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Former CIA officer and U.S. Treasury special agent John Cassara spent much of his 26-year career investigating transnational money laundering. He said there is a self-defeating logic to the DEA targeting the drugs and the people that supply them rather than the financial networks.

”It’s easier to go after the product and it’s easier to go after the people than to go after the money,” said Cassara, who retired in 2006. “But that’s a huge mistake.”

Forget the money that fuels the drug trade and funds Chinese espionage. We have street-level dealers to put in jail for decades.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    “Sir, we’ve found something… interesting. He’s apparently downloaded over 600 images of frogs to his computer. Specifically, one cartoon frog over and over again. We’re thinking it may be some sort of covert code system.”

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Get it to the floor and make them all vote on the record. That vote will haunt them in the post-Trump era. May even help shoot down some rising stars down the line.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Stable genius: “Vladimir Putin is a great friend of mine. We’ve been dealing with each other for several years. All you have to do to get a favor from Putin is agree to do 10 favors for him then suck his dick. That’s how business is done is Moscow, and I’m a businessman. The best many say.”

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  • [–] 108 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Could it be that people don’t want to pay money to strap advertising machines on their faces? Has the robotic Augustus Caesar LARPer lost touch with the common people?

    No, it is the plebeians that are wrong.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It almost has to be Alec Baldwin doing Trump at the no-show debate. Recent complications aside, his impression has always been the definitive one.

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    I've never had a Facebook account or any other social media. I know they keep shadow profiles, but I've never given permission. I never had any interest and frankly still don't.

    The problem I'm having is that I don't exist online when people try to look me up. When someone tries to check me out, there's nothing there and apparently that's considered abnormal these days. I think it's starting to affect my life negatively for various reasons I'd rather not get into.

    I'd just like some advice about where to start if you wanted to dip your toes in and check it out. LinkedIn, maybe?

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