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Leah & Mike on CNN

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Leah and I were interviewed by Jake Tapper Friday evening. You can watch the segment here. Unfortunately, breaking news cut us a little short, but Jake gave us an opportunity to cover plenty of ground. We really appreciate him reaching out to us and the fact that he had gotten himself familiar with the facts in the case. As he says, this is an under reported topic -- we hope he will do more. And that other national media will follow his lead. … [Read more...]

Leah & Mike: The Masterson Sentencing

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Last night Leah and I did a livestream YouTube video about the Masterson sentencing hearing Leah had attended earlier in the day. Here are the documents we mentioned: Jane Doe 1 Mother's Letter to Miscavige You can also find this, and a glossary of terms at Leah's Substack:   DOJ Sentencing Memorandum For those who don't want to read the entire 70 page document, here is a redacted summary of key points: Excerpts DOJ Sentencing Memo … [Read more...]

Leah & Mike Are Back!

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A new video on YouTube this morning. Leah and I catch up on things, expose scientology efforts to protect a sexual predator and talk about future plans... The documents in the video are below in the sequence we covered them: 4 April 2006 5 April 2006 6 April 2003 8 April 2006     James Barbour is back fundraising for scientology (2014):   Hobnobbing with other scientology celebs in 2019:   The Broadway article: Barbour article … [Read more...]

Andy Porter on Leaving Scientology Staff

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My old friend, Andy Porter -- maestro photographer and contributor to this blog over the years, -- popped up with something new, inspired by a headline in the National Enquirer! I am sure you will find it interesting.     Leaving Scientology Staff September 4, 2023 The problem with relaying any narrative about working on staff for the Church of Scientology is that ALL of it is so absurdly insanely crazy, you don’t know where to start. I was the Executive Director of the Church of Scientology of Washington State, in Seattle (AKA: The Seattle Org) in the early 1990’s… Here … [Read more...]

Brothers Broken: A New Film About Scientology Destroying Lives

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A couple of days ago, Tony put this message from Geoff Levin on his blog. I am republishing here in the event that any reader here may not have seen it at Tony's. Geoff has been a staunch supporter of this blog and me generally. I am proud to be included in his movie -- I met his brother, Robbie, when I was at Sundance for the premiere of Going Clear. Two talented and extremely nice men who have an incredible horror story to tell. Fortunately, this one has a relatively happy ending, though Geoff's children remain disconnected. This is Geoff's message:   It’s been a long jo … [Read more...]

Scientology’s War on Judges

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Following the recent blog post about the April 1978 article in the Washington Post from April 1978, I came across this one from May 78 by the same reporter. Once again, scientology's own documents indict them (in this case, literally). Though they deny everything, the people who were indicated (including Mary Sue Hubbard) all pled guilty and spent time in Federal prison. Of course, scientology cannot change it's modus operandi. As I said in my earlier post, the only reason we don't have documents today like this today is there has been no raid to gather the evidence of their current … [Read more...]

Leah Remini Lawsuit: Update

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  I was happy to read this morning that Leah has filed an amended complaint, adding the most recent harassment from scientology: https://deadline.com/2023/08/leah-remini-scientology-lawsuit-amended-1235532181/ Included (and featured in the Deadline story) was the recent PI harassment of me I documented NEW Fair Game PI Activity Caught on Video. This updating of the complaint helps educate the court (and others) -- there is a real and urgent need to stop these ongoing abuses. It is also important for it to be clearly understood that while scientology denies they have ever done … [Read more...]