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Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

Brad Johnson on the shooting death of Phil Haney

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and Brad Johnson this is February the
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22nd of 2020 and a tragic event happened
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last night a person I did not know but
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from all I have seen was was both a
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tremendously important individual in
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terms of his exposing some of the darker
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forces at work in our Western states as
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well as just being a terrifically nice
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guy was murdered the best information I
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have is somewhere outside his car
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somewhere in his home state Phil Haney I
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believe he was a Department of Homeland
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Security whistleblower correct
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particularly focused on what the Obama
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administration appeared to be doing that
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were certainly against the interests of
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a constitutional America and I think you
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have some other data points that while
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may not be conclusive would be what
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science might call indicative toward a
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pattern why don’t you just take it from
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there all right very good so Philip a
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knee first as you correctly pointed out
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is DHS Department Homeland Security he
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was one of the guys that went in and
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very early into DHS so he was kind of
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end of the you know the founding member
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crew he was part of that back group of
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people from the very beginning got out
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it was the older man now in his later
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70s I believe now and he was found dead
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shot the very few details on the actual
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death but it appears to be murder he was
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apparently shot in the chest
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some reports are saying in the back well
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we’ll see but different different
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reports have come out with conflicting
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information on the details
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overall they all agree that he was shot
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and what people are all saying is murder
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now don’t know yet that all has to be
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confirmed we’ll have to see but those
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are what the early reports are
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indicating now Philip Nene himself was
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one of the very first actual true live
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honest-to-god whistleblowers that was
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out there reporting on corruption the
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corruption that was he was reporting on
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if everyone thinks back to the Obama
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administration one of the things that
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they were pushing is kind of backing off
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on counterterrorism issues so they were
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trying to you know show I have always
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described it as sort of a two-pronged
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strategy where one they took the
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pressure off terrorism which they
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absolutely
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did all of terrorist groups and to then
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said oh you know we’re all friends their
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expectation at the time was that you
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know they’re they’re taking the pressure
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off terrorist groups and reach out the
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olive branch and they expected that
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terrorists would look out and say oh
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okay well the Americans don’t really
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mean it introduced any harm
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you know just ordinarily naive but I
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guess that was what they were after and
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and the reasoning behind this this kind
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of two-pronged strategy
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so part of what they were doing in the
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background was removing all of this
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information about terrorists and
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terrorist groups now there are those
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that theorized that there was a more
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malicious intent behind this going on
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and philip touched on some of those
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aspects of it that because this is so
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purposeful that it was done
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intentionally – you know it made life
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much much easier for terrorist groups so
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I’ll put it that way and once that
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information is gone it’s very difficult
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to get it back because you have a body
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of things that you collect over time and
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if it’s all just taken away then to
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recreate it all of that body of
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knowledge –is is difficult because it
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wasn’t one monolithic thing that you got
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it was bits and pieces that that fit
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together and give you a picture of
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what’s going on in these terrorist
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groups so a lot of that was being erased
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out of DHS which let me say that was not
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something that took place only in DHS
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that was the intelligence community wide
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which is one of the reasons why I always
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talk about these issues because what
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happens if it the CIA and NSA and DHS
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and DNI at all of these places you see
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this information sort of get you know
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deleted and erased and you’re starting
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over without all of it and all of these
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people look at it is great and grand and
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wonderful you know you got to look at
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that go why and it’s one of the reasons
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why the intelligence information that’s
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going up to the president United States
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and the White House and my opinion is is
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tends to be just poor I’ll put it that
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way it just doesn’t tend to be very good
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it certainly doesn’t hold up to the
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standards of what could be done what
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should be done what used to be done
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those sorts of things so this
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degradation in capability is one of the
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my pet peeves one of the things I really
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argue vehemently to point out to people
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to try and rebuild I will add one more
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comment on that the same people at the
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CIA that were in charge under Obama with
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the exception of John Brennan who’s now
