BE ADVISED, Military whistle blower meets with Sidney Powell
By Dr. Lt. Scott Bennett
BE ADVISED, Military whistleblower meets with Sidney Powell and files Amicus Brief with Judge Sullivan disclosing Obama-Eric Holder-Hillary Clinton conspiracy with Flynn’s prior attorneys at Covington & Burling to hide terrorist finance schemes. www.shellgamewhistleblower.com
See brief below.
video available of deposition here:
https://www.facebook.com/capsule.ninetynine.7/videos/2628990590704983
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Plaintiff,
v. Case No. 1:17-cr-00232-EGS-1
MICHAEL T. FLYNN, Defendant.
Amicus Curiae Brief Disclosing a Military Report on Covington & Burling-Flynn Motion
COMES NOW, Scott Bennett, petitioner, and files this Amicus CuriaeBrief Disclosing a Military Report on Covington & Burling-Flynn Motion, in response to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s invitation for briefs to assist the court by 1) providing information, testimony, and insight that has bearing on the key issues in this case; 2) that this court is not presently aware of; and, 3) that in the interests of justice must be considered for the following reasons:
1. Scott Bennett’s information is material and relevant and must be considered because Mr. Bennett was a U.S. Army officer and counterterrorism contractor at the State Department with a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) security clearance, whose work interfaced with Covington & Burling, General Michael Flynn, and Sidney Powell, as well as the Department of Justice, FBI, DIA, CIA, and other agencies at U.S. Central Command. All material is UNCLASSIFIED. See Exhibit 1 (Credentials).
2. Bennett’s information will demonstrate that Covington & Burling had an egregious conflict of interest, and the law firm sought to protect its multinational clients and their governments by impeding and obstructing General Flynn and silencing him through a disingenuous plea deal to block the exposure of Covington & Burling’s role in various Clinton State Department/Obama Administration/ Justice Department pay-to-play schemes implemented through the Clinton Foundation, involving Middle East regimes, and facilitated by the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS). See Exhibit 2 (Report filed with Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA) for White House review and DOJ Inspector General investigation) ; and Exhibit 3 (video interview of Bennett with Congressman DeSaulnier’s staff in 2016).
3. In August 2016, Bennett met with and filed unclassified information and documents with Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), and then later shared them with Sidney Powell and Joseph Flynn (General Flynn’s brother) to alert and caution them about Covington & Burling’s conflicts of interests concerning the law firm’s representation of General Flynn and his apparent entrapment. This meeting between Bennett, Powell, and Flynn occurred when Bennett was a guest speaker at “Operation Classified” conference in Dallas, Texas in November of 2018 before General Flynn terminated Covington & Burling. See Exhibit 4 (video of discussion with Sidney Powell and others about Covington & Burling conflict of interest).
SUMMARY:
4. Mr. Bennett, as a friend of the court, is a former U.S. Special Operations Army Officer and State Department Counterterrorism analyst and served as the Liaison Officer for U.S. Special Operations Command to the State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Dell L. Dailey. Bennett, along with whistleblower Edward Snowden, was an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, who also served as a terrorist threat finance analyst at U.S. Central Command under Dov S. Zakheim, father of Covington & Burling attorney Roger Zakheim, who worked at the House Armed Services Committee before his engagement by Covington & Burling. See Exhibit 5 (Covington & Burling Staff Connected to Scott Bennett, General Michael Flynn, and “SHELL GAME”).
5. Bennett’s mission was to analyze, identify, target, and destroy terrorist financing personnel and their networks, including banks, foundations, and law firms, and their related operations in the U.S. Central Command’s theater of operations. The Clinton Foundation and Obama Administration utilized Covington & Burling and its client Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) to facilitate and finance mercenary recruitment, training, and deployment throughout the theater of operations, including the conflicts in Libya and Syria. See Exhibit 6 (Terrorist Financing and Money Laundering Connections to Swiss Banks and Covington & Burling, and “SHELL GAME”).
6. Pursuant to 18 U.S.C.§ 2339A – Providing material support to terrorists, Bennett’s information will demonstrate: 1) Covington & Burling may have engaged in acts and conduct providing material support to terrorists against the interests of the United States, and former Attorney General Eric Holder and former Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer may have conspired with former and current Justice Department officials to ensnare General Flynn using “sophisticated means”, thereby violating the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, S.2040; and 2) then confused and deceived this honorable court, violating 18 U.S. Code § 2382 – Misprision of treason; and 3) undermined the legal defense and violated the constitutional rights of General Flynn, violating 18 U.S.C. §241, §242, to conceal such acts and conduct in this proceeding. See Exhibit 7 (“Shell Game” Report).
