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Jihad Spence: Fred Thompson's Pan Islamist Campaign Manager (Debbie Schlussel Alert)
Debbie Schlussel.com ^ | 07/25/2007 | Debbie Schlussel

Posted on 07/25/2007 6:16:10 PM PDT by goldstategop

He hasn't yet entered the Presidential race, and yet Fred Thompson, yesterday, showed us why he's the scariest Republican Presidential candidate. And maybe the scariest of both parties.

Don't believe Thompson's claim that he understands the Islamist jihadist threat to America. His announcement, yesterday, of his choice of Spencer Abraham as campaign manager, told us everything we need to know. Although Abraham, of Lebanese descent, is a Maronite Christian, he is a career water carrier for Islamists of the most extremist stripe and made that the cornerstone of his failed, one-term Senate career and equally lousy tenure as Energy Secretary.

Spencer Abraham: Former Bush Energy Secretary, Current Pan-Islamist & Fred Thompson Campaign Manager

As a conservative--but more important, as an American concerned about the future of this country in the face of a terrorist threat--Thompson's choice of Spencer Abraham was the nail in the coffin for me in opposing Fred Thompson's quest for the White House.

I know Spencer Abraham. He wrote one of my recommendations for law school. And the Spencer Abraham that I and all of America have since experienced is bad news for everyone except CAIR, ADC, MPAC, ISNA, and all Islamists who want to endanger America.

In 2003, I wrote the definitive column on Spencer Abraham a/k/a Spence a/k/a Edward Spencer Abraham (which was quoted in The Washington Post), and I re-publish it below, with several additions I've made, updating it. At the time Spence was still Energy Secretary, but he left to become a lobbyist for Islamist countries.

As a Senator, he took marching orders from James Zogby of the pan-Islamist Arab American Institute, opposing profiling of Arabs, the use of secret evidence against Muslims (at the behest of Muslim groups), attempting to repeal the Clinton counterterrorism package, refusing to fund computer tracking of student and other foreign aliens, giving millions in our tax money right to Hezbollah, and putting CAIR on the map on Capitol Hill (taking the group's officials around to meet other Senators and Members of Congress). He took campaign contributions from the relatives of Hezbollah-backed top Lebanese officials after he got the group millions in our tax money.

Spence was one of only two Senators in the entire U.S. Senate who refused to sign a letter calling on President Clinton to condemn Palestinian terrorism and Yasser Arafat. This was at the height of a series of homicide bombings in 1999 and 2000.

As Energy Secretary, he gave top secret tours of nuclear facilities, as well as detailed information on how we secure them to Muslim nations who are our enemies. And he gave out undue post-9/11 awards to Al-Qaeda money-launderers . . . at the White House. The money launderers were raided by U.S. Customs Service agents.

After he left the Bush cabinet, Spence became a lobbyist for Mid-Eastern Muslim countries that practice the Arab boycott of Israel and don't really like us too much either. He took their money and until the Thompson race, did their bidding.

Do you really support a guy, Fred Thompson, who picked this man to head up his team? Either Thompson is clueless about Abraham, which should immediately disqualify him for the White House and frighten all of us about how he makes decisions. Or he knows about Abraham, and went with him anyway. Just as bad.

If you want to say no to jihad, you WILL say NO to Fred Thompson. He chose, and now we must choose against him:

JIHAD SPENCE: Bush's Dangerous Energy Secretary is Now Fred Thompson's Campaign Manager

By Debbie Schlussel

Since the Blackout of 2003, he's gotten lots of TV face time. But should U.S. energy policy be entrusted to Spencer Abraham?

In 2000, President Bush said his Cabinet would "look like America," nominating Abraham, the defeated Lebanese-American Senator from Michigan, to Energy Secretary--part of the Bush strategy targeting the Arab vote.

But was this political strategy in the best interest of the country? Abraham's record suggests otherwise.

In the two years since 9/11, Abraham did absolutely nothing to improve our precarious electric power situation.

That would be bad enough.

But, since 9/11, Abraham continued a controversial UN-sponsored program allowing foreign visitors from countries on the State Department terrorist list to tour U.S. nuclear reactors. A course sponsored by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency, taught by U.S. nuclear weapons lab security personnel, gives tours of Nuclear Regulatory Commission facilities and teaches participants from 57 countries--including Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia--security techniques employed at American nuclear sites. "They were teaching them to black out systems, which they could use against us at labs," an official told a popular newssite.

The Clinton Administration taught the course to foreign representatives, too. But that was pre-9/11. In the post-9/11 era, Abraham irresponsibly continued it, despite protests.

Then there's Jamal Barzinji. Abraham enlisted him to find parties who helped and reached out to Muslims after 9/11, with Abraham hosting an awards ceremony for them. Problem is, Barzinji is an officer and/or director in SAFA Trust, Mar-Jac Poultry, and International Institute for Islamic Thought, all raided by Customs in March 2002 for laundering over $1.7 billion to Al-Quaida and Islamic Jihad (through indicted University of South Florida professor and alleged Islamic Jihad frontman Sami Al-Arian).