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was was fired are all still there the
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the director of the CIA was a close
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friend and Lieutenant of John Brennan
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and all of the people in leadership
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they’re all the same so these policies
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haven’t been turned around yet and it’s
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something that President Trump I think
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he’s just now beginning to understand
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it’s just how deep this goes and the
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problems that are there now Philip Haney
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let’s you know there’s some assumptions
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here there as I said the initial
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information is that he was murdered and
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one of the things as you mentioned I I
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look at this and and I always say you
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know I don’t really like coincidences
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it’s the background to it and training
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and experience but I just don’t like
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coincidences and we we start to see some
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stuff I want to mention a couple of
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different cases some of which are
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publicly known and some of which are not
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but one of the ones that was publicly
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known as death rich pretty famous case a
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lot of reporting on it Seth rich was at
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a bar at night coming home was a block
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away from his house got shot twice in
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the back ambulance got there and he died
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like an hour and a half later now there
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were some lot of initial reporting about
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this because you know he wasn’t robbed
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but the claim is that it was an
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attempted robbery and apparently there
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were some bruises on him and some
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fisticuffs going on and and so they
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they’re claiming based on that that it
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was a robbery Seth Rich’s families is
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this and they’ve got a lot of if you
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look down the list of who supports it
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they’re all liberal organizations saying
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oh yeah this is Seth Richie was an
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attempted robbery and that’s it anyone
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who says anything difference lying but
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there’s there’s a couple of things to it
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now there was initially an investigator
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or police investigator that came out and
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took a look at it and he was drawing
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some links between Seth rich and
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WikiLeaks and saying that Seth rich
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might have been the source of the leaks
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now the family was saying that this is
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nut job stuff it’s absolutely crazy and
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as I said that list of people you know
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it’s thing the New York Times in the
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Washington Post and people like that are
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all saying it’s nonsense so I mean you
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know them saying that I personally don’t
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consider that very significant or
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important because what else are they
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going to say I mean if it’s true they’ll
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say it’s you know that it was just a
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robbery that’s what they’ll say if it’s
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not true that it was more than a robbery
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they’ll still say that’s all it was so
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now the family of course was very upset
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by this that I understand perfectly
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they’ve sued a number of people that
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talked about it but
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here’s the issue at least it’s what’s
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come out now
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there was this link to WikiLeaks that
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was initially uncovered by the
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investigations but then said to be
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insignificant and it goes back to the
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Russia leak that all this stuff was
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hacked by Russia and that that’s where
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all of those wiki leak documents came
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from was the Russians so could I just
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hide it can I just cut and dad two quick
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points though yes in fact a song is
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categorically stated actually three
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points categorically stated all of his
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material was leaked so none of it was
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hacks and to that he did offer a large
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reward for whoever killed Seth rich and
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while you stopped short of saying that
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Southridge was his source on these on
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these DNC leaks he did say that he felt
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it was when he was asked why he was
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posting this unprecedented reward he
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said we have to protect our sources
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well you’ve you’ve hit on precisely
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where I was headed with this I mean the
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the the the take home fact out of that
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is is what you’re saying there it was
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was like I said that was exactly where I
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was headed that the the the one thing
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that makes you question this is Julian
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Assange making a number of different
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comments not all in a row but at
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different times and offering the reward
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later upping the reward to I think a
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hundred and twenty five thousand and yet
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denying that that that this guy was the
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source but yet then going on and saying
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well we have to protect our sources and
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that’s why I’m giving the reward so a
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lot of conflicting information out of
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that but all indicators are that that
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based on what Julian Assange is saying
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is that he was indeed Etheridge was
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indeed based on on the Santas comments
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that what he was indeed the source of
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these these leaked documents that
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WikiLeaks had I don’t know I don’t think
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we’ll ever find out I think the salient
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point important point I wanted to make
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out of it is that based on what its aunt
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is saying Assange well while denying it
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still sort of semi confirmed that Seth
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rich was the source so we may never know
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on that end of it but if that is true if
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it were to turn out to be true if we
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ever learned that if Assange
