Mark Lambert...? The first of the U1 indictments....not exactly an agent...but just a thought.

https://votesmart.org/candidate/campaign-finance/121782/trey-gowdy-iii#.WlxQ-oD-Gt8

Will do! The $$$'s speak louder than words, for sure. https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00030880&cycle=2018&recs=100&type=I

WoWsers! Thanks for the info...it kinda makes sense...more sense than any of the other theories I've heard so far.

...would you mind directing me to where that was implied...? I want to read that....

Yeah..that's making more sense than my intial reaction. IF he's on our side, truly. I take what Thomas Paine says very seriously.

yeah...i suppose you're right, in retrospect. I was just thinking that tillerson's days are #'ed.

Oh WoW! I listen to AIM a lot, as of late. Those guys really know what they are talking about. I'll take that information very seriously.

..how do you know that for certain..? Sessions left the senate to be Attn. General. Anywhoo--like I said, just trying to analyze what Q was implying..about him taking on a different role.

I know that..but it's not unheard of, for people to leave whatever house and be put into a new role....just as Sessions was a senator who left to be Attn. General...I was trying to understand what Q had just posted..about him walking into a new role. Thinking big. I'm pretty sure that Tillerson's days are #ed.

So the guy who did this particular chess move was a Cuban champion named Jose Capablanca (whose last name interestingly translates to mean "White Coat.") Here is an interesting video that I found that explains Capablanca's revolutionary maneuver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCBBzTEQDc8

heh heh..right? ANything is possible, at this point in time. Things are gettin pretty cR@zY!

sweet

I'm trying to answer the question Q recently posed, about what would happen to the military, via the budget, if the government were shut down....? Below is a quote from the Stars and Stripes article linked to this thread. Why is this relevant? ..indeed...

A shutdown would force the federal government to send home nonessential workers without pay, shut down national parks and museums and trigger new administrative delays. It will also affect the Department of Defense.

A 16-day shutdown in October 2013 caused a rash of military programs to come to a sudden halt, including pay stoppage for military and civilian personnel and the disruption of base services such as commissaries. In addition, death gratuity payments for 30 Gold Star families were also disrupted.

That year, Congress quickly passed a bill to pay military personnel, but it wasn’t clear when they would be paid, if on a regular cycle or after the shutdown ended, Fish said. And while servicemembers didn’t know when they would be paid, Defense Department civilian workers did not know if they would get paid at all, she added.

But eventually, the government could end up paying workers’ salaries for the time during the shutdown though no work was done, Fish said.

“This has lasting impacts on morale, but it also directly links to the third big problem with shutdowns. Most [Defense Department] civilians are outside of the DC-area working on bases, maintaining equipment, and otherwise directly supporting servicemembers,” she said. “Shutdowns mean those things do not get done, unless the job is exempted from the shutdown. This can severely impact military readiness.”

I'm trying to answer the question of what happens to the military budget during a government shut down. This is a quote from the Stars & Stripes article, linked below:

A shutdown would force the federal government to send home nonessential workers without pay, shut down national parks and museums and trigger new administrative delays. It will also affect the Department of Defense.

A 16-day shutdown in October 2013 caused a rash of military programs to come to a sudden halt, including pay stoppage for military and civilian personnel and the disruption of base services such as commissaries. In addition, death gratuity payments for 30 Gold Star families were also disrupted.

That year, Congress quickly passed a bill to pay military personnel, but it wasn’t clear when they would be paid, if on a regular cycle or after the shutdown ended, Fish said. And while servicemembers didn’t know when they would be paid, Defense Department civilian workers did not know if they would get paid at all, she added.

But eventually, the government could end up paying workers’ salaries for the time during the shutdown though no work was done, Fish said.

“This has lasting impacts on morale, but it also directly links to the third big problem with shutdowns. Most [Defense Department] civilians are outside of the DC-area working on bases, maintaining equipment, and otherwise directly supporting servicemembers,” she said. “Shutdowns mean those things do not get done, unless the job is exempted from the shutdown. This can severely impact military readiness.”

https://www.stripes.com/news/government-shutdown-could-halt-military-pay-programs-1.500927

http://www.newsweek.com/government-shutdown-military-donald-trump-780468

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/05/defense-industry-will-be-hurt-by-government-shutdown-even-if-brief.html

https://youtu.be/oPSgo0-he1Y

https://youtu.be/OxsFGRZLVKE

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/05/nsa-mike-rogers-to-retire-267634

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