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TL;DR: Jack Posobiec, piece of human garbage and Russian fifth columnist, is now lying about his past spreading lies and propaganda.
Jack Posobiec Is Lying About His ‘Pizzagate’ Past
Jack Posobiec, now a contributor at One America News, played a central role in promoting the so-called “Pizzagate” hoax that resulted in a man entering a Washington pizza restaurant and firing a gun as part of a supposed rescue mission of children whom he had been convinced were hidden beneath the building. Now, Posobiec is trying to rewrite history.
Pizzagate was a hoax that captured the imaginations of right-wing conspiracy mongers online toward at the end of the 2016 election. Proprietors of Pizzagate cited a hodgepodge of hacked John Podesta emails, screenshots of the restaurant’s menu, Instagram posts by the owner, and other random bits to build up the laughably untrue claim that Hillary Clinton and top members of the DNC were sex-trafficking children via an elaborate tunnel system beneath Washington. The conspiracy theory was spread by figures like self-described “New Right” pundit Mike Cernovich, Infowars’ Alex Jones, pedophilia-obsessed conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin, far-right YouTuber Brittany Pettibone, Posobiec and various anonymous users inhabiting the culverts on 4Chan and 8Chan.
In the last couple of weeks, Posobiec has been claiming with increased frequency that he actually “debunked” Pizzagate. He’s now declaring that Pizzagate was a hoax (which is obviously correct) and has accused former Fox News host Megyn Kelly of lying about his role in spreading the conspiracy during a Fox News segment. Posobiec has made his debunking claims for months, but something seems to have inspired him to restate his claims in recent weeks. These recent reiterations have earned him the ire of pundits like Crokin, who still believe the hoax.
Let’s take a look back at what actually happened.
At the height of Pizzagate alarmism, Posobiec went so far as to actually visit Comet Ping Pong, where he was ejected from the establishment for creating a security risk. Later, after the incident with the gunman, Posobiec told The Washington Post he had paid his visit to the establishment because he thought he could “just show it was a regular pizza place.” But watching Posobiec’s stream from the night tells a very different story.
During the live stream of Posobiec’s visit to the restaurant, he tells viewers that his accompanying friend had “already dialed nine-one” so that they could contact police if the visit went awry and assured viewers not to worry about his safety because he had “backup.”
“We’re going to go in and we’re going to infiltrate Comet Pizza,” Posobiec said.
At one point in the video, Posobiec tells viewers that he’s worried that he and his friend have been “burned” and that an employee may have tried to view his phone screen. Shortly after, Posobiec was escorted out of the restaurant by Washington police. Posobiec alleged that the police had been called on him because the restaurant manager “clearly had something to hide” and called on right-wing smear merchant James O’Keefe: “We need you in here.”
“We saw a secret back room. There were little kids going in and out of this back room, and this is a bar. Since when are kids allowed to be in a bar in the first place?” Posobiec said, apparently having never been to a restaurant where alcohol is served before. “They have a big secret to hide.”
He also told viewers that his visit had convinced him that there may be tunnels beneath the restaurant being used for nefarious actions because the owner allegedly had a walkie-talkie, as is common in restaurants.
“You know why people use walkie-talkies. In the Navy, we used to use walkie-talkies a lot over cell phones. You know why? Because walkie-talkies can go through different levels in the ship. So if he’s communicating with somebody, like, in a tunnel or in a basement or in another place in the area that would be the perfect way to communicate with each other,” Posobiec said.
After he left Comet Ping Pong, Posobiec went a few doors down to Besta pizza, which was also wrangled into the Pizzagate hoax at the time. He ordered pizza and immediately upon leaving, he began ranting about “all the clues” he saw inside the restaurant. Those “clues” included an inspirational poster, some double-pane glass, and the fact that the restaurant had security cameras.
“The pizza itself is legit,” Posobiec said. “What’s going on in the back is the issue.”
Shortly after his visit to the pizza restaurant, Posobiec went on Infowars.
“From the first moment we stepped in, the people sort of had that super-extra happy smile. And I don’t mean there was a nice greeter who was there. I mean it was, ‘This is your table. This is going to be a great meal. You’re going to have a good time,’” Posobiec told Infowars, changing his voice to impersonate the employee he was referencing in an eerie tone.
