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avaistheone1

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39. Well then how does Blackwater get away with murder, and companies like Halliburton get away with

Reply to Igel (Reply #36)

Mon Jun 10, 2013, 04:47 PM

Jun 2013

fraud when working on behalf of the US government?

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I'd have to be convinced he actually leaked something important to agree Recursion Jun 2013 #1

WELCOME TO DU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DirkGently Jun 2013 #2

Ok. ForgoTheConsequence Jun 2013 #3

An oath to a private company? Puzzledtraveller Jun 2013 #4

Yep..they make you also sign a document.. HipChick Jun 2013 #5

What does the document say? avaistheone1 Jun 2013 #30

Same kind of stuff. Igel Jun 2013 #36

Well then how does Blackwater get away with murder, and companies like Halliburton get away with avaistheone1 Jun 2013 #39

Obedience or death! Gregorian Jun 2013 #6

obama also took an oath. oh, his doesn't count though nt msongs Jun 2013 #7

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Stop with the recipes and the fucking exclamation points HangOnKids Jun 2013 #17

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The Klan has a secrecy oath. So do the Bloods and Crips. lob1 Jun 2013 #23

And so did 535 members of Congress, high-level appointees and officers of the military indepat Jun 2013 #18

Yep. That's the oath that matters to me. n/t Laelth Jun 2013 #26

I thought we knew all about this crap years ago, lob1 Jun 2013 #8

I think they want to imprison him for raising an uncomfortable DirkGently Jun 2013 #22

Yes and he didn't try to get the story out wihout leaking the classified info. I think okaawhatever Jun 2013 #9

It's especially troubling that he was only there for (3) months. Did he take the job to do this? Tarheel_Dem Jun 2013 #35

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That Header Reminds Me of Somebody Else HangOnKids Jun 2013 #11

Doesn't It, Though? n/t reflection Jun 2013 #37

LMAO n/t Catherina Jun 2013 #13

I Tried Reading The OP In My Best Lewis Black Voice HangOnKids Jun 2013 #16

I read it silently in horror Catherina Jun 2013 #20

Congratulations on your new job! reformist2 Jun 2013 #14

What Oath? atreides1 Jun 2013 #15

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Welcome to DU! Fumesucker Jun 2013 #19

An oath to the Constitution. Octafish Jun 2013 #21

Octafish! avaistheone1 Jun 2013 #31

I would think that George Washington took an oath, too - lynne Jun 2013 #24

What "OATH?" KoKo Jun 2013 #25

Tsk! Tsk! He and Manning dared to tell the American people what their government does! Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2013 #27

bring out the smelling salts marions ghost Jun 2013 #33

"to protect the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic" backscatter712 Jun 2013 #28

And their misdeeds and failures are all hidden under the cloak of "government secrecy". avaistheone1 Jun 2013 #32

An oaf? Brickbat Jun 2013 #29

Is Snowden so stupid as to believe he was smart enough with a GED to be a Thinkingabout Jun 2013 #34

OP = troll Malik Agar Jun 2013 #38

Yep Kingofalldems Jun 2013 #41

I love that story. Kingofalldems Jun 2013 #40