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Former Spy (author of “How to Catch a Russian Spy”) & Intel Officer | Journalist for Newsweek | host of Unconventional

Manhattan, NY
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For 3 years I worked undercover face-to-face against the second most senior GRU intelligence officer in the US. Here is what I learned about Russia and the GRU. A thread.
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Pretty much.
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The reason police were able to identify him so quickly, is bc he has to register his car, have it insured, and have a license to operate. Imagine if we did that with firearms and firearm owners.
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NEW: SUSPECT: Robert "Bobby" E. Crimo III, 22 Driving a 2010 Silver Honda Fit LICENSE PLATE: IL DM80653
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We are witnessing the Kyle Rittenhouse effect.
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Maybe it doesn’t mean shit to some. But I risked my life for this country in the belief that people I didn’t know or see, would protect my life and my identity. Even today there are things about what I did and saw that remain secret, and will for a long time. Don’t normalize this
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If I’m a witness to a horrific crime, and instead of going to the authorities, I stay quiet so I can write a book about it 2 years later - what does that make me?
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The “umbrella man” who was seen on video in Minneapolis smashing store windows with a sledgehammer and encouraging people to steal, has been identified as a person associated with the Aryan Cowboys — a white supremacist prison and street gang.
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I’ve held a Top Secret clearance, and had my bags and papers checked to make sure I wasn’t leaving the SCIF with classified info. That a former President would be storing classified material relating to our most important capabilities, put our entire national security at risk.
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Can somebody explain to me how knowingly transporting a minor across state lines who is illegally carrying a firearm whose intent is illegally open carry, not a crime?
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I spent 3 years working undercover for the FBI against Russia and then served in the Navy as an intelligence officer. Gabbard’s actions warrant a full investigation into her finances and contacts, and an immediate suspension of her security clearance.
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Former active US military officers are noting that Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard has been amplifying Kremlin conspiracy theories that are anti-US & anti-Ukraine. China has also been openly amplifying the theories in recent days, using powerful megaphones:
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#breaking US official to me: “final plane is wheels up. War is over.”
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I’m going to say the quiet part out loud: All of this is based on the fear that brown and black people will take white entitlement away. From 1/6 to Simone Biles, it’s all about race.
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Deputy Julio Alvarado seen here slamming 4-foot-8, about 100 pounds Shantel Arnold, who is missing her left eye, has been named in *NINE* fed suits accusing him of using excessive force.NINE! And he’s still a cop.
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Biden has played Putin’s nuclear tamptrun beautifully. He has not reacted. He stayed cool. No obvious increase of US nuclear posture. He’s not reacting to Putin, instead, he’s remaining in total control. Putin is reacting to him. ✊🏽✊🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸
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#breaking @BankofAmerica confirms to me that #jamesiannazzo , that man arrested for Intimidation Based on Bigotry or Bias and breach of the peace, has been fired.
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Excuse me ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ but skipping out on paying your bills is not “cost cutting.”
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This is my great aunt Hélène and my great grandmother Nadine Goldenweiser. Tonight I learned on 28 Oct 1943 they and 1,000 other French Jews were sent to Auschwitz, Nadine died on the train and Hélène died at the camp. They were 54. Only 42 of 1,000 survived. @AuschwitzMuseum
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Lol. This trooper retired, he wasn’t fired.
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My dad passed peacefully this morning he was loved and he will be missed.
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We took my dad off being artificially fed yesterday. I had time to say what I needed to say alone w him. My mom literally texted me a list of things to apologize for. I didn’t know she kept a list or could access it so quickly. Somehow it all seems fitting. 💔❤️💔❤️
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Oh as if this wasn’t bad enough, this happened on 9/11! “The sailor, whose identity was confirmed by the U.S. Navy and a family relative as Sean Nolte Jr., of PA, is stationed in Groton and is attending the Naval Submarine School.” I wonder why she went after him?
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Here’s his write up of the incident. Wow. He’s a good kid.
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This sailor was wearing his UNIFORM when this woman accused him of “faking” being in the military and SLAPPED him. She is reportedly “cooperating” with authorities, bc why arrest her for assault?
