Our Corrupt Judicial System

The corruption of the justice system is increasing at an alarming rate.  It is not being covered properly by the deep state media.

Every system has examples of corruption.  There is a point where the level of corruption indicates that the entire system is corrupt.  In a corrupt system the innocent are routinely punished and the guilty often go unscathed.  There are disturbing indications that we are approaching a largely corrupt judicial system.  An extreme example of this situation is the case of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner.  Gardner released all of the rioters and looters arrested during disturbances in St. Louis. This was after 4 police officers were shot and one retired police captain was murdered.  She is now determined to prosecute the McClosky's for defending their home from a potentially violent mob.   As Mark McClosky asserted, "The prosecutor has apparently decided that her job as a prosecutor isn’t to keep us safe from criminals but to keep the criminals safe from us."

Gardner is not an isolated case.  Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard brought criminal charges against officer Garrett Rolfe in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks. He announced 11 charges against Rolfe including a felony murder charge which could result in the death penalty.  On 17 June Howard issued a statement that Rayshard Brooks, who fired a taser at police before being shot, was “never a threat to anyone, including the officers."  However, earlier that month Howard claimed that according to Georgia law “a taser is considered . . . a deadly weapon” in a case where officers had tasered noncompliant curfew violators.  Howard leveled these charges before the Georgia Bureau of Investigation had completed their investigation. 

Philadelphia's District Attorney Larry Krasner has warned, “Anyone, including federal law enforcement, who unlawfully assaults and kidnaps people will face criminal charges from my office."  Krasner issued a statement, “My dad volunteered and served in World War II to fight fascism, like most of my uncles, so we would not have an American president brutalizing and kidnapping Americans for exercising their constitutional rights and trying to make America a better place, which is what patriots do.”  He has accused the government of using "Stormtrooper tactics" and trying "to use his usual tactics of neofascist division, hate, and racism to improve his almost deceased campaign."  The President is "against all the freedoms Philadelphia stands for."  Stormtrooper is a term favored by Nancy Pelosi.  Gardner, Howard and Krasner might be considered minor figures in the corrupt judicial system.

On the state level Oregon’s top law enforcement officer Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum requested a temporary restraining order against federal police officers in Portland.  She wanted to stop federal agents from arresting people during nightly riots in Portland.  Rosenblum accused federal officers of violating the constitution citing reports that individuals had been picked up off the street and detained without probable cause.  US District Judge Michael Mosman denied her request.  However, US District Judge Michael Simon, granted an order restricting the activities of federal officers.  This pertained to journalists and legal observers who did not have to follow dispersal orders.  Rosenblum’s office claimed that federal officers were deployed to Portland to discourage lawful protests from taking place.  She issued a statement, "all Oregonians have a right to know which federal law enforcement agencies are policing our streets, and why they are detaining peaceful protesters."

On the federal level deep state members are more discreet.  One example is Judge Emmit Sullivan, the judge in the General Flynn case.  Sidney Powell, General Flynn's lawyer claimed, "I bragged about Judge . . . for requiring the government to provide Brady (exculpatory evidence) in the Ted Stevens case.  Sidney Powell is one of the sharpest people in public.  It is therefore disappointing that she “bragged about Judge Sullivan.”  Sullivan has always been a member of the deep state.  He was outraged by the prosecution's conduct in the Stevens case.  Sullivan, doing his best imitation of Captain Louis Renault from Casablanca, was “shocked, shocked to find prosecutorial misconduct.”  He even ordered an investigation.  Only lower level prosecutors got a slap on the wrist and the designated scapegoat committed suicide.  The bottom line was that an innocent Ted Stevens was convicted and he lost his Senate seat as a result.  Mission accomplished.  It would take volumes to detail the corruption at the higher levels of the Justice Department and their attempt to impeach President Trump.  

The cases dealt with here were high profile cases.  Thousands of cases are adjudicated in the United States every day.  How many of them are influenced by member of the deep state?  This situation will only get worse as long as we have people like Paul Butler teaching in our universities.  George Washington University Professor Butler claims, “My goal is the subversion of American criminal justice, at least as it now exists.”

The Deep State Smear Machine's Racist Meme

The Deep State Smear Machine's Racist Meme

President Trump appears to be gaining support in the minority community.  The Deep State is going to increase its charges of racism.

