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The Long Sordid Career of Creepy Joe Biden

  The Long Sordid Career of Creepy Joe Biden Hail to the Sniffer in Chief DONALD JEFFRIES I get complaints from people that I concentrate too much on Donald Trump. Basically, the message is, “But what about Biden?” I do write more about Trump, because he’s the face of the perceived opposition. The only Emmanuel Goldstein in town. I assume everyone reading me understands just who and what Joe Biden is. But people might not remember quite everything about Joe Biden’s lengthy career as a beloved resident of the Washington, D.C. swamp that Trump promised to drain. Biden was first elected as a U.S. Senator from Delaware in 1973. Even I was very young then. In 1981, the great “liberal” senator strongly supported the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, passed in the wake of CIA whistleblower Philip Agee’s disclosures about the Agency is his best-selling book  Inside the Company.  Biden declared that “I do not think anybody has any doubt about Mr. Agee. We should lock him away in my opinio

Letter from drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale to Judge Liam O’Grady

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Thanks to James for contributing this article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Letter from drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale to Judge Liam O’Grady 18 July 2021 “We now kill people without ever seeing them. Now you push a button thousands of miles away ... Since it’s all done by remote control, there’s no remorse ... and then we come home in triumph.” —US Navy Admiral Gene LaRocque, speaking to a reporter in 1995. Dear Judge O’Grady, It is not a secret that I struggle to live with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Both stem from my childhood experience growing up in a rural mountain community and were compounded by exposure to combat during military service. Depression is a constant. Though stress, particularly stress caused by war, can manifest itself at different times and in different ways. The tell-tale signs of a person afflicted by PTSD and depression can often be outwardly observed and are practically universally recognizable. Hard lines about the face and j