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How Does the White House Counter "Dissent" At Town Halls Meeting? Plants!
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<blockquote data-quote="TechGrrl" data-source="post: 586089" data-attributes="member: 4932"><p>Oops....almost forgot Blackwater:</p><p><strong><span style="color: Blue"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: Blue"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1917759,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1917759,00.html</a></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: Blue"></span></strong> </p><p>I particularly liked this paragraph:<p style="margin-left: 20px"> <strong><span style="color: Sienna">"I suspect that if the agreements are ever really looked into — rather than a formal contract, the CIA reportedly brokered individual deals with top company brass — we will find out the Blackwater's assassination work was more about bilking the U.S. taxpayer than it was killing bin Laden or other al Qaeda leaders. More than a few senior CIA officers retired from the CIA and went to work at Blackwater, the controversial private security shop now known as Xe Services. Not only did they presumably take along their CIA Rolodexes with them out the door, but many probably didn't choose to leave until they had a lucrative new contract lined up. But more to the point Blackwater stood no better chance of placing operatives in Pakistan's tribal areas, where the al Qaeda leadership was hiding in 2004, than did the CIA or the U.S. military."</span></strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong><span style="color: Sienna"></span></strong></p><p>Leeches, sucking our blood, wrapped in the flag and the cross....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechGrrl, post: 586089, member: 4932"] Oops....almost forgot Blackwater: [B][COLOR=Blue] [URL]http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1917759,00.html[/URL] [/COLOR][/B] I particularly liked this paragraph:[INDENT] [B][COLOR=Sienna]"I suspect that if the agreements are ever really looked into — rather than a formal contract, the CIA reportedly brokered individual deals with top company brass — we will find out the Blackwater's assassination work was more about bilking the U.S. taxpayer than it was killing bin Laden or other al Qaeda leaders. More than a few senior CIA officers retired from the CIA and went to work at Blackwater, the controversial private security shop now known as Xe Services. Not only did they presumably take along their CIA Rolodexes with them out the door, but many probably didn't choose to leave until they had a lucrative new contract lined up. But more to the point Blackwater stood no better chance of placing operatives in Pakistan's tribal areas, where the al Qaeda leadership was hiding in 2004, than did the CIA or the U.S. military." [/COLOR][/B][/INDENT]Leeches, sucking our blood, wrapped in the flag and the cross.... [/QUOTE]
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