity occurring at Morne Bossa. She also discusses how at least one Presidential Administration in Haiti has allegedly worked in a “crony” manner with the Clintons to try to begin mining gold at the Morne Bossa mine through VCS Mining. As Petersen states in Robinson’s January 4 2016 Facebook post, “Mining was set to commence [at Morne Bossa] in 2012, but the Haitian Senate opposed it. President Michel Martelly did not, but has been unable to make progress in the Haitian Mining Conventions & laws in order for VCS Mining to move ahead, as they had hoped for before Martelly left office […] Several articles have pointed out that mining activity at Morne Bossa over the last two decades oddly corresponds to the first & second coups of former President Aristide. Haitian mining laws were revised during both coups when Aristide was ousted from office. Bill Clinton’s administration backed those coups throwing Aristide out.” Significantly, Petersen makes mention here of the incredibly unfair Haitian Mining Convention laws mentioned above. She describes how these mining laws, which grant only a minuscule portion of Morne Bossa’s wealth to the Haitian people, were put into place after the coups against Aristide that were backed by the Clinton Administration. Considering all this, it is again worth considering Monica Petersen’s speculation that labor trafficking of some form could have been happening at the Morne Bossa mine, along with her specific allegation that human trafficking really was occurring at the nearby Caracol factory complex. If there is truth to any of this, the true extent of any potential labor and human rights abuses occurring at the Morne Bossa gold mine definitely need to be investigated.

III.) When it comes to the history of the security state or “deep state” in Haiti, there is clearly a very dark history of multinational corporations acting in deep collusion with the US national security state to repress populist movements in Haiti that have sought to raise living standards in one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere. Significant to Monica Petersen’s human trafficking investigations, is the fact that Cap-Haïtien, close to where Petersen’s alleged human trafficking was occurring, itself has a history of being a “base of operations” for the anti-Aristide counter-insurgency coups that drove Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office. Aristide, a former Jesuit Priest, came to power with the support of the left-leaning, populist “Lavalas” political movement in Haiti. When in office, Aristide made extensive efforts to raise the minimum wage for workers in Haiti, one of the lowest-paid and most-exploited labor forces in all of the Western Hemisphere. He faced two coups that drove him from office twice, once in the early 90s, and another coup in the early 2000s during Aristide’s second presidency. These coups against Aristide were backed by right-wing elements of his own military and security state, including brutal paramilitary organizations like the “FRAPH” death squads. The Human Rights Watch organization states that FRAPH members “… took part in the killing of at least 4,000 people as well as in thousands of rapes and acts of torture.” These coups against Aristide occurred with the active support and complicity of the wealthiest classes in Haiti and the western multinational corporations intent on exploiting an incredibly cheap labor pool in Haiti for themselves. Dr. Paul Farmer’s well-known book “The Uses of Haiti,” details this story in great detail, especially providing evidence of both the Clinton and Bush Administrations’ complicity in the impoverishment of Haiti. In particular, Farmer’s book discusses how America’s ostensible mission to restore Aristide to power after the first coup against him in the early 90s during the Clinton Administration, was really a ruse for forcing him to accept neoliberal concessions in return for being allowed to return to power. These concessions forced Aristide to abandon efforts to raise living standards for Haitian workers and contributed to further impoverishment of Haiti.

In regards to Monica Petersen’s investigation in Haiti, it is important to point out that the counter-insurgents did completely take over Cap-Haïtien for nearly a month in February 2004, and used it as a base to a significant degree, to launch their second coup against Aristide, which was successful in driving him from office a second time in the early 2000s. Cap-Haïtien is very close to both Caracol and the Morne Bossa mine, the known subjects of Monica Petersen’s investigations into human trafficking during her time in Haiti. According to an AP press report, a significant leader of the second coup against Aristide was Guy Philippe, who was a high-ranking Haitian police commander in Cap-Haïtien at the time of the second coup against Aristide. Perhaps not coincidently at all, the same Guy Philippe is also a very high-level drug trafficker. The AP report states that Philippe “received between $1.5 and $3.5 million from drug traffickers from 1999 to 2004” when he was a police commander in Cap-Haïtien. Philippe and other Haitian police “… took the money in exchange for ensuring safe passage for cocaine shipments from Colombia and other countries that went through Haiti on their way to Miami and other U.S. destinations.” In 2017, Guy Philippe was “whisked” out of Haiti to the US on drug money laundering charges. He took a plea deal in a courtroom in Miami where he avoided a potential life sentence for cocaine trafficking.

When people look into the realm of what could be called “deep politics,” there is plenty of evidence to show that there is a long-standing association between drug trafficking and covert intelligence operations conducted by US Intelligence agencies. The history of the US supporting counter-insurgencies that themselves were deeply involved in drug trafficking is nothing new. In the 1980s, the CIA and the US Intelligence community heavily supported the Contras, a right-wing counter-insurgency who fought against the leftist Sandinistas in El Salvador. The Contras themselves were notorious for working with South American drug cartels to traffic huge amounts of narcotics to the US in the 80s. Going further back to the Vietnam war era, the “Golden Triangle” region of Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar in southeast Asia was notorious during the Vietnam War for being a huge source location for opium and heroin, much of which was trafficked out of the Golden Triangle with the complicity of the CIA and the Western intelligence agencies before, during and after the Vietnam War. Books such as Alfred McCoy’s “The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia” and Henrik Krüger’s “The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism,” provide a great deal of information about the significance of the Southeast Asian opium trade as being a very “significant factor” in intelligence-backed covert operations during the Vietnam War era and beyond. In regards to Haiti and its history of counter-insurgency movements supported by narco-traffickers, I definitely recommend reading researcher Jeb Sprague’s 2012 book “Para-militarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti.” In the book, Sprague goes into extensive detail about the history of the formation of the two major right-wing, counter-insurgency movements against Aristide, which as Sprague documents were supported by elements of the US Military, US Intelligence agencies, and the “transnational elite” both in Haiti and abroad. As Sprague describes in detail, there is significant evidence both coups against Aristide were supported by Haitian narco-traffickers, and corrupt elements of the Haitian state and Haitian paramilitary groups who were complicit in the drug trafficking. The new President who assumed power after Aristide was ousted the second time, Gerard Latortue, had a cousin, Youri Latortue, a former Haitian Armed Forces member who was a significant leader in the second coup, and who was also alleged to be a major drug trafficker in his hometown of Gonaïves, Haiti. Sprague’s book also documents Guy Philippe as being a major leader of the second coup, and Philippe is of course documented as being a major drug trafficker as well. The connections between narco-trafficking and counter-insurgency movements are clear in Haiti.

Furthermore, the Haitian civilian population in general, have been victim to decades of extreme paramilitary and death squad-backed violence, violence that has occurred with the complicity and direction of multiple Haitian dictatorships and presidential administrations. The FRAPH death squads that terrorized and murdered Haitian supporters of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the 90s, were according to Sprague and many other sources, arguably a direct descendent of the murderous “Tonton Macoute” death squads. The Tonton Macoute was a paramilitary force that murdered and otherwise committed extreme acts of violence against untold numbers of Haitian civilians for decades. These death squads were notorious for operating as the brutal enforcement arm of the “Papa Doc” and “Baby Doc,” Francois and Jean-Claude Duvalier father-and-son dictatorship that ruled Haiti from the 1950s through the 1980s. It clearly cannot be forgotten that for decades, Haitian civilians across the board have been severely terrorized, and displaced from their families and hometowns, as a direct consequence of all this paramilitary-backed violence against them.

So again, what is the significance of all this to Monica Petersen’s human trafficking investigations in Haiti? We can already see that the region of Haiti Petersen alleged human trafficking was occurring in, has a long history of being severely destabilized by counter-insurgencies driven by paramilitary and military groups known to support themselves extensively through drug trafficking. This drug trafficking itself has a long history of corrupting major elements of the Haitian state. Beyond even this, is the “background” of decades of paramilitary-backed violence against Haitian civilians that has happened throughout Haiti. Considering all this as context, when again you consider Petersen’s claims of human trafficking occurring in Haiti, you have to consider the human trafficking that has horrifically been known to occur in other areas of the world subjected to war and severe trauma and displacement of the civilian population. In particular, the civilian population of Serbia and other Balkan states were terrorized, severely displaced, and otherwise traumatized by the civil war and US and NATO coalition-led prolonged bombing campaign in the 90s and early-2000s. It was amidst this overall environment of displacement and trauma, that human trafficking reared its head. Evidence for this is mostly clearly seen with the conduct of DynCorp and certain DynCorp employees, with their involvement in trafficking underage girls and women during the war in the Balkan states of former Yugoslavia. The connections between conflicts areas, paramilitary and private military contractor groups, and human trafficking can clearly be discerned. Considering all this, I think you again have to consider that DynCorp and other private defense contractors have their own extensive history in Haiti, especially when it comes to training United Nations troops who themselves have been criminally complicit in child sex abuse and child sex trafficking in Haiti. This condition of many civilians in Haiti, seems exactly like the same kind of traumatized, displaced condition of civilians seen in other conflicted regions of the world, where Western intelligence agencies and private contractor firms have their own notorious history of often “pulling the strings” behind the curtains. This “string-pulling” is often seen to involve these Intelligence agencies and defense contractors supporting counter-insurgency de-stabilizations in foreign countries, to the benefit of the wealthiest classes in the US and abroad. In its worst “manifestations”, as horrible as it is to say, this kind of environment seems clearly “ideal” for human traffickers to prey on victims.

Monica Petersen’s investigation of the Caracol complex near Cap-Haïtien in northern Haiti in 2015, occurred in a region with a long history of these kind of criminal elements operating with relative impunity from the weak Haitian state. In terms of specific allegations of human trafficking, all we have to go on is Petersen’s specific allegation that human trafficking of some kind was happening at the Caracol complex. If this human trafficking claim is in anyway true, I think you have to ask: do any of these long-operating criminal elements in Haiti, i.e. the narco-traffickers, corrupt Haitian paramilitary groups, military and police, US defense contractors, and intelligence assets operating deep in the shadows, have anything to do with such an alleged human trafficking operation happening at the Caracol complex?

IV.) Monica Petersen worked at the Human Trafficking Center (HTC) at the University of Denver roughly in the time period of 2014–2016, and took courses at and had an association with the HTC possibly before 2014. Before its permanent closure in June 2021, the Human Trafficking Center had a graduate student staff and many alumni who worked all over the world, conducting research into various forms of human trafficking and forced labor-related situations. In addition, academics from a number of Universities have conducted various kinds of research and taught courses in association with the HTC, while the graduate program was still in existence. With the exemption of Professor d’Estree himself, I am not trying to make any unfair accusations towards anyone in this academic community at all. Could any of these people associated with the HTC be able to shine more of a light on Monica Petersen’s activities and academic research at the HTC? Could any of these HTC-associated academics possibly have information about what Monica Petersen was truly investigating in Haiti? The same questions could be asked to other academics, students, and any people otherwise associated with the larger Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Petersen received her Masters Degree from the Korbel School in 2014, and the HTC was a part of the Korbel School before being shut down by the Korbel School administration. Could any of these people associated with the HTC and/or the Korbel School have information about Monica Petersen’s Masters Thesis from the Korbel School, which again to my knowledge is not publicly available to this day? Considering that Petersen had a history of investigating human trafficking in Haiti, and her Masters Degree focuses on studying human trafficking, there is a real possibility Petersen’s Masters Thesis could have something to do with her investigations in Haiti. Petersen’s Thesis could potentially contain information useful to determining more of what she was really doing in Haiti, and possibly the real circumstances of her death.

I feel the most important thing to end with is this: I truly believe that if Monica Petersen was correct that human trafficking was happening at the Caracol complex, then the VOICES of the WORKERS at CARACOL need to be HEARD and understood to make any sense of this situation. The Caracol workers themselves, and their family and friends in the surrounding communities in Haiti, are clearly the only ones who can give the full scope of any alleged criminality occurring at Caracol. Unless their voices are heard, I do not believe there will be justice for Monica Petersen and the People of Haiti.

SOLIDARITY, STAY SAFE!!]]> <![CDATA[Monica Petersen, Haiti and the Octopus of the Deep State (Part 2)]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=16238 Sat, 13 Feb 2021 08:17:17 +0000 George Williams]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=16238 **Surviveandheal15 Lives On!!**
Monica Petersen, Haiti and the Octopus of the Deep State
Part 2
(Part 1, Part 3 here)

By: Anonymous
February 13th, 2021

(**Note: This is NOT a QAnon Article. This author does NOT believe in QAnon AT ALL.)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." 
- Marie Curie

"... the real significance of this scandal for me [...] is the link to contemporary slavery and trafficking. I can't say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton's [Caracol] Complex. And mining has always been historically linked to trafficking, slavery, and labor exploitation."
 - Monica Petersen, Research Fellow and Assistant to the Director at the Human Trafficking Center at the University of Denver, in January 2016 Facebook Post (LINK)

These seven social media posts about Monica Petersen and her death in Haiti described in detail in the first part of this article raise a significant number of really important questions: We can clearly see that Monica Petersen was actively seeking out workers’ rights organizations as allies or resources of some sort in her investigation into human trafficking in Haiti. As discussed previously, according to a January 2016 Facebook post, Monica Petersen said she herself went to the Caracol Industrial Park, or somewhere near it, sometime in August 2015 (again, direct quote from her: “Caracol is a garment exporting zone, a field site I visited in August to check out the conditions of the workers (conclusion: working conditions okay, working wages too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti.)” So from this quote, we know Petersen talked either directly to Caracol workers or those close to them, during her 2015 trip to the factory complex in northern Haiti. From these posts, we can also see Petersen as well had a deep level of knowledge about Haitian politics, the Haitian mining industry and the Clinton’s history of alleged corruption in Haiti. Petersen makes very serious allegations that the Clintons have repeatedly rigged or influenced elections and supported coups in Haiti, at least in part for the purpose of trying to exploit the mineral resources at the Morne Bossa mine in Haiti. This all definitely seems to indicate that Petersen must have had significant first-hand contacts with other worker rights activists and/or other politically knowledgable people while in Haiti. Considering that Petersen was a Research Fellow and Assistant to the Director at the Human Trafficking Center at the University of Denver, this certainly seems plausible to say the least.

Since Petersen reported that human trafficking was occurring at Caracol, who told her this? Did workers at the Caracol plant tell her this, or did she hear this from somewhere else, maybe other activists in Haiti? Since Petersen specifically mentions two “human trafficking scandals” in Haiti tied to the Clintons, where in Haiti was the other human trafficking scandal occurring, if one was indeed occurring? It is important to note that it is very clear from these Facebook posts that Petersen was deeply critical of the Clinton’s conduct in Haiti from a decidedly left-leaning, “anti-imperialistic” perspective. Petersen derided the Clintons for treating Haiti as yet another third world country to be exploited for its natural resources. Her whole background and purpose for being in Haiti obviously does NOT indicate a person driven by some stereotypically right-wing, pro-Trump “crusade” against the Clintons, to say the least.
After Petersen’s death, we can see that Bella Robinson appeared deeply confused, distraught, and quite possibly very frightened. It is true that as reported in the 2016 Post article, Robinson denied that Petersen’s death in Haiti had anything to do with the Clintons. However, we can see from all these OTHER posts that Kessler did NOT reference, that there is a decidedly different picture to be seen. Shortly after Petersen’s death in November 2016, Robinson ALSO posted that Petersen was investigating the Clinton’s possible ties to a “pedophile ring,” that Petersen’s family was being kept in the dark about the circumstances of her death, and that she knew information about Petersen’s death that she did not want to discuss publicly. Robinson does also state that she received word that Petersen committed suicide and left a note, but at the same time she comments on the complete lack of reporting about Petersen’s death other than from Petersen’s own Facebook page and a few “fringe” websites. It is worth repeating that til this day in February 2021, Kessler’s 2016 Washington Post article is the ONLY article from any mainstream news agency I could find about Monica Petersen’s death. Additionally, a childhood or family friend of Petersen’s states that they found out through some unknown source that she was murdered. Where could she have heard this from?

Kessler only mentions the Caracol factory at one point in his 2016 Post article, and I honestly think this is where we also catch Kessler in a straight-up lie in his article. Kessler says this regarding the Caracol factory and Monica Petersen: “On Dec. 4 [2016] the InfoWars.com website- run by Alex Jones, big booster of President-elect Donald Trump — posted a Youtube video titled ‘Haiti PIZZAGATE: Death of Child Trafficking Investigator.’ It falsely claimed ‘she had just begun investigating the correlation regarding the Clinton’s Foundations Caracol Industrial Park Complex and its connection to a human trafficking network when her life was cut short.’” Ignoring the Alex Jones reference here for a minute, it is most important to note that Kessler is saying here that Alex Jones’s claim that Monica Petersen was investigating human trafficking associated with the Caracol factory is “false.” Or in other words, Kessler is clearly saying that Petersen was NOT investigating human trafficking involving Caracol. How can Kessler truthfully dismiss ANY claims about human trafficking and Caracol, no matter who is saying it, when at the same time Kessler is blatantly ignoring in his article the actual January 2016 Facebook post (HERE), where Petersen makes the specific claim that human trafficking is happening at Caracol?

It seems obvious here that Kessler is trying to pull a misdirection-type trick, by dismissing the credibility of the Caracol human trafficking allegation in a rather insidious and simple way: in his article, he only refers to crazy-old, Pizzagate-loving, Alex Jones as being the one who made this particular allegation about Caracol and human trafficking, NOT the one who actually said it, Monica Petersen. For the average Washington Post reader reading Kessler’s article, they will see the Caracol human trafficking allegation coming out of Alex Jones’s mouth, and probably will dismiss this allegation entirely because they read it in his article right next to the words “Alex Jones,” “InfoWars.com,” “PIZZAGATE” and “big booster of President-elect Donald Trump.” This certainly makes you wonder if this was Kessler’s whole intention in the first place. Again, this is the ONLY time Kessler mentions the Caracol factory in his whole article about Petersen’s death.
Given that Kessler literally traveled with Hillary Clinton as a reporter and “travel blogger” while she was Secretary of State, Kessler’s blatant omission of so much relevant information in this article is incredibly suspicious. The way he very obviously uses Alex Jones to try to dismiss the credibility of the Caracol human trafficking allegations, is all the more striking. Considering the media “blackout” on Monica Petersen’s death from the rest of the mainstream media, it is all the more shocking. In addition, it is worth pointing out that Glenn Kessler has personally been involved in at least one other major foreign policy controversy: the Valerie Plame affair, when the Bush Administration, acting through their proxy “Scooter” Libby, Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff at the time, publicly outed the identity of CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame.

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As Kessler himself stated in a Tweet from back in 2018, Scooter Libby, clearly acting as the “fall guy” in this whole affair, told the FBI that he talked to only one journalist about Valerie Plame: Glenn Kessler. When Libby was brought up on perjury and obstruction of justice charges and later tried and convicted, during Libby’s trial, Glenn Kessler showed up as a defense witness, and testified that he did not in fact talk about Valerie Plame with Scooter Libby. While Kessler’s involvement in the whole Plame case still appears to be shrouded in mystery, the fact that Kessler is so directly involved in such a sensitive national security scandal, as well as all of his elite connections mentioned above, do seem to indicate the Kessler is a significant “player” in establishment circles in DC. Whatever the full circumstances by all indications, Kessler was both an insider to the Bush Administration, and a major insider to Hillary’s inner circle when she was Secretary of State.

Claude d’Estree, DynCorp, and Monica Petersen’s Death
Professor d’Estree was the Executive Director of the Human Trafficking Center when Petersen passed away in 2016, and as he himself said, he employed Petersen as his Assistant and as a Researcher at the HTC up until 2016. As stated previously, d’Estree is quoted by Kessler in his 2016 Washington Post article as saying that Petersen’s death was caused by “suicide but the circumstances are not clear.” d’Estree is also quoted by Kessler as saying that Petersen was not in Haiti to investigate human trafficking or the Clinton Foundation, at the time of her death in Haiti in 2016. Apparently, d’Estree meant to say that Petersen was not investigating these particular things on her specific trip to Haiti in November 2016 when she died, but he is very notably not clear about this. He also does not mention in the Post article that Petersen was in fact investigating human trafficking in Haiti the previous year, even though the very same Post article does reference the 2015 Facebook post where Petersen herself states this, later on in the same article.

Considering the publicly available information, I do want to be careful. I do not want to make any unfair accusations at all against the Human Trafficking Center as an organization, or the individual researchers and academics who work and contribute research there. However, there are still certain things that appear obvious. From the publicly available social media posts described above, we do know that in Bella Robinson’s January 2016 Facebook post, Monica Petersen said she went to the Caracol factory complex sometime in August 2015 and talked to workers, or those close to the Caracol workers, there. From this post, we know she said she heard claims of some kind of human trafficking happening at the Caracol complex. We also know there has been resounding mainstream media silence about anything to do with Petersen’s death since 2016, and from what I can tell, that silence extends to the Human Trafficking Center as well, at least since the time of Petersen’s death.
Considering all this, I think it is really important to point out a couple pieces of publicly available information about Professor d’Estree’s own employment history, who is the current Executive Director of the HTC, that may be relevant. Considering that Monica Petersen worked directly for d’Estree, I think this information about d’Estree’s own background is all the more disturbing. Professor d’Estree’s own resume (archived link HERE) shows that he has a very distinguished academic and work background. d’Estree has a JD from Northeastern Law, and has taught law and human rights related courses at various Universities, as well as served as Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking. However, at the same time, d’Estree’s resume also states that from 1999 to 2002, d’Estree worked, in some capacity, for the DynCorp defense corporation. Specifically, his resume lists his employer from 1999–2002 as “United States Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia/DynCorp,” in Reston, Virginia. Reston is also very close to McLean, VA, the corporate headquarters for DynCorp.

To be clear, I do not know why d’Estree on his resume specifically lists his employer as “United States Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia/DynCorp” for the time period of 1999–2002. The fact that he phrases it this way suggests obviously being jointly employed by both the defense contractor and the DC DOJ’s office, which does not make a lot of sense for someone presumably working on behalf of a Federal Prosecutor’s office. In fact, on his resume, d’Estree does go into more detail about what he was doing when he had this job in Reston, VA. Quoting d’Estree: “Supervisor: Supervised the daily operations of a team of contract lawyers and data analysts in the Asset Forfeiture Unit, Criminal Division. Prosecutions included international drug, human smuggling, and white-collar fraud.” So from this we see d’Estree is claiming he worked directly for the Criminal Division of the DC DOJ’s office, and that at least some of the DOJ’s prosecutions he worked on in a supervisory capacity, specifically had to do with human trafficking. At another point in his resume, d’Estree goes into further detail about what he was doing working for the DC DOJ’s office “/” DynCorp: “Supervisor: Teaching and training of Assistant US Attorneys and paralegals in asset forfeiture law and financial investigations. Asked by the U.S Attorney to develop, implement and teach research and writing curriculum for the entire support staff in the nation’s largest U.S. Attorney’s Office.” So according to d’Estree’s resume, not only was he personally involved with criminal prosecutions at the DC DOJ’s Office, he was also involved, at a very senior level, in the actual job training and design of the education curriculum of a large swath of the DC DOJ office’s employees, if his resume is accurate. All of this clearly demonstrates a deep connection between Claude d’Estree himself and the Department of Justice.

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Excerpts from Professor Claude d’Estree’s archived CV (screenshots)

Despite this additional information, what is left conspicuously unclear is exactly what d’Estree’s relationship was with DynCorp during this period that d’Estree was working on behalf of the DOJ. Since d’Estree also lists DynCorp as his employer during the period 1999–2002, but provides no further detail about what exactly he was doing for DynCorp specifically on his resume, this seems like a rather glaring absence of information. d’Estree does say that he was supervising “contract lawyers and data analysts” while working for the DOJ. Since d’Estree was supervising workers who were “independent contractors” for the DC DOJ’s office, maybe d’Estree was also an independent contractor, and maybe he was contracting out his legal services to both the DOJ and to DynCorp during this time? Whatever d’Estree’s employment relationship really was with both the DOJ and with DynCorp, the fact that d’Estree had this very close yet still partially unknown relationship with both entities gets way more suspicious when you consider what was going on with DynCorp during this exact same time period. In the late 90s and early 2000s, DynCorp itself was under massive public scrutiny for the corporation and multiple employees being criminally complicit in human trafficking in Yugoslavia. This was during and after the NATO and Clinton Administration-led war against Yugoslavia in the late 90s.

A 2002 New York Times article “America’s For-Profit Secret Army,” details some of the horrific crimes against women and children by DynCorp employees during and after the war in the Balkan states: “In Bosnia, employees of DynCorp were found to be operating a sex-slave ring of young women who were held for prostitution after their passports were confiscated […] In late September [2002], DynCorp settled charges- for an undisclosed sum — brought by a whistle-blower the company had fired after he complained of a sex ring run by DynCorp employees in Bosnia […] Two employees made similar accusations: that while working in Bosnia… DynCorp employees kept underaged women as sex slaves, even videotaping a rape. Among the charges was that while the DynCorp employees trafficked in women — including buying one for $1,000 — the company turned a blind eye […] two employees who blew the whistle were fired. Ben Johnston, one of them, said in Congressional testimony: ‘DynCorp employees were living off post and owning these children and these women and girls as slaves.’” Another whistleblower, Kathryn Bolkovac, was fired from DynCorp after reporting to her superiors that her colleagues at DynCorp were involved with a sex trafficking ring that trafficked underage girls in collusion with organized crime, in Bosnia in the late 90s. The 2011 Hollywood movie “The Whistleblower” was made about Bolkovac’s story.

To be clear, I have no idea about the nature of the cases d’Estree helped investigate and prosecute while working for the DOJ and no idea if any of his investigations had anything to do with DynCorp itself. Again, it has to be said though, that all of d’Estree’s investigations for the Criminal Division of the US Attorney’s Office, as well as (presumably) DynCorp in some unknown capacity, into human trafficking, clearly occurred at the exact same time that DynCorp was massively, criminally complicit in human trafficking in the Balkan states. Professor d’Estree himself also has some very deep connections to the “military-industrial complex” that go beyond DynCorp. d’Estree has a personal connection to NORAD and NORTHCOM, America’s giant air defense and DOD military complex based in Colorado Springs. According to his resume, d’Estree sits on the “Core Curriculum Committee of the Homeland Security/Defense Education Consortium” at NORAD/US NORTHCOM.

I feel that yet again this is one of those situations where we have a bunch of clearly disjointed, incoherent facts, without the big picture, but it can safely be said the facts available here are undeniably disturbing. Again, considering what we know about Monica Petersen’s activities in Haiti and the subsequent near-total media silence about this information, I think it is very reasonable to ask: what could Professor d’Estree and the Human Trafficking Center know about Petersen’s death that the public does not? We know that only 8 years before d’Estree became Executive Director of the Human Trafficking Center in 2008, he supervised a team of attorneys and analysts at the DOJ, where d’Estree’s team spent at least part of their time specifically investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases. This was during the exact same time period that DynCorp and the rest of the defense corporations were profiting massively off the bombing and military campaign against Yugoslavia, which of course was spearheaded by the Clinton Administration. Fast-forward 16 years, and the same d’Estree shows up in Glenn Kessler’s 2016 Post article after Petersen’s death, quite explicitly saying that Monica Petersen was not investigating the Clinton Foundation. This was less than a year after Petersen clearly stated in Bella Robinson’s January 2016 Facebook post that she had at least heard of human trafficking happening at the Clinton’s Caracol complex. So again, what the hell are we supposed to make of this? A reasonable person could say that d’Estree is seriously covering-up for information that links Petersen’s death to the Clintons.

Without a doubt, this makes d’Estree’s past work for DynCorp all the more suspicious. A really cynical person might look at d’Estree’s supervisory role working for both the D.C. US Attorney’s Office and for DynCorp investigating human trafficking cases, and see that someone in that particular position was very well placed to potentially know which particular criminal cases DynCorp was legally liable for, during the time period d’Estree worked there. If one were to continue on the “cynical path” and speculate if d’Estree could have been some kind of “intelligence plant”, again, that kind of job at the US Attorney’s Office would clearly work very well for someone in that position to “steer away” from investigation and prosecution, cases that could have legal liability for DynCorp. I know this is speculation, and there is no way to know anything without at least knowing some details of the actual investigations d’Estree did while at the D.C. US Attorney’s Office. However, given the suspicious death of d’Estree’s own Assistant, Monica Petersen, I think it is at least reasonable to ask, what really was the nature of d’Estree’s “employment relationship” with DynCorp from 1999 to 2002?

The “relationship” between DynCorp and human trafficking is a truly long and sordid one, but I think it is also worth mentioning that this “relationship” may possibly even extend to Jeffrey Epstein! (It goes without saying, the “relationship” between Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein is ALSO its own horrific story). Long-time intelligence and covert operations researcher Daniel Hopsicker wrote a blog post looking at this alleged relationship between Epstein and DynCorp. In his post, Hopsicker notes that there have been a number of reports on the internet that an aircraft with the tail number “N474AW” was at one point used by Epstein on at least one of his recorded flights. As it turns out, there was another aircraft also registered with the tail number N474AW, that Hopsicker describes as a military-type, “US light attack and observation aircraft.” This particular airplane, with the same exact tail number of the other aircraft used by Epstein, Hopsicker identifies as being “owned by DynCorp or the CIA.” Wayne Madsen, a writer and former NSA and Office of Naval Intelligence analyst, also reported about this particular plane. As Madsen reported, in 2002 there is a record of a Bell helicopter registered with the tail number N474AW, which flew from Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico to an airport outside of Albuquerque. Four years later in 2006, another plane, a Bronco twin-turboprop light attack and observation aircraft, also registered with the same tail number (N474AW), crashed in Colombia while flying a drug eradication mission there in 2006. The name of the pilot, who survived the crash but was badly injured after ejecting from the airplane, was not released due to “national security” reasons. According to FAA records, the airplane that crashed in Colombia was owned by the US Department of State and was contracted to DynCorp for use in “counter-insurgency” and “counter-narcotics” operations in Colombia. As Madsen notes, “the congruence of Epstein’s Bell N474AW and DynCorp’s Bronco N474AW is noteworthy. In 2002, the year Epstein’s aircraft fleet stands accused of flying underage teen girls, some between the ages of 12 and 15, coincides with DynCorp’s trafficking in underage females between the ages of 12 and 15 from Kosovo and Bosnia in the Balkans.”

DynCorp also has a very significant history in Haiti. The defense corporation has received huge, multi-million dollar contracts to train United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti, as well as train Haitian police. In 2008, DynCorp received a contract to train 400 Haitian police officers. In 2013, the defense corporation received a $48.6 million contract from the US Department of State to train soldiers from the U.N. military mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), as well as train Haitian National Police (HNP) members. The U.N. soldiers in Haiti that DynCorp has a long history of training, themselves have their own very notorious history of involvement in child sex abuse and child sex trafficking in Haiti. According to the Associated Press, from 2004 to 2016, there were 150 reported allegations of abuse and exploitation of Haitians by U.N. soldiers. As Foreign Policy reported, “From 2003 to 2007, 134 [U.N] peacekeepers from Sri Lanka operated a child sex ring [in Haiti], luring children on the poverty-stricken island with candy and bits of cash […] After a U.N. report incriminated them, most were sent home, but none faced jail time.”

Finally, I think it is worth bringing up again that Monica Petersen specifically mentions her Masters Thesis from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, of which the Human Trafficking Center, the graduate program Petersen worked for, is a part of. In the January 2016 Facebook post shared by Robinson, Petersen said her Thesis focused on “modern structural slavery” and “disaster capitalism.” Did Petersen’s Thesis have to do with Haiti? Did it have anything to do with her research on human trafficking there? As far as I know, Petersen’s Masters Thesis is not publicly available, and the Human Trafficking Center or larger Josef Korbel School has not released her Thesis. If there is anyone in a position to know about Monica Petersen’s Masters Thesis, it definitely seems like it could be Professor d’Estree, who employed Petersen both as his Assistant and as a Researcher at the Human Trafficking Center, before her death in Haiti.

Sae-A Trading: Manufacturing Employer at Caracol Industrial Park: Severe labor rights violations and sexual harassment allegations
The “anchor tenant” at the Clinton Foundation-sponsored Caracol garment manufacturing complex is S & H Global, S.A. which is a subsidiary of Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd. Sae-A is a global clothing manufacturer headquartered in South Korea, with yearly sales well over a billion. It has factories all over the world, in Central America, Southeast Asia, and Haiti. Sae-A has been the employer of the mostly-female Haitian workforce at the Caracol factory since Caracol began operations in 2012. The company has been accused of extremely serious labor violations by workers at two of its factories in Nicaragua. In a 2013 report from “Worker Rights Consortium,” workers reported that Sae-A managers at its factories in Nicaragua engaged in incidents of serious physical violence against protesting workers, after Sae-A workers alleged that management fired 16 workers in retaliation for protected union activities. The report found that “Sae-A brutally violated these workers’ [labor] rights by directing and paying a mob of more than 300 other workers — while on paid company time — to attack these employees with scissors and metal pipes, and failing to instruct its managers and security guards to intervene and prevent this violence. […] At least six of the victims reported serious injuries including a broken nose, black eyes and stab wounds, and at least one case where the victim was stabbed in the face.” The Worker Rights Consortium report details numerous other reported incidents by Sae-A workers, where Sae-A managers repeatedly intimidated, harassed and fired union supporters at it factories in Nicaragua.

