Con Ink. (Part Five)

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Sound of Freedom was billed as a movie that was based on a true story.

We're going to do a deeper dive into this.

Yeah, I think we need to do that.

We wanted to know the true story behind the brother and sister that Jim Caviezel called the heroes of the film.

He said, I don't belong here. Then he gives me this dog tag that his sister had given him.

But what Ballard did make clear in his report was that he didn't interview Jose. Ballard. Didn't include the dog tag moment in his report. Because it didn't happen. Ballard used that poor boy's suffering to create his own mythical origin story.

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I began looking into it the very month that Operation Underground Railroad was formed. I was an investigative reporter, and I'd been freelancing a series of reports on problems within the Utah Attorney General's office.

Linked up with Tim Ballard?

Tim Ballard grew up in southern California. He graduated from La Cunada High School, a town about a 15-mile drive northeast of Los Angeles, in the shadow of Hollywood. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I got a graduate degree in international politics and I always wanted to be in federal law enforcement. My first job was CIA, I was there during 9-11, working in the Operations Center, I studied terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. And so it was an easy recruit into the CIA. Because 9-11 had just happened. When I found out that one of the terrorists, Mohammed Atar, had staged his attack from Mexicali, Mexico, and crossed the border. And I speak Spanish. I wanted to go fight terrorism on the southern border.

While there, Ballard says he worked on terrorism-related projects, cracking money, guns, things like that.

Six months into that endeavor, I was called into the office of a supervisor. And they asked me if I would please forego everything that I wanted to do with my career. And help them start a child crimes unit.

Ballard contemplated the grave sacrifice to his career.

I do not know why they asked me. One thing he did say to me was, you're a young agent, but you're a person of faith and we know that about you. And that's a requirement. Or your soul will be crushed.

Ballard would eventually accept the position as a special agent for U.

In a few moments, I will sign the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.

On July 27, 2006, President George W. Bush began an effort that would open the door for Tim Ballard's future business model.

The bill I sign today will strengthen federal laws to protect our children from sexual and other violent crimes.

In 2006, the laws changed in the United States, and for the first time, U.

We also launched Operation Predator to help law enforcement track down and arrest foreign pedophiles, human traffickers, sex tourists and internet pornographers who prey on our children.

And we can now hold those Americans accountable, as if they had committed that crime on U.

Ballard claims he saw American pedophiles exploiting kids in South America and American children being exploited there as well. The problem was, as he tells it, if he couldn't quickly make a connection in those foreign cases to either an American pedophile or an American child victim. He had to come home.

And in 2012, I had enough on this case, I went further than otherwise I probably should have.

Ballard says the higher-ups told him he had to come home and drop the case.

And that's when I had a very consequential conversation with my wife and I said, If I do this operation, we will save kids.

Ballard says he hoped that his wife Catherine demanded he come home and drop the case, but Catherine allegedly told him to press on.

She said to me, you have to quit your job. It was that easy for her, it became spiritual for her, even she felt a calling.

Now, the timing of all of this is a little suspect, because Ballard wouldn't quit his job until at least a year later. To add to the unlikeliness of his story, at around the same time, he was claiming to have this moral dilemma. While working for ICE in a foreign land, he was also publishing books here in the United States. In fact, he published two that year. His first was a May 2012 release. Entitled The Covenant America's Sacred and Immutable Connection to Ancient Israel, It explored the biblical roots of America's founding.

Tim Ballard is with us. And I want to tell you the story of why this book is important to me and why it should be important to you.

Glenn Beck's trailblazing streaming platform, then called GBTV, was just in its infancy. At the time. Glenn had the new author on and explained that Ballard's book helped validate a theory he'd had about the source of America's strength.

George Washington and the founders made a covenant with God. It is the reason why we were founded, why we were protected, and why Israel was established.

Sometime in the fall of 2011, Glenn first heard about a man named Tim Ballard who was working on a book that delved into this very topic.

I hear about somebody who's working on the Covenant, the founding fathers, I hear about this. Separately. We get a phone call, Pat gets a phone call from somebody who knows you.

You being Tim Ballard.

And says Pat, you guys have got to get together with Tim Ballard because you won't believe what he's found. It's exactly the same thing.

Ballard had apparently found evidence that the founding fathers knew that they were tapping into the power of a covenant with God.

This is not your field of expertise. This isn't really even what you were setting out to do when you were going to write a book, right?

That's right.

What was your goal when you started to write this book, or when you started to do the research? what were you doing?

My background is in kind of the foreign policy apparatus I work for the United States Government. I do a lot of work overseas, and I was fascinated by the power for good that the United States is. I work in child exploitation.

Glenn Beck and Tim Ballard had obviously made a connection through their faith and its connection to the founding of America, and Ballard was clearly a natural. In front of the camera, he was a good-looking, blonde-haired, blue-eyed guy in his mid-30s, and perhaps even more noteworthy, he had a knack for storytelling. After his appearance, his book reportedly shot to number one in a few of Amazon's categories.

