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Blood Money: How Qatar Captured D.C.

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Who really controls Washington, D.C.? Is it Russia, China, or someone else?

What nation is paying prominent members of the Never Trump movement to spread foreign propaganda in the United States?

Who pays the salary of prominent lawfare writer Benjamin Wittes, and why should you care?

Find out in Blood Money.

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Today the Second Circuit Court of Appeals strongly suggested it would order the Epstein records unsealed after hearing arguments from First Amendment lawyer Marc Randazza.

The Court signaled its intent to unseal the records with what’s known as a “show cause” order. A show cause order is a legal term of art that roughy translates to, “You had better give us an excellent reason to change our mind.”

The Court’s full order is available here, and reads:

• Our precedent clearly establishes that “documents submitted to a court for its consideration in a summary judgment are – as a matter of law – judicial documents to which a strong presumption of access attaches, under both the common law and First Amendment. Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that the parties show good cause why the Court should not unseal the summary judgment motion, including any materials filed in connection with this motion, and the District Court’s summary judgment decision.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with Cernovich

– ordering records unsealed in Jeffrey Epstein case unless good cause is shown. https://t.co/1urpiK9cUz pic.twitter.com/ZdJHLrXPkb

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) March 11, 2019

What’s next?

The other parties may try to justify a reason for keeping the records sealed, although based on this current show cause order and how the oral argument went, the Court is unlikely to be persuaded. You can read about the oral argument here:

Privacy rights versus press freedoms took center stage Wednesday at an explosive federal appeals court hearing in New York, where lawyers argued to unseal confidential court files that could reveal evidence of an underage sex trafficking operation allegedly run by New York multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his partner, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reserved judgment in the case, but the panel suggested it was leaning toward the release to the public of vast portions of the court record. The file on the case, which was settled in 2017, contains more than 1,000 documents, lawyers said during oral arguments led by the Miami Herald, which seeks to open the entire file.

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I’m an author, filmmaker, and journalist. You’re reading this book, aren’t you? And it’s based on a major motion picture, which is a fancy way of saying movie. Hoaxed is my second film. My first film, Silenced  had a huge cast of everyone from all walks of life.

I enjoy talking to and about interesting people and interesting subjects, and don’t really have “politics.” Think about all of the profiles of me, and there have been thousands. None of them mention my actual political views, because my views are sort of boring.

My first book Gorilla Mindset has sold over 100,000 copies. The average book sells 1,000 copies in a lifetime, thus promoting multi-best-selling author Neil Strauss to say, “Selling 10,000 copies of a book is equivalent to a gold record. Selling 100,000 copies of a book is going platinum.”

I’m currently involved in precedent-setting litigation in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, after I sued to obtain records involving a convicted sexual predator. The Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press, a non-partisan organization devoted to journalism, filed a brief supporting my lawsuit. The Miami Herald also filed a lawsuit after mine was dismissed, claiming that my lawsuit was just and valid.

A member of Congress, John Conyers, resigned because of my reporting. And an A-List Hollywood actor was fired by Disney after my reporting surfaced some disturbing views he had. Chuck Todd asked the National Security Adviser of the United States of America about me on Meet the Press. That’s the level of the game I play at, when I choose to.

As Muhammad Alisaid, “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”

Yet if you Google me, you’re be taken into an alternative universe called Wikiality, a term coined by left-wing comedian Stephen Colbert. According to the Urban dictionary, “Wikiality refers to the changing of reality or truth via a Wikipedia-like system, allowing the public to change facts as long as there are others that agree.”

The Wikipedia entry on me describes me as an “alt-right conspiracy theorist.”

I have a biracial family, so a “white ethnostate” isn’t a desire of mine, and I don’t like the alt-right guys. Countless articles from reputable sources explain that I’m not alt-right. It is simply inaccurate to describe me as alt-right, but accuracy doesn’t matter to Wikipedia.

Some people with very disturbing Internet histories, in an effort to incite death threats against me, have taken over the Wikipedia entry on me. If you make a change to my Wikipedia page, the change will be reverted within 5 minutes. Whenever I’m in the news, the editors lock the page down to prevent anyone from editing it to reflect the truth about me.

I’m not the only victim of Wikiality. Nazism was the official political philosophy of the GOP, Google results showed. Whatever one thinks of the GOP (and I don’t think highly of it), Nazism would be a bit too far. The Google result was disinformation.

Google refused to take personal responsibility for spreading disinformation. The fault was Wikipedia’s, Google claimed.

