Washington Insider: Obama Member of Chicago Gay Man’s Club

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Washington Insider: Obama Member of Chicago Gay Man’s Club

May 27, 2010 · 51 Comments

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The Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) is a mainly subscription news site ($7/month for “individual reader” subscribers) that claims to provide news ”from deep inside the Washington beltway.” Its editor is Wayne Madsen, a former US Navy officer, Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist, with an impressive c.v.







On May 24, 2010, WMR had a blockbuster report for subscribers only, which claims that Obama is a long-time member of a gay man’s club in Chicago, of which his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is also a member.



I first saw this story 3 days ago on Rense.com in an article titled “Madsen Is Vindicating Larry Sinclair.” [Note: Sinclair is a gay man who claims he had 2 sexual encounters with Obama in Chicago.] The article had a short excerpt from the WMR. I did not post it here on Fellowship at the time because I wanted to think about it.
I went back to Rense for the article today, but when I clicked “Obama’s Gay Club,” the article is no longer there, no doubt because its excerpt from WMR violated WMR’s pay-for-view policy. Instead, clicking “Obama’s Gay Club” brought me to the website of the man’s bath house club referenced in the WMR article – Man’s Country club in Chicago. Located at 5015 N. Clark St
Chicago, IL 60640 (phone: 773-878-2069), the club describes itself as:

“a private membership club for men 18 years and older. Man’s Country Chicago is a clean, safe place to hang out, meet guys who share the same interests as you, socialize, make friends, watch porn and play! Man’s Country Chicago / Where real men meet.”

The club’s motto “Play hard, Play safe” and logo (below right) leave little doubt that it’s a gay club. If you still have doubts, take a look at the club’s “Photos” page, with 8 photos of “the hottest dancers in Chicago” — all men, such as this one (below left):
Fortunately, thanks to alert Fellowship member Tina, the entire WMR article is now posted on The JagHunter blog. Here it is!




Let’s ask and do tell…IS OBAMA GAY?

Thursday, 27 May 2010


JAG HUNTER READER EMAIL UPDATE: Saturday evening 29 May 2010

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MORE! – WHAT MADSEN LEFT OUT

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Cheryl Thomson Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:14 PM
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A reader of www.rumormillnews.com had an incredible postscript – what’s incredible anymore? – appear in connection with the Madsen revelations on Thursday, May 27th, right smack in “The Rumor Mill Reading Room,” as reposted by “watcher51445″.

If you REALLY want this to heat up, why don’t you post this on your blog also?

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Date: Thursday, 27-May-2010 11:23:13
In Response To: TomFloccoSends WMR: BREAKING! Obama & Emanual: Same Gay Bath House Members in Chicago (watcher51445)

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Re: TomFloccoSends WMR: BREAKING! Obama & Eman….

Big Thanks for reposting the entire Wayne Madsen piece on Obama. Larry Sinclair informed his website readers he was hoping Madsen would get the word out for him (and I’ve been following the story from late 2007). Madsen checked Sinclair thoroughly, I am sure. And I have always felt Sinclair was legitimate.

BUT THERE IS MORE TO THIS STORY. I haven’t been able to get anyone to do the investigative work on this. It is REALLY very explosive.

You see, when Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin collaborated on a published book biography of George W. Bush, they described some aspects of the child/youth prostitution ring which pandered to high-level U.S. politicians, starting in Nebraska in the early 1980′s. You will probably recognize the name of this scandal: “The Franklin Cover-up” – from the title of the expose written by John DeCamp.

In the Bush book, it states that YOUNG BLACK MEN were recruited for these sex episodes. So it wasn’t just kids, and some of the abused victims were Black.

The sexual preferences Obama has today for receiving ‘favors’ from white men might go back many years in his personal history. I get gut instincts about things, and over the years I have been amazed at some of my insights.

This is a story that needs to be explored. Nobody is talking about it. For a year, I have tried to get a response from someone saying it should be looked into.

GO RIGHT AHEAD AND POST THIS “FROM READER” – Everyone wonders where Obama came from, and how he obtained his political connections. Right?

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May 24, 2010 – SPECIAL REPORT from WAYNE MADSEN.

Obama and Emanuel: Members of same gay bath house in Chicago


President Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel are lifetime members of the same gay bath house in uptown Chicago, according to informed sources in Chicago’s gay community, as well as veteran political sources in the city.

