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Octafish

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11. The info goes to the likes of Erik Prince, not to see what we need...

Reply to Rex (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 01:34 AM

Jul 2013

...but to know where to turn a buck or a screw.

If they discover an inside trader tip, or who's wife is having an affair with what CIA director, who'd ever know?

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