Gary Berntsen, one of the most highly decorated intelligence officers in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency, has just published highly explosive allegations of election fraud. In a brief video and a well-organized website, he says that American elections are subject to manipulation by software controlled by Venezuelan and Cuban operatives. Gary Berntsen is part of a small team of people who have spent the last four years investigating the claims of fraud. They are now ready to produce the evidence.
Full Timeline of Stolen Elections
Fox News and Newsmax settled defamation lawsuits brought by Dominion Voting Machines and the Smartmatic software company for making similar allegations. Several high-profile individuals and entities are still fighting lawsuits. Media outlets routinely use the modifiers “false,” “falsely stated,” “without evidence,” “baseless,” and more to describe any discussion of electronic manipulation of votes. That information campaign has been so successful that a mere mention of voting machines brings on an eye-roll, even among conservatives and strong supporters of President Trump.
Others who bring up the issue are attacked savagely in the media and online. Yet nobody is attacking Gary Berntsen. His video has been widely disseminated, his website has gotten millions of hits, but nobody is bombarding either with negative comments or ‘ratio’ attempts. Why not?
Who Is Gary Berntsen, Anyway?
Gary’s CIA career is legendary. He is best known for his book Jawbreaker, about the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. It has been required reading for military, intelligence, and law enforcement officers since it was published nearly twenty years ago. That mission alone made Berntsen a legendary figure.
Before leading the mission in Afghanistan, however, Gary was involved in several other critical intelligence missions for the U.S. government. He led the effort to investigate the bombings of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia and the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He investigated the Iranian bombings of the Israeli embassy in 1992; and AMIA, the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, in 1994.
Berntsen served 3 times as a CIA station chief and spent two years as head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center’s worldwide Hezbollah Unit. He was a member of a team sent to Afghanistan to hunt down an Al Qaeda terrorist. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Berntsen was asked to return to Afghanistan to lead the American response to the bombings. He trapped bin Laden in Tora Bora, and disagreed strongly with the decision by CentCom and CIA leadership to allow bin Laden to escape.
Berntsen was given two of the highest awards the intelligence community offers to its officers. He was awarded the Distinguished Intelligence Medal and the Intelligence Star, both extremely rare awards, especially for living officers. “The award citation [for the Intelligence Star] is from the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and specifically cites actions of ‘extraordinary heroism.’ It is analogous to the Silver Star, the U.S. military award for extraordinary heroism in combat.” The Distinguished Intelligence Medal is even more prestigious, but the CIA reveals little about the award criteria.
After his intelligence career, Gary ran for Senate in 2010 against Chuck Schumer of New York. He was the Republican Party nominee but was defeated in the primary by Jay Townsend of the Conservative Party. Townsend was defeated by Schumer in the general election.
Smartmatic Is Still in the News
Just last week, the Eastern European nation of Georgia held an election to determine whether the country would join the EU or move closer to Russia. The pro-Russia Prime Minister declared victory for the Russophile elements, but the President declared the election stolen. International observers agreed, and many western countries are refusing to recognize the results of the election.
Several news stories noted that this election is the first in which Smartmatic voting machines were used. The outlets did not accuse Smartmatic of committing fraud; they simply noted that the machines were used, in the context of discussing fraud. It is possible they didn’t dare to make the accusation outright, for fear of being sued as Fox News, Newsmax, and so many others have been.
So Why Are They Leaving Berntsen Alone?
Why haven’t Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Machines sued Gary?
Gary’s stellar career and reputation for honesty and doggedness in pursuit of American national security are certainly part of the explanation. There is also his long association with investigative journalists and professional investigators: they know him and trust him.
The rest of the explanation may lie in the content of his video and the associated website. In the video, he asserts that he has the evidence that was lacking until now: the source code used by the machines to manipulate votes; multiple witnesses, former insiders in the Venezuelan regime; software engineers who can isolate and identify the code in any voting machine; and financial records that detail the money trail that led American government officials to sell out American democratic governance and elections.
The Corollary Question: Why Isn’t This Investigated by Law Enforcement and Counterintelligence Agencies?
Berntsen pledged to make all the evidence available to the appropriate authorities. He has offered it to the FBI. When will they take him up on his offer? Where are those who pledged, as I have many times and as Gary and so many others have pledged, to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic? When will they ask to see the evidence? Why haven’t they asked so far? Is it because they expect it will expose their negligence, or perhaps their guilt?
Gary Berntsen will not be stopped. To guard his safety, he has already set up ‘dead man switches’ to release the data in the event of his death. At some point in the near future, the world will finally see what he has seen. When they do, citizens will not be kind to government officials who allowed it to happen.