The bath house, Man’s Country, caters to older white men and it has been in business for some 30 years and is known as one of uptown Chicago’s “grand old bathhouses.” WMR was told by sources who are familiar with the bath house that it provides one-year “lifetime” memberships to paying customers and that the club’s computerized files and pre-computer paper files, include membership information for both Obama and Emanuel. The data is as anonymized as possible for confidentiality purposes. However, sources close to “Man’s Country” believe the U.S. Secret Service has purged the computer and filing cabinet files of the membership data on Obama and Emanuel.

Members of Man’s Country are also issued club identification cards. WMR learned that Obama and Emanuel possessed the ID cards, which were required for entry.

Obama began frequenting Man’s Country in the mid-1990s, during the time he transitioned from a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School to his election as an Illinois State Senator in 1996. Emanuel, reportedly joined Man’s Country after he left the Clinton White Hosue and moved back to Chicago in 1998, joining the investment firm of Wasserstein Perella and maintaining his membership during his 2002 campaign for the U.S. 5th District House seat vacated by Rod Blagojevich, who was elected governor.

Man’s Country appears to be a “one stop shopping” center for gay men. The club’s website advertises steam rooms, “fantasy rooms,” bed rooms, male strippers, adult movies, and lockers.

However, Man’s Country was not the only location for Obama’s predatory gay sex activities. The Chicago gay community is aware that Obama often made contacts with younger men at his famous “pick-up basketball” games. It was at these “pick up” matches where Obama first met Emanuel and a young Democratic campaign worker and senior bank vice president named Alexi Giannoulias. Currently running for Obama’s old U.S. Senate seat now occupied by Roland Burris, Giannoulias successfully ran for Illinois Treasurer in 2006 after being drafted for the run by Chicago’s Democratic machine.

The Blagojevich trial: “Sex, Lies, and Audio tapes” — Fitzgerald’s US Attorney’s Office part of White House cover-up of gay sex in the Second City

Giannoulias was a vice president and senior loan officer for his father’s bank, Broadway Bank, from 2002 to 2006. Broadway Bank made real estate loans to Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the chief of Rezmar Corporation. On May 13, 2008, Rezko was found guilty, after being indicted by a grand jury at the behest of the U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois Patrick J. Fitzgerald, of six counts of wire fraud, six counts of mail fraud, two counts of corrupt solicitation, and two counts of money laundering. Rezko has been in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center at Van Buren and Clark in Chicago since June 2008. However, Rezko has not yet been officially sentenced to a federal prison. A Syrian-American, Rezko is considered to be a flight risk, even though his one-time fortune of $50 million has been reduced to zero.

One Republican politician in Chicago told WMR that Rezko will be a prime witness for Blagojevich’s defense. “Figure it this way, Rezko’s been in solitary confinement in the city jail since June 0f 2008 . . . if he is released to appear at Blagojevich’s trial as the primary witness, everyone expects him to squeal like a pig,” said the Republican politico.

In 2005, Rezko reportedly engaged in a complicated real estate “flip” through which his wife Rita and Obama agreed to split an empty lot adjoining a home that Obama bought in Chicago’s Kenwood district. The deal saw Obama buy the home for $1.65 million, which was $300,00 below market value. Obama then bought a strip of the adjoining property from Mrs. Rezko, a speculative deal that stood to make Obama a handsome profit. Since Rezko’s conviction, the property has has reportedly gone into bankruptcy. Giannoulias’s Broadway Bank was seized by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation on April 23, 2010, reportedly as Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner was on his way to Chicago to present the bank with a bailout check. Geithner quickly changed his plans.

Giannoulias, Broadway’s then-senior loan officer, has denied being involved in the decision to loan money to Rezko.

Last month, Blagojevich’s trial judge, U.S. District Court judge James Zagel, a crony of former Illinois Republican Governor Jim Thompson, ruled that all 500 hours of phone calls intercepted and taped by Fitzgerald could not be played during Blagojevich’s trial as demanded by Blagojevich and his defense lawyers. Blagojevich demanded that Fitzgerald “show up in court and explain to everybody . . . why you don’t want those tapes that you made played in court.”

WMR has learned that the tapes may contain salty references Obama’s and Emanuel’s private lives.

