John Kiriakou
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She was arrested because she was a Russian sleeper agent.
just sitting in place and waiting to be activated by the SVR.
This is something that the Russians have always been very good at, the long game.
They'll recruit an agent, put them in place, have them pretend to be an American and just let them sit there for 20 years, 30 years until they need to be activated to carry out some operation.
That's right.
You know...
I've always heard the loveliest things about Pam Bondi, that she's a sweetheart of a person.
She's loyal to the president.
I also heard that she never really wanted to be
attorney general.
The president insisted that she be attorney general.
And you know, when a president calls you and says, your country needs you, you say, of course, Mr. President, I'll do whatever the country needs.
And I think that's what she did.
I think she really wasn't happy in that job.
And then after a year, it was probably time to move on.
It was universally negative.
In my very first briefing, I had only been on the job as an Iraq analyst for six weeks.
My boss said to me, I want you to participate in a group briefing.
You're going to brief the Israelis.
They have a Shin Bet representative and a Mossad representative.