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The Radicalizing of Eric Ciaramella
American Spectator ^

Posted on 11/10/2019 5:12:59 AM PST by TigerClaws

While the lawyers representing Eric Ciaramella, the alleged “whistleblower” in the Trump impeachment fiasco, describe him as having spent his entire career in “apolitical civil servant positions,” the truth is that Eric Ciaramella has been involved in radical political behavior throughout his life — including his years at Yale.

In fact, long before he was digging up dirt with the DNC’s Alexandra Chalupa about President Trump’s mythical collusion with Russia, Ciaramella was involved in leading a protest over what he believed was the poor treatment of Bassam Frangieh, a radical professor of Arabic Studies at Yale. On April 15, 2005, then first-year Yale student Ciaramella dressed in all white to lead a contingent of ten similarly dressed first-year Yale Arabic students to the offices of the Provost and the President of the university to demand that the university provide an incentive to encourage Frangieh to stay at Yale. The students were unhappy because Frangieh had decided earlier in the school year to accept a tenure-track position at the University of Delaware.

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1 posted on 11/10/2019 5:12:59 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

How do these people rise to the top so fast? The Deep State is responsible for people like this guy. At a minimum I hope Trump will drain the swamp of these traitors that sit in a quiet corner looking for the next radical hire.


2 posted on 11/10/2019 5:17:01 AM PST by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: devane617

They are more than WILLING to do EVIL.....THAT’S why they rise so fast!


3 posted on 11/10/2019 5:23:13 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: TigerClaws

Bassam lovingly recounts “Abd al Rahim Mahmud, the “first Arab poet-martyr” just like gold star Paki Visa pimp Kahzir Khan’s devotion to Said Ramada, a founder of Muslim Brotherhood, who was Khan’s gateway to his sharia law fanaticism.


4 posted on 11/10/2019 5:23:24 AM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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"Ciaramella was involved in 2016 correspondence about $1 billion loan guarantee which Biden had held up, pending firing of prosecutor Viktor Shokin." — Stephen McIntyre (@ClimateAudit)

So he took the Biden thing personally hook, line, and sinker.

5 posted on 11/10/2019 5:26:22 AM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: TigerClaws
Here is the Yale Daily News link itself, from '05... Students decry Arabic professor’s departure
6 posted on 11/10/2019 5:30:56 AM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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7 posted on 11/10/2019 5:32:19 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: StAnDeliver
Here Airwick won a Yale MacMillan Center Scholarship worth all of 3K (lol) to defame Italian hicks in the sticks and their view of the EU as, Monty Python put it, "Miserable Fat Belgian Bastards".

I'd like to read this 'dissertation' if anyone else can find it.

Eric Ciaramella, B.A. class of 2008. Russian and East European Studies major. Research on the perceptions of the EU among rural Italian residents.

8 posted on 11/10/2019 5:35:21 AM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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How? I have a friend who works with ICE in the DC area. He was hired directly in as a GS-14! Why? “Because it’s DC and it’s expensive to live here, so they hire all of us at higher levels” he said. Waaaaaay too bloated at the top. I agree with earlier statements. Move every federal agency out of DC and spread it around (get rid of at least half - EPA, Education, etc). Best not to have all your eggs in one basket anyway should a disaster occur (like DC getting nuked...)


9 posted on 11/10/2019 5:42:22 AM PST by USAF1985 (ItÂ’s the Spanish Inquisition!!!!!)
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To: devane617
How do these people rise to the top so fast? The Deep State is responsible for people like this guy.

You answered your own question.

10 posted on 11/10/2019 5:42:50 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: StAnDeliver

What do all these Dems have in common? Beady eyes and/or gay pedoface.

11 posted on 11/10/2019 5:49:36 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: devane617

“How do these people rise to the top so fast?”

They generally push all the following buttons:
1) Self-selected elites in academia reward and recommend people just like themselves.
2) Self-selected elites in government hire and promote people just like themselves.
3) Better people go into productive work.
4) Better people do not seek power over others.
5) Better people do not consciously study and use Bolshevik techniques to service their ambition (total ruthlessness; perfidy, etc.).


