Child Rapist George Nader Introduced Dick Cheney and Ahmad Chalabi

Last night, BuzzFeed released the second-to-last dump of 302s in their Mueller FOIA. There’s a ton that’s interesting in it (and I’m just skimming much of it). But — as I said to Jason Leopold — this George Nader interview, by itself, made the FOIA dump worth the price of admission.

There’s a ton of details about how he brokered meetings between Erik Prince and Kirill Dmitriev and lots of significantly redacted discussions of meetings with Don Jr. There’s great theater where, several times, Nader denied something, including meeting “any” Russian government officials at a trip to the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in June 2016, only to have Mueller’s team show him a picture (in the case of Putin) or a text (in the case of his denials that he had met Steve Bannon) that forced him to immediately backtrack off his claims. Nader describes how he — a convicted pedophile during this entire period — could get along with all sides: Clinton and Trump, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Everyone’s favorite child rapist.

But by far the craziest part of this amazing interview — the thing that has my brain reeling this afternoon — has nothing to do with Russia.

In describing his background, you see, Nader claimed that he’s the one who introduced Ahmad Chalabi to Dick Cheney.

For those who don’t remember, Chalabi had a significant role in drumming up the Iraq War (here’s what I wrote after he died in 2015, and here’s a piece I wrote about him 10 years earlier, in advance of my book on such things). So by introducing Chalabi to Cheney, Nader played some role — how big, it’s unclear — in perhaps the single greatest American foreign policy debacle of all time.

And now he’s rotting away in prison for trafficking a boy.

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    • subtropolis says:

      I doubt it. The Russians certainly were interested. Any time America flexes its muscles abroad, they’ll be watching carefully. And looking for ways to push in just the right spots to cause mischief. But I don’t think that they were ultimately behind Chalabi’s involvement.

      • viget says:

        Yeah, nope. They’re in for a penny, in for a pound (snicker snicker), I’m going to say — Iraq, Afghanistan AND 9/11 FTW.

        Remember, Stone was instrumental in FL shenanigans in 2000. Wanna bet he and RIS were already tight back then?

        And as Afghanistan was the bete noir for the USSR, it’s been the gift that keeps on giving for Putin…how many US agents have they recruited who were on active duty there??? Kind of trademark ironic Russian humor.

      • MattyG says:

        But that triumverate of nations has been in Kremlin crosshairs for a long time and must receive the lion’s share of attention. They got a bloody nose in Afghanistan but it’s a tad off their main line and they are happy to watch the US get same. They must have been poking and prodding here in the States looking for weaknesses and avenues of approach. It’s ironic that the GOP offered such juicy targets given the party’s historical animus towards the East. That and a real blue water port that they are making headway given the wedge currently driven between US/Pac alliances by the GOP as well.

    • timbo says:

      Unlikely. The Russians were not keen on us disrupting their alliance with the Hussein regime in Iraq at the time.

  1. Savage Librarian says:

    Trick or Treat, great October surprise! It seems like I have been waiting forever to hear more about Nader. I have suspected for a long time that he played a significant role somehow. But I never would have guessed the Cheney connection. Whoa! And woe. The internal foes just keep popping up like chicken pox. A pox on all of them!

    • emptywheel says:

      Do read the interview (there are two in this batch, which means there are two outstanding somewhere). It’s nutty.

      • Savage Librarian says:

        I’m not able to read the interviews. The document seems to be locked up. Any ideas for an alternative? I’ve tried a few but I am having trouble….

        • John Paul Jones says:

          The page initially loads with EW annotations to the front, with the rest of it locked. Just click on the page and the annotation will dissolve and you can scroll through the rest of the document.

          The number of times Nader repeats certain tag phrases suggests that he is hiding things, i.e., he doesn’t fully trust himself not to get tricked into revealing things, thus, he pulls out these little phrases and repeats them as his safeguard.

        • Savage Librarian says:

          Thanks. For reasons unknown to me, it doesn’t work that way on my cell. But I see Slithy Toves has a page number for me. I appreciate your time and help.

      • Savage Librarian says:

        Or, if you could tell me what the page numbers are from the 989 page doc, I could find it that way…

        • AndTheSlithyToves says:

          Hey Savage,
          From the link to this latest batch, it says p. 335 (1st of 19 pages total for Nader’s 5/11/2018 interview). Will search for the second interview in this batch later–the faint, grayish type is hard for me to read. Hope this helps!

  2. Lawnboy says:

    OT Lev’s buddy Correia (sp) pleads putting pressure on Rudy Gulliani. Very timely no? Can’t wait for MW detail dive on this.

    Bueller?….anybody?????

  3. Raven Eye says:

    The saying “Can’t see the forest for the trees” may be a bit off target. In this case we can’t see the ROOTS for the trees — until someone starts digging things up. We see trees on our walk through the woods, but we never notice that under our feet, the trees are connected — and perhaps communicating. Note to self: Don’t concentrate just on the swamp.

    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2084488-trees-share-vital-goodies-through-a-secret-underground-network/
    https://e360.yale.edu/features/exploring_how_and_why_trees_talk_to_each_other

    • subtropolis says:

      “Out west, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work — to life.”
      — Scooter Libby, urging Judith Miller to remain loyal to the team

      • viget says:

        First thing I thought of too when reading the comment.

        Hence my comment to you above– it’s ALL connected.

  4. punaise says:

    I always forget the etiquette rule: do you shoot your friend in the face with buckshot before or after lunch? It’s so confusing.

  5. gmoke says:

    I wonder if George Nader ever met Jeffrey Epstein or the Maxwells, Robert and daughter Ghislaine. I also wonder if he ever met Jimmy Savile or Marc Dutroux. Part of what all the QAnon foofaraw does is obfuscate the reality of organized sex trafficking.

    Incidentally, about 17% of those polled supported Cheney after he shot his acquaintance in the face. That’s become a defining figure in my informal study of American demographics. 25% supported Nixon the day he resigned.

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