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Note: The following text is a quote: Former State Department Official and Wife Arrested for Serving as Illegal Agents of Cuba for Nearly 30 Years Couple Allegedly Conspired to Provide Classified Information to Cuban Government A former State Department official and his wife have been arrested on charges of serving as illegal agents of the Cuban government for nearly 30 years and conspiring to provide classified U.S. information to the Cuban government. The arrests were announced today by David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Channing D. Phillips, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; Joseph Persichini, Jr.,...

About a week ago, Pat Robertson stated that Islam is a "violent political system." (Short video on site.) He happens to be correct, but as usual one of our politicians has to come running to stand up for a religion/political system that they know little about. Virginia's 11Th District Congressman Gerry Connolly (D), has issued this statement calling for Pat Robertson to apologize for his comments about Islam. “In the week since Mr. Robertson’s statement that Islam is ‘not a religion’ but a ‘violent political system’ whose adherents should be treated like members of the communist or fascist party, I...

<p>Although most conventional wisdom rates Gerald E. Connolly of Fairfax County as the safest of three freshmen Democrats elected to Congress in Virginia last year, that wisdom rests on a rematch with Republican Keith S. Fimian in next year's midterm elections.</p>

Well, we got the names. Now there’s no secret who was willing to step out for Pelosicare. I picked out 47 Democrats from the “yes” column that could end up in serious trouble next year. So let’s name some names, donate to their opponents, and turn them out! Michael Arcuri – Nearly got beat by Hanna in 08. Melissa Bean – Knocked off Phil Crane in 04, but still sits in a historically Republican district. Marion Berry – Already targeted by the NRCC, and doesn’t seem to realize that AR wasn’t for O. Tim Bishop – Whined about the townhall...

Today there are lots of people trying to lobby their elected officials on the health care bill pending in Congress, and Gerry Connolly tried to get one of them arrested on false charges of assault, setting a new standard for utterly abysmal, beyond-the-pale horrible constituent service. This guy is absolutely unbelievable. Connolly is trying to claim he wasn’t aware anyone would want to meet with him today, and is refusing to talk to anyone standing in the long, long line of constituents that are snaking out of his office door and well down the hallway. Instead, his staffers are telling...

Kendall Myers, 72, who appeared in federal court in Washington on Wednesday charged with spying for Havana for nearly 30 years, had a fascination with Northern Ireland. The Daily Telegraph has established that as well as seeking the envoy's post, which carried the rank of ambassador, Mr Myers travelled to the British Isles and met British and Irish officials, senior Northern Ireland politicians and intelligence officers. .... "Anything this guy could have found from his European responsibilities he might have funnelled to the Cubans for them to sell off," said John Bolton, a former top State Department official in the...

I got this list from a trusted source on the Hill. I took the time to format, link and get phone numbers. I have not had time to research each one on Porkulus. It appears many of them are freshmen. Please send this list around, especially to those in each district. AL-02 Bobby Bright (202) 225-2901 AL-05 Parker Griffith (202) 225-4801 AZ-01 Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 AZ-05 Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 AZ-08 Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 CA-11 Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 CO-04 Betsy Markey 202) 225-4676 CT-04 Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 FL-24 Suzanne Kosmas (202) 225-2706 FL-08 Alan Grayson (202)...

LOS ANGELES - Former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and his entertainment lawyer co-defendant were convicted Friday of charges linked to the wiretapping of billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian’s former wife in a child support battle. Pellicano and attorney Terry Christensen were each convicted of conspiracy to commit wiretapping. Pellicano was also convicted of wiretapping and Christensen was convicted of aiding and abetting a wiretap. “We are disappointed, think the jury is wrong, and we will be appealing,” said Patricia Glaser, Christensen’s attorney and law partner.

Remember Gerry Connolly, Democrat rep for the Jihad is on the take for CAIR's. Remember it was Connolly who offered strong defense of the Islamic school in Fairfax Va, that teaches jihad, Islamic Jew hatred and aids and abets child sexual molestation) See Here. Connolly, was just elected congressman from Virginia's 11th District -- offered a strong defense of the school and accused the school's critics of slander during the meeting in which the lease was approved. At that time it was discovered that during the democratic primary Connolly was took donations from “Nehad Hammad”the Executive Director of the Council...

