Dennis Montgomery

Dennis Montgomery is a perennial American con-artist who has popped up in a variety of InfoWars adjacent contexts over the last 20 years.

Montgomery gained prominence after selling a number of dubious programs to the US government in the early 2000s. Montgomery claimed his software could decode hidden "barcodes" from Al Qaeda in Al Jazeera TV broadcasts. Phony alerts based on Montgomery's programs caused flight groundings, evacuations, and fluctuations in the US "Terror Level" metric.

Once the government figured out they were being scammed and dropped their $30M dollar contract with his company eTreppid, Montgomery began to involve himself in a series of increasingly bizarre and desperate scams. Montgomery continues to derive a lot of credibility from this contract, and has at various times claimed he continues to do classified work for the federal government, although there is no evidence of work with the government post the eTreppid scam.

In 2006, Montgomery falsely claimed to have evidence that a member of Congress was taking bribes (He claimed to have obtained this evidence during his work on eTreppid). That member countered that Montgomery had fabricated evidence. The allegations were not substantiated after investigation by the DOJ and FBI.

Starting sometime around 2014, Montgomery became associated with Joe Arpaio. Montgomery falsely claimed that he had evidence that could prove that the ongoing racial profiling lawsuit against Arpaio was a politically motivated conspiracy by the Judge and Department of Justice (He claimed to have obtained this information during his work with the CIA). Montgomery and Arpaio then did some very illegal things to try and "prove" that the judge and or the judge's wife was dirty. Arpaio later admitted that Montgomery's claims were "junk". The whole incident is also related to how Montgomery first came up on the show, listen to 25: Dennis Montgomery Investigation for more details.

During the Trump years, Montgomery claimed to have evidence (obtained during his supposed work with the CIA) that Donald Trump and Jerome Corsi were under illegal surveillance by the federal government. By this point you may be able to guess that these claims were not substantiated on further investigation.

After the 2020 US presidential election, Montgomery was the source of a prominent conspiracy theory (Hammer and Scorecard), and was closely associated with Mike Lindell. Montgomery's story sometimes varied in its specifics, but the core claims remained the same: Montgomery claimed that during his work with the CIA, he had built a supercomputer named "Hammer" and written surveillance software named "Scorecard". He further falsely claimed that elements of the Deep State had hijacked the system and were using it to switch votes. Montgomery, of course, claimed to have evidence of all this that he had obtained during his work with the feds.

Despite the laughable nature of a lot of these tales, variants of Hammer and Scorecard spread rapidly within the far right. Prominent election deniers with connections to the White House, like Sidney Powell, parroted the theories in prominent interviews on FOX News and other national forums, lending them additional credibility.

• Article about Montgomery's fraudulent accusations and manufactured emails against Jim Gibbons
• Article about Montgomery's fraudulent anti-terrorism software that claimed to be able to decode secret messages on Al Jazeera
• Article describing how Joe Arpaio testified in court that Dennis Montgomery is a "compete, total fraud" (This article also lays out the cause for my contention that the "bank fraud" investigation was cover for an investigation of a Federal Judge, as well as the citing of possessing a leaked database of 150,000 Maricopa County residents)
• The Judge's decision regarding Dennis Montgomery's dismissed defamation lawsuit against James Risen

Relevant Episodes by Release Date

No.	Title	Coverage start date	Coverage end date	Air date	Episode type
25	25: Dennis Montgomery Investigation	March 20, 2017	March 24, 2017	March 28, 2017	Deep Dive, Present Day
26	26: March 30 (Special Report)	March 30, 2017	March 30, 2017	April 3, 2017	Special Edition
28	28: How Not To Cover Alex Jones			April 10, 2017	Deep Dive
60	60: Mars Colonies			July 3, 2017	Project Camelot, Wacky Wednesday
61	61: July 5, 2017	July 5, 2017	July 5, 2017	July 6, 2017	Present Day
63	63: July 12, 2017	July 12, 2017	July 12, 2017	July 13, 2017	Present Day
65	65: September 2-4, 2015	September 2, 2015	September 4, 2015	July 19, 2017	2015 Investigation
78	78: October 12-15, 2015	October 12, 2015	October 15, 2015	August 30, 2017	2015 Investigation
S005	The Halloween Story			September 27, 2017	Deep Dive
98	98: May 2-3, 2012	May 2, 2012	May 3, 2012	October 30, 2017	Time Travel
222	222: March 15-19, 2009	March 15, 2009	March 19, 2009	October 29, 2018	Tea Party Investigation
233	233: November 28, 2018	November 28, 2018	November 28, 2018	November 30, 2018	Present Day
290	290: April 25-26, 2019	April 25, 2019	April 26, 2019	April 29, 2019	Present Day
370	370: November 14-15, 2019	November 14, 2019	November 15, 2019	November 18, 2019	Present Day
401	401: Formulaic Objections Part 3			February 21, 2020	Formulaic Objections
470	470: ShadowGate			August 17, 2020	Documentary
501	501: November 7-8, 2020	November 7, 2020	November 8, 2020	November 11, 2020	Present Day
502	502: Dan's Cara-Vanity Project Part 1	November 9, 2020	November 11, 2020	November 13, 2020	Present Day
S011	Repost: Episode #25	March 20, 2017	March 24, 2017	August 13, 2021	Deep Dive, Present Day
586	586: August 11-12, 2021	August 11, 2021	August 12, 2021	August 16, 2021	Present Day
589	589: August 18-20, 2021	August 18, 2021	August 20, 2021	August 23, 2021	Present Day
726	726: September 15-16, 2022	September 15, 2022	September 16, 2022	September 19, 2022	Present Day
772	772: December 18-19, 2003	December 18, 2003	December 19, 2003	February 1, 2023	2003 Investigation
774	774: December 22, 2003	December 22, 2003	December 22, 2003	February 6, 2023	2003 Investigation