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ever admits to it or WikiLeaks ever
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confirms it something along those lines
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then you know you have to pretty
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to conclude that this was a politically
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motivated murder now again the
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Philippine II is kind of in the same
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boat we just don’t know but it’s
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certainly the type of guy that there
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would be there would be political motive
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to murder whether he was murdered
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whether these two individuals were
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murdered or not we don’t know now let me
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get on to some of the things I wanted to
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mention that are kind of not in the
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public realm and one of them on just I
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can say personal story out of all of
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this and then then one other from a
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contact of mine now in in in my case I
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was one of the individuals being a
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federal employee having been a for
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federal employee the Office of Personnel
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Management got hacked by China and all
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that’s been widely reported so all of
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the personnel records were in that
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information that was hacked by China so
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phone number addresses Social Security
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everything they have everything the
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information that you have to provide to
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the federal government in order to be
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employed there as extensive I mean it
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has information about your parents and
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grandparents and just everything that’s
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in there your schools everything so all
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of that was hacked out of China now in
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my particular case that information
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somehow was provided through from China
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their point of origin on the information
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was China ended up here in the United
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States to certain group them calling me
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and began to make death threats so this
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of course I reported to the police local
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authorities and and they investigated
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they were able to confirm that the
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information based on some of the other
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things that they found or indeed the
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origin of the information was indeed
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from the Office of Personnel hack and
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which of course as I mentioned earlier
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is the origin of the people got it was
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China now they weren’t able to find the
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people and all that and the threats went
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on for quite a little while and in
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addition another little thing that’s
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going on is just Chinese harassment of
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federal employees again now myself
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coming out of the CIA intelligence
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background and other people like myself
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is they make phone calls so it’s a
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recorded message somebody calls it’s a
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robo call and they start talking to you
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in Chinese so I don’t speak Chinese most
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people I know don’t speak Chinese and so
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you’re kind of just digging up and let
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it go don’t you know you’re not sure
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what to think of it now found out that
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in fact the translation is that that
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that that there the Chinese a Chinese
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person a woman speaking who says come to
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the Chinese embassy your package is
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waiting for you so it goes on and talks
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about these things but sort of you know
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I’m not sure to think of it I guess it’s
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geared they’re calling everybody out
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there that’s a formal federal employee
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it’s a type of harassment and I guess
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it’s a way hoping that somebody who’s
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you know
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speaks Chinese would be willing to go
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into the embassy and find out what’s in
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the package and it’s an interesting
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little sidelight I was just telling the
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story to another Rotarian CIA guy who’s
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a friend of mine we were sitting down
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for lunch talking
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I finished telling him this whole story
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and his phone rings because give me a
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second picks up his phone and it’s that
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phone call it was the Chinese lady
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giving him her message kind of a
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humorous little way it turns out but
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these things are being used to try it
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attack and surprise I do see those in
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another event that just happened
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recently a friend I do a lot of radio
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interviews as well on television
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different sorts of places I I do
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interviews with and one of them was a
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fairly well-known person I don’t want to
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use his name but he does a lot of things
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and has fairly big following and it does
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a lot of things kind of in the
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conservative Christian world and he had
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a very interesting incident take place
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just within the last few weeks that I
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view as attempted murder and what
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happened was there’s you know everyone’s
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familiar with nine one one if there’s an
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emergency you call on the phone for 911
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one there’s also six one one which is if
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you don’t call it in you text it in so
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same idea it goes to the 911 one people
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and they have the emergency and call it
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out based on whatever the text message
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is they received the text to about him
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it said his address and made it had a
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lot of very hot points that they made
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that the police would really key off on
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and the the basic gist of the message
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was that I live in this house I have a
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gun I’m gonna kill all my family and
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I’ll kill any cops that show up and then
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I’m gonna kill myself and so naturally
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this has the cops all keyed up they