7. Bennett’s information will demonstrate that Covington & Burling has collaborated with other parties to implement a multi-dimensional deception operation using “sophisticated means” against this honorable court and the Trump Administration, and used the allegations against General Flynn as the cornerstone for their case about “Russian collusion”.
8. Bennett’s documentation will show that Covington & Burling’s multinational clients and their governments relied on their legal staff to coordinate activities and thereby encouraged an abusive and malicious prosecution of General Flynn to cover-up corrupt financial schemes related to terrorism, and therefore represents an immediate threat to the national security of the United States.
9. For these reasons, Covington & Burling knowingly and intentionally disregarded this court’s ORDER to produce to Mr. Flynn’s successor counsel (Sidney Powell) all documents or communications concerning their prior representation. Covington & Burling then immediately engaged its contacts in the Justice Department to drop this case to avoid exposure of the prior communications between Covington, the Clinton Foundation, and the Obama Justice Department attorneys, specifically Eric Holder, Lanny Breuer, Michael Chertoff, and Roger Zakheim.
10. A former employee of Covington & Burling will testify and confirm that its lawyers intentionally hid its numerous “conflicts of interest” (clients, staff, activities) to shelter claims of potential criminal or unethical conduct. General Flynn as former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), did not know all clients and activities of Covington & Burling, especially UBS and its facilitation of terrorist financing. Covington & Burling failed to disclose material information to General Flynn which was disclosed by Brad Birkenfeld privately to Mr. Bennett who revealed such information to Sidney Powell and Joseph Flynn at the same conference. See Exhibit 4 (video of discussion with Sidney Powell and others about Covington & Burling conflict of interest).
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DECEPTION OPERATION: “DEEP BLACK”
11. Scott Bennett, in his speech at the “Operation Classified” conference, reported that while working at the Department of Justice, Covington & Burling attorneys Eric Holder, Lanny Breuer and Loretta Lynch implemented “DEEP BLACK”, a secret program in which inmates at federal correctional institutions were compelled to attend “re-education classes” to brainwash them into accepting global CIA-Israeli Mossad drug running operations and the assassinations of military and political officials opposed to them. The syllabus for this “re-education” is attached as an exhibit, and Mr. Bennett witnessed the implementation of this program designed to indoctrinate prisoners in Oakland, CA. See Exhibit 8 (DEEP BLACK: DOJ Prisoner Program)
12. The content of the “DEEP BLACK” program was under the jurisdiction of Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer and DOJ. The course materials are alarming and disturbing, and compulsory attendance constitutes a violation of the constitutional rights of inmates (18 U.S. Code §242; 42 U.S. Code §1985). The program of “DEEP BLACK” constitutes waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer funds. This court is encouraged to refer this “DEEP BLACK” program to the Inspector General for immediate investigation.
COVINGTON & BURLING’S TERRORIST FINANCING CLIENTS:
13. Brad Birkenfeld, an American Swiss Banker, identified 19,000 Union Bank of Switzerland accounts involved to some degree or another in terrorist financing. Covington and Burling represented UBS. The accounts involved Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other Sunni-Wahhabi regimes, as well as terrorist financing networks.
14. Mr. Birkenfeld, over a period of six (6) months, provided Mr. Bennett with various documents, bank accounts, and Wikileaks cables that clearly proved the Clinton State Department and Clinton Foundation and Department of Justice under Eric Holder were committing crimes against the United States, with support from the Obama Administration. See Exhibit 9 (Wikileaks Cables Report).
15. Birkenfeld also reported to Bennett, among many other things, that because Birkenfeld had been the personal banker of Russian Oligarch Igor Olenicoff and terrorist financier Abdullah Azziz, he had been specifically targeted between the years 2005-2009 by the CIA, FBI counterterrorism task force, and DOJ. Interestingly, Mr. Bennett’s colleague, Edward Snowden, had been the CIA agent who maneuvered Birkenfeld into a false D.U.I. incident, and later reported this event in Snowden’s interview with Glen Greenwald of The Guardian. This court need only consider the controversies involving Brad Birkenfeld, Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange—they are all interrelated.
See Exhibit 10 (UBS Terrorist Finance Account given by Brad Birkenfeld).
16. Birkenfeld shared with Bennett the fact that Covington & Burling’s prior lawyers Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer were using their positions in the Department of Justice to direct Loretta Lynch to protect Covington & Burling’s client, Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS). With the assistance of Brad Birkenfeld’s boss, Robert Wolf, Chairman of the Americas for UBS Wealth Management, Eric Holder directed Loretta Lynch to give UBS a 2% fine and non-prosecution agreement for crimes it had committed, in exchange for financial donations to the Clinton Foundation and the imprisonment of Brad Birkenfeld. Eric Holder justified this crime by redefining it as, “Banks are too big to jail.” In reality, Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer were acting on behalf of themselves and their former employer Covington & Burling by protecting its most valuable client, and securing for themselves future positions at the firm, which they indeed took immediately after leaving the Obama Justice Department. See Exhibit 2 (Report filed with Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA) for White House review and DOJ Inspector General investigation).
