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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font>Thomas was pushing disturbed ideas in her texts to Meadows, too. She

floated QAnon conspiracy theories, like how those who had perpetuated

massive voting fraud — of which there was none, of course — would be

sent to Guantanamo Bay. “Biden crime family & ballot fraud

co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship

mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested &

detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will

be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition,”

she wrote on Nov. 5, two days after the election. The same day, she sent

Meadows a link to a YouTube video labeled “TRUMP STING w CIA Director

Steve Pieczenik, The Biggest Election Story in History, QFS-BLOCKCHAIN.”

The video is no longer available, but we do know that Pieczenik, a

former State Department official, lied about the 2012 Sandy Hook school

shooting, <a href="http://pieczenik.blogspot.com/2013/05/after-newtown-false-flag-fiasco-to-push.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">claiming it</a> was a “false flag” operation — so he’s clearly not a rational person....<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===
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</font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>One Thomas text to Meadows shared a video promoting a QAnonish

conspiracy theory claiming watermarks on ballots would show that Biden

received millions of fraudulently cast votes. This baseless assertion

was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/quantum-blockchain-watermark-vote/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-03-29-2022">being pushed</a>&nbsp;on

InfoWars, the conspiracy theory site of blowhard nutter Alex Jones, by a

fellow named<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Steve Pieczenik</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">, </span>a longtime disinformation purveyor who

claimed the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in

Newton, Connecticut, was a staged “false flag” operation. Related to

this particular BS, Thomas texted Meadows a quote she had pulled off a

right-wing website: “Biden crime family & ballot fraud

co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship

mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested &

detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will

be <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition</span>.”

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ginni Thomas has long been one of the leaders of the right, and it

turns out she’s a loon. This is not entirely a newsflash. Nine years

ago, I&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/groundswell-rightwing-group-ginni-thomas/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-03-29-2022">revealed the existence</a>&nbsp;of

a new and secretive conservative outfit that Thomas had helped pull

together. Called <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Groundswell,</span></b> it assembled a collection of right-wingers

in Washington, DC, for weekly meetings to concoct talking points,

coordinate messaging, and hatch plans for “a 30 front war seeking to

fundamentally transform the nation,” according to a trove of its

documents I obtained. The group included a host of far-right extremists,

including Frank Gaffney (who had claimed Barack Obama was a secret

Muslim); Ken Blackwell and Jerry Boykin of the Family Research Council;

Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch; tea party fanatic <b>Allen

West</b>, a former member of Congress; Steve Bannon, then the executive

chairman of Breitbart News Network; Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service

agent who would become a Fox News presence; <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Leonard Leo, </span>executive vice