WMR attempted to interview Blagojevich’s senior defense lawyer Sam Adam to no avail but other informed sources told us that the tapes, if played, would highlight the corruption of not only Obama, Emanuel, and other member of Obama’s Chicago “brain trust” but also Fitzgerald himself. WMR was told that Fitzgerald’s tactics have included providing sex and drugs to imprisoned felons to get them to provide perjured testimony at federal trials.

It is exactly the type of federal prosecutorial misconduct by Fitzgerald that former Republican Governor said was used by state prosecutors when he commuted the death sentences of Illinois’s death row population. Ryan was indicted by Fitzgerald for fraud and he is currently serving out a federal prison sentence.

Blagojevich’s trial is scheduled to begin on June 3 and Fitzgerald’s main interest is to keep the trial focused on Blagojevich, especially after he managed to “flip” Blagojevich’s former chief of staff John Harris to testify against the impeached and ousted governor. WMR learned from informed sources that one lawyer on Harris’s defense team is involved in a gay partner scandal that was discovered by the attorney’s wife.

Some of the wiretaps may reveal that it was not Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s longtime friend and current White House policy adviser who was Obama’s top candidate to fill his U.S. Senate seat, but the young 32-year old “pick up basketball” friend of Obama, Giannoulias, then serving his second year as state Treasurer. However, Obama has avoided campaigning for Giannoulias in Illinois and there are indications that the president has “thrown Giannoulias under the bus,” according to some Democratic political circles in Chicago.

Mutiple Chicago sources report that Republicans who see Giannoulias’s Obama connections as providing an edge in his Senate race this year should not celebrate prematurely. Giannoulias’s GOP opponent, U.S. Representative Mark Kirk, a Naval Reserve intelligence officer, has also been identified as a closeted gay man. Kirk divorced his wife last year after an eight-year marriage. They had no children.

In addition, U.S. Representative Aaron Shock, who took over the House seat vacated by Obama’s Republican Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, is, according to Chicago Boy’s Town sources, a habitué of Minibar, a noted gay bar in Chicago’s gay district. For an extremely young first term member of the House, observers were surprised when GOP Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia named Shock as a Deputy Minority Whip.


Man’s Country, one of Chicago’s “grand old bathhouses” and located at 5015 North Clark Street in Chicago’s “Boystown,” was a frequent hangout for State Senator Obama and Rahm Emanuel

Sources in Chicago’s gay community report that Obama was attracted to Man’s Country’s older white clientele because he generally enjoys being fellated by older white men. Obama would regularly be seen at Man’s Country on Wednesdays.

Obama reportedly has never engaged in reciprocal activity. The sources also confirm the allegations made during the 2008 campaign by Larry Sinclair, a Chicago visitor who revealed that in 1999 he engaged in such oral sex activity and crack cocaine use with then-State senator Obama on two occasions, once in the back of a Chicago limousine operated by Five Star Limousine Service, and the other at a Chicago area motel, the Comfort Suites in Gurnee, Illinois.

After revealing details of the encounter at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Sinclair was arrested by Washington Metropolitan Police on a fugitive warrant issued by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of Obama’s vice presidential running mate, Senator Joe Biden. Sinclair was charged with a misdemeanor count of theft of money orders, however, the state of Delaware declined prosecution. Beau Biden later declined to run for his father’s old Senate seat because of his duties to prosecute a major pedophilia case involving Lewes, Delaware pediatrician Dr. Earl Bradley. There are reports that Biden’s office helped to cover up Bradley’s activities, including failing to authorize search warants for Bradley’s office and computer.

Chicago’s “DLC” — not the Democratic Leadership Council but the “Down Low Club” — a gay matchmaking service

WMR spoke to several well-placed sources in Chicago who reported that Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of Obama’s former church of 20 years, Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) on Chicago’s south side, ran what was essentially a matchmaking service for gay married black professional members of the church, including lawyers and businessmen, particularly those with children. The matchmaking club was called the “Down Low Club” but references to it over the phone and email simply referred to the group with the code phrase “DLC.” The ruse, according to our sources, was to make anyone who was eavesdropping on the communications believe that the references were to the Democratic Leadership Council, also known as the DLC.

