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On the recordJune 27, 2024
If you want to come up with the right policy position on any issue related to foreign affairs, talk to Antony Blinken first and then do the opposite. We have all seen the Secretary's inability to be correct about our major foreign policy concerns in the last 20 years, whether it be Iraq, Libya, or Yemen, giving the Iranians access to tens of billions of dollars, or the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan. He is undoubtedly one of the most professionally incompetent individuals to hold the title of Secretary of State. If incompetence by itself were a sufficient ground to remove a Senate-confirmed Cabinet official, the President would have very few advisers left. In the case of Secretary Blinken, it is more than just about incompetence. It is about corruption. We have long since learned from former Acting CIA Director Mike Morell that the infamous ``spies who lie'' letter, an event responsible for Donald Trump not being President today, was led by no one less than Antony Blinken. The letter, signed by 51 intelligence experts, was intended, according to Morell, to give Joe Biden a way to refute the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of a Presidential debate in September 2020. You would think this would be worthy of investigation if not outright impeachment. We just found out that at least two signatories of the ``spies who lie'' letter, Michael Morell and David Buckley, were actively working for the CIA as contractors. Think about that.…
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Andy Ogles
Republican · Tennessee
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govinfo.gov
Jun 27, 2024

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