When the Saudi Embassy earlier this year asked officials to renew the lease of a radical school it runs in Alexandria, Va., local residents strenuously objected. They argued the school teaches hatred toward Jews and Christians, and has become a breeding ground for terrorists. Gerry Connolly, at the time the Democrat chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, gave a full-throated defense of the Islamic Saudi Academy, even smearing protesters as anti-Islamic “bigots.”

FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, December 05, 2008 When the Saudi Embassy earlier this year asked officials to renew the lease of a radical school it runs in Alexandria, Va., local residents strenuously objected. They argued the school teaches hatred toward Jews and Christians, and has become a breeding ground for terrorists. Gerry Connolly, at the time the Democrat chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, gave a full-throated defense of the Islamic Saudi Academy, even smearing protesters as anti-Islamic "bigots."

Keith Fimian, the Republican candidate to replace fellow Republican Rep. Tom Davis in Virginia’s 11th congressional district, is facing attacks from the Democratic party for — deep breath now — belonging to a group that has a website that links to another group the head of which has said that wives and husbands should submit to each other. Whew. Fimian is a member of Legatus, an organization of Catholic businessmen. Like a lot of organizations, Legatus maintains a website that links to other sites that its members might find interesting. The American Life League, which opposes abortion with no exception...

For generations, Carney's, the only pub in this tiny village in western Ireland, had been the place to strike up a romance, celebrate a birth, or mourn a death - or just sip a pint of Guinness among friends near a warm fire on a damp day. So when Carney's shut down last year after more than a century in business, Teresa Tuttle, 62, took it hard. "Where can we go after a funeral? After work? Where would we all meet?" ... The "closed" sign abruptly posted on Carney's door - and on the doors of 1,000 rural Irish pubs...

Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly (D) said yesterday that under no circumstances would he follow the lead of Prince William County and push for legislation to cut off services to illegal immigrants or authorize police to check the immigration status of suspects, measures he described as election season demagoguery. "I can just tell you Fairfax County is not going to go the route of some of our neighbors," Connolly, who is seeking a second term as chairman Nov. 6, said during a meeting with Washington Post reporters and editors. "We're not going to demagogue. We're not...

CAMP PENDLETON ---- A Marine lance corporal took the hand of an Iraqi man he had just helped kidnap last year and used it to strike the face of the bullet-riddled victim, a co-defendant in the homicide case testified Thursday. "He took his hand and kind of played with it and made Mr. Awad hit himself," former Petty Officer Melson Bacos said about his squad mate, Lance Cpl. Robert Pennington, during testimony in a Camp Pendleton courtroom. "He said, 'Quit hitting yourself.' "Bacos' testimony came as the government presented evidence that will lead to its sentencing recommendation when the court-martial...

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A MAINE attorney who released information in 2000 about US President George W. Bush's drunken driving conviction was arrested today after he dressed up as al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and waved a fake gun at traffic. Police in South Portland, Maine, arrested Thomas Connolly, 49, of Scarborough, Maine, and charged him with criminal threatening. He was released on bail, local officials said. Lieutenant Todd Bernard said the police department received calls about a man wearing Middle Eastern garb and a bin Laden mask and carrying fake dynamite standing along an interstate highway. When police arrived, they saw Connolly holding...

Attorney Tom Connolly was arrested by South Portland police this morning, after motorists reported a man with a gun near Interstate 295. It turns out the gun was part of a Halloween costume, but it looked real enough to passersby and police. Connolly was dressed in an Osama Bin Laden costume and holding a fake gun and a sign that said "I love TABOR". Officers drew their weapons on Connolly, who was taken into custody a few minutes later. It will be up to the District Attorney's office to decide what charges to file, but police say one possibility is...

