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Part One: Jack Idema: The War On Terror's Dumbest Grifter

Behind the Bastards

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John Adima and the War on Terrorism

Jack Adima was in the special forces, but you would not call him like he's not good at it. He trained guards to protect US government facilities in Haiti and did some amount of vaguely described work for the Thai military. John had no real qualifications to do this other than the fact that he'd been very bad at being in the special force. The president's son, Ron Reagan Jr., used his facilities at some point - we don't really have a clear idea why.

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