Snopes: Eric Braverman 'Missing' Claim is "UNPROVEN" ( pizzagate )

submitted by tehthu

At least they actually did some due diligence and tried calling the guy. Didn't know he was scheduled to teach classes. We'll know if he shows up in a few days or if they get a substitute.

--Via the Illustrious, Infallible Snopes:

ORIGIN:Since at least October 2016, some social media users have been echoing the belief that former Clinton Foundation CEO Eric Braverman is missing or in peril. Braverman, an attorney, headed the foundation from 2013 until he resigned that position in 2015.

Rumors regarding his whereabouts began swirling after a leaked document published via WikiLeaks showed his name mentioned in e-mails between Clinton staffers who believed he was furtively releasing information about the foundation's financial doings:

Eric Braverman, the Clinton Foundation CEO from 2013 until 2015, has apparently been missing since October. His absence has fueled speculations in the blogosphere but so far has been ignored by the media.

Some speculate, with good reason, that Braverman may have gone into hiding after an email mentioning his name was released by Wikileaks on October 22 of this year. In the March 2015 email exchange, Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden told Clinton campaign manager and confidant John Podesta there was a mole within the Clinton Foundation. Podesta in his reply told Tanden the mole was Braverman.

We found no evidence that Braverman is currently a missing person, nor that he has gone into hiding. The only evidence being proffered in support of this claim is the fact that Braverman has not used his Twitter account since October, but that's hardly compelling since he is an infrequent user of that social media platform:

The last evidence of Braverman’s public activity was October 12, when he posted his last tweet on Twitter. (Usually he tweets about once a month. His “husband,” Neil Brown, hasn’t tweeted since August, although he rarely tweets.) I left a voicemail on Braverman’s personal phone and sent him an email, but received no response. He is still listed as a lecturer at Yale University and, contrary to some reports, there is a record of his lectures going back several years. I contacted the press office and Braverman’s department at Yale and received no response.

The Yale campus has been closed for the holidays, which is likely why no response was received by the writer quoted above. However, Braverman is listed by the university as teaching his "Innovation in Government and Society" class in both the Fall 2016 semester and the upcoming Spring 2017 semester. He also has an active voicemail and e-mail address at the university (but didn't respond to our messages).

We were unable to reach a New Haven, Connecticut, police spokesman, but New York City and Washington D.C. police have no record of a missing person with his name, nor is Braverman listed on NamUs, a national database of missing persons maintained by the Justice Department.

The conspiracy theory that the Clintons have killed or disappeared numerous people they find politically inconvenient has been swirling for decades, but it reached a new fever pitch during the 2016 presidential election. On 24 October 2016, the conspiracy-mongering web site WhatDoesItMean.com started a false rumor claiming Braverman, an attorney and businessman, had applied for asylum in Russia after his name was revealed in a WikiLeaks dump.

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Dejure

I hate snopes when they go into deep politics, but they are saying he is confirmed alive in a recent entry. http://www.snopes.com/former-clinton-foundation-ceo-missing/

Has George Webb confrimed this in any of those mountain of vids?

SIMONBARROW

I would say the textbook definition of a missing person is someone that hasn't been seen for months, has not used his social media accounts for months, is not responding to email messages or phone calls, and nobody knows where he is.

SoSpricyHotDog

Wow! That was hilarious... I was reading the Snopes.com article about Eric Braverman's "unproven" disappearance. And 75% of it was a series of unsuccessful attempts to track him down. Even his job can't vouch for him! Then they proceeded to explain how this is like many other "conspiracy theories" and ended with the fact that he is still missing.

I laughed for awhile! It reads like an Onion article. This is like saying "There are claims that when you eat a meatball, it is digested and the nutrients are absorbed followed by the waste product being removed in human feces. Actually, it is conspiracy theories like this that attempt to explain unknowns. There are reports of meatballs staying in the body for the entire life-cycle, and shrinking over time and becoming pimples. There is simply no perceptible evidence that meatballs are digested. So there is no reason to believe this."

Then I realized... wait. This is real. They are actually trying to convince me that someone who is missing... is not missing.