president of the influential Federalist Society; a handful of

conservative journalists; and others. <b>A top aide to Sen. Ted Cruz was a

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</div><div>Asawin Suebsaeng</div><div>Senior Political Reporter</div><div>Adam Rawnsley</div><div>Senior Researcher</div><div>Published Apr. 01, 2022&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Years before she became one of then-President Donald Trump’s most prominent coup supporters, Ginni Thomas was already notorious in his West Wing for, among other things, ruining staffers’ afternoons by working Trump into fits of vengeful rage.</div><div>
</div><div>“We all knew that within minutes after Ginni left her meeting with the president, he would start yelling about firing people for being disloyal,” said a former senior Trump administration official. “When Ginni Thomas showed up, you knew your day was wrecked.”</div><div>
</div><div>Ever since she became a welcome guest at Trump’s residences, Thomas—an influential and longtime conservative activist, and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas—had perfected a proven formula of enthralling and manipulating the president’s emotions and mood. On multiple occasions throughout the Trump era, Thomas would show up in the White House, sometimes for a private meeting or a luncheon with the president. She often came armed with written memos of who she and her allies believed Trump should hire for plum jobs—and who she thought Trump should promptly purge—that she distributed to Trump and other high-ranking government officials.</div><div>
</div><div>The fire lists were particularly problematic, as they were frequently based on pure conjecture, rumor, or score-settling, where even steadfastly MAGA aides were targeted for being part of the “Deep State” or some other supposedly anti-Trump coalition, according to people who saw them during the Trump administration. The hire lists were so often filled with infamous bigots and conspiracy theorists, woefully under-qualified names, and obvious close friends of Thomas that several senior Trump aides would laugh at them—that is, until Trump would force his staff to put certain names through the official vetting process, three sources familiar with the matter said.</div><div>
</div><div>“These fucking lists were so insane and unworkable.”</div><div>— one former Trump White House official</div><div>
</div><div>During the Trump years, these memos would astonish various administration officials, including those working in the&nbsp;<b>White House Presidential Personnel Office (PPO).</b>&nbsp;Some of these officials noticed that as the Trump term went on, the Thomas lists would increasingly feature a disproportionate share of names more suited to an OAN guest line-up than any functional government. (To be fair, well before Ginni Thomas became a recurring visitor, Trump would routinely hire people because they had entertained or excited him, via Fox and other cable-news appearances.)</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Officials in the PPO regularly annotated the margins of Thomas’ hire lists, usually including a single line for each rejected name, explaining why the prospective hires did not work out. Some failed background checks, or suffered from security-clearance hold-ups. Other annotations noted that a specific individual was offered a job in the Trump administration, but turned it down for whatever reason.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Sometimes, the reason for the White House’s preemptive rejection, despite Thomas and Trump’s best efforts, were more outlandish. According to a person who reviewed one of the Thomas lists,<b>&nbsp;one annotation for a MAGA job candidate noted that that individual had made too many extreme or offensive jokes on social media that were still visible.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Another of these annotations claimed that one recommendation for a Trump administration position was, in fact, a suspected foreign-intelligence asset, or spy.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Thomas did not respond to requests for comment on this story.</div><div>
</div><div>Over the years, some of the specific names that Thomas had compiled and pushed to Trump and his West Wing have trickled out into the press. Among them were Fox News personality Dan Bongino, and the Trump-adulating Sheriff David Clarke.</div><div>
</div><div>And according to two sources with knowledge of the matter, Thomas had, unsuccessfully, advised the then-president to hire Frank Gaffney.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gaffney, a former Pentagon official in the Reagan administration, has spent the past two decades embracing some of the more absurd conspiracy theories circulating in the far right. He has accused conservative anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist of being a secret agent for the Muslim Brotherhood and believes that American adversaries are working on secret electrical device-frying “electromagnetic pulse” weapons to zap America back to the pre-industrial age.</span></div><div>
</div><div>[Dems Are Livid at Thomas but Have No Idea What to Do</div><div>STRONGLY WORDED LETTERS]</div><div>
</div><div>“These fucking lists were so insane and unworkable,” said one former Trump White House official who had to personally deal with the Thomas-supplied memos and Trump’s fascination with them. “A lot of them were dripping with paranoia and read like they were written by a disturbed person.”</div><div>
</div><div>After Thomas departed, he would soon summon a variety of government personnel—West Wing brass, national security aides, lawyers, and other underlings, depending on proximity or the occasion—to inform them he’d just spoken to “Ginni.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Trump would then identify an official— or, sometimes, he would rattle off a string of names—who he said needed to be sacked “immediately,” according to people familiar with the matter.</b></div><div>
</div><div>When they could get away with it, several of these Trump administration hands would slow-walk these Thomas-inspired firing directives, and wait until Trump invariably forgot about it, cooled off, and moved on to other fixations and gripes.<b>&nbsp;Others would scramble to try to calm Trump down themselves, advising their boss to reconsider, telling him that a firing or a larger purge in the middle of the Trump term would make him look bad or attract negative media attention.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Thomas’ interactions with the Trump administration have taken on a new significance since the January 6th House Select Committee released text messages showing her urging Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to help overturn the 2020 election. Members of the committee are now seeking to interview Thomas, whose efforts to overturn the 2020 election included attendance at a “Stop the Steal” rally on the National Mall the day of the insurrection.</div><div>
