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S.C. mom scoops al-Qaida with its videos
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| Sep 20, 2007
| SAGAR MEGHANI
Posted on 09/20/2007 8:56:59 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: US_MilitaryRules
I have been told that the going rate in Govt. for Arabic language speakers is 150K.
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posted on
09/20/2007 10:34:51 PM PDT
by
A Strict Constructionist
(“Until We the People wake up and reform Congress we are nothing more than corporate slaves. We have)
To: Solitar
"
The CIA should hire her for $50K per year, and give her an office from which she could do the same analysis. No way. The NSA 'No Such Agency' in a place down the street. Looking just like she thinks she looks now. Getting a paycheck from some irrelevent company that gets paid to pay her.
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posted on
09/20/2007 10:49:56 PM PDT
by
BobS
To: Solitar
Yeah, that would be great. She could be silenced and buried in bureaucratic red tape. That’s exactly what should be done! /sarc
43
posted on
09/20/2007 10:52:15 PM PDT
by
Uriah_lost
("I don't apologize for the United States of America," -Fred D Thompson)
To: Rome2000
Laura is one of the most competent intelligence gathering people in the country. Her fluency in Arabic and knowledge of the culture is a consequence of having naively married a muslim and living in Egypt after the marriage. It was a hard lesson. She finally escaped and returned to the U.S.
44
posted on
09/20/2007 10:58:42 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
Comment #45 Removed by Moderator
To: Rome2000
Finding Arabic speakers as competent as Laura AND as aware of the cultural nuances is very difficult. Money isn't the problem. We have plenty of money to hire people for those jobs. There are few applicants qualified to fill them.
46
posted on
09/20/2007 11:02:35 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Rome2000
I see what you are saying,but I am proud of her.
I would be outraged that they do not pay her to join the FBI or CIA! Cheap bastards...
To: Myrddin
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posted on
09/20/2007 11:07:09 PM PDT
by
dcwusmc
(We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
To: BobS
It's a great "work at home" business. As you correctly point out, a paycheck might well be issued from an obscure company for "stuffing envelopes" or similar nonsense.
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posted on
09/20/2007 11:10:36 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
I wonder often what is the best fast-track to learning Arabic.
50
posted on
09/20/2007 11:11:38 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(Yes there were WMDs)
To: Rome2000
51
posted on
09/20/2007 11:18:00 PM PDT
by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
To: DGHoodini
"
Better yet, the $50 K, and a high speed security protecteed,internet connection, so that she can remain at home with her family without fear of being backtraced."
Nope. Down the street with that. And change the I.P. address many times a day. You can find the general area where people are with a static I.P. now. Ping response time. Imagine a triangle within a circle. She could use remote relay nodes several states away that do the same thing. As if she were in those states. There is SW in the newsgroups and FTP that can do things like clean up packets. She should be hired for her hobby.
52
posted on
09/20/2007 11:21:47 PM PDT
by
BobS
To: Myrddin
You don't know. I heard before I left Europe in the late 80's from a buddy in the ??? is that agents got paid from any place because they cut a check from cash provided to the owner plus 5%.
It's not a secret anymore. We were just better at it than the old Soviet Union. There are books written about that stuff. Even books in Russian. I would like to know scribbled Arabic and sit around in my underwear and a bathrobe and a coffee cup unshaven and do this job:) It must be a GS-13 job.
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posted on
09/20/2007 11:44:34 PM PDT
by
BobS
To: BobS
I would like to know scribbled Arabic and sit around in my underwear and a bathrobe and a coffee cup unshaven and do this job:) It must be a GS-13 job.I work from home nearly 100% of the time. While I certainly could get away with the bathrobe, coffee and unshaven behavior, I don't do that. I shave, shower, dress, eat breakfast and put in a 10 to 16 hour day. My supervisor is 3000 miles away. My boss doesn't need to talk to me. He talks to my customers. They say everything that needs to be said. The annual reviews and pay raises let me know I'm doing the right thing.
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posted on
09/20/2007 11:55:04 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Cementjungle
“The CIA should hire her for $50K per year, and give her an office from which she could do the same analysis.”
OH NO....
Between Sensitivity training, gub’ment vacations and days off and all of the rest of the crap, she’d NEVER get any work done!!
55
posted on
09/20/2007 11:59:33 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(You can lead a Liberal to LOGIC, but you can't make it THINK)
To: SlowBoat407
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posted on
09/21/2007 12:15:38 AM PDT
by
Cindy
To: Solitar
OPINION:
Private citizens do not have any extra (special) protection.
They need to hire their own protection and/or protect themselves.
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posted on
09/21/2007 12:17:40 AM PDT
by
Cindy
To: Iconoclast2
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posted on
09/21/2007 12:20:50 AM PDT
by
Cindy
To: BobS; nicmarlo; jeffers; Bahbah; Uncle Ike; All
FYI : post # 51 is inside the Cyber Warfare Center at
Barksdale AFB,Louisiana,,,And in ‘08,,,
The State Of Louisiana and Bossier City have put up the
$100,000,000 that will build the “STINK~TANK” just off base that will employ 2-10,000 “jobs” on/in a 58 acre complexxx.
Bout 5mi. down the road from me,,,Folks with “talents” like
they need don’t live in this area,,,soooo,,,
Maybe we’ll ALL get to Play...;0)
59
posted on
09/21/2007 12:26:10 AM PDT
by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
To: Solitar
I beg to differ. As long as “Laura” is not employed by the fools in the CIA/NSA/FBI, then they have no way to tell her what to do and (more alarmingly) what to *not* do. She’s going to go where her common sense and language skills take her, untrammeled by the political correctness that pervades our security agencies now.
The CIA has proven themselves to be worse than useless since 9/11. And before 9/11 too. Matter of fact, since the Church hearings in the early 70’s, the CIA hasn’t been good for much at all except frittering away their black budget.
Given a choice between a single person like Laura or a collection of Ivy-league pinheads on the government dole like the CIA, I’ll take Laura.
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posted on
09/21/2007 12:52:17 AM PDT
by
NVDave
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