The gay DLC’s services were intended to keep ensure TUCC’s gay members avoided posting solicitations on web services like Craig’s List and refrain from cruising gay bars. The strategy was to protect them from getting busted and being “outed.”

Among the members of the gay “DLC” were Obama and TUCC’s choir director, Donald Young, an openly gay man who reportedly had a sexual relationship with Obama. Two other gay members of the church were Larry Bland and Nate Spencer. Young and Bland were brutally murdered, execution style, in late 2007. Bland was murdered on November 17, 2007 and Young on December 24, 2007. The latter was killed by multiple gunshot wounds. Spencer reportedly died on December 26, 2007, official cause of death: “septicemia, pneumonia, and HIV.”

“DLC” members often went on camping trips arranged by TUCC. Wright reportedly was the head of the “DLC” matchmaking services and ensured that its members protected each other.

The “DLC’s” clientele included Obama and other gay members of TUCC, including, reportedly Young, Bland, and Spencer. Fox 32 Chicago reported that Bland’s mother, Josephine Bland, was so upset at her son inviting men into their home as a result of contacting them through gay web sites like “Adam4Adam,” she moved out.

The gay community in Chicago knows to keep away from the TUCC and “DLC” stories because of the “creepiness” of the operation and the suspicious deaths of the three TUCC gay black men.

Although Obama protected his alternate life style through the secretiveness of the “DLC,” he was not so careful when he proclaimed he was a state senator while frolicking at Man’s Country in uptown Chicago.

Love: Obama’s personal trainer

Reggie Love, a former Duke basketball and football player and unsuccessful National Basketball hopeful, currently serves as Obama’s personal trainer and White House “special assistant” — he has been called Obama’s “body man” — who receives a salary of $104,000 a year. Love is also reportedly one of Obama’s regular gay sex partners. Love joined Obama’s Senate staff in a senior staff position in 2006.

Media General’s tabloid, the National Enquirer, proffered a story last year about Michelle Obama being furious about the relationship between her husband and his “body man.” TheEnquirer’s sister tabloid, The Globe, later floated a story about Obama having a relationship with a Democratic campaign official named Vera Baker. WMR has been told that this relationship was a clever ruse to throw off speculation about Obama’s actual past sex partners. Baker has apparently left the United States for relatively more obscurity in Martinique. Media General’s tabloids have scooped the mainstream media on sex scandals involving Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky, Tiger Woods, and John Edwards and Rielle Hunter.

WMR’s Chicago sources believe the Secret Service records of presidential candidate Obama’s activities in Chicago would show that Obama regularly arrived at Love’s Chicago residence at 9:00 am and departed at 9:15 am. Sources told WMR that while 15 minutes is much too short for a personal training exercise, it is ample time for fellatio.

Bill Frist, “Brokeback Mountain,” and Obama

In 2006, after Obama became the junior senator from Illinois, WMR’s sources in the Congressional Black Caucus reported that there were persistent rumors of gay trysts between Obama and then-GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee. The allegations at the time seemed unbelievable.

However, based on Obama’s penchant for receiving fellatio from older white men, a column written by The Washington Post’s “In the Loop” columnist Al Kamen on April 7, 2006, some four months into Obama’s Senate term, may have expanded relevance. Kamen reported he received an invitation to attend Frist’s “5th Annual VOLPAC ’06 Weekend” in Nashville from April 21st to 23rd and that the invitation card required one to “unbuckle the cowboy’s pants and look inside to see what this was all about.” Kamen opined that the invitation seemed “a bit too ‘Brokeback Mountain.’”

The invitation advertised that the shindig would feature “one-of-a-kind music and special friends,” although Kamen said there was no indication what made the “friends” so “special.” Kamen then wrote, “The back of the card shows the cowboy from behind with a red flowered handkerchief sticking out of his right pocket. Wait a minute — wasn’t there something about how this used to be some kind of code in the gay community years ago? A way to signal each other in crowded, noisy bars? So we checked the GayCityUSA.com’s Hanky Codes. Sure enough, there it was in the chart explaining what they mean: red hanky in right pocket. Oh, dear.”


Rumors about Obama and Frist ran amok in Congressional Black Caucus circles in 2006.