Furthermore, it is very important to point out that Sae-A managers have also been accused by Haitian workers at the Clinton’s Caracol factory of both sexual harassment and other serious workers rights violations. In 2012, the New York Times reported that before the Caracol Industrial Park deal was sealed in 2012, “the AFL-CIO sent a detailed memo to American and international officials describing ‘acts of violence and intimidation’ and declaring the company ‘one of the major labor violators.’” As ABC News reported, “a group called Better Work Haiti published a report finding the [Caracol] factory was noncompliant in the areas of sexual harassment, bullying and humiliation of employees. Yannick Etienne, a labor organizer, told ABC News she received reports from Sae-A workers that they had to provide sexual favors to [Sae-A] supervisors in order to obtain jobs in the factory […] When ABC News asked to speak with workers, one company official spoke in Korean to another, saying, ‘I don’t think you should allow that.’ Eventually, three workers were taken from another part of the factory to be interviewed. Haitians are just eager for the work, said one of the workers, Mileon Fontila, as her managers looked on.”
We can clearly see from reports that Sae-A managers have been accused of sexual harassment, including the specific claim that Haitian workers had to provide sexual favors to Sae-A managers to get jobs at the Caracol factory. This is in addition to other serious human rights abuses reported by workers at the Caracol factory, not to mention the massive, anti-labor “campaign of terror” Sae-A management launched against its workers in Nicaragua, that literally included fomenting a brutal mob attack on its own workers. Considering that America’s largest labor confederation, the AFL-CIO, specifically described Sae-A as “one of the major labor violators,” and considering it is reported that the Clinton’s were “instrumental” in the creation of the Caracol plant every step of the way, it is suspicious to say the least that the decision was made to let Sae-A be the “anchor” manufacturer at the Caracol complex.

Given all this as context, we have to again consider Human Trafficking Center Researcher Monica Petersen’s claim from 2016 that human trafficking was happening to some unknown extent through the Caracol plant complex. To be 100% clear, allegations of labor rights violations and sexual harassment claims against certain Sae-A managers, is obviously not the same thing as alleging Sae-A’s complicity with some kind of actual human trafficking operation at the Caracol complex. However, if what Monica Petersen said about human trafficking at the Caracol complex was in anyway true, it goes without saying that Sae-A’s extremely dark history of worker rights’ violations has to be looked at with whole new magnitude of suspicion.

Historical Context: FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmond’s allegation of the Clinton’s corruption of the appointment process for Federal Judges
As shocking as it is to consider Monica Petersen’s allegations of human trafficking at the Clinton’s Caracol plant, I think it is important to consider the claims of another, very credible whistleblower against the Clintons: Sibel Edmonds. Edmonds worked as as a contract employee in the FBI’s translation department for 6 months after 9/11, before she was fired by the Bureau. After her firing, Edmonds filed complaints and a lawsuit against the US government, alleging serious wrongdoing, criminal activities, and cover-ups she alleged she witnessed while at the FBI. Edmonds reports of wrongdoing included the following: cases of espionage within the FBI, DOD, and Department of State; cases of cover-up of information and leads pre and post 9/11, under the excuse of protecting certain diplomatic relations; cases of intentional blocking and mistranslation of crucial intelligence by FBI translators and management; and cases of foreign entities bribing certain government officials and elected representatives.

Very significantly, as the New York Times reported, the Inspector General of the DOJ found Edmonds credible in her allegations, saying that her allegations “were supported” and were a “significant factor” in the FBI deciding to fire her. Notoriously, the Bush Administration under Attorney General John Ashcroft used the state secrets privilege twice to “gag order” Edmonds and silence her. Former CIA Intelligence officer Philip Giraldi wrote the following about Edmonds: “To stop Sibel from telling her story, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft subjected her to a state secrets privilege gag order after her appearance on CBS’s 60 Minutes in October 2002 that not only forbade her providing details of her employment with FBI but also made the ban retroactive so that anything related to her case would be considered a state secret […] Why should Sibel be heard? Mostly because her story, if true, involves corruption at the highest levels of government…” The “Liberty Coalition,” a coalition of liberal and conservative government watchdog groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and others, found Edmonds to be credible in her allegations. The ACLU reported the following about Edmonds: “While an FBI translator, Edmonds discovered poorly translated documents relevant to the 9/11 attacks and reported the shoddy work to her supervisors. She also expressed concerns about a co-worker who had previously worked for an organization under FBI surveillance and had a relationship with a foreign intelligence officer under surveillance. […] Even though she followed all appropriate procedures for reporting her concerns up the chain of command, Edmonds was retaliated against and fired. After her termination, many of Edmond’s allegations were confirmed by the FBI in unclassified briefings to Congress. More than two years later, in May 2004, the Justice Department retroactively classified Edmonds’ briefings, as well as the FBI briefings, and forced Members of Congress who had the information posted on their Web sites to remove the documents.”

The US government clearly went to extreme lengths to silence Edmonds about what she knew about corruption during the Bush Administration. Considering all this, it is all the more shocking to consider what Edmond’s has to say about corruption allegedly occurring during the Clinton Administration in the 90s. In a 2020 Youtube video, Edmonds relates an allegation she claims she heard from a government whistleblower who was a high-ranking FBI agent. According to Edmonds, this FBI agent made the following extremely serious allegations of corruption occurring during the appointment process of Federal Judges during the Clinton Administration. Edmonds states in the video:
“One of my, not publicly known at the time, FBI whistleblowers, was a senior executive agent, but before he became [a senior] agent, in early-mid 90s, and this is a documented case people, because he went and he complained to the [Department of Justice] I.G. [Inspector General]’s Office … its on the record by the way … sometime between ’93 and ’97 … when he was a rookie agent, one of the first jobs he had as a FBI new agent was to conduct background checks for those Federal Judges, candidates, that each President appointed … [i.e.] ‘I’m proposing this, and this, and this Judge, for Federal bench’ … So what happens is at that point, the FBI goes and conducts background checks to make sure, theoretically, that [the Judges] are clean, that they are fit to be appointed, and then they let the President know, and the President says, ‘oh, I’m gonna push this guy,’ So that’s theoretically.
Now, in practice … so the Agent was, of course … naive and green, so he’s running background checks on some of these Judges, and finds out which ones have extramarital affairs … which ones are pedophiles or they are into child pornography, and then he would submit the [background checks] to the FBI, so that they would process it, and eliminate those Judges, and what he ended up seeing happening was that, all the ‘squeaky-clean’ [Judges] were discarded for Federal benches, important Federal Court Judges, especially the FISA Court Judges. They made sure only the dirtier, the more qualified, because for FISA Court Judges, the ‘rubber stamp’ Judges, they needed to have the crappy, crooked, criminal ones that they could get anything they want from.”

According to Edmond’s high-level FBI source, the Clinton Administration showed a deliberate, deeply corrupt pattern of “weeding out” morally and ethically honest Judges for appointment to Federal benches. Instead, at least in some cases, the Clinton Administration allegedly selected the most personally corrupt Judges for appointment to Federal benches, including Judges who were found by the FBI to be pedophiles and users of child pornography. Again, according to Edmonds, the rationale for doing this was so the Clinton Administration could have leverage and control over the corrupt, and at least in some cases, pedophile Judges that they nominated to Federal benches, so that the Clintons “could get anything they want from [them].” Considering Monica Petersen’s claim that human trafficking was happening at Caracol, and Bella Robinson’s claim (in her Facebook post) that Petersen was investigating the Clintons’ “possible ties to a pedophile ring” before her death in Haiti, Edmond’s allegations take things to an even darker level. With Sibel Edmonds, we see that this is not even the first time the Clintons have specifically been accused by a credible whistleblower of using pedophilia and child pornography as a “machiavellian” means for their own self-enrichment, and advancement of their own political power via blackmail. If the Clinton’s were fine in the 90s with appointing Federal Judges who they knew to be pedophiles and otherwise “crappy, crooked, criminal” characters, is it possible the Clintons simply repeated this same sort of horrific “practice” in Haiti 20 years later? If there really was some kind of human trafficking/pedophile ring operating out of Caracol, you have to ask, were the Clintons in some way profiting off of it? Were the Clintons yet again gaining “blackmail power” from their knowledge of those involved with this alleged human trafficking ring being run out of Caracol?

Link to Part 3 Here
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Monica Petersen, Haiti and the Octopus of the Deep State
Part 2
(Part 1, Part 3 here)

By: Anonymous
February 13th, 2021

(**Note: This is NOT a QAnon Article. This author does NOT believe in QAnon AT ALL.)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." 
- Marie Curie

"... the real significance of this scandal for me [...] is the link to contemporary slavery and trafficking. I can't say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton's [Caracol] Complex. And mining has always been historically linked to trafficking, slavery, and labor exploitation."
 - Monica Petersen, Research Fellow and Assistant to the Director at the Human Trafficking Center at the University of Denver, in January 2016 Facebook Post (LINK)

These seven social media posts about Monica Petersen and her death in Haiti described in detail in the first part of this article raise a significant number of really important questions: We can clearly see that Monica Petersen was actively seeking out workers’ rights organizations as allies or resources of some sort in her investigation into human trafficking in Haiti. As discussed previously, according to a January 2016 Facebook post, Monica Petersen said she herself went to the Caracol Industrial Park, or somewhere near it, sometime in August 2015 (again, direct quote from her: “Caracol is a garment exporting zone, a field site I visited in August to check out the conditions of the workers (conclusion: working conditions okay, working wages too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti.)” So from this quote, we know Petersen talked either directly to Caracol workers or those close to them, during her 2015 trip to the factory complex in northern Haiti. From these posts, we can also see Petersen as well had a deep level of knowledge about Haitian politics, the Haitian mining industry and the Clinton’s history of alleged corruption in Haiti. Petersen makes very serious allegations that the Clintons have repeatedly rigged or influenced elections and supported coups in Haiti, at least in part for the purpose of trying to exploit the mineral resources at the Morne Bossa mine in Haiti. This all definitely seems to indicate that Petersen must have had significant first-hand contacts with other worker rights activists and/or other politically knowledgable people while in Haiti. Considering that Petersen was a Research Fellow and Assistant to the Director at the Human Trafficking Center at the University of Denver, this certainly seems plausible to say the least.

Since Petersen reported that human trafficking was occurring at Caracol, who told her this? Did workers at the Caracol plant tell her this, or did she hear this from somewhere else, maybe other activists in Haiti? Since Petersen specifically mentions two “human trafficking scandals” in Haiti tied to the Clintons, where in Haiti was the other human trafficking scandal occurring, if one was indeed occurring? It is important to note that it is very clear from these Facebook posts that Petersen was deeply critical of the Clinton’s conduct in Haiti from a decidedly left-leaning, “anti-imperialistic” perspective. Petersen derided the Clintons for treating Haiti as yet another third world country to be exploited for its natural resources. Her whole background and purpose for being in Haiti obviously does NOT indicate a person driven by some stereotypically right-wing, pro-Trump “crusade” against the Clintons, to say the least.
After Petersen’s death, we can see that Bella Robinson appeared deeply confused, distraught, and quite possibly very frightened. It is true that as reported in the 2016 Post article, Robinson denied that Petersen’s death in Haiti had anything to do with the Clintons. However, we can see from all these OTHER posts that Kessler did NOT reference, that there is a decidedly different picture to be seen. Shortly after Petersen’s death in November 2016, Robinson ALSO posted that Petersen was investigating the Clinton’s possible ties to a “pedophile ring,” that Petersen’s family was being kept in the dark about the circumstances of her death, and that she knew information about Petersen’s death that she did not want to discuss publicly. Robinson does also state that she received word that Petersen committed suicide and left a note, but at the same time she comments on the complete lack of reporting about Petersen’s death other than from Petersen’s own Facebook page and a few “fringe” websites. It is worth repeating that til this day in February 2021, Kessler’s 2016 Washington Post article is the ONLY article from any mainstream news agency I could find about Monica Petersen’s death. Additionally, a childhood or family friend of Petersen’s states that they found out through some unknown source that she was murdered. Where could she have heard this from?

Kessler only mentions the Caracol factory at one point in his 2016 Post article, and I honestly think this is where we also catch Kessler in a straight-up lie in his article. Kessler says this regarding the Caracol factory and Monica Petersen: “On Dec. 4 [2016] the InfoWars.com website- run by Alex Jones, big booster of President-elect Donald Trump — posted a Youtube video titled ‘Haiti PIZZAGATE: Death of Child Trafficking Investigator.’ It falsely claimed ‘she had just begun investigating the correlation regarding the Clinton’s Foundations Caracol Industrial Park Complex and its connection to a human trafficking network when her life was cut short.’” Ignoring the Alex Jones reference here for a minute, it is most important to note that Kessler is saying here that Alex Jones’s claim that Monica Petersen was investigating human trafficking associated with the Caracol factory is “false.” Or in other words, Kessler is clearly saying that Petersen was NOT investigating human trafficking involving Caracol. How can Kessler truthfully dismiss ANY claims about human trafficking and Caracol, no matter who is saying it, when at the same time Kessler is blatantly ignoring in his article the actual January 2016 Facebook post (HERE), where Petersen makes the specific claim that human trafficking is happening at Caracol?

It seems obvious here that Kessler is trying to pull a misdirection-type trick, by dismissing the credibility of the Caracol human trafficking allegation in a rather insidious and simple way: in his article, he only refers to crazy-old, Pizzagate-loving, Alex Jones as being the one who made this particular allegation about Caracol and human trafficking, NOT the one who actually said it, Monica Petersen. For the average Washington Post reader reading Kessler’s article, they will see the Caracol human trafficking allegation coming out of Alex Jones’s mouth, and probably will dismiss this allegation entirely because they read it in his article right next to the words “Alex Jones,” “InfoWars.com,” “PIZZAGATE” and “big booster of President-elect Donald Trump.” This certainly makes you wonder if this was Kessler’s whole intention in the first place. Again, this is the ONLY time Kessler mentions the Caracol factory in his whole article about Petersen’s death.
Given that Kessler literally traveled with Hillary Clinton as a reporter and “travel blogger” while she was Secretary of State, Kessler’s blatant omission of so much relevant information in this article is incredibly suspicious. The way he very obviously uses Alex Jones to try to dismiss the credibility of the Caracol human trafficking allegations, is all the more striking. Considering the media “blackout” on Monica Petersen’s death from the rest of the mainstream media, it is all the more shocking. In addition, it is worth pointing out that Glenn Kessler has personally been involved in at least one other major foreign policy controversy: the Valerie Plame affair, when the Bush Administration, acting through their proxy “Scooter” Libby, Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff at the time, publicly outed the identity of CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame.

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As Kessler himself stated in a Tweet from back in 2018, Scooter Libby, clearly acting as the “fall guy” in this whole affair, told the FBI that he talked to only one journalist about Valerie Plame: Glenn Kessler. When Libby was brought up on perjury and obstruction of justice charges and later tried and convicted, during Libby’s trial, Glenn Kessler showed up as a defense witness, and testified that he did not in fact talk about Valerie Plame with Scooter Libby. While Kessler’s involvement in the whole Plame case still appears to be shrouded in mystery, the fact that Kessler is so directly involved in such a sensitive national security scandal, as well as all of his elite connections mentioned above, do seem to indicate the Kessler is a significant “player” in establishment circles in DC. Whatever the full circumstances by all indications, Kessler was both an insider to the Bush Administration, and a major insider to Hillary’s inner circle when she was Secretary of State.

Claude d’Estree, DynCorp, and Monica Petersen’s Death
Professor d’Estree was the Executive Director of the Human Trafficking Center when Petersen passed away in 2016, and as he himself said, he employed Petersen as his Assistant and as a Researcher at the HTC up until 2016. As stated previously, d’Estree is quoted by Kessler in his 2016 Washington Post article as saying that Petersen’s death was caused by “suicide but the circumstances are not clear.” d’Estree is also quoted by Kessler as saying that Petersen was not in Haiti to investigate human trafficking or the Clinton Foundation, at the time of her death in Haiti in 2016. Apparently, d’Estree meant to say that Petersen was not investigating these particular things on her specific trip to Haiti in November 2016 when she died, but he is very notably not clear about this. He also does not mention in the Post article that Petersen was in fact investigating human trafficking in Haiti the previous year, even though the very same Post article does reference the 2015 Facebook post where Petersen herself states this, later on in the same article.

Considering the publicly available information, I do want to be careful. I do not want to make any unfair accusations at all against the Human Trafficking Center as an organization, or the individual researchers and academics who work and contribute research there. However, there are still certain things that appear obvious. From the publicly available social media posts described above, we do know that in Bella Robinson’s January 2016 Facebook post, Monica Petersen said she went to the Caracol factory complex sometime in August 2015 and talked to workers, or those close to the Caracol workers, there. From this post, we know she said she heard claims of some kind of human trafficking happening at the Caracol complex. We also know there has been resounding mainstream media silence about anything to do with Petersen’s death since 2016, and from what I can tell, that silence extends to the Human Trafficking Center as well, at least since the time of Petersen’s death.
Considering all this, I think it is really important to point out a couple pieces of publicly available information about Professor d’Estree’s own employment history, who is the current Executive Director of the HTC, that may be relevant. Considering that Monica Petersen worked directly for d’Estree, I think this information about d’Estree’s own background is all the more disturbing. Professor d’Estree’s own resume (archived link HERE) shows that he has a very distinguished academic and work background. d’Estree has a JD from Northeastern Law, and has taught law and human rights related courses at various Universities, as well as served as Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking. However, at the same time, d’Estree’s resume also states that from 1999 to 2002, d’Estree worked, in some capacity, for the DynCorp defense corporation. Specifically, his resume lists his employer from 1999–2002 as “United States Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia/DynCorp,” in Reston, Virginia. Reston is also very close to McLean, VA, the corporate headquarters for DynCorp.

To be clear, I do not know why d’Estree on his resume specifically lists his employer as “United States Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia/DynCorp” for the time period of 1999–2002. The fact that he phrases it this way suggests obviously being jointly employed by both the defense contractor and the DC DOJ’s office, which does not make a lot of sense for someone presumably working on behalf of a Federal Prosecutor’s office. In fact, on his resume, d’Estree does go into more detail about what he was doing when he had this job in Reston, VA. Quoting d’Estree: “Supervisor: Supervised the daily operations of a team of contract lawyers and data analysts in the Asset Forfeiture Unit, Criminal Division. Prosecutions included international drug, human smuggling, and white-collar fraud.” So from this we see d’Estree is claiming he worked directly for the Criminal Division of the DC DOJ’s office, and that at least some of the DOJ’s prosecutions he worked on in a supervisory capacity, specifically had to do with human trafficking. At another point in his resume, d’Estree goes into further detail about what he was doing working for the DC DOJ’s office “/” DynCorp: “Supervisor: Teaching and training of Assistant US Attorneys and paralegals in asset forfeiture law and financial investigations. Asked by the U.S Attorney to develop, implement and teach research and writing curriculum for the entire support staff in the nation’s largest U.S. Attorney’s Office.” So according to d’Estree’s resume, not only was he personally involved with criminal prosecutions at the DC DOJ’s Office, he was also involved, at a very senior level, in the actual job training and design of the education curriculum of a large swath of the DC DOJ office’s employees, if his resume is accurate. All of this clearly demonstrates a deep connection between Claude d’Estree himself and the Department of Justice.

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Excerpts from Professor Claude d’Estree’s archived CV (screenshots)

Despite this additional information, what is left conspicuously unclear is exactly what d’Estree’s relationship was with DynCorp during this period that d’Estree was working on behalf of the DOJ. Since d’Estree also lists DynCorp as his employer during the period 1999–2002, but provides no further detail about what exactly he was doing for DynCorp specifically on his resume, this seems like a rather glaring absence of information. d’Estree does say that he was supervising “contract lawyers and data analysts” while working for the DOJ. Since d’Estree was supervising workers who were “independent contractors” for the DC DOJ’s office, maybe d’Estree was also an independent contractor, and maybe he was contracting out his legal services to both the DOJ and to DynCorp during this time? Whatever d’Estree’s employment relationship really was with both the DOJ and with DynCorp, the fact that d’Estree had this very close yet still partially unknown relationship with both entities gets way more suspicious when you consider what was going on with DynCorp during this exact same time period. In the late 90s and early 2000s, DynCorp itself was under massive public scrutiny for the corporation and multiple employees being criminally complicit in human trafficking in Yugoslavia. This was during and after the NATO and Clinton Administration-led war against Yugoslavia in the late 90s.

A 2002 New York Times article “America’s For-Profit Secret Army,” details some of the horrific crimes against women and children by DynCorp employees during and after the war in the Balkan states: “In Bosnia, employees of DynCorp were found to be operating a sex-slave ring of young women who were held for prostitution after their passports were confiscated […] In late September [2002], DynCorp settled charges- for an undisclosed sum — brought by a whistle-blower the company had fired after he complained of a sex ring run by DynCorp employees in Bosnia […] Two employees made similar accusations: that while working in Bosnia… DynCorp employees kept underaged women as sex slaves, even videotaping a rape. Among the charges was that while the DynCorp employees trafficked in women — including buying one for $1,000 — the company turned a blind eye […] two employees who blew the whistle were fired. Ben Johnston, one of them, said in Congressional testimony: ‘DynCorp employees were living off post and owning these children and these women and girls as slaves.’” Another whistleblower, Kathryn Bolkovac, was fired from DynCorp after reporting to her superiors that her colleagues at DynCorp were involved with a sex trafficking ring that trafficked underage girls in collusion with organized crime, in Bosnia in the late 90s. The 2011 Hollywood movie “The Whistleblower” was made about Bolkovac’s story.

To be clear, I have no idea about the nature of the cases d’Estree helped investigate and prosecute while working for the DOJ and no idea if any of his investigations had anything to do with DynCorp itself. Again, it has to be said though, that all of d’Estree’s investigations for the Criminal Division of the US Attorney’s Office, as well as (presumably) DynCorp in some unknown capacity, into human trafficking, clearly occurred at the exact same time that DynCorp was massively, criminally complicit in human trafficking in the Balkan states. Professor d’Estree himself also has some very deep connections to the “military-industrial complex” that go beyond DynCorp. d’Estree has a personal connection to NORAD and NORTHCOM, America’s giant air defense and DOD military complex based in Colorado Springs. According to his resume, d’Estree sits on the “Core Curriculum Committee of the Homeland Security/Defense Education Consortium” at NORAD/US NORTHCOM.

I feel that yet again this is one of those situations where we have a bunch of clearly disjointed, incoherent facts, without the big picture, but it can safely be said the facts available here are undeniably disturbing. Again, considering what we know about Monica Petersen’s activities in Haiti and the subsequent near-total media silence about this information, I think it is very reasonable to ask: what could Professor d’Estree and the Human Trafficking Center know about Petersen’s death that the public does not? We know that only 8 years before d’Estree became Executive Director of the Human Trafficking Center in 2008, he supervised a team of attorneys and analysts at the DOJ, where d’Estree’s team spent at least part of their time specifically investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases. This was during the exact same time period that DynCorp and the rest of the defense corporations were profiting massively off the bombing and military campaign against Yugoslavia, which of course was spearheaded by the Clinton Administration. Fast-forward 16 years, and the same d’Estree shows up in Glenn Kessler’s 2016 Post article after Petersen’s death, quite explicitly saying that Monica Petersen was not investigating the Clinton Foundation. This was less than a year after Petersen clearly stated in Bella Robinson’s January 2016 Facebook post that she had at least heard of human trafficking happening at the Clinton’s Caracol complex. So again, what the hell are we supposed to make of this? A reasonable person could say that d’Estree is seriously covering-up for information that links Petersen’s death to the Clintons.

Without a doubt, this makes d’Estree’s past work for DynCorp all the more suspicious. A really cynical person might look at d’Estree’s supervisory role working for both the D.C. US Attorney’s Office and for DynCorp investigating human trafficking cases, and see that someone in that particular position was very well placed to potentially know which particular criminal cases DynCorp was legally liable for, during the time period d’Estree worked there. If one were to continue on the “cynical path” and speculate if d’Estree could have been some kind of “intelligence plant”, again, that kind of job at the US Attorney’s Office would clearly work very well for someone in that position to “steer away” from investigation and prosecution, cases that could have legal liability for DynCorp. I know this is speculation, and there is no way to know anything without at least knowing some details of the actual investigations d’Estree did while at the D.C. US Attorney’s Office. However, given the suspicious death of d’Estree’s own Assistant, Monica Petersen, I think it is at least reasonable to ask, what really was the nature of d’Estree’s “employment relationship” with DynCorp from 1999 to 2002?

The “relationship” between DynCorp and human trafficking is a truly long and sordid one, but I think it is also worth mentioning that this “relationship” may possibly even extend to Jeffrey Epstein! (It goes without saying, the “relationship” between Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein is ALSO its own horrific story). Long-time intelligence and covert operations researcher Daniel Hopsicker wrote a blog post looking at this alleged relationship between Epstein and DynCorp. In his post, Hopsicker notes that there have been a number of reports on the internet that an aircraft with the tail number “N474AW” was at one point used by Epstein on at least one of his recorded flights. As it turns out, there was another aircraft also registered with the tail number N474AW, that Hopsicker describes as a military-type, “US light attack and observation aircraft.” This particular airplane, with the same exact tail number of the other aircraft used by Epstein, Hopsicker identifies as being “owned by DynCorp or the CIA.” Wayne Madsen, a writer and former NSA and Office of Naval Intelligence analyst, also reported about this particular plane. As Madsen reported, in 2002 there is a record of a Bell helicopter registered with the tail number N474AW, which flew from Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico to an airport outside of Albuquerque. Four years later in 2006, another plane, a Bronco twin-turboprop light attack and observation aircraft, also registered with the same tail number (N474AW), crashed in Colombia while flying a drug eradication mission there in 2006. The name of the pilot, who survived the crash but was badly injured after ejecting from the airplane, was not released due to “national security” reasons. According to FAA records, the airplane that crashed in Colombia was owned by the US Department of State and was contracted to DynCorp for use in “counter-insurgency” and “counter-narcotics” operations in Colombia. As Madsen notes, “the congruence of Epstein’s Bell N474AW and DynCorp’s Bronco N474AW is noteworthy. In 2002, the year Epstein’s aircraft fleet stands accused of flying underage teen girls, some between the ages of 12 and 15, coincides with DynCorp’s trafficking in underage females between the ages of 12 and 15 from Kosovo and Bosnia in the Balkans.”

DynCorp also has a very significant history in Haiti. The defense corporation has received huge, multi-million dollar contracts to train United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti, as well as train Haitian police. In 2008, DynCorp received a contract to train 400 Haitian police officers. In 2013, the defense corporation received a $48.6 million contract from the US Department of State to train soldiers from the U.N. military mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), as well as train Haitian National Police (HNP) members. The U.N. soldiers in Haiti that DynCorp has a long history of training, themselves have their own very notorious history of involvement in child sex abuse and child sex trafficking in Haiti. According to the Associated Press, from 2004 to 2016, there were 150 reported allegations of abuse and exploitation of Haitians by U.N. soldiers. As Foreign Policy reported, “From 2003 to 2007, 134 [U.N] peacekeepers from Sri Lanka operated a child sex ring [in Haiti], luring children on the poverty-stricken island with candy and bits of cash […] After a U.N. report incriminated them, most were sent home, but none faced jail time.”

Finally, I think it is worth bringing up again that Monica Petersen specifically mentions her Masters Thesis from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, of which the Human Trafficking Center, the graduate program Petersen worked for, is a part of. In the January 2016 Facebook post shared by Robinson, Petersen said her Thesis focused on “modern structural slavery” and “disaster capitalism.” Did Petersen’s Thesis have to do with Haiti? Did it have anything to do with her research on human trafficking there? As far as I know, Petersen’s Masters Thesis is not publicly available, and the Human Trafficking Center or larger Josef Korbel School has not released her Thesis. If there is anyone in a position to know about Monica Petersen’s Masters Thesis, it definitely seems like it could be Professor d’Estree, who employed Petersen both as his Assistant and as a Researcher at the Human Trafficking Center, before her death in Haiti.

Sae-A Trading: Manufacturing Employer at Caracol Industrial Park: Severe labor rights violations and sexual harassment allegations
The “anchor tenant” at the Clinton Foundation-sponsored Caracol garment manufacturing complex is S & H Global, S.A. which is a subsidiary of Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd. Sae-A is a global clothing manufacturer headquartered in South Korea, with yearly sales well over a billion. It has factories all over the world, in Central America, Southeast Asia, and Haiti. Sae-A has been the employer of the mostly-female Haitian workforce at the Caracol factory since Caracol began operations in 2012. The company has been accused of extremely serious labor violations by workers at two of its factories in Nicaragua. In a 2013 report from “Worker Rights Consortium,” workers reported that Sae-A managers at its factories in Nicaragua engaged in incidents of serious physical violence against protesting workers, after Sae-A workers alleged that management fired 16 workers in retaliation for protected union activities. The report found that “Sae-A brutally violated these workers’ [labor] rights by directing and paying a mob of more than 300 other workers — while on paid company time — to attack these employees with scissors and metal pipes, and failing to instruct its managers and security guards to intervene and prevent this violence. […] At least six of the victims reported serious injuries including a broken nose, black eyes and stab wounds, and at least one case where the victim was stabbed in the face.” The Worker Rights Consortium report details numerous other reported incidents by Sae-A workers, where Sae-A managers repeatedly intimidated, harassed and fired union supporters at it factories in Nicaragua.

Furthermore, it is very important to point out that Sae-A managers have also been accused by Haitian workers at the Clinton’s Caracol factory of both sexual harassment and other serious workers rights violations. In 2012, the New York Times reported that before the Caracol Industrial Park deal was sealed in 2012, “the AFL-CIO sent a detailed memo to American and international officials describing ‘acts of violence and intimidation’ and declaring the company ‘one of the major labor violators.’” As ABC News reported, “a group called Better Work Haiti published a report finding the [Caracol] factory was noncompliant in the areas of sexual harassment, bullying and humiliation of employees. Yannick Etienne, a labor organizer, told ABC News she received reports from Sae-A workers that they had to provide sexual favors to [Sae-A] supervisors in order to obtain jobs in the factory […] When ABC News asked to speak with workers, one company official spoke in Korean to another, saying, ‘I don’t think you should allow that.’ Eventually, three workers were taken from another part of the factory to be interviewed. Haitians are just eager for the work, said one of the workers, Mileon Fontila, as her managers looked on.”
We can clearly see from reports that Sae-A managers have been accused of sexual harassment, including the specific claim that Haitian workers had to provide sexual favors to Sae-A managers to get jobs at the Caracol factory. This is in addition to other serious human rights abuses reported by workers at the Caracol factory, not to mention the massive, anti-labor “campaign of terror” Sae-A management launched against its workers in Nicaragua, that literally included fomenting a brutal mob attack on its own workers. Considering that America’s largest labor confederation, the AFL-CIO, specifically described Sae-A as “one of the major labor violators,” and considering it is reported that the Clinton’s were “instrumental” in the creation of the Caracol plant every step of the way, it is suspicious to say the least that the decision was made to let Sae-A be the “anchor” manufacturer at the Caracol complex.

Given all this as context, we have to again consider Human Trafficking Center Researcher Monica Petersen’s claim from 2016 that human trafficking was happening to some unknown extent through the Caracol plant complex. To be 100% clear, allegations of labor rights violations and sexual harassment claims against certain Sae-A managers, is obviously not the same thing as alleging Sae-A’s complicity with some kind of actual human trafficking operation at the Caracol complex. However, if what Monica Petersen said about human trafficking at the Caracol complex was in anyway true, it goes without saying that Sae-A’s extremely dark history of worker rights’ violations has to be looked at with whole new magnitude of suspicion.

Historical Context: FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmond’s allegation of the Clinton’s corruption of the appointment process for Federal Judges
As shocking as it is to consider Monica Petersen’s allegations of human trafficking at the Clinton’s Caracol plant, I think it is important to consider the claims of another, very credible whistleblower against the Clintons: Sibel Edmonds. Edmonds worked as as a contract employee in the FBI’s translation department for 6 months after 9/11, before she was fired by the Bureau. After her firing, Edmonds filed complaints and a lawsuit against the US government, alleging serious wrongdoing, criminal activities, and cover-ups she alleged she witnessed while at the FBI. Edmonds reports of wrongdoing included the following: cases of espionage within the FBI, DOD, and Department of State; cases of cover-up of information and leads pre and post 9/11, under the excuse of protecting certain diplomatic relations; cases of intentional blocking and mistranslation of crucial intelligence by FBI translators and management; and cases of foreign entities bribing certain government officials and elected representatives.

Very significantly, as the New York Times reported, the Inspector General of the DOJ found Edmonds credible in her allegations, saying that her allegations “were supported” and were a “significant factor” in the FBI deciding to fire her. Notoriously, the Bush Administration under Attorney General John Ashcroft used the state secrets privilege twice to “gag order” Edmonds and silence her. Former CIA Intelligence officer Philip Giraldi wrote the following about Edmonds: “To stop Sibel from telling her story, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft subjected her to a state secrets privilege gag order after her appearance on CBS’s 60 Minutes in October 2002 that not only forbade her providing details of her employment with FBI but also made the ban retroactive so that anything related to her case would be considered a state secret […] Why should Sibel be heard? Mostly because her story, if true, involves corruption at the highest levels of government…” The “Liberty Coalition,” a coalition of liberal and conservative government watchdog groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and others, found Edmonds to be credible in her allegations. The ACLU reported the following about Edmonds: “While an FBI translator, Edmonds discovered poorly translated documents relevant to the 9/11 attacks and reported the shoddy work to her supervisors. She also expressed concerns about a co-worker who had previously worked for an organization under FBI surveillance and had a relationship with a foreign intelligence officer under surveillance. […] Even though she followed all appropriate procedures for reporting her concerns up the chain of command, Edmonds was retaliated against and fired. After her termination, many of Edmond’s allegations were confirmed by the FBI in unclassified briefings to Congress. More than two years later, in May 2004, the Justice Department retroactively classified Edmonds’ briefings, as well as the FBI briefings, and forced Members of Congress who had the information posted on their Web sites to remove the documents.”

