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How a Lone Diplomat Compromised the Hunt for Bin Laden
NY Sun ^ | March 28, 2005 | RICHARD MINITER

Posted on 03/28/2005 3:46:19 AM PST by Straight Vermonter

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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Are we (the State dept) deliberately trying to irritate and alienate the Arab/Muslim world with our politically-corrupt appointments to that region?

Yes.

41 posted on 03/28/2005 4:52:50 AM PST by Jim Noble
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To: Straight Vermonter

Why in the world is she still working in the state dept.? Incompetence should not be sustained.


42 posted on 03/28/2005 4:52:57 AM PST by EmilyGeiger
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To: Straight Vermonter

Sounds like she is just plumb dumb.


43 posted on 03/28/2005 4:54:56 AM PST by SMARTY
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To: SMARTY

What's so dumb about a plumb. They always work for me.


44 posted on 03/28/2005 5:01:39 AM PST by raybbr
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To: dennisw

I did a lot searching too. I could not come with any mention of a spouse or a partner. Strange they would see fit to put her into the Ambassadorship of Pakistan.


45 posted on 03/28/2005 5:03:05 AM PST by raybbr
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To: ken5050

Ken, your brief sounds solid to me. Anything absorbed by the carter admin is not fit for the esteemed position of a shoe-shine-trusted-employee. NSNR


46 posted on 03/28/2005 5:30:33 AM PST by No Surrender No Retreat
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To: REPANDPROUDOFIT

A carter admin political employee doing what they know best, F'up things for America.NSNR


47 posted on 03/28/2005 5:32:17 AM PST by No Surrender No Retreat
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To: Coop
Just damn!
48 posted on 03/28/2005 5:33:43 AM PST by Boot Hill ("...and Josuha went unto him and said: art thou for us, or for our adversaries?")
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To: raybbr

I think I'm no longer interested in my breakfast.


49 posted on 03/28/2005 5:35:46 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: PJ-Comix
" What's her DUmmie screen name?"

Ima Fatdyke.

50 posted on 03/28/2005 5:36:43 AM PST by MAWG (Diversity is where everyone looks different but thinks the same way.)
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To: dennisw

Didn't anyone tell her not to wear horizontal stripes???


51 posted on 03/28/2005 5:37:23 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: raybbr
I did a lot searching too. I could not come with any mention of a spouse or a partner. 

Me neither. My bet is same as yours. She's a Janet Reno/Donna Shalala type of lesbian or sexually ambiguous

Strange they would see fit to put her into the Ambassadorship of Pakistan.

Probably done to appease the gay/lesbian/ultra leftist faction in the State Department. Colin Powell got to make some good appointments but he had to make bad ones also to appease the gays/commies there.

As far as I'm concerned it's idiocy and insulting to send any woman to be an ambassador to a Muslim nation. State should have kept re-assigning her to Africa

 

52 posted on 03/28/2005 5:48:39 AM PST by dennisw ("What is Man that thou art mindful of him")
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To: sitetest

Go outside. Get some fresh air. Chop some wood. Come back inside and everything will look "better".


53 posted on 03/28/2005 5:57:17 AM PST by raybbr
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To: Straight Vermonter; nuconvert; Coop; Boot Hill; Cap Huff; Saberwielder
Reality is stranger than fiction. If this not is IRL nobody would have believed it.
54 posted on 03/28/2005 6:00:42 AM PST by AdmSmith
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To: raybbr

LOL. Only if I avoid this thread upon my return.


55 posted on 03/28/2005 6:02:33 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: dsc; Malesherbes

I'm with dsc.

About 4 years ago I was considering applying, and was looking over the prep materials I had received from State. The practice exam was wrong. As in, many questions that were keyed "correct" were actually incorrect.

Kinda made me wonder.


56 posted on 03/28/2005 6:03:26 AM PST by Gefreiter (When seconds count, the police are minutes away.)
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To: AdmSmith

Unfrickinbelievable is all I can say.


57 posted on 03/28/2005 6:08:07 AM PST by Saberwielder
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To: dsc

"You can't expect incompetent scumbags to hire anyone but another incompetent scumbag."

Your statement bears repeating. That philosophy has destroyed many fine companies. And we see it at it's fullest bloom in many Government offices.


58 posted on 03/28/2005 6:11:14 AM PST by pepperdog
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To: Straight Vermonter
More info on Rewards For Justice and past success in Pakistan in addition to the Kansai case:

A matchbook cover advertisement was also the instrument to obtain key information on Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, one of those responsible for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. As with Kansi, Yousef was captured in Pakistan. He was subsequently extradited to the United States, tried and convicted for his part in the bombing and is now in prison.

Link

And then there is the Khalid Shaikh Mohammed case...KSM was arrested March 01, 2003 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan and, according to the following link, a reward was paid for info leading to KSM's arrest. Info came from a suspect in custody.

Link

That program - known as Rewards for Justice - was discontinued in Pakistan prior to Ms. Powell's 2002 arrival because it was ''ineffective,'' the senior [State Department] official said.

US Ambassador to Pakistan prior to Powell was Wendy J. Chamberlain.

59 posted on 03/28/2005 6:11:26 AM PST by elli1
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To: AdmSmith

So, our tax dollars are spent on more stuff just sitting in a warehouse somewhere.
What else is new?
Can we ask her for a refund?


60 posted on 03/28/2005 6:23:57 AM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
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