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Time Magazine Fears Shutdown Could Turn Spies Into Traitors
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Posted on 10/02/2013 11:07:43 AM PDT by chessplayer

The shutdown fearmongering continues apace, and Time magazine is dutifully passing along the administration's talking points. Here's the latest: the government work stoppage could drive cash-starved spies into the arms of other countries. It would make otherwise patriotic Americans become traitors.

An ongoing government shutdown heightens the risk that American intelligence officers could be flipped as double agents, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clapper; dni; govtshutdown; spies; timemag; traitors
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1 posted on 10/02/2013 11:07:43 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
Oh pleeze.....There must be evidence of other spies tuning during other shutdowns.

How stupid can you get. It's day One.

2 posted on 10/02/2013 11:09:49 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: chessplayer

Awwwww, any such spies just need to suck it up! We get saddled with obamacare and we just have to take it - so they can take this as well. If they’re patriots, they stick. If they’re not, they run. What’s the big deal?


3 posted on 10/02/2013 11:12:27 AM PDT by GilesB
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To: chessplayer

The shutdown will cause the icecaps to melt too.


4 posted on 10/02/2013 11:12:53 AM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: chessplayer

This article is from the Onion, right?


5 posted on 10/02/2013 11:13:30 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: chessplayer

Who better to know about having intel and being traitors than the employees of TIME (well other than those at NYT, WP, MSNBC, CNN, etc.)?


6 posted on 10/02/2013 11:15:33 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: chessplayer

I thought that whistle blowers were already considered to be traitors by exposing corruption in the administration.


7 posted on 10/02/2013 11:15:38 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: chessplayer

You mean TIME magazine where Jay Carney previously served as Washington Bureau Chief - no bias there I’m sure.


8 posted on 10/02/2013 11:15:56 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: chessplayer

The sky is falling, etc.


9 posted on 10/02/2013 11:15:57 AM PDT by sarasota
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Yeah, the nat’l intelligence director is saying they can’t “guarantee the nation’s safety ...”
like they could before, and,
pay us or we shoot the dog.


10 posted on 10/02/2013 11:16:05 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: TigersEye

Did you hear a lot of beaches are shut down as well? Apparently with the government shut down there is no control of the tides...scary times..


11 posted on 10/02/2013 11:16:20 AM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: chessplayer

Here is one of my “Talking Points:”

If “OBAMACARE SUBSIDY HEALTH INSURANCE TAX,” aka OSHIT, is so popular, then why isn’t Mr. Michelle Obama enrolled?

This is enrollment day number TWO, Barry: tick-tock - - -


12 posted on 10/02/2013 11:16:31 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Marxist Obama'care' Insurance violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: chessplayer

Is there still a “Time magazine?” I remember such a title years ago. But thought it became so politically slanted and irrelevant that it died out.


13 posted on 10/02/2013 11:18:31 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Er)
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To: chessplayer

To quote the left’s idea of an intellectual woman, “What difference does it make?”

After all, the MSM already provides the enemy pretty much whatever it wants.

And it manages to do this while simultaneously covering up all negative information concerning worshippers of an unnamed child boinking “prophet” and a certain unnamed buota baby resume hiding moron of a president.


14 posted on 10/02/2013 11:18:41 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: chessplayer
Was journalism ever an honorable profession?
15 posted on 10/02/2013 11:18:46 AM PDT by cardinal4
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To: chessplayer
Was journalism ever an honorable profession?
16 posted on 10/02/2013 11:18:52 AM PDT by cardinal4
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To: chessplayer

Planes will be falling out of the skies.
The World Ends Tomorrow!

Pray America is Waking Up


17 posted on 10/02/2013 11:19:06 AM PDT by bray (Coming soon: The Republic of Texas 2022)
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To: Sacajaweau

“How stupid can you get. It’s day One.”

Remember something, many of these shutdown stories were written WEEKS AGO, and previewed on Kos, as well.


18 posted on 10/02/2013 11:19:12 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: grumpygresh

Well, the NSA goons are already traitors for spying on us.


19 posted on 10/02/2013 11:21:35 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

LOL
Day 2 and desperation is setting in..


20 posted on 10/02/2013 11:21:40 AM PDT by BuddaBudd (F U B O)
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