Although Frist ran on the pledge of only serving two terms, he became Senate Majority Leader with all the perks of the office. WMR’s sources in Chicago’s gay community revealed that Frist’s Majority Leader predecessor, Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, was also known to seek the services of male prostitutes. Frist, who said he planned to run for President in 2006, decided against a run for the White House and also declined a run for Tennessee governor in 2010.

With the rumor mill running at full speed in 2006, it is obvious why Frist abandoned politics so quickly for the medical business. Frist later endorsed Obama’s health care proposals. A year later, when GOP Senator Larry Craig was arrested while soliciting for sex in a men’s toilet stall at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, he changed his mind about immediately resigning his Senate seat. Knowing about his colleagues’ behavior, he dug in his heels and completed his term in January 2009.

Rahm the “Sugar Daddy”

Obama’s chief of staff Emanuel, who won a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet but turned it down to attend college, is married and, like Obama, has children, in Emanuel’s case, a son and two daughters.

However, Emanuel, who is 50, also travel frequently with a male companion, a wealthy Chicago real estate developer, some five to six years his senior. WMR has learned from Chicago’s gay community as well as political sources that Emanuel and his friend have gone together on a trip to India, skiing vacations, and soon plan a vacation in Florida, sans Mrs. Emanuel and the kids.

In Chicago’s gay community, Emanuel is known as “sugar daddy,” promising young men with perks and lucrative positions if they sleep with him. On occasion, Emanuel has been with older men, such as his travel companion, but his preference is young, according to WMR’s sources. Emanuel also often uses bicycling and basketball venues to make his approaches. Being an Emanuel “basketball buddy” is a key to professional success.

WMR spoke to one member of the gay community in Chicago who had first hand knowledge of one of Emanuel’s bed partners, an older man who runs a non-profit symphony organization.

Obama’s other sex partners

WMR has previously reported on Obama’s past trysts with Alabama Democratic U.S. Representative Artur Davis, a current primary candidate for governor of Alabama. Although not in the same class, Obama and Davis attended Harvard Law School during an overlap of their attendance at the law school.

The information on Davis and Obama was gathered by opposition researchers for former Alabama Representative Earl Hilliard, who Davis defeated in the 2002 Democratic primary. Recently, WMR was informed by sources in Alabama that Attorney General Eric Holder traveled three days ago to Alabama to inform Davis that if he loses his primary race, he would be nominated by Obama to fill the job of U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, a position still held by Bush-appointee Leura Canary, one of the main prosecutors of convicted and jailed former Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman.

Chicago sources also informed WMR of another past gay partner of Obama, Massachusetts Democratic Governor Deval Patrick.

Men who have reportedly had sexual relations with Barack Obama

Donald Young, TUCC Choir director

Larry Sinclair, gay escort

Reggie Love, White House presidential assistant and Obama’s “body man”

Artur Davis, US Representative from Alabama and gubernatorial candidate

Bill Frist, former GOP Senate Majority Leader

Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts

The Clear and Present Blackmail Threat

Leading secret alternate life styles, Obama and his chief of staff provide classic blackmail threats. Considering Obama’s choice for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, who is reputedly a semi-open lesbian, the question must be posed how much Obama’s and Emanuel’s own covert life styles led to the decision to nominate Kagan, someone with no experience on a judicial bench.

Similarly, the fact that so much is known about Obama’s and Emanuel’s trysts in Chicago begs another important question. If politicians, gay community activists, and journalists in the Windy City are aware of Obama’s and Emanuel’s highly blackmailable gay life styles, the same can certainly hold true for the executives of one of Chicago’s corporate headquarters — that of BP America’s Production Operations.

Throw in the intelligence agencies of America’s allies, friends, enemies, and the situation becomes a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

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[Ed Jewett]

Special Reports Last Updated: May 4th, 2010 - 00:48:14
Bush’s lame duck eavesdropping on Obama and Emanuel
By Wayne Madsen
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May 4, 2010, 00:19

