John Podesta

John Podesta
Born	John David Podesta 1949-01-08 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater	Knox College, Georgetown University
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Founder of	Center for American Progress
Member of	Alliance for Securing Democracy, Center for a New American Security, ClimateWorks, Transition Integrity Project
Party	Democratic
Counselor to the President  In office January 1, 2014 - February 13, 2015  White House Chief of Staff  In office October 20, 1998 - January 20, 2001 Deputy Steve Ricchetti Succeeded by Andrew Card  White House Deputy Chief of Staff In office January 20, 1997 - October 20, 1998  White House Staff Secretary In office January 20, 1993 - June 30, 1995

John David Podesta Jr. (born January 8, 1949) is an American political consultant who served as White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and Counselor to President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2015. Before that, he served in the Clinton Administration as White House Staff Secretary from 1993 to 1995 and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations from 1997 to 1998. Podesta also owns a major lobbying firm, the Podesta Group with his brother Tony Podesta.

His leaked emails, made public by Wikileaks, were the basis for the discovery of a vast organized child sex ring, among many other revelations.

Full article: Pizzagate

Career

He is the former president, and now Chair and Counselor, of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a think tank in Washington, D.C., as well as a Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and was chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

FBI Criticism

John Podesta wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post in December 2016 that "Something is deeply broken at the FBI", prompting an open letter 3 days later in response from Who What Why which charged that "though Incompetent, FBI is America’s Secret Police".

US/2016 Presidential election

Full article: US/2016 Presidential election

Lynn Forester de Rothschild commenting about the 2016 Presidential election in the United States.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Andrew Breitbart	“How prog-guru John Podesta isn't household name as world class underage sex slave op cover-upperer defending unspeakable dregs escapes me”	Andrew Breitbart	4 February 2011

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Food Chain Reaction	November 2015	November 2015	Washington DC	Set in the 2020 to 2030 period, the exercise focused on problems in the food supply due to population growth and severe weather, triggering social unrest. Held November 2015. ended with the implementation of a global carbon tax.
Pizzagate			James Alefantis	Important conspiracy in the US/2016 Presidential election campaign.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Julian Assange Must be Freed, Not Betrayed	Article	18 February 2020	John Pilger	Sarah Ferguson's interview made no mention of a leaked document, revealed by WikiLeaks, called 'Libya Tick Tock', prepared for Hillary Clinton, which described her as the central figure driving the destruction of the Libyan state in 2011. This resulted in 40,000 deaths, the arrival of ISIS in North Africa and the European refugee and migrant crisis.

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