at Columbia University, she was recruited as a Middle East analyst after graduation. Her CIA service included:
Roles: She served as a political analyst (2003–2004) and intelligence briefer (2004–2005).
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Deployments: She completed three tours in Iraq (2006–2007), where she led a CIA assessment team and worked alongside U.S. military forces to counter violent militias.
She is fluent in Arabic and Swahili, which facilitated her work in the region.
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She left the CIA in 2007 to join the National Security Council staff but continued to hold various national security positions under both the Bush and Obama administrations.
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The JD Vance MOU, if carried through successfully, risks handing the Islamic Republic of Iran a strategic lifeline that directly undermines the expansion of the Abraham Accords.
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The likely end state is not regional stability, but a recalibration in which Iran regains economic and geopolitical breathing room and rebuilds while Gulf states grow more hesitant to align openly with Israel.
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Even under nominal compliance, Ir@n has a long track record of testing boundaries—probing how far “compliance” can be stretched while preserving its long-term strategic goals.
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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (born 1961) is a terrorist in a suit and is far from the moderate he is being painted at this time by the Trump administration. He was the IRGC brigadier general who has served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Ir@n since 2020.
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The United States designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on April 15, 2019. The designation was made by the Trump administration under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, citing the IRGC's support for proxy militias and
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destabilizing activities across the Middle East. The United States cannot make a deal with the IRGC because of this designation. However, as he is now the Speaker of the Parliament that evidently magically changes who he is according to the Trump administration.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Senator Elizabeth Slotkin has introduced a bill banning sending US military to polling places
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This is exactly what I have been writing about — Senators and House members proposing laws that demonstrate their ignorance of US law and even of the US Constitution to which they made an oath.
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You see, there already is a law on the books. You see, in the United States, we already have the Federal Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. This statute severely restricts the use of the U.S. military—
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have tried to be neutral in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
I made it clear that I opposed Putin’s making the disputes an excuse for a military invasion.
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I also have made it clear that I objected to Ukrainian policies that led to the war, and that I objected to Ukraine rehabilitating as a hero Stepan Bandera, who murdered 25,000 Jews during his one year in office in the early 1920s.
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But this week, Ukraine did it again, rehabilitating another World War II personality who murdered 100,000 Poles and Jews on behalf of the Nazis.
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "REGARDING THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER IN CHICAGO, SOME FAKE NEWS AND WRONG NEWS.
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THE MEDIA has been noting that many of the companies that worked in the construction of the building have never been paid, causing some to seriously consider bankruptcy as their only solution.
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BUT, THE MEDIA HAS ACCUSED OBAMA. SORRY, OBAMA HATERS, BUT OBAMA IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ONE.
The Committee in charge, hired a contractor, paid the contractor, but the contractor has not paid subcontractors for the work they have done.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The Case for Judicial Reform in the State of Israel?
After receiving a lot of questions both from Israelis and Diaspora Jews, it seems there are a lot of people who simply do not understand the issue. So, here it goes.
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The real question that has never been fully answered in Israel is what the role of the High Court should be in a Jewish and Democratic Republic, which the State of Israel is intended to be.
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Why is this subject important? Because the degree to which a judicial system works well depends on the ability of it to be trusted by the people it is supposed to serve.
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