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suegeo

(2,827 posts)
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 04:54 PM Sep 2018

Did Babs Ledeen hack Dr. Ford's emails?

Babs works for Chuck Grassley on the Senate Judiciary committee.

Recently, Dr. Ford said her emails were hacked. She says the Kav assulted her, and perhaps that should be known before the Kav gets a seat on the not-so-supreme-anymore court.

Babs Ledeen sent the email to the Kav. about a mole Babs had cultivated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/leahy-says-kavanaugh-was-not-truthful-about-democratic-documents/2018/09/07/babfb4aa-b2d9-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.43f3e29a3a33

Separately, an email written to Kavanaugh by a then-staffer to the Republican leadership, Barbara Ledeen, had the subject line “spying.” Ledeen wrote that “I have a friend who is a mole for us on the left,” and described information she had learned about spending plans by liberal groups on judicial nominations. “It is important to note that IF we have a nominee, we need to ZIP THAT PERSON RIGHT THROUGH THE PROCESS....WE CANNOT BEAT 20 MILLION DOLLARS,” Ledeen wrote on June 5, 2003.

Kavanaugh forwarded the message to his boss, Counsel Alberto Gonzales, and others, writing, “interesting Ledeen email …”


Babs has a history of starting her own investigations with slimeballs like Newt Gingrich. Babs was looking for stolen emails on the dark web with shady, un-named contractors.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/13/michael-flynn-clinton-email-investigation-russia-dark-web
A close associate of Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn arranged a covert investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state, and through intermediaries turned to a person with knowledge of the “dark web” for help.


AND

Flynn is personally and ideologically linked to Barbara Ledeen, a longtime conservative activist who works for the Republican senator Chuck Grassley on the Senate judiciary committee – which is now investigating alleged links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Ledeen’s husband, Michael Ledeen, is also a confidant of Flynn, and co-authored a book with him last year.


This was an interesting thread that makes me creatively speculate that perhaps Babs was involved in hacking Dr. Ford's emails before Dr. Ford appeared before the Judiciary Committee, and Bab's boss, Grassley. Babs, remember, is friends with "That's right. Lock her up." Mike Flynn.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/13/1706741/-Why-is-Barbara-Ledeen-still-working-for-the-Senate-Judiciary-Committee

Simone Ledeen, the kid, was in Iraq handling billions of dollars in GW Bush's depraved mis-adventure.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48543-2004May22.html?noredirect=on

Occupied Iraq was just as Simone Ledeen had imagined -- ornate mosques, soldiers in formation, sand blowing everywhere, "just like on TV." The 28-year-old daughter of neoconservative pundit Michael Ledeen and a recently minted MBA, she had arrived on a military transport plane with the others and was eager to get to work.

They had been hired to perform a low-level task: collecting and organizing statistics, surveys and wish lists from the Iraqi ministries for a report that would be presented to potential donors at the end of the month. But as suicide bombs and rocket attacks became almost daily occurrences, more and more senior staffers defected. In short order, six of the new young hires found themselves managing the country's $13 billion budget, making decisions affecting millions of Iraqis.


The kid, Simone, was in Afghanistan with some punk Mike Flynn brought with him to the NSA after coup 2016. The kid met Flynn through Babs Ledeen. I can't find his name right now, but will add a link if I do. Feel free to add his name if you find it first.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/michael-flynn-general-chaos

By then, Flynn had become a target of scorn for many inside the department. His deputy, David Shedd, became one of his harshest critics, and did little to hide his disdain. “I was walking by the front office once and heard David Shedd say, ‘I’m going to save the agency from the director,’ ” Simone Ledeen, who works in counter-threat finance at a multinational bank, said. Ledeen had worked for Flynn in Afghanistan, at the office for the director of national intelligence, and in the D.I.A., doing threat-assessment research. (She is also Michael Ledeen’s daughter.)


Michael Ledeen is a disgraced scholar involved in Iran/Contra. Mr Ledeen was key in selling the unreliable Ghorbanifer to his boss, Mcfarlane. My source for this is a book "Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up" by Lawrence Walsh. ISBN 0-393-31860-5 for the paperback. There is another ISBN of 0-393-04034-8, maybe that's for a hardback book? Dunno.

Mike Ledeen is also a huge asshole who wrote a book with the disgraced Mike Flynn.

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Did Babs Ledeen hack Dr. Ford's emails? (Original Post) suegeo Sep 2018 OP
Micheal Ledeen, a propagandist planting fake stories in foreign publications for political leverage blm Sep 2018 #1
The bambino: Ezra Cohen-Watnick suegeo Sep 2018 #2
Such ugly people, the Ledeens and all the other GOP operatives. Judi Lynn Oct 2018 #3

blm

(113,817 posts)
1. Micheal Ledeen, a propagandist planting fake stories in foreign publications for political leverage
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 05:25 PM
Sep 2018

since the Nixon years.

suegeo

(2,827 posts)
2. The bambino: Ezra Cohen-Watnick
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 06:00 PM
Sep 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/ezra-cohen-watnick/534615/

This article was written by: ROSIE GRAY JUL 23, 2017

“I won’t talk to any journalist about Ezra,” said Michael Ledeen, a Flynn confidant who knows Cohen-Watnick well.



The Man McMaster Couldn't Fire
Thirty-one-year-old Ezra Cohen-Watnick holds the intelligence portfolio on the National Security Council—but almost everything about him is a mystery.


AND

That Cohen-Watnick, 31 years old and largely unknown before entering the administration, has become unfireable reveals how important he has become to the Trump White House, where loyalty is prized.


AND
Cohen-Watnick when he was identified as one of two White House sources who provided House Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes with evidence that former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the “unmasking” of the names of Trump associates in intelligence documents.


AND (he seems like a little bit of an annoying asshole)
One person who knew him at the time said that, together with a friend, Cohen-Watnick set up a table outside the Barnes and Noble in downtown Bethesda in the summer of 2003 to “just sort of argue with people about the Iraq War ... just to get into fights with Bethesda liberals.” A White House official denied this anecdote, saying it was “false.”


AND (I agree with whoever said "Fuck this guy, he's just here to spy on us for Flynn"
According to a former senior intelligence official, Cohen-Watnick later served overseas in Afghanistan at a CIA base. “He was embedded with the Agency guys,” said a person familiar with Cohen-Watnick’s career. “But the Agency guys were all like ‘Fuck this guy, he’s just here to spy on us for Flynn and the DIA.’”
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