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To: POKERSAM who wrote (1009051)	3/31/2017 12:57:20 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By POKERSAM TideGlider Respond to of 1575187

From the Iran file Power Line by Scott Johnson Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon’s new book is The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals that Reshaped the Middle East. Solomon has broken many stories on the Iran beat for the Journal. His new book is must reading on the critical national security challenge presented by the regime of the mad mullahs that is on a glide path to the acquisition of nuclear weapons with the invaluable assistance of the Obama administration. Solomon’s new book is reviewed in the current issue of the Jewish Review of Books, which I just received in the mail yesterday. I think I have attentively followed the news regarding Iran, but I somehow failed to absorb the details of the story with which Jordan Chandler Hirsch opens his review: In April 2009, a young Iranian, Shahram Amiri, disappeared in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Ostensibly there to perform the hajj, Amiri had in fact brokered a deal with the CIA to provide information on Iran’s nuclear program. Leaving his wife and child behind in Iran and a shaving kit in an empty Saudi hotel room, Amiri fled to America, received asylum, pocketed $5 million, and resettled in Arizona. Formerly a scientist at Malek Ashtar University, one of several institutes harboring Iran’s nuclear endeavors, Amiri conveyed the structure of the program and intelligence about a number of key research sites, including the secret facility at Fordow. The story might have ended there. But according to Jay Solomon, chief foreign affairs correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and author of The Iran Wars, what happened next “emerged as one of the strangest episodes in modern American espionage.” A year after Amiri defected, he appeared on YouTube, claiming that the CIA had drugged and kidnapped him. In fact, Iranian intelligence had begun threatening his family through their intelligence assets in the United States [Ed. note: Solomon reports in the book that Iranian threats against Amiri’s wife and son left in Iran had been conveyed to Amiri through “a sophisticated network of assets maintained in the” United States]. Buckling under that pressure, Amiri demanded to re-defect. In July 2010, he returned to a raucous welcome in Tehran, claimed he had been working for Iran all along, and reunited with his son. Of course this was not the end of the story. Amiri soon disappeared, and in August 2016, shortly after Solomon’s book was published, he was hanged. Solomon reported on Amiri for the Journal in a 2010 article that is accessible online here. This past August David Sanger reported on Amiri’s execution for the New York Times in “How an Iranian’s spy saga ends, 6 years later: He’s executed.” Hirsch’s JRB review of Solomon’s book is posted online here.

To: POKERSAM who wrote (1009051)	3/31/2017 12:59:09 PM
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Only disreputable scientists know that AGW is BS. That's why they make up just 0.3 % of climate scientists. They're pretty noisy, tho.

To: POKERSAM who wrote (1009051)	3/31/2017 12:59:48 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By POKERSAM Respond to of 1575187

Evelyn Farkas goes Sergeant Schultz Power Line by Scott Johnson Evelyn Farkas is the former Obama administration/Department of Defense official who appeared on MSNBC earlier this month to explain and vouch for the page-one New York Times story on the Obama administration efforts to get disseminate word of the Trump team’s supposed connection to Russian “hacking.” Farkas left the Department of Defense in late 2015 to become a Clinton campaign adviser. I wrote about her in “A Times source outs herself.” Appearing on MSNBC on March 2, Farkas spoke as a former Obama administration insider with personal knowledge of the game that was afoot: “I was urging my former colleagues, and, and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can – get as much intelligence as you can – before President Obama leaves the administration. Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior [Obama] people who left.” And so on. Appearing on CNBC yesterday, however, in the wake of the attention drawn to her comments, Farkas denied knowledge of anything. She only knew what she read in the newspapers.(like Obonzo) Who doesn’t remember Hogan’s Heroes? She went full Sergeant Schultz. NewsBusters has posted the key video and transcript here. NewsBusters has also posted the video below of another Farkas appearance on MSNBC yesterday to the same effect. Message: She knows nothing. She was not there. She did not even get up that morning.