What ever happened to former Detective Rod Wheeler?
Remember him? He was the guy looking into the murder of Seth
Rich, the DNC staffer, whose death remains a mystery to this very day.
The article below details a lot of the goings on in the
aftermath of Mr. Rich’s killing:
Now contrast the info in the above article with what the
Durham investigation and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
have uncovered. In testimony before the committee, Shawn Henry, President of
Services at cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, had to admit that his firm could
not conclusively say that the Russians had hacked the DNC systems. He could
only surmise that the data on their servers had been exfiltrated. The Durham
team discovered that Marc Elias, a former partner at DNC supported law firm, Perkins
Coie, had been one of the architects behind the Russian hacking story. A story
we now know to be false.
The article below details what had been ongoing negotiations
between Julian Assange (Wikileaks) and the U.S. Government, up until the point
that then FBI director James Comey put the brakes on things. Besides being in
possession of some incredibly sensitive information on CIA programs, Assange
was willing to help the feds rule out who hadn’t turned over the info from the
DNC servers.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/394036-How-Comey-intervened-to-kill-Wikileaks-immunity-deal
Given what we now know about “dirty cop” Comey, is it any
surprise that this whole narrative would have fallen apart if Assange’s
cooperation could have ruled out the Russians, or any other state actor for
that matter, as being his source. Clinton and Obama Inc. would have been left
high and dry on a crucial portion of a narrative designed to make Donald Trump
look like he was in bed with the Russians.
When the below story broke, there were those cybersecurity
experts who claimed that it was flawed or full of holes. But given what we now
know, and what will most certainly follow about this false Russian collusion narrative,
wouldn’t it make sense to delve back into the death of Seth Rich?
https://nypost.com/2017/08/15/new-report-claims-dnc-hack-was-an-inside-job-not-russia/
As an afterthought, Congress, once firmly back in the hands
of the Republicans, may also want to reopen the curious case of the Awan
brothers and their ties to House Democrats. Specifically, whether they may have
been involved in the liberation of information from the DNC servers, given the
unfettered access they once enjoyed in the cyber halls of Congress. See links
below for more info:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-strange-case-of-imran-awan/
There are an awful lot of beasts out there, whose hearts the
Republicans could put stakes through once and for all, should they choose to do
so. The Rich case is one such creature.
What ever happened to Adam Lovinger?
If you don’t know who he is, he was a DOD employee who initially questioned generous financial outlays from the department’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA) to a contractor named Stefan Halper. Rather than get into all of the details about what happened, the article linked here, is about as good as it gets in terms of filling in the back story (please read before continuing). If there is another name in the linked article that sounds familiar, it should. It is the same James Baker who was recently let go from Twitter as the Deputy General Counsel.
After his stint as ONA Director, Mr. Baker eventually wound up at the FBI as the Bureau’s General Counsel. It was there that he helped to propagate the Steele dossier that was essential to the FBI being able to run a surveillance operation on candidate Trump, and then use the salacious and unverified information contained within said dossier as a potential weapon to try and blackmail the President elect.
Upon his dismissal from The Bureau, Baker landed his job at Twitter as Deputy General Counsel. It was in his capacity as a decision maker that he recommended running with the story that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, despite his own admonition that they had yet to substantiate whether the laptop was the real McCoy. His downfall came when it was discovered by his employer, Elon Musk, that he was scrubbing information being released about Twitter’s efforts at censorship, not only of the laptop story, but with anything that the FBI and the political establishment found disagreeable.
Based on what has been released so far by Mr. Musk, the link to the Lovinger ONA story, and an interview of Mr. Baker conducted by a joint session of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees on October 3rd of 2018, we can draw several logical conclusions:
- 1. Baker was a central figure in the dissemination of the dossier and a source of leaks to the media as determined by Special Prosecutor John Durham early on in his investigation.
- 2. Baker was most likely a conduit between the FBI and Stefan Halper during his stint at ONA.
- 3. Lovinger had stumbled onto something he wasn’t supposed to and paid a hefty price for it, courtesy of Mr. Baker and his cronies.
Rather than treat the ONA story as a separate category, it deserves more scrutiny, given Mr. Baker’s centrality to:
- 1. The Steele dossier.
- 2. The suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
- 3. The slow rolling and possible deletion of information related to government collusion in the shadow banning of conservatives or anyone with a view that ran contrary to accepted narratives.
- 4. And quite possibly, things that have yet to be discovered.
Baker’s presence or links to these events is more than coincidence and needs to be treated as part of a bigger picture regarding corruption at the highest levels of the alphabet soup agencies of our national security establishment.
What really happened to Suchir Balaji?
Mr. Balaji was a whistleblower whose death was ruled a
suicide by Bay Area authorities back in November of 2024. He was found
“unresponsive” in his apartment by the police. The only reason they were called
there was at the behest of his mother. Rather than go into a lot of detail on
the initial part of this story, the articles linked below are a couple of good
primers. Please read before proceeding with the rest of this post.
There’s an awful lot to unpack about this case, so please
bear with me as I lay out this rambling screed. Sam Altman, Mr. Balaji’s
previous employer at Open AI, is one of the three individuals involved in the
new Stargate program that the current administration hopes will provide an AI
moonshot for this country. The other players include Larry Ellison, founder and
CEO of Oracle and Softbank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son. Elon Musk has been
skeptical of this venture, given the lack of capital, he claims, is being made
available for this endeavor. It should come as no surprise that Mr. Musk has
been publicly
feuding with Mr. Altman for some time, and there was a lawsuit
filed by Mr. Musk that should be going to trial as of this writing.