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We took my dad off being artificially fed yesterday. I had time to say what I needed to say alone w him. My mom literally texted me a list of things to apologize for. I didn’t know she kept a list or could access it so quickly. Somehow it all seems fitting. 💔❤️💔❤️
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I’m the child of immigrants, so I can safely say that my mom would’ve driven to come get me from a riot, not driven me to one. What kind of values does that family have?
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Just a reminder that @TuckerCarlson applied to, and was rejected, by the @cia .
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Also you can hear the sailor in a calm voice calling and asking for his Chief. It shouldn’t be this way, this sailor was wearing an authorized US Navy uniform.
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In case y’all forgot, Trump suspended immigration from Syria indefinately and then pulled all our troops out allowing absolute attrocities to occur and Russia to settle permanently in Syria.
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Police did not reveal exactly how they corroborated the tip, but they said the man also was present during "an incident in Stillwater Minnesota where a Muslim woman was racially harassed by a group of motorcycle club members wearing Aryan Cowboy leather vests."
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Back to Arnold, what was her transgression? Well apparently it was refusing to speak to Alvarado. Furthermore after using such force, surely she was charged for SOMETHING? Nope. Zero charges. But she was assaulted so badly that she required treatment in the hospital.
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Two suits were settled, one of them involving the beating of a **14-year-old boy**, and two are pending, with the remaining dismissed. Yet, he has remained employed as a police officer! Gun and badge!!!
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His actions transformed peaceful protests into danger zones, the affidavit said. He's also accused of spray painting "free s--- for everyone zone" on the doors of an AutoZone before he smashed in the windows. The store was broken into and set on fire, the affidavit said.
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This isn’t some small thing. I, like many nameless people, walked into very dangerous places (unarmed) because we trusted the US government. We believed our handlers when they said they would protect us. I worked against an entire adversary country on their word alone.
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“Several dozen” and yet they get national coverage.
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NURSES SAY NO: Resistance to California's vaccine mandates on health workers led a group of several dozen workers to protest outside of the Torrance Memorial Medical Center.
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Fyi, I was operational the last time we had a Republican President. I didn’t worry that he would be this cavalier with our secrets, even as I disagreed with his policies. This is a betrayal.
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In this case it was the President of the United States. Not some mid-level bureaucrat. The trust by the people that work in the field and DC, is broken. I wouldn’t want any identifying info passed up. Plus looking somebody in the eye and saying you got them? How can u do that?
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As a case officer you have to look people in the eye and tell them you’ll protect them, knowing that you can’t do so physically, but that you will work like hell to safeguard their identity. It’s a solemn unwritten oath. Your biggest fear is that some bureaucrat will fuck up.
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A 2016 lawsuit claimed Alvarado grabbed a 14-year-old Hispanic boy by the neck and “slammed his head against the ground and concrete” as the child screamed, “Why are you doing this to me?” Alvarado threatened to have the boy and his family deported. The case settled for $15K.
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4 Russian fighter jets briefly violated Swedish airspace over the Baltic sea on Wednesday, the Swedish Armed Forces said in a statement. The violation occurred as tensions are high over UKR and after Russia warned Sweeden against joining NATO.
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It appears @Santos4Congress ex-wife, Uadla Vieira, gave birth to a daughter in 2018, before they divorced. I asked Santos about the daughter, and if it was his - he has not responded.
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All refugees from war deserve to be treated with decency, kindness, and protection. Regardless of the color of their skin, religion, or country of origin.
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A minority of the population choses to drive drunk, yet, we don’t give them a platform to explain they’re dangerous decisions. Yet we do for these loons. Why?
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Anyway I don’t say of this bc of ego. As with much these days, it’s easy to dehumanize things - intel is no different. People risk their lives for this, the value isn’t just paper - it’s their actual life.