17. Bennett’s information will demonstrate that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staff worked with Covington & Burling attorney Stuart Eisenstadt, Clinton Foundation attorney Jeannie Rhee (who later joined the Mueller investigation team without disclosing this conflict of interest), and other members of the Obama Administration on various “pay-to-play” scams and secret deals. An example of this was Switzerland agreeing to relocate Chinese Uighur terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Switzerland in exchange for concealing the UBS-Covington-Birkenfeld matter. Bennett confirmed this from his work at the State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism. See Exhibit 9 (Wikileaks State Department Cables Report).
18. Bennett, upon discovery, recognized the financial corruption and dangerous national security implications of this relationship involving Covington & Burling, Union Bank of Switzerland, the Clinton Foundation and the State Department and Department of Justice, and filed a report disclosing this entitled, “SHELL GAME: A Military Whistleblowing Report To Congress.” See Exhibit 7 (“Shell Game” Report).
19. Bennett, as a military officer, was bound by his oath to protect the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and thus obligated under law to report these matters. Consequently, Bennett filed his report “SHELL GAME” with the Inspector General at the Department of Defense, Lynne Halbrooks, and mailed copies of it to the following military and government agencies:
U.S. Civil Affairs Psychological Operations Command (General Jeff Jacobs and LTC. Baucum Fulk; U.S. Central Command (James Mattis); Army attorney Avi Stone; the Defense Intelligence Agency, and numerous committees and members of Congress.
20. The “SHELL GAME” report directly implicates the following government agencies and persons in criminal racketeering and other crimes:
• Former President Barack Hussein Obama
• State Department: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and the State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism.
• Central Intelligence Agency, Director John Brennan
• Department of Treasury (terrorist finance): Former Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner
• U.S. Central Command, Terrorist Financing, MacDill Air Force Base
• Department of Justice: Former Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
• Former Clinton Foundation attorney and member of Robert Mueller investigation team, Jeannie Rhee
• Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalala, and her nephew David Chalela
• Leon Panetta, former SECDEF and Booz-Allen-Hamilton executive
• James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence and Booz-Allen-Hamilton executive
• Others not listed here for sake of space. See Exhibit 11 (Partial list of recipients).
21. Covington & Burling hired Roger Zakheim, former legal counsel at the House Armed Services Committee, as an attorney in exchange for Roger Zakheim’s suppression of Bennett’s military terrorist financing whistleblowing report: “SHELL GAME.” In fact, “SHELL GAME” was sent to the House Armed Services Committee and reviewed by Roger Zakheim. The report exposed contractor fraud and other crimes by Dov Zakheim, Roger Zakheim’s father and Bennett’s supervisor at Booz Allen Hamilton. Military personnel were killed and wounded as a result of the Zakheims’ suppression of Bennett’s “SHELL GAME” report.
22. In a related matter, State Senator Dick Black (R-VA) reported to Mr. Bennett that in 2016, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe sent four (4) FBI agents to his office to entice him into traveling to Syria to initiate negotiations with the Assad regime over the release of a journalist. At the time, Andrew McCabe’s wife Jill McCabe was substituted in as a candidate against Senator Black with encouragement from the DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe and candidate Hillary Clinton.
COVER UP IS WORSE THAN THE CRIME
23. Soon after receiving Bennett’s “SHELL GAME” report, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) communicated about Scott Bennett and Edward Snowden in a private letter dated June 20, 2013, condemning Bennett’s report and recommending prosecution for filing it. See SeeExhibit 12 (Letter between Senators Feinstein and Nelson about Bennett’s report).
24. By ignoring Bennett’s materials and refusing to investigate, Senator Feinstein and Senator Nelson may have contributed to the “aiding and abetting” of terrorist financing. See 18 U.S.C.§ 2339A-terrorist financing; and 18 U.S. Code § 2382.
25. Soon after Senators Feinstein and Nelson discussed Bennett’s report “SHELL GAME”, journalists Michael Isikoff (NBC News) and Tom Hamburger (Washington Post), contacted Mr. Bennett and requested a private interview. Bennett agreed and debriefed them on the “SHELL GAME” materials and gave them documents. See Exhibit 13 (letters from Isikoff to Bennett).
