There's an awful lot of jumping to conclusions in this article. There's a lot of data that has nothing to do with Dan Rather. By the author's own admission, Rather and Rumsfeld bought the ranch together before Rumsfeld had an official position in any Presidential administration. It's the headline, and it's the one thing that isn't answered. How did they know each other before the 1980s? Why did they buy property together? If journalists cultivating contacts within the government is wrong, then most of the journalists are wrong. I'm not saying there's nothing there, I'm saying that you could have taken out have half to two thirds of this, Tucker-like convolution.
There's an awful lot of jumping to conclusions in this article. There's a lot of data that has nothing to do with Dan Rather. By the author's own admission, Rather and Rumsfeld bought the ranch together before Rumsfeld had an official position in any Presidential administration. It's the headline, and it's the one thing that isn't answered. How did they know each other before the 1980s? Why did they buy property together? If journalists cultivating contacts within the government is wrong, then most of the journalists are wrong. I'm not saying there's nothing there, I'm saying that you could have taken out have half to two thirds of this, Tucker-like convolution.
For heavens sake, we have owls on our roof, who screech and eat rodents. They look smart but are a lot stupider than crows. If you have certain jobs and work in certain cities and just get out of the house you will build up a network and know tons of people. Be measured and weigh evidence carefully.
Back around 2005-10, when I was deeply obsessed with topics such as Iran-Contra and BCCI, one question I was never able to answer satisfactorily was why a trail of undercover operations that for several decades seemed to have clearly run through the CIA and former CIA figures like Theodore Shackley went cold in the 1990s. The best answer I was able to come up with was that the trail of covert operations and money laundering continued but was heavily privatized — channeled partly into corporations and private contractors and partly into international crime figures like Semion Mogilevich. Now it seems that Epstein and associates may represent a third stream with a strong Russian and Israeli component. (I’m also interested in the way real estate deals connect Trump and Epstein, with an intriguing link back to Meyer Lansky.)
IF THIS doesn't start or finally confirm that they are all the same and its all connected, then whew boy... The Dems the GOP the CORPORATE businesses whether grocery, superstore, hardware, news, insurances, etc.. they are all in in it and controlled by the eastern class!!
Strange connection: My grandmother knew Chennault's wife, Anna, in China. I believe Anna wrote an article about my grandmother at one point, but I don't know how to find it, if it even exists anymore.
It is interesting how all the players know each other or are connected. I always thought Rumsfeld and Saddam knew each other better than we'd think.
There is so much rooted in your post that a forest that feeds on evil is exposed and as one tree is uprooted, the saplings that were spawned from its seeds seem eternal. Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in a 1983 photo, that culminated the deal to deliver WMDs to support Iraq in its war against Iran https://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/trachtenberg/useur/rumsfeld180902.html
The Washington Post it seems to be infiltrated since the early 1950s ( operation mockingbird). Now with Jeff Bezos owning the paper and Amazon having a 600 million dollar Cloud Computing contract with CIA.
Rumsfeld & Cheney joined together under Nixon. What a Effing disaster for the world.
Your PROMIS thread is the beginning of a line that runs to the present. Robert Maxwell distributed bugged software to intelligence services in the 1980s. In 2015, Epstein invested ~$1.5M (via Southern Trust BVI) in Carbyne — a surveillance platform founded by three Unit 8200 signals intelligence veterans. Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM and defense minister, chaired the company. Peter Thiel's Founders Fund led the $15M Series B in 2018.
Epstein money and Thiel money sat in the same cap table of an Israeli military intelligence surveillance company. That company now covers 250 million Americans through 911 infrastructure across 18+ states. Axon acquired it for $625M in November 2025.
The methodology Robert Maxwell pioneered — distribute surveillance technology that appears commercial but functions as intelligence collection — didn't end with his death. It evolved. From bugged software sold to governments to a Next Generation 911 platform that extracts GPS, live video, and device metadata from any phone that calls emergency services.
