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sabrina 1

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26. Imo, all of this should be illegal. The kindest thing that could be said about it is, it is an

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Wed Mar 26, 2014, 04:19 PM

Mar 2014

obscene waste of the American people's money.

The threat to democracy alone should have caused a thorough investigation of all this the minute it started.

We learn each day of more of these war profiteers and the revolving door they pass through into Government positions and back again into the Private Security Contractor world they came from and served so well while in those positions of power. Clapper is another former, and probably future, Booz Allen imployee.

Thanks for a very informative OP, Octafish ....

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