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mr_lebowski

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28. Lol ... I'm not going to get carried away too much here ... he's a civilian, firstly ...
Tue May 30, 2017, 08:25 PM
May 2017

It doesn't sound like his book is any sort of professional or scholarly treatise on 'russian spy catching', that's just the title of the book. The fact that he's sold the movie rights to it, and it's been voted 'funniest book of the year' suggests it's mostly about entertainment. This could also be something of a promo for the the film release which is apparently in the works according to the S&S website description.

Also, dude could be another Wayne Simmons type for all we know.

Lastly his observations are contingent upon the basic fact being true ... he attempted to set up secret communications channel to Putin or other Russian higher-ups. We don't even know for sure THAT is true, and it'd be HIGHLY Rove-like for a story like this to get 'planted' ... although it's not nearly as good of one as the forged TANG docs for Bush given to Rather, because ... you could really never PROVE that conversation did NOT happen.

Then again, may've been an attempt at Rove-style dirty trick ... done by a trickster much less competent than Rove himself ...

ANYways, unless and until it's confirmed this convo actually happened, all of the 'this would be really bad ... if true!' stories in the world ... like this dudes ... aren't going to amount to jack shit.

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Lol ... I'm not going to get carried away too much here ... he's a civilian, firstly ... mr_lebowski May 2017 #28
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FWIW, the guy sold me on it. oasis May 2017 #7
Same here orangecrush May 2017 #10
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I saw him say that...not much in twitter land about it either altho I... samnsara May 2017 #16
Thanks! orangecrush May 2017 #18
So is Michael Flynn. LuckyLib May 2017 #20
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Occam' s Razor Mme. Defarge May 2017 #23
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