26. It is significant to note that Michael Isikoff also met with Christopher Steele in September 2016, and wrote the article that would be used in the application for the FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page. Isikoff also worked with DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa in the spring of 2016 leading him to write an article detailing Paul Manafort’s business dealings with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
27. Mr. Bennett has discussed “SHELL GAME” and the unconstitutional financing of Islamic extremists by the Clinton Foundation, the Obama Administration, Union Bank of Switzerland, and Covington & Burling on various television programs, including Russia Today (RT), Sputnik, Press TV, and other international news channels. After Bennett’s revelations a groundswell of propaganda about the “Russian Election meddling” and “Flynn-Russian” collusion was suddenly published by Michael Isikioff, Tom Hamburger, and Obama appointees at the CIA, FBI, and DOJ.
28. Bennett’s “SHELL GAME” report provided conclusive evidence that Obama Administration officials were intentionally enabling the financing of ISIS, MEK, AL NUSRA, and other Middle East terrorist groups using Swiss banks (Union Bank of Switzerland, Credit Suisse, and HSBC). Bennett’s report was circulated within the Department of Defense, U.S. Central Command, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency.
29. After dissemination of Bennett’s “SHELL GAME” report, exposing the Saudi Arabian and Qatari financing of terrorist Wahhabi networks, the content was shared with the State Department as well as the Department of Justice. Covington & Burling and its clients (Union Bank of Switzerland and Saudi Arabia) were implicated and had substantial conflicts of interest with General Flynn. See Exhibit 14 (Defense Intelligence Agency Cable on Terrorist Financing)
30. Edward Snowden, who had targeted Brad Birkenfeld in Switzerland, and had been a colleague of Mr. Bennett’s at Booz Allen Hamilton in the Hawaii office of NSA, immediately recognized Brad Birkenfeld and Bennett, and soon after left his position with evidence supporting the findings in the SHELL GAME report. Snowden shared this information with Glenn Greenwald in their interview in 2013.
31. Brad Birkenfeld’s attorney Jesselyn Radack also represents Edward Snowden. Brad Birkenfeld was paid through his attorney Dean Zerbe (former staff member of Senator Charles Grassley) $104 million dollars by the Obama Administration to remain silent about all matters. The “payoff” delivered on September 11, 2012, same day as the Benghazi attacks, and soonafter Ambassador Stephens reported missiles being stolen and sent to Turkey.
32. This amicus brief is submitted for the purpose of establishing the relationships between the Clinton Foundation, the Obama Administration, the Department of Justice, and Covington & Burling, to assist the court in evaluating the overwhelming conflicts of interest.
CONCLUSION:
33. Scott Bennett’s amicus brief and “SHELL GAME” report is intended to illuminate how how Covington & Burling violated its duties to the court and its client.
34. Covington & Burling attorneys Eric Holder, Lanny Breuer, Michael Chertoff, Roger Zakheim, Stuart Eizenstadt and others, along with Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalela and attorney Jeannie Rhee, engaged in fraud upon the court and knowingly encouraged other parties including candidate Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Comey to construct a complex legal trap using sophisticated means and by exploiting their knowledge, relationships, and experience in the U.S. government to implement “deception operations and psychological warfare” that artificially generated a false Russian-Flynn nexus, and then amplified this rumor through the media in the hopes of triggering a long-term coup d’état against the President of the United States by using general Flynn as a pawn in a larger political game.
35. Mr. Bennett has information that this court may consider as “newly discovered evidence” in this case in order to understand how Covington & Burling’s employees, clients, allies, and activities were adamantly and openly opposed to Michael Flynn’s work as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and later as the National Security Advisor to President Donald J. Trump.
36. U.S. State Department cables between State/CT in Washington DC and Switzerland reveal that in 2009, Hillary Clinton in her capacity as Secretary, and agents of the Clinton Foundation, did confer with former Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch to confiscate and conceal these 19,000 Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) accounts that were reported to the U.S. Government by Brad Birkenfeld. UBS was a client of Covington & Burling, and both were donors to the Clinton Foundation, and beneficiaries of services granted by the State Department under Hillary Clinton.
37. The material in this amicus brief is essentially the “center of the web” that completes the larger investigation being conducted by Inspector General Durham and Attorney General Bill Bar into activities between 2009 to the present.
Respectfully submitted,
__________________________
Scott Bennett
Petitioner, pro se
May 26, 2020
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I certify that a copy of this Amicus Curiae Brief Disclosing a Military Report on Covington & Burling-Flynn Motion, was sent to the Clerk of the Court, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 333 Constitution Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20001with instructions to the Clerk of the Court to disseminate to all other parties in this case.
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Scott Bennett, pro se
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