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AmericanCardigan's avatar

Slippery slope. What if they run away period? Transgender care or not?

As you’ve often reminded us Mark, Purim’s international law degree at work all these years to Russia’s advantage.

So much wasted and lost due to intel communities arrogance. Patriot act benevolence huge.

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Tamsin's avatar

Why did WTC 7 fall down too?

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

"It takes a village to raise a child" was just a slogan meant to disguise this sort of woke ideology. The focus on grooming and indoctrination of our children was really the intent and the village was simply the Democrat plantation for enslaved people. I think in WWII they were called ghetto's.

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Stephen McIntyre's avatar

Rossini turned up years later as one of McGonigal's partners in Albania.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Partner? Colleague? Co-worker? Subordinate?

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Stephen McIntyre's avatar

a partner of some sort. As I recall, they were both shareholders in an Albanian company that McGonigal and associates set up.

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Stephen McIntyre's avatar

BTW what a tangled web in story that you cited.

It's long seemed crazy to me that FBI spent the first six months of 2001 focusing on something called "Saudi Hezbollah" rather than the obvious Al Qaeda as the supposed protagonist of the Khobar Towers bombing. Indictment of which was in June 2001. The blaming of Saudi Hezbollah for Khobar Towers is key evidence for assertions that "Iran was leading state sponsor of terror". The attribution of Khobar Towers to "Saudi Hezbollah" was first (or among the first) joint ventures of Mueller and Comey. FBI Washington Field Office had been skeptical of Saudi Hezbollah (evidence of which was primarily obtained by Saudi torture). Mueller became Acting AG or acting Deputy AG in early days of Bush admin and in that capacity re-assigned file from WFO to EDVA where Comey was located. Within 6 months, Comey delivered the indictment of Saudi Hezbollah. One can scarcely help wondering whether FBI might have done better in anticipating 9/11 if they had spent some of the energy and time used for "Saudi Hezbollah" on investigating the more obvious Khobar perpetrator, Al Qaeda.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Well, I guess that was the Saudi effort to pin the blame on Iran and their own Shiite minority in the Eastern provinces. The idea of trusting Saudi intel seems terribly naive.

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Stephen McIntyre's avatar

the episode ought to be a dig-here. The outgoing Clinton admin had apparently been unconvinced by efforts to blame Shias. I also suspect that Comey 's manipulation of system in early 2017 re Russiagate was influenced by and maybe even modeled after how Mueller finessed the Khobar re-assignment as Acting DAG in 2001. Comey realized that if he could recuse Sessions, the Acting DAG would be in charge. He learned the power of an Acting DAG from Mueller himself.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

No question about that. There was definitely a DoJ cabal and Mueller was a mentor.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Interesting. I needed to be jogged about McGonical's dealings.

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Bob C.'s avatar

Wow!!

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