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The emails show some State Department officials were confused about why Fernando, a Chicago commodities trader with a long history of political donations but no known national security background, would be placed alongside officials with decades of arms control experience.
S is Hillary
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“The true answer is simply that S staff (Cheryl Mills) added him,” wrote Wade Boese, who was Chief of Staff for the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, in an email to State Department press aide Jamie Mannina. “Raj was not on the list sent to S; he was added at their insistence.”
State Department officials have publicly said Fernando's appointment was part of an effort to diversify the backgrounds of people on the board....
“It is certainly a serious, knowledgeable and experienced group of experts,” said Bruce Blair, a Princeton professor whose principal research covers the technical and policy steps on the path toward the verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons. “Much of the focus has been on questions of nuclear stability and the risks of nuclear weapons use by Russia and Pakistan.”
The previously released emails include one in which Fernando tells State Department officials he has hired a tutor to help him get up to speed for the appointment.
A tutor... he hired... a... friggin'... tutor.
A. Tutor.
Did he put up an index card on the bulletin board at the student union? Craigslist, maybe?
God help us all... I've said it a hundred times, and I'll keep on saying it - by the time she's through, she's going to make Richard Nixon look like George Washington.
When is the crooked Hillary's price going to come down. If she would sell herself on Amazon and give people a piece of the action she might make more money and maybe people could buy a job from her too.
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