The US government clearly went to extreme lengths to silence Edmonds about what she knew about corruption during the Bush Administration. Considering all this, it is all the more shocking to consider what Edmond’s has to say about corruption allegedly occurring during the Clinton Administration in the 90s. In a 2020 Youtube video, Edmonds relates an allegation she claims she heard from a government whistleblower who was a high-ranking FBI agent. According to Edmonds, this FBI agent made the following extremely serious allegations of corruption occurring during the appointment process of Federal Judges during the Clinton Administration. Edmonds states in the video:
“One of my, not publicly known at the time, FBI whistleblowers, was a senior executive agent, but before he became [a senior] agent, in early-mid 90s, and this is a documented case people, because he went and he complained to the [Department of Justice] I.G. [Inspector General]’s Office … its on the record by the way … sometime between ’93 and ’97 … when he was a rookie agent, one of the first jobs he had as a FBI new agent was to conduct background checks for those Federal Judges, candidates, that each President appointed … [i.e.] ‘I’m proposing this, and this, and this Judge, for Federal bench’ … So what happens is at that point, the FBI goes and conducts background checks to make sure, theoretically, that [the Judges] are clean, that they are fit to be appointed, and then they let the President know, and the President says, ‘oh, I’m gonna push this guy,’ So that’s theoretically.
Now, in practice … so the Agent was, of course … naive and green, so he’s running background checks on some of these Judges, and finds out which ones have extramarital affairs … which ones are pedophiles or they are into child pornography, and then he would submit the [background checks] to the FBI, so that they would process it, and eliminate those Judges, and what he ended up seeing happening was that, all the ‘squeaky-clean’ [Judges] were discarded for Federal benches, important Federal Court Judges, especially the FISA Court Judges. They made sure only the dirtier, the more qualified, because for FISA Court Judges, the ‘rubber stamp’ Judges, they needed to have the crappy, crooked, criminal ones that they could get anything they want from.”

According to Edmond’s high-level FBI source, the Clinton Administration showed a deliberate, deeply corrupt pattern of “weeding out” morally and ethically honest Judges for appointment to Federal benches. Instead, at least in some cases, the Clinton Administration allegedly selected the most personally corrupt Judges for appointment to Federal benches, including Judges who were found by the FBI to be pedophiles and users of child pornography. Again, according to Edmonds, the rationale for doing this was so the Clinton Administration could have leverage and control over the corrupt, and at least in some cases, pedophile Judges that they nominated to Federal benches, so that the Clintons “could get anything they want from [them].” Considering Monica Petersen’s claim that human trafficking was happening at Caracol, and Bella Robinson’s claim (in her Facebook post) that Petersen was investigating the Clintons’ “possible ties to a pedophile ring” before her death in Haiti, Edmond’s allegations take things to an even darker level. With Sibel Edmonds, we see that this is not even the first time the Clintons have specifically been accused by a credible whistleblower of using pedophilia and child pornography as a “machiavellian” means for their own self-enrichment, and advancement of their own political power via blackmail. If the Clinton’s were fine in the 90s with appointing Federal Judges who they knew to be pedophiles and otherwise “crappy, crooked, criminal” characters, is it possible the Clintons simply repeated this same sort of horrific “practice” in Haiti 20 years later? If there really was some kind of human trafficking/pedophile ring operating out of Caracol, you have to ask, were the Clintons in some way profiting off of it? Were the Clintons yet again gaining “blackmail power” from their knowledge of those involved with this alleged human trafficking ring being run out of Caracol?

Link to Part 3 Here
 ]]> <![CDATA[Monica Petersen, Haiti and the Octopus of the Deep State (Part 1)]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=16237 Sat, 13 Feb 2021 08:17:03 +0000 George Williams]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=16237 **Surviveandheal15 Lives On!!**
Monica Petersen, Haiti and the Octopus of the Deep State
Part 1
(Part 2, Part 3 here)


By: Anonymous
February 13th, 2021

(**Author's Note: This is NOT a "QAnon" Article. This author does NOT believe in QAnon AT ALL. This author furthermore does not intend to promote ANY QAnon conspiracy theories with this article, in ANY way.)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." 
- Marie Curie

"...the real significance of this scandal for me [...] is the link to contemporary slavery and trafficking. I can't say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton's [Caracol] Complex. And mining has always been historically linked to trafficking, slavery, and labor exploitation."
 - Monica Petersen, Research Fellow and Assistant to the Director at the Human Trafficking Center at the University of Denver, in January 2016 Facebook Post (LINK)

Synopsis:
From Facebook posts, we know that University of Denver Human Trafficking Center Researcher Monica Petersen took a series of trips to Haiti in 2015 and 2016 to investigate human trafficking. We know that she went to talk to Haitian workers, or those very close to them, about working conditions at the Clinton Foundation-sponsored Caracol textile factory in northern Haiti. From a January 2016 Facebook post, we know that Monica Petersen received some kind of report about human trafficking allegedly happening at this Caracol textile factory. Beyond this, we know almost nothing. Petersen officially passed away in Haiti in November 2016, but the circumstances of her death and events leading up to it are still very unclear until this day. A single Washington Post article from December 2016, is the only article I could find about Monica Petersen’s death from any mainstream news agency as of this writing. The silence in the media about Petersen’s death in 2016, is both incredibly revealing and disturbing at the same time, potentially telling us a great deal about the true level of censorship we live with in our society. What really happened to Human Trafficking Center Researcher Monica Petersen? Was she correct in her statement before her death that human trafficking was occurring at the Clinton-sponsored Caracol textile factory in Haiti?

There is clearly a very very oddly limited “hodgepodge” of social media information regarding Petersen’s death. My search for answers to her death, led me to look deeply into this “hodgepodge” of very limited information. The results of this research is this story. What I found in my opinion only greatly deepened the suspiciousness about Petersen’s death, and what her investigation in Haiti may have truly revealed. The blatant media black-out and obfuscation of relevant, publicly available information about Petersen’s death is very very striking. It is obvious from reading reporter Glenn Kessler’s single 2016 Post article, the only mainstream press about Monica Petersen’s death to this date, that Kessler is misrepresenting and omitting from disclosure, highly relevant social media posts about Petersen’s investigation into the Clinton-sponsored Caracol factory in Haiti. It is also worth mentioning that when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, Glenn Kessler in his duties as reporter traveled with Clinton frequently and “for several years wrote a blog about his experiences on those trips.” In this article, I seek to expose to the best I can, the full scope of the publicly available, relevant social media posts that shine light on Petersen’s human trafficking investigation and her death in Haiti. As can be clearly seen in these online postings, some of the key people involved in these communications, were decidedly left-wing, social justice-oriented activists, not the sort of people you could label as right-wing, pro-Trump QAnon conspiricists. Facebook posts about Monica Petersen’s death were shared predominately on right-wing, pro-Trump message boards and other social media sites after her death in November 2016. However, just because these messages were shared mostly on these kinds of sites, does not change the content of the messages themselves, nor the background of the activists who posted the messages. The subsequent media silence about the circumstances of Petersen’s death, may speak volumes about the level of criminality against the people of Haiti Monica Petersen was seeking to expose.

Background about Monica Petersen

According to her obituary, Monica Petersen worked as a Research Fellow and Assistant to the Director of the Human Trafficking Center (HTC) at the University of Denver. Petersen officially passed away in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on November 13th, 2016. The Human Trafficking Center graduate program provides “the only two-year graduate level training program in forced labor, human trafficking, and international migration issues in the U.S.” Monica Petersen was born and raised in Ames, Iowa, her life growing up included active involvement with her local 4-H club, and many school activities. She received a bachelors degree in Anthropology from Western State College of Colorado, and in 2014, Petersen received a Masters Degree in International Development with a concentration in Human Trafficking from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, at the University of Denver. The Human Trafficking Center, for whom Petersen also worked, is a part of the larger Josef Korbel School of International Studies. (**Very important update: according to the Human Trafficking Center’s Facebook page, the Human Trafficking Center permanently shut down at the University of Denver as of June 2021. Also very notably, according to the HTC’s statement about its closing on its Facebook page, there is a description of all of the HTC’s academic accomplishments over a nearly 20 year period of operation at the U. of Denver. But at the same time, within the statement there is no explanation for why the decision was made to shut the Human Trafficking Center program down, other than that the Korbel School “decided to close” the program).

Considering that Petersen’s Masters Degree had a focus on human trafficking studies, it is safe to say that she must have taken many classes that were part of the Human Trafficking Center curriculum, and knew quite a bit about the HTC, before 2014. Petersen worked with many social justice-oriented groups during her life, including the Social Wellness Advocacy Network, the Colorado Human Trafficking Council, and the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking. She gave an academic presentation about women victims of human trafficking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her social media postings show that Petersen had a significant academic history researching and combating human trafficking, and was also involved in social justice activism like advocating for the rights of sex workers. In 2014, Petersen wrote a blog post for the Human Trafficking Center blog, titled “Root Causes and Contradictions of the Displaced Youth along the U.S./Mexico Border.” In the post, Petersen talked in detail about how “free trade” polices instituted in Central America, and throughout the world, have contributed enormously to increased inequality between the US and Central America and other third world countries, and greatly increased global poverty. As Petersen wrote, this “break-down” in society in Central America has allowed an illegal “informal” economy of gangs and crime to flourish, and horrifically this has contributed greatly to increased child trafficking from Central American countries. Petersen clearly had a deep level of knowledge about economics and global politics, and their impact on human trafficking activities throughout the world. None of this background “fits” with the “QAnon narrative” pushed by our mainstream news constantly now, to say the very least. Before Petersen’s death, she appeared on a podcast about human trafficking and sex workers, hosted by Chris Sowa titled “Fighting the Trafficking Narrative from Alaska to Rhode Island.” By all accounts, Monica Petersen was committed to investigating and reporting on human trafficking and other social injustices up until the end of her life.

At the time of Petersen’s death in November 2016, the Director of the Human Trafficking Center was Professor Claude d’Estree. The 2016 Post article about Petersen’s death, quotes d’Estree as saying the following about Petersen’s death and time before that: “[d’Estree] had employed Petersen until June [2016] as a researcher and as his assistant, after which she moved to Haiti. He said she had been teaching at private pre-kindergarten-through-12 school, Union School Haiti, mainly to support herself, and had been exploring setting up a nongovernmental organization in Haiti. He said she committed suicide but the circumstances are not clear. d’Estree said Petersen had gone to Haiti a number of times, but she was not there to research human trafficking and was not investigating the Clinton Foundation. He said she had been a “brilliant” research fellow, working the past two years to produce a still unpublished article that critiqued a controversial book on the business of sex trafficking by Siddharth Kara.”
However, even within the 2016 Post article, Monica Petersen’s own Facebook post contradicts d’Estree’s claim that she was not in Haiti to investigate human trafficking. Later on in the same article, Kessler references a group of Facebook posts, one of which is a post Monica Petersen herself wrote in August 2015. In the post, Petersen says, “I’m down in Haiti for the next 3 wks doing fieldwork on human trafficking (i.e. ALL exploited labor sectors, not just sex).” It is true that Petersen took another trip to Haiti in 2016, so in fairness maybe d’Estree is saying that Petersen was not investigating human trafficking on Petersen’s particular trip to Haiti in late 2016, when Monica Petersen died. Still, why was d’Estree not clear about this in the Post article, and why would he at least not mention anything about what Petersen was doing on her 2015 trip to Haiti, when she clearly was investigating human trafficking?

However, this is just the beginning. What I think can be clearly seen in Glenn Kessler’s Post article, is that he very obviously only references certain Facebook posts about Petersen, her time in Haiti and her death. He clearly does not reference a number of other Facebook posts that are publicly viewable about Monica Petersen. The specific posts that Kessler very clearly omits from his article, just so happen to do with Petersen’s investigation into the Clinton-sponsored Caracol textile factory in northern Haiti, and how her death may possibly be related to this investigation. Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation were heavily involved in financing and otherwise supporting the construction and operation of the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti, near the city of Cap-Haïtien. Caracol Industrial Park is a textile production factory that went into business in 2012.

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A well-known picture shows Bill and Hillary Clinton posing with a large group of Haitian workers and factory managers at the Caracol Industrial Park for its inauguration ceremony in October 2012. A 2015 report from Politico stated that the Clintons “were instrumental at nearly every step” in the creation of the Caracol Industrial Park. As the BBC reported in 2016, the main employer at the Caracol factory is the South Korean textile corporate giant Sae-A Trading Co. The Caracol textile factory produces clothes for US Big Box retailers like Walmart, Target and Old Navy. Perhaps not coincidentally at all, after Sae-A got its contract to start producing clothing at Caracol, the corporation subsequently donated between $50,000 and $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation. A major disappointment with the Caracol factory, at least one that is publicly known, is that the total number of jobs created at the factory has fallen far short of initial projections. Bill Clinton said that Caracol would create 100,000 jobs “in short order,” but as of 2019, Sae-A Trading employed only about 13,000 workers at the Caracol factory complex, most of whom are female textile workers.
By far the most significant of the Facebook posts Kessler does NOT mention, is a January 4th, 2016 Facebook Post shared by Bella Robinson, a social justice activist from Rhode Island who was a friend of Monica Petersen. In the post, Robinson quotes Monica Petersen giving a “report” or “travel update” about her visit to Haiti. As shocking as it is to say, Robinson quotes Monica Petersen as stating the following about her visit in Haiti:

1.) She personally went to the Caracol Industrial Park in Haiti to investigate working conditions of the plant’s workers.
2.) She personally heard of and was possibly actively investigating claims of human trafficking happening at the Clinton Foundation-sponsored Caracol Industrial Park in Haiti.

Again, here is the Facebook Post (archived link HERE): In Bella Robinson’s Facebook post (from January 4th, 2016) quoting Monica Petersen, Petersen states the following: “Caracol is a garment exporting zone, a field site I visited in August to check out the conditions of the workers (conclusion: working conditions okay, working wages too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti.)”
Later on towards the end of the same social media post by Monica Petersen, Petersen says the following: “..the real significance of this scandal for me […] is the link to contemporary slavery and trafficking. I can’t say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton’s Caraol [sic] Complex.” This Facebook post was clearly only shared by Bella Robinson to her own group of friends on Facebook.
As obviously shocking as it is to hear allegations of actual human trafficking occurring at a Clinton Foundation-sponsored textile sweatshop in Haiti, Kessler’s 2016 Post article indeed confirmed that Bella Robinson knew Monica Petersen, and confirms the authenticity of at least one of Bella Robinson’s Facebook posts quoting Monica Petersen’s “report” of her trip to Haiti. In the Post article, Monica Petersen is named as an “acquaintance” of Robinson. Additionally, Kessler’s article states that “…Bella Robinson, a sex worker and activist in Rhode Island in January [2016] had posted a blog post that Petersen had shared on Facebook that had been critical of the Clinton Foundation’s work in Haiti.” Very very significantly, the Washington Post here does in fact acknowledge that Bella Robinson was sharing actual social media posts by Monica Petersen through her own Facebook posts.

Bella Robinson is a Rhode Island-based social justice activist, sex worker rights activist, and sex worker. She is the Executive Director of “COYOTE RI,” a support organization for current and former sex workers and trafficking victims. She is also a founding member of the “AMOR Network,” which describes itself as “an alliance of grassroots organizations, providing community support in Rhode Island and southern New England for victims of hate crimes and state-sponsored violence.” In addition, Robinson has a scholarly background investigating and writing about sex worker rights’ issues as well as sex trafficking. Her and Professor Elena Shih, an American and Ethnic studies Professor at Brown University, co-wrote a research paper titled “Organizing under Criminalization: Policing and Sex Worker’s Rights in Rhode Island.” In the paper, Robinson and Shih discuss the history of de-criminalization and re-criminalization of sex work in the state of Rhode Island, and the impact re-criminalization has had on the lives of sex workers in the state. Rhode Island de-criminalized prostitution for 30 years and re-criminalized it in 2009. Robinson and Professor Shih also have conducted research surveys where they interviewed sex workers in Rhode Island, and sex workers nation-wide, in order to try to better understand “the realities of consensual sex work and sex trafficking in the US.” The nation-wide survey Robinson and Shih conducted interviewed 1,494 sex workers. Professor Shih herself teaches courses in human trafficking, labor migration and sex work, amongst many other subjects at Brown University. Shih also serves on the Board of Directors of Robinson’s “COYOTE RI” organization. Bella Robinson clearly has a background both in researching and writing about the nature of sex trafficking and sex work, at an academic level. After Monica Petersen’s death in November 2016, many of Robinson’s Facebook posts concerning Petersen and her death in Haiti were shared or linked to across various right-wing, pro-Trump/QAnon message boards and websites. People critical of Robinson might try to say she is affiliated with the QAnon “movement” and therefore dismiss what she posted. However, Robinson’s background indicates a long involvement with left-leaning, social justice-oriented activism, amongst other information that does not suggest anything of her being affiliated with the “QAnon crowd.” It is clearly very hard to dismiss her social media posts as yet another QAnon “rant.” The same exact thing can be said about Monica Petersen. Monica Petersen passed away in Haiti in 2016, obviously before the current “QAnon craze” took hold. Petersen clearly had a very well-established academic and activist background researching and investigating human trafficking. Yet again, none of this fits into the “QAnon narrative” at all.

Despite this, the entire focus of Kessler’s 2016 Post article (titled “‘Pizzagate’ rumors falsely link death of sex-worker advocate to nonexistent Clinton probe”) is a “debunking job” against the supposed conspiracy theories that Petersen’s death had anything to do with the Clintons. In his Post article, Kessler states that after Petersen’s death in November 2016, the blog post that Robinson posted on Facebook quoting Monica Petersen the past January, was shared in a Reddit discussion thread and went viral. Kessler states that after the blog post went viral, “This then resulted in a flurry of “news stories” falsely claiming that Petersen had written the blog post and was killed for investigating the Clintons.” Kessler then quotes Robinson responding to her post going viral, quoting her as saying, “Some guy from Reddit found an old Facebook post on the Clintons and screen shot it and tagged it in this, and even after I confirmed that her death had nothing to do with the Clintons, he made up stories that the family couldn’t get answers.” Kessler quotes Robinson as saying that her comments “were taken out of context, and that she was actually trying to end the speculation.” Kessler further quotes Robinson as saying that,”Monica Petersen’s death is a PRIVATE family matter and it had nothing to do with the Clinton scandal. “ Here is the blog post linked to from the Kessler’s 2016 Washington Post article:
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This post contains a total of 4 social media posts about Monica Petersen. The Post-linked imgur site contains two November 2016 Facebook posts from the University of Denver Human Trafficking Center (Petersen’s employer), and the “Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking”, both of which announced and discussed the recent death of Monica Petersen. There is also an August 15th, 2015 Facebook post from Monica Petersen herself, where she discusses her upcoming trip to Haiti in 2015, stating: “I’m down in Haiti for the next 3 wks doing fieldwork on human trafficking (i.e. ALL exploited labor sectors, not just sex)[…]”. Finally, the Post-linked imgur site contains a January 3rd, 2016 Facebook post from Bella Robinson quoting Monica Petersen. In this post, Monica Petersen discusses the upcoming Haitian Presidential elections, and Petersen discusses the Clinton’s alleged corruption in Haiti. Probably NOT coincidentally at all, this particular Jan. 3rd, 2016 post from Petersen does NOT make reference AT ALL to human trafficking.[/url]
However, in Bella Robinson’s Jan. 4th, 2016 Facebook post (link is HERE) posted on Facebook the very next day, Petersen clearly states that “human trafficking” was allegedly occurring at the Clinton’s Caracol Industrial Park. It does not take a genius to figure out that Glenn Kessler, clearly deliberately chose to feature in his Post article the Petersen Facebook post that did not report alleged human trafficking at the Caracol complex, and blatantly ignores the post by Petersen where she clearly states that “human trafficking” is happening at Caracol Industrial Park (which again was posted on Facebook literally the next day.)

If you think this reeks of a completely blatant and obviously selective omission of factual information on Glenn Kessler’s part as a journalist, to say the very least, as horrible as it is to say, this is just the beginning. One thing I immediately noticed when I did a Google news search query for “Monica Petersen.” As of February 2021, Glenn Kessler’s Washington Post article about Monica Petersen was literally the only mainstream news article about Petersen’s death I could find anywhere from any remotely “mainstream” news agency. I mean anywhere. I could not find another article about Monica Petersen’s death from any other news agency other than the Washington Post. (If I am wrong about this, please tell me). I could not even find an article in the Denver Post, Petersen’s hometown paper at the time of her death. Just looking at the absolute absence of any other mainstream reporting about Petersen’s death, I cannot help but feel that there has to be some kind of orchestrated “clamp-down” on information in regards to Petersen’s death.
Also very strikingly: one thing should be immediately noted about Glenn Kessler’s past employment history: as Kessler’s Wikipedia page notes, in his job duties as a journalist he “… traveled with three different Secretaries of State- Colin Powell, Condeleeza Rice, and Hillary Clinton — and for several years wrote a blog about his experiences on these trips.” Glenn Kessler, the author of the only news article about Monica Petersen’s death from any mainstream news source pretty much anywhere, also just so happens to be the…. former personal travel companion to and blog writer for Hillary Clinton herself!!

If this does not reek even deeper of massive conflict of interest and journalistic malpractice, it yet again gets worse. I will return to Kessler’s Post article later, but first I think it is most important to do what the Post clearly does not: provide archived links and descriptions of all the Monica Petersen-related social media posts I could find on the internet that had information relevant to her death and time spent in Haiti. I present these posts in chronological order, as best as I can discern their chronological order. From 2015 to roughly November 2016, both Bella Robinson, quotes from Monica Petersen in Robinson’s posts, as well as Facebook comments from Petersen’s friends shortly after her death, shed light on deeply troubling information about Petersen’s time in Haiti as well as her death there, to say the very least. As will be clearly seen, Kessler’s December 2016 Post article references almost none of the highly relevant information that is publicly available. The fact that Kessler published this article in the Post in December 2016, after all this information was publicly viewable on social media, denies any excuse that he did not have access to this information.

Time Line of Monica Petersen-Related Facebook Posts
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8/15/2015 Post:
Personal Facebook post from Monica Petersen herself. Kessler does reference this post in his 2016 article. In this post, Petersen is asking some questions to an unknown Facebook page she recently joined. Petersen states that she is visiting Haiti “… for the next 3 wks doing fieldwork on human trafficking (i.e. All exploited labor sectors, NOT just sex). She describes herself as a “social anthropologist who wants to do solid research on [human trafficking].” Petersen says that as part of her field research, she is seeking to work with sex worker rights organizations in Haiti that are truly “pro-sex worker orgs,” and not what she considers to be “sex trafficking savior” organizations seeking to “rescue” sex workers. She goes on to say “rescuing people” is a “stupid & imperialist concept.” Bella Robinson responds to Petersen’s post, suggesting she look into one such organization she might want to work with in Haiti, the “American Jewish World Service.” Petersen then thanks Robinson on the message thread, saying that she was searching for their office or their representatives in Haiti while she herself was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but that she could not yet find them and was trying to reach them.

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1/03/2016 Post:
Kessler’s Post article states that Robinson posted this in January 2016. Kessler does reference this particular post in his 2016 article. Robinson’s Facebook post quoting Monica Petersen. As stated previously, Petersen discusses the Clinton’s alleged corruption in Haiti, specifically she states her belief that the Clintons planed to “loot” Haiti for gold and work in some conjunction with groups from the Dominican Republic to accomplish this purpose. Petersen also speculates that a partner of Haitian President Michel Martelly (who she calls “Martelly’s guy”) is going to steal the upcoming Haitian Presidential Election, and speculates that the Clintons’ alleged gold mining “plans” were going to be responsible for the steal. Also very significantly, Monica Petersen refers to her Masters Thesis from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, of which the Human Trafficking Center, for whom she also worked, is a part of. Petersen says her Thesis focuses on researching “modern structural slavery,” and “disaster capitalism.”

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1/04/2016 Post:
Bella Robinson’s post quoting Petersen’s “report” from Haiti. Glenn Kessler DOES NOT refer at all to this specific post in his 2016 Post article. This is the specific Facebook post where Petersen says that human trafficking is happening through the Clinton’s Caracol Industrial Park. From the beginning of the post, it is clear Petersen is back in Haiti doing field work like on her previous 2015 trip. In her post, Petersen continues to describe her investigation into Clinton-related corruption in Haiti. Petersen discusses the Morne Bossa gold mine in the north of Haiti. The North Carolina-based VCS mining company, on which Clinton’s brother Tony Rodham sat on the board, got the permit to mine gold at the Morne Bossa mine in 2012. In the post, Petersen describes how the Clintons may have allegedly worked with the Haitian Presidential Administration of Michel Martelly, in a “crony” manner, to attempt to begin mining gold at Morne Bossa in 2012. As Petersen also describes, the Clinton Foundation established the Caracol Industrial Park at the same exact time in 2012, and Caracol is fairly close to the Morne Bossa mine. Petersen speculates whether the Clintons may have had some ulterior motive for establishing the Caracol textile factory and beginning mining gold at Morne Bossa at the same time, wondering if it was just “easy money” for the Clintons or if there was something more to it.

It is very important to point out here that this January 4 2016 Facebook post quoting Monica Petersen, contains very significant information about her activities in Haiti that closely corroborates what Petersen is quoted as saying in Kessler’s 2016 Washington Post article, in Petersen’s August 15 2015 Facebook post referenced in his article. Very significantly, in the January 4 2016 post, Petersen states that she visited the Caracol Industrial Park in 2015, saying the following: “Caracol is a garment exporting zone, a field site I visited in August [2015] to check out the conditions of the workers (conclusion: working conditions okay, working wages too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti).” This very closely matches with what Petersen stated in her own Facebook post dated August 15 2015 (as referenced by the Washington Post), where she said: “I’m down in Haiti for the next 3 wks doing fieldwork on human trafficking (i.e. ALL exploited labor sectors, not just sex)”. There is clearly corroboration from both these Facebook posts, that Petersen was actively investigating human trafficking in Haiti and that she personally visited the Caracol complex sometime in August 2015. From these posts, we know that Petersen states that she intended to investigate a potentially wide range of human trafficking activities occurring in Haiti (i.e., across “ALL exploited labor sectors”). It therefore clearly makes sense that as Petersen herself is quoted as saying, she would go and talk with textile workers at the Caracol complex, since the textile export industry across Haiti is notorious for its incredibly exploited, low-wage workforce. So again, there is very significant corroboration of information regarding Monica Petersen’s activities in Haiti, from both Petersen’s August 2015 Facebook post, and this January 4 2016 Facebook post quoting her less than half a year later. This in my opinion, provides very significant evidence to support the validity of Petersen’s comments quoted in Robinson’s January 4 2016 Facebook post presented here. Again, Glenn Kessler quite conspicuously neglects to mention at all this January 4 Facebook post in his Washington Post article.

Petersen states that the main buyers for Caracol’s garment exports are Gap, Target and Wal-Mart, all of which are corporations Petersen states are “linked” to the Clintons. Petersen states that “family money, not local livelihoods” were motivating the Clintons to develop the Caracol garment factory. Petersen goes on to discuss how she believes that Hillary Clinton, in her role as Secretary of State,”ensured” that Michel Martelly won the “rigged” Haitian Presidential elections in 2010, and that the Clintons wanted Martelly’s “hand-picked successor” to win the 2016 election. Petersen states that the Clintons wanted Martelly’s successor government to allow Tony Rodham’s VCS Mining to begin mining at Morne Bossa. Petersen also states that the time period of mining activity at Morne Bossa “oddly corresponds” to the first and second coups against Haitian President Aristide. Petersen discusses the lack of an assessment of the environmental risks of mining at Morne Bossa, warning about the threat mining at Morne Bossa posed to farmers and the surrounding ecosystem. Petersen states that regardless of the actual amount of mineral wealth available in Haiti, the Clintons viewed Haiti as just another third world country to exploit: “a couple billion here, there, everywhere adds up.”

Most crucially, towards the end of her post, Petersen states the following: “I can’t say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton’s Caraol [sic] complex. And mining has always been historically linked to trafficking, slavery and labor exploitation.” Petersen goes on to speculate about the nature of the workforce at the nearby Morne Bossa mine, believing that Dominicans were most likely the contracted managers at the mine, and Haitian workers were most likely being exploited as laborers at the mine as “low or no cost” labor. Petersen states at the end of her post: “That’s two huge human trafficking scandals, an environmental degradation scandal, a social displacement scandal, a Presidential election scandal, a scandal with billions in unaccounted for earthquake aid…all leading back to the Clintons racist cronyism in Haiti.” Significantly, Petersen specifically mentions two human trafficking scandals, but in this post, and from what I can find on social media, Petersen only specifically made claims about human trafficking happening at the Caracol factory in Haiti. So if Petersen said “two huge human trafficking scandals” were occurring in Haiti that linked back to the Clintons, where else could the other alleged human trafficking be happening in Haiti??

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November 2016 Post:
Personal Facebook post from Bella Robinson. Kessler DOES NOT refer at all to this specific post in his 2016 Post article. Robinson posted this in the comments section of the “My favorite abolitionist” Facebook group, a pro-sex worker and pro-LGBT Facebook group, soon after Petersen’s death in November 2016. Robinson posted the following, “RIP Monica Petersen: It seems that Monica was in Haiti investigating the Clintons possible ties to a pedophile ring. Monica family hasn’t been able to get any straight answers about her death.”

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November 2016 Post:
What appears to be Bella Robinson on Facebook, is commenting with another unknown poster. Kessler does NOT reference this Facebook post in his 2016 article. Robinson’s name and profile picture is partially “smudged out” but part of her distinctive Facebook profile picture and a chunk of her name can be seen in the photo. An unknown Facebook poster asks Robinson questions about Petersen’s recent death. Petersen responds, saying, “All I know is she committed suicide and she left a note. I don’t know the cause of death or anything else. I can’t even find any public record of media that mentions her death other then her own FB page, and redditt, and a few spin offs.” Robinson goes on to give details to the other poster about Petersen’s upcoming memorial service at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, on November 18th, 2016.

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November 2016 Post:
Personal Facebook post from Bella Robinson, posted sometime after Petersen’s death in November 2016. Kessler does NOT reference this Facebook post in his 2016 article. Robinson shares a Reddit discussion thread about Monica’s Petersen’s death on Facebook. One of her friends comments, asking, “How credible the Reddit link and discussion? Robinson responds, saying, “I found out what happened, and if you message me I will explain. I don’t think it is appropriate to post what I know in public.”

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November 2016 Post:
This Facebook post is a discussion thread about Petersen’s recent death on the Human Trafficking Center Facebook page, posted shortly after Petersen’s death. Kessler does NOT reference this Facebook post in his 2016 article. In the discussion thread, a poster states: “The alt.right and faux news site went nuts today, hinting that Clinton had [Monica Petersen] killed for investigating her. Please, can you or the family issue a statement to stop this inane conspiracy garbage?” In the thread, the Human Trafficking Center then responds to this poster, saying, “It’s actually best to ignore them. It will only feed the flames of their craziness.” However, in the very same discussion thread, another poster, claiming to be a childhood friend of Monica Petersen, says the following: “[Monica] was my classmate growing up and I got word she was murdered. A statement would be nice so rumors do not swirl.” Another poster on the thread comments,”I sincerely hope you were able to get hold of [Petersen’s] notes…. you may get some answers from them…”]]> **Surviveandheal15 Lives On!!**
Monica Petersen, Haiti and the Octopus of the Deep State
Part 1
(Part 2, Part 3 here)


By: Anonymous
February 13th, 2021

(**Author's Note: This is NOT a "QAnon" Article. This author does NOT believe in QAnon AT ALL. This author furthermore does not intend to promote ANY QAnon conspiracy theories with this article, in ANY way.)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." 
- Marie Curie

"...the real significance of this scandal for me [...] is the link to contemporary slavery and trafficking. I can't say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton's [Caracol] Complex. And mining has always been historically linked to trafficking, slavery, and labor exploitation."
 - Monica Petersen, Research Fellow and Assistant to the Director at the Human Trafficking Center at the University of Denver, in January 2016 Facebook Post (LINK)

Synopsis:
From Facebook posts, we know that University of Denver Human Trafficking Center Researcher Monica Petersen took a series of trips to Haiti in 2015 and 2016 to investigate human trafficking. We know that she went to talk to Haitian workers, or those very close to them, about working conditions at the Clinton Foundation-sponsored Caracol textile factory in northern Haiti. From a January 2016 Facebook post, we know that Monica Petersen received some kind of report about human trafficking allegedly happening at this Caracol textile factory. Beyond this, we know almost nothing. Petersen officially passed away in Haiti in November 2016, but the circumstances of her death and events leading up to it are still very unclear until this day. A single Washington Post article from December 2016, is the only article I could find about Monica Petersen’s death from any mainstream news agency as of this writing. The silence in the media about Petersen’s death in 2016, is both incredibly revealing and disturbing at the same time, potentially telling us a great deal about the true level of censorship we live with in our society. What really happened to Human Trafficking Center Researcher Monica Petersen? Was she correct in her statement before her death that human trafficking was occurring at the Clinton-sponsored Caracol textile factory in Haiti?

There is clearly a very very oddly limited “hodgepodge” of social media information regarding Petersen’s death. My search for answers to her death, led me to look deeply into this “hodgepodge” of very limited information. The results of this research is this story. What I found in my opinion only greatly deepened the suspiciousness about Petersen’s death, and what her investigation in Haiti may have truly revealed. The blatant media black-out and obfuscation of relevant, publicly available information about Petersen’s death is very very striking. It is obvious from reading reporter Glenn Kessler’s single 2016 Post article, the only mainstream press about Monica Petersen’s death to this date, that Kessler is misrepresenting and omitting from disclosure, highly relevant social media posts about Petersen’s investigation into the Clinton-sponsored Caracol factory in Haiti. It is also worth mentioning that when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, Glenn Kessler in his duties as reporter traveled with Clinton frequently and “for several years wrote a blog about his experiences on those trips.” In this article, I seek to expose to the best I can, the full scope of the publicly available, relevant social media posts that shine light on Petersen’s human trafficking investigation and her death in Haiti. As can be clearly seen in these online postings, some of the key people involved in these communications, were decidedly left-wing, social justice-oriented activists, not the sort of people you could label as right-wing, pro-Trump QAnon conspiricists. Facebook posts about Monica Petersen’s death were shared predominately on right-wing, pro-Trump message boards and other social media sites after her death in November 2016. However, just because these messages were shared mostly on these kinds of sites, does not change the content of the messages themselves, nor the background of the activists who posted the messages. The subsequent media silence about the circumstances of Petersen’s death, may speak volumes about the level of criminality against the people of Haiti Monica Petersen was seeking to expose.