12 posted on 11/10/2019 6:47:48 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: USAF1985

The other dirty little secret of Federal hiring is that DC is the absolute _worst_ place to be.

The cost of living adjustment is not that high compared to other areas.

DC has a significant income tax for people who are stationed there.

The commute is awful—however it is done.

Of course the real cost of living is crazy high compared to most areas.

There are many layers of bureaucracy in DC, and many (in some agencies most) managers are affirmative action hires (and not very sharp which means they waste a lot of people’s time with stupid and wasteful tasks).

As a result the talent (think white geeks) in any agency is out in the hinterlands in low cost areas where a 14 is a better deal than being the Department Secretary in DC!

In most agencies morale is _much_ higher in the remote field offices than it is in DC.


13 posted on 11/10/2019 6:54:52 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: TigerClaws

The guy obviously has a bias and obviously worked with the Democrats and hated Trump. That he was truly “radical” is a lot less clear and not proven by the writer. Similarly, the details of what Bassam Frangieh was actually teaching at Yale, why he was denied tenure and why students protested aren’t provided by the author. Speculation takes the place of actual facts.


14 posted on 11/10/2019 6:56:45 AM PST by x
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In October 2016, Ciaramella was the guest of Vice President Joe Biden at a lunch to honor the prime minister of Italy. But, in July 2017, as members of the Trump administration began to suspect that Ciaramella, by then a career CIA analyst and Ukraine director on the National Security Council, was responsible for “high level leaks,” he was removed from his post.

So, basically, he launched the whistleblower report as a defensive measure. He was involved in the Biden's crookedness. He is caught in the web of lies and crooked deals, and so, he had to file a fake quid-pro-quo deal. Once Trump released the transcript of the Ukraine call, Schiff had to step in to rescue the whistleblower and the Bidens, because, if Trump were to be allowed unimpeded investigation of the Bidens' crooked deals in the Ukraine and in China, it would inevitably lead to even bigger fish like Obama and Hillary and Bill Clinton and many others, including some in the house and senate.
15 posted on 11/10/2019 7:03:27 AM PST by adorno
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they find these budding little hitlers and groom them


16 posted on 11/10/2019 7:30:16 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: devane617

“How do these people rise to the top so fast?”

Ever notice the emphasis that the education bureaucracy places on “finding a mentor”? They’ve been doing it since shortly after I got out of college in the early ‘80s. Mentor, mentor, mentor. It’s practically all you hear when it comes time to start looking for your first “real job” after graduation. In the boomer generation we’d call that “brown-nosing”, but there is not denying that it does help the lefties to identify eachother, and the male managers to target the attractive girls who are looking for an edge, and so forth.


17 posted on 11/10/2019 8:17:55 AM PST by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: TigerClaws

Watching Spin Cycle right now. After awkward dancing around like nobody knows his name, Molly Hemingway just said Chiarella’s name. Now being followed by more awkward dancing. It’s really bizarre how this is being handled


18 posted on 11/10/2019 8:21:15 AM PST by j.havenfarm ( 2,000 posts as of 1/16/19. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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To: adorno

That’s it, in a nutshell.


19 posted on 11/10/2019 9:32:00 AM PST by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: USAF1985

“Move every federal agency out of DC and spread it around (get rid of at least half - EPA, Education, etc).”

I agree. We could have a 95% reduction in the size and scope of the fed gov and see quality of life improve.

The Department of Education for example could/should be reduced to 152 people (Secretary, an assistant, and 150 other employees). All they would be used for is to process grant applications for STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics), Trades (plumbing, electrical, metal working, etc), and classroom technology improvements (computers, networking, etc).
All other aspects of the current department should be handled by the individual states.

The same reductions would also apply to the few other agencies that would remain, and imagine that the total fed gov workforce could fit into an average size office building in Crystal City.


20 posted on 11/10/2019 9:58:39 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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