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Email excerpt with red dots added for emphasis.

Barbara Ledeen is a long-time Senate staffer and Republican operative. In 2004, she sent an email to Trump Supreme Court pick Kavanaugh about “spying” on Democrats, saying that she had a “mole”. And, so, Republicans have gotten caught spying on Democrats more than once since their Watergate burglary. She has connections to Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, the Iran-Contra Scandal, and the Niger Uranium Forgery-Iraq War Scandal through her husband, Michael Ledeen. Without knowing her maidan name, we can’t easily find any connections which she may or may not have to Roger Stone-CREEP-Nixon, etc.

Leahy twitter: https://twitter.com/SenatorLeahy/status/1037753427340795906

Excerpted from “Why is Barbara Ledeen still working for the Senate Judiciary Committee? by MarkC , 2017/10/13 · 17:04, Daily Kos: “Barbara Ledeen and her husband, the influential Neo-Con Michael Ledeen, are close friends and political allies of Michael Flynn, who is a central subject of the Senate’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election… Barbara Ledeen is a conservative political operative with, according to The Forward, “ties to right-wing pro-Israel circles” (10/27/06). In the 1980’s and 1990’s she worked as a Defense department assistant and then a Senate aide, and started to conduct agitprop… Her husband Michael Ledeen… was involved with both the Iran-Contra affair and the Niger uranium forgeries. Today he is a vocal hawk whose only remaining passion in life appears to be the desire to invade Iran… Michael Ledeen co-authored The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies with Michael Flynn?… the Ledeens introduced Flynn to Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who is also implicated in covering up Russian interference and who began the ‘un-masking’ charade?” Read the entire article here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/13/1706741/-Why-is-Barbara-Ledeen-still-working-for-the-Senate-Judiciary-Committee

The Guardian reported that former Trump National Security Advisor Michael “Flynn is personally and ideologically linked to Barbara Ledeen“. They, and other media reported that she “works for the Republican senator Chuck Grassley on the Senate judiciary committee – which is now investigating alleged links between the Trump campaign and Russia.”. Furthermore, her “husband, Michael Ledeen, is also a confidant of Flynn, and co-authored a book with him last year.” Read: “Flynn ally sought help from ‘dark web’ in covert Clinton email investigation.” Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Fri 13 Oct 2017 05.30 EDT https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/13/michael-flynn-clinton-email-investigation-russia-dark-web

On Flynn meeting Michael Ledeen in 2011: http://www.russiatrumpcollusion.com/players.html

“Michael Ledeen: Man of Mystery“, By Claudia Wright, https://www.wrmea.org/1987-march/shadows.html

“Ledeen was involved in the Iran–Contra affair as a consultant of National Security Advisor Robert C. McFarlane. Ledeen vouched for Iranian intermediary Manucher Ghorbanifar. In addition, he met with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, officials of the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Central Intelligence Agency to arrange meetings with high-ranking Iranian officials, whereby U.S supported Iranians would be given weapons by Israel, and would proceed to negotiate with Hizbollah for the release of hostages in Lebanon.[11] Ledeen’s own version of the events is published in his book, Perilous Statecraft.[12]…” Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ledeen

“The Niger uranium forgeries were forged documents initially released in 2001 by SISMI (Italian military intelligence), which seem to depict an attempt made by Saddam Hussein in Iraq to purchase yellowcake uranium powder from Niger during the Iraq disarmament crisis. On the basis of these documents and other indicators, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom asserted that Iraq violated United Nations Iraq sanctions by attempting to procure nuclear material for the purpose of creating weapons of mass destruction… In an interview published 7 April 2005, Cannistraro was asked by Ian Masters what he would say if it were asserted that the source of the forgery was former National Security Council and State Department consultant Michael Ledeen. (Ledeen had also allegedly been a liaison between the United States Intelligence Community and SISMI two decades earlier.) Cannistraro answered by saying: “you’d be very close”…[42]” (FN 42: AlterNet (7 April 2005). “Who Forged the Niger Documents?”) Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries

“The US president, George Bush, used the forged documents to build a case for going to war with Iraq. The US has since accepted they were bogus and blamed British intelligence for supplying the information…“https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/17/pressandpublishing.iraq

For the record, this post was published at 10.09 am UTC Sept. 7, 2018.