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Christopher A. Wray - Wikipedia

What did Chris Wray, FBI Director then, know, and when did he know it?

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Noel, who has since been sued in Westchester County Supreme Court for alleged assault at her new job as a medical office assistant, also claimed to investigators that EVERYONE at the Manhattan federal lockup FAILED TO DO ROUNDS AND FALSIFIED RECORDS ABOUT IT.

[AG Barr blew it, big time, for Trump]

[I think that this video report stands as a preview, for extensive reports on this topic which will appear later in the New York Times, after the investigative team has completed more of their investigation of material from the Epstein files.]

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Video: How Jeffrey Epstein Used Doctors to Control Women Our investigative reporter David A. Fahrenthold describes how Jeffrey Epstein used a small circle of doctors to control the medical care of and manipulate the young women from overseas who were having...

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HOW JEFFREY EPSTEIN USED DOCTORS TO CONTROL WOMEN

David A. Fahrenthold describes how Jeffrey Epstein used a small circle of doctors to control the medical care of and manipulate the young women from overseas who were having sex with him.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

The FBI highlighted the eerie internet search in its 66-page forensic examination of the Bureau of Prisons desktop computers of Noel and Thomas.

It was the only search highlighted.

One guard...made a $5,000 cash deposit 10 days before the predator’s jail-cell suicide,

During that shift, Noel, 37, shopped for furniture online and snoozed on the job instead of making the mandated checks on Epstein every 30 minutes, while the other guard perused motorcycles, prosecutors said.

READ THE NEW YORK POST ARTICLE

Tova Noel was one of the two Metropolitan Correctional Center workers accused of falsifying records to say they checked on Epstein throughout the night before his Aug. 10, 2019, suicide.

The guards were fired but criminal charges against both were later dropped.

Look at it this way: it's the closest thing Trump has to his own uniform. He never has worn the uniform of the United States.

Neither have members of his family.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:

Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down

Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace

Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs

Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

The missile strike was emblematic of the muddled reality of the war’s first week: a withering air campaign by American and Israeli forces against an overwhelmed enemy, but no idea of what victory might look like.

Trump has bounced between wildly divergent explanations for what he hopes to achieve.

The reckoning, it turned out, was more complicated.

The Israeli strike also killed another group of Iranian officials who had been meeting in a different part of the compound. Among them were people the Trump regime had identified as more willing to negotiate than their bosses.

The Israeli missiles that slammed into a government compound in central Tehran was by any military standard a successful opening strike by the U.S. and Israel.

The blasts killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as a cadre of other senior military and intelligence officials.

MICHAEL DE ADDER

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IN THE FIRST WEEK OF THE REPUBLICAN WAR AGAINST IRAN, A PUNISHING BOMBING CAMPAIGN, BUT NO COHERENT ENDGAME

The U.S. and Israel have pounded Iran’s leadership and undercut military capabilities, but Trump has offered wildly different explanations for its purpose.

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Rachel Maddow on Pam Bondi: Five things to know about Trump's (second) pick for attorney general YouTube video by MS NOW

[Speaking of Lewandowski and women, the PUBLIC SERVANT ANNOUNCEMENT produced by Rachel Maddow last year, titled "Five Things to Know about Pam Bondi", begins with an incident involving Lewandowski: www.youtube.com/watch?v=igOC...

Like Heathcliff, Lewandowski is known as a menacing presence who has been accused of having some dark physical exchanges with women. (Now there’s a dog Noem won’t put down.)

(Noem and Lewandowski, who are both married with children, have attempted to deny the affair, reported by DHS staff.)

Imprisoned in her marriage, the film Cathy gleams in elaborate gowns and necklaces.

But Noem topped that. When she went to see migrants in prison in El Salvador, she sported a baseball cap with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement logo — and a gold ROLEX Cosmograph Daytona that’s worth $50,000.

In MAGA’s version, the far less alluring but equally intertwined Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski have been cavorting over the swamp, scandalizing the capital as they’ve spread their cruelty far and wide. (Lewandowski didn’t try to kill a dog like Heathcliff did. That’s Noem’s department.)

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"WUTHERING HEIGHTS", MAGA STYLE -- A SALACIOUS TALE OF THE TRUMP REGIME

by Maureen Dowd

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A president’s first task is to make us safer.

Instead, it seems to me that Trump has catapulted us into an unnecessary conflict, consuming American and Iranian lives alike, costing billions of dollars ($5 billion in the first THREE days) and damaging the economy — while propelling us into peril.

I also don’t know to what degree Netanyahu pushed Trump into this war.

But what I do believe is that in Trump and Netanyahu we are seeing TACTICAL BRILLIANCE HARNESSED TO STRATEGIC CONFUSION, with no clear goals or offramp.

Trump has terrible domestic problems, during an election year, and look.

I have no evidence that Trump started this war to distract us from the Epstein files or other political troubles.

But in 2012 Trump did tweet, “Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin — watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran.”

Trump said the same thing during other years.

Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Trump and Netanyahu, the architects of this war, both seem afflicted by the arrogance of power.

[John Oliver told us, with humor and profanity, that Netanyahu has said he can get anything he wants from Trump, during an episode of "Last Week Tonight" four months ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Bw...

I covered both wars and had friends killed and injured, and fear Trump’s new war — in the nation located between Iraq and Afghanistan — will end in mangled bodies and shattered hopes.

[ITS EXPENSE, as the Republican war drags on, may imperil our economy, warp our politics, and beggar our nation.]

In Iraq, our arrogance of power led us to start a war...costing hundreds of thousands of lives (mostly those of Iraqis) and perhaps $3 trillion — AND ultimately BENEFITED IRAN.

In Afghanistan, we wasted lives and some $3.4 trillion over two decades to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.

Even if our munitions of THAADs, Patriots and Tomahawks are adequate, it may take years to restore supply levels for the next crisis.

Senator Fulbright opposed to the Vietnam War by denouncing “the arrogance of power.”

“Power confuses itself with virtue and tends to take itself for omnipotence.”

DEPLETION OF MUNITIONS FOR THIS UNNECESSARY WAR IS A REAL PROBLEM. Linda Bilmes, a Harvard expert on the cost of wars, told me that the United States used up more than 20 percent of its entire worldwide stockpile of THAAD interceptors last summer defending Israel during the 12-day war with Iran.

We need some humility. It is possible that the regime will collapse and that a democratic Iran will emerge. Occasionally, optimists are right, even in the Middle East.

The outcome may depend on whether Iran runs out of missiles and drones first, or we exhaust our supply of interceptors first.

But we killed Iran’s supreme leader!

True. But while Americans saw the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a way to weaken his regime, there’s some reason to think that Khamenei welcomed his own martyrdom as a way to strengthen it.

The security apparatus...now will play a MORE significant role.