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grasswire

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32. Octafish...

Reply to Octafish (Reply #31)

Wed Sep 10, 2014, 11:47 AM

Sep 2014

....if you have not heard the story of Sante (Sandy) Bario, I urge you to look it up for your files. Tangentially, his first wife worked in the WH press office, and his second wife's attorney (trying desperately to protect Sandy from his own rogue agency after he was poisoned) is Richard ben Veniste (a highly connected Watergate prosecutor).

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