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Thespian2

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4. What could possibly go wrong?
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 10:36 AM
Apr 2015

"According to Blumenthal, the transformation began after September 11, when American law enforcement officers began to look to the Israelis for counter-terrorism expertise and in response the Israel Lobby “provid[ed] thousands of top cops with all-expenses paid trips to Israel and stateside training sessions with Israeli military and intelligence officials.”

Many of these trips and training sessions were arranged by JINSA, the stridently pro-Israel organization whose advisors have included such prominent Neocons as Douglas Feith and Richard Perle."

Once trained, police have put the training to use...Occupy is one example...Baltimore is the latest...

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