By Andrew Kreig / Director’s Blog
Washington, DC-based broadcaster Wayne Madsen hosted fellow author Nick Bryant March 20 for a rare public discussion of reports of pedophilia involving prominent Washington officials and media celebrities. The two longtime investigative reporters agreed that those who try to expose such crimes among the powerful can expect major career setbacks, with early death a distinct possibility. In the audio interview posted on the Wayne Madsen Report (a subscription-only site), they agreed also that those involved in cover-ups, by contrast, often prosper in their careers 
because of the power of perpetrators, including lucrative blackmail opportunities.
Bryant, whose specialties include reports on abused children, spent seven years researching The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse and Betrayal. The publisher TrineDay synopsizes the 650-page book (including index) as “the true story of a child-pandering network and the masking of its very existence through a massive cover-up orchestrated from the utmost pinnacle of power – using the CIA, FBI, Secret Service and a corrupt judicial process.” The book’s theme is that the ring was based in Nebraska, and drew both boys and girls from Boys Town and other homes for foster or troubled children.
From interviews and court documents involving participants, the book describes how children were shipped to wealthy pedophiles for sex and drug “parties” in Omaha, Washington, Hollywood, Las Vegas and elsewhere around the nation. Initial reports two decades ago created a scandal in Nebraska and Washington.
By Andrew Kreig / Director's Blog
The Re
publican House leadership is moving vigorously on separate fronts to hire lobbyists to staff congressional offices and to investigate Democratic wrongdoing. The separate initiatives are underscored in two Washington Post news stories published March 18. One is Lobbyists flock to Capitol Hill jobs. The other is: Sulaimon Brown’s allegations prompt House oversight committee probe into Vincent Gray campaign. The latter probe is being led by the Government Oversight and Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa, left, a Republican from California's 49th District just north of San Diego who announced last summer that he was gearing up for a series of hard-hitting investigations if Republicans prevailed in November. Meanwhile, Democrats under then-Chairman Edolphus Towns of Brooklyn, NY were doing little to probe rampant abuses that have been festering for years in government.
Meanwhile, embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange confronted the prime minister of his native Australia in a surprise television question-and-answer format enabled by remote technology from the United Kingdom, where Assange is being held without bond pending an extradition hearing to Sweden. These and other news reports collected below from alternative news sources illustrate the continuing mystery and drama of his case.
Longtime Michigan congressman John Conyers, Jr. held a press conference March 14 in the nation's capital seeking a more progressive congressional agenda. But he opened himself to criticism that he didn’t do enough to fight 
injustice during his just-ended four-year term as House Judiciary Committee chairman.
The Democrat from Detroit called at the National Press Club for increased gun control, more spending on jobs creation as well as evolution of the Obama health care program into a “single-payer” health care law providing universal coverage. In doing so, he made clear that he hoped to nudge President Obama to the left on such policies.
On behalf of the Justice Integrity Project, I asked Conyers why he didn’t push the Obama administration harder on civil liberties issues, such as the lack of redress for victims of political prosecutions around the nation and for whistleblowers who are being prosecuted far more under Obama than Bush. Conyers, portrayed above by photographer Rodrigo Valderrama, asked for amplification of what I meant.
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