</div><div>“Trump loved talking to Ginni so much because he loved hearing about who was a Never Trumper, or allegedly one. He loved people who would flatter him, [as Ginni would do],” said Stephanie Grisham, once a top White House aide to Trump who has since had a very public falling-out with the ex-president. “But also, his obsession with loyalty aside, he just loved to gossip—all the time. That’s something else he got out of his series of meetings at the White House with Ginni Thomas.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>In the text messages released by the committee last month, Thomas defended Sidney Powell, the “Kraken” lawyer&nbsp;</b>whose election conspiracy theories were so outlandish they earned her a billion-dollar defamation lawsuit, the scorn of rank and file Republican officials, and sanctions from a Michigan court. At the time, a number of Trump aides were trying to distance the president from Powell because of her increasingly outlandish comments about bogus election fraud. Thomas, however, urged Meadows not to yield to mainstream Republicans, according to The New York Times.</div><div>
</div><div><b>In her texts with Trump’s consigliere, Thomas also showed a fondness for<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Steve Pieczenik,</span> a far-right pundit and onetime Tom Clancy co-author whose conspiracy theories and bogus claims were so far-fetched even InfoWars briefly booted him from appearing on the network</b>. Before he began pushing the fake stories about watermarked fraud-catching ballots that earned Thomas’ endorsement,&nbsp;<b>Pieczenik had pushed QAnon conspiracy theories, claimed to have arrested Pope Francis, and spun bogus stories about prominent mass shootings being false flags.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During the Obama administration, Thomas and Gaffney participated in a conservative messaging effort known as “<b>Groundswell.”</b>&nbsp;The group, an informal network of conservative journalists, pundits, and political operatives, routinely met at the offices of the right-wing activist group Judicial Watch to coordinate talking points opposing the Obama administration’s agenda and plot the ouster of allegedly moderate Republicans like Karl Rove from the broader conservative movement.</span></div><div>
</div><div>[Ginni Thomas’ Election Fraud Guru Claims He Arrested Pope</div><div>TOO HOT FOR INFOWARS</div><div>Will Sommer]</div><div>
</div><div><b>The revelation of Thomas’ texts with Meadows prompted the January 6th Committee to seek an interview with her,</b>&nbsp;according to CNN, but that effort falls far short of the more legally compelling option of a subpoena.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the meantime, Congressional Democrats are divided over how to handle Thomas’ cameo in the Jan. 6 scandal. Some, like Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, have called for Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases while others like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have called for him to step down or be impeached.</span></div><div>
</div><div>But the lack of a Democratic supermajority in the Senate means neither of the Thomases are likely to have to give up their jobs just yet.</div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=
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<div><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ginni Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is at the center of controversy amid the discovery of incriminating text messages she sent as part of a scheme to overturn the presidential election.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Per The Daily Beast:</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">"In her&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">messages</a>, published Thursday by CBS News and the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post</em>,<b> Thomas urged then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to look into the claims of Steve Pieczenik, a little-known conspiracy theorist whose ideas are often too crazy for even&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/infowars-host-alex-jones-could-face-arrest-after-defying-sandy-hook-lawsuit-court-order-again" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Alex Jones</a>."</b></font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ginni-thomas-election-fraud-guru-claims-he-arrested-pope?ref=home" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">details are emerging about Pieczenik, the far-right conspiracy theorist and so-called election fraud "guru" she embraced.</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“If you believe what Steve Pieczenik has to say, you have completely lost all touch with reality,</b>” said Jordan Holmes, a comedian who tracks the right-wing site InfoWars and its conservative guests, on his own podcast platform,&nbsp;<a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external rm-stats-tracked" href="https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Knowledge Fight</a>.
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pieczenik reportedly has a long history of circulating false claims and often references his career working in the national security bureaucracy, including, The Beast reports "in classified positions, all of which makes it difficult to discern what’s true about his identity."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although Pieczenik was known for his work back in the 1990s, his perspective appeared to have shifted drastically when he began making guest appearances on the conspiracy-driven InfoWars platform. Holmes explained the extent of Pieczenik's rhetoric and how far he tends to veer from reality.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Pieczenik goes on to hit the ball out of the fences every single time, which means he goes too far sometimes,” Holmes said. “And when that happens, he winds up getting put on the backburner for a little while."</b>
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Beast political reporter Will Sommer noted: "His stories were so wild they even became too much for Jones. After he claimed the <b>2017 Las Vegas mass shooting that killed 60 people was fake,</b> for example, Jones appeared to temporarily block him from appearing on the outlet. All that has given him a reputation as a loose cannon even by the already outré standards of the InfoWars green room."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But despite his wild claims, this is the individual Thomas reportedly referenced when expressing her concerns about the outcome of the presidential election....?</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ginni-thomas-election-fraud-guru-claims-he-arrested-pope"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ginni Thomas’ Election Fraud Guru Claims He Arrested Pope
TOO HOT FOR INFOWARS