On Wednesday former Vice President Joe Biden called President Donald Trump the first racist president in U.S. history.  Biden claimed, "The way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin, where they're from, is absolutely sickening.  No sitting president has ever done this, never, never, never." 

He further stated, "the way he pits people against one another is all designed to divide the country, divide people, not pull them together."  Charges of racism will dramatically increase as we near the 2020 elections.  The Democratic party appears to be losing its grip on the Black vote and they must double down on the racist theme.

The Deep State Smear Machine has been very successful.  It has convinced millions of Americans that Trump is a racist.  His reference to the China virus and China pandemic has opened him to charges of being anti-Asian.  His alleged comment about "shithole" nations has demonstrated his anti-Black beliefs.  This one accusation reveals the effectiveness of the Deep State Smear Machine.  It is almost universally accepted that President Trump made this comment.  Even pro-Trump commentators have repeated it.  But is it true?

Twelve people attended the January 11, 2017 Oval Office meeting on immigration where Senator Dick Durbin claimed the President used the term to describe Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras and African countries.  Durbin, clutching his pearls and on the verge of having the vapors, remarked  “I cannot imagine that in the history of [the Oval Office], that hallowed room, where the president of the United States goes to work every day, there has ever been a conversation quite like that. It was vile, it was hateful, it was racist.”  

Apparently Sen. Durbin attended that same history lecture as Joe Biden.  Many things have taken place in that "hallowed room" that could be considered vile.  The senator might recall Monica Lewinsky's activities or perhaps Lyndon Johnson's.  According to Snopes LBJ “rarely shied away from using the N-word in private.”  Snopes excused this language because it was “calculated to achieve a specific end.”  Johnson's commitment to civil rights revealed his “genuine idealism”.  It is unlikely Trump will receive that same benign treatment.

How reliable are Sen. Durbin's leaked comments about Oval Office meeting.  Durbin has a history of fabricating comments.  In a private White House meeting in 2013 Durbin on his Facebook page, “In a ‘negotiation’ meeting with the president, one GOP House Leader told [President Barack Obama]: ‘I cannot even stand to look at you.’”  The White House and the House speaker’s office denied Durbin’s account of events.  Obama's press secretary Jay Carney stated, “I looked into this and spoke with somebody who was in that meeting and it did not happen.”

Meghan McCain asked the Senator about the when he appeared on The View: “You have a history of misrepresenting statements from private White House meetings, and some say that you’ve actually done more harm than good to the DACA deal by revealing what Trump said in his private meeting. Do you think that’s true?”  Durbin's response was to comment about a demonstration outside the studio.

Of the twelve people attending the meeting four have denied Durbin's claim.  Lindsay Graham was the only attendee to give Durbin qualified support, saying 

his account was "basically accurate."  Sen. David Perdue, and Sen. Tom Cotton have been called liars for denying Durbin's claim; an accusation Durbin has escaped.  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen denied under oath that she heard the President use the term.  For this she was hounded by Senator "Spartacus" Booker.  Pounding his fists on the dais Booker howled, "When Dick Durbin called me, I had tears of rage when I heard about his experience in that meeting. And for you not to feel that hurt and that pain, and to dismiss some of the questions of my colleagues, saying 'I've already answered that line of questions,' when tens of millions of Americans are hurting right now because of what they're worried about what happened in the White House, that's unacceptable to me."

This supposed leak was created in order to discredit the President.  Accounts of the meeting routinely omit mention of El Salvador because that does not fit the anti-Black meme.  The fact that it might damage our relations with African countries to the detriment of the nation is irrelevant.  The goal is to smear the President with the racist label at all costs.   

Free Beverlyn Beatty!

Several local officials have apparently instructed the police to "stand down" when dealing with rioters.  However, there are cases where they seem to be overzealous in their desire to convict certain law violators.

Conservative gadfly Katie Hopkins remarked,  "There is a real sense now that we are against our own government, that the establishment is working against us."  It is becoming increasingly apparent that Hopkins is correct.  The Democrat Party, the media, academia, the judiciary, major corporations, many state and local governments and even a considerable number of Republican leaders have consistently sided with radical mobs as they riot in our cities.  Their outlook is summed up by Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey who claimed, "Yes, America is burning, but that's how forests grow."  

