I. NOT GOOD: Lindsey Graham Tells Defense Sec. ‘I Can Make Your Life a Living Hell’
Webmaster’s Comment: Any TI (Targeted Individual) will you tell you that a TI’s life is a “living hell,” a “living death sentence.” Is this what Senator Lindsay Graham was referring to when he threatened Sec. of Defense Mike Esper that he could “make his life a living hell?”
I imagine that he was indeed referring to his power, as an insider, to take revenge upon anyone by enrolling them in this deeply satanic “program.”
However, as Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper would have to know about this historic black operation which has been covertly running throughout the world for over half a century. Therefore, there seems to me to be a reasonable likelihood that this “story”/”narrative” was, in fact, staged as a “limited hangout.” A “limited hangout” is when an intelligence agency admits to something in order to conceal something else, thereby “poisoning the well” with disinformation. The intent would be to suggest that the Secretary of Defense is ignorant of global organized stalking/electronic torture operations. That would be impossible.
By Jason Miciak
February 18, 2020
Lindsey Graham went to the Munich geopolitical security conference along with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, other congressional representatives, and Secretary of Defense Mike Esper. It was while in Europe, far away from Daddy Trump, that Lindsey Graham took it upon himself to threaten Mike Esper about possibly removing American troops from Africa.
** How many of us knew that U.S. troops are stationed in Africa on active duty and why? Something strange is going on where we don’t know the current mission of troops on the ground in Africa.
Back to Lindsey Graham.
Senator Graham really wants those troops in Africa. Per reports:
According to the report, “Sen. Lindsey Graham and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, uniting against a Trump administration idea to withdraw U.S. troops from part of Africa, pushed back during a fiery exchange with Defense Secretary Mark Esper here over the weekend, according to four people present at or familiar with the meeting.”
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The lawmakers insisted that they would not support U.S. withdrawal of troops from the Sahel region of Africa. According to Wiki, the “Sahel” region is an area is almost as big as the United States:
The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south. Having a semi-arid climate, it stretches across the south-central latitudes of Northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea.
So the lawmakers want American troops from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea across Africa just south of the Sahara. Why?
We don’t know.
Tellingly, Lindsey Graham didn’t take it up with the “boss” who actually deploys troops. Graham didn’t discuss the issue with Trump in Washington DC. Instead, our paper tiger went after poor Defense Sec. Esper in Munich:
“At one point, Graham warned Esper that there would be consequences if the Pentagon withdrew all troops from the region. Graham told Esper that he could “make your life hell,” according to the four people.
Apparently none of the four people turned and asked Lindsey why he wouldn’t simply threaten to make Donald Trump’s life hell, since – presumably – Trump retains the ultimate authority to move troops in or out of Africa.
Maybe Graham is tired of having his life being a living hell, and prefers to make threats to others, so as to not have to worry about whatever Trump has over Graham.
We can’t know.
We just know that Graham had a meltdown and went all badassery during an American delegation to Europe, a delegation that got its collective ass handed to it by a European crowd tired of having their lives made a living hell by Trump and the United States.
There is a lot of hell to live through these days, particularly if you’re Lindsey Graham.
II. ‘I can make your life hell!’ Lindsey Graham threatens Donald Trump’s Pentagon secretary over plan to pull U.S. troops out of Africa
Graham Threat To Esper: “I Can Make Your Life Hell”
Senator Lindsey Graham threatened Defense Secretary Mark Esper, saying he could make his life ‘hell,’ according to sources at a meeting in Munich
Esper’s office pushed back on the claim that Graham made the comments
‘That was never said,’ Esper’s press secretary insisted, lauding the conversation as ‘productive’
The comments supposedly came as a bipartisan group of lawmakers urged Esper not to move forward with a plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Africa
Graham argued that Esper could surely find the $50 million it cost to deploy in Africa in the $700 billion Defense budget for fiscal year 2020
By Katelyn Caralle, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com
Published: 11:54 EDT, 18 February 2020 | Updated: 15:43 EDT, 18 February 2020
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Lindsey Graham threatened Mark Esper, claiming he could make the Defense secretary’s life ‘hell’ if he decides to move forward with a plan to remove troops from Africa.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers, which include Republican Senator Graham, met with Pentagon Chief Esper during on the outskirts of the 2020 Munich Security Conference last week, four people familiar with or present at the meeting told NBC News.
The House and Senate members, led by Graham and Democrat Senator Chris Coons – who aren both on the Foreign Relations Committee – are pushing back against a Donald Trump administration initiative to withdraw U.S. troops from the Sahel region in Africa.
The sources said the lawmakers laid out their case ‘forcefully,’ explaining that Congress would not support a U.S. withdrawal from that area.
At one point, according to those at the meeting, Graham told Esper he could ‘make your life hell.’
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham threatened Defense Secretary Mark Esper, saying he could make his life ‘hell,’ according to sources at a meeting where the two were present.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham threatened Defense Secretary Mark Esper, saying he could make his life ‘hell,’ according to sources at a meeting where the two were present
The comments supposedly came as a bipartisan group of lawmakers urged Esper not to move forward with a plan to withdraw U.S. troops from the Sahel region of Africa.
The comments supposedly came as a bipartisan group of lawmakers urged Esper not to move forward with a plan to withdraw U.S. troops from the Sahel region of Africa
Esper’s office pushed back on the claim that Graham made the threatening comments, claiming: ‘that was never said’ and lauding the conversation as ‘productive’
Esper’s office pushed back on the claim that Graham made the threatening comments, claiming: ‘that was never said’ and lauding the conversation as ‘productive.’
But the Pentagon pushed back on the sources claim that Graham made this assertion.
‘I was in the room and that was never said,’ Pentagon Press Secretary Alyssa Garah said.
‘The secretary had a productive conversation with bipartisan, bicameral members of Congress on the future of U.S. force presence in West Africa,’ she continued.
An aide to the South Carolina senator also said a person present during the discussion described ‘bipartisan agreement and support in the meeting in support of the mission.’
The Africa region in question includes parts of western and north-central Africa and encompasses several nations muddled by international terrorist groups.
More than a dozen terrorist groups with links to ISIS or al Qaeda, like Boko Haram and al Shabaab, are operating in the Sahel region.
About 1,000 U.S. troops are usually deployed in that area with the main goal of training local forces, providing aerial refueling to French military planes and collecting and sharing intelligence.
The bipartisan group argued over the weekend that one of the main reasons to keep the small number of troops is that it is relatively low cost.
The sources with knowledge of the exchange said Graham told Esper he absolutely could fund the roughly $50 million in deployments in the $700 billion 2020 defense budget.
Graham, who is on the Foreign Relations Committee, said Esper could surely find the $50 million it cost to deploy in Africa in the $700 billion Defense budget for fiscal year 2020
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Graham, who is on the Foreign Relations Committee, said Esper could surely find the $50 million it cost to deploy in Africa in the $700 billion Defense budget for fiscal year 2020
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Graham is a Trump ally and staunch defender of the president, and in opposing the administration’s plan, he is deviating from his previous support of most Trump initiatives.
But this isn’t the first time Graham has sparred with Trump’s Defense Secretary over foreign defense issues.
On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in February of 2019, Graham butted heads with then-Acting Department of Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan in what was described as a ‘heated’ exchange.
The ‘tense’ interaction, which officials at the 2019 meeting said was filled with expletives from Graham, was over Trump’s decision to pull troops from Syria – a move the senator has vehemently come out against several times.
According to reports from last year, Graham issued a veiled threat at Shanahan during that meeting as well, telling the then-acting secretary that he should consider him ‘an adversary.’