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Now, it's important to understand that. When Our was first formed, it was formed as a movie-making venture, either movies or television series. And they began trying to market their concept down there in Hollywood at the beginning.

In August 2013, the website operationundergroundrailroad.

About a year ago, we were working on a project together and we were introduced to this guy who was an amazing author. And we instantly snapped him up and made him our historical consultant on the project.

That consultant was Tim Ballard. Darren went on to explain that after working with Ballard on a project, Ballard shared some information with him that he'd apparently been keeping close to his chest.

And after working with him for a little while, he told us what he really did for a living, which, uh, writing was just his mild-mannered day job. What he really was trained to do was to rescue children from the child sex slave tourism industry.

Ballard was reframing himself as a kind of real-life Clark Kent, an author who secretly worked as a slave liberator.

We're not talking about prostitution here.

These are children.

We knew right then and there that whatever we were going to do next.

Was going to involve saving kids.

And this is how we're going to do it.

Tim Ballard had teamed up with these filmmakers to pitch Hollywood on a reality series. One that featured a rogue team of vigilante heroes that saved children from sex slavery. Commando style again Lynn Packer.

The original concept is that the jump team members, that's what they called them, would go into foreign countries and they themselves would rescue the kids. It wouldn't just be acting like that. They were child sex tourists, but they were actually the law enforcement. And so there was an arm of Operation Underground Railroad that acquired weapons, assault weapons and was conducting training for the operatives, who were mostly like army rangers and special forces and such.

We find children that have been kidnapped, used for sexual slaves, and we go get them.

And we take them to a better life. I'm telling you, we are the people that do that.

We can go in there and extract these kids.

The video showed what looked like tactically armed American mercenaries training for an extraction. I've broken up slavery rings.

I've seen what it's done to people.

These children deserve better.

Everywhere.

Waiting with open arms.

To take care of these kids, we can do this.

I want to go to college and be an English teacher.

In the end.

These kids are the heroes. No one's funding this series.

But everyone ought to, so join the abolitionists and be a part of our jump team.

The sizzle reel was well shot and compelling. It featured a Mexican politician who expressed horror over the child slaves being sold right in front of everyone's eyes. It had the alleged child victims pulling at the heart strings. And it looked like it had the potential of being a hit reality series like Cops. But the problem was Hollywood wasn't biting.

Their television series proposal was not being picked up right away.

And that's perhaps because Hollywood could see the liability associated with rogue gun-toting American mercenaries dropping into foreign countries to rescue children.

Obviously, no foreign government's going to let them come down there and act as pure vigilantes. Nobody picked it up, but at least that's what they were attempting.

So Ballard turned to someone else, he turned to the man that helped him sell his first book.

And he said, Glenn, I had an idea, and he said, it's an expensive idea.

Perhaps Ballard viewed Glenn's streaming platform as a TV studio because in 2013, Ballard made the same pitch to Glenn as he did in the Hollywood Sizzle reel. His mercenary jump team would work with local governments to break up sex trafficking rings, put the traffickers behind bars for a long time and save the children from a life of sex slavery. And all while filming it to make a reality TV show that would pay for the operations.

And he said, if you don't raise the money in an ongoing way, it won't work because it's expensive to do well. He told me that he had gone and met with a television network, and the television network said, Well, can you save the children and give us a good show? And they said he was a little taken aback by that, and he said, yes.

Now, while Ballard was making his pitch, Glenn happened to have an attorney friend present at the meeting. When this attorney caught wind of what Ballard was proposing, he advised Glenn not to get involved.

And he said, Glenn, you can't do any of this, you can't be involved in any of this, he said. The legal ramifications. And I said, no, but we wouldn't do it unless the government was involved and everything else, he said. But something could go wrong. And then your blame.

Glenn was apparently deeply moved by Ballard's tale, and frankly, it's not hard to understand why. Here was a guy who'd claimed to be working undercover as a child sex slave liberator, he'd claimed to be a former college professor. He was a successful author, a man of faith, a man whose entire team was of Glenn's faith tradition, and one was an Oscar award winning legend. Ballard had allegedly been saving kids from sex slavery for almost a decade, some as young as five years old. And he knew where more were being held. All he needed was the resources to save them.

I have a letter from an abolitionist, a quaker in the 1700s, who was buying slaves to set them free. And that's what this guy's going to do, he's going to buy them to set them free. And then, because he has connections with all of the law enforcement, he will then make sure those dirt bags are not around to sell more children.

Glenn said Ballard asked him for $5 million.

I said to him, I don't have that kind of money.

But Glenn did have something else a very powerful platform that spoke to a generous, God-fearing audience that could help save these children.

I would like to introduce you to a website.

It was a compelling pitch, and it apparently resonated with Glenn's audience because the web traffic reportedly crashed Our's servers.

So just if you can't get on right now, yeah, just yeah, just dump me off. If you can't get on right now, it's probably getting hit too hard. And, you know, try again later. But don't forget, please don't forget, it's really, really important.

