Mark Esper person
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Mark Esper member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“remain unanswered. There's increasing evidence that at least high-level U.S. officials had prior knowledge of the plan. In his memoirs, A Sacred Oath, Mark Esper shared his impression that members of Trump's National Security Council, i.e. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:27:53
Mark Esper asserted
Elliot Abrams book_quoted
“Esper detailed a slew of wild theories that Abrams and his colleagues floated about Saab. This is a quote of one of them. Maduro persuaded President Putin and Russian special forces to spring Saab from jail. Russian mercenaries in Libya wer…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 43:08
Mark Esper asserted
Alex Saab book_quoted
“It depends on what swab, who is now in jail in the U.S. on money laundering charges that doesn't exist, chooses to share with us, unquote. Esper echoed Pompeo's hope the diplomat would cooperate with U.S. authorities and divulge Venezuela's…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 58:02
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▶ 1:27:53
remain unanswered. There's increasing evidence that at least high-level U.S. officials had prior knowledge of the plan. In his memoirs, A Sacred Oath, Mark Esper shared his impression that members of Trump's National Security Council, i.e. …
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during which U.S. and Guaido officials discussed possible scenarios of a small special operations targeted directly at Maduro. Then, out of the blue, one of Guaido's colleagues looked at Esper across the table and said something like, we ha…
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Esper continued in his description of the meeting. I looked directly at him about 15 feet away from me down the table to my left. He turned to me and our eyes met. His face immediately went blank. Something was up. Esper let his suspicion p…
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Esper noted, I probably should have stayed too. When Operation Gideon went into effect roughly three months later, Esper said he wondered if this was the plan referred to by Guaido's team at the White House back in February. Though Venezuel…
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His words could just as easily have been interpreted as spin. By emphasizing his exit from the meeting once discussions turned to a covert Venezuelan plot, Esper separated himself as a representative of Washington and the military from the …
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Regardless of whether Washington was directly involved in Operation Gideon, there's no question the U.S. policy towards Venezuelan drove Goudreau and his friends to follow through with their reckless plot. What purpose did the State Departm…
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to invade Cape Verde and break him out of prison. According to then U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the paranoia allegations was just one of several unsubstantiated rumors that Abrams circulated throughout the media about the diplomat. I…
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a special plane to fly to Cape Verde to repatriate Saab, and Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops were preparing the rescue mission, unquote. That's what Abrams was floating around Washington, D.C. during this time. Just as their weapons of m…
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It seems that somebody was watching too many Mission Impossible movies, Esper joked in his memoir. Esper went on to say something very critically, though. I never saw intelligence to back up any of the accusations that Abrams was making. We…
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When he arrives in U.S. custody, he will become a serious information asset for the U.S. in understanding how the country does business, unquote. He's a pawn. Defense Secretary Esper and Secretary of State Pompeo confirmed Washington's desi…
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alliance with designated U.S. enemy states. And Esper asserted that, quote, allowing countries like Russia, China, and Iran to gain strength in the Western Hemisphere was of great concern, unquote. Pompeo was more openly ideological, writin…
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It depends on what swab, who is now in jail in the U.S. on money laundering charges that doesn't exist, chooses to share with us, unquote. Esper echoed Pompeo's hope the diplomat would cooperate with U.S. authorities and divulge Venezuela's…
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how Maduro and his regime worked, unquote. This is just crazy. And of course, Esper is a former Raytheon executive. I'm sure that has nothing to do with it. It's important to get custody of him, he said. This could provide a real roadmap fo…
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Their illicit scheme was to feed the people and get gas for their cars. That's the illicit scheme. What the Times, Forbes, Pompeo, and Esper failed to understand, however, was that their allegations of Saab's illicit schemes were informed t…
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That violated U.S. sanctions in theory. In reality, the U.S. Treasury jurisdiction did not include agreements and transactions between foreigners and their government. What's more, over a year of torment and isolation in Cape Verde, failed …
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We already know Pompeo's a bad guy. We know Abrams a bad guy. And John Bolton was involved in all of this. OK, that was that was kind of going to be my question. Yeah. So it is completely possible because they did it to JFK, too, to feed fa…
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pointed out the whole rumor mill that was going on throughout the State Department, the CIA with their mouthpieces in the media of all of these threats that they were going to break Saab out of jail any day had literally no intelligence beh…