One other detail on Zorro Ranch: the FBI searched the Manhattan townhouse and Little St. James in 2019. They did not search the ranch. The District of New Mexico offered to assist. SDNY declined. The ranch was never searched before Epstein died.
I maintain a sourced timeline of 4,776+ events at capturecascade.org and have been building out the Epstein network's financial architecture, property chain, and intelligence threads as a searchable knowledge base.
I keep recollecting what Gore Vidal said about Watergate, that it “wasn’t the tip of an iceberg, it was the tip of a glacier.” Rather — or Blather, as one genius commentator dubbed him — was, intriguingly enough, one of the most prominent on-the-spot live talking heads on the day of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. And he clung to the narrative that later emerged in the Warren Report in much-rehearsed form, only it was too brittle to stand the test of time, coupled to Congressional investigations, Garrison’s prosecution, and most witness accounts, which were at odds with the story Blather intoned on the news. Everyone asks, when did this start…..???? Time is relative, but place is fixed. If you look at Texas, the oil money, the defence contractors, the Democratic Party machine that made Tammany look tame, Robert Caro’s books about Lyndon Johnson paint a pretty vivid picture. At least, since then, it hasn’t changed. We’ve been on the same track ever since. It’s the genesis of the pattern, like the first curl in a Nautilus shell. Rather is — AFAIK — from Texas. It always struck me that his good-old-boy, aw-shucks, honestly, ma, persona was a bit over-egged. Like a bad imitation of Audie Murphy without any of the real pathos or sublimity.
There's an awful lot of jumping to conclusions in this article. There's a lot of data that has nothing to do with Dan Rather. By the author's own admission, Rather and Rumsfeld bought the ranch together before Rumsfeld had an official position in any Presidential administration. It's the headline, and it's the one thing that isn't answered. How did they know each other before the 1980s? Why did they buy property together? If journalists cultivating contacts within the government is wrong, then most of the journalists are wrong. I'm not saying there's nothing there, I'm saying that you could have taken out have half to two thirds of this, Tucker-like convolution.
There's an awful lot of jumping to conclusions in this article. There's a lot of data that has nothing to do with Dan Rather. By the author's own admission, Rather and Rumsfeld bought the ranch together before Rumsfeld had an official position in any Presidential administration. It's the headline, and it's the one thing that isn't answered. How did they know each other before the 1980s? Why did they buy property together? If journalists cultivating contacts within the government is wrong, then most of the journalists are wrong. I'm not saying there's nothing there, I'm saying that you could have taken out have half to two thirds of this, Tucker-like convolution.
For heavens sake, we have owls on our roof, who screech and eat rodents. They look smart but are a lot stupider than crows. If you have certain jobs and work in certain cities and just get out of the house you will build up a network and know tons of people. Be measured and weigh evidence carefully.
I thought of your discussion of the rather/rumsfeld relationship when I read this report:https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRkZS1X6UdQOIYe3Z5sF1cr6pP1krGJUSR78saOZOhyWYBJWycHorHdT1g_bniL7fou2_1E1-GfJNJB/pub
(Thanks to @commonsenserebel for revealing that document)
Back around 2005-10, when I was deeply obsessed with topics such as Iran-Contra and BCCI, one question I was never able to answer satisfactorily was why a trail of undercover operations that for several decades seemed to have clearly run through the CIA and former CIA figures like Theodore Shackley went cold in the 1990s. The best answer I was able to come up with was that the trail of covert operations and money laundering continued but was heavily privatized — channeled partly into corporations and private contractors and partly into international crime figures like Semion Mogilevich. Now it seems that Epstein and associates may represent a third stream with a strong Russian and Israeli component. (I’m also interested in the way real estate deals connect Trump and Epstein, with an intriguing link back to Meyer Lansky.)
IF THIS doesn't start or finally confirm that they are all the same and its all connected, then whew boy... The Dems the GOP the CORPORATE businesses whether grocery, superstore, hardware, news, insurances, etc.. they are all in in it and controlled by the eastern class!!
oh god.