Background about Monica Petersen

According to her obituary, Monica Petersen worked as a Research Fellow and Assistant to the Director of the Human Trafficking Center (HTC) at the University of Denver. Petersen officially passed away in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on November 13th, 2016. The Human Trafficking Center graduate program provides “the only two-year graduate level training program in forced labor, human trafficking, and international migration issues in the U.S.” Monica Petersen was born and raised in Ames, Iowa, her life growing up included active involvement with her local 4-H club, and many school activities. She received a bachelors degree in Anthropology from Western State College of Colorado, and in 2014, Petersen received a Masters Degree in International Development with a concentration in Human Trafficking from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, at the University of Denver. The Human Trafficking Center, for whom Petersen also worked, is a part of the larger Josef Korbel School of International Studies. (**Very important update: according to the Human Trafficking Center’s Facebook page, the Human Trafficking Center permanently shut down at the University of Denver as of June 2021. Also very notably, according to the HTC’s statement about its closing on its Facebook page, there is a description of all of the HTC’s academic accomplishments over a nearly 20 year period of operation at the U. of Denver. But at the same time, within the statement there is no explanation for why the decision was made to shut the Human Trafficking Center program down, other than that the Korbel School “decided to close” the program).

Considering that Petersen’s Masters Degree had a focus on human trafficking studies, it is safe to say that she must have taken many classes that were part of the Human Trafficking Center curriculum, and knew quite a bit about the HTC, before 2014. Petersen worked with many social justice-oriented groups during her life, including the Social Wellness Advocacy Network, the Colorado Human Trafficking Council, and the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking. She gave an academic presentation about women victims of human trafficking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her social media postings show that Petersen had a significant academic history researching and combating human trafficking, and was also involved in social justice activism like advocating for the rights of sex workers. In 2014, Petersen wrote a blog post for the Human Trafficking Center blog, titled “Root Causes and Contradictions of the Displaced Youth along the U.S./Mexico Border.” In the post, Petersen talked in detail about how “free trade” polices instituted in Central America, and throughout the world, have contributed enormously to increased inequality between the US and Central America and other third world countries, and greatly increased global poverty. As Petersen wrote, this “break-down” in society in Central America has allowed an illegal “informal” economy of gangs and crime to flourish, and horrifically this has contributed greatly to increased child trafficking from Central American countries. Petersen clearly had a deep level of knowledge about economics and global politics, and their impact on human trafficking activities throughout the world. None of this background “fits” with the “QAnon narrative” pushed by our mainstream news constantly now, to say the very least. Before Petersen’s death, she appeared on a podcast about human trafficking and sex workers, hosted by Chris Sowa titled “Fighting the Trafficking Narrative from Alaska to Rhode Island.” By all accounts, Monica Petersen was committed to investigating and reporting on human trafficking and other social injustices up until the end of her life.

At the time of Petersen’s death in November 2016, the Director of the Human Trafficking Center was Professor Claude d’Estree. The 2016 Post article about Petersen’s death, quotes d’Estree as saying the following about Petersen’s death and time before that: “[d’Estree] had employed Petersen until June [2016] as a researcher and as his assistant, after which she moved to Haiti. He said she had been teaching at private pre-kindergarten-through-12 school, Union School Haiti, mainly to support herself, and had been exploring setting up a nongovernmental organization in Haiti. He said she committed suicide but the circumstances are not clear. d’Estree said Petersen had gone to Haiti a number of times, but she was not there to research human trafficking and was not investigating the Clinton Foundation. He said she had been a “brilliant” research fellow, working the past two years to produce a still unpublished article that critiqued a controversial book on the business of sex trafficking by Siddharth Kara.”
However, even within the 2016 Post article, Monica Petersen’s own Facebook post contradicts d’Estree’s claim that she was not in Haiti to investigate human trafficking. Later on in the same article, Kessler references a group of Facebook posts, one of which is a post Monica Petersen herself wrote in August 2015. In the post, Petersen says, “I’m down in Haiti for the next 3 wks doing fieldwork on human trafficking (i.e. ALL exploited labor sectors, not just sex).” It is true that Petersen took another trip to Haiti in 2016, so in fairness maybe d’Estree is saying that Petersen was not investigating human trafficking on Petersen’s particular trip to Haiti in late 2016, when Monica Petersen died. Still, why was d’Estree not clear about this in the Post article, and why would he at least not mention anything about what Petersen was doing on her 2015 trip to Haiti, when she clearly was investigating human trafficking?

However, this is just the beginning. What I think can be clearly seen in Glenn Kessler’s Post article, is that he very obviously only references certain Facebook posts about Petersen, her time in Haiti and her death. He clearly does not reference a number of other Facebook posts that are publicly viewable about Monica Petersen. The specific posts that Kessler very clearly omits from his article, just so happen to do with Petersen’s investigation into the Clinton-sponsored Caracol textile factory in northern Haiti, and how her death may possibly be related to this investigation. Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation were heavily involved in financing and otherwise supporting the construction and operation of the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti, near the city of Cap-Haïtien. Caracol Industrial Park is a textile production factory that went into business in 2012.

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A well-known picture shows Bill and Hillary Clinton posing with a large group of Haitian workers and factory managers at the Caracol Industrial Park for its inauguration ceremony in October 2012. A 2015 report from Politico stated that the Clintons “were instrumental at nearly every step” in the creation of the Caracol Industrial Park. As the BBC reported in 2016, the main employer at the Caracol factory is the South Korean textile corporate giant Sae-A Trading Co. The Caracol textile factory produces clothes for US Big Box retailers like Walmart, Target and Old Navy. Perhaps not coincidentally at all, after Sae-A got its contract to start producing clothing at Caracol, the corporation subsequently donated between $50,000 and $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation. A major disappointment with the Caracol factory, at least one that is publicly known, is that the total number of jobs created at the factory has fallen far short of initial projections. Bill Clinton said that Caracol would create 100,000 jobs “in short order,” but as of 2019, Sae-A Trading employed only about 13,000 workers at the Caracol factory complex, most of whom are female textile workers.
By far the most significant of the Facebook posts Kessler does NOT mention, is a January 4th, 2016 Facebook Post shared by Bella Robinson, a social justice activist from Rhode Island who was a friend of Monica Petersen. In the post, Robinson quotes Monica Petersen giving a “report” or “travel update” about her visit to Haiti. As shocking as it is to say, Robinson quotes Monica Petersen as stating the following about her visit in Haiti:

1.) She personally went to the Caracol Industrial Park in Haiti to investigate working conditions of the plant’s workers.
2.) She personally heard of and was possibly actively investigating claims of human trafficking happening at the Clinton Foundation-sponsored Caracol Industrial Park in Haiti.

Again, here is the Facebook Post (archived link HERE): In Bella Robinson’s Facebook post (from January 4th, 2016) quoting Monica Petersen, Petersen states the following: “Caracol is a garment exporting zone, a field site I visited in August to check out the conditions of the workers (conclusion: working conditions okay, working wages too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti.)”
Later on towards the end of the same social media post by Monica Petersen, Petersen says the following: “..the real significance of this scandal for me […] is the link to contemporary slavery and trafficking. I can’t say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton’s Caraol [sic] Complex.” This Facebook post was clearly only shared by Bella Robinson to her own group of friends on Facebook.
As obviously shocking as it is to hear allegations of actual human trafficking occurring at a Clinton Foundation-sponsored textile sweatshop in Haiti, Kessler’s 2016 Post article indeed confirmed that Bella Robinson knew Monica Petersen, and confirms the authenticity of at least one of Bella Robinson’s Facebook posts quoting Monica Petersen’s “report” of her trip to Haiti. In the Post article, Monica Petersen is named as an “acquaintance” of Robinson. Additionally, Kessler’s article states that “…Bella Robinson, a sex worker and activist in Rhode Island in January [2016] had posted a blog post that Petersen had shared on Facebook that had been critical of the Clinton Foundation’s work in Haiti.” Very very significantly, the Washington Post here does in fact acknowledge that Bella Robinson was sharing actual social media posts by Monica Petersen through her own Facebook posts.

Bella Robinson is a Rhode Island-based social justice activist, sex worker rights activist, and sex worker. She is the Executive Director of “COYOTE RI,” a support organization for current and former sex workers and trafficking victims. She is also a founding member of the “AMOR Network,” which describes itself as “an alliance of grassroots organizations, providing community support in Rhode Island and southern New England for victims of hate crimes and state-sponsored violence.” In addition, Robinson has a scholarly background investigating and writing about sex worker rights’ issues as well as sex trafficking. Her and Professor Elena Shih, an American and Ethnic studies Professor at Brown University, co-wrote a research paper titled “Organizing under Criminalization: Policing and Sex Worker’s Rights in Rhode Island.” In the paper, Robinson and Shih discuss the history of de-criminalization and re-criminalization of sex work in the state of Rhode Island, and the impact re-criminalization has had on the lives of sex workers in the state. Rhode Island de-criminalized prostitution for 30 years and re-criminalized it in 2009. Robinson and Professor Shih also have conducted research surveys where they interviewed sex workers in Rhode Island, and sex workers nation-wide, in order to try to better understand “the realities of consensual sex work and sex trafficking in the US.” The nation-wide survey Robinson and Shih conducted interviewed 1,494 sex workers. Professor Shih herself teaches courses in human trafficking, labor migration and sex work, amongst many other subjects at Brown University. Shih also serves on the Board of Directors of Robinson’s “COYOTE RI” organization. Bella Robinson clearly has a background both in researching and writing about the nature of sex trafficking and sex work, at an academic level. After Monica Petersen’s death in November 2016, many of Robinson’s Facebook posts concerning Petersen and her death in Haiti were shared or linked to across various right-wing, pro-Trump/QAnon message boards and websites. People critical of Robinson might try to say she is affiliated with the QAnon “movement” and therefore dismiss what she posted. However, Robinson’s background indicates a long involvement with left-leaning, social justice-oriented activism, amongst other information that does not suggest anything of her being affiliated with the “QAnon crowd.” It is clearly very hard to dismiss her social media posts as yet another QAnon “rant.” The same exact thing can be said about Monica Petersen. Monica Petersen passed away in Haiti in 2016, obviously before the current “QAnon craze” took hold. Petersen clearly had a very well-established academic and activist background researching and investigating human trafficking. Yet again, none of this fits into the “QAnon narrative” at all.

Despite this, the entire focus of Kessler’s 2016 Post article (titled “‘Pizzagate’ rumors falsely link death of sex-worker advocate to nonexistent Clinton probe”) is a “debunking job” against the supposed conspiracy theories that Petersen’s death had anything to do with the Clintons. In his Post article, Kessler states that after Petersen’s death in November 2016, the blog post that Robinson posted on Facebook quoting Monica Petersen the past January, was shared in a Reddit discussion thread and went viral. Kessler states that after the blog post went viral, “This then resulted in a flurry of “news stories” falsely claiming that Petersen had written the blog post and was killed for investigating the Clintons.” Kessler then quotes Robinson responding to her post going viral, quoting her as saying, “Some guy from Reddit found an old Facebook post on the Clintons and screen shot it and tagged it in this, and even after I confirmed that her death had nothing to do with the Clintons, he made up stories that the family couldn’t get answers.” Kessler quotes Robinson as saying that her comments “were taken out of context, and that she was actually trying to end the speculation.” Kessler further quotes Robinson as saying that,”Monica Petersen’s death is a PRIVATE family matter and it had nothing to do with the Clinton scandal. “ Here is the blog post linked to from the Kessler’s 2016 Washington Post article:
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This post contains a total of 4 social media posts about Monica Petersen. The Post-linked imgur site contains two November 2016 Facebook posts from the University of Denver Human Trafficking Center (Petersen’s employer), and the “Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking”, both of which announced and discussed the recent death of Monica Petersen. There is also an August 15th, 2015 Facebook post from Monica Petersen herself, where she discusses her upcoming trip to Haiti in 2015, stating: “I’m down in Haiti for the next 3 wks doing fieldwork on human trafficking (i.e. ALL exploited labor sectors, not just sex)[…]”. Finally, the Post-linked imgur site contains a January 3rd, 2016 Facebook post from Bella Robinson quoting Monica Petersen. In this post, Monica Petersen discusses the upcoming Haitian Presidential elections, and Petersen discusses the Clinton’s alleged corruption in Haiti. Probably NOT coincidentally at all, this particular Jan. 3rd, 2016 post from Petersen does NOT make reference AT ALL to human trafficking.[/url]
However, in Bella Robinson’s Jan. 4th, 2016 Facebook post (link is HERE) posted on Facebook the very next day, Petersen clearly states that “human trafficking” was allegedly occurring at the Clinton’s Caracol Industrial Park. It does not take a genius to figure out that Glenn Kessler, clearly deliberately chose to feature in his Post article the Petersen Facebook post that did not report alleged human trafficking at the Caracol complex, and blatantly ignores the post by Petersen where she clearly states that “human trafficking” is happening at Caracol Industrial Park (which again was posted on Facebook literally the next day.)

If you think this reeks of a completely blatant and obviously selective omission of factual information on Glenn Kessler’s part as a journalist, to say the very least, as horrible as it is to say, this is just the beginning. One thing I immediately noticed when I did a Google news search query for “Monica Petersen.” As of February 2021, Glenn Kessler’s Washington Post article about Monica Petersen was literally the only mainstream news article about Petersen’s death I could find anywhere from any remotely “mainstream” news agency. I mean anywhere. I could not find another article about Monica Petersen’s death from any other news agency other than the Washington Post. (If I am wrong about this, please tell me). I could not even find an article in the Denver Post, Petersen’s hometown paper at the time of her death. Just looking at the absolute absence of any other mainstream reporting about Petersen’s death, I cannot help but feel that there has to be some kind of orchestrated “clamp-down” on information in regards to Petersen’s death.
Also very strikingly: one thing should be immediately noted about Glenn Kessler’s past employment history: as Kessler’s Wikipedia page notes, in his job duties as a journalist he “… traveled with three different Secretaries of State- Colin Powell, Condeleeza Rice, and Hillary Clinton — and for several years wrote a blog about his experiences on these trips.” Glenn Kessler, the author of the only news article about Monica Petersen’s death from any mainstream news source pretty much anywhere, also just so happens to be the…. former personal travel companion to and blog writer for Hillary Clinton herself!!

If this does not reek even deeper of massive conflict of interest and journalistic malpractice, it yet again gets worse. I will return to Kessler’s Post article later, but first I think it is most important to do what the Post clearly does not: provide archived links and descriptions of all the Monica Petersen-related social media posts I could find on the internet that had information relevant to her death and time spent in Haiti. I present these posts in chronological order, as best as I can discern their chronological order. From 2015 to roughly November 2016, both Bella Robinson, quotes from Monica Petersen in Robinson’s posts, as well as Facebook comments from Petersen’s friends shortly after her death, shed light on deeply troubling information about Petersen’s time in Haiti as well as her death there, to say the very least. As will be clearly seen, Kessler’s December 2016 Post article references almost none of the highly relevant information that is publicly available. The fact that Kessler published this article in the Post in December 2016, after all this information was publicly viewable on social media, denies any excuse that he did not have access to this information.

Time Line of Monica Petersen-Related Facebook Posts
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8/15/2015 Post:
Personal Facebook post from Monica Petersen herself. Kessler does reference this post in his 2016 article. In this post, Petersen is asking some questions to an unknown Facebook page she recently joined. Petersen states that she is visiting Haiti “… for the next 3 wks doing fieldwork on human trafficking (i.e. All exploited labor sectors, NOT just sex). She describes herself as a “social anthropologist who wants to do solid research on [human trafficking].” Petersen says that as part of her field research, she is seeking to work with sex worker rights organizations in Haiti that are truly “pro-sex worker orgs,” and not what she considers to be “sex trafficking savior” organizations seeking to “rescue” sex workers. She goes on to say “rescuing people” is a “stupid & imperialist concept.” Bella Robinson responds to Petersen’s post, suggesting she look into one such organization she might want to work with in Haiti, the “American Jewish World Service.” Petersen then thanks Robinson on the message thread, saying that she was searching for their office or their representatives in Haiti while she herself was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but that she could not yet find them and was trying to reach them.

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1/03/2016 Post:
Kessler’s Post article states that Robinson posted this in January 2016. Kessler does reference this particular post in his 2016 article. Robinson’s Facebook post quoting Monica Petersen. As stated previously, Petersen discusses the Clinton’s alleged corruption in Haiti, specifically she states her belief that the Clintons planed to “loot” Haiti for gold and work in some conjunction with groups from the Dominican Republic to accomplish this purpose. Petersen also speculates that a partner of Haitian President Michel Martelly (who she calls “Martelly’s guy”) is going to steal the upcoming Haitian Presidential Election, and speculates that the Clintons’ alleged gold mining “plans” were going to be responsible for the steal. Also very significantly, Monica Petersen refers to her Masters Thesis from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, of which the Human Trafficking Center, for whom she also worked, is a part of. Petersen says her Thesis focuses on researching “modern structural slavery,” and “disaster capitalism.”

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1/04/2016 Post:
Bella Robinson’s post quoting Petersen’s “report” from Haiti. Glenn Kessler DOES NOT refer at all to this specific post in his 2016 Post article. This is the specific Facebook post where Petersen says that human trafficking is happening through the Clinton’s Caracol Industrial Park. From the beginning of the post, it is clear Petersen is back in Haiti doing field work like on her previous 2015 trip. In her post, Petersen continues to describe her investigation into Clinton-related corruption in Haiti. Petersen discusses the Morne Bossa gold mine in the north of Haiti. The North Carolina-based VCS mining company, on which Clinton’s brother Tony Rodham sat on the board, got the permit to mine gold at the Morne Bossa mine in 2012. In the post, Petersen describes how the Clintons may have allegedly worked with the Haitian Presidential Administration of Michel Martelly, in a “crony” manner, to attempt to begin mining gold at Morne Bossa in 2012. As Petersen also describes, the Clinton Foundation established the Caracol Industrial Park at the same exact time in 2012, and Caracol is fairly close to the Morne Bossa mine. Petersen speculates whether the Clintons may have had some ulterior motive for establishing the Caracol textile factory and beginning mining gold at Morne Bossa at the same time, wondering if it was just “easy money” for the Clintons or if there was something more to it.

It is very important to point out here that this January 4 2016 Facebook post quoting Monica Petersen, contains very significant information about her activities in Haiti that closely corroborates what Petersen is quoted as saying in Kessler’s 2016 Washington Post article, in Petersen’s August 15 2015 Facebook post referenced in his article. Very significantly, in the January 4 2016 post, Petersen states that she visited the Caracol Industrial Park in 2015, saying the following: “Caracol is a garment exporting zone, a field site I visited in August [2015] to check out the conditions of the workers (conclusion: working conditions okay, working wages too low & below contracts & legal minimum wage in Haiti).” This very closely matches with what Petersen stated in her own Facebook post dated August 15 2015 (as referenced by the Washington Post), where she said: “I’m down in Haiti for the next 3 wks doing fieldwork on human trafficking (i.e. ALL exploited labor sectors, not just sex)”. There is clearly corroboration from both these Facebook posts, that Petersen was actively investigating human trafficking in Haiti and that she personally visited the Caracol complex sometime in August 2015. From these posts, we know that Petersen states that she intended to investigate a potentially wide range of human trafficking activities occurring in Haiti (i.e., across “ALL exploited labor sectors”). It therefore clearly makes sense that as Petersen herself is quoted as saying, she would go and talk with textile workers at the Caracol complex, since the textile export industry across Haiti is notorious for its incredibly exploited, low-wage workforce. So again, there is very significant corroboration of information regarding Monica Petersen’s activities in Haiti, from both Petersen’s August 2015 Facebook post, and this January 4 2016 Facebook post quoting her less than half a year later. This in my opinion, provides very significant evidence to support the validity of Petersen’s comments quoted in Robinson’s January 4 2016 Facebook post presented here. Again, Glenn Kessler quite conspicuously neglects to mention at all this January 4 Facebook post in his Washington Post article.

Petersen states that the main buyers for Caracol’s garment exports are Gap, Target and Wal-Mart, all of which are corporations Petersen states are “linked” to the Clintons. Petersen states that “family money, not local livelihoods” were motivating the Clintons to develop the Caracol garment factory. Petersen goes on to discuss how she believes that Hillary Clinton, in her role as Secretary of State,”ensured” that Michel Martelly won the “rigged” Haitian Presidential elections in 2010, and that the Clintons wanted Martelly’s “hand-picked successor” to win the 2016 election. Petersen states that the Clintons wanted Martelly’s successor government to allow Tony Rodham’s VCS Mining to begin mining at Morne Bossa. Petersen also states that the time period of mining activity at Morne Bossa “oddly corresponds” to the first and second coups against Haitian President Aristide. Petersen discusses the lack of an assessment of the environmental risks of mining at Morne Bossa, warning about the threat mining at Morne Bossa posed to farmers and the surrounding ecosystem. Petersen states that regardless of the actual amount of mineral wealth available in Haiti, the Clintons viewed Haiti as just another third world country to exploit: “a couple billion here, there, everywhere adds up.”

Most crucially, towards the end of her post, Petersen states the following: “I can’t say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton’s Caraol [sic] complex. And mining has always been historically linked to trafficking, slavery and labor exploitation.” Petersen goes on to speculate about the nature of the workforce at the nearby Morne Bossa mine, believing that Dominicans were most likely the contracted managers at the mine, and Haitian workers were most likely being exploited as laborers at the mine as “low or no cost” labor. Petersen states at the end of her post: “That’s two huge human trafficking scandals, an environmental degradation scandal, a social displacement scandal, a Presidential election scandal, a scandal with billions in unaccounted for earthquake aid…all leading back to the Clintons racist cronyism in Haiti.” Significantly, Petersen specifically mentions two human trafficking scandals, but in this post, and from what I can find on social media, Petersen only specifically made claims about human trafficking happening at the Caracol factory in Haiti. So if Petersen said “two huge human trafficking scandals” were occurring in Haiti that linked back to the Clintons, where else could the other alleged human trafficking be happening in Haiti??

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November 2016 Post:
Personal Facebook post from Bella Robinson. Kessler DOES NOT refer at all to this specific post in his 2016 Post article. Robinson posted this in the comments section of the “My favorite abolitionist” Facebook group, a pro-sex worker and pro-LGBT Facebook group, soon after Petersen’s death in November 2016. Robinson posted the following, “RIP Monica Petersen: It seems that Monica was in Haiti investigating the Clintons possible ties to a pedophile ring. Monica family hasn’t been able to get any straight answers about her death.”

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November 2016 Post:
What appears to be Bella Robinson on Facebook, is commenting with another unknown poster. Kessler does NOT reference this Facebook post in his 2016 article. Robinson’s name and profile picture is partially “smudged out” but part of her distinctive Facebook profile picture and a chunk of her name can be seen in the photo. An unknown Facebook poster asks Robinson questions about Petersen’s recent death. Petersen responds, saying, “All I know is she committed suicide and she left a note. I don’t know the cause of death or anything else. I can’t even find any public record of media that mentions her death other then her own FB page, and redditt, and a few spin offs.” Robinson goes on to give details to the other poster about Petersen’s upcoming memorial service at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, on November 18th, 2016.

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November 2016 Post:
Personal Facebook post from Bella Robinson, posted sometime after Petersen’s death in November 2016. Kessler does NOT reference this Facebook post in his 2016 article. Robinson shares a Reddit discussion thread about Monica’s Petersen’s death on Facebook. One of her friends comments, asking, “How credible the Reddit link and discussion? Robinson responds, saying, “I found out what happened, and if you message me I will explain. I don’t think it is appropriate to post what I know in public.”

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November 2016 Post:
This Facebook post is a discussion thread about Petersen’s recent death on the Human Trafficking Center Facebook page, posted shortly after Petersen’s death. Kessler does NOT reference this Facebook post in his 2016 article. In the discussion thread, a poster states: “The alt.right and faux news site went nuts today, hinting that Clinton had [Monica Petersen] killed for investigating her. Please, can you or the family issue a statement to stop this inane conspiracy garbage?” In the thread, the Human Trafficking Center then responds to this poster, saying, “It’s actually best to ignore them. It will only feed the flames of their craziness.” However, in the very same discussion thread, another poster, claiming to be a childhood friend of Monica Petersen, says the following: “[Monica] was my classmate growing up and I got word she was murdered. A statement would be nice so rumors do not swirl.” Another poster on the thread comments,”I sincerely hope you were able to get hold of [Petersen’s] notes…. you may get some answers from them…”]]> <![CDATA[Greta Van Susteren: Legal "Fixer" in Franklin Scandal, & Samaritan's Purse]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=16225 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 22:13:21 +0000 George Williams]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=16225 **Surviveandheal15 Lives On!!**
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie

(*Author's Note: This is NOT a QAnon Article. The author does not believe in QAnon AT ALL)

I want to connect some dots people might not know about. I would like to start out by talking about the Laura Silsby human trafficking scandal that occurred in Haiti in 2010, and the scandal's connections, as crazy as it is to say, to both the Clintons and to media mogul Greta Van Susteren. Laura Silsby was a supposed Baptist "missionary" from Idaho who bizarrely got caught trying to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti after the horrific January 2010 earthquake that occurred there. Once Silsby and the other "Christian missionaries" she was associated with were under arrest in Haiti for this alleged human trafficking, an "attorney" by the name of Jorge Torres-Puello mysteriously showed up in the Dominican Republic to provide legal defense for Silsby and her missionary associates. Bizarrely, soon after Puello started providing this legal help to Silsby and her partners, Puello was arrested and accused of being a human trafficker himself!  

The 2010 Laura Silsby Human Trafficking Case in Haiti, and the Clintons

To make any sense of this bizarre (and extremely under-reported) story, it is very important to turn to a research article in the Harvard Human Rights Journal by Professor Shani King, a Law School Professor at University of Florida Levin College of Law. Professor King's article sheds light on the criminality of Jorge Puello, Laura Silsby's attorney, and also sheds light on the Clinton's involvement in helping Silsby and her "missionary" co-conspirators get their charges for human abduction and criminal association, both criminal charges under Haitian law, either dismissed or greatly reduced. Shani King's article states in the first week of February 2010, a few weeks after Haiti's horrendous 2010 earthquake, Bill Clinton arrived in Haiti to begin co-ordinating relief efforts, but that one of his first tasks "..was to put out the fire of a child abduction scandal involving American citizens." I think it is very worth it to quote at length from King's article about the legal and ethical shadiness of both Laura Silsby's own personal background, and of her supposed "child rescue" operation in Haiti and the Dominican Republic:

''On January 29, 2010, less than three weeks after the earthquake, Haitian authorities arrested ten U.S. Baptist missionaries for attempting to take 33 children by bus across the border into the Dominican Republic without proper documentation. A week later, the missionaries were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association. While the missionaries claimed good intentions and ignorance of Haitian laws, Haitian prosecutors argued that there had been intentional wrongdoing. In the course of a month, President Clinton brokered the release of all the missionaries, except for the group leader, Laura Silsby.

While Laura Silsby awaited trial, the press brought to light several facts that raised serious suspicions about her intent to traffic or smuggle the children as part of a grey adoption scheme. In 2009, Silsby visited Haiti with the stated intent to establish an orphanage. At the time, Silsby faced numerous court cases in the U.S. for bad debt and unpaid wages. In November 2009, she registered her New Life Children’s Refuge charity at an address in Boise, Idaho, and a month later the house was repossessed for lack of payment. In the midst of her personal debt crisis, the January earthquake struck Haiti, and Silsby organized a mission to “gather 100 orphans from the streets” of Haiti and take them to a shelter in the Dominican Republic. The children would be housed in a leased hotel because Silsby’s purported charity did not yet manage an orphanage or own any property in the Dominican Republic. U.S. authorities later stated that New Life Children’s Refuge was not listed as a U.S. nonprofit or as a U.S. international adoption agency. In March, after her arrest, evidence was introduced in Silsby’s case showing that on January 26, 2010, she had previously attempted to take a different group of 40 children across the border. Haitian and Dominican authorities turned her away for lack of authorizing documents. Three days later she attempted to cross over with the second group—the 33 children— again without proper documentation.

After the earthquake, the Haitian government tried to crack down on unauthorized adoptions to avoid child trafficking. In addition, the Dominican consul in Haiti had personally warned Silsby that she lacked the necessary paperwork to take children out of the country and risked arrest. On March 17, 2010, after careful verification of identities by the Social Welfare Ministry of Haiti, 32 out of the 33 children were returned to their families (the last one being returned shortly thereafter), thus confirming that none of the children were orphans.''

So Shani King's research clearly shows, amongst many other things, the extreme sketchiness and legal irresponsibility of Laura's Silsby's "religious" organization, the "New Life Children's Refugee." After all, Silsby literally registered her "church" at a house in Boise Idaho that was repossessed by the bank the next month! But as King goes on to document, things take a seriously darker turn, when you look at the association between Laura Silsby and her own attorney, Jorge Torres-Puello. As it turns out, Puello was an alleged human trafficker at the time of Haitian earthquake, and is now a convicted human trafficker! As King writes:

''Suspicions about Silsby’s intent to smuggle or traffic the children to the Dominican Republic further increased, when on March 19, 2010, Silsby’s legal advisor—Jorge Torres-Puello, an American-Dominican living in the Dominican Republic as a fugitive—was arrested and accused of human trafficking. U.S. authorities revealed that Torres-Puello was “linked to a network that trafficked in Haitian and Central American children and [was] wanted in the United States, El Salvador and Costa Rica.” His wife was already imprisoned in El Salvador and “faced charges of presumed sexual exploitation of minors and women.”

Despite Silsby’s stated intent to take the children over the border to an unauthorized orphanage and her connections to human traffickers such as Torres-Puello, the courts eventually dropped the kidnapping and criminal association charges against her. Silsby was instead convicted under the additional charge of organizing illegal travel, sentenced to time served (3 months and 8 days), and released on May 17, 2010. In the end, her sentence was based on the least polemic charge against her. The pressing issue—whether Silsby intended to deliver the children into trafficking rings or grey adoption markets—was not addressed or resolved.'' Jorge Puello himself was later extradited to the US where he was tried and convicted in Federal Court of alien smuggling charges and sentenced to over 3 years in prison. 

A New York Times article about the human trafficking charges against Jorge Puello, also reveals some highly disturbing information regarding Puello. Of note in the article, the Haitian Judge presiding over the kidnapping cases against Silsby and her fellow missionaries, claimed that when Jorge Puello showed up in Haiti to represent Silsby and her cohorts, he was accompanied by four bodyguards, which seems rather unusual for someone supposedly just trying to help out Christian missionaries who were just trying to do their part to help Haitian children. In fact, the Judge stated, "I was skeptical of [Puello] because he arrived with four bodyguards, and I have never seen that from a lawyer," the judge said in an interview. "I plan to get to the bottom of this right away." In addition, the Times article also states that another lawyer who was also supposedly in Haiti to represent Silsby and the other missionaries, had "... already been dismissed after being accused of trying to offer bribes to get the 10 Americans out of jail." Accusations of bribes to "bust" Silsby and her co-defendants out of jail in Haiti ... another "lawyer" accompanied by multiple shadowy bodyguards who turns out to be a human trafficker himself... you don't have to be too cynical to see that none of this bodes well for just passing this all off as some kind of "honest mistake" by Silsby and her co-conspirators.

To wrap up some extremely important facts about all this: after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Haitian authorities from Haiti's Social Welfare Ministry confirmed that none of the 33 children Silsby and her organization were transporting were in fact orphans. According to this Reuters article re-printed in one of Wikileak's document releases from the Stratfor Security Firm, ''[Jorge Puello] was arrested in the Dominican Republic's capital on a warrant issued by Interpol, the international police organization. U.S. and Dominican Republic authorities had been looking for Puello after El Salvador officials said they suspected him of being involved in running a human trafficking ring that recruited Central American and Caribbean women and girls and forced them to work as prostitutes." And despite all of this, Bill Clinton still got himself directly involved in the Silsby case, by himself "brokering" the release of all the arrested Haitian missionaries except Silsby, who herself only served a minimal sentence and was herself never charged with more serious "kidnapping and criminal association" charges.

Additional evidence that the Clinton's took the handling of the Laura Silsby case very seriously, is provided by Wikileaks. In Wikileaks release of Hillary's emails while she was Secretary of State, one of the released emails is a February 9th 2010 email from Harold Hongju Koh, then Legal Adviser to the State Dept, and former Dean of Yale Law School. The email is from Koh directly to Hillary Clinton, and is cc'ed to Cheryl Mills, Hillary's Chief of Staff at the State Dept., Hillary's Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan, and to PJ Crowley, then Assistant Secretary of State under Hillary. The email is nearly 3 pages and is nearly completely redacted, but from the beginning of the email we can tell that Legal advisor Koh must be giving Hillary, and her top staffers at the State Dept, legal "options" for the US Goverment's dealing with Laura Silsby and the other American citizen "missionaries" who were detained along with her in Haiti. Presumably, considering that all these American citizens except for Silsby, were swiftly released soon after Bill Clinton's documented "involvement" in the Silsby case in Haiti, is it safe to assume that Koh's email to Hillary, must be going into some detail about the different legal options for getting Silsby and her fellow "missionaries" released?

The Greta Van Susteren Fox News Interview with Human Trafficker Jorge Puello

As it turns out, the Clintons were not the only ones who turn up having a very strange "involvement" with the Laura Sisby/Jorge Puello trafficking case in Haiti. Longtime cable news star Greta Van Susteren actually did a Fox News TV interview with none other than Laura Silsby's personal attorney Jorge Puello himself, right during the middle of this whole controversy!

On February 2nd, 2010, Fox New's Greta Van Susteren did a "soft-ball" type interview with Jorge Puello about the Silsby case. (Link to rush transcript of interview, and link to video of interview) Bizarrely, the interview occurred only a little over a month before Puello himself was arrested in the Dominican Republic on child sex trafficking charges on March 19th, 2010. In the very brief and strange interview, Van Susteren just asked very basic questions to Puello about how Silsby found the children, and what she intended to do with them after leaving Haiti. Jorge Puello said the children came from an orphanage that collapsed in the earthquake, and Silsby was trying to take the children "to a temporary facility so they could be taken care of," providing no further details, and Van Susteren asked no follow-up. Van Susteren did not address any of the reports that at least some of the children actually were not orphans, and had families in Haiti. Jorge's final statement in the interview was "There was no intention to do anything illegal." Van Susteren than replied "Jorge, thank you, and keep us informed.", and the interview abruptly ended.