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Retired Army Major Combat vet Attends drag show w wife & daughter Tackles gunmen, unarmed Beats gunmen w own weapon Gives interview w dad socks in garage next to el Camino Certified bad ass
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Everything I did was based on two-way trust. Not written promises. That’s the way it works. You want me to go there? Ok, here is what I need. I trusted them, and they did with me. This undermines that entire relationship. It undermines nothing short of our national security.
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A fellow intelligence officer once walked out of a SCIF with a pile of papers, and was stopped and held by security till our Department Head could be summoned to review each paper. The officer in question lost his clearance and voluntarily left the service. Then there’s this.
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UN Security Meeting: UKR rep says to RUS ambassador “there is no place for war criminals in the UN they go straight to hell.”
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What I did wasn’t a team effort, I was alone. If I failed? The mission failed. Everyone else could be replaced, I couldn’t. I was 28 when I started. Weight of the world on my shoulders alone. Faith in the men and women who I worked with. Who sat in safety, while I didn’t.
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For 3 years I watched as Russian military intelligence (GRU) tried to recruit me bc they believed one day I would be a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. It is completely believable the Russians would’ve attempted to do the same here with Cawthorn. A thread
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If the Taliban wanted to overrun the airport and kill everyone there they could, that they don’t is, no doubt, due to the negotiations of the Biden admin.
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She apparently has been fired by @Aetna , am awaiting confirmation and a statement from them.
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Republicans: don’t ask me if I’m vaccinated! That’s a HIPPA violation. Also Republicans: see that car full of brown people? I demand you search it and determine if any of them have COVID!
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this is Nazi stuff
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I interviewed @SteveSchmidtSES yesterday. It was a lot. Like I mean ALOT. And honestly? I could listen to him for hours.
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Real men support a woman’s right to have autonomy over her own body ✊🏽🇺🇸
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Twitter has about 1200 H1B Visa workers, according to reports. Those workers do not have the flexibility to resign from their jobs at Twitter.
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Just leaving Twitter HQ code review
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He stands by his convictions…to collect a pension and healthcare for life — thank goodness for socialism for this trooper!!
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However many Afghans we get out. Remember one thing. The SIV program started in 2009. 2 thousand and NINE. It has been plagued by MASSIVE backlogs. This disaster, in no small part, started long before Biden was President.
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He leaves with a pension and all his benefits. He voluntarily chose to retire. What bullshit these people spout.
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As former spy, and somebody who did this stuff operationally, I am outraged that a “special master” is being considered. The national security trumps everything, and the docs should be returned to a safe not examined by MORE people.
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Young angry white men with guns, it’s an epidemic.
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If only the federal government was allowed to study gun violence and the FBI aggressively tracked and prosecuted white supremacists.
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It doesn’t matter how “benign” the info in those docs is, they were classified for a specific reason. I can’t even begin to lay out how damaging it is that the information contained in those documents may have been compromised.
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If you’re an Afghan woman and they offer to resettle you in Texas, what do you do?
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Well these lunatics have done what transnational terrorists failed to do with 9/11: terrorize an entire country, by murdering people in everything from schools to parades.
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Statement from @SouthwestAir “The Southwest Team takes pride in providing a welcoming, comfortable, and respectful environment for the millions of Customers who fly with the airline each year and behavior from any individual that is divisive or offensive will not be tolerated.”
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@lordnikon42069 Well they just executed a search warrant so I suspect charges are coming.
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His body is still here, but I believe his soul has left and is in whatever comes next. And I miss him.
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I was on the USS Bush last week, they just deployed today, and I was asked nicely not share that info on social media till they left. Even though I have no legal obligation to follow that request, I did, because I believe in protecting our nations secrets and I’m not a dirt bag.
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Q: Did you hear about the new Putin diet? A: You let Zelenksy eat your lunch every day.
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This is how police treated convicted murderer Travis McMichael after he murdered #AhmaudArbery
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Russia is engaged in a conflict that threatens the world, somebody who has access to classified information and is actively pushing pro-Russian talking points, cannot do both. She should not have a clearance, at a minimum.
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The handling of classified information is not a partisan issue. It is a national security issue. Pass it on.
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The American Taliban really hates women and minorities.