Rioters and looters following George Floyd's death have had little to fear of being arrested.  Nearly all rioters have been freed from jail in Washington, D.C. and most have had felony riot charges dropped against them.  The Washington Post reported, “Although many of those arrested were charged by police with felony rioting, that charge was dropped by prosecutors in most cases.”  St. Louis' chief prosecutor Kim Gardner announced that all suspects arrested for looting and rioting have been released.  This was after 4 police officers were shot and one retired police captain was killed.  Gardner claimed she needed more evidence from police in order to prosecute.  Portland, a very progressive city, dropped charges against only 59 of the 400 rioters arrested.  Those charges not dismissed must have been pretty serious.  Portland police arrested a 25-year-old protester for allegedly setting fire to a Chase Bank in downtown Portland on May 30. He was charged with arson, criminal mischief and riot.  The charges were dismissed.  Most of the looters and rioters arrested by the NYPD are immediately released as a direct result of New York’s new bail-reform law.  In order to induce them to show up for trial Mayor de Blasio has offered them free tickets to Mets games, movie tickets, and gift cards.

Few governors and mayors are as foolish as former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.  After the 2015 riots that destroyed much of her city she remarked, “we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.”  Present day mayor are more discreet when they issue "stand down" orders.

There are numerous examples of this policy.  A 911 operator in Columbus, OH told a caller, “We were told by our mayor to stand down, so the mayor has given them full range of the street.”  The Police Chief was quick to deny this.  However, did they respond to this call?  A young woman in Fredricksberg, VA called 911 when rioters surrounded and climbed on her car screaming obscenities.  She had her young daughter in the car.  The dispatcher informed her, "We can’t do anything, ma’am.  The city told us that this is a sanctioned event."  The dispatcher advised her, "We would suggest you call up city hall to let them know about your frustrations."  In New York City, Ed Mullins, President of New York Sergeants Benevolent Association, claimed, "We have no leadership coming from City Hall. We are being told to stand down."  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed Mayor De Blasio has been calling individual police chiefs to tells them not to enforce the law and not to make arrests.  In this way he avoids informing the police commissioner.  The Portland police have reportedly been told to stand down leaving federal police to protect federal property.  When Mark McCloskey's home was approached by a mob he called 911.  These mobs had already demonstrated their proclivity for violence.  When the police did not respond he confronted them with a firearm.

There are cases where the government is quick to respond and spares no expense.  They wasted no time seizing the weapon Mark McCloskey used to defend his home.  He now faces felony charges for defending his home.  That is why the government spent approximately half a million dollars to arrest Roger Stone in a pre-dawn raid, and the FBI sent special agent Johnnie Sharp Jr. with a team of 15 FBI agents to investigate a noose that had been found in the Talladega Superspeedway garage stall belonging Bubba Wallace.  The Black Lives Matter painted on the street in front of Trump Tower has been defaced twice.  Mayor de Blasio has put police on high alert with 27 officers assigned round the clock to protect it.  When it come to opponents of the Deep State money is not a problem.  This is where Beverlyn Beatty enters the picture.  Beverlyn is a Black woman opposed  to the Black Lives Matter movement.  She decided to deface the slogan with black paint.  During the attempt to restrain her an officer was "injured."  He may be out for several days and may even have be medically retired.  She was eventually handcuffed.  The entire episode demonstrated the incredible patience of the NYPD members and perhaps their fear to use what would be interpreted as excessive force. Free Beverlyn Beatty!

The Klehr-Haynes Thesis Revisited

When intelligent, highly educated and well respected experts in a field make statements that are on their face inaccurate, something is wrong.  This is the case with Harvey Klehr and John Earl Hayes; preeminent leaders in Soviet research.

In 2014 Harvey Klehr wrote:

"In our more than twenty years of archivally based research on Soviet espionage in America, we have uncovered ample documentation of Soviet intelligence obtaining American technical, military, and diplomatic information but very little indicating successful policy manipulation." 

This was written in response to Diana West’s contention that the Roosevelt administration was infiltrated by countless Communists who directed U.S. policy to a large extent.  Klehr’s conclusion was seconded by John Haynes:

“Soviet manipulation of American policy - which by the way Soviet intelligence agencies didn’t do that.  They were into intelligence, not policy manipulation. And there are sensible reasons for that—but that’s another question.” 