Ginni Thomas name-checked Steve Pieczenik, a little-known conspiracy theorist, in texts to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about overturning the 2020 election.
Will Sommer

Politics Reporter
Updated Mar. 26, 2022 3:55AM ET / Published <b>Mar. 25, 2022 </b>

As Ginni Thomas, a prominent conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, made the case to overturn the election to a top adviser to former President Donald Trump in the days after the 2020 election, she cited several conspiracy theories popular with the president’s most deluded supporters

In her messages, published Thursday by CBS News and the Washington Post, Thomas urged then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to look into the claims of Steve Pieczenik, a little-known conspiracy theorist whose ideas are often too crazy for even Alex Jones.

Thomas appeared to have wholly embraced Pieczenik’s off-the-wall claims in her texts, including the idea that Trump’s election defeat was really a ruse meant to entrap Democratic voter fraudsters.

“If you believe what Steve Pieczenik has to say, you have completely lost all touch with reality,” said Jordan Holmes, a comedian who follows InfoWars and its guests, including Pieczenik, on his Knowledge Fight podcast.

Thomas and Pieczenik didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Pieczenik has a history of lying and often claims to have worked throughout the national security bureaucracy—including in classified positions, all of which makes it difficult to discern what’s true about his identity. He emerged in the media in the late 1980s as an expert on the psychology of hostage-taking. In the 1990s, Pieczenik launched a series of novels with national-security thriller author Tom Clancy.

Whatever grip Pieczenik had on reality began to slip decades ago, when he began to appear on InfoWars. Pieczenik became known for claiming that a tragic event, often a mass shooting, was in fact a false flag event or even faked entirely. He’s argued that the 9/11 attacks, the Sandy Hook shooting, and Pearl Harbor were all false flags. Among other claims, Pieczenik insists he once arrested Pope Francis.

His stories were so wild they even became too much for Jones. After he claimed the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting that killed 60 people was fake, for example, Jones appeared to temporarily block him from appearing on the outlet. All that has given him a reputation as a loose cannon even by the already outré standards of the InfoWars green room.

“Pieczenik goes on to hit the ball out of the fences every single time, which means he goes too far sometimes,” Holmes said. “And when that happens, he winds up getting put on the backburner for a little while.”

While Jones distanced himself from Pieczenik after the Las Vegas shooting claims, Pieczenik reemerged a few years later as a “vector” to push QAnon claims on InfoWars, according to Holmes. He also became a key figure on the show in the 2020 election, ready to pump out the kind of crazed optimism for Trump supporters that Ginni Thomas later repeated to Trump’s chief of staff. Two days after the election, Thomas texted Meadows video of a Pieczenik appearance on InfoWars’ “War Room” show.
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While the YouTube video she sent Meadows has been deleted, other copies posted on far-right YouTube alternatives reveal that the video was about Pieczenik’s claim that the election was a ruse meant to catch Democrats. In the video, a Hawaiian shirt-clad <b>Pieczenik tells InfoWars host and future Jan. 6 indictee Owen Shroyer </b>about how secret watermarks on the ballots would be used to find fake ballots and arrest leading liberals.</span>

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pieczenik predicted the arrests would begin within days.

