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RiverLover

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22. "Shockey will oversee the agencies that do business with his former employer."

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Sun Dec 28, 2014, 10:59 PM

Dec 2014

I wonder if he gets a $22 million bonus from Blackwater for getting an oversight position of Blackwater, like Weiss is getting from Lazarus for overseeing Lazarus & their other wall street friends?

Our govt has without Q been taken over.

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Know your BFEE: Blackwater Lobbyist Will Manage the House Intelligence Committee [View all] Octafish Dec 2014 OP

Money talks Chuuku Davis Dec 2014 #1

Heroically Bark Octafish Dec 2014 #2

K&R.... daleanime Dec 2014 #3

Gentlemen who don't want to get their hands dirty call MURDER Inc cough BLACKWATER. Octafish Dec 2014 #5

It should boggle the mind, but somehow it just doesn't anymore. Happy Holidays, Octafish! Mnemosyne Dec 2014 #4

Gotta admit that it does take the risk out of the ''Checks & Balances'' part of the Constitution. Octafish Dec 2014 #6

Who is Jeff Shockey? An erudite blogger's POV... Octafish Dec 2014 #7

Money trumps peace all the time every time. Initech Dec 2014 #8

How the CIA Sold Obama on Counterinsurgency by Drone Assassination Octafish Dec 2014 #10

Can we say Fascism* yet? Scuba Dec 2014 #9

Blackwater, torture and US imperialism Octafish Dec 2014 #11

Looks like a good thread. Quantess Dec 2014 #12

Appreciate that, Quantess. Details from LIL SIS... Octafish Dec 2014 #14

Bought and paid for coming and going. JEB Dec 2014 #19

NSA Chief Bet Money on AT&T as It Spied on You Octafish Dec 2014 #30

K&R for the original post and subsequent informative posts and links. JEB Dec 2014 #13

Thanks, JEB! It's go-go-go for War Inc. Yet, NOTHING much in the newspaper or on tee vee. Octafish Dec 2014 #15

Beyond corruption. IMHO it's institutional fascism. JEB Dec 2014 #18

and a big K & R! n/t wildbilln864 Dec 2014 #16

Remember when Blackwater threatened to kill State Department inspector in Iraq? Octafish Dec 2014 #17

I do remember. wildbilln864 Dec 2014 #20

Yes, G_j Dec 2014 #27

The rot goes deep Ramses Dec 2014 #21

NSA data could be most useful for connected types on Wall Street. Octafish Dec 2014 #24

"Shockey will oversee the agencies that do business with his former employer." RiverLover Dec 2014 #22

Stratfor: executive boasted of 'trusted former CIA cronies' Octafish Dec 2014 #25

You might as well give the alcoholic the keys to the liquor store. Initech Dec 2014 #23

Aided and abetted by BFEE Judges who say it's OK to profit from inside information. Octafish Dec 2014 #28

K&R Cleita Dec 2014 #26

Blackwater/ Xe is just a corporate false front organization for the CIA.* Octafish Dec 2014 #29

Our new majority will be carefully supervised. n/t Orsino Dec 2014 #31

James Risen: The Post-9/11 Homeland Security Industrial Complex Profiteers and Endless War Octafish Jan 2015 #32