I wrote to Dr. Klehr and provided him a copy of my manuscript.  I asked him to provide feedback:

From: JR DIETRICH

Date: Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 6:00 PM

To: Harvey Klehr

Subject: The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Planning

Harvey Klehr PhD 

I am working on a third edition of my book, The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Planning (Algora Publishing).  It is a revisionist work that has been cited in several works dealing with the postwar period.  I am providing you with a copy in the hope that you will have the time to read it and provide feedback.  Any work dealing with a complex subject usually contains errors.  I would appreciate it if you could point them out to me before publication.  Thank you, John Dietrich   

Dr. Klehr responded:

From: polshk@emory.edu

To: dietrichjohn@msn.com

Subject: Re: The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Planning

Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:21:52 +0000

Dear Mr. Dietrich:

Thank you for sending me a copy of the next edition of your book on the Morgenthau Plan.  I wish I had the time to read through it, but I have an unusually busy schedule over the next few months and will have to apologize for my inability to do so.

Harvey Klehr

I then wrote Dr. Klehr to request he clarify his statement that Soviet agents did not have significant influence on American foreign policy:

From: JR DIETRICH <dietrichjohn@msn.com>

Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 10:56 AM

To: Harvey Klehr <polshk@emory.edu>

Subject: RE: The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Planning

Dr. Klehr,

I understand your inability to review my book.  These are exciting times and there is a lot to be done.  I cite your work several times in my book and have read almost everything you have published.  It is extremely valuable work.  The premise of my book is that the Soviet had a great deal of influence on U.S. postwar planning.  Therefore, I do not understand your quote: "In our more than twenty years of archivally based research on Soviet espionage in America, we have uncovered ample documentation of Soviet intelligence obtaining American technical, military, and diplomatic information but very little indicating successful policy manipulation."  I would appreciate it if you could elaborate.  Regards, John Dietrich

Dr. Klehr responded:

Re: The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Planning

Klehr, Harvey

Wed 7/1/2015, 4:51 PM   

Thanks for the kind words about my books.  The point of our comment was that we have not seen anything in Russian archives indicating that someone like White got told to try to manipulate policy.  I am no expert on the Morgenthau Plan but my guess is that it was White acting on his own.  

There is overwhelming evidence that the Soviets were involved in "policy manipulation."  Harry Dexter White's biographer David Rees wtote, during 1936 an 'elite group,' composed of promising officials who were expected to rise in the government service, was detached from this parent group (the Ware group).  Its paramount objectives at that time were 'power and influence' rather than active espionage. Certain people not in the Ware group had been added to the 'elite group,' and one of these was Harry Dexter White."  He aso commented, "the power to influence policy has always been the ultimate purpose of the Communist Party’s infiltration."

Chief Special Agent Guy Hottel sent a memo to J. Edgar Hoover in March 1946:

"There are a tremendous number of persons employed in the United States government who are Communists and strive daily to advance the cause of Communism and destroy the foundations of this government. . . . Today nearly every department or agency of this government is infiltrated with them in varying degree.  To aggravate the situation they appear to have concentrated most heavily in those departments which make policy, particularly in the international field, or carry itt into effect. . . . Such organizations as the State and Treasury departments, FEA, OSS, WPB, etc."

General Lucius Clay, military governor, U.S. Zone, Germany, 1947-49, was very critical of the occupation's Civil Affairs Branch which had been staffed to a large extent by Harry Dexter White: “We certainly went in there with a great number of people who were either members of the Communist party or tended in that direction. This was not the place nor the time for them. It did create some problems that took a long time to correct. Many of these men had come to us on Treasury teams. We ran into a tremendous opposition on the part of the Treasury if we attempted to change or remove any of these people.”

Whittaker Chambers wrote, “The power to influence policy has always been the ultimate purpose of the Communist Party’s infiltration.  It was much more dangerous, and, as events have proved, much more difficult to detect, than espionage, which beside it was trivial, though the two go hand in hand.”  Former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov estimated that 85% of the KGB's budget was allocated to subversion rather than intelligence gathering.

Retired KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin, former Head of Foreign Counter Intelligence for the KGB (1973-1979), described active measures as "the heart and soul of Soviet intelligence": "Not intelligence collection, but subversion: active measures to weaken the West, to drive wedges in the Western community alliances of all sorts, particularly NATO, to sow discord among allies, to weaken the United States in the eyes of the people of Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and thus to prepare ground in case the war really occurs."

