Posted on 09/03/2013 3:33:01 PM PDT by maggief
Scandal! Caught playing iPhone game at 3+ hour Senate hearing - worst of all I lost!
He thinks its funny that we’re paying him to play poker.
Surprised he’s not playing Angry Birds. He is a natural.
McCain hates us. The feeling is mutual.
A couple of other threads if anyone is interested.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3062130/posts?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3062144/posts?
No John, we lost.
I supose it’s a step up from being asleep. Maybe not.
McCain’s game.
Saudis Offer Russia OPEC Membership, Terror Immunity for Olympics
August 27, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield
It was Prince Bandar’s intelligence agency that first alerted Western allies to the alleged use of sarin gas by the Syrian regime in February.
While a trip earlier this month to the Kremlin to try to cajole President Vladimir Putin into withdrawing his support for President Assad reportedly failed, Prince Bandar automatically has greater leverage in Western capitals, not least because of friendships forged during his time in Washington. His most recent travels, rarely advertised, have taken him to both London and Paris for discussions with senior officials.
As ambassador, Prince Bandar left an imprint that still has not quite faded. His voice was one of the loudest urging the United States to invade Iraq in 2003. In the 1980s, Prince Bandar became mired in the Iran-Contra scandal in Nicaragua.
Months of applying pressure on the White House and Congress over Syria have slowly born fruit. The CIA is believed to have been working with Prince Bandar directly since last year in training rebels at base in Jordan close to the Syrian border.
The Saudis are “indispensable partners on Syria” and have considerable influence on American thinking, a senior US official told The Wall Street Journal yesterday. He added: “No one wants to do anything alone”.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323423804579024452583045962.html
The Saudi ambassador, Mr. Jubeir, has long been courting members of Congress who could pressure the administration to get more involved in Syria. He found early support from Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
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Mr. Petraeus in mid-2012 won White House approval to provide intelligence and limited training to Syrian rebels at the base, including in the use of arms provided by others. Saudi and Jordanian agents began vetting the fighters to be trained, said Arab diplomats and a former U.S. military official.
Prince Bandar has largely stayed out of Washington but held meetings with U.S. officials in the region. One was in September 2012. Sens. McCain and Graham, who were in Istanbul, met him in an opulent hotel suite on the banks of the Bosporus.
Mr. McCain said he made the case to Prince Bandar that the rebels weren’t getting the kinds of weapons they needed, and the prince, in turn, described the kingdom’s plans. The senator said that in succeeding months he saw “a dramatic increase in Saudi involvement, hands-on, by Bandar.”
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That winter, the Saudis also started trying to convince Western governments that Mr. Assad had crossed what President Barack Obama a year ago called a “red line”: the use of chemical weapons. Arab diplomats say Saudi agents flew an injured Syrian to Britain, where tests showed sarin gas exposure. Prince Bandar’s spy service, which concluded in February that Mr. Assad was using chemical weapons, relayed evidence to the U.S., which reached a similar conclusion four months later. The Assad regime denies using such weapons.
After Mr. Petraeus’s November resignation over an affair, his job was handled by his deputy, Michael Morell, who privately voiced skepticism the agency could make sure any arms supplied by the U.S. wouldn’t end up with hard-line Islamists, said congressional officials.
Ultimately, the new CIA chief was John Brennan, whose closest Saudi confidant when he was White House counterterrorism adviser was also focused on the risk of inadvertently strengthening al Qaeda. Since moving to the CIA, Mr. Brennan has been in periodic contact by phone with Prince Bandar, officials said.
I will not forgot how nasty MCain was to the failies of POWs. It is still on YouTube.
I thought McCain would have been virtually cutting up paper dolls (as all lunatics do for real in the loony bins).
I saw it, thanks.
what is that photo- did McCain actually do that at some debate or something???
No, America lost.
This was during todays emergency 3.5 hour hearing in the Senate with Kerry and Senate Armed Services committee. The a-hole already knows whose tune he dances too— warmongering Saudis have him on a string. And he plays poker on his phone===isn’t he a big man. A complete utter loser, and admiral’s son, a jonah on shipboard, who was such a hero he landed in Hanoi Hilton Yes he was tortured, and yes they got what they wanted out him— stockholm syndrome for life.
He is a liar, pure and simple. And it did not begin with the Keating 5 and Lincoln Savings and Loan— but he was a proven crook then.
He was just playing “War With Friends” no harm done right Juan
I wonder if he was playing for real cash (which is a “no-no” in our current police state) or just for fun. Does anyone recognize the app he is using? I know a few poker sites have mobile apps but I don’t use them.
I thought he couldn’t do this crap because of his disability from being a hero and all. You mean he freaking lied to us?
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