The promotion reportedly raised over a million dollars. It was a smashing success. But stunningly, as the donations were rolling in, Tim Ballard claimed to have cold feet. Apparently he was ready to stop before he even got started.

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My accountant came to me and showed me how many millions of dollars this would amount to, that I was walking away from. It was ridiculous. I want to say $12 million or something, a number I couldn't even fathom. You're walking away from that.

Who knew an ice agent could bring in that kind of moolah? Well, when he brought the dilemma to his wife Catherine, just a few days before he was supposed to quit, Ballard says Catherine didn't flinch.

She said to me, I will not let you jeopardize my salvation by not doing this. And when she said those words, and I knew she meant those words, that changed everything for me. And we jumped into really just an irrational act of service, I might call it.

Less than six months later, Glenn Beck helped Tim Ballard raise money again.

Not long ago, a horrific video of a five-year-old boy being sexually abused in the worst way was discovered by U.

Glenn held up a dog tag necklace he had around his neck.

It reads Man of God, pursue Godliness, faith and love. That necklace meant everything to the child. It represented his only hope. It was given to him by his sister, his last prayer. His older sister gave it to him and said, Wear it and pray that God will rescue us.

This is the version of the dog tag story that we've come to know today.

Glenn Beck is who I would credit. When I left the government, I had no money and I had been on Glenn Beck's show for a different reason. For a book that I wrote that I think 12 people bought, but somehow it ended up on Glenn Beck with Glenn. So I hit him up and I said, Glenn, this is crazy.

This became a bit of a dilemma for us. We respected Glenn Beck. we still do. He helped us break our very first national story back in 2009. He was also the first major media personality to promote Red Pill to America.

Question with boldness even the very existence of God.

If we can't pursue the truth, even if it may hurt us, we could no longer fulfill the promise we made to our audience, so we pressed on. Then, on October 2nd, 2023, Glenn began to address some of the accusations against Tim Ballard. A handful of alleged former women colleagues had accused Ballard of sexual misconduct while he was at our Lim, Packer and Vice News had been breaking stories on the accusations.

If, if, if. If it's true, I can't believe how many of us were duped, but that's if it's true and I don't know how I'm going to judge that.

He said he felt that it would be better if one of his investigative journalists looked at the allegations instead.

I don't know what they've done, but I've passed the women's number on to Leon Wolfe, our news director, and said, Put a journalist on this if you want. And I told him at the time, take it where it leads. I have no dogs in this fight. And I said, if it leads to anything and you're like, I don't know how Glenn's going to feel, don't worry about it. I just want the truth.

The fact that he began to deal with the growing issues around Ballard was promising. So we reached out to his camp and forwarded some of our findings on the dog tag moment and basically stated that. Through our research, we concluded that Tim Ballard either fabricated his famous dog tag story or he lied in a federal court case. Glenn promptly responded to our message, stating Quote.

If your journalistic work is the final word on this, this is the first and most manipulative lie, he told me. I don't know what's true, but I hope your findings are not my intentions. And those of the thousands in my audience who have generously contributed to our were to help save God's children from the scourge of human trafficking. May the Lord heal this mess so that this important work can continue.

That same day, Glenn expanded on his desire to search for the truth about Tim Ballard.

And the reason I feel passionately about this, to find the truth and tell you, is because this one affects me deeply. And there is no way I can be on the air and point a finger and say Justice, where is justice? Where are the people in their own party? where are the people in the news media? You know why they don't report that?

We sensed a feeling of betrayal in Glenn's voice, and it wasn't hard to see why he sold Tim Ballard's cause hard.

The goal is really simple rescue children from hell. You will not believe how big this problem is and nobody wants to talk about it. The Jump team knows where these guys are, they know how to take them down legally and with government authorities.

The promotion, by all accounts, was another major success.

In December 2013, when the first money started rolling in, it was like, Oh my gosh, I actually have to quit my job now. Because we started raising money and there were real operations pending. The intel on the Haiti OP, for example, was already in. We were ready to roll on it.

And that early, our donor money went to another operation in Colombia. Throughout 2014, Ballard and his jump team worked in both of these countries, allegedly searching for child sex slaves to rescue. And in October 2014, they appeared to rack up a big win in Colombia.

Last weekend.

Police broke up.

A major sex trafficking ring in Colombia.

Which has become a destination for tourists looking for sex with boys and girls. The police had help from an American.

Who went undercover to rescue the children?

Right before I got in the boat, we had to walk by this room where the kids were, and they put their hand up and I touched their hand.

Liberating one child.

At a time.

Elaine Quijano.

CBS News New York But like many of Tim Ballard's stories, the CBS segment was riddled with fake news. And this Colombia operation would fully expose how Tim Ballard had been able to put on a show to extract hundreds of millions from well-meaning donors.

Coming up on Red pilled America.

Angel Studios knew about problems with Ballard, an operation underground railroad, and yet decided we're going to roll the dice.

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