More troubling is Abraham's Senate record, ignored by his former Senate colleagues in an easy confirmation hearing.

Should a Senator who deliberately endangered national security for Arab/Muslim votes and campaign money be entrusted to oversee U.S. energy policy and access?

Abraham's frightening national security record included:

Liberal immigration policy, including lax foreign visitor tracking, at the behest of Arab/Muslim groups; Tried to End Profiling, Secret Evidence Use Against Terrorists

Abraham was Senate Immigration Subcommittee Chairman through the end of 2000. Abraham routinely caved to the demands of Arab/Muslim leaders, such as the Arab American Institute's James Zogby, on national security matters, especially immigration.

"Ever since (I first met) him, Abraham has been coming to us and giving advice, support and the benefits of his leadership," Zogby told The Detroit News.

And taking Zogby's advice, too.

Abraham actively worked to delay computer systems to track foreign visitors, which Arab/Muslim groups, including Zogby's, strongly opposed. 1996 immigration law required computerized entry and exit tracking of all temporary visas, but was gutted by Abraham and other legislators. They refused to allocate money for the program and delayed its full implementation until 2005. In 2000, Abraham, as Chairman of the Immigration Subcommittee, delayed implementation of other requirements of the 1996 immigration measure, including university-assisted enforcement student visa laws and collection of fees from foreign students to pay for computer tracking.

These programs might have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks. But Abraham desperately craved the Arab/Muslim vote in Michigan.

Abraham also sponsored and pushed for the repeal of the use of secret evidence against terrorists, a vital portion of the Clinton counterterrorism package. He also sought to outlaw profiling of Arabs and Muslims by federal law enforcement.

Foreign aid funding for Hezbollah, rewarded by pseudo-foreign campaign contributions

In July 2000, Abraham sought over $268 million in tax-funded USAID grants for Hezbollah terrorist-controlled Southern Lebanon, at Arab American Institute's Zogby's request. Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah, has targeted and murdered many Americans. Millions in similar USAID grants (which have scant strings and accountability attached) to Afghanistan were misspent on Taliban terrorist activities. Abraham enlisted Michigan Republican Congressman Joe Knollenberg, on the House International Relations Committee, to push the questionable aid package in the House. They ended up obtaining $86 million, which went straight to Hezbollah and which was never tracked thereafter. They knew this, and that's why they and Zogby sought the money for their Hezbollah friends.

Abraham and Knollenberg were repaid for their efforts, receiving thousands in campaign contributions from Nijad Fares, the Houston-based greencard-holding son of Syrian-backed Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares.

Soft on terrorism

Abraham was one of only two U.S. Senators who refused to sign an October 2000 letter to President Clinton condemning terrorist acts by Yasser Arafat and the P.L.O.

Abraham led the nearly successful June 2001 attempt to reverse the use of classified evidence against terrorists, sponsoring the legislation at the behest of Islamist groups, including the American Muslim Association (AMA) and the American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC), both headed by Agha Saeed.

In July 1999, Abraham wrote to Saeed, AMA, and AMPCC asking their support: "Your efforts are truly needed in the political arena. . . . You can truly make a difference in the political and policy arenas, and I remain committed to helping you achieve that goal."

But Saeed openly praised Palestinian terrorism as "armed resistance" and appeared at lectures and events sponsored by Hamas front groups, including one panel, in which he was joined by the indicted Al-Arian, entitled: "Zionism: A Racist and Colonialist Ideology." AMA-sponsored events featured these exhortations: "The trees and the stones will say, oh Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him!" "Victory comes from Allah and Hezbollah is our model." "Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of Hamas."

Given Spencer Abraham's record of kowtowing to Arab, Muslim, and foreign interests on virtually every national security issue, his hegemony at Energy is disturbing. He should control no form of power--political or electric.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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To: JRochelle

Debbie Schussel is not a nutjob. OTOH, Thompson is a lightweight, and I believe Nixon was right about him: Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.


201 posted on 07/26/2007 5:25:26 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: mimaw
Only a right wing Jew would make Debbie happy,

You sound like a moron. When did you stop beating your wife?

202 posted on 07/26/2007 5:28:13 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: CheyennePress

I just meant that he will announce his decision sometime in the future.


203 posted on 07/26/2007 5:33:24 AM PDT by rocksblues (Just enforce the law!)
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To: freekitty

Yes, mam, I do live in Texas—born, raised, and going to retire here, one day.


204 posted on 07/26/2007 5:34:15 AM PDT by Clara Lou (Thompson '08-- imwithfred.com)
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To: goldstategop

you really need to flash the whacko alert when you post her stuff — she is certifiable.


205 posted on 07/26/2007 5:40:08 AM PDT by PDR
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To: flaglady47

Rudy Giuliani has no respect for the unborn or the Constitution. He’s a gun grabbing big govt liberal, who supports gay rights, amnesty and global warming BS.