Google prioritizes Wikipedia in its search result. The top search hit for nearly any subject will be Wikipedia. (Facebook, too, has integrated Wikipedia into its system, and when you share a link to a news article, and click for more information, the Wikipedia page shows up.)

The issue is that stalkers and harassers can take over a Wikipedia page. It only takes 3 people to collude against you, and your Wikipedia page will share whatever they want it to. There’s nothing anyone can do to stop this.

When Wikipedia isn’t outright fake, they exaggerate trivial stories.

Did you know, for example, that a member of Congress resigned because of me? John Conyers, Jr. settled a sexual harassment lawsuit against him. I obtained the settlement documents, which BuzzFeed published. Boom. He resigned. Don’t take my word for it, the Washington Post wrote about my involvement in the Conyers story.

Susan Rice, former director of the National Security Agent, used her tremendous powers to spy on American people. The process, known as “unmasking,” was the biggest spying scandal of 2017. Rice denied that she unmasked American citizens, and then was forced to admit it after I broke the story.

The Wikipedia page on me doesn’t even mention the Susan Rice unmasking story, and it barely mentions my reporting on James Gunn. Gunn was fired from a billion-dollar film franchise after I uncovered disturbing Tweeted he had made, which he claimed were merely jokes about child molestation. James Gunn gets one line in the entry about me.

Five full paragraphs are devoted to a trivial internet beef I had with some guy whose name I can barely remember. Sometime a year or so ago, I found a Tweet by a mid-tier YouTube. His Tweet read: “Don’t care re Polanski, but I hope if my daughter is ever raped it is by an older truly talented man w/ a great sense of mise en scene.”

That Tweet was pretty creepy, to put it mildly, and I called MSNBC for comment. MSNBC cancelled his contributor contract, although it quickly rehired him after Christopher Hayes came to his rescue. He was only joking, Hayes claimed, and everyone needed to lighten up. What’s a rape joke among friends?

In terms of my life, the media bro story wasn’t a top 100. To the creeps who stalk my Wikipedia page, one trivial story takes on outsized importance. Five full paragraphs detailing every in-and-out to something I spent an hour on.

Meanwhile, my reporting on a member of Congress and A-list director receive a blur. How many journalists have forced a member of Congress to resign and reported a story leading to the director of a billion-dollar film franchise resign?

If Wikipedia were accurate, they’d describe me as an author, filmmaker, and sometimes journalist. They’d include in their entry that I’ve made multiple films and am involved in major free press litigation.

Wikipedia is a fake encyclopedia.

Do not trust anything you read in it.

And don’t trust anyone who refers to me as part of any political movement.

If you liked this essay, read Hoaxed book, which contains several more original essays in addition to deep dive interviews with some of the world’s most interesting thinkers.

How’s that for a headline?

The benefit of the headline is that it’s true. I really am in court fighting for freedom of the press, in a massive case. Don’t take my word for it.

Even left-wing Politico is reporting on our lawsuit:

• Fresh court battle could expose more details in Acosta’s controversial Epstein plea deal
• Among the advocates urging greater disclosure: famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, far-right blogger Mike Cernovich and a coalition of media organizations and outlets.
• Cernovich’s request to unseal records in the Epstein case came in January 2017.
• Cernovich said when he began digging into Giuffre’s suit he was astonished by the scope of the secrecy the judge had permitted, with large swaths of court filings blacked out.

The Miami Herald is also reporting on the story:

• A court hearing on whether to unseal sensitive documents involving the alleged sex trafficking of underage girls by Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein — and the possible involvement of his influential friends — will play out in a New York City courtroom next week.
• Blogger Michael Cernovich also filed a motion to release a portion of the sealed documents.

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Blogger Michael Cernovich, because that’s all I do.

How is it that “just a blogger” ended up in the biggest freedom of the press case of the year? 

Oh that’s right. Because I’m also a lawyer, published legal scholar, and constitutional law expert. I recognized the injustice of this case right away.

The truth is that it’s hard to keep track of me, which is why I don’t get upset with the media.

Even I don’t know how to describe myself.

Journalist, author, filmmaker….All are true.

• I forced a Congressman to resign due to my reporting.
• And broke a bunch of real stories large and small.
• Hoaxed movie, my second feature length film, was just released.

A Night for Freedom, a highly successful new franchise, is also a hybrid of intellectual discussion and partying.

Whatever we do, let’s do it first class.

We can now say, with today’s oral argument, that we are doing journalism at the highest level.

By the way, our lawsuit was crowd funded. I didn’t bill for my time and only used contributions for outlet legal fees and costs.

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Thanks for a great 2018, a better 2019, and I’ll keep you updated about this case!