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Yes but also it will be marked by having no more young American lives wasted on a war we could never win.
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The 20th anniversary of the Sep. 11 attacks will be marked with the Taliban in control of Kabul and the country.
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#exclusive @newsweek has confirmed that #alwyncashe is set to be the first black soldier, since Vietnam, to receive the Medal of Honor. Sources tell us that SecDef has approved the award and the White House is working on a date for the ceremony.
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James Iannazzo, the man in a viral video harassing and violently threatening 3 young women while making anti-immigrant slurs, has been arrested @FPDCT confirms.
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Presumably, the agencies responsible for those programs are going to have to assess the damage of a possible compromise.
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. @Aetna sent me the following confirmation regarding the woman in the video.
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Iannazzo was captured on video berating and making anti-immigrant slurs towards three young women at a smoothie shop. He told police he was angry that he believed peanuts were put in his sons smoothie.
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@iamcindychu @michellred You were swatted. I was on a panel with @LAPDHQ @LAPDChiefMoore discussing swatting. Not only does this sounds terrible, it sounds like you both were the victim of a crime. I urge you to file a complaint that you were swatted and push for an investigation on who called it in.
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“It was [Trump] supporters…not BLM, not antifa, not the FBI.” Sergeant Gonell #January6thSelectCommittee
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4 Americans were killed in Benghazi, we investigated for 2 years, held 30+ hearings, and changed the way State Dept handles security. In the past few weeks 29 children and adults have been killed in mass shootings. There has not been 1 hearing and not one implemented change.
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. @TuckerCarlson just confirmed to our adversaries who are targets of our intelligence collection and what our capabilities to surveil them are. Nice job Tuck.
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Was Kyle the first mass shooter? Nope. But he’s the first to be exonerated AND lionized and idolized by Tucker and the right. What message does that send?
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There is a person parroting Russian talking points who I know was the subject of a counterintel inv while in Gov svc. They were suspected of being honeypotted while in Russia. While they eventually lost access to classified info, charges were never filed. #RussiaUkraineWar
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That Biles is a black woman is just as relevant that the people who stormed the Capitol were overwhelmingly white men. None of these are just coincidental and form a core connection to each story.
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Why are democrats worried about offending those who wish to oppress us?
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Note it is officially Aug 31st in Afghanistan. So the flight has left by the agreed date.
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“At worst I would be carried out into the crowd and lynched.” Officer Hodges #Jan6thCommission
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I’ve gone from “I’m angry that most Americans forgot we were fighting a war in Afghanistan, till a few days ago” to “I’m angry most Americans didn’t seem to care about the Afghan people for the last twenty years, till a few days ago.”
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Somebody got the #vaccine !
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And just like that Rittenhouse becomes a young George Zimmerman.
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Why are people allowed to participate in anything if they are unvaccinated? Proof of vaccination should be a requisite for basically doing anything and everything.
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Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott on whether or not he is vaccinated: “I don’t necessarily think that’s exactly important … I think that’s HIPAA.” (It is not HIPAA, which prohibits health professionals from revealing your medical records.)
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Dear @elonmusk . This is Captain Amanda Lopez. She’s a CH-47 pilot, and flew me and my @newsweek crew in Alaska. She piloted that giant helicopter with skill 80’ above the trees with mountains rising on both sides. She doesn’t just meet “the standard” she is the standard.
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@thatdaneshguy @MerrillLynch Will let you know what BofA says.
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I’ve watched the graphic full Buffalo clip. He not only shot people, he calmly shot them again while they lay dying to make sure they were dead. How this man, with an alleged history of mental illness, had access to a weapon of war is simply inexcusable.
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UPDATE: Berlin PD just sent me the following -
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Update: Lori Desjardins surrendered and was taken into custody and released on a $10,000 bond.
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Genocide was a term created by a man named Raphael Lemkin, to describe the attrocities of Hitler and the Holocaust. It became the first human rights treaty adopted by the UN. If we let Putin and Russia face no consequence for genocide, then we have abondoned “ #NeverAgain
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