“You’re seeing a sophisticated sting operation that was initiated by Trump,” Pieczenik said. “I’m just a lowly peasant in this game.”

Thomas appears to have found solace in Pieczenik’s claim that Trump hadn’t really lost the election.

“I hope this is true; never heard anything like this before, or even a hint of it,” Thomas wrote to Meadows. “Possible???”

Thomas embraced other Pieczenik claims, telling Meadows that military “white hats”—a QAnon term for pro-Trump forces in the federal government—had been deployed to key states.</span>

It’s not clear how Thomas first encountered Pieczenik’s work. But her praise for his obviously ludicrous claims demonstrate the power that conspiracy theories had on Trump’s inner circle.

<b>“It’s so funny how crazy this guy is,” Holmes said. “But at the same time he’s been around pulling these weirdo [psychological operations] for the past 50 years, and it does seem like he’s had a pretty big effect on people.”</b>

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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wiki 7 22</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>steve R. Pieczenik</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/tʃ/: 'ch' in 'China'">tʃ</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span></span>/</a></span></span>; born December 7, 1943) is a Cuban-American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author" title="Author">author</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishing" title="Publishing">publisher</a>, conspiracy theorist,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatrist" title="Psychiatrist">psychiatrist</a>, as well as a former consultant for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">United States Department of State</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup></font>

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<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#Civil_service"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Civil service</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#Post-civil_service"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Post-civil service</span></a></font></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#Writing"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Writing</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#Controversies"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Controversies</span></a></font>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#Alex_Jones"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Alex Jones</span></a></font></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#Bibliography"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Bibliography</span></a></font>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#Authored_novels"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Authored novels</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#Series_co-creator_with_Tom_Clancy"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">Series co-creator with Tom Clancy</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#Other"><span class="tocnumber">5.3</span> <span class="toctext">Other</span></a></font></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#References"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></font></li></ul>

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<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</span></font></h2><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pieczenik was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana,_Cuba" class="mw-redirect" title="Havana, Cuba">Havana, Cuba</a> on December 7, 1943, to Russian-Polish parents, and spent his early childhood in France.<sup id="cite_ref-St.PeteTimes1978_5-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-St.PeteTimes1978-5">[5]</a></sup> His father, a doctor from Dombrovicz who studied and worked in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse" title="Toulouse">Toulouse</a>, France, fled to Poland before <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-JPo1995_6-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-JPo1995-6">[6]</a></sup> His mother, a Russian Jew from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82ystok" title="Białystok">Białystok</a>, Poland, fled Europe after many of her family members were killed.<sup id="cite_ref-JPo1995_6-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-JPo1995-6">[6]</a></sup> The couple met in Portugal, where both had fled from the Nazi invaders.<sup id="cite_ref-JPo1995_6-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-JPo1995-6">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WashPo1995_7-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-WashPo1995-7">[7]</a></sup> After living in Toulouse for six years, Pieczenik's family migrated to the United States, where they settled in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem" title="Harlem">Harlem</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-JPo1995_6-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-JPo1995-6">[6]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obio_8-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-obio-8">[8]</a></sup> Pieczenik was 8 years old when his parents received their entry visa to the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-JPo1995_6-4" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-JPo1995-6">[6]</a></sup> He is fluent in five languages, including Russian, Spanish and French.<sup id="cite_ref-St.PeteTimes1978_5-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-St.PeteTimes1978-5">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JPo1995_6-5" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-JPo1995-6">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WashPo1995_7-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-WashPo1995-7">[7]</a></sup></font>