Van Susteren and the “Franklin” Child Sex Trafficking Scandal of the 80s

Only 9 days after Van Susteran's interview with Puello, on February 11th, 2010, the New York Times reported that police in El Salvador were investigating Jorge Puello for leading a sex trafficking ring. The fact that Van Susteren did this weird little interview with Puello only days before news of his sex trafficking allegations got dropped in mainstream news, was a big red flag to me. Journalist and independent investigator Nick Bryant wrote a really important book based on his investigation of the "Franklin Cover-up" pedophile scandal in the '80s called the "Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal." (Here is a link to an article about the book on the Counterpunch site). For those who don't know about the Franklin Scandal, it was a huge scandal in the 80s involving major allegations that political and business powerbrokers in Washington DC and Omaha, Nebraska were systematically trafficking and abusing children, and using them in sexual blackmail operations to ensnare politicians and other powerful figures. Watch Discovery Channels' unaired documentary "Conspiracy of Silence" for more info.YouTube

Nick Bryant revealed in his investigation of the Franklin cover-up that Greta Van Susteren was the lawyer for Henry Vinson, who was a key figure in this whole scandal. Henry Vinson is a West Virginia-based businessman who in the early 1990s was tried and convicted for operating a male prostitution ring in Washington DC, that supplied adult-age gay male prostitutes to powerful DC political figures. Additionally, Nick Bryant and Henry Vinson co-wrote a 2015 book called "DC Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies & Blackmail," that goes into extensive detail about Henry Vinson's involvement with a DC sex trafficking ring. As Nick Bryant documented in his book “The Franklin Scandal,” and as thoroughly documented in Bryant & Vinson's "DC Madam" book, Henry Vinson, through the operation of his prostitution ring, became directly involved with two key alleged abuse perpetrators in the "Franklin Scandal": Larry King and Craig Spence. Again, as documented in Bryants' and Vinsons' books, Larry King (full name Lawrence E. King) and Craig Spence were extremely well-connected political powerbrokers, who were both accused by multiple underage children and teenagers of operating a major underage sex trafficking ring that supplied children to powerful figures in both the Omaha, NE and Washington DC areas, and used them in blackmailing operations. Lawrence E. King was, for a time in the 80s, a bank director in Omaha and extremely well-connected to the state and national Republican party. The bank King managed was the "Franklin Credit Union" in Omaha NE, hence the name of the scandal. Henry Vinson specifically describes Craig Spence as some kind of "CIA asset." As documented in Byrant and Vinson's research, Spence was for a time in the 80s a well-connected DC lobbyist, who owned a private mansion in Kalorama, a very upscale suburb of Washington, DC. Henry Vinson specifically alleges that as part of his pimping business, on many occasions he sent adult-age male prostitutes to what he describes as "orgies" at Spence's Kalorama mansion. Vinson also alleges that on at least some occasions, male prostitutes who worked for Vinson told him afterward that underage children were present at at least some of these alleged orgies at the Kalorama mansion. So there are allegations from both Vinson, and the adult age prostitutes working for him at the time, that trafficking and sexual abuse of underage minors occurred at the Kalorama mansion in D.C.

As documented in Henry Vinson's "DC Madam" book, and in "The Franklin Scandal," Vinson claims that his operation only supplied adult-age male prostitutes. However, Vinson further claims that as his prostitution ring grew, Craig Spence got in touch with Vinson, and started paying huge sums of money to Vinson for his adult-age prostitutes. Craig Spence allegedly used the adult prostitutes "supplied" by Vinson for his very own "network," that allegedly supplied prostitutes to some incredibly powerful names in politics, business, and the media in the 1980s.

After Craig Spences's introduction to Henry Vinson, Vinson then claims that things took an unbelievably darker turn. Vinson claims that Craig Spence, acting in partnership with major Franklin Scandal abuser Lawrence E King, tried to convince Vinson to start pimping underage children as part of his operation. Vinson claims that on one particular occasion, Vinson went to Craig Spence's Kalorama mansion, where inside, he was introduced to Lawrence E King himself. Vinson then claims that Spence and King asked him to sit down with them, and had a conversation with him that started out seemingly innocuous, but then turned to the absolutely horrifying. In Vinson's own words:

''Spence struck me as extremely smart and also very manipulative. He was a morass of arrogance and extreme narcissism that I had never encountered before. He indeed believed that he resided at the center of the universe, and I was merely a pawn in his grandiose game of chess. Spence certainly didn’t impart a warm and fuzzy feeling during our initial meeting. In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Gloucester and Edgar have a dialogue, and Edgar declares that the “Prince of Darkness is a gentleman.” As I departed Spence’s home that day, I felt like I had just met the Prince of Darkness.

Spence continued to phone me almost everyday, and about a month after our initial meeting he again summoned me to his home. I was met at the door by one his security personnel, who escorted me into the living room, which was beautifully furnished and decorated. The living room had a glossy, hardwood floor that was adorned with exquisite oriental rugs, and its walls were garnished with high-priced neo-classical paintings. His living room also had towering bookshelves. Spence and an African-American man in his forties were reclined on the living room’s chocolate colored sofa, and I was directed to a leather chair that was adjacent to the sofa. Spence was casually dressed in designer jeans and a pink Polo shirt, and, after I sat down, he introduced me to Larry King, his African-American friend. King was rather obese, and he wore a resplendent navy blue suit that I thought was either an Armani or Brioni. He had meticulously coifed straight black hair and a trim goatee. His large-framed designer glasses had tinted lenses that partially obscured his beady, darting eyes. A thick gold chain draped his neck, and he had a bulky gold ring that was encrusted by diamonds. King exuded a pomp and flashiness that even surpassed that of Spence. Spence gave me a chilly reception as King looked on with a sinister smile. Spence then started our meeting by excoriating me, because one of my escorts had belatedly arrived at his home.

I explained to him that I had taken a three-day vacation, and I wasn’t able to tend to the phone with my customary alacrity. Spence snapped that if he thought I needed a vacation, he would send me on a vacation. As Spence excoriated me, he was hunched over a china bowl on the living room’s large, circular crystal coffee table. The china bowl was brimming with cocaine, and he was dipping a gold coke spoon into it. Spence eventually offered me a toot of coke, but I declined. After Spence had taken two or three toots of coke, he started to chatter about his exalted status and clout—specks of cocaine littered his mustache. King also chimed in about his exalted status and clout too. I felt like Spence was putting on a show for King, but King wasn’t an individual who acquiesced to being out-boasted. They pumped themselves up like cartoonish parade balloons that were on the brink of bursting. Although I found their boasts to be almost comedic, I refrained from laughing. King then made a number of disclosures that I found to be absolutely bizarre. He revealed that he and Spence operated an interstate pedophile network that flew children from coast-to-coast. King also discussed that he and Spence had a clientele of powerful pedophiles who actually took pleasure in murdering children. In fact, King seemed to be obsessed with the subject of murdering children. I sincerely thought that I was talking to a pair of psychotics on the run from a psychiatric hospital. After Spence and King conversed about their rarified statuses and their extreme pedophilic perversities, Spence shifted gears and started to sincerely inquire about my life.

He asked where I was born and where I attended college. He then questioned me about the particulars of my escort service. In the context of our earlier discussion, Spence’s questions seemed like non-sequiturs to me. Though I answered Spence’s questions truthfully, I was uncertain about the motivation for his inquiries, because Spence struck me as an individual who generally had a self-centered, utilitarian reason for every action. I also found it nearly impossible to believe that Spence’s seismic narcissism made him constitutionally capable of taking a sincere interest in me. I thought that either he had a duplicitous reason for plying me with seemingly heartfelt questions or I was witnessing a miracle tantamount to the parting of the Red Sea. As Spence inquired about my life, King sipped his drink and was ominously silent, but an unnerving smile was etched on his face. When Spence finished quizzing me about my life, he stood up and gestured for me to accompany him. I stood up and followed him. King remained seated on the sofa. Spence walked toward a large mirror that was situated on living room wall, and opened a closet door that was in the corner of his living room. He popped open a secret panel that was embedded in the closet, and he stepped into a small room that was behind the mirror. I cautiously paused at the threshold of the closet, but Spence waved his right hand, signifying that I should follow him into the surreptitious room.''

''The mirror on the living room wall was, in fact, a two-way mirror, and the room had a video camera on a tripod that was pointed toward the living room and also a wall of video monitors. Spence leaned over one of the video monitors, and, after tapping a few of its buttons, he replayed the concluding minutes of our conversation. At that moment, I felt shrink-wrapped by cellophane, and I found it difficult to breath. As I silently stared at the monitor, Spence casually smiled and explained to me that his entire home was bugged for clandestine surveillance, and “CIA operatives” had installed the concealed video cameras throughout his house. He couldn’t help himself from crowing that his surveillance equipment was state-of-the-art, and the camera that captured our conversations was embedded in the living room’s thermostat. Spence then divulged that he blackmailed the rich and powerful. I remained stunned and speechless as I watched myself discussing my life and escort service on the video monitor, but, after a few minutes, I started to swell with anger. However, I didn’t express my anger to Spence, because, at that moment, I was undeniably frightened of him, and I’m also not a confrontational person. Once Spence had flaunted his blackmail equipment, he dispensed a grave threat about the “consequences” if I uttered nary a word relating to his concealed cameras. He then dismissed me. I walked out of his house in a state of shock. My mouth was parched, and an adrenal chill coursed through my body. A montage of the video footage of me discussing my life relentlessly overwhelmed my thoughts as I drove home that night. I was utterly dumbfounded by King’s disclosures too. I have to confess that I was in a state of denial about King’s revelations, because they were so bizarre. I found it hard to believe that people could be such unequivocal monsters. But Spence had videotaped me discussing the particulars of my life and my escort service, so I was now susceptible to blackmail. I no longer viewed Spence as a mere client—I felt he controlled me. Indeed, he started to tell the escorts I sent to his home that I worked for him. The escort service had started out as a carefree venture that was enjoyable and exciting, but Spence had imbued it with a sinister gravitas."

-from Vinson, Henry W.. Confessions of a D.C. Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail . Trine Day.

Vinson says in his book that despite the horrors "bestowed" upon him by Spence and King, he absolutely refused to have anything to do with King and Spence's alleged child trafficking network, and as absolutely horrific it is to even say, their alleged extreme abuse and child murder network. He claims that after this encounter he did everything he could to free himself from the grasp of Spence's "network" of power. I kinda gotta imagine that witnessing two men discussing the trafficking and murder of children while doing a bunch of coke, tends to have that kind of effect on a person. (Vinson furthermore claims that during his unspeakably horrific time spent with Spence, he witnessed Spence rapidly physically and mentally deteriorate due to his out-of-control cocaine and crack addiction, and also because Spence allegedly had AIDS). Vinson claims that a number of weeks after this encounter with Spence and King at the Kalorama mansion, Craig again demanded that Vinson visit his mansion, and again Larry King was allegedly present at the mansion. Vinson claims that Spence and King then took things to even more horrifying level. Vinson claims that Spence and King started aggressively demanding that Vinson himself start abducting underage children and start supplying them to their child sex trafficking network. As Vinson states:

''One night he summoned me to his home, where I found him and Larry King sitting on the sofa. I was essentially blackmailed during my first meeting with Spence and King, and I found my subsequent meetings with the tandem quite unpleasant, because they attempted to coerce me into ensnaring children for them. King had previously mentioned that he flew children into D.C., and the escorts I employed confirmed that minors were in attendance at Spence’s orgies. Despite my earlier state of denial, I had come to the horrifying conclusion that Spence and King operated an interstate pedophile network for their powerbroker cronies. But I absolutely refused to aid and abet their abuse of children, children, despite Spence’s potential to blackmail me or perhaps even kill me. As we sat in Spence’s living room, Spence and King once more broached the subject of me procuring children for them, but they started becoming extremely aggressive. Although I emphatically told them that I wouldn’t pander children, their demands escalated to an inexorable crescendo: Spence and King finally demanded that I pluck destitute children off the streets of D.C. and deliver the children to them. After I realized that they weren’t willing to cease and desist about the issue, I excused myself and walked out of Spence’s home.''

As Vinson documents in his "DC Madam" book, once Vinson's refusal to become involved in trafficking children became known to Spence, King, and presumably the extremely powerful men pulling the strings behind them, the full wrath of the State was essentially brought down upon him. Vinson says that this was an attempt to try to intimidate and silence him about what he knew about elite DC sex trafficking. He claims that Craig Spence had an associate by the name of "Tony" who was also allegedly complicit in Spence's human trafficking operations and also allegedly had "shadowy CIA connections." Vinson claims that soon after he refused Spence and King's demands to traffic children, Tony and some other "goons" went to Vinson's house where they broke windows, busted up his house, and allegedly physically assaulted and intimidated Vinson. As Vinson describes it: "When I opened the door, Tony’s two brutes barged into my apartment. One knocked me down, and they proceeded to punch holes in the wall, upend furniture, break my apartment’s windows, and rip drawers from the desk. They were like cyborgs programmed for Armageddon. I thought that Tony’s brutes had been ordered to kill me, and I was absolutely mortified. As they demolished my apartment, I lunged towards the phone and dialed 911. A few minutes into the melee, Tony casually walked into my apartment, smoking a cigarette. I had the phone’s receiver in my right hand, and he quickly realized that I had called the police. He told me that I could either deal with him and Spence or die. After Tony dispensed his to be or not to be, he and his two brutes nonchalantly strolled out of my apartment."

Vinson claims that even with these extreme threats made agains him, he remained firm in his refusal to become complicit in child abuse. However, the intimidation and threats against him did not end there, not at all. Craig Spence then allegedly invited Vinson to yet another private meeting, at which (according to Vinson's allegations), both Craig Spence and an un-named member of George HW Bush's Cabinet were both present. Vinson furthermore claims that Spence told him that this Cabinet member was yet another of his "clients" who he provided underage boys to. Vinson describes what occurred at this meeting: "Spence summoned me to his condominium. I hadn’t seen Spence in two months, and I was shocked by his physical deterioration. He was emaciated, and his complexion was ashen. I later learned that in addition to a crack addiction, he had contracted AIDS. After Spence ushered me into his house, he motioned to a settee that was in his living room. As I sat down, Spence seated himself on his chocolate sofa next to man in his late fifties, who had balding black hair and brown, round-framed glasses. He wore a blue, pinstripe suit, white shirt, and a red tie. A miniature U.S. flag was pinned on his lapel. Spence introduced the man to me by his name and also disclosed his title. He was in the cabinet of George H.W. Bush. I feel that the Bush administration had decided to pull out a big gun [...] Spence had dropped the name of the cabinet member months earlier, when he revealed that he routinely provided him with adolescent boys. At the time Spence dropped his name and his perverse predications, I thought his disclosure broached incomprehensible, and I was fairly skeptical of it. But on the other hand, the vast majority of Spence’s illicit activities seemed incomprehensible to me until I actually witnessed them [...]

Vinson claims that that the real reason he got "summoned" before a member of George HW Bush's Cabinet and Craig Spence, was because during the course of operating his male prostitution ring, he allegedly supplied male prostitutes to the extremely powerful Donald Gregg, George Bush Sr's National Security Advisor and long-time CIA operative who was a major player in the CIA's assassination program during the Vietnam War, the Phoenix Program. Vinson claims that Donald Gregg actually used his government-issued credit card to pay for these prostitutes. In the course of operating his prostitution ring, Vinson allegedly orchestrated a scheme where his patrons payed for prostitutes using credits cards and falsely reported these charges as being for "funeral expenses" related to Vinson's mortuary business. Donald Gregg allegedly payed for so many prostitutes under the guise of using his credit card to pay for "funeral accessories," that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) called Vinson to inquire about Gregg's credit card charges.

This was the context for why Vinson was allegedly brought before an un-named member of Bush Sr's Cabinet. According to Vinson, the Cabinet member and Craig Spence pressured Vinson to participate in a cover-up of the true nature of Donald Gregg's credit card charges. They both demanded that Vinson write a letter to the GAO explaining that Gregg's credit card charges were actually for "blood studies" conducted on behalf of Gregg, and that Vinson's funeral business would be used as a cover to provide plausibility for these credit card charges. It was at this point that the Cabinet member allegedly said to Vinson: "I can withstand a background investigation... can you?," to which Vinson responded in the affirmative, and his meeting with the un-named Cabinet member abruptly ended.

So in other words, Vinson claims that he was verbally intimidated and otherwise pressured by none other than a member of Bush Sr's own Cabinet to directly participate in a cover-up of Bush Sr's own National Security Advisor's involvement in a male prostitution ring, and if what Craig Spence claims is true, Gregg's alleged involvement in the sexual exploitation of underage boys. 

Horrific allegations of the torture and murder of children.... a CIA goon named "Tony" breaking up Henry Vinson's apartment and issuing dire threats.... shadowy meetings with a Bush Cabinet member to orchestrate alleged cover-ups that by all appearances seemed to go deep into the Bush Sr Administration at that time ... all off this seems like the stuff of nightmares or an unbelievably dark horror movie, but all of this is what Vinson claims happened to him after his refusal to participate in the trafficking of children. And indeed, very soon after this campaign of threats and intimidations by extremely shadowy elements of the US government, Henry Vinson's prostitution ring was promptly raided by law enforcement in Washington, DC and broken up. Vinson himself was indicted by a grand jury in Washington, DC on 43 charges, including pimping, racketeering and credit card fraud, all related to his operation of his prostitution ring.

Henry Vinson, along with Nick Bryant, document in their "DC Madam" book that once Henry Vinson was under federal indictment for allegedly operating a DC-based male prostitution ring, coincidently (or not??), Vinson claims that a Washington Post reporter recommended that he hire attorney Greta Van Susteren to represent him in the federal government's case against him. Once Greta Van Susteren mysteriously got set up as Henry Vinson's lawyer, she then steered him into accepting a plea agreement where Vinson got only 63 months in prison (he was initially facing nearly 300 years for all his charges). Vinson said Van Susteren allowed federal investigators to grill Vinson for hours on end about his pimping activities, and that Van Susteren, while representing Vinson as his attorney, was herself not even present when Henry Vinson was questioned by these federal investigators. Considering that Van Susteren was Henry Vinson’s attorney throughout his indictment and trial, the fact that Van Susteren allowed this to happen to her client, is very strange to say the very least. Vinson said federal investigators in his case "explicitly told [him] not to talk to the media for that minimal sentence."

As documented most thoroughly in the book ''DC Madam'', co-written by Nick Bryant and Henry Vinson, Henry Vinson believes strongly that during the course of the trial, Van Susteren essentially helped “steer him in a direction,” so to speak, where he would agree to a relatively minimal sentence in exchange for keeping his mouth shut about the names of the elite DC politicians and power brokers who were all allegedly involved with his prostitution network, and who were allegedly connected with Craig Spence's trafficking network. Vinson also brings up the possibility that Van Susteren, as well as the US Attorney who prosecuted him, maybe have both personally benefited through a subsequent, remarkable "upward mobility" in their own personal careers, after both defending, and prosecuting Vinson, during his DC prostitution ring case. Again, remember that the end result of Vinson's case, was (in his own words), he agreed to not talk to the press about the details of his case, in exchange for the Prosecutor giving him a minimal sentence. In Vinson's words:

"At the outset of my case, my attorney, Greta Van Susteren, seemed very committed to a vigorous defense on my behalf [...] she filed an eleven-page motion to mandate the release of my clientele list [i.e. list of clients of Vinson's prostitution operation] that the government had previously seized from me. Ms. Van Susteren argued that the names of my patrons should be released, because, if the government’s assertion was accurate and my “escort” service was, in actuality, a prostitution ring, my clients aided and abetted a criminal enterprise. But the Assistant U.S. Attorney for D.C. vehemently contested Ms. Van Susteren’s motion with a remarkably disingenuous argument: He contended that the names of my patrons shouldn’t be made public, because the U.S. Attorney’s office feared the “intimidation of government witnesses due to the embarrassing nature of the case.” My trial judge sided with the prosecution and barred the public disclosure of my clientele. After my trial judge acquiesced to the U.S. Attorney’s office, Ms. Van Susteren started to change her tune, and she urged me to take the government’s plea bargain. By then, my family and I had been subjected to a relentless campaign of terror, and I faced life in prison—I felt as if the feds were wielding the Sword of Damocles over my head. At Ms. Van Susteren’s behest, I accepted the government’s plea bargain, and I was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison. The feds also included a caveat that wasn’t overtly stated in my plea agreement: My 5-year sentence was based on the contingency that I not divulge a word about the particulars of my case to the media. Although I’m uncertain whether or not it’s a mere coincidence, I should point out that the individuals who were instrumental in the cover up of my case experienced significant upward mobility: Ms. Van Susteren now has her very own television show on FOX, and the U.S. Attorney for the District of D.C., who imprisoned me and ensured my silence, is now a Vice President of the Raytheon Corporation, one of the world’s largest defense contractors. After I was gagged and banished to a federal prison, I’ve been told that the government sealed, in perpetuity, a myriad of documents in my case. I’m aware of at least three individuals who have attempted to unseal my documentation, but the government has successfully rebuffed each of them.''

To make matters even stranger, Henry Vinson's federal indictment happened in 1990. According to Van Susteren's IMDb page, right after her wonderful (cough, cough) work on Henry Vinson's case in 1990, in 1991 she got hired as a legal analyst on CNN, thus beginning Van Susteren's very high-profile career as a TV show host and commentator that continues to this day (Link to Greta's IMBd bio.) Did Greta Van Susteren "make her bones" to use the mafia lingo, on the Henry Vinson case? Was this some kind of "deal with the devil" Van Susteren made that massively advanced her career? Its speculative, but Van Susteren's active involvement in covering up DC sex trafficking in the 80s and early 90s definitely deserves much more serious research and scrutiny. And the fact that Van Susteren jumps out of the woodwork again in 2010 to do a soft-ball interview with now-convicted sex trafficker Jorge Puello, and "lawyer" for allegedly-Clinton-connected Laura Silsby, makes everything a million times stranger. Was Van Susteren running cover for the pedophiles... again? 

Greta's Personal Background: Family Connections to Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn, and Van Susteren's "CIA-linked" Sister

Here is some more important information about Van Susteren: as journalist Nick Bryant in his "Franklin Scandal" book documents, Greta Van Susteren's family background has some extremely strange coincidences. Van Susteren's father was a Wisconsin judge who worked as a campaign manager for Joe McCarthy in the 50s. McCarthy was the infamous Wisconsin Senator in the 50s who waged a vicious witch hunt against accused "communists and homosexuals" in the US government, destroying many careers based on false charges. Joe McCarthy was the best man at Van Susteren's Mom's and Dad's wedding. The chief legal counsel for Joe McCarthy in his crusade against communists and homosexuals was none other than ROY COHN. As Nick Bryant also documents, Roy Cohn, who later became an extremely well-connected NYC lawyer and political powerbroker, also just so happened to be a good friend of CRAIG SPENCE. One other point of documentation: author David McGowan in his really important book "Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder" also links Craig Spence to Roy Cohn, stating that Spence at one point actually held a "birthday bash" for his friend Roy Cohn.

Very very important to point out: Roy Cohn is HIMSELF accused of running a pedophile blackmail operation in NYC similar the one Craig Spence and Larry King were allegedly running in DC and Omaha, NE, as disclosed in the Franklin Cover-up allegations. Historian Burton Hersh wrote the book "Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-off between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover that Transformed America" NY Times book review. In the book about the long, complicated history between FBI Director Hoover and the Kennedy's spanning decades, Burton Hersh wrote this extremely important revelation about Roy Cohn's alleged pedophile "blackmailing" operations:

" [...] New York attorney John Klotz began to investigate Roy Cohn on behalf of a client. Declassified New York government files and spadework by a private detective substantiated the allegation that there was indeed a "blue suite" at [NYC Plaza Hotel], Suite 233. "Roy Cohn was providing protection," Klotz discovered. "There were a bunch of pedophiles involved. Thats where Cohn got his power from- blackmail." Given the above, its entirely possibly that Roy Cohn, Craig Spence, and (possibly) Larry King were all working together in the same pedophile blackmail operation, ensnaring all kinds of powerful people in their web. ALSO very very worthwhile to point out to EVERYONE: there is no shortage of articles indicating that Roy Cohn was a very important mentor to, friend to, and lawyer and political "fixer" for *DONALD TRUMP* over many years.

Getting back to Van Susteren, so to recap: so in the early 90s when a major child sex trafficking scandal threatens to blow the lid off many powerful DC figures, including Craig Spence, the lawyer who rushes in to do damage control just so happens to be the daughter of a judge who himself was closely connected to DC power broker Joe McCarthy, who himself was very close to Roy Cohn, and Cohn himself is directly connected to... Craig Spence?? This whole web of circular connections seems sinister to say the least...

In addition, independent researcher Alex Constantine, in his 2016 book "Jackals: The Stench of American Fascism," reveals some highly significant information about the Van Susteren family's background, especially regarding Van Susteren's sister Lise. Lise Van Susteren it turns out is a highly credentialed psychiatrist, who has worked, at least for some period of time, as a consultant to the CIA, where she conducted "psychological assessments of world leaders." As disturbing as it is, Van Susteren's family background is clearly full of intelligence connections, including (at least) herself as well as her own sister. In addition to the intelligence connections, there are also these Van Susteren family connections to notorious child traffickers Roy Cohn and Craig Spence, that have to be considered as well.

In 2010, Greta Van Susteren gave her name to the "Greta Home and Academy" orphanage located in Leogane, Haiti  Link to Orphanage website Leogane is a community southwest of Port au Prince on Haiti's southwest peninsula. Leogane was hit especially hard in the 2010 earthquake, and Van Susteren's orphanage was built soon after the quake. Van Susteren was involved in raising a lot of money for relief efforts against the Haiti cholera epidemic, as well as her orphanage in Leogane. The Greta Home and Academy is part of the larger "Samaritan's Purse" Christian charitable organization. The President and CEO of Samaritan's Purse is Franklin Graham, the son of none other than Christian Crusader BILLY GRAHAM Franklin Graham's page on Samaritan's Purse. 

To be 100% clear: I have absolutely NO knowledge of any allegations of human trafficking having to do with any part of the very large "Samaritan's Purse," Evangelical organization. To make any unfounded allegations against "Samaritan's Purse" as an organization, would be completely wrong for me on my part. However, I have done some investigating specifically into Greta Van Susteren's orphanage in Leogane, Haiti, and came across one potentially important lead. Author and researcher Stephen Lendman wrote a really important article on child trafficking in Haiti, called "Child Slavery in Haiti" link to article. In the article, Lendman talks about Haiti's horrible "restavek system," a century-old system where poor children from mostly rural families, known as restaveks, are sent by their impoverished families to work as servants for wealthy Haitian families in the bigger cities. These restavek child trafficking victims, some as young as 3, horrifically in some cases fall victim to physical and sexual abuse, and are kidnapped into child sex trafficking rings. Lendman talks extensively about the Laura Silsby trafficking case in Haiti, and discusses how the director of the SOS Children's Village in Port-au-Prince said that many of the children Silsby was trafficking came from families and were not in fact orphans, despite Silsby's claims. He described how child trafficking increased massively across the board in Haiti after the 2010 quake. In regards to the "restavek" child trafficking system, Lendman cites a report from the Pan American Development Foundation about the restavek system and child trafficking. A really important finding in the report from the Pan American Development Foundation, is that most of the restavek child trafficking victims who are trafficked to wealthy families in Port-au-Prince, specifically come from poor families living in "... the southern peninsula communities of Les Cayes, Jacmel, Jeremie, and Leogane" (location of Greta's orphanage).

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So we have confirmation that the location of Van Susteren's orphanage, Leogane, Haiti, is a source location for child victims of Haitian human trafficking groups. Again, for the sake of objectivity, I have no knowledge of any specific allegations of anything at all to do with human trafficking involving Van Susteren's orphanage, or with the Samaritan's Purse organization. 
However, this where things take a turn even sketchier: I highly encourage all interested readers to read this OTHER research thread (HERE) submitted in 2014 on the Deep Politics Forum by user "Doug Fisher", with the Title "Billy Graham, Drug Trafficking and the CIA?" (I believe the thread was originally posted to Deep Politics Forum by researcher and former City of London banker David Guyatt).

"Doug Fisher" claims to have experience researching into CIA rendition aircraft, which mostly involves researching into the incredibly convoluted network of private aircraft ownership companies, many of which are known to operate as fronts for the CIA. Multiple avenues of research have substantiated that many of these aircraft owned by these super-shady intelligence-linked aircraft companies, are involved in things like transporting alleged "terrorists' in secret CIA "rendition" flights, trafficking drugs, weapons, and other illegal "covert operations." For this topic in general, I definitely recommend longtime covert operations researcher Daniel Hopsicker and his website (HERE), where Hopsicker has posted articles for years exploring these shady aircraft companies and their numerous connections to these illegal, intelligence-linked activities. Long story short: On his "Deep Politics Forum" thread, Doug Fisher claims through his research to connect a number of airplanes owned by Samaritan's Purse Evangelical Humanitarian charity, of which Van Susteren's orphanage in Leogane, Haiti is a part of, to other previous owners.  According to research and articles accessible from Fisher's other Deep Politics Forum thread, some of these companies that were the previous owners of some of Samaritan's Purses planes, have been documented in certain cases as being known CIA front companies with a history of involvement in CIA "rendition" flights of terror suspects.

In particular, FAA records covered in this research thread shows that in 2010, Samaritan Purse's Director of Aviation Virgil Gottfried signed a purchasing form, purchasing an aircraft from another aviation company called "Stevens Express Leasing," a Tennessee-based aviation company. The supposed President of Stevens Express Leasing, a fellow by the name of "James Kershaw" also signed the same form, authorizing the sale of the airplane to Samaritan's Purse. But here is where things get seriously weird. In 2005, the New York Times published an article titled "CIA Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights," documenting how the CIA's terrorist rendition program utilized phony "front" aviation companies to covertly transport terror suspects all over the world. The Times article specifically identified "Stevens Express Leasing," the same company that sold Samaritan's Purse a plane, as being one of these CIA "front" aviation companies. In addition, there is a book called "Torture Taxi" published in 2006 by investigative journalists Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson, that investigates the CIA's use of "rendition aircraft" to covertly transport alleged terror suspects to secret "black sites," where in many cases these terror suspects were tortured to try to extract information from them. As documented in "Terror Taxi," the name "James Kershaw" was discovered to be a fake identity used to sign documents for the purchasing of airplanes, airplanes that were then used in the CIA "extraordinary rendition" program. All of this raises a very obvious and relevant question: why in the world would a humanitarian organization like Samaritan's Purse be purchasing an airplane from an alleged CIA front company, Stevens Express? Beyond even that, how do you explain that the person selling this plane to Samaritan's Purse is a "James Kershaw," now identified as nothing more than a fake name and fake identity used to facilitate this CIA "terror transport" program?

Again it is extremely important for me to point out I have zero knowledge of any actual human trafficking allegations concerning the "Greta Home and Academy" or Samaritan's Purse. However, what can quite obviously NOT be ignored is the fact that Van Susteren herself has an undeniably extremely suspect personal past history when it comes to helping cover-up extremely serious allegations of prostitution and even possible child trafficking and extreme abuse of underage children, given her past work as Henry Vinson's lawyer documented here in this piece, and in depth in Vinson and Nick Bryant's "DC Madam" book. And on top of all that, we can also not ignore everything documented above: Samaritan Purse's purchase, in at least one case, of an aircraft from a company that can plausibly be linked to the CIA terrorist "rendition" program, as well as the fact that the Greta Home and Academy is operating in a city and a geographic area of Haiti known to be a source of many child trafficking victims of Haiti's "restavek" child trafficking network. I don't think you have to be Sherlock Homes to have some serious questions about all of this....

1.) Here is a listing of Samaritan's Purse Board of Directors and Key Employees Link here Do any of these people have connection's to the Laura Silsby/ Jorge Puello trafficking op? Do they show up at all in Podesta emails?

2.) Does the Greta Academy in Leogane itself show up, tangentially or otherwise, in connections to Silsby and her cohorts, or to any Podesta emails or related leads?
Hope this can potentially shed some light on this sordid mess, good digging.

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I want to connect some dots people might not know about. I would like to start out by talking about the Laura Silsby human trafficking scandal that occurred in Haiti in 2010, and the scandal's connections, as crazy as it is to say, to both the Clintons and to media mogul Greta Van Susteren. Laura Silsby was a supposed Baptist "missionary" from Idaho who bizarrely got caught trying to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti after the horrific January 2010 earthquake that occurred there. Once Silsby and the other "Christian missionaries" she was associated with were under arrest in Haiti for this alleged human trafficking, an "attorney" by the name of Jorge Torres-Puello mysteriously showed up in the Dominican Republic to provide legal defense for Silsby and her missionary associates. Bizarrely, soon after Puello started providing this legal help to Silsby and her partners, Puello was arrested and accused of being a human trafficker himself!  

The 2010 Laura Silsby Human Trafficking Case in Haiti, and the Clintons

To make any sense of this bizarre (and extremely under-reported) story, it is very important to turn to a research article in the Harvard Human Rights Journal by Professor Shani King, a Law School Professor at University of Florida Levin College of Law. Professor King's article sheds light on the criminality of Jorge Puello, Laura Silsby's attorney, and also sheds light on the Clinton's involvement in helping Silsby and her "missionary" co-conspirators get their charges for human abduction and criminal association, both criminal charges under Haitian law, either dismissed or greatly reduced. Shani King's article states in the first week of February 2010, a few weeks after Haiti's horrendous 2010 earthquake, Bill Clinton arrived in Haiti to begin co-ordinating relief efforts, but that one of his first tasks "..was to put out the fire of a child abduction scandal involving American citizens." I think it is very worth it to quote at length from King's article about the legal and ethical shadiness of both Laura Silsby's own personal background, and of her supposed "child rescue" operation in Haiti and the Dominican Republic:

''On January 29, 2010, less than three weeks after the earthquake, Haitian authorities arrested ten U.S. Baptist missionaries for attempting to take 33 children by bus across the border into the Dominican Republic without proper documentation. A week later, the missionaries were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association. While the missionaries claimed good intentions and ignorance of Haitian laws, Haitian prosecutors argued that there had been intentional wrongdoing. In the course of a month, President Clinton brokered the release of all the missionaries, except for the group leader, Laura Silsby.

