Trump staffer has lied for years about his role as expert witness in Boston Marathon bombing trial

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory



ERIN CORBETT
10 FEB 2017 AT 18:20 ET

President Donald Trump’s new Deputy Assistant, Sebastian Gorka is just another administration member living in a world of “alternative facts.” Gorka, who is both a contributor for Breitbart as well as a “self-proclaimed expert” on so-called “radical Islam” has maintained for years that he was an “expert witness” in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused Boston Marathon bomber.

Fusion reports that based on the account of an official in the office of the U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts, “Gorka never testified at the trial and prosecutors didn’t rely on his expertise in preparing or presenting their case.”

Gorka’s personal website, The Gorka Briefing, which has since been taken offline, used to have a section dedicated to his role as an “expert witness” in the Tsarnaev trial. Based on an http://thegorkabriefing.com/" target="_blank">archive of his website, Gorka claimed to be an expert witness in the case, for instance in an “Analysis of the Tsarnaev Verdict,” in which he claimed to be an expert in a XM/Sirius Patriot interview.





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Gorka has maintained his false role as an expert witness of the Tsarnaev trial on various platforms, for instance here, where he claims to have “served as an expert witness in the Boston Marathon bombing trial,” here, and here in an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-staffer-has-lied-for-years-about-his-role-as-expert-witness-in-boston-marathon-bombing-trial/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Nobody, not one person affiliated with Fuckface Von Pussygrabber has ever told

the truth about anything, ever.

[HuskyOffset]

5. Whoa, hold on there

I have to object! Surely, over the course of many years, someone affiliated with DJT must have uttered or written a truth, even if by accident, right? There must be one, surely. Maybe the Penthouse guy can offer a $1 million reward to find it?

[concreteblue]

15. I agree.

Certainly someone, sometime, somewhere, called him a douchebag?

[pkdu]

2. And thats why , we like www.archive.org

Tsarnaev’s Islamic Beliefs

Sebastian Gorka, PhD
on 19 May 2015 at 21:06
My time as an expert witness in the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial reviewing his documents, video and audio that shed a light on his beliefs and religious motivations is the topic of the discussion on the John Batchelor Radio Show, 18 May 2015, 10 minutes. Listen in.

On another note, speaking of the Tsarnaev family’s motivations: Boston Marathon jihad murderer’s mother: Non-Muslims will burn in “flames of an eternal and terrifying fire, an otherworldly flame, inshaallah” (Jihad Watch)

http://web.archive.org/web/20150521085704/http://thegorkabriefing.com/tsarnaevs-islamic-beliefs/

[ck4829]

24. Good catch

[Sunlei]

3. doesn't seem like Republicans vetted anyone they allowed in our government. presidents not vetted.

Not even the republicans' president EVER had a basic security clearance.

[Ligyron]

8. and he wouldn't be able to get a security clearance either

with his background.

[DK504]

10. Nor do they follow any of the ethic rules

or the laws pertaining to everything they are doing.

[ck4829]

23. It seems like Republicans don't want to vet anyone BUT refugees and Muslims

Gorka's a real piece of work, where are Trump's tax returns?

These guys would break down crying if they had to face one tenth the scrutiny a refugee faces.

[Fred Sanders]

4. All the evidence makes the conclusion clear. This is a Breitbart/Infowars based junta.

The hatred of Muslims emanating from Trump and all his company is a hatred the world has seen before.

[erronis]

14. And the anti-Muslim wedge is just a smoke screen for what's really planned

After the Muslims from those seven countries, what next?

Atheists, gypsies, free-thinkers from the "Old Europe"?

Catholics, Jews from South America? Smart people from the US/Canada/the world?

Non-believers from everywhere? Confusciusts, Buddhists, Hindus, Orthodox xians?

Good neighbor xians from your hometown that dissed you? Other sects (Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans, Nazarenes)?

Your parents for thinking evil thoughts about the DRump?

Your children for questioning authority?

Welcome to the USSR/KGB/Stazi.

They won with DRump.

[ck4829]

21. +1

[dalton99a]

27. Yep.

[2naSalit]

6. Pooty told hi he'd cover

for him if anyone found out. And sb is protecting him. He's probably the spy/direct line to pooty himself.

[Leghorn21]

7. I posted this Sunday - Malcolm Nance's twitter feed:

conversation with O'Keefe-Odom, fellow Intel guy:


J. O'Keefe-Odom
@AgXphoto
43m

Watch Sebastian Gorka. His appearance looks like real danger to me. Maybe somebody knows him from JFKSWC. @MalcolmNance@nadabakos
View details ·    

J. O'Keefe-Odom
@AgXphoto
41m
@MalcolmNance @nadabakos This is the first friendly who looks like an enemy in this to me.
View conversation ·    

J. O'Keefe-Odom
@AgXphoto
34m

@MalcolmNance @nadabakos In US under 10 years and now in White House job? His degrees are fluff. Just looks like a security violation.
View conversation ·    


Malcolm Nance 
@MalcolmNance

@AgXphoto @nadabakos You have been reading my mind for years. His entire claim to fame is world class slamophobe corrupting Marines/SOF
5:11 PM - 5 Feb 2017

(I assume Mr. Nance meant "Islamophobe" there, eh)

[ck4829]

9. Here's his Wikipedia page written to be like an advertisement for him

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Gorka

Let's make sure the non-alternative facts are known.