</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pieczenik received a scholarship to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a> at age 16.<sup id="cite_ref-JPo1995_6-6" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-JPo1995-6">[6]</a></sup> He graduated with a BA degree in pre-medicine and psychology in 1964 and later received his M.D. from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weill_Cornell_Medicine" title="Weill Cornell Medicine">Cornell University Medical College</a>.<b> He earned a PhD in international relations from MIT while studying at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Medical_School" title="Harvard Medical School">Harvard Medical School</a></b>.<sup id="cite_ref-WashPo1995_7-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-WashPo1995-7">[7]</a></sup> Pieczenik claims to be the first psychiatrist ever to receive a PhD in international relations.<sup id="cite_ref-obio_8-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-obio-8">[8]</a></sup>

During his psychiatry residency at Harvard, he was awarded the Harry E.

Solomon award for his paper "The hierarchy of ego-defence mechanisms in

foreign policy decision making."<sup id="cite_ref-JPo1995_6-7" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-JPo1995-6">[6]</a></sup></font>

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<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span></font></h2><h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Civil_service">Civil service</span></font></h3><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1974, Pieczenik joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State">United States Department of State</a> as a consultant to help in the restructuring of its <b>Office for the Prevention of Terrorism.<sup id="cite_ref-St.PeteTimes1978_5-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-St.PeteTimes1978-5">[5]</a></sup> In 1976, he was made <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Assistant_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Assistant Secretary of State">Deputy Assistant Secretary of State</a> under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger" title="Henry Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a></b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Vance" title="Cyrus Vance">Cyrus Vance</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baker" title="James Baker">James Baker</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-JPo1995_6-8" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-JPo1995-6">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-St.PeteTimes1978_5-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-St.PeteTimes1978-5">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-obio_8-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-obio-8">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt2_9-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-nyt2-9">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-forbes_10-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-forbes-10">[10]</a></sup> He served the presidential administrations of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Gerald Ford</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a> in the role.<sup id="cite_ref-WashPo1992_11-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-WashPo1992-11">[11]</a></sup></font>

</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>At the Department of State, Pieczenik served as a "specialist on hostage taking"</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-SarasotaHerald1980_12-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-SarasotaHerald1980-12">[12]</a></sup>

He has been credited with devising successful negotiating strategies

and tactics used in several high-profile hostage situations, including

the 1976 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_355" title="TWA Flight 355">TWA Flight 355</a> hostage situation and the 1977 kidnapping of the son of Cyprus's president.<sup id="cite_ref-St.PeteTimes1978_5-4" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-St.PeteTimes1978-5">[5]</a></sup> He worked "side by side" with Police Chief Maurice J. Cullinane in the Washington, D.C. command center of Mayor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Washington" title="Walter Washington">Walter Washington</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Hanafi_Siege" class="mw-redirect" title="1977 Hanafi Siege">1977 Hanafi Siege</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EugeneReg1977_13-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-EugeneReg1977-13">[13]</a></sup></font>

</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1978 Pieczenik was a special envoy for President Carter to Italy to assist in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_and_murder_of_Aldo_Moro" title="Kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro">the search</a> for Italy's former Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Moro" title="Aldo Moro">Aldo Moro</a>. As an international crisis manager and hostage negotiator in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="State Department">State Department</a>,

Pieczenik was sent to Italy on March 16, 1978, the day Moro was

kidnapped, and was involved in the negotiations for his release. He was

part of a "crisis committee" headed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Cossiga" title="Francesco Cossiga">Francesco Cossiga</a>,

the interior minister. Moro was held for 54 days. Pieczenik said the

committee was jolted into action by the fear that Moro would reveal

state secrets in an attempt to free himself. Moro's widow, Eleonora,

later said Henry Kissinger had warned her husband against his strategy

of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_Compromise" title="Historic Compromise">Historic Compromise</a> (<i>Compromesso Storico</i>).