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(WMR) -- Federal national security sources have revealed to WMR that the FBI electronic surveillance that resulted in the impeachment, expulsion as governor of Illinois, and indictment of Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges was originally directed by the outgoing George W. Bush administration against presidential candidate and subsequent President-elect Barack Obama and his prospective chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
Although the Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald, and his team of prosecutors captured “thousands of phone calls” in their investigation of Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, they chose to only concentrate on those intercepted phone calls that were used to indict Blagojevich and Harris. In fact, WMR has learned that when Obama and Emanuel became aware that their phone calls were intercepted by the FBI, they moved fast to have Fitzgerald arrest Blagojevich in the early morning of December 9, 2009. The White House transition team wanted to ensure that it was Blagojevich who was at the center of the FBI wiretaps. Bush and his team, according to WMR’s sources sought to obtain information on Obama and Emanuel that could be used to “blackmail them” in order to ensure that there would be no investigations of the Bush administration’s complicity in torture, political prosecutions throughout the United States of Democrats, and other illegal activities.
Fitzgerald maintains that the thousands of intercepted calls were made between October 22, 2008, a few weeks prior to Obama’s election victory, and December 9, 2008, the day Blagojevich was arrested without an indictment. After Blagojevich’s arrest by U.S. marshals, Fitzgerald took the unusual step of holding a news conference, rife with theatrics, in which he railed that Blagojevich’s conduct would make “Lincoln roll over in his grave.” Criticisms from legal experts that Fitzgerald was engaged in pre-trial grandstanding to influence public opinion were dismissed by Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald’s move came after Emanuel made direct contact with Fitzgerald, ostensibly to inform him that Blagojevich was attempting to “sell” Obama’s Senate seat.
WMR has been told that Emanuel was aware of the damaging nature of the “thousands” of FBI intercepted phone calls to him and Obama and wanted to divert Fitzgerald and the FBI away from himself and the president-elect to Blagojevich and Harris. Fitzgerald, known as the man who covered up key elements of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and saw to it that the legal ground was laid for a commutation of the prison sentence of Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, in the Bush administration’s cover-up of the outing by the media of CIA non-official cover agent Valerie Plame Wilson, decided to seek authorization for the early morning arrest of Blagojevich to protect Obama and Emanuel, as well as Bush.
Fitzgerald lived up to his part of the bargain with Emanuel by interviewing Obama, Emanuel, and Jarrett in mid-December 2008 and then green lighting Obama’s selectee as White House chief counsel, Greg Craig, to issue a report stating that there was “no inappropriate contact” between Obama, Emanuel, or Jarret with Blagojevich. Emanuel quickly left the United States for a vacation in Africa. Fitzgerald cautioned Obama, Emanuel, Jarrett, adviser David Axelrod, Craig, and transition team spokesman Robert Gibbs to remain silent and not disclose anything to the press. The diversion of attention by the public and the media to Blagojevich and Harris was successful.
On July 29, 2009, WMR reported: “If the Fitzgerald prosecution of Blagojevich is any indication, some GOP U.S. attorneys may have decided to trade knowledge and influence in return for keeping their jobs. In Fitzgerald’s case, it was possibly information he had on convicted Chicago political kingpin Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko’s links to Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, that made Blagojevich a useful “sacrificial lamb” to send a message to the Obama camp. In any event, Fitzgerald’s plan worked -- he remains secure as Obama’s U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois.”
In his April 22 motion, Blagojevich’s defense team states: “Tony Rezko is one of the government’s main witnesses. Mr. Rezko’s credibility is extremely relevant in this trial. In many instances, Mr. Rezko is the government’s crucial witness to prove up their allegations. Mr. Rezko wrote a letter to a federal judge stating ‘the prosecutors have been overzealous in pursuing a crime that never happened. They are pressuring me to tell them the ‘wrong’ things that I supposedly know about Governor Blagojevich and Senator Obama. I have never been a party to any wrongdoing that involved the Governor or the Senator. I will never fabricate lies about anyone else for selfish purposes.’ (Exhibit A)
However, the defense has a good faith belief that Mr. Rezko, President Obama’s former friend, fund-raiser, and neighbor told the FBI and the United States attorneys a different story about President Obama. In a recent in camera proceeding, the government tendered a three-paragraph letter indicating that Rezko ‘has stated in interviews with the government that he engaged in election law violations by personally contributing a large sum of cash to the campaign of a public official who is not Rod Blagojevich. . . . Further, the public official denies being aware of cash contributions to his campaign by Rezko or others and denies having conversations with Rezko related to cash contributions. . . . Rezko has also stated in interviews with the government that he believed he transmitted a quid pro quo offer from a lobbyist to the public official, whereby the lobbyist would hold a fundraiser for the official in exchange for favorable official action, but that the public official rejected the offer. The public official denies any such conversation. In addition, Rezko has stated to the government that he and the public official had certain conversations about gaming legislation and administration, which the public official denies having had.”
The reason behind U.S. Judge James Zagel’s order that many of the documents related to the Blagojevich indictment remain redacted is that the documents show the extensive nature of the FBI’s surveillance of many of those connected to the Obama campaign, including Obama, Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, and others.
On April 22, 2010, the Blagojevich defense team, in their motion to Zagel, a Ronald Reagan appointee, to call Obama as a witness in the Blagojevich trial, wrote: “Although it is the defense’s position that all tapes and sealed information be made public, to comply with the Protective Order of April 14, 2009, portions that contain sealed information provided by the government have been redacted. The defense, however, urges this Court unseal the entire motion.”
However, Fitzgerald is adamantly opposed to unsealing the redacted documents lest his complicity in a Bush-ordered wiretap of Obama and Emanuel becomes known to the public. Fitzgerald’s knowledge of “smoking gun” evidence against Obama and Emanuel ensured that Obama renominated Fitzgerald as U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois. By focusing his criminal probe on Blagojevich and Harris, Fitzgerald is also providing protection for Bush, Dick Cheney, and then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey from potential repercussions from a White House-ordered electronic surveillance program directed against a presidential candidate/president-elect and his top political adviser.
The word from federal national security officials is that the outgoing Bush administration picked up a wealth of ‘blackmailable’ intelligence on Obama and Emanuel from their wiretaps of the now president and his chief of staff. Obama’s sleazy deals with Rezko and his shopping of his Senate seat and Emanuel’s contacts with Israeli intelligence officials and his penchant for bizarre behavior at Chicago gymnasiums frequented by the city’s professional and affluent gay community reportedly stand at the top of the FBI’s “catch.”

Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.

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[Ed Jewett]

You could list a number of events and incidents which would connect to the need to embarrass or weaken the President of the United States. You could include the offering of a position to entice the opponent of Arlen Specter to withdraw, or perhaps events in the Middle East (the Gaza flotilla attack, plans for Iran with IDF nuclear cruise missile subs off Iran as we speak, the business about a nuke-free Mideast, or other affronts Israel may be feeling), or the Gulf of Mexico situation, or various other political events (most notably the brouhaha about the DOD don't ask, don't tell policy), or just in general.

If the second WMR report is true and accurate (the earlier WMR report suggests strongly that it is), it can be said that the knowledge of this in many circles was known -- it was news to me, but then I'm not generally peering into people's sex lives.

But if it was known in the past, as it surely must have been if it is true, then why was it released now? Why not previously? Why not save it for a different moment?

And, of course, who...

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to conclude that a gay man in the Presidency is not something America was or is ready for.

If the report is accurate, and if he was present, participant, or inclined prior to running for office, then there should have been some self-disclosure... likely fatal to any candidacy, for sure, but if the report is accurate, then he has no one to blame but himself. And if the report is accurate, then it surely raises questions about his handlers, the people who propelled him into office, etc., because it is -- as the piece noted -- a situation ripe for political blackmail.

I think the question here is really quite simple and has nothing whatsoever to do with homophobia or whether one can accept homosexuality. The person is question is not just the guy down the street.

The person in question is the President of the United States of America (and his Chief of Staff) who, by definition, have access to some of the most closely-held secrets, considered strategies and tactics, black ops technologies in development, secret operations, and more. That he is in a situation in which he can be compromised, in which he is potentially under the direct psychological manipulation or duress by another, that the "other" is a relatively unknown character who is not "cleared" in any sense by anyone or who might be an operative for a foreign nation or an individual whose true allegiance is not to the POTUS, the US, is cause for concern.

The same could be (and has been) said of other Presidents, and it matters not that the the rendezvous is with a woman or a man, homosexual or heterosexual. Given a very long record of sexual or other behavioral shenanigans involving many top officials, it is cause for concern.

The question also has to do with whether such a lifestyle is acceptable to vast portions of the American electorate. But the American electorate has been slowly lulled to a state of hypnagogic delusion... the concept of a "holographic" state already having been described elsewhere.

The question also has to do with timing, since the use of such disclosures in conjunction with national and international events is easily assumed. The question also has to do with the selected vehicle of disclosure; there were, as noted, prior disclosures ignored or covered up.

