Posted on 04/24/2013 9:18:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
He was untrustworth,....he was a Republican.
In 1982 I met my wife in Austria (I was stationed in Germany). She has many Austrian, German, Hungarian, Polish and Russian (Soviet) relatives. Over the years since, we have visited many of them. (they were broken up after world war II).
In the 80’s they all wanted to come to America. Now? No way. They prefer where they are at. Better economy, and less Pravda. With the internet a solid state item in these countries now, they read American news and have no interest what-so-ever in our country. They feel they would be moving backwards.
Once they had no national pride, but that coin has flipped. The American populace by far distrusts and hates their country, while my in-laws have national confidence and pride.
I don’t have relatives or connections in Spain or Greece, but I imagine the scenario is much different there.
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>>>Burr, the North Carolina senator, contended that the Russians contacted the FBI several times, but the bureau disputed that assertion.
This is something that needs to be addressed. I hope this FBI denial gets pursued-senator Burr, or the FBI is wrong here.<<<
Due to a diplomatic reasons law-enforcement bodies of foreign countries rarely cooperate directly (with the exception of limited exchange via Interpol etc). There are treaties and some organizations in either nation named responsible for cooperation so any other interested official addressing request to a “competent (or concerned or interested) organization of respective nation X” and submits it to their specified home organization for further processing. An idea it to check request for compliance with national interests and international law. Then request is getting sent to similar authorised organization of requested nation which is to decide if it worthy to execute and exact legal bodies to do a job. In case of Russia cooperation probably proceeds via Public prosecutor’s office, for US it might be a Dept of Justice or State (depends on details of request). And idea is to make sure if one side (say Iran rev guards) won’t request other side (say some Michigan county’s deputies) to behead some apostate and they actually do it.
A procedure like that may also mean that FBI could actually not get Russian request at all as soon as Dept of Justice or State could consider it unworthy to execute or send elsewhere.
This will all ultimately be blamed on another Republican - Bush - after all he was President when these folks arrive here and were granted political asylum. The fact that the mother and older brother veered into radical Islam and came to the Government’s attention during the Obama administration will be ignored.
They tried to pin all of 9-11 responsibility on Bush as it “was on his watch” - disregarding all errors of the Clinton administration. This fiasco was truly on Obama’s watch - but he put a blindfold on his administration.
The old limp-leg. "We didn't get enough informaaaaaaaation, they held out on usses!!" </whine>
Someone at FBI knew this guy would eventually be a problem. Whoever it was, sought to insulate the FBI against their perfunctory quick-look's blowing up on them later on.
That's what we have to find out
If our agencies are not sharing information,we need to correct that.
Something one agency decides is not important may be important to another agency.-tom
Actually these rules exist for a reason:
>>>And idea is to make sure if one side (say Iran rev guards) won’t request other side (say some Michigan county’s deputies) to behead some apostate and they actually do it.<<<
Example might be unrealistic and a bit extreme but for example Russians don’t have idea of political correctness and for that reason they can’t execute request to assist US authorities to investigate any hate crime.
If FBI could request Russian local police on a subject they could assist by mistake and it is a violation of Russian national policy.
Same for blasphemy or homosexual activity which might be a crime in one place and non-crime in another. Requesting side might be aware or that difference and be creative with language to confuse either side.
Also KGB may request to watch and interrogate some kind of dissident or defector on given questions and unaware local deputies could intimidate such a person or do intel for the Russians without any knowledge on his real identity.
An idea is to make sure that low-level officials won’t screw up and do something harmful to national interest.
Perhaps more then hope. Handguns, Home Made Grenades and a Rifle with a Large Capacity magazine was what they were supposed to use. The trifecta. Handguns. Gun Powder. Magazines. Oh my.
Now just think what images of two white men shooting up the streets of Boston and killing dozens of people would have done for the Senate Gun Bill Vote.
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