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John Hoctor's avatar

Simply outstanding Craig as a former journalist myself I have to tell you that you’re reporting is about the best I’ve seen of anybody working currently still I think we’re about seven years apart. I’m seven years younger than you. I’m turning 70. The linkage between Manafort stone and the other cast of thugs that you outlined in your last post we never really brought the justice although they were and pardoned by this pimp Trump. The presidential partnering power if you will is that of a divine right of kings it should not be in the hands of anyone and it should not be used to in any way to randomly and arbitrarily pardon people who used to be your campaign manager and political campaigns and our business partners and or people that are anti-American interest in their past. I don’t know what the fuck this is all about, but it is not the United States of America that I grew up in something happened between the attempt to impeach Nixon in 1974 and now to suspend all rationality and criminal and civil justice in this country. I don’t think there’s a way back if there is please tell me it’s too far gone it has metastasized into a nightmare, John Hoctor.

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Thomas Graves's avatar

FWIW, 1974 was the year that Counterintelligence Chief James Angleton was, thanks to William Colby and Seymour Hersh, forced to resign in late December. He was replaced by George Kalaris, who knew nothing about counterintelligence. Kalaris' deputy (and effective head of CI) was a Yuri-Nosenko-loving probable KGB mole, former Soviet Russia Division Reports and Requirements officer Leonard V. McCoy, whose bosses in SR/R&R had been Robert Lubbehusen (remember him?) and Katharine Colvin Hart, wife of Nosenko-loving HSCA perjurer John L. Hart -- who had been COS in Saigon in the mid-60s and, as such, had served under Colby when Colby was head of the Far Eastern Division in 1963–1967. Nosenko, of course, was "cleared" by another probable "mole," Bruce Leonard Solie, in October of 1968, and went on to teach "counterintelligence" to the Agency's and the Bureau's new recruits.

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