AP... always make sure Bush’s name is first word in title.
He deserves his day in court as much as the next Dem.
We had a nice run goin’ there for a bit too.. Oh well. ;-)
MSNBC will have wall to wall coverage of the Republican
“culture of corruption.”
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>>”Mr. Sixto allegedly had a conflict of interest with the use of U.S. AID funds by his former employer,” Stanzel said. He said he did not know how much money was involved or the particulars of the allegations.<<
Don’t know what happened.
But if you hire a Cuban working for a free Cuba its not stunning if he tried to help groups he knew of that are working for a free Cuba.
Of course maybe there is more but you can’t tell it from the story.
Bush Aid??????
This guy is a Bush Aid like the guy who cleans the toilets at Yosemite. They both work for the executive branch. That’s about it.
The story reads like this guy blew the whistle on himself. If so, sounds like he has a conscience. Either that, or fear of getting caught. At least he seems in touch with reality, unlike so many LibDems...
Hummmm! Had he not been promoted would he have stepped forward and revealed his wrongdoings?
sheesh
...and in other news, yet another (Dem) governor (Puerto Rico) indicted on corruption charges.
USAID is just another corrupt bureaucracy who appoints their token underlings whether competent or not.
This from a recent article:
US Rewarding Arab Terrorism
“McConnell should have included USAID on his terror-funding list. A Dec. 2007 USAID audit reported that the mission administering its funds gave money to groups and institutions affiliated with US designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad. It warned: “Without additional controls, the mission could inadvertently provide support to entities or individuals associated with terrorism.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990554/posts
USAID needs cleaned out, starting with this Bush appointee:
Samah Norquist is currently the Public Affairs Specialist for Arab and Muslim outreach at the Bureau of Legislative and Public affairs at USAID. ...
www.zoominfo.com/people/Norquist_Samah_852327567.aspx
Prior to working at USAID, Norquist was the director of communications at the Islamic Free Market Institute (IFMI) in Washington, DC. ...
www.naaponline.org/conference05/speakers.cfm
Samah Norquist is the wife of Grover Norquist. Remember a few of Norquist Muslim friends and associates have been indicted.
Here’s one...also tied into USAID.
“accuses the Islamic American Relief Agency of paying Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying — money that turned out to be stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954774/posts
see posts 14 & 20
Speaking of USAID & terror charities:
Then, there are LRD’s activities in Iraq. In 2002, it led the pro-Saddam Hussein propaganda trip by Reps. David Bonior, Jim McDermott and Mike Thompson. (The trip was also funded in part by Shakir Alkhafaji, a Detroiter who did $70 million in business with Hussein and was named in Iraqi newspapers as being one of two Americans involved in the Oil-for-Food scandal.)
In June 2004, U.S. troops raided LRD’s offices in Iraq. That was a month after an LRD fund-raiser in Southern California, at which speakers said LRD sponsored operations in Fallujah and orphans in Afghanistan. My federal law-enforcement sources believe that LRD may have been funding terrorist insurgents in both places. (The event’s keynoter was Wagdi Mohammed Ghoneim, an Islamic cleric who has since been deported because of his meetings with two of the 9/11 hijackers.)
Often running LRD’s Iraq office was Mohammed Alomari, the group’s spokesman. He’s the author of a book that argues that the United States is a creation of Kabbalistic Jews, and that the Oval Office is a “female reproductive force.” His Daru Salam mosque radio Web site claimed Jews and the United States “organized” the 9/11 attacks.
Ironically, LRD was among the first groups to win U.S. Agency for International Development approval to receive and dole out U.S. tax dollars to the Iraqi people. A press release thanked Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) for getting the USAID seal of approval. My sources fear that some of that USAID money - which cannot all be traced - may have gone to fund insurgents.
......it’s a small world after all......
This guy is as much a “presidential aide” as the people who dust the furniture in the White House.
While Clinton was POTUS, he was impeached because of the VRWC nut's who politicized everything.
Finally, some decent and honest reporting is available via the unbiased AP outlet that focuses on nothing but the news without a twist. /s
Paging AG Gonzales........
Leni
He got his job from Bush in July 2007? ....Bush’s second to last year?
Must have been a really close friend! Stop the presses!!!
/sarc
...At the time, Khaleel was a roving jack-of-all-trades in the American underground militant Islamic community. His name and Detroit address both appeared prominently in ledgers taken from the Al-Kifah Refugee Center in 1994, a critical international financial and strategic arm of al Qaeda.
While in Orlando, Florida, Khaleel served as the regional director for the Columbia, Missouri-based Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA), an Islamic charity that had a multimillion-dollar USAID contract cancelled after the U.S. State Department determined that it was not in America's "national-security interests." In Columbia itself, Khaleel operated a remote-branch office on behalf of radical Saudi dissidents based in London [MIRA] who were closely aligned with Osama bin Laden. He even added a digitized copy of an infamous al Qaeda propaganda video titled "The Martyrs of Bosnia" to his own short-lived Internet website, salam.net. ---------- "“Axis of Evil” Indicted Hamas leader linked to al Qaeda activist in Midwest nationalreview.com," by Evan Kohlmann, January 2, 2003, 9:20 a.m., http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/815679/posts?q=1&&page=21
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