"You will pay dearly for it," he is alleged to have said. A false

statement attributed to the Red Brigades was leaked saying that Moro was

dead. Pieczenik claimed that this had a dual purpose: to prepare the

Italian public for the worst and to let the Red Brigades know that the

state would not negotiate for Moro and considered him already dead. Moro

was shot and placed in the back of a car in central Rome, midway

between the headquarters of the Communist Party and the Christian

Democrats. In a documentary, Cossiga admitted the committee had made the

decision to release the false statement. Pieczenik said that Moro had

been "sacrificed" for Italy's "stability".<sup id="cite_ref-Telegraph_14-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-Telegraph-14">[14]</a></sup></font>

</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On September 17, 1978, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords" title="Camp David Accords">Camp David Accords</a> were signed. Pieczenik claims to have been present at secret <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David" title="Camp David">Camp David</a> negotiations leading to the signing of the Accords, working out strategy and tactics based on psychopolitical dynamics.<sup id="cite_ref-JPo1995_6-9" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-JPo1995-6">[6]</a></sup></font>

</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In 1979, he resigned as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State over the handling of the Iranian hostage crisis</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-WashPo1995_7-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-WashPo1995-7">[7]</a></sup></font>

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<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Post-civil_service">Post-civil service</span></font></h3><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the early 1980s, Pieczenik wrote an article for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>

in which he claimed to have heard a senior U.S. official in the

Department of State Operations Center give permission for the attack

that led to the death of U.S. Ambassador <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Dubs" title="Adolph Dubs">Adolph Dubs</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>, Afghanistan, in 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-SpokaneDaily1981_15-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-SpokaneDaily1981-15">[15]</a></sup></font>

</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pieczenik claims to have known Syrian President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez_al-Assad" title="Hafez al-Assad">Hafez al-Assad</a> well during his 20 years in the Department of State.<sup id="cite_ref-JPo1995_6-10" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-JPo1995-6">[6]</a></sup></font>

</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1982, Pieczenik was mentioned in an article in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> as "a psychiatrist who has treated C.I.A. employees".<sup id="cite_ref-NYTimes1982_16-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-NYTimes1982-16">[16]</a></sup> Pieczenik has been affiliated in a professional capacity as a psychiatrist with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Mental_Health" title="National Institute of Mental Health">National Institute of Mental Health</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-super_17-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-super-17">[17]</a></sup></font>

</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2001, Pieczenik operated as chief executive officer of Strategic Intelligence Associates, a consulting firm.<sup id="cite_ref-NatDefense2001_18-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-NatDefense2001-18">[18]</a></sup> As recently as October 6, 2012, Pieczenik was listed as a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Council on Foreign Relations">Council on Foreign Relations</a> (CFR).<sup id="cite_ref-CFRlast_19-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-CFRlast-19">[19]</a></sup> According to Internet Archive, his name was removed from the CFR roster sometime between October 6 and November 18, 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-CFRremoved_20-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-CFRremoved-20">[20]</a></sup> He no longer publicly appears as a member of the CFR.<sup id="cite_ref-CFR_21-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-CFR-21">[21]</a></sup> Pieczenik has consulted with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Institute_of_Peace" title="United States Institute of Peace">United States Institute of Peace</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation" title="RAND Corporation">RAND Corporation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-USIP_22-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-USIP-22">[22]</a></sup> Pieczenik has also lectured at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_University" title="National Defense University">National Defense University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-APnews2002_23-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-APnews2002-23">[23]</a></sup></font>

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<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Writing">Writing</span></font></h2><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pieczenik has made a number of ventures into fiction, as an author and as a business partner of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy" title="Tom Clancy">Tom Clancy</a> for several series of novels.<sup id="cite_ref-appeals_24-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-appeals-24">[24]</a></sup> He is a co-author of the book <i>Divide and Conquer</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup> Pieczenik received a listed credit as co-creator for both <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Op-Center" title="Tom Clancy's Op-Center">Tom Clancy's Op-Center</a></i> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Net_Force" title="Tom Clancy's Net Force">Tom Clancy's Net Force</a></i>,

