Anonymous ID: a4b3e5 May 1, 2025, 4:54 p.m. No.22980597   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0717 >>0848 >>0924 >>1028 >>1109

Nothing is Habbening

 

Arrests Mark Significant Takedown Within Violent Online Network

WASHINGTON – Leonidas Varagiannis, also known as “War,” 21, a citizen of the United States residing in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Prasan Nepal, also known as “Trippy,” 20, of North Carolina, were arrested and charged for operating an international child exploitation enterprise known as “764,” a nihilistic violent extremist (NVE) network. Varagiannis was arrested yesterday in Greece; Nepal was arrested on April 22, 2025, in North Carolina and had a court appearance. Court hearings in Washington, D.C. are pending for both defendants.

 

The charges were announced by U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr., U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi, FBI Assistant Director in Charge Steven J. Jensen of the Washington Field Office, and FBI Assistant Director in Charge Christopher G. Raia of the New York Field Office.

 

According to the affidavit in the District of Columbia, 764 is a network of nihilistic violent extremists who engage in criminal conduct in the United States and abroad, seeking to destroy civilized society through the corruption and exploitation of vulnerable populations, which often include minors. The 764 network’s accelerationist goals include social unrest and the downfall of the current world order, including the United States Government.

 

As alleged, the defendants engaged in a coordinated criminal enterprise and led a core subgroup within 764 known as 764 Inferno, operated through encrypted messaging applications. As alleged, they directed, participated in, and otherwise caused the production and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and the defendants facilitated the grooming, manipulation, and extortion of minors. Veragiannis and Nepal allegedly ordered their victims to commit acts of self-harm and engaged in psychological torment and extreme violence against minors. The affidavit alleges that the group targeted vulnerable children online, coercing them into producing degrading and explicit content under threat and manipulation. This content includes “cut signs” and “blood signs” through which young girls would cut symbols into their bodies.

 

The defendants and their co-conspirators around the world used the CSAM and other gore and violent material to create digital “Lorebooks,” which NVEs used as digital currency within the 764 network — traded, archived in encrypted “vaults,” and used as a means to recruit new members or maintain status within the network. The affidavit also details how the defendants instructed others members in grooming tactics and set content production expectations for new recruits. In multiple instances, defendants threatened and caused their victims to engage in self-mutilation, online and in-person sexual acts, harm to animals, sexual exploitation of siblings and others, acts of violence, threats of violence, suicide, and murder.

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise

Anonymous ID: a4b3e5 May 1, 2025, 5:16 p.m. No.22980658   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0674 >>0739 >>0893

‘’’Bolton: Hegseth should resign ‘for his own safety’s sake’ ‘’’

 

Former national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should resign amid mounting scrutiny of his leadership at the Pentagon.

“No, I think he should resign for his own safety’s sake, if nothing else,” Bolton told CNN’s Pamela Brown, when asked whether Hegseth should still be on the job.

Bolton particularly noted concerns he has following reports Hegseth used the messaging app Signal to share sensitive information in group chats that included his wife and a reporter.

“This is a critical time for the American military,” Bolton continued. “We understand the Trump administration will rightly propose enormous budget increases for defense. We need it. “

“We need a secretary who can get the job done, not somebody who spends his time on Signal chat groups,” he added.

Bolton said that when he served as President Trump’s national security adviser, “I almost never used my personal cellphone.”

“I mean, the breaches of security at risk in this conduct are enormous. And I think that’s one reason why he shouldn’t be in the job,” Bolton added.

 

Bolton served in Trump’s first administration, but has become an outspoken critic of the president in recent years.

Hegseth has been at the center of controversy in recent weeks in the wake of reports about his usage of Signal and his management of the Defense Department.

He and the administration have defended the use of the messaging app, saying no classified information was shared in the group chats, and Trump told The Atlantic in an interview earlier this week he thinks Hegseth will “get it together.”

The president had a similarly optimistic tone in an ABC News interview on Tuesday.

“I had a talk with him, and whatever I said I probably wouldn’t be inclined to tell you,” Trump said about Hegseth. “But — we had a good talk. He’s a talented guy. He’s young. He’s smart, highly educated.”

“And I think he’s going to be a very good defense, hopefully a great Defense secretary,” the president added.

 

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5275169-john-bolton-pete-hegseth-resign/