While Laura Silsby awaited trial, the press brought to light several facts that raised serious suspicions about her intent to traffic or smuggle the children as part of a grey adoption scheme. In 2009, Silsby visited Haiti with the stated intent to establish an orphanage. At the time, Silsby faced numerous court cases in the U.S. for bad debt and unpaid wages. In November 2009, she registered her New Life Children’s Refuge charity at an address in Boise, Idaho, and a month later the house was repossessed for lack of payment. In the midst of her personal debt crisis, the January earthquake struck Haiti, and Silsby organized a mission to “gather 100 orphans from the streets” of Haiti and take them to a shelter in the Dominican Republic. The children would be housed in a leased hotel because Silsby’s purported charity did not yet manage an orphanage or own any property in the Dominican Republic. U.S. authorities later stated that New Life Children’s Refuge was not listed as a U.S. nonprofit or as a U.S. international adoption agency. In March, after her arrest, evidence was introduced in Silsby’s case showing that on January 26, 2010, she had previously attempted to take a different group of 40 children across the border. Haitian and Dominican authorities turned her away for lack of authorizing documents. Three days later she attempted to cross over with the second group—the 33 children— again without proper documentation.

After the earthquake, the Haitian government tried to crack down on unauthorized adoptions to avoid child trafficking. In addition, the Dominican consul in Haiti had personally warned Silsby that she lacked the necessary paperwork to take children out of the country and risked arrest. On March 17, 2010, after careful verification of identities by the Social Welfare Ministry of Haiti, 32 out of the 33 children were returned to their families (the last one being returned shortly thereafter), thus confirming that none of the children were orphans.''

So Shani King's research clearly shows, amongst many other things, the extreme sketchiness and legal irresponsibility of Laura's Silsby's "religious" organization, the "New Life Children's Refugee." After all, Silsby literally registered her "church" at a house in Boise Idaho that was repossessed by the bank the next month! But as King goes on to document, things take a seriously darker turn, when you look at the association between Laura Silsby and her own attorney, Jorge Torres-Puello. As it turns out, Puello was an alleged human trafficker at the time of Haitian earthquake, and is now a convicted human trafficker! As King writes:

''Suspicions about Silsby’s intent to smuggle or traffic the children to the Dominican Republic further increased, when on March 19, 2010, Silsby’s legal advisor—Jorge Torres-Puello, an American-Dominican living in the Dominican Republic as a fugitive—was arrested and accused of human trafficking. U.S. authorities revealed that Torres-Puello was “linked to a network that trafficked in Haitian and Central American children and [was] wanted in the United States, El Salvador and Costa Rica.” His wife was already imprisoned in El Salvador and “faced charges of presumed sexual exploitation of minors and women.”

Despite Silsby’s stated intent to take the children over the border to an unauthorized orphanage and her connections to human traffickers such as Torres-Puello, the courts eventually dropped the kidnapping and criminal association charges against her. Silsby was instead convicted under the additional charge of organizing illegal travel, sentenced to time served (3 months and 8 days), and released on May 17, 2010. In the end, her sentence was based on the least polemic charge against her. The pressing issue—whether Silsby intended to deliver the children into trafficking rings or grey adoption markets—was not addressed or resolved.'' Jorge Puello himself was later extradited to the US where he was tried and convicted in Federal Court of alien smuggling charges and sentenced to over 3 years in prison. 

A New York Times article about the human trafficking charges against Jorge Puello, also reveals some highly disturbing information regarding Puello. Of note in the article, the Haitian Judge presiding over the kidnapping cases against Silsby and her fellow missionaries, claimed that when Jorge Puello showed up in Haiti to represent Silsby and her cohorts, he was accompanied by four bodyguards, which seems rather unusual for someone supposedly just trying to help out Christian missionaries who were just trying to do their part to help Haitian children. In fact, the Judge stated, "I was skeptical of [Puello] because he arrived with four bodyguards, and I have never seen that from a lawyer," the judge said in an interview. "I plan to get to the bottom of this right away." In addition, the Times article also states that another lawyer who was also supposedly in Haiti to represent Silsby and the other missionaries, had "... already been dismissed after being accused of trying to offer bribes to get the 10 Americans out of jail." Accusations of bribes to "bust" Silsby and her co-defendants out of jail in Haiti ... another "lawyer" accompanied by multiple shadowy bodyguards who turns out to be a human trafficker himself... you don't have to be too cynical to see that none of this bodes well for just passing this all off as some kind of "honest mistake" by Silsby and her co-conspirators.

To wrap up some extremely important facts about all this: after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Haitian authorities from Haiti's Social Welfare Ministry confirmed that none of the 33 children Silsby and her organization were transporting were in fact orphans. According to this Reuters article re-printed in one of Wikileak's document releases from the Stratfor Security Firm, ''[Jorge Puello] was arrested in the Dominican Republic's capital on a warrant issued by Interpol, the international police organization. U.S. and Dominican Republic authorities had been looking for Puello after El Salvador officials said they suspected him of being involved in running a human trafficking ring that recruited Central American and Caribbean women and girls and forced them to work as prostitutes." And despite all of this, Bill Clinton still got himself directly involved in the Silsby case, by himself "brokering" the release of all the arrested Haitian missionaries except Silsby, who herself only served a minimal sentence and was herself never charged with more serious "kidnapping and criminal association" charges.

Additional evidence that the Clinton's took the handling of the Laura Silsby case very seriously, is provided by Wikileaks. In Wikileaks release of Hillary's emails while she was Secretary of State, one of the released emails is a February 9th 2010 email from Harold Hongju Koh, then Legal Adviser to the State Dept, and former Dean of Yale Law School. The email is from Koh directly to Hillary Clinton, and is cc'ed to Cheryl Mills, Hillary's Chief of Staff at the State Dept., Hillary's Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan, and to PJ Crowley, then Assistant Secretary of State under Hillary. The email is nearly 3 pages and is nearly completely redacted, but from the beginning of the email we can tell that Legal advisor Koh must be giving Hillary, and her top staffers at the State Dept, legal "options" for the US Goverment's dealing with Laura Silsby and the other American citizen "missionaries" who were detained along with her in Haiti. Presumably, considering that all these American citizens except for Silsby, were swiftly released soon after Bill Clinton's documented "involvement" in the Silsby case in Haiti, is it safe to assume that Koh's email to Hillary, must be going into some detail about the different legal options for getting Silsby and her fellow "missionaries" released?

The Greta Van Susteren Fox News Interview with Human Trafficker Jorge Puello

As it turns out, the Clintons were not the only ones who turn up having a very strange "involvement" with the Laura Sisby/Jorge Puello trafficking case in Haiti. Longtime cable news star Greta Van Susteren actually did a Fox News TV interview with none other than Laura Silsby's personal attorney Jorge Puello himself, right during the middle of this whole controversy!

On February 2nd, 2010, Fox New's Greta Van Susteren did a "soft-ball" type interview with Jorge Puello about the Silsby case. (Link to rush transcript of interview, and link to video of interview) Bizarrely, the interview occurred only a little over a month before Puello himself was arrested in the Dominican Republic on child sex trafficking charges on March 19th, 2010. In the very brief and strange interview, Van Susteren just asked very basic questions to Puello about how Silsby found the children, and what she intended to do with them after leaving Haiti. Jorge Puello said the children came from an orphanage that collapsed in the earthquake, and Silsby was trying to take the children "to a temporary facility so they could be taken care of," providing no further details, and Van Susteren asked no follow-up. Van Susteren did not address any of the reports that at least some of the children actually were not orphans, and had families in Haiti. Jorge's final statement in the interview was "There was no intention to do anything illegal." Van Susteren than replied "Jorge, thank you, and keep us informed.", and the interview abruptly ended.

Van Susteren and the “Franklin” Child Sex Trafficking Scandal of the 80s

Only 9 days after Van Susteran's interview with Puello, on February 11th, 2010, the New York Times reported that police in El Salvador were investigating Jorge Puello for leading a sex trafficking ring. The fact that Van Susteren did this weird little interview with Puello only days before news of his sex trafficking allegations got dropped in mainstream news, was a big red flag to me. Journalist and independent investigator Nick Bryant wrote a really important book based on his investigation of the "Franklin Cover-up" pedophile scandal in the '80s called the "Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal." (Here is a link to an article about the book on the Counterpunch site). For those who don't know about the Franklin Scandal, it was a huge scandal in the 80s involving major allegations that political and business powerbrokers in Washington DC and Omaha, Nebraska were systematically trafficking and abusing children, and using them in sexual blackmail operations to ensnare politicians and other powerful figures. Watch Discovery Channels' unaired documentary "Conspiracy of Silence" for more info.YouTube

Nick Bryant revealed in his investigation of the Franklin cover-up that Greta Van Susteren was the lawyer for Henry Vinson, who was a key figure in this whole scandal. Henry Vinson is a West Virginia-based businessman who in the early 1990s was tried and convicted for operating a male prostitution ring in Washington DC, that supplied adult-age gay male prostitutes to powerful DC political figures. Additionally, Nick Bryant and Henry Vinson co-wrote a 2015 book called "DC Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies & Blackmail," that goes into extensive detail about Henry Vinson's involvement with a DC sex trafficking ring. As Nick Bryant documented in his book “The Franklin Scandal,” and as thoroughly documented in Bryant & Vinson's "DC Madam" book, Henry Vinson, through the operation of his prostitution ring, became directly involved with two key alleged abuse perpetrators in the "Franklin Scandal": Larry King and Craig Spence. Again, as documented in Bryants' and Vinsons' books, Larry King (full name Lawrence E. King) and Craig Spence were extremely well-connected political powerbrokers, who were both accused by multiple underage children and teenagers of operating a major underage sex trafficking ring that supplied children to powerful figures in both the Omaha, NE and Washington DC areas, and used them in blackmailing operations. Lawrence E. King was, for a time in the 80s, a bank director in Omaha and extremely well-connected to the state and national Republican party. The bank King managed was the "Franklin Credit Union" in Omaha NE, hence the name of the scandal. Henry Vinson specifically describes Craig Spence as some kind of "CIA asset." As documented in Byrant and Vinson's research, Spence was for a time in the 80s a well-connected DC lobbyist, who owned a private mansion in Kalorama, a very upscale suburb of Washington, DC. Henry Vinson specifically alleges that as part of his pimping business, on many occasions he sent adult-age male prostitutes to what he describes as "orgies" at Spence's Kalorama mansion. Vinson also alleges that on at least some occasions, male prostitutes who worked for Vinson told him afterward that underage children were present at at least some of these alleged orgies at the Kalorama mansion. So there are allegations from both Vinson, and the adult age prostitutes working for him at the time, that trafficking and sexual abuse of underage minors occurred at the Kalorama mansion in D.C.

As documented in Henry Vinson's "DC Madam" book, and in "The Franklin Scandal," Vinson claims that his operation only supplied adult-age male prostitutes. However, Vinson further claims that as his prostitution ring grew, Craig Spence got in touch with Vinson, and started paying huge sums of money to Vinson for his adult-age prostitutes. Craig Spence allegedly used the adult prostitutes "supplied" by Vinson for his very own "network," that allegedly supplied prostitutes to some incredibly powerful names in politics, business, and the media in the 1980s.

After Craig Spences's introduction to Henry Vinson, Vinson then claims that things took an unbelievably darker turn. Vinson claims that Craig Spence, acting in partnership with major Franklin Scandal abuser Lawrence E King, tried to convince Vinson to start pimping underage children as part of his operation. Vinson claims that on one particular occasion, Vinson went to Craig Spence's Kalorama mansion, where inside, he was introduced to Lawrence E King himself. Vinson then claims that Spence and King asked him to sit down with them, and had a conversation with him that started out seemingly innocuous, but then turned to the absolutely horrifying. In Vinson's own words:

''Spence struck me as extremely smart and also very manipulative. He was a morass of arrogance and extreme narcissism that I had never encountered before. He indeed believed that he resided at the center of the universe, and I was merely a pawn in his grandiose game of chess. Spence certainly didn’t impart a warm and fuzzy feeling during our initial meeting. In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Gloucester and Edgar have a dialogue, and Edgar declares that the “Prince of Darkness is a gentleman.” As I departed Spence’s home that day, I felt like I had just met the Prince of Darkness.

Spence continued to phone me almost everyday, and about a month after our initial meeting he again summoned me to his home. I was met at the door by one his security personnel, who escorted me into the living room, which was beautifully furnished and decorated. The living room had a glossy, hardwood floor that was adorned with exquisite oriental rugs, and its walls were garnished with high-priced neo-classical paintings. His living room also had towering bookshelves. Spence and an African-American man in his forties were reclined on the living room’s chocolate colored sofa, and I was directed to a leather chair that was adjacent to the sofa. Spence was casually dressed in designer jeans and a pink Polo shirt, and, after I sat down, he introduced me to Larry King, his African-American friend. King was rather obese, and he wore a resplendent navy blue suit that I thought was either an Armani or Brioni. He had meticulously coifed straight black hair and a trim goatee. His large-framed designer glasses had tinted lenses that partially obscured his beady, darting eyes. A thick gold chain draped his neck, and he had a bulky gold ring that was encrusted by diamonds. King exuded a pomp and flashiness that even surpassed that of Spence. Spence gave me a chilly reception as King looked on with a sinister smile. Spence then started our meeting by excoriating me, because one of my escorts had belatedly arrived at his home.

I explained to him that I had taken a three-day vacation, and I wasn’t able to tend to the phone with my customary alacrity. Spence snapped that if he thought I needed a vacation, he would send me on a vacation. As Spence excoriated me, he was hunched over a china bowl on the living room’s large, circular crystal coffee table. The china bowl was brimming with cocaine, and he was dipping a gold coke spoon into it. Spence eventually offered me a toot of coke, but I declined. After Spence had taken two or three toots of coke, he started to chatter about his exalted status and clout—specks of cocaine littered his mustache. King also chimed in about his exalted status and clout too. I felt like Spence was putting on a show for King, but King wasn’t an individual who acquiesced to being out-boasted. They pumped themselves up like cartoonish parade balloons that were on the brink of bursting. Although I found their boasts to be almost comedic, I refrained from laughing. King then made a number of disclosures that I found to be absolutely bizarre. He revealed that he and Spence operated an interstate pedophile network that flew children from coast-to-coast. King also discussed that he and Spence had a clientele of powerful pedophiles who actually took pleasure in murdering children. In fact, King seemed to be obsessed with the subject of murdering children. I sincerely thought that I was talking to a pair of psychotics on the run from a psychiatric hospital. After Spence and King conversed about their rarified statuses and their extreme pedophilic perversities, Spence shifted gears and started to sincerely inquire about my life.

He asked where I was born and where I attended college. He then questioned me about the particulars of my escort service. In the context of our earlier discussion, Spence’s questions seemed like non-sequiturs to me. Though I answered Spence’s questions truthfully, I was uncertain about the motivation for his inquiries, because Spence struck me as an individual who generally had a self-centered, utilitarian reason for every action. I also found it nearly impossible to believe that Spence’s seismic narcissism made him constitutionally capable of taking a sincere interest in me. I thought that either he had a duplicitous reason for plying me with seemingly heartfelt questions or I was witnessing a miracle tantamount to the parting of the Red Sea. As Spence inquired about my life, King sipped his drink and was ominously silent, but an unnerving smile was etched on his face. When Spence finished quizzing me about my life, he stood up and gestured for me to accompany him. I stood up and followed him. King remained seated on the sofa. Spence walked toward a large mirror that was situated on living room wall, and opened a closet door that was in the corner of his living room. He popped open a secret panel that was embedded in the closet, and he stepped into a small room that was behind the mirror. I cautiously paused at the threshold of the closet, but Spence waved his right hand, signifying that I should follow him into the surreptitious room.''

''The mirror on the living room wall was, in fact, a two-way mirror, and the room had a video camera on a tripod that was pointed toward the living room and also a wall of video monitors. Spence leaned over one of the video monitors, and, after tapping a few of its buttons, he replayed the concluding minutes of our conversation. At that moment, I felt shrink-wrapped by cellophane, and I found it difficult to breath. As I silently stared at the monitor, Spence casually smiled and explained to me that his entire home was bugged for clandestine surveillance, and “CIA operatives” had installed the concealed video cameras throughout his house. He couldn’t help himself from crowing that his surveillance equipment was state-of-the-art, and the camera that captured our conversations was embedded in the living room’s thermostat. Spence then divulged that he blackmailed the rich and powerful. I remained stunned and speechless as I watched myself discussing my life and escort service on the video monitor, but, after a few minutes, I started to swell with anger. However, I didn’t express my anger to Spence, because, at that moment, I was undeniably frightened of him, and I’m also not a confrontational person. Once Spence had flaunted his blackmail equipment, he dispensed a grave threat about the “consequences” if I uttered nary a word relating to his concealed cameras. He then dismissed me. I walked out of his house in a state of shock. My mouth was parched, and an adrenal chill coursed through my body. A montage of the video footage of me discussing my life relentlessly overwhelmed my thoughts as I drove home that night. I was utterly dumbfounded by King’s disclosures too. I have to confess that I was in a state of denial about King’s revelations, because they were so bizarre. I found it hard to believe that people could be such unequivocal monsters. But Spence had videotaped me discussing the particulars of my life and my escort service, so I was now susceptible to blackmail. I no longer viewed Spence as a mere client—I felt he controlled me. Indeed, he started to tell the escorts I sent to his home that I worked for him. The escort service had started out as a carefree venture that was enjoyable and exciting, but Spence had imbued it with a sinister gravitas."

-from Vinson, Henry W.. Confessions of a D.C. Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail . Trine Day.

Vinson says in his book that despite the horrors "bestowed" upon him by Spence and King, he absolutely refused to have anything to do with King and Spence's alleged child trafficking network, and as absolutely horrific it is to even say, their alleged extreme abuse and child murder network. He claims that after this encounter he did everything he could to free himself from the grasp of Spence's "network" of power. I kinda gotta imagine that witnessing two men discussing the trafficking and murder of children while doing a bunch of coke, tends to have that kind of effect on a person. (Vinson furthermore claims that during his unspeakably horrific time spent with Spence, he witnessed Spence rapidly physically and mentally deteriorate due to his out-of-control cocaine and crack addiction, and also because Spence allegedly had AIDS). Vinson claims that a number of weeks after this encounter with Spence and King at the Kalorama mansion, Craig again demanded that Vinson visit his mansion, and again Larry King was allegedly present at the mansion. Vinson claims that Spence and King then took things to even more horrifying level. Vinson claims that Spence and King started aggressively demanding that Vinson himself start abducting underage children and start supplying them to their child sex trafficking network. As Vinson states:

''One night he summoned me to his home, where I found him and Larry King sitting on the sofa. I was essentially blackmailed during my first meeting with Spence and King, and I found my subsequent meetings with the tandem quite unpleasant, because they attempted to coerce me into ensnaring children for them. King had previously mentioned that he flew children into D.C., and the escorts I employed confirmed that minors were in attendance at Spence’s orgies. Despite my earlier state of denial, I had come to the horrifying conclusion that Spence and King operated an interstate pedophile network for their powerbroker cronies. But I absolutely refused to aid and abet their abuse of children, children, despite Spence’s potential to blackmail me or perhaps even kill me. As we sat in Spence’s living room, Spence and King once more broached the subject of me procuring children for them, but they started becoming extremely aggressive. Although I emphatically told them that I wouldn’t pander children, their demands escalated to an inexorable crescendo: Spence and King finally demanded that I pluck destitute children off the streets of D.C. and deliver the children to them. After I realized that they weren’t willing to cease and desist about the issue, I excused myself and walked out of Spence’s home.''

As Vinson documents in his "DC Madam" book, once Vinson's refusal to become involved in trafficking children became known to Spence, King, and presumably the extremely powerful men pulling the strings behind them, the full wrath of the State was essentially brought down upon him. Vinson says that this was an attempt to try to intimidate and silence him about what he knew about elite DC sex trafficking. He claims that Craig Spence had an associate by the name of "Tony" who was also allegedly complicit in Spence's human trafficking operations and also allegedly had "shadowy CIA connections." Vinson claims that soon after he refused Spence and King's demands to traffic children, Tony and some other "goons" went to Vinson's house where they broke windows, busted up his house, and allegedly physically assaulted and intimidated Vinson. As Vinson describes it: "When I opened the door, Tony’s two brutes barged into my apartment. One knocked me down, and they proceeded to punch holes in the wall, upend furniture, break my apartment’s windows, and rip drawers from the desk. They were like cyborgs programmed for Armageddon. I thought that Tony’s brutes had been ordered to kill me, and I was absolutely mortified. As they demolished my apartment, I lunged towards the phone and dialed 911. A few minutes into the melee, Tony casually walked into my apartment, smoking a cigarette. I had the phone’s receiver in my right hand, and he quickly realized that I had called the police. He told me that I could either deal with him and Spence or die. After Tony dispensed his to be or not to be, he and his two brutes nonchalantly strolled out of my apartment."

Vinson claims that even with these extreme threats made agains him, he remained firm in his refusal to become complicit in child abuse. However, the intimidation and threats against him did not end there, not at all. Craig Spence then allegedly invited Vinson to yet another private meeting, at which (according to Vinson's allegations), both Craig Spence and an un-named member of George HW Bush's Cabinet were both present. Vinson furthermore claims that Spence told him that this Cabinet member was yet another of his "clients" who he provided underage boys to. Vinson describes what occurred at this meeting: "Spence summoned me to his condominium. I hadn’t seen Spence in two months, and I was shocked by his physical deterioration. He was emaciated, and his complexion was ashen. I later learned that in addition to a crack addiction, he had contracted AIDS. After Spence ushered me into his house, he motioned to a settee that was in his living room. As I sat down, Spence seated himself on his chocolate sofa next to man in his late fifties, who had balding black hair and brown, round-framed glasses. He wore a blue, pinstripe suit, white shirt, and a red tie. A miniature U.S. flag was pinned on his lapel. Spence introduced the man to me by his name and also disclosed his title. He was in the cabinet of George H.W. Bush. I feel that the Bush administration had decided to pull out a big gun [...] Spence had dropped the name of the cabinet member months earlier, when he revealed that he routinely provided him with adolescent boys. At the time Spence dropped his name and his perverse predications, I thought his disclosure broached incomprehensible, and I was fairly skeptical of it. But on the other hand, the vast majority of Spence’s illicit activities seemed incomprehensible to me until I actually witnessed them [...]

Vinson claims that that the real reason he got "summoned" before a member of George HW Bush's Cabinet and Craig Spence, was because during the course of operating his male prostitution ring, he allegedly supplied male prostitutes to the extremely powerful Donald Gregg, George Bush Sr's National Security Advisor and long-time CIA operative who was a major player in the CIA's assassination program during the Vietnam War, the Phoenix Program. Vinson claims that Donald Gregg actually used his government-issued credit card to pay for these prostitutes. In the course of operating his prostitution ring, Vinson allegedly orchestrated a scheme where his patrons payed for prostitutes using credits cards and falsely reported these charges as being for "funeral expenses" related to Vinson's mortuary business. Donald Gregg allegedly payed for so many prostitutes under the guise of using his credit card to pay for "funeral accessories," that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) called Vinson to inquire about Gregg's credit card charges.

This was the context for why Vinson was allegedly brought before an un-named member of Bush Sr's Cabinet. According to Vinson, the Cabinet member and Craig Spence pressured Vinson to participate in a cover-up of the true nature of Donald Gregg's credit card charges. They both demanded that Vinson write a letter to the GAO explaining that Gregg's credit card charges were actually for "blood studies" conducted on behalf of Gregg, and that Vinson's funeral business would be used as a cover to provide plausibility for these credit card charges. It was at this point that the Cabinet member allegedly said to Vinson: "I can withstand a background investigation... can you?," to which Vinson responded in the affirmative, and his meeting with the un-named Cabinet member abruptly ended.

So in other words, Vinson claims that he was verbally intimidated and otherwise pressured by none other than a member of Bush Sr's own Cabinet to directly participate in a cover-up of Bush Sr's own National Security Advisor's involvement in a male prostitution ring, and if what Craig Spence claims is true, Gregg's alleged involvement in the sexual exploitation of underage boys. 

Horrific allegations of the torture and murder of children.... a CIA goon named "Tony" breaking up Henry Vinson's apartment and issuing dire threats.... shadowy meetings with a Bush Cabinet member to orchestrate alleged cover-ups that by all appearances seemed to go deep into the Bush Sr Administration at that time ... all off this seems like the stuff of nightmares or an unbelievably dark horror movie, but all of this is what Vinson claims happened to him after his refusal to participate in the trafficking of children. And indeed, very soon after this campaign of threats and intimidations by extremely shadowy elements of the US government, Henry Vinson's prostitution ring was promptly raided by law enforcement in Washington, DC and broken up. Vinson himself was indicted by a grand jury in Washington, DC on 43 charges, including pimping, racketeering and credit card fraud, all related to his operation of his prostitution ring.

Henry Vinson, along with Nick Bryant, document in their "DC Madam" book that once Henry Vinson was under federal indictment for allegedly operating a DC-based male prostitution ring, coincidently (or not??), Vinson claims that a Washington Post reporter recommended that he hire attorney Greta Van Susteren to represent him in the federal government's case against him. Once Greta Van Susteren mysteriously got set up as Henry Vinson's lawyer, she then steered him into accepting a plea agreement where Vinson got only 63 months in prison (he was initially facing nearly 300 years for all his charges). Vinson said Van Susteren allowed federal investigators to grill Vinson for hours on end about his pimping activities, and that Van Susteren, while representing Vinson as his attorney, was herself not even present when Henry Vinson was questioned by these federal investigators. Considering that Van Susteren was Henry Vinson’s attorney throughout his indictment and trial, the fact that Van Susteren allowed this to happen to her client, is very strange to say the very least. Vinson said federal investigators in his case "explicitly told [him] not to talk to the media for that minimal sentence."

As documented most thoroughly in the book ''DC Madam'', co-written by Nick Bryant and Henry Vinson, Henry Vinson believes strongly that during the course of the trial, Van Susteren essentially helped “steer him in a direction,” so to speak, where he would agree to a relatively minimal sentence in exchange for keeping his mouth shut about the names of the elite DC politicians and power brokers who were all allegedly involved with his prostitution network, and who were allegedly connected with Craig Spence's trafficking network. Vinson also brings up the possibility that Van Susteren, as well as the US Attorney who prosecuted him, maybe have both personally benefited through a subsequent, remarkable "upward mobility" in their own personal careers, after both defending, and prosecuting Vinson, during his DC prostitution ring case. Again, remember that the end result of Vinson's case, was (in his own words), he agreed to not talk to the press about the details of his case, in exchange for the Prosecutor giving him a minimal sentence. In Vinson's words:

"At the outset of my case, my attorney, Greta Van Susteren, seemed very committed to a vigorous defense on my behalf [...] she filed an eleven-page motion to mandate the release of my clientele list [i.e. list of clients of Vinson's prostitution operation] that the government had previously seized from me. Ms. Van Susteren argued that the names of my patrons should be released, because, if the government’s assertion was accurate and my “escort” service was, in actuality, a prostitution ring, my clients aided and abetted a criminal enterprise. But the Assistant U.S. Attorney for D.C. vehemently contested Ms. Van Susteren’s motion with a remarkably disingenuous argument: He contended that the names of my patrons shouldn’t be made public, because the U.S. Attorney’s office feared the “intimidation of government witnesses due to the embarrassing nature of the case.” My trial judge sided with the prosecution and barred the public disclosure of my clientele. After my trial judge acquiesced to the U.S. Attorney’s office, Ms. Van Susteren started to change her tune, and she urged me to take the government’s plea bargain. By then, my family and I had been subjected to a relentless campaign of terror, and I faced life in prison—I felt as if the feds were wielding the Sword of Damocles over my head. At Ms. Van Susteren’s behest, I accepted the government’s plea bargain, and I was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison. The feds also included a caveat that wasn’t overtly stated in my plea agreement: My 5-year sentence was based on the contingency that I not divulge a word about the particulars of my case to the media. Although I’m uncertain whether or not it’s a mere coincidence, I should point out that the individuals who were instrumental in the cover up of my case experienced significant upward mobility: Ms. Van Susteren now has her very own television show on FOX, and the U.S. Attorney for the District of D.C., who imprisoned me and ensured my silence, is now a Vice President of the Raytheon Corporation, one of the world’s largest defense contractors. After I was gagged and banished to a federal prison, I’ve been told that the government sealed, in perpetuity, a myriad of documents in my case. I’m aware of at least three individuals who have attempted to unseal my documentation, but the government has successfully rebuffed each of them.''

To make matters even stranger, Henry Vinson's federal indictment happened in 1990. According to Van Susteren's IMDb page, right after her wonderful (cough, cough) work on Henry Vinson's case in 1990, in 1991 she got hired as a legal analyst on CNN, thus beginning Van Susteren's very high-profile career as a TV show host and commentator that continues to this day (Link to Greta's IMBd bio.) Did Greta Van Susteren "make her bones" to use the mafia lingo, on the Henry Vinson case? Was this some kind of "deal with the devil" Van Susteren made that massively advanced her career? Its speculative, but Van Susteren's active involvement in covering up DC sex trafficking in the 80s and early 90s definitely deserves much more serious research and scrutiny. And the fact that Van Susteren jumps out of the woodwork again in 2010 to do a soft-ball interview with now-convicted sex trafficker Jorge Puello, and "lawyer" for allegedly-Clinton-connected Laura Silsby, makes everything a million times stranger. Was Van Susteren running cover for the pedophiles... again? 

Greta's Personal Background: Family Connections to Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn, and Van Susteren's "CIA-linked" Sister

Here is some more important information about Van Susteren: as journalist Nick Bryant in his "Franklin Scandal" book documents, Greta Van Susteren's family background has some extremely strange coincidences. Van Susteren's father was a Wisconsin judge who worked as a campaign manager for Joe McCarthy in the 50s. McCarthy was the infamous Wisconsin Senator in the 50s who waged a vicious witch hunt against accused "communists and homosexuals" in the US government, destroying many careers based on false charges. Joe McCarthy was the best man at Van Susteren's Mom's and Dad's wedding. The chief legal counsel for Joe McCarthy in his crusade against communists and homosexuals was none other than ROY COHN. As Nick Bryant also documents, Roy Cohn, who later became an extremely well-connected NYC lawyer and political powerbroker, also just so happened to be a good friend of CRAIG SPENCE. One other point of documentation: author David McGowan in his really important book "Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder" also links Craig Spence to Roy Cohn, stating that Spence at one point actually held a "birthday bash" for his friend Roy Cohn.

Very very important to point out: Roy Cohn is HIMSELF accused of running a pedophile blackmail operation in NYC similar the one Craig Spence and Larry King were allegedly running in DC and Omaha, NE, as disclosed in the Franklin Cover-up allegations. Historian Burton Hersh wrote the book "Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-off between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover that Transformed America" NY Times book review. In the book about the long, complicated history between FBI Director Hoover and the Kennedy's spanning decades, Burton Hersh wrote this extremely important revelation about Roy Cohn's alleged pedophile "blackmailing" operations:

" [...] New York attorney John Klotz began to investigate Roy Cohn on behalf of a client. Declassified New York government files and spadework by a private detective substantiated the allegation that there was indeed a "blue suite" at [NYC Plaza Hotel], Suite 233. "Roy Cohn was providing protection," Klotz discovered. "There were a bunch of pedophiles involved. Thats where Cohn got his power from- blackmail." Given the above, its entirely possibly that Roy Cohn, Craig Spence, and (possibly) Larry King were all working together in the same pedophile blackmail operation, ensnaring all kinds of powerful people in their web. ALSO very very worthwhile to point out to EVERYONE: there is no shortage of articles indicating that Roy Cohn was a very important mentor to, friend to, and lawyer and political "fixer" for *DONALD TRUMP* over many years.

Getting back to Van Susteren, so to recap: so in the early 90s when a major child sex trafficking scandal threatens to blow the lid off many powerful DC figures, including Craig Spence, the lawyer who rushes in to do damage control just so happens to be the daughter of a judge who himself was closely connected to DC power broker Joe McCarthy, who himself was very close to Roy Cohn, and Cohn himself is directly connected to... Craig Spence?? This whole web of circular connections seems sinister to say the least...

In addition, independent researcher Alex Constantine, in his 2016 book "Jackals: The Stench of American Fascism," reveals some highly significant information about the Van Susteren family's background, especially regarding Van Susteren's sister Lise. Lise Van Susteren it turns out is a highly credentialed psychiatrist, who has worked, at least for some period of time, as a consultant to the CIA, where she conducted "psychological assessments of world leaders." As disturbing as it is, Van Susteren's family background is clearly full of intelligence connections, including (at least) herself as well as her own sister. In addition to the intelligence connections, there are also these Van Susteren family connections to notorious child traffickers Roy Cohn and Craig Spence, that have to be considered as well.

In 2010, Greta Van Susteren gave her name to the "Greta Home and Academy" orphanage located in Leogane, Haiti  Link to Orphanage website Leogane is a community southwest of Port au Prince on Haiti's southwest peninsula. Leogane was hit especially hard in the 2010 earthquake, and Van Susteren's orphanage was built soon after the quake. Van Susteren was involved in raising a lot of money for relief efforts against the Haiti cholera epidemic, as well as her orphanage in Leogane. The Greta Home and Academy is part of the larger "Samaritan's Purse" Christian charitable organization. The President and CEO of Samaritan's Purse is Franklin Graham, the son of none other than Christian Crusader BILLY GRAHAM Franklin Graham's page on Samaritan's Purse. 