Giuliani is a bully, a phony and a fraud. His attachment to 9-11 doesn’t qualify him to be POTUS.

The last thing America needs is another liberal in the WH.


206 posted on 07/26/2007 5:49:07 AM PDT by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: ari-freedom

The terrorist common thread is that they are Muslim. Not arab. Some Muslim countries like Iran are no considered to be Arab.


207 posted on 07/26/2007 7:42:11 AM PDT by JRochelle (WalMart's 'Great Value' brand to be renamed, to be called the 'Great Wall' brand.)
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To: flaglady47

Debbie, it that you?


208 posted on 07/26/2007 8:05:57 AM PDT by JRochelle (WalMart's 'Great Value' brand to be renamed, to be called the 'Great Wall' brand.)
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To: Clara Lou
"This is a campaign manager, not his candidate for Secretary of State."

<head scratch> Yes, it's his "Campaign Manager", as in MANAGER OF HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN (!!!)

All along I've been Rudy, Rudy, Rudy! I've said Fred doesn't have the experience.

I cannot even begin to comprehend how Fred will explain this story.......................

I've been a fan of Debbie Schlussels for a long time. This expose was mind-boggling.

209 posted on 07/26/2007 8:43:05 AM PDT by TheBridge
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To: Old_Mil
"The question isn’t whether Schlussel is a conservative, a liberal, or a Martian. The question is whether what she states about Fred Thompson’s campaign manager sympathizing with the enemies of America is accurate or not. If you’re settiing out to defend Thompson, I presume you have something more to offer than shooting the messenger?"

LOL. Debbie Schlussel is a hardcore Conservative Republican. She is as good as Michelle Malkin. She is what Ann Coulter wishes to be.

Read her Bio here.

210 posted on 07/26/2007 8:48:17 AM PDT by TheBridge
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To: TheBridge

I’m not a Schlussel fan, so I’m not boggled.


211 posted on 07/26/2007 8:50:36 AM PDT by Clara Lou (Thompson '08-- imwithfred.com)
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To: Tennessean4Bush

Sorry, this bothers me. If Thompson isn’t 100% trustworthy on immigration, I am not interested.


212 posted on 07/26/2007 8:51:30 AM PDT by tioga (Duncan Hunter for President.)
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To: Paperdoll

Who said I was a Fred Groupie? Your assuming things makes your post look shrill. I’m an American first. Try again suzieQ...


213 posted on 07/26/2007 10:35:23 AM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things. " President Ronald Reagan)
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To: wardaddy
Therefore, it is OK for the LEFT to hate the President with the intensity they project...for no other reason than the fact is he is a Republican? Wow! Keep em coming ..this could get good.
214 posted on 07/26/2007 10:37:45 AM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things. " President Ronald Reagan)
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To: fish hawk

Another assumption, oh this is getting even better. I smile and think...wow..they have no clue.

As for Hillary, I’ll support anyone to defeat her.

As for Attitudes...if the Conservatives keep eating their own...then Hillary will be elected in 2008. Have a simply marvelous day. :)
Now off to lunch....salmon seems good to day.


215 posted on 07/26/2007 10:40:47 AM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things. " President Ronald Reagan)
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To: fish hawk

Another assumption, oh this is getting even better. I smile and think...wow..they have no clue.

As for Hillary, I’ll support anyone to defeat her.

As for Attitudes...if the Conservatives keep eating their own...then Hillary will be elected in 2008. Have a simply marvelous day. :)
Now off to lunch....salmon seems good to day.


216 posted on 07/26/2007 10:41:02 AM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things. " President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Clara Lou
Let me help.

http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/roundtable/CFRA-Elist.html

Just take a look at the membership list.

People in high places doing their lil part to further policy little by little in an effort to advance a globlist agenda.

217 posted on 07/26/2007 10:48:36 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Old Sarge

The picture above creeps me out.

They look like a couple of vacuum cleaner salesmen.


218 posted on 07/26/2007 10:49:40 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Paige

that was not the argument....but in any event George Bush is not trying to kill us.

Islam is.

However if a Leftie does so laothe everything Bush does then it is well within their right to hate George Bush...of course.

This thou shalt not hate mantra is a tenet to support “open mind” dogma which usually means an empty mind and is a bulwark of the new God named Tolerance.

for the sake of argument though...the left does hate us

they feel we are evil because we are not “kind” enough


219 posted on 07/26/2007 11:52:48 AM PDT by wardaddy (multiplier)
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To: Paige
...for no other reason than the fact is he is a Republican

that is an incorrect assumption, the left truly hates Bush for several reasons.

they think he stole 2000 election

they think he is an evangelical conservative christian (only part-true) and today's left by their nature fear that more than anything..even Islam

He is anti-abortion....they love baby killing as birth control

He is war. They hate war, they would rather surrender than fight war.

there's more but that's enough

220 posted on 07/26/2007 11:58:00 AM PDT by wardaddy (multiplier)
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