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To: Grampa Dave
Also I fear the justice dept still possess the pc mindset. They have no problem bringing down an easy target like Martha Stewart which cost us tens of millions of dollars to prosecute. But they proceed with a heightened degree of caution in cases like this to try not to offend those who hate us anyway.
17 posted on 07/27/2004 10:50:54 AM PDT by True Capitalist
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To: True Capitalist

Martha is/was a pivotal case for future sentencing of traitors and other criminals. If they are caught lying to the JD, they can now go to jail with a whole lot of their friends there and going there.

If I had my way, Martha would not be serving part of her sentence in her mansion. She is a low life criminal who lived the elite life. She knew better. I knew better over 30 decades whenever I was exposed to insider knowledge to the time I retired and as a consultant, and I wasn't a stock broker or on the Board of the Exchange. So I never broke the law on insider trading.

Now a question for you. Do you think that a Kerry led Justice department will be tougher on terrorists or a John Ashcroft Justice Department?


20 posted on 07/27/2004 10:57:04 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The pickled liberal princess is Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry !)
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To: True Capitalist; OXENinFLA
Meanwhile a *Department of Homeland Security* employee, with equally suspicious ties to arab terrorist groups, has been reinstated and given his job back. Don*t we all feel safe now? This is insanity.

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,126719,00.html

Homeland Security Appointee Under Investigation
Sunday, July 25, 2004
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
WASHINGTON — Officials at the Department of Homeland Security are investigating the reinstatement of a top political appointee to the agency who was briefly suspended for failing to disclose ties to a controversial Islamic organization, FOXNews.com has learned.

Faisal Gill, director of policy for intelligence at DHS, was forced to take a few days off in March after sources close to the FBI raised flags about Gill*s former position as spokesman for the American Muslim Council. The now-defunct American Muslim Council ( search) was founded in 1990 to lobby Washington for the interests of American Muslims and had been involved in community activism to that end. AMC was established and headed by Abdurahman Alamoudi ( search), who was indicted in 2003 on passport fraud and illegal finance activities with Libya. Court documents call Alamoudi an active supporter of Hamas (search), which the U.S. State Department considers a terrorist organization, and an official in an international charity group run by Usama Bin Laden*s nephew. Alamoudi recently told federal officials he was part of a plot to assassinate King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

According to a report first published last month by Salon.com reporter Mary Jacoby, Gill omitted his role with the American Muslim Council when he filed his employment application and requisite security clearances at the agency. Gill left off his "Standard Form 86" that he served as AMC?s spokesman in 2001. Homeland Security officials refused to comment on the report, but a spokeswoman for the department*s internal watchdog told FOXNews.com that Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin is ?looking further into the issue? of Gill*s employment at the department.

"He*s taking it seriously," said Tamara Faulkner, who would not confirm what kind of probe was being undertaken, but said reports of Gill?s re-instatement in light of his sensitive security position and failure to disclose a past affiliation with the AMC was at the heart of it. "I don*t know where it is at this point," she said. (well golly gee, .. shucks).

Capitol Hill sources as well as other sources close to the FBI confirmed Gill*s alleged omission of his ties to AMC led to his temporary removal from his post at Homeland Security. They added his employment there continues to be a source of curiosity.

According to sources close to the FBI, Gill, who also was director of government affairs for the Islamic Free Market Institute ( search) in Washington, D.C., was reinstated at DHS after a thorough background check.

Gill*s reinstatement has raised questions because of his link to Alamoudi, who was once a paid consultant of the U.S. State Department hired to forward the interests of Muslim, Jewish and Christian reconciliation. Soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, a videotape surfaced featuring Alamoudi fueling an anti-Israel rally in front of the Clinton White House in 2000 and declaring support for Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations. Gill did not return phone calls or e-mails for comment.

Concern on Capitol Hill
Lawmakers and political observers are expressing concern about men with such ties being given access to high-level positions in the White House, and Gill*s employment at Homeland Security has invigorated a smoldering debate among Republicans. If a person worked in any capacity for the American Muslim Council, that had to be disclosed;

"it*s unconscionable not to disclose that if you are going to work for the Department of Homeland Security," said Rep. Peter King ( search), R-N.Y, who serves on the House Homeland Security Committee and recently published the Sept. 11-inspired novel, "Vale of Tears." ?The fact that he didn?t disclose this I think raises some serious questions, if anything, about his judgment,? King told FOXNews.com

52 posted on 07/28/2004 12:06:45 PM PDT by MindFire
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