UPDATE: According to CNN, “in a new letter addressed to attorney Christopher Mattei on Wednesday, Martin withdrew his initial letter entirely. In a brief note, according to a person familiar with the letter, Martin wrote that there is no investigation of Aldenberg and “because of this, I hereby withdraw my request for information from you or your former client.” {SOURCE}
As noted in the original outline below, it wasn’t particularly smart for Alex Jones to post the letter on his Twitter account. Without much doubt the Ed Martin retraction was due to this knuckleheaded move.
— Original Outline Below —
William “Bill” Aldenberg was the lead investigator for John Durham in 2020. Bill Aldenberg was also a plaintiff in the case against Alex Jones in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting 2012, lawsuit and civil trial 2022.
According to a U.S. News and World Report article, “Aldenberg was among the law enforcement officers who responded to the school and found the dead children. That then led to years of abuse from people who believed the shooting was a hoax, he has said. His share of the judgment totaled around $120 million.”
Bill Aldenberg was the first witness in the 2022 case against InfoWars. Alex Jones and InfoWars lost the lawsuit and were punished by a $1.4 billion damage award to the plaintiffs. InfoWars filed bankruptcy and the arguments over liquidation of assets is underway in Texas.
Here’s where things get weird. We know the FBI was conducting an operation called “Arctic Frost,” essentially the targeting of Donald Trump and key figures who aligned with Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 election. {Citation}
It is widely suspected, the massive amount of evidence captured in the Arctic Frost operation, was eventually fed to the January 6th Committee for use in their expanded investigation. That evidence then underpinned the case against President Trump that was being assembled by Jack Smith. {Go Deep}
Essentially, operation Arctic Frost was the evidence gathering operation, then the J6 Committee and special counsel Jack Smith used the FBI evidence to frame their cases. [Readers will note, this process is similar to the FBI “Crossfire Hurricane” operation, which fed evidence to special counsel Robert Mueller, to frame their cases.]
Back to FBI Investigative Agent William Aldenberg, who was lead for John Durham.
DOJ attorney Ed Martin is looking at the connective tissue around all of the FBI targeting operations. He now asks the lawyers for William Aldenberg about details of their client’s involvement in the case against Alex Jones.
[SOURCE]
Alex Jones posted a copy of the letter on his Twitter [X] feed, along with a picture of him and Ed Martin. A rather knuckleheaded move by Jones considering how Ed Martin says in the letter he would prefer not to litigate the issue in the media. Then again, wisdom and sound judgement have never been Jones’ strong points.
Really, it’s a convoluted mess making the serious issues around Arctic Frost get lost in the weeds. Then again, perhaps that is a feature not a flaw. Many people, CTH included, view Alex Jones through the prism of compromise ever since the $1.4 billion sword of Damocles was established over his head.
(USN&WR) – […] Ed Martin Jr., who leads the Justice Department’s “weaponization working group,” asked in the letter whether retired agent William Aldenberg received any financial benefits from helping to organize the lawsuit, in which he was a plaintiff along with victims’ family members.
Aldenberg, like the parents and other relatives of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, has been the subject of false conspiracy theories spread by Jones on his “Infowars” broadcasts.
Aldenberg was among the law enforcement officers who responded to the school and found the dead children. That then led to years of abuse from people who believed the shooting was a hoax, he has said. His share of the judgment totaled around $120 million.
In a Sept. 15 letter to Christopher Mattei, a lawyer who represents Sandy Hook families, Martin suggested he was scrutinizing Aldenberg’s role in the lawsuit.
Mattei responded to the letter in a text message to The Associated Press.
“Thanks to the courage of the Sandy Hook families, Infowars will soon be finished,” he said, referring to the families’ efforts in court to liquidate Jones’ assets to help pay the judgment. “In his last gasps, Jones is once again harassing them, only now with the corrupt complicity of at least one DOJ official. It’s as disgusting as it is pathetic, and we will not stand for it.” (more)
“As noted in the original outline below, it wasn’t particularly smart for Alex Jones to post the letter on his Twitter account. Without much doubt the Ed Martin retraction was due to this knuckleheaded move.” From this article by TheConservativeTreehouse.
Alex Jones [in obviously my opinion] directs his programs and >his ‘knucklehead’ moves towards convincing particular watchers of his program to buy his ‘health’ products. … To continue with his endeavors, Alex Jones has to direct his programming towards the ‘buyers of his products’ advertised. The Business of Show Business is to keep the ‘show’ going and make money.
Supposedly, his first wife testified that Alex Jones’ real behavior isn’t what he displays on his programs and in public. His behavior before the camera is the >character of Alex Jones. [My source, I read about her comment on the Internet]
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Like many people, I enjoy watching a little bit of the zany Alex Jones. … But like all zany things, a > ‘little bit’ is enough to enjoy programming by Alex Jones. … I’m an old geezer, and I know the ‘conventional’ news uses the serious newscasters to convenience people >their news is important and truthful. … In my opinion, the real knuckleheads and news clowns are on the ‘Fake News’ shows.
God Bless Trump for pointing at reporters and letting everyone know their organizations are part of the ‘Fake News’ Networks.
In my opinion, Alex Jones has already rearranged his finances to try an escape many of the ‘Legal Judgement Problems’ from his present legal situation. [+I believe, Alex Jones has had a career that involved ‘legal’ problems, which he uses all the legal ‘problems’ to help sell more of his products.]
