Pieczenik has been affiliated in a professional capacity as a psychiatrist with the National Institute of Mental Health. Pieczenik has consulted with the United States Institute of Peace and the RAND Corporation. As recently as October 6, 2012, Pieczenik was listed as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). According to Internet Archive, his name was removed from the CFR roster sometime between October 6 and November 18, 2012. Publicly, Pieczenik no longer appears as a member of the CFR.He's an interesting character to say the least.
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In 1992, Pieczenik told Newsday that in his professional opinion, President Bush was "clinically depressed". As a result, he was brought up on an ethics charge before the American Psychiatric Association and reprimanded. He subsequently quit the APA. He calls himself a "maverick troublemaker. You make your own rules. You pay the consequences." [SOTT: Note the timing: 1992, the year Bush lost his re-election campaign to Clinton.]
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On May 3, 2011, radio host Alex Jones aired an interview in which Pieczenik claimed that Osama bin Laden had died of Marfan syndrome in 2001 shortly after the September 11 attacks, and that the attacks on the United States on 9/11 were part of a false flag operation by entities within the American government, the Israeli leadership and Mossad.
On October 20, 2011 in an interview with Alex Jones, Pieczenik claimed that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was alive, and said, "There's no way they killed Muammar Gaddafi, that's not our operating mode and I've been involved in 30 years with the takeouts and regime changes." He also criticised President Barack Obama, calling him an "obsessional pathological liar".
Marc Rich was indicted in 1983 on federal charges of tax evasion and making illegal deals with Iran during an embargo. Rich responded to the charges by fleeing to Switzerland, where he remained until he was pardoned by Bill Clinton in the last hours of his presidency in January 2001.From Ryan Dawson's Welcome to the USSA:
The pardon was controversial, as Rich's ex-wife, Denise, had made donations exceeding $1 million to the Democratic Party, including a $450,000 donation to the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park.
Almost immediately after the pardon, the ex-president faced accusations that the pardon had been purchased in a quid-pro-quo move. Even his staunchest supporters struggled to defend it. Former President Jimmy Carter believed the last-minute pardon was "one of his most serious mistakes in the way he handled the pardon situation the last few hours he was in office," he told CBS News.
The notoriously genteel Carter went so far as to say, "I don't think there is any doubt that some of the factors in his pardon were attributable to his large gifts. In my opinion, that was disgraceful."
Marc Rich was on Interpol's Ten Most Wanted list. He smuggled oil out of Iran to Israel while the US had an embargo against Iran during the hostage crisis. He made millions selling the oil and skipped out on not paying $48 million worth on just taxes alone. This is just what he was indicted for; his true crimes were far worse, many of them perverse and tied to Mafioso in Russia [i.e., notorious criminal oligarch Boris Berezovsky] in particular oil and aluminum trades. He gave enormous amounts of money to both of the Clintons.Rich was also a spy for Israel's Mossad, the CIA, KGB and more. Israeli PM Ehud Barak "repeatedly cited Rich's contributions to Israel's 'national security' in phone calls to President Clinton ... in which he lobbied for Rich's pardon."
"Taking into account that our American colleagues are incapable of separating the opposition from terrorists, we appeal to all the leaders of armed groups directly to stop combat actions and leave Aleppo with their arms."
Comment: The suffering Al-Saud thinks is just a big laugh: