You continue to err or infer on several points, among them, that I engaged in name calling when I referred to Pipes, Emerson, Gaffney as propagandists, polemicists, advocates. These are, in the political realm, honorable pursuits -- they are just not journalism. You can put lipstick on a pig but it doesn't make him a beauty queen.
As to the lack of anyone filing a law suit as evidence of guilt, let me say that is simply preposterous. Why should anyone spend their time and their money on a lawsuit to answer frivolous charges made be a source who is hardly credible that are more an annoying than they are damaging. The potential gain in such circumstances do not outweigh the costs -- because the alleging party would no doubt continue to make the same or similar allegations even after losing in a court of law.
As to the lack of main stream media coverage, I have asked people I know at several of the publications I cited -- people who are no friend to Bush, to conservatives etc. -- where the stories on this are and the answer is uniformly the same: there's no story to be told.
All of the allegations that have been offered up are circumstantial and usually consist -- at some level -- of guilt by association. No one has been able to establish to my satisfaction or theirs that -- whatever they may be -- Norquist's relationships with any of these people -- if they do in fact exist -- resulted in any policy actions being taken or not taken, any meetings held, any decisions reached, nothing.
The fact that A knew B who knew C who was in the same suite of offices as Norquist and that D had a relative who once served on the board of an organization somewhere has, in and of itself, no inherently deeper meaning.
I could say more but I think I have said enough for the moment. You will, no doubt, have a response because you insist on having the last word.
Found some more disturbing information on Norquist in the course of my research:
Safavian is in jail now. Another Norquist buddy:
Ex-Director, Islamic Institute
Ali Tulbah
David Hossein Safavian
Administrator, Federal Procurement Policy, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
Ex-Lobbyist, Abdurahman Alamoudi, Janus-Merritt Strategies LLC, Washington
Ex-Director, Islamic Institute
Ali Tulbah
Associate director, Cabinet Affairs, White House
Son of Hasan Ali Tulbah, treasurer, Islamic Society of Greater Houston
Didn't know Mahboob Khan founded the Islamic Society of North America...
Father of Suhail Khan, aide to Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta,
ex-White House aide
Founding member, Muslim Student Association
Founding member, Islamic Society of North America
Founder, American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice, Santa Clara, Calif.
Co-Founder, Islamic Society of Orange County, Calif.
Co-Founder, Muslim Community Association, Santa Clara, Calif.
***Links to cancelled checks from Alamoudi (now in jail on terror charges), Saudi interests, Qatar, Gov't of Kuwait....all to Norquist.***(Islamic Institute)
Saudi interests: http://sperryfiles.com/images/8-1b.jpg
Qatar: http://sperryfiles.com/images/8-1a.jpg
Gov't of Kuwait: http://sperryfiles.com/images/8-1d.jpg
Khan was elected to the ACU Board.