To be 100% clear: I have absolutely NO knowledge of any allegations of human trafficking having to do with any part of the very large "Samaritan's Purse," Evangelical organization. To make any unfounded allegations against "Samaritan's Purse" as an organization, would be completely wrong for me on my part. However, I have done some investigating specifically into Greta Van Susteren's orphanage in Leogane, Haiti, and came across one potentially important lead. Author and researcher Stephen Lendman wrote a really important article on child trafficking in Haiti, called "Child Slavery in Haiti" link to article. In the article, Lendman talks about Haiti's horrible "restavek system," a century-old system where poor children from mostly rural families, known as restaveks, are sent by their impoverished families to work as servants for wealthy Haitian families in the bigger cities. These restavek child trafficking victims, some as young as 3, horrifically in some cases fall victim to physical and sexual abuse, and are kidnapped into child sex trafficking rings. Lendman talks extensively about the Laura Silsby trafficking case in Haiti, and discusses how the director of the SOS Children's Village in Port-au-Prince said that many of the children Silsby was trafficking came from families and were not in fact orphans, despite Silsby's claims. He described how child trafficking increased massively across the board in Haiti after the 2010 quake. In regards to the "restavek" child trafficking system, Lendman cites a report from the Pan American Development Foundation about the restavek system and child trafficking. A really important finding in the report from the Pan American Development Foundation, is that most of the restavek child trafficking victims who are trafficked to wealthy families in Port-au-Prince, specifically come from poor families living in "... the southern peninsula communities of Les Cayes, Jacmel, Jeremie, and Leogane" (location of Greta's orphanage).

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So we have confirmation that the location of Van Susteren's orphanage, Leogane, Haiti, is a source location for child victims of Haitian human trafficking groups. Again, for the sake of objectivity, I have no knowledge of any specific allegations of anything at all to do with human trafficking involving Van Susteren's orphanage, or with the Samaritan's Purse organization. 
However, this where things take a turn even sketchier: I highly encourage all interested readers to read this OTHER research thread (HERE) submitted in 2014 on the Deep Politics Forum by user "Doug Fisher", with the Title "Billy Graham, Drug Trafficking and the CIA?" (I believe the thread was originally posted to Deep Politics Forum by researcher and former City of London banker David Guyatt).

"Doug Fisher" claims to have experience researching into CIA rendition aircraft, which mostly involves researching into the incredibly convoluted network of private aircraft ownership companies, many of which are known to operate as fronts for the CIA. Multiple avenues of research have substantiated that many of these aircraft owned by these super-shady intelligence-linked aircraft companies, are involved in things like transporting alleged "terrorists' in secret CIA "rendition" flights, trafficking drugs, weapons, and other illegal "covert operations." For this topic in general, I definitely recommend longtime covert operations researcher Daniel Hopsicker and his website (HERE), where Hopsicker has posted articles for years exploring these shady aircraft companies and their numerous connections to these illegal, intelligence-linked activities. Long story short: On his "Deep Politics Forum" thread, Doug Fisher claims through his research to connect a number of airplanes owned by Samaritan's Purse Evangelical Humanitarian charity, of which Van Susteren's orphanage in Leogane, Haiti is a part of, to other previous owners.  According to research and articles accessible from Fisher's other Deep Politics Forum thread, some of these companies that were the previous owners of some of Samaritan's Purses planes, have been documented in certain cases as being known CIA front companies with a history of involvement in CIA "rendition" flights of terror suspects.

In particular, FAA records covered in this research thread shows that in 2010, Samaritan Purse's Director of Aviation Virgil Gottfried signed a purchasing form, purchasing an aircraft from another aviation company called "Stevens Express Leasing," a Tennessee-based aviation company. The supposed President of Stevens Express Leasing, a fellow by the name of "James Kershaw" also signed the same form, authorizing the sale of the airplane to Samaritan's Purse. But here is where things get seriously weird. In 2005, the New York Times published an article titled "CIA Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights," documenting how the CIA's terrorist rendition program utilized phony "front" aviation companies to covertly transport terror suspects all over the world. The Times article specifically identified "Stevens Express Leasing," the same company that sold Samaritan's Purse a plane, as being one of these CIA "front" aviation companies. In addition, there is a book called "Torture Taxi" published in 2006 by investigative journalists Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson, that investigates the CIA's use of "rendition aircraft" to covertly transport alleged terror suspects to secret "black sites," where in many cases these terror suspects were tortured to try to extract information from them. As documented in "Terror Taxi," the name "James Kershaw" was discovered to be a fake identity used to sign documents for the purchasing of airplanes, airplanes that were then used in the CIA "extraordinary rendition" program. All of this raises a very obvious and relevant question: why in the world would a humanitarian organization like Samaritan's Purse be purchasing an airplane from an alleged CIA front company, Stevens Express? Beyond even that, how do you explain that the person selling this plane to Samaritan's Purse is a "James Kershaw," now identified as nothing more than a fake name and fake identity used to facilitate this CIA "terror transport" program?

Again it is extremely important for me to point out I have zero knowledge of any actual human trafficking allegations concerning the "Greta Home and Academy" or Samaritan's Purse. However, what can quite obviously NOT be ignored is the fact that Van Susteren herself has an undeniably extremely suspect personal past history when it comes to helping cover-up extremely serious allegations of prostitution and even possible child trafficking and extreme abuse of underage children, given her past work as Henry Vinson's lawyer documented here in this piece, and in depth in Vinson and Nick Bryant's "DC Madam" book. And on top of all that, we can also not ignore everything documented above: Samaritan Purse's purchase, in at least one case, of an aircraft from a company that can plausibly be linked to the CIA terrorist "rendition" program, as well as the fact that the Greta Home and Academy is operating in a city and a geographic area of Haiti known to be a source of many child trafficking victims of Haiti's "restavek" child trafficking network. I don't think you have to be Sherlock Homes to have some serious questions about all of this....

1.) Here is a listing of Samaritan's Purse Board of Directors and Key Employees Link here Do any of these people have connection's to the Laura Silsby/ Jorge Puello trafficking op? Do they show up at all in Podesta emails?

2.) Does the Greta Academy in Leogane itself show up, tangentially or otherwise, in connections to Silsby and her cohorts, or to any Podesta emails or related leads?
Hope this can potentially shed some light on this sordid mess, good digging.

"If there are computers, societies, and ecosystems that exist, 
this is not merely because new properties emerge (or, as 
reductionists would have it, seem to emerge) from atoms, 
but also because God has placed within each monad all of 
the possibilities of its individual development. In fact, God 
has harmonized all of the possible developmental paths of
all monads through his predeterminations, though He does
not coerce but rather "inclines" each monad towards its
telos."

    -from James L. Kelley "Anatomizing Divinity: Studies in Science, Esotericism and Political Theology"]]> <![CDATA[The Finders - FBI files released]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=16140 Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:41:05 +0000 David Guyatt]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=16140
Imagine the mind of people who allow kids to be sodomised and sexually abused and subjected to Satanic ritual abuse so that VIP's can be blackmailed and the kids can be mind-controlled for later use. Imagine those VIP's who engage in these vile activities.

These are our leaders and their agents. The West is corrupted beyond imagination or belief.

My thanks to Maggie for providing this LINK to the recently declassified FBI files

The story HERE:

Quote:The FBI Declassifies Files on The Finders and McMartin Pre-school Child Trafficking Cases

October 28, 2019 Russ Winter Articles by Russ Winter, Articles by Torchy Blane, Crime, Hidden History, US News, Winter Watch Articles 4
[Image: Satanic-ritual-sex-abuse.jpg?zoom=2&resi...C396&ssl=1][FONT=&amp]In 1983, a woman named Judy Johnson from the affluent California community of Manhattan Beach went to the police, claiming that her 2-year-old son had been molested by Raymond "Ray" Buckey, a 28-year-old teacher at McMartin Preschool. Police began their investigation by notifying the parents of current and former students about the possibility of sexual abuse their child.
Numerous children told similar stories of satanic animal sacrifices and sexual rituals in secret rooms at the school. By 1984, Buckey was arrested on 79 counts of child molestation. His mother was also arrested as a conspirator, as well as several other members of the Buckey family, because McMartin Preschool was owned and operated by the Buckey-McMartin family.
The children said they were warned that if they told anyone, their parents would be killed. And sure enough, just as Buckey's trial got underway in 1986 a trial in which Judy Johnson was a key witness she was discovered dead in her home, cause unknown. She was just 42 years old.
Almost exactly one year later, a former police officer who served as an investigator for the defense suicided himself at home.
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With Johnson dead, Buckey's defense attorney was able to impeached her character during the trial. It was also argued that the testimony of the children had been influenced (or implanted) by the psychological examiners who interviewed them. Ultimately, Buckey was not convicted. A second jury deadlocked in 1990, and the case was dismissed.
For six years, the police and the FBI had actively investigated the McMartin Preschool case, according to the Los Angeles Times. After they closed their file and the Buckey family revealed they had sold the shuttered McMartin Preschool to Arnold Goldstein for the development of an office building frustrated parents of the abused children hired the subsequently retired chief and head of the Los Angeles FBI, special agent Ted L. Gunderson (1928-2011) to continue with the investigation, and commissioned an archaeological survey.
A decade later, you could find Gunderson speaking out about the McMartin case as well as a network of child molesters and traffickers called "The Finders."
For decades, the FBI's files on the McMartin case and The Finders were sealed. Not anymore. The agency declassified and released its files. It shows a decade of research spanning from California to Belgium.
The FBI Files

The investigation into the cases described involve cults, child sex trafficking and kompromat. In recent decades, the mainstream media has refused to report on such cases. Such cases (see below) have been "debunked" by the usual suspects that the Crime Syndicate uses for cover. But the FBI's own investigation suggests the cases were real enough and points to cover ups.
A timeline of events is in the report.
From the news article "Officials describe cult rituals in child abuse case" by Saundra Saperstein and Victoria Churchville of The Washington Post on Feb. 7, 1987:
Douglas J Ammerman' and Michael Houlihan' were arrested at odd hours at a Tallahassee park with 6 unrelated children with no understanding of modern amenities, hot water, TV or phones. The children were reportedly bug bitten, wearing old and ragged clothes and 2/6 reported to have been obviously abused.
Before their arrests in the park, Ammerman and Houlihan had told police that they were teachers from Washington "transporting these children to Mexico and a school for brilliant children," according to Hunt. When police asked the men where the children's mothers were, "they said they were being weaned from their mothers."
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Pages 4-10 shows The Finders were caught many times, but various prosecutors declined to press charges. FBI, the U.S. State Department and others helped cover it up every time.
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On page 40 we see clues as to how the Crime Syndicate's star chamber sistema buries investigative evidence in the wrong agencies, making serious pursuit difficult. The U.S. Customs Service is the agency with briefing materials on The Finders. DOJ and FBI have to request copy of materials from USCS.
What's worse, page 50 from 1991 shows a memo on jurisdiction. It describes how the U.S. Postal Service, the FBI and USCS carve up the turf on child crimes. USCS has jurisdiction over "interdiction and international distribution of child pornography".
"Recently the USCS experienced a massive reorganization. This … caused the Child Porn and Protection Unit to be integrated into the Smuggling Investigations Division. All Units, Branches, and Sections were eliminated during the reorg," the report states.
So somebody in high authority had the power to wipe out a whole unit of agents on the cases. But those names are redacted.
Next we learn that several congressional committees were sniffing around, and that a never-aired documentary was in the works. The story of what happened here has fallen down the memory hole.
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But this document ties in and confirms:
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On page 41, the FBI report contains a link to a Washington Post article in which neighbors of one sketchy property said the residents were "a close-knit group of feminists who liked to help people and were not a cult."The U.S. Attorney for D.C. declined to prosecute despite extensive evidence of abuse and satanic rituals. The case was complicated by the mothers being found, and possibly having given consent. US Attorney involved has an interesting career path to say the least.
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The USCS was pursuing the case. Page 9 points to a cell and repeats the impregnation of females, and the trading of children and kidnapping. What kind of "normal child exploiters" have the operational security to breed and kidnap children for abduction?

[URL="https://i0.wp.com/pbs.twimg.com/media/EHxtPcXUYAA1Sin.jpg?ssl=1"][Image: EHv5InzUUAAOQhQ.jpg?resize=700%2C322&ssl=1]On page 68, a D.C. police investigation concluded that a CIA employee (1950-1979) was a member of The Finders.
"At Approximately 1530 hrs, 2/18/87 Dt. [redacted] spoke with S/A [redacted] reference any contact the members of the Finders may have had with the Agency, S/A/ [redacted] was guarded but frank in his responses. He confirmed that [redacted] Isabelle, now deceased, was an employee of the agency from 1950 until 1971"
WW Note: Likely Isabelle Pettie. Marion David Pettie, was the leader of the cult.
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​The report later states that the CIA saw the D.C. police department as treading on their toes. On page 225, it refers to the "vested interest" of the CIA.
Report mentions bodies being buried on a Finders' farm in Culpepper, Virginia. There were also cages. The role of the CIA is referenced, but it's convoluted. It's almost as if the more powerful agencies treat satanists as a special protected class. In today's inverted, captured world, that wouldn't be surprising.
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[/URL]Indeed, more evidence that there were white hats within the FBI trying to deal with the cover ups. Page 89-95: FBI tries to open an obstruction of justice case to determine if U.S. intelligence is involved. [Image: EHxtSa3U4AAv_51.jpg?zoom=2&resize=603%2C101&ssl=1]
The D.C. Metro police on page 67 also offered up a rather sketchy theory that The Finders was a CIA psyop of some sort, but it never concluded the obvious.
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Page 68 states that during war time, The Finders' people visited restricted Moscow, North Korea and North Vietnam, "which could only have been arranged by the CIA."
Page 85 indicates another Finders property location. So far: Florida, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Ohio. Funded: CIA Founder: CIA lifer into Satanism. Known activities: Breed and raise kids. "Shape" them. Deliver intel assignments.
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Did page 214 show the redacted name of former Los Angeles FBI chief, the aforementioned special agent Ted Gunderson?
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Related Winter Watch posts:
Page 69 shows that agents tried to pass a report to a contact in Europe, but the disc is intercepted and memory holed.
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The next document, from pages 52 to 53, appear to be another jurisdictional grab, instructing that MPD investigative reports were to be classified secret and not to be shared with the FBI. Of course, today we have no idea who the white hats might have been behind the scenes. A star chamber hidden hand is keeping them in the dark. The second document shows the FBI being steered (aka controlled) to HQ level. [Image: EHv8BK6U4AAcI45.jpg?resize=700%2C386&ssl=1]
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Page 99 from Nov. 12, 1993, shows the State Department asked the FBI to handle inquiries on a HQ level.[Image: EHxtStUUEAYuREn.png?zoom=2&resize=501%2C21&ssl=1]
Winter Watch Takeaway

This seems to be about breeding or "finding" made brainwashed assassins and other operatives à la Don Brown's "Angels and Demons." These individuals are raised from infancy and are then inserted within the system as needed. That "Angels and Demons" assassin character may well be the revelation of the method and the template. Additionally, this was 30 years ago, back when white-hats elements were still in play. Today, agencies like the FBI and D.C. Metro are captured. White hats are shuttled to the boondocks, gotten out of the way,
An Important Note About McMartin Students and Debunkers
The McMartin preschool case was high profile at the time and became part of what the neuro-linguist programmers called day-care sex-abuse "hysteria, and moral panic" over alleged Satanic ritual abuse in the 1980s and early 1990s. But that doesn't mean that "wild" and "impossible" stories told by the children don't contain some elements of truth.
It's as if debunkers haven't factored in that hallucinogens and drugs were administered to affect the memory. No, that would require critical thinking, and pajama people are ready for the first feeble explanation. Additionally, the Crime Syndicate concocted false memory syndrome.
Nothing to see here, move along?
Read "False Memory' Narrative Used to Gaslight Child Victims"

One of the controversies in the case were reports by the children and speculation that there were tunnels and rooms under the school center. The debunkers ultimately succeeded in pigeon holing this into the realm of "crazy conspiracy theory."
But lo and behold, we have confirmation of tunnels and rooms by the FBI itself!
Page 48-49 states tunnels were found at McMartin Preschool, as well as pentagrams and bones. It's all part of a descriptive report shown below. Then, at the bottom, comes the standard WTF hidden hand shutting the investigation down.
Page 172: Ritual goat sacrifice with two children.
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Imagine the mind of people who allow kids to be sodomised and sexually abused and subjected to Satanic ritual abuse so that VIP's can be blackmailed and the kids can be mind-controlled for later use. Imagine those VIP's who engage in these vile activities.

These are our leaders and their agents. The West is corrupted beyond imagination or belief.

My thanks to Maggie for providing this LINK to the recently declassified FBI files

The story HERE:

Quote:The FBI Declassifies Files on The Finders and McMartin Pre-school Child Trafficking Cases

October 28, 2019 Russ Winter Articles by Russ Winter, Articles by Torchy Blane, Crime, Hidden History, US News, Winter Watch Articles 4
[Image: Satanic-ritual-sex-abuse.jpg?zoom=2&resi...C396&ssl=1][FONT=&amp]In 1983, a woman named Judy Johnson from the affluent California community of Manhattan Beach went to the police, claiming that her 2-year-old son had been molested by Raymond "Ray" Buckey, a 28-year-old teacher at McMartin Preschool. Police began their investigation by notifying the parents of current and former students about the possibility of sexual abuse their child.
Numerous children told similar stories of satanic animal sacrifices and sexual rituals in secret rooms at the school. By 1984, Buckey was arrested on 79 counts of child molestation. His mother was also arrested as a conspirator, as well as several other members of the Buckey family, because McMartin Preschool was owned and operated by the Buckey-McMartin family.
The children said they were warned that if they told anyone, their parents would be killed. And sure enough, just as Buckey's trial got underway in 1986 a trial in which Judy Johnson was a key witness she was discovered dead in her home, cause unknown. She was just 42 years old.
Almost exactly one year later, a former police officer who served as an investigator for the defense suicided himself at home.
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With Johnson dead, Buckey's defense attorney was able to impeached her character during the trial. It was also argued that the testimony of the children had been influenced (or implanted) by the psychological examiners who interviewed them. Ultimately, Buckey was not convicted. A second jury deadlocked in 1990, and the case was dismissed.
For six years, the police and the FBI had actively investigated the McMartin Preschool case, according to the Los Angeles Times. After they closed their file and the Buckey family revealed they had sold the shuttered McMartin Preschool to Arnold Goldstein for the development of an office building frustrated parents of the abused children hired the subsequently retired chief and head of the Los Angeles FBI, special agent Ted L. Gunderson (1928-2011) to continue with the investigation, and commissioned an archaeological survey.
A decade later, you could find Gunderson speaking out about the McMartin case as well as a network of child molesters and traffickers called "The Finders."
For decades, the FBI's files on the McMartin case and The Finders were sealed. Not anymore. The agency declassified and released its files. It shows a decade of research spanning from California to Belgium.
The FBI Files

The investigation into the cases described involve cults, child sex trafficking and kompromat. In recent decades, the mainstream media has refused to report on such cases. Such cases (see below) have been "debunked" by the usual suspects that the Crime Syndicate uses for cover. But the FBI's own investigation suggests the cases were real enough and points to cover ups.
A timeline of events is in the report.
From the news article "Officials describe cult rituals in child abuse case" by Saundra Saperstein and Victoria Churchville of The Washington Post on Feb. 7, 1987:
Douglas J Ammerman' and Michael Houlihan' were arrested at odd hours at a Tallahassee park with 6 unrelated children with no understanding of modern amenities, hot water, TV or phones. The children were reportedly bug bitten, wearing old and ragged clothes and 2/6 reported to have been obviously abused.
Before their arrests in the park, Ammerman and Houlihan had told police that they were teachers from Washington "transporting these children to Mexico and a school for brilliant children," according to Hunt. When police asked the men where the children's mothers were, "they said they were being weaned from their mothers."
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Pages 4-10 shows The Finders were caught many times, but various prosecutors declined to press charges. FBI, the U.S. State Department and others helped cover it up every time.
On page 39 we learn of a request that the FBI review original first-hand docs on The Finders instead of relying on previous agents summaries or review reports. Permission would be required to see the direct evidence.[Image: EHxtPcXUYAA1Sin.jpg?zoom=2&resize=678%2C123&ssl=1]
On page 40 we see clues as to how the Crime Syndicate's star chamber sistema buries investigative evidence in the wrong agencies, making serious pursuit difficult. The U.S. Customs Service is the agency with briefing materials on The Finders. DOJ and FBI have to request copy of materials from USCS.
What's worse, page 50 from 1991 shows a memo on jurisdiction. It describes how the U.S. Postal Service, the FBI and USCS carve up the turf on child crimes. USCS has jurisdiction over "interdiction and international distribution of child pornography".
"Recently the USCS experienced a massive reorganization. This … caused the Child Porn and Protection Unit to be integrated into the Smuggling Investigations Division. All Units, Branches, and Sections were eliminated during the reorg," the report states.
So somebody in high authority had the power to wipe out a whole unit of agents on the cases. But those names are redacted.
Next we learn that several congressional committees were sniffing around, and that a never-aired documentary was in the works. The story of what happened here has fallen down the memory hole.
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But this document ties in and confirms:
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On page 41, the FBI report contains a link to a Washington Post article in which neighbors of one sketchy property said the residents were "a close-knit group of feminists who liked to help people and were not a cult."The U.S. Attorney for D.C. declined to prosecute despite extensive evidence of abuse and satanic rituals. The case was complicated by the mothers being found, and possibly having given consent. US Attorney involved has an interesting career path to say the least.
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The USCS was pursuing the case. Page 9 points to a cell and repeats the impregnation of females, and the trading of children and kidnapping. What kind of "normal child exploiters" have the operational security to breed and kidnap children for abduction?

[URL="https://i0.wp.com/pbs.twimg.com/media/EHxtPcXUYAA1Sin.jpg?ssl=1"][Image: EHv5InzUUAAOQhQ.jpg?resize=700%2C322&ssl=1]On page 68, a D.C. police investigation concluded that a CIA employee (1950-1979) was a member of The Finders.
"At Approximately 1530 hrs, 2/18/87 Dt. [redacted] spoke with S/A [redacted] reference any contact the members of the Finders may have had with the Agency, S/A/ [redacted] was guarded but frank in his responses. He confirmed that [redacted] Isabelle, now deceased, was an employee of the agency from 1950 until 1971"
WW Note: Likely Isabelle Pettie. Marion David Pettie, was the leader of the cult.
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​The report later states that the CIA saw the D.C. police department as treading on their toes. On page 225, it refers to the "vested interest" of the CIA.
Report mentions bodies being buried on a Finders' farm in Culpepper, Virginia. There were also cages. The role of the CIA is referenced, but it's convoluted. It's almost as if the more powerful agencies treat satanists as a special protected class. In today's inverted, captured world, that wouldn't be surprising.
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[/URL]Indeed, more evidence that there were white hats within the FBI trying to deal with the cover ups. Page 89-95: FBI tries to open an obstruction of justice case to determine if U.S. intelligence is involved. [Image: EHxtSa3U4AAv_51.jpg?zoom=2&resize=603%2C101&ssl=1]
The D.C. Metro police on page 67 also offered up a rather sketchy theory that The Finders was a CIA psyop of some sort, but it never concluded the obvious.
[Image: Capture-16.png?resize=750%2C575&ssl=1]
Page 68 states that during war time, The Finders' people visited restricted Moscow, North Korea and North Vietnam, "which could only have been arranged by the CIA."
Page 85 indicates another Finders property location. So far: Florida, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Ohio. Funded: CIA Founder: CIA lifer into Satanism. Known activities: Breed and raise kids. "Shape" them. Deliver intel assignments.
[Image: EHxtSJJUYAAht9m.png?zoom=2&resize=350%2C75&ssl=1]
Did page 214 show the redacted name of former Los Angeles FBI chief, the aforementioned special agent Ted Gunderson?
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Related Winter Watch posts:
Page 69 shows that agents tried to pass a report to a contact in Europe, but the disc is intercepted and memory holed.
[Image: EHxtRgpVAAEjQt-.jpg?zoom=2&resize=678%2C154&ssl=1]
The next document, from pages 52 to 53, appear to be another jurisdictional grab, instructing that MPD investigative reports were to be classified secret and not to be shared with the FBI. Of course, today we have no idea who the white hats might have been behind the scenes. A star chamber hidden hand is keeping them in the dark. The second document shows the FBI being steered (aka controlled) to HQ level. [Image: EHv8BK6U4AAcI45.jpg?resize=700%2C386&ssl=1]
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Page 99 from Nov. 12, 1993, shows the State Department asked the FBI to handle inquiries on a HQ level.[Image: EHxtStUUEAYuREn.png?zoom=2&resize=501%2C21&ssl=1]
Winter Watch Takeaway

This seems to be about breeding or "finding" made brainwashed assassins and other operatives à la Don Brown's "Angels and Demons." These individuals are raised from infancy and are then inserted within the system as needed. That "Angels and Demons" assassin character may well be the revelation of the method and the template. Additionally, this was 30 years ago, back when white-hats elements were still in play. Today, agencies like the FBI and D.C. Metro are captured. White hats are shuttled to the boondocks, gotten out of the way,
An Important Note About McMartin Students and Debunkers
The McMartin preschool case was high profile at the time and became part of what the neuro-linguist programmers called day-care sex-abuse "hysteria, and moral panic" over alleged Satanic ritual abuse in the 1980s and early 1990s. But that doesn't mean that "wild" and "impossible" stories told by the children don't contain some elements of truth.
It's as if debunkers haven't factored in that hallucinogens and drugs were administered to affect the memory. No, that would require critical thinking, and pajama people are ready for the first feeble explanation. Additionally, the Crime Syndicate concocted false memory syndrome.
Nothing to see here, move along?
Read "False Memory' Narrative Used to Gaslight Child Victims"

One of the controversies in the case were reports by the children and speculation that there were tunnels and rooms under the school center. The debunkers ultimately succeeded in pigeon holing this into the realm of "crazy conspiracy theory."
But lo and behold, we have confirmation of tunnels and rooms by the FBI itself!
Page 48-49 states tunnels were found at McMartin Preschool, as well as pentagrams and bones. It's all part of a descriptive report shown below. Then, at the bottom, comes the standard WTF hidden hand shutting the investigation down.
Page 172: Ritual goat sacrifice with two children.
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]]> <![CDATA[Current Royal Family and Church Ritual Sacrifice]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15740 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 22:25:00 +0000 Lauren Johnson]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15740 ]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Weinstein, Mossad, Epstein, Kroll, Singer]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15675 Tue, 07 Nov 2017 21:53:38 +0000 Anthony Thorne]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15675
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk...y-of-spies

Weinstein hired 'ex' Mossad agents to spy on his female accusers for the better part of a year, and hired various corporate intelligence companies to strategise and spy further for him. One of the companies is Kroll, probably better known here for its status as a WTC security company after the 1993 WTC bombing, and its links to various 9/11 perps as outlined in articles by Kevin Ryan and Joel Van Der Reijden.

Quote:According to dozens of pages of documents, and seven people directly involved in the effort, the firms that Weinstein hired included Kroll, which is one of the world's largest corporate-intelligence companies, and Black Cube, an enterprise run largely by former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies. Black Cube, which has branches in Tel Aviv, London, and Paris, offers its clients the skills of operatives "highly experienced and trained in Israel's elite military and governmental intelligence units," according to its literature.

Online articles are beginning to appear linking Weinstein's coterie of abusive buddies with the Jeffrey Epstein flights that involved high profile elites going overseas for sex parties on luxury islands. The Hollywood gossip site Crazy Days and Nights (an anonymous, pointedly nasty rumour page) has begun dipping a toe in some of the grimmer accusations, and comments under the posts there sometimes flesh out more details. When Kevin Spacey was accused of attempting to seduce an underage boy, a Daily Mail article appeared labelling Spacey's father as a 'Nazi rapist'. It's obviously unclear whether this is genuine information, or a concocted story made to send a message to certain people or a certain group. It could be either.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-says.html

The recent Kevin Spacey accusations - a comment at CDAN suggested he'd been flying to poor countries on Epstein's planes, to rape underage boys, and had then boasted to his private circle of having deducted the flights on his tax - have led to articles pointing to director Bryan Singer, who himself has been the subject of abuse lawsuits. Singer has run parties with teens and middle-aged producers meeting for illicit activities for the better part of two decades, and rumours suggest some attendees have been underage. The CDAN site mentions that Singer's lawyers and other powerful people are cautioning Singer's party attendees to keep quiet. In the thick of this, VERONICA MARS actor Brad Bufanda, a teen during the early years of Singer's party activities, committed suicide, or 'suicide', by throwing himself off a tall building three days after Singer's name began trending alongside abuse accusations on Twitter.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/brad-buf...202606441/

Past investigations of Franklin-style activities usually lead to suicides and convenient deaths. This time may be no different. As with the Jimmy Saville scandal in the UK, more details will likely surface over time. It will probably not be a pretty story.]]>
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk...y-of-spies

Weinstein hired 'ex' Mossad agents to spy on his female accusers for the better part of a year, and hired various corporate intelligence companies to strategise and spy further for him. One of the companies is Kroll, probably better known here for its status as a WTC security company after the 1993 WTC bombing, and its links to various 9/11 perps as outlined in articles by Kevin Ryan and Joel Van Der Reijden.

Quote:According to dozens of pages of documents, and seven people directly involved in the effort, the firms that Weinstein hired included Kroll, which is one of the world's largest corporate-intelligence companies, and Black Cube, an enterprise run largely by former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies. Black Cube, which has branches in Tel Aviv, London, and Paris, offers its clients the skills of operatives "highly experienced and trained in Israel's elite military and governmental intelligence units," according to its literature.

Online articles are beginning to appear linking Weinstein's coterie of abusive buddies with the Jeffrey Epstein flights that involved high profile elites going overseas for sex parties on luxury islands. The Hollywood gossip site Crazy Days and Nights (an anonymous, pointedly nasty rumour page) has begun dipping a toe in some of the grimmer accusations, and comments under the posts there sometimes flesh out more details. When Kevin Spacey was accused of attempting to seduce an underage boy, a Daily Mail article appeared labelling Spacey's father as a 'Nazi rapist'. It's obviously unclear whether this is genuine information, or a concocted story made to send a message to certain people or a certain group. It could be either.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-says.html

The recent Kevin Spacey accusations - a comment at CDAN suggested he'd been flying to poor countries on Epstein's planes, to rape underage boys, and had then boasted to his private circle of having deducted the flights on his tax - have led to articles pointing to director Bryan Singer, who himself has been the subject of abuse lawsuits. Singer has run parties with teens and middle-aged producers meeting for illicit activities for the better part of two decades, and rumours suggest some attendees have been underage. The CDAN site mentions that Singer's lawyers and other powerful people are cautioning Singer's party attendees to keep quiet. In the thick of this, VERONICA MARS actor Brad Bufanda, a teen during the early years of Singer's party activities, committed suicide, or 'suicide', by throwing himself off a tall building three days after Singer's name began trending alongside abuse accusations on Twitter.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/brad-buf...202606441/

Past investigations of Franklin-style activities usually lead to suicides and convenient deaths. This time may be no different. As with the Jimmy Saville scandal in the UK, more details will likely surface over time. It will probably not be a pretty story.]]> <![CDATA[Bush-linked child sex ring in Florida and Georgia?]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15570 Sun, 30 Jul 2017 22:00:13 +0000 George Klees]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15570 John Couey, the Florida man who kidnapped, raped, and murdered 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, and was sentenced to death. But Couey's crime likely had an untold political significance that necessitated a coverup of its full extent by local, state, and federal authorities. Specifically, Couey appears to have been part of a larger ring involving drugs and sex that was connected to prominent politicians and businessmen in Florida and Georgia. He was quickly sentenced and eliminated, made to appear like a lone pedophile. But was he really?

This alleged Florida/Georgia sex ring, which I discuss in a wiki article of mine, ties in numerous elements:
  • Hispanic immigrant trafficking by Coggins Farms of Lake Park GA, a farm whose family members are said to be prominent businessmen connected to Senator Saxby Chambliss and even the Bushes
  • The Clint Curtis story of political corruption (involving close political allies of the Bushes), Chinese espionage, and election fraud; and the associated death of Florida state investigator Ray Lemme
  • Pandering of child sex slaves to politicians, businessmen, and the police (much like the Franklin scandal or Dutroux affair)
  • John Couey's infamous case, and what wasn't told by the official story: the involvement of more people than just Couey (including his family and Jessica's family), how Jessica's father escaped a child porn charge, Couey's strange death, and the possible connection to Coggins Farms
  • A probable CIA asset, cocaine smuggler Hank Asher, being used to offer hush money to Jessica Lunsford's father

From my wiki page:

Quote:In 2005, a series of allegations were made about a sex trafficking ring in the Valdosta GA area. They came out right after the arrest of John Couey, a Florida sex offender who had raped and murdered 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford before fleeing to Georgia. Two different articles, one by Ralph Kershaw and one by Dan Hayworth and Roger Schmid, cited unnamed law enforcement sources in linking Couey to a pedophile ring in South Georgia. This alleged ring involved Coggins Farms trafficking illegal immigrants, pandered children to political elites in Valdosta, and was part of Ray Lemme's investigation.

Despite a lack of hard evidence, some elements of this ring have been corroborated. A couple months after those two articles, John Caylor independently published an interview with a former Coggins employee done in December 2004, who had mentioned illegal immigrant trafficking for farm labor and sex. In 2009, true crime author Chris Dahl began investigating the John Couey case and found signs that political pressure was being exerted to cover up its full extent. Dahl identified a couple pieces of evidence that would fit with Couey's involvement in a Georgia sex ring. And a prostitution ring in the Georgia area that trafficked immigrant women to provide sex to farm laborers was busted in 2013, confirming the presence of illegal immigrant sex trafficking in the region.
]]> John Couey, the Florida man who kidnapped, raped, and murdered 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, and was sentenced to death. But Couey's crime likely had an untold political significance that necessitated a coverup of its full extent by local, state, and federal authorities. Specifically, Couey appears to have been part of a larger ring involving drugs and sex that was connected to prominent politicians and businessmen in Florida and Georgia. He was quickly sentenced and eliminated, made to appear like a lone pedophile. But was he really?