Iowa Senators Introduce State Assault Weapons Ban 2/25/2005 Press Release Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence 4403 1st Ave SE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 http://www.ipgv.org State assault weapons ban would fill the void created when Congress failed to renew the federal assault weapons ban last September Cedar Rapids, IA - Legislation has been introduced in the Iowa Senate that would prohibit the possession of military-style, semiautomatic assault weapons in Iowa. The bipartisan bill (Senate File 207) is co-sponsored by Senators Connolly (D-Dubuque), Dvorsky (D-Coralville), Lundby (R-Marion), and Tinsman (R-Davenport). Lead sponsor of the bill Mike Connolly said, "Military-style, semiautomatic...

"If anyone could clear up the main points of contradiction between the [Warren] Report's conclusions [with regard to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy] and much of the evidenca and testimony presented before it, it would be the Commission investigator responsible for ascertaining the facts related to the actual moment of the assassination-the sequence of events, the number of shots fired, the source of the shots, the number of assassins. It would be Arlen Specter. At age 33, Arlen Spector was assigned as an attorney to the Warren Commission Investigating the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. His title...

This was Billy Connolly, speaking this week about the British hostage Ken Bigley: "Perhaps I shouldn't be saying this... aren't you the same as me, don't you wish they would just get on with it?" The Yinster's word clearly carries a fair weight with Islamic extremist groups, because reports have come in this afternoon that Ken Bigley's captors have finally killed him. Or rather - Billy Connolly killed him. The terrorists just held the knife. Unwitting pawns in Connolly's ongoing campaign of terror. For years the west has suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of Connolly; and to make it...

Bush-campaign saboteur gets an unlikely olive branch Say what you will about George W. Bush. The man knows how to forgive and forget. Three years after Tom Connolly dropped a fax of the president's old drunken-driving conviction into the hands of local news media - and in the process all but torched a presidential campaign just days before a historic national election - the Portland lawyer finally heard back this week from the man Connolly once referred to on his Web site as "Weinerboy." It came in the mail on Wednesday. It's a computer-autographed, color picture of the president and...

Awareness Seen in Vegetative Patients Thursday October 30, 2003 8:06am Chicago (AP) - A small study suggests that some brain-damaged, vegetative patients may have greater awareness than doctors previously thought. The findings could have a bearing on right-to-die cases such as the one involving Terri Schiavo, who suffered severe brain damage in 1990 and is the subject of a family dispute over whether she should remain alive. The researcher who conducted the study said the results could lead to changes in how patients like Schiavo are diagnosed and treated. Other scientists call the work provocative but far from proof, and...

<p>The jury got it wrong when it acquitted former FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. of leaking information that prompted his longtime informants, James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, to kill two men, according to court documents unsealed yesterday.</p>

<p>BOSTON -- A former FBI agent who built his career on cultivating criminal informants was convicted Tuesday on charges he protected New England gangsters, accepted a bribe and tipped the mobsters to impending indictments against them.</p> <p>John J. Connolly Jr., 61, was acquitted on one other charge of obstruction of justice.</p>

Former FBI Agent John J. Connolly Jr. was not some good guy gone astray. He wasn't just some intense agent who one fine day was led down the garden path by the bad guys he had to deal with day in and day out. That's little more than a fairy tale. The sorry fact is that John Connolly was corrupt at every level, a cancer within the agency, a man who lied and cheated and sullied everything he touched, and who didn't care whose reputation he damaged in the process. And while yesterday's jury verdict was something of a mixed...

A rogues' gallery of Boston mob associates, former FBI brass and a federal judge will take the witness stand in the trial of former FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. when the bombshell case opens tomorrow. ``I believe in the integrity of the jury system,'' Connolly, 61, said yesterday as he left the courthouse. ``I only ask people to understand the very difficult and dangerous job I had to do.'' The panel of seven men and five women selected yesterday will spend at least four to six weeks weighing the government's charges that Connolly betrayed his oath and joined forces...

In the mountain of lawsuits now claiming almost $2 billion in damages over the Boston FBI's past handling of James ``Whitey'' Bulger, the suit that Stephen Rakes will file today in U.S. District Court stands out. Rakes is still alive. The man who allegedly was forced at gunpoint to sell his South Boston liquor store in 1984 to Bulger survived his brush with the bureau's notorious informant and his partner, Stephen ``The Rifleman'' Flemmi, but had his life ruined just the same, according to his attorneys. ``The same government that knew he had been the victim of the extortion sat...