I'm seeing Nick as an ANSWER agent. You would try to "sheep dip" him as a staunch Republican wherever possible. You would register him to vote Republican, etc. The easy superficial Republican bona fides, which will satisfy the leftist morons in our media.
Dig deeper, examine Prometheus. Stack up all the bizarre coincidences from the Mousawi password, to the Iraqi uncle in Mosul email help, the Farsi prayer book.....
The "my son was pro-Bush and pro-war" is just Mike Sr. sticking to their cover story.
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