Even John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr suggest in their book Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, that Harry Dexter White manipulated policy:

The KGB mentioned that White offered advice concerning how far the Soviets could push the United States on abandoning the Polish government-in-exile [which was hostile to Stalin] and assured the Soviets that U.S. policy-makers, despite their public opposition, would acquiesce to the USSR's annexation of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.  White was also a senior adviser to the U.S. delegation at the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in May 1945.  During the negotiations on the UN charter he met covertly with Soviet intelligence officers and provided them with information on the American negotiating strategy.  He assured the Soviets that "Truman and Stettinius want to achieve the success of the conference at any price" and advised that if Soviet diplomats held firm to their demand that the Soviet Union get a veto of UN actions, that the United States "will agree."

The Soviets have a term for "policy manipulation."  It is labeled "active measures."

Active measures was the term for the actions of political warfare conducted by the Soviet security services to influence the course of world events, "in addition to collecting intelligence and producing politically correct assessment of it". Active measures ranged "from media manipulations to special actions involving various degrees of violence". They were used both abroad and domestically. They included disinformation, propaganda, counterfeiting official documents, assassinations, and political repression, such as penetration in churches, and persecution of political dissidents. Active measures included the establishment and support of international front organizations; foreign communist, socialist and opposition parties; wars of national liberation in the Third World; and underground, revolutionary, insurgency, criminal, and terrorist groups. The intelligence agencies of Eastern Bloc states also contributed to the program, providing operatives and intelligence for assassinations and other types of covert operations.

The History of Progressives and Slavery

Progressives condemn Americans for their alleged role in slavery.  Their past is not as innocent as they believe and they have some explaining to do about the present.

President Trump's recent visit to Mount Rushmore has given progressives another opportunity to condemn the President and to trumpet their own virtues.  MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross described Mount Rushmore as the "most grandiose symbol of U.S. imperialism."  She claimed, "Mount Rushmore isn’t exactly the innocent ode to our Founding Fathers as described in our textbooks."  MSNBC’s Lawrence O'Donnell claimed, "The place Donald Trump is going to is stolen land."  Their Mike Barnicle announced, "He will inevitably and predictably talk about our heritage.  In other words he will talk about he's the protector of White America."  Princeton University Eddie Glaude Jr. was invited on to explain, "In some ways Donald Trump is a reflection of the rot that has been at the heart of our fragile experiment since its beginning."  CNN's Leyla Santiago declared, "President Trump will be at Mt. Rushmore where he'll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans."  "Imperialism," "stolen land," "protector of White America," "the rot," "slave owners,"  That is quite an indictment.  Progressives are so much better than that.  Or are they?

Perhaps the outrage is dependent on who is being enslaved.  Historically progressives have had a favorable view of slavery.  Journalist Ann Louise Strong claimed Soviet "labor camps have won high reputation throughout the Soviet Union as places where tens of thousands of men have been reclaimed.  So well known and effective is the Soviet method of remaking human beings that criminals occasionally now apply to be admitted.”  FDR's Vice President Henry Wallace visited the port city of Magadan in Siberia in 1944 and described it as "combination TVA and Hudson's Bay Company."  China expert Owen Lattimore who accompanied Wallace came to the same conclusion.  Author George Bernard Shaw explained, "In England a delinquent enters the jail as an ordinary man and comes out as a 'criminal type,' whereas in Russia he enters  . . . as a crimianl type and would come out an ordinary man but for the difficulty of inducing him to come out at all."  Progressives may have admired the Soviet slave labor system but they were not responsible for enslaving people.  Or were they?

Slavery is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.  The Thirteenth Amendment reads, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."  In October 1944 President Roosevelt announced,"The German people are not going to be enslaved - because the United Nations do not traffic in human slavery."  Yet the Treasury's Morgenthau Plan and the Yalta Agreement initialed by FDR contain provisions for slave labor.  Journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote, "That country [France], with our consent and connivance, and in defiance of the Geneva Convention, has been employing [prisoners] as slave labor under the same definition of slave labor as that used against Herr Sauckel in Nuremberg."  General George Patton wrote in his diary, "I am also opposed to sending PW's to work as slaves in foreign lands [in particular, to France] where many will be starved to death."  He also stated, "It is amusing to recall that we fought the Revolution in defense of the rights of man and the Civil War to abolish slavery and have now gone back on both principles."