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don’t know this this person they don’t
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know the individual they don’t know what
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he does for business that he’s not known
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to them not a criminal so they wouldn’t
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know
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and they all show up at his house and
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not wild bang on the door and they get
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him out and set him on the curb search
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him and go search the house and they’re
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going you know where’s your gone and he
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goes I don’t know no gun and they’re all
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looking at each other going what is this
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so I mean I I this is something that had
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been set up by somebody hoping that they
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could commit a murder
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by manipulating the police force so a
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very interesting thing I mean that’s a
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very odd attack and this like I say
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Philippine II I mean I’m stretching here
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quite a little bit linking the the
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different things that have gone on
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together but there there are the
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beginning indicators of a pattern here
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and it may be that we start to see this
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we are going into what everyone is
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considered a very very important
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election here in the US with Trump
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running for reelection and the
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Democratic Party basically disarray so
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it would make sense in the scheme of
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things that there are groups out there
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that are trying to tamp down opposition
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to the democratic way of life and
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perspective and party so it is
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conceivable that that conservatives are
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now going into a new area of you know
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more hyper targeting if you will that
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sort of thing I kind of harken back to
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one thing that I’ve often talked about
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and that’s the the mass shooting that
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took place in Las Vegas where a lot of
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people were slaughtered that were
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everyone considered them Trump
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supporters because it was a
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country-western concert where these
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people were shot from the MGM hotel down
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to the grounds were the konk where the
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concert is taking place so a lot of
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interesting things out of that there are
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there are things that just weren’t
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really the investigation just cut it off
14:52
right away basically once they found the
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shooter dead in the hotel room they said
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okay that’s done we don’t need to look
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for anything else this is the guy he was
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the one so case closed now there are a
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lot of other things that were part of
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that investigation one thing that’s
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always stuck in my mind there was a
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second room with a second window broken
15:08
out and the perpetrator the man was
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found with gloves on his hands dead and
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one shot to the to the face and the
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other room had a second pair of gloves
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that had clearly been used and left on
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the bed there’s photographs of it in the
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police report no not my information this
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was the police report well who were
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those close
15:28
they were never tested for DNA so
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nothing was ever done with them that are
15:32
just not nothing was investigating past
15:34
that point and there’s a lot of
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questions of that nature that just
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should you know not proof that there was
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a second person but as I say there’s a
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lot of indicators that there were more
15:43
people involved than just the one
15:45
shooters so at the time – there was a
15:48
couple of groups that took credit for
15:50
this one of them which was in Tifa there
15:54
was initially some I believe it was
15:56
Twitter might have been Facebook but an
15:59
Australian and Tifa group took credit
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saying well they’re members from the
16:04
Australian antifa had been involved with
16:08
his shooting now has it taken off and
16:10
then people denied it and said oh this
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wasn’t real but you know the people and
16:15
other people I’ve talked to have looked
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at it and said there’s no indicators
16:19
that this is a false thing it was put on
16:21
by the right people and taken off by the
16:23
right people so it looks like it could
16:26
have definitely been real antiva taking
16:29
credit for this so now again no proof of
16:32
this but you know it looks like this
16:35
made there may have been some
16:36
association with with with antifoam with
16:40
this shooting and these are the types of
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things now Philippine II was out in
16:44
California and we’ve seen I mean an Tifa
16:47
really kind of has a lot of sway a lot
16:50
of influence and a lot of power out on
16:52
the west coast we saw riots in Portland
16:55
Oregon where they just ran the streets
16:56
and the police stood back and they seem
16:58
to be closely associated with the
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Portland Police Force which strikes me
17:03
as very bass-ackwards very strange and
17:06
so there and their strength they’re
17:08
centered out of San Diego I believe is
17:11
where they kind of originated in the
17:13
United States and spread from there so
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essentially their headquarters if you
17:17
will is in California so this is their
17:19
backyard Philippine II was in their
17:21
backyard so as I said I don’t want to
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get too far out into this claiming all
17:25
this is real and just happened this way
17:27
of these things but this is like we’re
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in the very early stages and we’re we’re
17:31
looking at all of these things going hmm
17:33
you know these things are starting to
17:35
line up now we need to go look at it and
17:36
find out if this is true or not and I
17:38
would I would I would
17:40
categorize it that way it’s it’s
17:41
becoming very odd to me I don’t like the
17:44
coincident coincidences I don’t like the
17:46
similar methodology a lot of the things
17:49
about all this are starting to bother me
17:50
and I’m suggesting that it that that
17:55
there there’s a possibility of there
17:57
being relations between all of these
17:59
things that they’re interrelated in some
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way as part of an organized effort so
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we’ll see the a lot more information
18:05
will come up particularly about
18:07
Philippine II like I said Seth rich I
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don’t know unless somehow WikiLeaks come
18:12
his forthcoming at some point but I
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doubt that they would do that because it
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would tend to endanger any other people
18:18
coming forward in the future giving them
18:20
information so it will be it’ll be
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interesting to see and if there’s other
18:25
people out there that are being targeted
18:27
and you know in similar ways to the
18:30
radio persons that I mentioned earlier
18:32
if that’s going on in other places in
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the United States that would be very
18:36
interesting fact to put together if it’s
18:38
if there’s been three or four or five
18:39
similar things then we know that
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somebody’s running an operation and that
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would be very dangerous then then and
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we’d need to pull out all the stops but
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we’ll see it’s getting interesting

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