What kind of Jedi mind trick is this supposed to be? There are many unanswered questions about a great many things, and no one is publicly willing or able to ask them. The assumption that he is NOT missing seems less likely IF he was previously available, visible, active, working, etc.

One could surmise that if Braverman was active up until a certain chronological point in time, then it would be considered odd for that activity to immediately stop.

Has anyone explored this angle? Forgive my ignorance if it has.

Man, that article was hilarious.

B_dog

That was world class sarcasm. stands up and begins to clap slowly

Fatsack

It's called selling 'credibility'.

hang_em_high

Did anyone ever contact any of the students from the class he was supposed to be teaching?

Fateswebb

The article doesn't claim that they tried to call him, it claims that one of the sources of the rumor did. All the article says is that there is not sign of him, but that doesn't prove he is missing. Snopes is not to be trusted isn't it owned by mediamatters?

thezodiac

Lol what a joke Snopes is.

Yates

Why even post this? Snopes has been outed long ago as a shill org. This just gets them more clicks and attention. Ignore them. Except don't ignore the divorce case of David Mikkelson, that should be really good. wesearchr had a bounty on opening his divorce records, can't find it now.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/12/22/snopes-ceo-accused-in-divorce-proceedings-of-embezzling-company-money-to-spend-on-prostitutes/

tehthu

More evidence of the psychological drumbeat.

Know your enemies as you know yourself.

yabbadoody

dude's MISSING... what's not "proven" about that, that no one has found a body yet?

SNOPES : "paying hookers to do a lady's job", again.

SIMONBARROW

(1) If Braverman won't reply to a query from Snopes.com, who would he reply to? If Yale won't reply to a query from Snopes.com, who would it reply to?

(2) The evidence that Braverman is missing is that nobody has been able to contact him and that nobody has seen him anywhere, while others associated with him ("husband," staff at Yale) are also not saying anything.

(3) 'The conspiracy theory that the Clintons have killed or disappeared numerous people they find politically inconvenient ...'

This is not a conspiracy theory. People closely associated with the Clintons really have died or have disappeared and even Stratfor employees discussed in an internal email that Hillary had had Vince Foster murdered.

Verite1

I saw that email. Gave me the creeps.

remedy4reality

It's the most despicable un-investigated crime in our history. Other than 9/11, of course.

rhy

Snopes at this point has zero credibility. Less than zero. If snopes said it, you can pretty much be sure the opposite is true. Fuck those fatties. And their cat.

JrSlimss

Gonna sound weird, but this is kinda useful. If you read this article the other way, Snopes literally tried to find him and failed. I just wish that they asked Yale generally whether he has been showing up to teach his classes - did no one in his same department pick up the phone?

tehthu

Great point. "Claim : Eric braverman is not missing. " - verdict: cant verify

doubleherpes

However, Braverman is listed by the university as teaching his "Innovation in Government and Society" class in both the Fall 2016 semester and the upcoming Spring 2017 semester.

There's your testable hypothesis.

99luftballons

I posted on Facebook for the first time about him today. Of course my "friends" showed up to readjust the wool over the eyes of anyone reading the post, citing the Yale catalog.

Why is it so upsetting when someone posts about a missing person?

tehthu

Because the MSM has effectively turned pizzagate into a partisan fight. They won that battle

tehthu

Have you considered a career in radio? I actually 'heard' that in my mind!!

ZalesMcMuffin

His whereabouts are unknown and nobody can be reached to say where he is. Hmm... Kinda sounds like he's missing, to me, but hey, I'm just a conspiracy theorist.

Orange_Circle

Search Alamo-girl.com for Arkancide, body count and other such terms. Including suicide. These archives go way back.

badastrid

LOL

redditfuckingsucksyo

I don't wish death on most people but I'll make an exception for Kim LaCapria and the rest of the Snopes staff

remedy4reality

you don't care for Kim's dildo reviews ?

remedy4reality

Snopes is like: ' Hey... no body, no crime... fuggetaboutit.... '

AreWeSure

This place is like: "No tweet? HE'S DEAD OR IN PROTECTIVE CUSTODY OR HIDING IN THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY!!!!!"

fartyshorts

"We couldn't find him to make a comment, so he must be busy!"