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From this article: “Thanks to the courage of the Sandy Hook families, Infowars will soon be finished,” he said, referring to the families’ efforts in court to liquidate Jones’ assets to help pay the judgment. “In his last gasps, Jones is once again harassing them, only now with the corrupt complicity of at least one DOJ official. It’s as disgusting as it is pathetic, and we will not stand for it.”
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Alex Jones ‘feeds’ on attention and notoriety.
I find it curious that. for some reason, the liquidation of Infowars in the face of its bankruptcy never seems to take place, and Alex Jones continues on as a result. The nonsense about Infowars being worth billions is ludicrous. This is some kind of theater, and I suspect both “sides” in this “conflict” know what they are doing and that it is completely FAKE. This is all for our distraction and confusion. Noise, bedlam, and most of all, Trauma are essential in psychological warfare, and it is difficult, at times, to know who all is a knowing player in the operation. This might provide a clue:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1351665735404318720.html
>> As noted in the original outline below, it wasn’t particularly smart for Alex Jones to post the letter on his Twitter account. Without much doubt the Ed Martin retraction was due to this knuckleheaded move.
This is Alex Jones tragic flaw. Everything is news. He simply does not know when to shut up, even for the sake of self-preservation.
The real story is Martin’s inquiry not Alex Jones. We all know Jones was a bit of a blow hard to always be taken with a big grain of salt. Hopefully, Martin’s work will punish any criminal actors!
dude looks like a grey
“Martin was ordered by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to retract the letter, according to a person familiar with the matter.”
What was the reason Todd Blanche did that? (Sorry if I missed it.)
Let there be light.
I understand Martin has retracted his questions regarding the relationship between BerlinRosen and Mattei’s law firm… but I just found this article and wanted to share more background on BerlinRosen and how it operates…
(4/3/13)
FTA – Last September, Crain’s New York Business’s Chris Bragg wrote Just don’t call these consultants Lobbyists: They move government without having to disclose their activities. Call them clever, call them stealthy. From the article:
Ms. [Jennifer] Cunningham is part of a growing industry of strategic consultants who do not register as lobbyists yet nonetheless have close ties with New York politicians and represent clients (including elected officials) with interests before the government. These nonlobbyists—at firms such as SKDKnickerbocker, or SKDK, and BerlinRosen—get many of the lucrative paychecks accorded their registered peers without the hassles and scrutiny that come with having to disclose their frequent interactions.
Regarding BerlinRosen, he wrote:
Like Ms. Cunningham, Mr. Rosen is not a registered lobbyist. Yet he regularly meets with government officials. The mayor’s schedule from his first five months in office shows Mr. Rosen was in at least nine meetings and on two calls.
Shortly after Mr. de Blasio became mayor, Mr. Rosen’s firm was also hired to advance one of the mayor’s pet causes: securing funding for universal prekindergarten. Rather than advocate directly on behalf of the mayor, however, the company represented a nonprofit group set up to lobby on the issue. That organization, Campaign for One New York, was founded by former de Blasio campaign manager Bill Hyers to lobby the state for pre-K funding. Campaign for One New York paid BerlinRosen $363,000 through June, according to its lobbying disclosure.
In helping to control the media message around the pre-K funding effort, BerlinRosen acted as if it were part of the administration. The company returned reporters’ calls made to the City Hall press office about pre-K, while Mr. Rosen closely advised government officials on pre-K talking points, according to email messages obtained through a records request.
https://atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-most-powerful-jonathan-rosen-mayor.html
BerlinRosen (BR) operates as characters in Machiavelli’s The Prince, constantly breaking the election and public financing laws, and getting away with it, to elect their Woke ideological candidates, who they used to make money for themselves, and their developer and special interests’ clients. Rosen, Working Families Party (WFP), and de Blasio learned the illegal tactics of how to use government-funded nonprofits, interlocking them with Soros front groups, and union PACs, and violating the election laws, to take over government and politics, while working for and representing the corrupt non-profit ACORN, before it was shut down during a federal corruption investigation in 2010.
…When BerlinRosen’s Jonathan Rosen served as spokesman for ACORN in 2009, he said, “It’s not a conflict of interest that [Rosen’s] Public Advocate candidate de Blasio granted ACORN $115,000 in government funds as a councilman.” Rosen insisted, that ACORN never discussed public funding with politicians, while discussing endorsements with de Blasio or anyone else who ACORN endorsed, after receiving a contribution from that elected official. Clearly, ACORN taught (BR), the (WFP), and de Blasio how to use govt money and interconnect them with nonprofits and PACs for political gain.
In 2009, the ACORN alumni, BR, WFP, and de Blasio used the corrupt campaign tactics and low morals they learned from working at the corrupt shut-down nonprofit ACORN, to accomplish their first major election campaign victories. de Blasio, WFP, and BR worked together to violate the election law, to win elective office for the candidates WFP endorsed, by illegally reducing campaign costs in public finance campaigns with spending and contribution limits.
Following the tradition that the political activists learned while working for ACORN, (BR), (WFP), and de Blasio, were investigated and cleared by the feds for creating and using a for-profit illegal company “Data and Fields,” (DF) that progressive unions funded to reduced campaign costs for candidates endorsed by WFP and who hired BR as their campaign consultant. Four years before their complete takeover of City Hall in 2013, BR elected with the help of DF, de Blasio Public Advocate (who paid DF 250,000) and several City Council members, including three members who became leaders of the progressive takeover of the city: future NYC Comptroller, Brad Lander (who paid DF 55,000), future Public Advocate Jumaane Williams (who paid DF 55,000) and future Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (who paid DF 10,000).
https://garytilzer.substack.com/p/how-the-socialists-stole-broke-and