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Gorelick made millions (25-30) in bonuses working for Fannie Mae. It is interesting that Watergate figures Fred Fielding, Richard Ben-Veniste and apparently Jamie Gorelick were all appointed to the 9/11 Commission.

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Blumenthal was a military aide in the Nixon WH rubbing shoulders w Colin Powell, Bob Woodward, Charles Larson. Did you read an item from Jack Brennan a Nixon Marine aide who said Charles Larson and Stansfield Turner tried to enlist Brennan to report on inside dope as a way to boost career. Turner an old friend and classmate of Jimmy Carter. Texas A & M Colodny collection.

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https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp90-00965r000807600003-1

Turner and the McMahons, John N. and Bernard.

Bernie McMahon was Hersh's source for Olson files in Wormwood. The Vault within a vault with a vault. But who is Bernie McMahpn, really?

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Marie Elise Haldane who тАЬfoundтАЭ the planted bug is the daughter of Lieutenant General Robert Haldane, a West Point тАШ47 classmate of Alexander Haig. Both served in Vietnam at roughly the same time. Marie Elise later became a lawyer and represented R Spencer Oliver in a Watergate-related libel case vs journalist Charles Peters around 1990.

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@1:16:30 ... Eric Olson names Bernard McMahon as Hersh's source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS1zxE25T9M

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https://www.washingtonian.com/2001/05/01/the-perfect-lawyer/

Gorelick.

Jack Miller-James Baker merger .... hmmmm.

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Garland allied himself with his future boss, Jamie Gorelick, when he was elected the only freshman member of a campus-wide committee on which Gorelick also served.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland

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Garland and Gorelick both prot├йg├йs of Chicago pol Abner Mikva who became a Clinton mouthpiece.

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