[ck4829]

26. And now his page is facing additional... vetting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Gorka

[dalton99a]

28. It's full of self-aggrandizement and resume-puffing bullshit.

[ck4829]

30. It's currently being improved, a lot of work remains though

I personally went through it, discovered a lot of things need citations period.

I thought Wikipedia frowns on that kind of self-advertisement.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Found trying to carry a gun onto a plane last year; charge dismissed a week ago

because he didn't break the law for a whole 6 months in a row!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028628741

As a reward for being such a good boy, he's now on the staff of the National Security Council.

[JHB]

12. The only part of this that is surprising is...

...the description of Tsarnev as "the accused", not "the convicted" Boston Marathon Bomber.

[riversedge]

13. Trump surrounds himself with bigots, liars, thrash, etc etc

[Mc Mike]

16. Looks like an Arrow Cross Jobbik guy. rec, nt.

[NBachers]

18. I had to look up Arrow Cross Jobbik guy. The info was quite apt but the images sealed the impression

[Mc Mike]

19. If it's close to dRumpf and isn't mob or russian, it's probably a nazi.

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Refused security clearance in Hungary in 2002; seems to have been in British intelligence

Gorka himself has revealed very little about his life in Hungary, although he spent 16 years in the country, arriving in 1992 and leaving in 2008. In 2002, however, his name was all over the Hungarian media. There were strong suspicions that Gorka was a spy working for British counterintelligence. How did such rumors emerge?

It was in June 2002 that Magyar Nemzet, then affiliated with Fidesz, which had just lost the election, revealed that Péter Medgyessy, the new prime minister of the country, was a counterespionage officer in the 1980s during the Kádár regime. Fidesz naturally insisted on setting up a special parliamentary committee to investigate Medgyessy’s role as a counterintelligence officer. Fidesz recommended Sebastian Gorka as one of its experts on such matters. The other recommendation was Gábor Kiszely, a right-wing historian whose favorite subject was the history of freemasonry. For the job the participants needed security clearance. The National Security Office (Nemzetbiztonsági Hivatal/NH), however, was suspicious of both Gorka and Kiszely. It eventually refused to green light the two experts.
...
Now let’s see how László Bartus, currently editor-in-chief of Népszava, the oldest Hungarian-language paper in the United States, remembers Gorka from those days. Bartus was working as a journalist in Hungary at the time. He claims that it was discovered that Gorka had never attended any institution of higher education. This may have been the case in 2002, but it certainly wasn’t true in 2008 when he received his Ph.D. for a dissertation titled “Content and end-state-based alteration in the practice of political violence since the end of the cold war: The difference between the terrorism of the cold war and the terrorism of Al-Quaeda: The rise of the ‘transcendental terrorist.’” His dissertation adviser was András Lánczi, Viktor Orbán’s favorite political scientist, who became notorious after announcing that “What [the critics of the Orbán regime] call corruption in practical terms is the most important policy goal of Fidesz.” More about Lánczi can be found in my post “András Lánczi: What others call corruption is the raison d’être of Fidesz.” I may add that on the dissertation Gorka’s full name is given as Sebastian L. v. Gorka. So, the brief appearance of his name in Wikipedia as Sebastian Lukács von Gorka was not a mistake.
...
Bartus sums up the Hungarian opinion of Gorka: “Then the unanimous opinion was that this man is a fortune hunter and a conman, who wriggles his way in everywhere, where he convinces everybody of his extraordinary expertise, when actually the only thing he is an expert on is extremist incitement. This picture of him among those who knew him in Budapest has not changed since.” Bartus is not surprised that Trump and Gorka found each other since “birds of a feather flock together.”

http://hungarianspectrum.org/2017/02/02/sebastian-l-von-gorkas-encounter-with-the-hungarian-national-security-office/

[ck4829]

22. Perfect fits for each other

[dalton99a]

29. Great find!

[Greensix1]

20. He's just another liar

He's just another liar. He fits in PERFECTLY with Trump's gang of criminals and traitors. Flynn lied about talks with Russia. Trump lied about his taxes, selling top secret encryption software to the Russians, and every other thing that has ever come out of his despicable mouth. This asshole is just another cog in a wheel of deceit that has taken over this country at the behest of conservative Christians who've spent their entire lives believing the Greatest Lie in History, the New Testament.

[pressbox69]

25. This creep

is pure evil.