Open AI was never supposed to be a for profit venture. Mr.
Musk poured millions into this partnership to ensure that the biggest
beneficiary was the general public. Mr. Altman, along with Microsoft (another
major partner) may have had other ideas all along, per Mr. Musk in the
interview below. Also note his take on Larry Ellison and his cavalier attitude
towards the risks of AI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=bWr-DA5Wjfw
Mr. Musk also backed up Mr. Balaji’s claims that Open AI was
in fact violating
copyright laws with its “scraping” of data off the web. Mr. Balaji
understood this because he was training what eventually became Chat GPT on how
to do just that.
There’s an awful lot to suggest that Mr. Balaji’s death was
not a suicide, as ruled by the San Francisco Coroner’s Office. The most
definitive evidence was actually collected by his mother and an investigative
reporter named George Webb, who combed through his apartment collecting
evidence. By far the hardest hitting stories unearthing all of this information
have been from non-traditional media sources, such as the Indian press and
Tucker Carlson’s podcast series. See below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwXbQg53Djk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL-nIy2tQiQ&rco=1
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-poornima-rao
What tied all of this together for me was the claim by
venture capitalist Marc Andreesen that during a visit
to the Biden White House, he was told that AI, as a technology,
would be restricted to only a handful of major players in the market and would
be tightly controlled by the government. Can you say oligopoly, boys and girls?
Guess who was going to be one of those companies involved in this endeavor? If
you guessed Open AI, then you were definitely over the target. The fact that
Microsoft would also have its grubby tentacles in the middle of all this as
well, is even more reason to be suspicious. Mr. Altman disputes
those claims, but none of what happened to Mr. Balaji makes any sense
if that had been the case. Allow me to explain.
Based on what we know about Mr. Balaji’s death, it was most
certainly not a suicide. His apartment appeared to be ransacked, as if someone
had been looking for something, and the blood spatters and other forensic
evidence didn’t support the explanation of someone who had taken his own life.
He had apparently been collecting information on his previous employer and some
of the things that Mr. Altman and Open AI may have been up to. He had already
gone to the NY Times with specific claims of wrongdoing but based on what had
come out, this may have only been the tip of the iceberg. Based on opportunity
and motive, there are a couple of rabbit holes we could go down with this
story, so let’s explore each of them.
Hole number one. Public disclosure of Open AI’s malfeasance
would have worked against the government’s interests in keeping a tight rein on
this technology, especially if it intended to do so through coercive means.
Imagine a government that decided that the best way to control the major
players in various industries wasn’t via regulation but through bribery,
blackmail, and extortion. Couldn’t happen, you say? Well, there was the Russia
collusion narrative that played out for three years, along with a special
counsel investigation that cost American taxpayers north of 30 million dollars.
People in Trump’s orbit were investigated, indicted, and sent to prison, all
over a plot hatched by the Hillary Clinton campaign, aided and abetted by a
bunch of deep state operatives at the FBI, DOJ, the intelligence community, and
certain members of Congress. There were the lawfare attacks against then
candidate Trump during the 2024 election cycle that were orchestrated by the
Biden administration. Then there was the coverup of the previous president’s
cognitive state during his tenure in office. A coverup that was exposed on a
global scale during the first presidential debate. And, of course, there was
the alleged robbery and murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich, which to this very day
remains unsolved. So, the idea that these people would never try something so
outlandish belies what we have already seen over the course of the last nine
years.
Hole number two. In the wake of the Trump victory in
November, the moguls of the tech world descended upon Mar a Lago like the wise
men making their way to Bethlehem. Quite a few of them left million plus dollar
offerings in the inauguration collection basket as well. Sam Altman was one of
them. Since the idea of being one of the anointed in the AI space under a Biden
or Harris administration had gone up in smoke, where would that have left Open
AI and Microsoft vis a vis Trump world? Any whiff of wrongdoing on the part of
this dynamic duo (even if it was just one partner) would have caused the new
administration to raise the drawbridge, man the parapets, and prepare to repel
any and all attackers. It was therefore in their best interests that anyone
having any sort of derogatory information needed to be sidelined post haste.
Mr. Balaji, having gone to the Times in such a public manner had already
painted a target on his own back, and the rest, as they say, may have been
history.
In terms of plausibility, hole number one leaves a detail or
two that would need to be reconciled. Since the old guard had lost the
election, what possible motivation would there have been to shut Mr. Balaji up?
The incoming administration had its own priorities and policies, and they were the
polar opposite of what Mr. Andreesen had learned about during his White House
visit. If, on the other hand, the machinery to deal with this loose end was
already at work, then it might be plausible to think that no one thought about
calling off the operation post-election. They were more concerned with putting
as many roadblocks in Mr. Trump’s way as possible. This may have been a purely
administrative oversight. It was nothing personal (tell that to his grieving parents).
Hole number two would bolster Mr. Musk’s mistrust of his Open AI partners,
given their willingness to disregard the main purpose of the project because
they saw dollar signs. Although Gates et al. could no longer influence world
events in a Trump administration, this would at least give them a seat at the
table. And that’s a damned sight better than being on the outside looking in.
Either way one rolls the dice on this story; two major questions
still remain. Who killed Mr. Balaji and why? This inquiring mind wants to know.
