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The Operation Against General Flynn Started Long Before The Election
If there is ever a proper inquiry into the operation, we’ll find that the CIA and FBI placed trusted informers inside Flynn’s offices at DIA. It was clearly very important to them, as we see when Comey overrode his own officers to push the claim that Flynn had misled them.
Still earlier, the intelligence community invented a romantic relationship between Flynn and Russian historian Svetlana Lokhova. This was one of the false tales that came to us courtesy of British intelligence, most famously the Steele Dossier, and undoubtedly involved the CIA.
When Flynn became Trump’s favorite national security adviser, it became even more urgent for the Dark State to take him out. Having already organized the operation even before Trump became the Republican nominee, it was a relatively simple task to expand it
….. and as we know the FBI trapped him, as they had with Scooter Libby and others
Full credit goes to Byron York for spotting the confirmation of the long-standing anti-Flynn operation, and for asking what it was all about. I believe I have written about the operation more than half a dozen times, but I never expected it to be documented in Mueller’s report.
I also hope that President Trump will soon do the right thing, and pardon General Flynn. The government conjured a phony case against him. Now it’s time to turn him loose. Finally.
https://twitter.com/usacsmret/status/1121836751251804160
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FBI spy Stefan Halper's $240,000 Pentagon study disavowed by high-profile experts
Stefan Halper, the college professor turned FBI spy on the Trump campaign, was paid $244,000 by the Pentagon to write a Russia-China study in 2015 and 2016.
Mr. Halper boasted a heady list of foreign policy specialists. On Pages 7 and 8 of the 300-plus-page analysis are the names of 43 “advisors and consultants” such as former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden and David Shambaugh, a China scholar at George Washington University.
But a spot check by The Washington Times revealed that neither man contributed to nor had heard of the study, titled “The Russia-China Relationship: The Impact on the United States’ Security Interests.”
“No memory of project or person,” Mr. Hayden told The Times.
Mr. Shambaugh: “No, I was not an adviser to his study.”
Listing such esteemed individuals would convey a well-connected Pentagon contractor able to network with Washington’s establishment.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/1/stefan-halpers-russia-china-pentagon-study-lists-c/
Stefan Halper has a long pedigree with intelligence services. His father in law, Ray Cline, was #2 guy at CIA during the sixties
https://twitter.com/donaldrusso994/status/1121681349780201473
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Vaccine schedule should be more dynamic and localized
A former three-time White House drug policy adviser is warning against the rush to the legalize marijuana, saying the nationwide push is being primarily driven by the cannabis industry and a small group of billionaires.
“The drive to legalize is being driven by a massive industry with billionaire-backers and they need high levels of THC [tetrahydrocannabinol] to make money,” Kevin Sabet said in an interview that aired Friday.
“Let’s be honest about the push to legalize — it’s not about social justice, it’s not about medicine, it’s not about granny with cancer, it is about a small number of people who want to get very rich," he added.
Sabet previously served as a White House adviser for the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) under the Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama administrations. He’s now the president and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), a nonprofit organization he founded with former Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) and political commentator David Frum.
He warned that today’s marijuana has “all kinds of issues,” saying that the new marijuana is being genetically bred to have “astronomical levels of THC."
“Edibles — these candies, cookies — these are very, very different than the old 6 percent THC,” Sabet said. “We’re talking in some cases 99.9 percent purity, which would have been totally unheard of 10 years ago.”
He added that the rise of THC levels could have a potential impact on the mental health, citing a recent study conducted by SAM.
“We’re seeing an increase in mental issues, specifically psychosis, schizophrenia — a direct link maybe even a casualty, which is something that scientists hesitate to even use that word for anything, but we’re starting to use it for marijuana,” Sabet told Hill.TV.
Advocacy groups such as the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) say they're working to assure that consumers have access to high quality marijuana that is "safe, convenient and affordable."
"Marijuana is far less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco," NORML says on its website. "Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking. By comparison, marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause death by overdose."
Sabet’s comments come amid unprecedented levels of public support for marijuana legalization.
More than 60 percent of Americans say the use of recreational marijuana should be legalized, according to a 2018 study by the Pew Research Center.
The drug has already been legalized in 11 states and the District of Columbia, and in February, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced a new bill that would make the drug legal on federal level. Several of his fellow 2020 White House contenders, including Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), have co-sponsored the legislation.
Booker said he hopes the marijuana bill will help reverse decades of unjust policies and mass incarceration due to marijuana-related offenses.
“The Marijuana Justice Act seeks to reverse decades of this unfair, unjust, and failed policy by removing marijuana from the list of controlled substances and making it legal at the federal level,” he said at the time.
—Tess Bonn
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1121843472099627009
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/440828-ex-drug-policy-advisor-marijuana-legalization-push-is-about-a-small-number-of
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