two best-selling novel series, as a result of a business relationship

with Tom Clancy. He was not directly involved in writing books in these

series, but "assembled a team" including the ghostwriter who did author

the novels and someone to handle the "packaging" of the novels.<sup id="cite_ref-appeals_24-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-appeals-24">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Amazon_26-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-Amazon-26">[26]</a></sup> The Op-Center series alone had earned more than 28 million dollars in net profit for the partnership by 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-appeals_24-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-appeals-24">[24]</a></sup> He is also credited under the pseudonym Alexander Court for writing the novels <i>Active Measures</i> (2001), and <i>Active Pursuit</i> (2002).<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-27">[27]</a></sup></font>

</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has had at least two articles published in the <i>American Intelligence Journal</i>, a peer-reviewed journal published by the National Military Intelligence Association.<sup id="cite_ref-NMIA_28-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-NMIA-28">[28]</a></sup></font>

</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pieczenik co-authored a paper with John Neustadt which appeared in the July 2008 issue of <i>Molecular Nutrition & Food Research</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-29">[29]</a></sup></font>

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<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Controversies">Controversies</span></font></h2><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1992, Pieczenik told <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsday" title="Newsday">Newsday</a></i>

that in his professional opinion, President George H. W. Bush was

"clinically depressed". As a result, he was brought up on an ethics

charge before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psychiatric_Association" title="American Psychiatric Association">American Psychiatric Association</a> and reprimanded. He subsequently quit the APA.<sup id="cite_ref-WashPo1995_7-4" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-WashPo1995-7">[7]</a></sup></font>

</p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The role he played in the negotiations to bring about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Moro" title="Aldo Moro">Aldo Moro</a>'s release is fraught with controversy.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-30">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_31-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-:0-31">[31]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on an unreliable source. (February 2022)">unreliable source?</span></a></i>]</sup></font>

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<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Alex_Jones">Alex Jones</span></font></h3><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pieczenik has made several appearances on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoWars" title="InfoWars">InfoWars</a></i>, the flagship radio program of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones" title="Alex Jones">Alex Jones</a>, where he has made several false statements, including that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting" title="Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting">Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting</a> was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag" title="False flag">false flag</a> operation<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-32">[32]</a></sup> and that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a> were conducted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA">CIA</a> agents. After the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">2020 United States presidential election</a>,

Pieczenik appeared on InfoWars claiming the Trump administration

permitted the <b>Democratic Party to engage in election fraud as a "sting

operation" facilitated by a "QFS blockchain encryption code" on every

ballot</b>.</span> <sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup></font>

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<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Bibliography">Bibliography</span></font></h2><h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Authored_novels">Authored novels</span></font></h3><ul><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mind Palace (1985)</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blood Heat (1989)</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hidden Passions (1991)</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maximum Vigilance (1993)</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pax Pacifica (1995)</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">State of Emergency (1997)<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-34">[34]</a></sup></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Active Measures (as Alexander Court, 2001)</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Active Pursuit (as Alexander Court, 2002)</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My Beloved Talleyrand (2005)<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-35">[35]</a></sup></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Terror Counter Terror (2007)<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-36">[36]</a></sup></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steve Pieczenik Talks (2014)<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Warrior in Crises (2019)</font></li></ul>

<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Series_co-creator_with_Tom_Clancy">Series co-creator with Tom Clancy</span></font></h3><ul><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Op-Center" title="Tom Clancy's Op-Center">Tom Clancy's Op-Center</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Net_Force" title="Tom Clancy's Net Force">Tom Clancy's Net Force</a></font></li></ul>

<h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Other">Other</span></font></h3><ul><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My Life Is Great! Why Do I Feel So Awful? (self-help, 1990)</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Foundations and Applications of Medical Biochemistry in Clinical Practice. With John Neustadt. (textbook, 2009) <sup id="cite_ref-author_39-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Pieczenik#cite_note-author-39">[39]</a></sup></font></li></ul>

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