Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
October 21, 2017
Well, this is certainly interesting.
Alek Boyd, a journalist from Venezuela, claims that after writing some negative reports on some powerful people in his country, Fusion GPS, the same company that wrote the Pussygate Dossier, traced him and his family for months, and then when they couldn’t find any negative information about him, they just made it up.
Which is exactly what happened to Donald Trump.
They made up some super nasty stuff that can’t be falsified, then transmitted it to John McCain and others. Even though they spelled “Alfa Bank” wrong, along with other very basic mistakes, the intelligence agencies pretended to think it was real in order to get the media to run with it.
The self-described “strategic intelligence” firm Fusion GPS that was behind the controversial anti-Trump dossier has a track record of intimidation and smear tactics, according to congressional testimony and the firsthand account of a London-based Venezuelan journalist who said he was labeled a “pedophile,” “extortionist” and “drug trafficker” after criticizing one of Fusion’s clients.
“I believe that Fusion GPS’s business is to do basically whatever the paymasters tell them to do,” Alek Boyd, the Venezuelan journalist, told Fox News in his first American TV interview. “They are particularly good at spreading misinformation, disinformation and smears.”
Boyd says he was targeted after his 2012 reporting on Derwick Associates, a power company with close ties to the Venezuelan government. The company allegedly skimmed nearly a billion dollars from rigged contracts with the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.
“It is my understanding that [Fusion GPS] were hired basically to smear Derwick opponents and to dispel any possible doubts that regular media may have had at the time,” he said.
British police records show Boyd reported a break-in, with two laptops stolen from his London apartment in November 2014. Asked by Fox News what was on the computers, Boyd said, “A lot of information and a lot of evidence about corruption and scandals in Venezuela that I’ve been compiling throughout the years.”
After the break-in, Boyd said his sources were attacked. “People that were believed to be collaborating and sending me information from Venezuela were assaulted in Venezuela by the intelligence police of Mr. Chavez,” he said.
Asked if Fusion GPS was tasked with coming after him, Boyd said, “I believe that they were involved in the defamation campaign — smearing campaign — shortly after my apartment was broken into.”
Boyd says he was labeled a pedophile, drug addict and thief on the web. “They published this information through a number of social media and websites anonymously. They created fake Twitter accounts with my name, impersonating myself. … They started publishing photos of me walking around London with my daughters. They produced a huge amount of information — fake information — about me, accusing me from being a pedophile to being an extortionist to a drug trafficker to a car thief.”
That’s all happened to me, also. There are a series of people on the internet accusing me of being a pedophile, criminal, etc. They have created multiple fake Facebook accounts.
I always assume this will happen more to me, given how many people I’ve pissed off, but I do have more of an ability to respond to it than this guy does.
Fake Facebook accounts are extremely difficult to get deleted, by the way. Years ago, someone created one of me where they were threatening to kill some mulatto high school girl, and the local cops were emailing me, and I’m like look I don’t have a Facebook account and they’re like well you have to email Facebook and tell them to remove it and they made me send two forms of ID, then took at least two weeks to delete it – during which period whoever was running it remained active, threatening people and saying all sorts of things using my name and face.
I’m like, “Facebook, shouldn’t you delete this account because of murder threats anyway?” And they told me it was temporarily suspended for that, but that this was not enough reason to delete the account completely.
This has happened repeatedly to me, but again, not in a while, because I have the ability to say to everyone: “I don’t have a Facebook account.”
Most journalists do not have a huge platform of their own to respond to such things.
Boyd says he believes three suspects, seen in security camera video released by British police, left pictures of his children inside his coat pocket as a warning. “The message, I believe at the time — we know where you are and we know where your children are, so take that as a threatening message.”
And there was more.
“After about a week,” Boyd explained, “two sets of envelopes were sent to me from Tbilisi, Georgia, containing the same exact same pictures — printout of pictures — that were left in my jacket, but this time the printouts had handwritten messages saying, ‘You touch the wrong girl you pedophile, you think we can’t touch yours?’”
Yeah, this is the type of thing dissident journalists – that is to say, real journalists – go through.
I won’t tell you about it.
But I’m glad I don’t have kids. I will tell you that.
Fusion GPS is led by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, who left the Wall Street Journal about a decade ago. Boyd provided Fox News with a travel document that Boyd said indicates Fritsch traveled to Venezuela, as part of what he described as an effort to shut down any investigative reporting into Derwick’s actions. Asked if Fusion GPS plays on its credentials as former journalists, Boyd said yes.
“I believe that they are basically cashing in on the years of experience they have accumulated collectively in different newspapers, in different media around the world,” he said.
Yes, please note that: the people running the defamation and threat group were MSM “journalists.”
These are journalist techniques. Or journalists use spy techniques. Whatever. The two are interchangeable. MSM journalists are effectively intelligence agents, sometimes they are literally intelligence agents.
In a congressional declaration, human rights activist Thor Halvorssen also said Fusion GPS had “smear experts” and used “scorched earth methods.”
To date, Simpson has refused to reveal his sources and who paid for the Trump dossier, with Fusion attorney Joshua Levy threatening in an Oct. 16 letter that Simpson and others will take the Fifth if they are required to appear before the House Intelligence Committee.
Defending the company’s work on the Trump dossier, Levy wrote: “Of acute importance, these subpoenas, if indeed directed to our clients, violate the First Amendment rights of our clients and their clients, and would chill any American running for office — regardless of party affiliation, political viewpoint or candidate preference — from conducting confidential opposition research in an election. No individual should be expected to respond to such an abuse of power.”
Boyd was dismissive of Fusion’s First Amendment arguments. “I do not believe that certain privileges that apply to journalists and lawyers should apply to Mr. Simpson because he is neither — he’s a spin doctor.”
Simpson once railed against the kinds of aggressive opposition research tactics that are allegedly the lifeblood of his current company.
Ironically, in a 1996 book that Simpson co-authored with Larry Sabato entitled, “Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics,” the authors wrote, “At its worst, opposition research can be a gateway to acts that are not just offensive but duplicitous and sometimes illegal.”
The First Amendment Defense might sometimes make sense. However, in the case of Donald Trump, it doesn’t – this was spycraft.
I mean, we are talking about Wikileaks being somehow a way to undermine the election process, and that was checked factual information. Information which no one has seriously questioned the legitimacy of. And that is called a conspiracy, universally.
Yes, there does exist a line and I get that. You can’t have a law that says “you must publish only true information,” because in most cases, it is going to be impossible to judge whether or not someone believed the information they published to be true. However, when you can both prove that information was knowingly false and that it was purposefully spread to intelligence agencies, you have an intelligence operation being run against the government.
Calling that “First Amendment” is insane, and only a Levite Priest could say such a thing with a straight face.
Furthermore, it is clear that all media working together in order to push a political agenda that they know is based on lies, for the express purpose of bringing down the government – as the entire media is doing with the Russia hacking story – is a seditious conspiracy and not covered under the First Amendment.
The First Amendment was written to protect independent journalists. The Founding Fathers did not foresee the concept of an international oligopoly of politicized, centralized media purposefully manufacturing a new reality based entirely on consciously told lies and disinformation. This is something that could only be possible in the modern world.
And the First Amendment doesn’t have to even come into it at all. A RICO case against the media would not be something you could use a FA defense against. You would look at the email lists that all of these journalists are on, and see them involved in a conspiracy to defraud the public.