Kivvit...

Two former staffers of Gov. Andrew Cuomo who helped their ex-boss smear sexual harassment accuser Lindsey Boylan have left their jobs at a politically connected public relations firm with millions of dollars in state contracts, The Post has learned. 

Josh Vlasto and Richard Bamberger both former top Cuomo staffers who were named throughout the attorney general’s report into the governor’s “inner circle”  confirmed they had left their jobs as managing directors at PR firm Kivvit.

“We agreed to amicably part ways,” Vlasto and Bamberger said in a joint statement to The Post.

Kivvit — which has counted Google, Tesla, Citigroup, Lyft, Princeton University and the US Olympic Committee among its clients — had already scrubbed the pair from its website by Monday morning. 

Blame...

 

Gov Cuomo of New York State...., Gov Newsom of California, Biden's Wonderful Plan of leaving Afghnistan, Covid-19 mishandling, Nursing Home's death,  and no one to blame today. 

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Russians..

 

We should have let the Russian in Afghanistan then, and make life easier for all.  Just  thought.

Joe-Jimmy Carter Biden...

 

MisJudged...

 

The administration struggled to project order amid a race by American and other foreign personnel to evacuate Afghanistan as Taliban fighters entered Kabul.

The rapid fall of Afghanistan's national forces and government has come as a shock to Biden and senior members of his administration, who only last month believed it could take months before the civilian government in Kabul fell -- allowing a period of time after American troops left before the full consequences of the withdrawal were laid bare.

Now, months after his initial declaration that all 2,500 US troops would be out of Afghanistan by the end of the summer, a total of 6,000 troops are expected to help facilitate the evacuation.

Yet the chaotic scenes playing out as that war ends evoking the fall of Saigon in 1975, an image that haunted Biden as he weighed a withdrawal earlier this year -- are certain to trail Biden as the Taliban asserts control over large swaths of the country.

Already, some members of Congress are demanding more information from the administration on how its intelligence could have so badly misjudged the situation on the ground, or why more robust contingency plans for evacuating Americans and their allies weren't in place.

The war on Iraq, and its consequences was lables as MisJudged.   Just a thought.

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In 1986, CIA chief William Casey had stepped up the war against the Soviet Union by taking three significant, highly secret, measures. He had persuaded the US Congress to provide the Mujaheddin with American-made Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down Soviet planes and provide US advisers to train the guerrillas.  

The CIA, Britain’s MI6 and the ISI [Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence] also agreed on a provocative plan to launch guerrilla attacks into the Soviet Socialist Republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the soft Muslim underbelly of the Soviet state from where Soviet troops in Afghanistan received their supplies.   

In March 1987, small units crossed the Amu Darya river from bases in northern Afghanistan and launched their first rocket attacks against villages in Tajikistan.

Casey on his next secret trip to Pakistan crossed the border into Afghanistan to review the Mujaheddin groups.

Thirdly, Casey committed CIA support to a long-standing ISI initiative to recruit radical Muslims from around the world to come to Pakistan and fight with the Afghan Mujaheddin.  

President Zia aimed to turn Pakistan into the leader of the Muslim world and foster an Islamic opposition in Central Asia.  

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Next...

 

War, What it is good for?  Elain Benes from Seinfeld.

Blame...

 

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the Biden administration has "failed" in its withdrawal from Afghanistan as the Taliban is poised to retake control of the country as the U.S. is ending its nearly 20-year military presence there.

Pompeo also pushed back against President Biden's claim that he inherited a bad situation from his predecessor, former President Donald Trump.

Biden has blamed the Trump administration for making a deal with the Taliban that led to the withdrawal. In 2019, Trump criticized the ongoing U.S. presence in Afghanistan, claiming that American forces had been serving as "policemen" for 19 years and should not be doing so anymore.

Twenty years or 50 Years are down the Darin. We don't know the culture, we don't know the people in Afghanistan. 

Now we know the people, and now we know the culture.

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Hisitancy...

 

White House press secretary Jen Psaki was grilled on whether or not President Biden encouraged vaccine hesitancy with comments he made last year cautioning he did not "trust" former President Donald Trump as his administration worked to roll out vaccines. 

"Has there been any thought given, looking back, to the possibility that [Biden] may have created some vaccine hesitancy? When last year, around this time, the previous administration was rushing to get a vaccine authorized, and how the president said, ‘I trust vaccines, I trust scientists, but I don't trust Donald Trump,’" Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked Psaki during the press briefing Wednesday. 

"Well, I think it's safe to say he still doesn't trust Donald Trump so that hasn't changed. But he does trust scientists, he does trust data experts, And he does trust the people leading the CDC, the FDA, which is the gold standard of approval for vaccines," Psaki responded.