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who is coffer black?
Burisma faced a money-laundering investigation and questions over how it had obtained some of its licenses to drill for natural gas. In spring 2014, the company appointed Hunter Biden and a former Polish president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, to its board. Three years later, Burisma added Cofer Black, a former CIA official and foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, to the board. "I believe the only reason Burisma and Zlochevsky were inviting people with such names was to whitewash their reputation and to present themselves as a company doing legitimate business in Ukraine," says Daria Kaleniuk, head of the nongovernmental Anti-Corruption Action Center in Kyiv.
but then again hes almost single handedly responsible for drones being armed so depending on your view on that you either love or hate the guy
September 11, 2001 After the 9/11 strikes on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon, some CTC staff refused an order to evacuate the CIA headquarters building at Langley. They included the shift of the Global Response Center on the exposed sixth floor, which Black would eventually argue had "a key function in a crisis like this." Tenet finally accepted that Black wouldn't leave, and that their lives would be put at risk.[14] The CTC obtained passenger lists from "the planes that had been turned into weapons that morning." "[A] CTC analyst raced over to the printing plant," from which most CIA staff had been evacuated, and pointed out the names Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who they had "been looking for the last few weeks." This was the first "absolute proof" that the attacks were an Al-Qaeda plot.[15] The CTC had first come across the names in connection with potential terrorist activity in the winter of 1999-2000 [see above].
originally posted by: matafuchs
He is a political bag man. He was as stand in for 2012 election and he has effectively taken the place of McCain as head RINO in Congress.
He has nothing to lose so he will 'act like a champion' and vote for a crime that never happened.
A pathetic man.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: matafuchs
He is a political bag man. He was as stand in for 2012 election and he has effectively taken the place of McCain as head RINO in Congress.
He has nothing to lose so he will 'act like a champion' and vote for a crime that never happened.
A pathetic man.
Is it a trend that once you lose a Presidential election you go Rhino? I think in both McCain and Romney's case they came close to the Presidential brass ring to lose it and then to see someone like Trump best them at it. I'm sure they didn't take that very well no matter how good or bad Trump might be.
so even getting greif from family over this
Ronna McDaniel @GOPChairwoman This is not the first time I have disagreed with Mitt, and I imagine it will not be the last. The bottom line is President Trump did nothing wrong, and the Republican Party is more united than ever behind him. I, along with the @GOP , stand with President Trump.
is a conspiracy site so who knows but i bet this would settle the debt so to speak
Judith Thurman, an author and biographer of Raymond Chandler, just handed Mitt Romney a bill for $25,000. She wants to settle a debt owed to Thurman's family from the Romney clan dating back to the 1880s. It would appear that great-grandfather Flake (Thurman's relation) bailed great-grandfather Romney out of jail for $1,000. Romney never repaid the debt. By Thurman's calculations, this is worth about $25,000 in today's money. The tale gets more sordid: Thurman described the family heads as "patriarchs of adjoining Mormon communities in the high, cold, hard country of northern Arizona, a region known as Apache County." Both Flake and Romney were practicing polygamists when US law enforcement began cracking down on the practice. Flake and Romney were tossed in jail, where Flake, described as a "deeply respectable man," posted his own bail, then did the same for Romney. Freshly freed from jail, Romney fled with his three wives to Mexico, reneging on his debts. Flake, meanwhile, served a six-month prison sentence. The events led a newspaper editor of the era to describe Romney as having "the character of a louse, the breath of a buzzard and the record of a perjurer and common drunkard." Thurman wrote about the incident in the LA Review of Books. "Since it's never too late to make a situation right, and since Mitt Romney seems to have sufficient funds now to cover his ancestor's old debt, I'd like to call upon him to do so. I've done some calculation, and $1,000 from the 1880s would today be worth about $25,000, not counting interest (and since I'm not a smart enough to figure up the interest, I'm willing to let that part slide). Because William Jordan Flake has about 15,000 descendants living at the moment, I realize I'll have to divide up the money should Romney do the right thing and write out that check." So, will Romney repay the debt, repairing relations between two of the foundational Mormon families? Well, I don't think anyone is holding their breath...