Posobiec alleged that employees at the restaurant didn’t understand his request to use the foosball table in the rear of the restaurant and said the table “clearly hadn’t been used in a very long time.” Posobiec went on to describe “little kids just randomly sort of walking around” and alleged that there was “demonic artwork” hanging on the walls of the restaurant.
All of this is to say that Posobiec is a man who won’t own up to his past. Posobiec absolutely played a key role in promoting the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and has refused all accountability after the hoax took a dark turn.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jack-...cy-theorist-has-top-secret-security-clearance
Jack Posobiec, Pizzagate and Seth Rich Conspiracy Theorist, Has Top Secret Security Clearance
Jack Posobiec is one of the right’s leading agitators and conspiracy theorists.
He implied there may be a child-sex ring under a D.C. pizza joint run by Democrats. He peddled rumors about the murder of former DNC staffer Seth Rich. He interrupted a supposedly anti-Trump Julius Caesar play, yelling “you are all Goebbels.” He popularized a WikiLeaks campaign against a French presidential candidate. He even tried to sabotage a D.C. protest by holding up a sign that said, “Rape Melania.”
Posobiec did all of this, and more, as a U.S. Navy intelligence officer, apparently while he had one of the military’s highest security clearances. How can a person with a record of spreading disinformation for political reasons be allowed access to raw intelligence?
Posobiec told The Daily Beast his security clearance was put on temporary hold in February while he was in between units and after concerns were raised by his former commanding officer over his Twitter account.
“They told me it was under review, but they didn’t really explain to me what exactly it was for, but my security clearance is only on a temporary hold, it was not suspended by DoNCAF,” Posobiec said, referring to the Department of the Navy Central Adjudication Facility that is responsible for investigating and determining who within the Department of the Navy is eligible to hold a security clearance.
“Yes, I can confirm his clearance was suspended. I don’t have any additional information as to why,” a Navy spokesperson told The Daily Beast following an NBC News report about the suspension.
Though he’s now a reservist, Posobiec maintained one of the highest clearances, known as Top Secret, Secret Compartmentalized Information.
“A clearance holder who has a full-time job in a non-Governmental capacity is still bound by the rules and restrictions that come with holding a security clearance,” national security attorney Brad Moss told The Daily Beast. “Mr. Posobiec cannot ‘turn on’ and ‘turn off’ his obligation to the U.S. Government, even as a Reservist.”
That obligation would include not promoting #MacronLeaks, the Wikileaks-led effort to release 20,000 emails from the presidential campaign of Emmanuel Macron before the French election, Moss said.
“As a matter of policy, clearance holders are not supposed to be accessing WikiLeaks or particularly viewing leaked classified documentation to which they were not otherwise already authorized access,” he said.
Posobiec says he currently serves in an administrative role and does not have regular access to classified material.
“I think [Moss] is completely off-base [regarding his security clearance and WikiLeaks] because I have never once mishandled classified information, I’ve never once tweeted out classified information, I’ve never linked to classified information, I’ve never done anything on duty with classified information that would be seen as mishandling it in any way.”
Posobiec’s military unit, the Joint Reserve Intelligence Support Element Dekalb did not respond to a request for comment.
Posobiec learned about the forthcoming email dump before it was promoted by WikiLeaks when he was the Washington bureau chief for a right-wing Canadian outlet called The Rebel.
Posobiec tweeted links to WikiLeaks on at least three separate occasions, along with screenshots of being on the site from his web browser on his verified Twitter account—an apparent violation of Defense Department policy for members of the U.S. Armed Forces that came in the wake of the Chelsea Manning leaks.
Malcolm Nance, a retired Navy senior chief petty officer and former member of the U.S. intelligence community, said Posobiec “and people like him are a danger because these people are literally a fifth column for Russian intelligence. They have weaponized their contributions and conspiracy theories in the culture war.
“How he can hold a Top Secret clearance working actively in the intelligence community as a known factor in the information operations of the alt-right, which is essentially a war on media reality itself, shows that he quite possibly is one of the greatest security dangers to whatever organization he’s working on.”
More bluntly, Nance called Posobiec a “disgrace to the uniform” and said he wants the Navy to “explain how the fuck he still has access to classified information.”
TL;DR: Jack Posobiec, piece of human garbage and Russian fifth columnist, is now lying about his past spreading lies and propaganda.
