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

Behind the Bastards

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The Great Afghan Con Game - Part Two

John Adema was just selling reporters to bandits and I'm sure getting a cut of what they stole from them. Jack professed to be outraged. He would take this matter up immediately with his good friends in the Afghan government and the bandits would be executed. None of this ever happened. In part two, we're going to talk about what happened after he got his feet all the way in the water. The fun thing about John Adema is that the grifts were really just starting at this point.

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