This alleged Florida/Georgia sex ring, which I discuss in a wiki article of mine, ties in numerous elements:
  • Hispanic immigrant trafficking by Coggins Farms of Lake Park GA, a farm whose family members are said to be prominent businessmen connected to Senator Saxby Chambliss and even the Bushes
  • The Clint Curtis story of political corruption (involving close political allies of the Bushes), Chinese espionage, and election fraud; and the associated death of Florida state investigator Ray Lemme
  • Pandering of child sex slaves to politicians, businessmen, and the police (much like the Franklin scandal or Dutroux affair)
  • John Couey's infamous case, and what wasn't told by the official story: the involvement of more people than just Couey (including his family and Jessica's family), how Jessica's father escaped a child porn charge, Couey's strange death, and the possible connection to Coggins Farms
  • A probable CIA asset, cocaine smuggler Hank Asher, being used to offer hush money to Jessica Lunsford's father

From my wiki page:

Quote:In 2005, a series of allegations were made about a sex trafficking ring in the Valdosta GA area. They came out right after the arrest of John Couey, a Florida sex offender who had raped and murdered 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford before fleeing to Georgia. Two different articles, one by Ralph Kershaw and one by Dan Hayworth and Roger Schmid, cited unnamed law enforcement sources in linking Couey to a pedophile ring in South Georgia. This alleged ring involved Coggins Farms trafficking illegal immigrants, pandered children to political elites in Valdosta, and was part of Ray Lemme's investigation.

Despite a lack of hard evidence, some elements of this ring have been corroborated. A couple months after those two articles, John Caylor independently published an interview with a former Coggins employee done in December 2004, who had mentioned illegal immigrant trafficking for farm labor and sex. In 2009, true crime author Chris Dahl began investigating the John Couey case and found signs that political pressure was being exerted to cover up its full extent. Dahl identified a couple pieces of evidence that would fit with Couey's involvement in a Georgia sex ring. And a prostitution ring in the Georgia area that trafficked immigrant women to provide sex to farm laborers was busted in 2013, confirming the presence of illegal immigrant sex trafficking in the region.
]]> <![CDATA[Kendall: the story of an elite sex slave]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15410 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:48 +0000 Lauren Johnson]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15410
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]]> <![CDATA[Parabiosis]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15235 Tue, 27 Dec 2016 05:17:11 +0000 Magda Hassan]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15235
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FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH


Anne Rice on Peter Thiel's Interest in Harvesting Young People's Blood

"Everybody has blood to give," says the acclaimed vampire novelist.
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12.27.16 1:38 AM ET


Parabiosis, or the practice of having younger people's blood transfused into one's veins in order to prolong life, sounds unsavoryvampiric, even. It may conjure up images of the sci-fi film The Matrix, where tens of thousands of synthetic humans are hardwired into pods, their energy mined to power futuristic machines, or a dystopian society where the rich and powerful subsist on the blood of the poor.

But as far as anti-aging studies go, parabiosis appears promising. According to Inc., a company called Ambrosia in Monterey, California, is conducting clinical trials wherein participants 35 and older agree to pay $8,000 apiece to receive a transfusion of blood from those aged 16-25, and then have their blood monitored over the next two years to determine if there's been any improvement in the patient's health.


"The effects seem to be almost permanent," Ambrosia founder Jesse Karmazin, a Stanford-trained anti-aging expert, told Inc. "It's almost like there's a resetting of gene expression."

The study made headlines in August when it was revealed that Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist and Facebook angel investoras well as a surrogate for President-elect Trump and key member of his transition teamhad inquired about Ambrosia's parabiosis study as a potential health treatment for himself.

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"I'm not convinced yet we've found a single panacea that works. It's possible there exist single-point things that could work. I'm looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting," he told Inc. "This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect. And so that's... that is one that... again, it's one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether. I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely underexplored."

Anne Rice, the celebrated vampire novelist behind The Vampire Chronicles series of books, is fascinated by parabiosis, too.

"I don't know why that needs to involve the hyper-rich. I have read about that, and it sounds extremely promising and interesting and worth experimenting with," she tells me of parabiosis.

"Blood is something that everybody has to give. I don't see why it has to involve only rich people. It seems to me that there are probably millions of young people who would share their blood for a reasonable price, and that it needn't be such an expensive commodity," adds Rice. "After all, blood regenerates. It's not like you have a limited amount of blood. It's not like giving up an organ where you only have one of that organ and it won't ever be replaced. Blood, again, regenerates, so that's a field of research that could benefit hundreds of thousands of people on all economic levels."


The bestselling author's daughter, Michele, was diagnosed with acute granulocytic leukemia in 1970. She passed away two years later from the disease, shortly before her sixth birthday. Rice channeled her grief on the page, penning her debut novel Interview with the Vampire in just five weeks, and included the character of Claudia, a five-year-old vampire with an insatiable thirst for life-sustaining blood, as a tribute to Michele. So the topic of blood transfusions is a very personal one for Rice.

"Maybe that will be very, very helpful to people," she says. "It's one of the more interesting and helpful and promising areas of study I've heard about because everybody has blood to give."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...blood.html]]>
Quote:

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH


Anne Rice on Peter Thiel's Interest in Harvesting Young People's Blood

"Everybody has blood to give," says the acclaimed vampire novelist.
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Marlow Stern


12.27.16 1:38 AM ET


Parabiosis, or the practice of having younger people's blood transfused into one's veins in order to prolong life, sounds unsavoryvampiric, even. It may conjure up images of the sci-fi film The Matrix, where tens of thousands of synthetic humans are hardwired into pods, their energy mined to power futuristic machines, or a dystopian society where the rich and powerful subsist on the blood of the poor.

But as far as anti-aging studies go, parabiosis appears promising. According to Inc., a company called Ambrosia in Monterey, California, is conducting clinical trials wherein participants 35 and older agree to pay $8,000 apiece to receive a transfusion of blood from those aged 16-25, and then have their blood monitored over the next two years to determine if there's been any improvement in the patient's health.


"The effects seem to be almost permanent," Ambrosia founder Jesse Karmazin, a Stanford-trained anti-aging expert, told Inc. "It's almost like there's a resetting of gene expression."

The study made headlines in August when it was revealed that Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist and Facebook angel investoras well as a surrogate for President-elect Trump and key member of his transition teamhad inquired about Ambrosia's parabiosis study as a potential health treatment for himself.

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"I'm not convinced yet we've found a single panacea that works. It's possible there exist single-point things that could work. I'm looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting," he told Inc. "This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect. And so that's... that is one that... again, it's one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether. I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely underexplored."

Anne Rice, the celebrated vampire novelist behind The Vampire Chronicles series of books, is fascinated by parabiosis, too.

"I don't know why that needs to involve the hyper-rich. I have read about that, and it sounds extremely promising and interesting and worth experimenting with," she tells me of parabiosis.

"Blood is something that everybody has to give. I don't see why it has to involve only rich people. It seems to me that there are probably millions of young people who would share their blood for a reasonable price, and that it needn't be such an expensive commodity," adds Rice. "After all, blood regenerates. It's not like you have a limited amount of blood. It's not like giving up an organ where you only have one of that organ and it won't ever be replaced. Blood, again, regenerates, so that's a field of research that could benefit hundreds of thousands of people on all economic levels."


The bestselling author's daughter, Michele, was diagnosed with acute granulocytic leukemia in 1970. She passed away two years later from the disease, shortly before her sixth birthday. Rice channeled her grief on the page, penning her debut novel Interview with the Vampire in just five weeks, and included the character of Claudia, a five-year-old vampire with an insatiable thirst for life-sustaining blood, as a tribute to Michele. So the topic of blood transfusions is a very personal one for Rice.

"Maybe that will be very, very helpful to people," she says. "It's one of the more interesting and helpful and promising areas of study I've heard about because everybody has blood to give."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...blood.html]]> <![CDATA[Irag torture watched via video conferencing by Cheney and others]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15218 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:46:08 +0000 Lauren Johnson]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15218 Wayne Madsen December, 2014. Madsen writes about some details not widely published about live streaming of torture sessions suggestion of "sexual voyeurism."

Quote:The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's Study of the
CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, otherwise known
as the "Torture Report," contains a number of references to
male sexual abuse also seen in past reports about torture at
the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo.
The sexual abuse centers around inserting objects into the
rectums of detainees. In the recent Senate report this
activity also borders on coprophilia, a fetish that WMR
exposed in the past on this website as one of Vice President
Dick Cheney's more prurient interests. Coprophilia is defined
as "paraphilia involving sexual arousal and pleasure from
feces." Upon its release by Senate Intelligence Committee
chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Cheney was quick to defend
the interrogation and detention practices revealed in the
report.
Not only does the report state that detainees, including Abu
Zubaydah, were subject to frequent rectal examinations but
they were also subjected to "rectal fluid resuscitation" for
"partially refusing liquids." The report states that Majid Khan,
a legal resident of the United States from Pakistan, was "very
hostile to rectal feeding and removed the rectal tube as soon
as he was allowed to."
In addition, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, charged as the planner
of the 9/11 attack, was "subjected to rectal rehydration
without a determination of medical need, a procedure that
KSM interrogator and chief of interrogations, [redacted]
would later characterize as illustrative of the interrogator's
'total control over the detainee.'" Another detainee, Marwan
al-Jabbur, a native of Pakistan who was later released after
being held at various CIA black sites, was subjected to what was originally called an "enema," but was later acknowledged
to be rectal rehydration. The report states that Abdul Rahim
al-Nashiri, charged with being the mastermind of the 2000
bombing of the USS Cole, and Majid Khan were subjected to
rectal feeding. The CIA destroyed tapes of al-Nashiri being
waterboarded at the CIA black site, called the "Blue Site," in
Poland. Three detainees, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Khallad bin
Attash, and Adnan al-Libi, were threatened with rectal
rehydration.
Medical professionals contacted by WMR said there is no
evidence that any nourishment can be achieved by giving
someone a colonic enema or rectal infusion of food matter.
The Senate report states that Majid Khan was infused rectally
with a pureed "lunch tray" of hummus, pasta with sauce,
nuts, and raisins. The CIA's June 2013 Response to the
Senate committee failed to address the use of rectal feeding
with CIA detainees, but defends the use of rectal rehydration
as a "well acknowledged medical technique." Doctors WMR
consulted rejected the CIA's statement as nonsense. The
report also states that the "CIA leadership, including General
Counsel Scott Muller and DDO James Pavitt, was also alerted
to allegations that rectal exams were conducted with
'excessive force' on two detainees at DETENTION SITE
COBALT [located in Afghanistan and known as the "Salt Pit"].
CIA attorney [redacted] was asked to follow up, although CIA
records do not indicate any resolution of the inquiry. CIA
records indicate that one of the detainees, Mustafa al-
Hawsawi, was later diagnosed with chronic hemorrhoids, an
anal fissure, and symptomatic prolapse." Al-Hawsawi,
charged with being the financier of the 9/11 attack, remains
in detention in Guantanamo.
According to the report, it is quite likely that the "rectal
infusions" were contained in CIA videotapes of the
interrogations of Zubaydah and al-Nashiri. It is also known that live video streaming of interrogations was viewed by
senior U.S. government officials. According to the report,
"CIA officers were observing the foreign government
interrogations of Ammar al-Baluchi via video feed." Al
Baluchi, a native of Kuwait accused of being an Al Qaeda
financier in Pakistan and Dubai, was held in a CIA black site
and is currently in Guantanamo.
After the Senate Intelligence Committee expressed interest
in the torture videotapes, the CIA destroyed them on
November 9, 2005, according to the report. The number of
videotapes held by the CIA and destroyed is not disclosed.
The report indicates that other videotapes of torture were
destroyed by the CIA beginning in December 2007.
WMR previously reported that live video streaming
equipment used by Vice President Cheney and his aides to
view torture sessions in his Old Executive Building office was
destroyed by a suspicious fire. On May 28, 2009, WMR
reported: "On December 22, 2008, WMR reported on the
high-tech support provided the Bush-Cheney White House by
Mike Connell's GovTech Solutions and his close colleague Jeff
Averbeck's firm SmarTech. Connell died last December when
the plane he was piloting crashed short of landing in Akron,
Ohio. We have now learned that Connell and Averbeck may
have been behind the installation of live streaming black
boxes in the White House and the Eisenhower Old Executive
Office Building used to stream live video of torture sessions
in Guantanamo, Cuba and Abu Ghraib to the Old Executive
Office Building office of Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief
Counsel David Addington and into the White House, itself."
Addington is mentioned a number of times in the Senate
report as being a key player in the torture program. WMR's
May 28, 2009 report continued: "The fire that broke out in an
'electrical closet' in the Old Executive Office Building on December 19, 2007, near Cheney's ceremonial office likely
contained the live streaming boxes used to stream torture
sessions from Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, according to our
sources who added that SmartTech and Airnet have been in
the live streaming video business since 2002. With the recent
statement of retired U.S. Army General Antonio Taguba that
rape and other sexual molestation sessions were prevalent at
Abu Ghraib and that they were photographed, the stories of
the suspicious death of Connell and the White House fire
have taken on new relevancy. As reported by WMR on
January 10, 2008: 'Army Major General Antonio Taguba's
report on Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse stated that the abuse
included 'A male MP guard 'having sex' with a female
detainee.' 'Having sex' was an obvious attempt to avoid the
use of the word 'rape.' It is obvious that Taguba's report was
either altered or some evidence was not shared with him and
his investigators . . . Another investigation conducted by Lt.
Gen. Anthony Jones and Maj. Gen. George Fay of Abu Ghraib
reported male homosexual rape of prisoners but not the rape
of female prisoners."
The Taguba report on detainee abuse in Iraq also stated that
detainees were sodomized with glow sticks. WMR also
reported that U.S. sodomized underage teens at Iraqi
detention facilities with broom sticks and flashlights and that
videotapes of this abuse were made available to senior White
House staff for "entertainment" purposes. The coprophilia
angle again came into play when in 2006 photographs from
Abu Ghraib prison were released that showed prisoners
crawling on the floor naked, being forced to perform sexual
acts, and being covered in feces.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld also personally
oversaw sexual abuse of at least one detainee. A December
2005 internal US Army Inspector General report leaked to
the on-line publication Salon.com described how Rumsfeld personally monitored by telephone the interrogation of Saudi
detainee Mohamed el Qahtani, described as the "20th
hijacker." Lt. Gen. Randall Schmidt reported to the Inspector
General that the abuse of Qahtani "looked like Abu Ghraib."
Qahtani was forced to wear women's underwear, perform sex
acts in front of a woman, and perform "dog tricks" while
wearing a leash. The nudity and "stress position" acts were
personally approved by Rumsfeld in December 2002.
However, it is Cheney who has been quick to defend the
sexually perverse interrogation practices from which he
appears to have derived personal gratification. On October
26, 2006, WMR reported that people who knew Dick Cheney
in Wyoming before he served in the Nixon administration
claimed he always had an unusual penchant for hanging
around young girls, some as young as seven-years old.
Cheney reportedly walked around his Wyoming home in his
underwear, sometimes when his two young daughters'
friends were visiting. Cheney did not seem to mind that his
activities around his home would inevitably expose his penis
to the young girls.
Senate Intelligence Committee report on rectal rehydration
appears to match Dick Cheney's most prurient sexual interests. Cheney's staff suppressed the above edition of The
Globe from DC metro area supermarkets.
WMR also reported: "Cheney served as a Congressman from
Wyoming from 1979 to 1989. This was during a time when
two major page scandals, both involving Republican
members of Congress, rocked Capitol Hill. They were the
Koreagate scandal and the page/prostitutes visiting the White
House in the late 1980s. In 1981, Lynne Cheney wrote
"Sisters," an Old West novel containing lesbian themes. Dick
Cheney's close friend and former chief of staff Scooter Libby
penned a novel called "The Apprentice." The following is an
excerpt from Libby's book, which features its main character,
Yukiko, drawing hair on the 'mound' of a little girl: 'At age 10
the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to
couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not
fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars
and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose
interest.'"
In 2002, Cheney held a reception for the publication of the
second edition of Libby's book at the vice president's
mansion.
On June 5, 2007, WMR reported on bizarre and kinky sexual
practices engaged in by top Bush administration and other
Republican officials by clients of "DC Madam" Jeane Palfrey's
Pamela Martin & Associates escort service and other services:
"The Bush administration's increasing nervousness about
Deborah Jeane Palfrey's phone list is understandable after
more details have emerged about some of the more bizarre
prurient appetites of some past clients of Pamela Martin &
Associates clients, said to include top officials of the Bush
administration, Congressional members and staffers, and at
least two well-known Washington, DC journalists. Some escorts regularly paid visits to clients with whips and
handcuffs as part of their regular ensemble.
Prostitutes hired by Louisiana Senator David Vitter in New
Orleans are reporting that Vitter had a bizarre sexual fetish --
he liked to wear diapers during his trysts.
While that may be weird, some other prostitution clients due
to be outed in Washington would appear much more bizarre.
WMR has learned that certain VIPs who engaged the services
of 'fantasy' escorts enjoyed what is known as 'water sports'
-- firstly, practices that involve urination and, 'number two,'
activities that are even worse.
Cheney's coprophilia fetish was the subject of WMR's April
11, 2008 report, "Cheney, according to knowledgeable
sources involved in the Palfrey trial, paid at least one escort
to straddle a glass top table and defecate on it while Cheney
peered at the bowel 'evacuation' from underneath." The act
was performed before Cheney became vice president at a
town home next door to his own residence at Madison of
McLean, an upscale housing development in McLean, Virginia
close to the CIA's headquarters. Palfrey, had been found
guilty of racketeering, mail fraud, and money laundering on
April 15, 2008, just four days after WMR published its report
about her escorts being involved in coprophiliac activities
with Cheney. On May 1, 2008, Palfrey was found hanging in a
utility shed at her mother's home in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
Police ruled the death a "suicide."
After WMR's report on Cheney's use of Palfrey's escorts ran
on the front cover of The Globe supermarket tabloid, the
editor was informed that Cheney's aides pressured two local
retailers, Giant Food and Safeway, not to carry that issue.
However, CVS pharmacy did sell the issue.
The bottom line on the rectal abuse at the CIA black sites, Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib is that it was performed
not to extract any meaningful intelligence but for the sexual
gratification of coprohiliacs like Dick Cheney and his closest
associates. While squirting a puree of hummus, pasta, nuts
and raisins into the rectums of U.S. detainees had no
nutritional value for prisoners who refused to eat, the
prurient nature of the procedure is in keeping with the
bizarre sexual appetites of Mr. Cheney and his entourage.


http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20141210
]]> Wayne Madsen December, 2014. Madsen writes about some details not widely published about live streaming of torture sessions suggestion of "sexual voyeurism."

Quote:The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's Study of the
CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, otherwise known
as the "Torture Report," contains a number of references to
male sexual abuse also seen in past reports about torture at
the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo.
The sexual abuse centers around inserting objects into the
rectums of detainees. In the recent Senate report this
activity also borders on coprophilia, a fetish that WMR
exposed in the past on this website as one of Vice President
Dick Cheney's more prurient interests. Coprophilia is defined
as "paraphilia involving sexual arousal and pleasure from
feces." Upon its release by Senate Intelligence Committee
chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Cheney was quick to defend
the interrogation and detention practices revealed in the
report.
Not only does the report state that detainees, including Abu
Zubaydah, were subject to frequent rectal examinations but
they were also subjected to "rectal fluid resuscitation" for
"partially refusing liquids." The report states that Majid Khan,
a legal resident of the United States from Pakistan, was "very
hostile to rectal feeding and removed the rectal tube as soon
as he was allowed to."
In addition, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, charged as the planner
of the 9/11 attack, was "subjected to rectal rehydration
without a determination of medical need, a procedure that
KSM interrogator and chief of interrogations, [redacted]
would later characterize as illustrative of the interrogator's
'total control over the detainee.'" Another detainee, Marwan
al-Jabbur, a native of Pakistan who was later released after
being held at various CIA black sites, was subjected to what was originally called an "enema," but was later acknowledged
to be rectal rehydration. The report states that Abdul Rahim
al-Nashiri, charged with being the mastermind of the 2000
bombing of the USS Cole, and Majid Khan were subjected to
rectal feeding. The CIA destroyed tapes of al-Nashiri being
waterboarded at the CIA black site, called the "Blue Site," in
Poland. Three detainees, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Khallad bin
Attash, and Adnan al-Libi, were threatened with rectal
rehydration.
Medical professionals contacted by WMR said there is no
evidence that any nourishment can be achieved by giving
someone a colonic enema or rectal infusion of food matter.
The Senate report states that Majid Khan was infused rectally
with a pureed "lunch tray" of hummus, pasta with sauce,
nuts, and raisins. The CIA's June 2013 Response to the
Senate committee failed to address the use of rectal feeding
with CIA detainees, but defends the use of rectal rehydration
as a "well acknowledged medical technique." Doctors WMR
consulted rejected the CIA's statement as nonsense. The
report also states that the "CIA leadership, including General
Counsel Scott Muller and DDO James Pavitt, was also alerted
to allegations that rectal exams were conducted with
'excessive force' on two detainees at DETENTION SITE
COBALT [located in Afghanistan and known as the "Salt Pit"].
CIA attorney [redacted] was asked to follow up, although CIA
records do not indicate any resolution of the inquiry. CIA
records indicate that one of the detainees, Mustafa al-
Hawsawi, was later diagnosed with chronic hemorrhoids, an
anal fissure, and symptomatic prolapse." Al-Hawsawi,
charged with being the financier of the 9/11 attack, remains
in detention in Guantanamo.
According to the report, it is quite likely that the "rectal
infusions" were contained in CIA videotapes of the
interrogations of Zubaydah and al-Nashiri. It is also known that live video streaming of interrogations was viewed by
senior U.S. government officials. According to the report,
"CIA officers were observing the foreign government
interrogations of Ammar al-Baluchi via video feed." Al
Baluchi, a native of Kuwait accused of being an Al Qaeda
financier in Pakistan and Dubai, was held in a CIA black site
and is currently in Guantanamo.
After the Senate Intelligence Committee expressed interest
in the torture videotapes, the CIA destroyed them on
November 9, 2005, according to the report. The number of
videotapes held by the CIA and destroyed is not disclosed.
The report indicates that other videotapes of torture were
destroyed by the CIA beginning in December 2007.
WMR previously reported that live video streaming
equipment used by Vice President Cheney and his aides to
view torture sessions in his Old Executive Building office was
destroyed by a suspicious fire. On May 28, 2009, WMR
reported: "On December 22, 2008, WMR reported on the
high-tech support provided the Bush-Cheney White House by
Mike Connell's GovTech Solutions and his close colleague Jeff
Averbeck's firm SmarTech. Connell died last December when
the plane he was piloting crashed short of landing in Akron,
Ohio. We have now learned that Connell and Averbeck may
have been behind the installation of live streaming black
boxes in the White House and the Eisenhower Old Executive
Office Building used to stream live video of torture sessions
in Guantanamo, Cuba and Abu Ghraib to the Old Executive
Office Building office of Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief
Counsel David Addington and into the White House, itself."
Addington is mentioned a number of times in the Senate
report as being a key player in the torture program. WMR's
May 28, 2009 report continued: "The fire that broke out in an
'electrical closet' in the Old Executive Office Building on December 19, 2007, near Cheney's ceremonial office likely
contained the live streaming boxes used to stream torture
sessions from Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, according to our
sources who added that SmartTech and Airnet have been in
the live streaming video business since 2002. With the recent
statement of retired U.S. Army General Antonio Taguba that
rape and other sexual molestation sessions were prevalent at
Abu Ghraib and that they were photographed, the stories of
the suspicious death of Connell and the White House fire
have taken on new relevancy. As reported by WMR on
January 10, 2008: 'Army Major General Antonio Taguba's
report on Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse stated that the abuse
included 'A male MP guard 'having sex' with a female
detainee.' 'Having sex' was an obvious attempt to avoid the
use of the word 'rape.' It is obvious that Taguba's report was
either altered or some evidence was not shared with him and
his investigators . . . Another investigation conducted by Lt.
Gen. Anthony Jones and Maj. Gen. George Fay of Abu Ghraib
reported male homosexual rape of prisoners but not the rape
of female prisoners."
The Taguba report on detainee abuse in Iraq also stated that
detainees were sodomized with glow sticks. WMR also
reported that U.S. sodomized underage teens at Iraqi
detention facilities with broom sticks and flashlights and that
videotapes of this abuse were made available to senior White
House staff for "entertainment" purposes. The coprophilia
angle again came into play when in 2006 photographs from
Abu Ghraib prison were released that showed prisoners
crawling on the floor naked, being forced to perform sexual
acts, and being covered in feces.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld also personally
oversaw sexual abuse of at least one detainee. A December
2005 internal US Army Inspector General report leaked to
the on-line publication Salon.com described how Rumsfeld personally monitored by telephone the interrogation of Saudi
detainee Mohamed el Qahtani, described as the "20th
hijacker." Lt. Gen. Randall Schmidt reported to the Inspector
General that the abuse of Qahtani "looked like Abu Ghraib."
Qahtani was forced to wear women's underwear, perform sex
acts in front of a woman, and perform "dog tricks" while
wearing a leash. The nudity and "stress position" acts were
personally approved by Rumsfeld in December 2002.
However, it is Cheney who has been quick to defend the
sexually perverse interrogation practices from which he
appears to have derived personal gratification. On October
26, 2006, WMR reported that people who knew Dick Cheney
in Wyoming before he served in the Nixon administration
claimed he always had an unusual penchant for hanging
around young girls, some as young as seven-years old.
Cheney reportedly walked around his Wyoming home in his
underwear, sometimes when his two young daughters'
friends were visiting. Cheney did not seem to mind that his
activities around his home would inevitably expose his penis
to the young girls.
Senate Intelligence Committee report on rectal rehydration
appears to match Dick Cheney's most prurient sexual interests. Cheney's staff suppressed the above edition of The
Globe from DC metro area supermarkets.
WMR also reported: "Cheney served as a Congressman from
Wyoming from 1979 to 1989. This was during a time when
two major page scandals, both involving Republican
members of Congress, rocked Capitol Hill. They were the
Koreagate scandal and the page/prostitutes visiting the White
House in the late 1980s. In 1981, Lynne Cheney wrote
"Sisters," an Old West novel containing lesbian themes. Dick
Cheney's close friend and former chief of staff Scooter Libby
penned a novel called "The Apprentice." The following is an
excerpt from Libby's book, which features its main character,
Yukiko, drawing hair on the 'mound' of a little girl: 'At age 10
the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to
couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not
fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars
and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose
interest.'"
In 2002, Cheney held a reception for the publication of the
second edition of Libby's book at the vice president's
mansion.
On June 5, 2007, WMR reported on bizarre and kinky sexual
practices engaged in by top Bush administration and other
Republican officials by clients of "DC Madam" Jeane Palfrey's
Pamela Martin & Associates escort service and other services:
"The Bush administration's increasing nervousness about
Deborah Jeane Palfrey's phone list is understandable after
more details have emerged about some of the more bizarre
prurient appetites of some past clients of Pamela Martin &
Associates clients, said to include top officials of the Bush
administration, Congressional members and staffers, and at
least two well-known Washington, DC journalists. Some escorts regularly paid visits to clients with whips and
handcuffs as part of their regular ensemble.
Prostitutes hired by Louisiana Senator David Vitter in New
Orleans are reporting that Vitter had a bizarre sexual fetish --
he liked to wear diapers during his trysts.
While that may be weird, some other prostitution clients due
to be outed in Washington would appear much more bizarre.
WMR has learned that certain VIPs who engaged the services
of 'fantasy' escorts enjoyed what is known as 'water sports'
-- firstly, practices that involve urination and, 'number two,'
activities that are even worse.
Cheney's coprophilia fetish was the subject of WMR's April
11, 2008 report, "Cheney, according to knowledgeable
sources involved in the Palfrey trial, paid at least one escort
to straddle a glass top table and defecate on it while Cheney
peered at the bowel 'evacuation' from underneath." The act
was performed before Cheney became vice president at a
town home next door to his own residence at Madison of
McLean, an upscale housing development in McLean, Virginia
close to the CIA's headquarters. Palfrey, had been found
guilty of racketeering, mail fraud, and money laundering on
April 15, 2008, just four days after WMR published its report
about her escorts being involved in coprophiliac activities
with Cheney. On May 1, 2008, Palfrey was found hanging in a
utility shed at her mother's home in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
Police ruled the death a "suicide."
After WMR's report on Cheney's use of Palfrey's escorts ran
on the front cover of The Globe supermarket tabloid, the
editor was informed that Cheney's aides pressured two local
retailers, Giant Food and Safeway, not to carry that issue.
However, CVS pharmacy did sell the issue.
The bottom line on the rectal abuse at the CIA black sites, Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib is that it was performed
not to extract any meaningful intelligence but for the sexual
gratification of coprohiliacs like Dick Cheney and his closest
associates. While squirting a puree of hummus, pasta, nuts
and raisins into the rectums of U.S. detainees had no
nutritional value for prisoners who refused to eat, the
prurient nature of the procedure is in keeping with the
bizarre sexual appetites of Mr. Cheney and his entourage.


http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20141210
]]> <![CDATA[Hoping for legalized rape because of Trump's victory]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15133 Wed, 16 Nov 2016 19:54:38 +0000 Tracy Riddle]]> https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/showthread.php?tid=15133 http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/this-is-...ape-legal/

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[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&amp]The spokesperson for a group which advocates for "legal" rape praised the election of Donald Trump for legitimizing the "masculine behaviours that were previously labelled sexist and misogynist."
In a post on his website, self-styled "pick up artist" Daryush "Roosh V" Valizadeh suggested that Trump's election had made it acceptable to call women "fat pigs."



Valizadeh, who has called to "make rape legal" on private property, interpreted the decision of the American people to mean "that you can exercise your free speech, your opinions, and your desire to flirt with attractive women without having to obey a speech police force."
I'm in a state of exuberance that we now have a President who rates women on a 1-10 scale in the same way that we do and evaluates women by their appearance and feminine attitude. We may have to institute a new feature called "Would Trump bang?" to signify the importance of feminine beauty ideals that cultivate effort and class above sloth and vulgarity. Simply look at his wife and the beautiful women he has surrounded himself with to remind yourself of what men everywhere prefer, and not the "beauty at every size" sewage that has been pushed down our throats by gender studies professors and corporations trying to market their product to feminist fatsoes. The President of the United States does not see the value in fat women who don't take care of themselves, and neither should you.
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We now have a President who will not encourage anti-male propaganda, rape culture, and female victimhood. While I do have minor concerns on the influence of his feminist-minded daughter, Ivanka, Trump will not continue the attack on men that has been institutionalized since the sexual revolution and accelerated during the eight years of Obama. Because our current cultural dystopia is the result of intense long-term manipulation, it is more than enough for Trump to simply not touch the gender issue to allow the culture to return to a more patriarchal order. Stop feeding the rot and it will die off, allowing biology to naturally reassert itself.
According to Valizadeh, Trump does not need to take any specific actions to fortify the rights of men because his "presence automatically legitimizes masculine behaviors that were previously labeled sexist and misogynist."
"This is our moment. The door is opening for a renaissance of masculinity where men can take pride in being men, and the best part of it is that we don't need to wait for Trump to do anything," he proclaimed. "His victory is more than enough for us to apply our own individual strength in seizing the bull's horns where we can come out of the politically incorrect closet and assert our beliefs and behaviors."
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This is our moment': Trump's win emboldens activist behind effort to make rape legal'

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[Image: maxresdefault-4-800x430.jpg]Daryush "Roosh V" Valizadeh
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[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&amp]The spokesperson for a group which advocates for "legal" rape praised the election of Donald Trump for legitimizing the "masculine behaviours that were previously labelled sexist and misogynist."
In a post on his website, self-styled "pick up artist" Daryush "Roosh V" Valizadeh suggested that Trump's election had made it acceptable to call women "fat pigs."



Valizadeh, who has called to "make rape legal" on private property, interpreted the decision of the American people to mean "that you can exercise your free speech, your opinions, and your desire to flirt with attractive women without having to obey a speech police force."
I'm in a state of exuberance that we now have a President who rates women on a 1-10 scale in the same way that we do and evaluates women by their appearance and feminine attitude. We may have to institute a new feature called "Would Trump bang?" to signify the importance of feminine beauty ideals that cultivate effort and class above sloth and vulgarity. Simply look at his wife and the beautiful women he has surrounded himself with to remind yourself of what men everywhere prefer, and not the "beauty at every size" sewage that has been pushed down our throats by gender studies professors and corporations trying to market their product to feminist fatsoes. The President of the United States does not see the value in fat women who don't take care of themselves, and neither should you.
[…]

We now have a President who will not encourage anti-male propaganda, rape culture, and female victimhood. While I do have minor concerns on the influence of his feminist-minded daughter, Ivanka, Trump will not continue the attack on men that has been institutionalized since the sexual revolution and accelerated during the eight years of Obama. Because our current cultural dystopia is the result of intense long-term manipulation, it is more than enough for Trump to simply not touch the gender issue to allow the culture to return to a more patriarchal order. Stop feeding the rot and it will die off, allowing biology to naturally reassert itself.
According to Valizadeh, Trump does not need to take any specific actions to fortify the rights of men because his "presence automatically legitimizes masculine behaviors that were previously labeled sexist and misogynist."
"This is our moment. The door is opening for a renaissance of masculinity where men can take pride in being men, and the best part of it is that we don't need to wait for Trump to do anything," he proclaimed. "His victory is more than enough for us to apply our own individual strength in seizing the bull's horns where we can come out of the politically incorrect closet and assert our beliefs and behaviors."
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Quote:https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comm...the_laura/


The finders had a duplex apartment just down the road from the Pizza place talked about in the above thread...

https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...he-Finders

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwtOL60XgAAKcl-.jpg:large

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Quote:https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comm...the_laura/


The finders had a duplex apartment just down the road from the Pizza place talked about in the above thread...

https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...he-Finders

and ...


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwtOL60XgAAKcl-.jpg:large

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