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We Let in 4 Times as Many Terrorists As We Keep Out   ________________________________________________________ Rockfish :  Fish Sebastes is a genus of fish in the family Sebastidae, most of which have the common name of rockfish. A few are called ocean perch, sea perch or redfish instead.  Wikipedia Thomas Jefferson Allen II, 37, a deputy with the Northampton County Sheriff's Office. Operation Rockfish - Google Search ‘Rockfish’ defendant alleges ties to KGB/Russian Mafia "Perhaps the most intriguing part of the unsealed documents, which were part of the federal court record at the District Office in Greenville, is the admission of Thomas Jefferson Allen II, a former sergeant and deputy in the Northampton County Sheriff’s Office and former sheriff’s deputy in Halifax and Gates counties. He informed the DTO of his ties to Russia, the former KGB, and the Russian mafia; offered to connect members of the DTO with criminal associates in

Video And Transcript: NPR's Interview With President Obama : NPR Notable Quotes:   On "ISIS" strategy : "aiming and shooting": "But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim , and it is important in this seat to make sure that you are making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground, and you're not being swayed by politics."  See more on this subject ("Don't do the thing I've done"):  Obama's struggle to realise anti-war rhetoric  - BBC:  Admittedly, the current US military deployments of a few thousand in total are a far cry from the height of US deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, the two wars he had promised to end, while Syria is the one he tried to avoid until he felt it was no longer tenable. But there is currently no likely scenario under which any of these wars will co