This system remained for several years.  In 1947 Secretary of State Byrnes recorded that although this policy had been dropped, "I regret to say that Germans and Japanese still are being held in Allied hands for the use of labor." ". . .it is a deplorable fact that thousands of Germans and Japanese are still being held as enforced laborers in violation of solemn international pledges."  At the time Byrnes made this statement the number of prisoners engaged in slave labor amounted to several million.  According to Eugene Davidson the number was 4 million in March 1947.  The figure did not include a sizable number of Japanese captured by the Soviets.  Many of these former slaves still survive.  Should they receive reparations?  Suriving German POWs  sought compensation and were informed "Compensation for work done by former German POWs can no longer be claimed." This form of legal recourse had been barred by the statute of limitation since September 29, 1978.

Of course this is all history.  Conservatives argue that present day people can not be held accountable for the actions of previous generations.  Times have changed.  Progressives could not possibly condone a slavery system.  Or could they?  According to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute "The Chinese government has facilitated the mass transfer of Uyghur and other ethnic minority citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country. Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 83 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen."  All the CEOs and Black athletes protesting about injustice need to take a look in the mirror.

Ellen Pao Hoisted On Her Own Petard

Ellen Pao may have thought she was revealing corruption in Silicon Valley.   She did not realize she was implicating herself.

Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao claims Ghislaine Maxwell attended a Kleiner Perkins party in 2011.  This was three years after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of child sex trafficking.  The fact that she attended this party is really not newsworthy.  What is significant is Pao's comment that "We knew about her supplying underage girls for sex, but I guess that was fine with the 'cool' people who managed the tightly controlled guest list."  Members of the "elite" are privy to a great deal of information that is not known to the public because the media does not appear interested in reporting on it.  Others have mentioned that Epstein's activities were well known.  Cindy McCain announced, “Epstein was hiding in plain sight. We all knew about him. We all knew what he was doing, but we had no one that was – no legal aspect that would go after him. They were afraid of him. For whatever reason, they were afraid of him.”  Clearly, Epstein's activities were not unknown in elite circles.

Who attended the party?  According to Business Insider the guests including former Vice President (Crazed Sex Poodle) Al Gore, Apple VP of Engineering Mike Abbott, and numerous other tech firm CEOs and financial managers. A number of females attended the party but according to Yahoo Finance, "even spouses weren't allowed in."  

Pao was a partner at Kleiner Perkins.  She left the firm in 2012 and later filed a lawsuit alleging that she was fired for complaining about gender discrimination.  Pao was an early proponent of feminism and racial justice in Silicon Valley.  However, it appears that her concern did not apply to the sexual exploitation of young teenagers.  This is similar to Black athletes' concern with the history of slavey while being endorsed by companies that manufacture tennis shoes with slave labor.

The negative reaction to her tweet required some damage control.  After all she was one of the guests invited by the 'cool' people.  She later modified her statement to claim people only suspected Maxwell’s ties to child trafficking: “To be clear, the press had described her as supplying underage girls for sex, but she had not been charged so I guess it would be more accurate to say we 'suspected' v 'knew.'"  She then locked her account.  A Kleiner Perkins spokeswoman claimed the firm does “not have any record of Ghislaine Maxwell being invited to a Kleiner Perkins holiday party.”

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell traveled in elite circles  Their association with child sex trafficking was not a problem until it became public.  After his conviction he still maintained his contacts with the elite.  In 2010 Epstein held a dinner for Prince Andrew and the guests included Katie Couric and George Stephanopoulos.  Maxwell was a special guest at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.   In March 2011 Epstein had a dinner attended by several tech billionaires including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Google cofounder Sergey Brin, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Epstein knew Bill Gates and had several meetings with the Microsoft founder following Epstein's first conviction for sex crimes in 2008. Gates later said he met with Epstein to try to secure funding from Epstein for his charities, calling it a "mistake in judgement."  Elon Musk was photographed with Maxwell at an Oscars afterparty in 2014.  Musk claims that he did not know Maxwell.  George Stephanopoulos claims, “That dinner was the first and last time I’ve seen him.  It was a mistake to go.”  There will be a long line of people using the Sergeant Schultz defense ("I know nothing").  Will this defense hold up if Maxwell reveals what she knows?