Strange connection: My grandmother knew Chennault's wife, Anna, in China. I believe Anna wrote an article about my grandmother at one point, but I don't know how to find it, if it even exists anymore.
It is interesting how all the players know each other or are connected. I always thought Rumsfeld and Saddam knew each other better than we'd think.
There is so much rooted in your post that a forest that feeds on evil is exposed and as one tree is uprooted, the saplings that were spawned from its seeds seem eternal. Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in a 1983 photo, that culminated the deal to deliver WMDs to support Iraq in its war against Iran https://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/trachtenberg/useur/rumsfeld180902.html
In 1984 Rumsfeld returns to Iraq to reassure Saddam that our public condemnation of using WMDs is a ruse. This story was published in the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/12/19/rumsfeld-visited-baghdad-in-1984-to-reassure-iraqis-documents-show/2aaa6fbc-59bd-46e7-86ca-8ca84fa1c0f4/
The Washington Post it seems to be infiltrated since the early 1950s ( operation mockingbird). Now with Jeff Bezos owning the paper and Amazon having a 600 million dollar Cloud Computing contract with CIA.
Rumsfeld & Cheney joined together under Nixon. What a Effing disaster for the world.
A great post, exceptional.
Kenneth, what’s the frequency? An illusion.
"What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
Wow
your article reminded me of old articles that I read back in 2005.
EIR Volume 32, Number 8, February 25, 2005
Here is a link: https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2005/eirv32n08-20050225/index.html
I’d like to know if Samuel Alito or Clarence Thomas visited this ranch?????
Your PROMIS thread is the beginning of a line that runs to the present. Robert Maxwell distributed bugged software to intelligence services in the 1980s. In 2015, Epstein invested ~$1.5M (via Southern Trust BVI) in Carbyne — a surveillance platform founded by three Unit 8200 signals intelligence veterans. Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM and defense minister, chaired the company. Peter Thiel's Founders Fund led the $15M Series B in 2018.
Epstein money and Thiel money sat in the same cap table of an Israeli military intelligence surveillance company. That company now covers 250 million Americans through 911 infrastructure across 18+ states. Axon acquired it for $625M in November 2025.
The methodology Robert Maxwell pioneered — distribute surveillance technology that appears commercial but functions as intelligence collection — didn't end with his death. It evolved. From bugged software sold to governments to a Next Generation 911 platform that extracts GPS, live video, and device metadata from any phone that calls emergency services.
One other detail on Zorro Ranch: the FBI searched the Manhattan townhouse and Little St. James in 2019. They did not search the ranch. The District of New Mexico offered to assist. SDNY declined. The ranch was never searched before Epstein died.
I maintain a sourced timeline of 4,776+ events at capturecascade.org and have been building out the Epstein network's financial architecture, property chain, and intelligence threads as a searchable knowledge base.
Doonesbury had all this a long time ago
I keep recollecting what Gore Vidal said about Watergate, that it “wasn’t the tip of an iceberg, it was the tip of a glacier.” Rather — or Blather, as one genius commentator dubbed him — was, intriguingly enough, one of the most prominent on-the-spot live talking heads on the day of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. And he clung to the narrative that later emerged in the Warren Report in much-rehearsed form, only it was too brittle to stand the test of time, coupled to Congressional investigations, Garrison’s prosecution, and most witness accounts, which were at odds with the story Blather intoned on the news. Everyone asks, when did this start…..???? Time is relative, but place is fixed. If you look at Texas, the oil money, the defence contractors, the Democratic Party machine that made Tammany look tame, Robert Caro’s books about Lyndon Johnson paint a pretty vivid picture. At least, since then, it hasn’t changed. We’ve been on the same track ever since. It’s the genesis of the pattern, like the first curl in a Nautilus shell. Rather is — AFAIK — from Texas. It always struck me that his good-old-boy, aw-shucks, honestly, ma, persona was a bit over-egged. Like a bad imitation of Audie Murphy without any of the real pathos or sublimity.