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"The word from federal national security officials is that the outgoing Bush administration picked up a wealth of ‘blackmailable’ intelligence on Obama and Emanuel from their wiretaps of the now president and his chief of staff. Obama’s sleazy deals with Rezko and his shopping of his Senate seat and Emanuel’s contacts with Israeli intelligence officials and his penchant for bizarre behavior at Chicago gymnasiums frequented by the city’s professional and affluent gay community reportedly stand at the top of the FBI’s “catch.”

[Jan Klimkowski]

The true ruling elites, the Sponsors if you will, are rarely visible.

Their natural habitat is the shadows.

They rule through controlling the ability to act of the frontmen. By limiting the options available to the stooges.

They control through identifying weaknesses - overweening ambition, lust for power, embarrassing deviancies, threats to loved ones.

Leverage. Blackmail. Control.

[Ed Jewett]

The Gaza Flotilla

A few weeks back retired Ambassador Ed Peck sent an email to a couple people, including me. "Friends, I have just been invited to take part in this noble effort," Ed wrote, "a different kind of cruise." Ed likes cruises. Indeed, he takes quite a few of them. Nevertheless, this was different. The last time I saw Ed in person — I'd sat down next to him by accident about ten months ago — he looked in good health and his mind (and humor) were certainly as sharp (and funny) as ever. But I worried. "I hope you've got a life jacket and that you're a good swimmer," I emailed in reply, and said that, if he wanted, I'd be honored to interview him once he got back. Well, news crossed the wires yesterday that Ed, age 81, survived Israel's murderous assault on the flotilla and that Israel is sending him home.
Let me make one other connection than the usual here, a more general observation I haven't seen anybody else make but one which Gen. Colin Powell hinted at ever so subtly the other day.

When foreign governments see that Mr. Obama hasn't got the balls to confront BP — a foreign company (!) — over the most monstrous environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, they draw conclusions. When it's crunch time, this guy folds. So when some cabinet underling, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, whomever, shows up acting tough, saying that they "speak for the President of the United States," their foreign interlocutors will now discount that almost to the point where the only issue is whether the underling has any independent clout. Otherwise, going forward, the ritual invocation of presidential power won't cost anyone in foreign capitals much sleep.
I've no doubt that this was a factor in Israel's attack on the Gaza flotilla. It could become a factor in resolving tensions with North Korea. It's worrisome... And it's worth pointing out.


Posted by George Kenney on June 1, 2010 3:34 AM


http://www.electricpolitics.com/2010/06/the_gaza_flotilla.html#more

[Magda Hassan]

I'm another who doesn't give a flying fig for their private life between consenting adults but this is not just any joe blow and I can see the potential for blackmail clearly. I am also interested in the Blagojevich and Rezko connections here which have never been satisfactorily explored in public. This of course leads to Turkey and various arms and drugs and 911 connections. There are plenty of brothels and 'Getleman's Clubs', steam baths etc which are owned and operated with police and criminal involvement, often together but some times in competing enterprises. Filming happens. In and out of bedrooms. Black mail is not at all uncommon. Set ups happen also.

[Magda Hassan]

LARRY SINCLAIR IS DEAD!

Posted November 13th 2011 at 11:42 pm by The Editor Author of "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder", Lawrence W. Sinclair has died tonight near his home in a purported car accident. It was apparently a hit and run. Police say the other driver got away and there was no sign of the other driver or his car.
In a 2009 shocker, Sinclair revealed in his book stunning revelations about Barack Hussein Obama, including that he had had a gay lover in Illinois. Shortly after addressing the National Press Club in Washington, DC in 2008, Sinclair revealed that Senior Advisor David Axelrod spearheaded a vindictive smear campaign against him, while Vice President Joe Biden and his son Beau arranged for his arrest after the NPC speech.
The most shocking claim in his 2009 book was the accusation by Sinclair that Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright were involved in the murder of Obama's former lover, choirmaster Donald Young.
The mysterious circumstances around this accident will surely raise many questions. It is curious that this accident happened late on Sunday night when all the news media is in bed and not paying any attention. We'll see if it's reported anywhere tomorrow.
http://www.people-in-the-news.com/2011/1...r-is-dead/

[Ed Jewett]