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2019-11-03 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Eric Ciaramella: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Posted by Skidmark 2019-11-03 04:58|| 2019-11-03 04:58|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Ciaramella has worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for several years and was assigned to the White House during the end of the Obama administration.

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-03 05:07|| 2019-11-03 05:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Das PajamaBund -- von den PajamaKinder

Posted by Lex 2019-11-03 05:14|| 2019-11-03 05:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Please file under items we'll likely never learn much about or see:

a. Identity of Ciaramella's case officer (CA) or handler.
b. Copies or recordings of Ciarmaella's contact reports.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-03 05:40|| 2019-11-03 05:40|| Front Page Top

#5 At what point does an institution become more of a threat to the republic than any foreign threat? Once its been compromised, it can never be reformed only dissolved and start anew.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-03 07:01|| 2019-11-03 07:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Ref #5: At what point does an institution become more of a threat to the republic than any foreign threat? Once its been compromised, it can never be reformed only dissolved and start anew.

Excellent question. The frightening thing is we're only learning what is released or we stumble across in open source reporting.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-03 08:01|| 2019-11-03 08:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Is it true that some CIA officials are starting to lawyer up ?

Posted by Clyde Dribble8052 2019-11-03 09:48|| 2019-11-03 09:48|| Front Page Top

#8 My crude understanding is that the function of the CIA is to collect information, analyze it, and report to the President. Clearly no President should take what the CIA reports at face value; but in Trump's particular case he would be justified in assuming that whatever the CIA reports is disinformation intended to support the ongoing coup. National politics aside, that's a potentially catastrophic situation. If the CIA reports that the mullahs are days away from launching, how should Trump react to the report? We might as well offer the Chinese or the Russians input into the President's Daily Briefing.

#7, I have no idea, but just walking down the street in DC requires advice of counsel. What a snakepit.

Posted by Matt 2019-11-03 11:07|| 2019-11-03 11:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan during his long and brilliant career repeatedly asked
why this nation needs the CIA,
...what if anything it gets for the billions we piss away on the CIA, and
...whether we would not be better off shutting down the CIA.

W e have the answer now. Shut it down. Save the Republic.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-03 11:09|| 2019-11-03 11:09|| Front Page Top

#10 whatever the CIA reports is disinformation intended to support the ongoing coup

Bingo. What was it John McLaughlin said yesterday? "Thank for the Deep State"?

These nefarious clowns aren't even trying to conceal the coup strategy any more.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-03 11:12|| 2019-11-03 11:12|| Front Page Top

#11 AKA Charlie as discussed in text messages between Stzrok and Page.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-03 11:12|| 2019-11-03 11:12|| Front Page Top

#12 * "Thank God for the Deep State"
Did John McLaughlin actually say that?
Their contempt for us and our country is boundless.

F--- these morons.

Don't drain the swamp; nuke it.
Shut down the CIA.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-03 11:14|| 2019-11-03 11:14|| Front Page Top

#13 If the CIA reports that the mullahs are days away from launching

You'll only know that by when multiple Virginia families and some in Chicago book charter flights out the US, at the same time and are seen racing to the hangars.

Jokes aside - thankfully, there are still loyal men and women out there content to protect what must be protected, not just remfs waiting for a pat on the head from Washington pashas.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-03 11:26|| 2019-11-03 11:26|| Front Page Top

#14 If the Orange Man can achieve a second term, he should immediately begin the task of discretely and incrementally de-funding the 'secret' budget(s) of these people. Their branch affiliations in Foggy Bottom should suffer a similar downsizing or elimination.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-03 12:30|| 2019-11-03 12:30|| Front Page Top

#15 Dissolve the agencies. Fire EVERYONE. Worthy people can get hired by the new single agency: The OSS. Don't have a massive office in DC, spread it out around the country.

Posted by Silentbrick 2019-11-03 13:43|| 2019-11-03 13:43|| Front Page Top

#16 If the Orange Man can achieve a second term, he should immediately begin the task of discretely and incrementally de-funding the 'secret' budget(s) of these people.

We could probably repay the federal debt then.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-03 14:42|| 2019-11-03 14:42|| Front Page Top