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Gun-control groups fear top activist was NRA spy
AP via SFGate ^
| 8/5/8
| MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer
Posted on 08/05/2008 3:22:21 PM PDT by SmithL
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A gun-control activist who championed the cause for more than a decade and served on the boards of two anti-violence groups is suspected of working as a paid spy for the National Rifle Association, and now those organizations are expelling her and sweeping their offices for bugs.
The suggestion that Mary Lou McFate was a double agent is contained in a deposition filed as part of a contract dispute involving a security firm. The muckraking magazine Mother Jones, in a story last week, was the first to report on McFate's alleged dual identity.
The NRA refused to comment to the magazine and did not respond to calls ... Nor did McFate.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; bradybunch; bradywatch; espionage; maryloumcfate; mcfate; nra
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posted on
08/05/2008 3:22:22 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
If so, good for her. May her damage of the anti-gun movement be irremediable.
2
posted on
08/05/2008 3:24:45 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: SmithL
Bwaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaa!
When you have them looking over their shoulders and inventing espionage scenarios, you know you have them scared.
3
posted on
08/05/2008 3:24:58 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: SmithL
Even if true, did she do anything illegal?
To: Graybeard58
Even if true, did she do anything illegal?Living is illegal if you're pro 2A.
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posted on
08/05/2008 3:27:03 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: SmithL
Maybe she just saw the light and realized that these Leftists really don’t want to make the world a safer place.
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posted on
08/05/2008 3:29:27 PM PDT
by
Clock King
(Under revision...)
To: SmithL
In any case this proves these groups are filled with morons.
If she is not a spy then they are eating their own, never a good move. If she was a spy then they have proven how silly and inept they are.....
7
posted on
08/05/2008 3:30:03 PM PDT
by
SECURE AMERICA
(Got Freedom ? Thank a Veteran...... Want to keep Freedom? Don't vote Obama)
To: SmithL
and the RATS, take another one in the..................HA ha!!!
8
posted on
08/05/2008 3:30:59 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist -CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
To: SmithL
I have to laugh
/Bill Murray
To: SmithL
Oh please, the gun grabbers are desperate, they will try anything to boost fundraising for their anti Civil Rights campaign.
“NRA spy hurt common sense gun legislation passage”
I expect to see Sarah Brady or Helmke foaming at the mouth any day now...
10
posted on
08/05/2008 3:32:36 PM PDT
by
padre35
(Conservative in Exile/ Romans 10.10/Eze 11.2)
To: SmithL
The suggestion that Mary Lou McFate was a double agent is.......Who outed her? Rove or Cheney?
11
posted on
08/05/2008 3:34:59 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: SmithL
Ahhh....Little did Mary Lou McFate know that this man
had her on "double secret probation" the whole time.
So I guess the joke's on her....right?
12
posted on
08/05/2008 3:36:45 PM PDT
by
AreaMan
To: Graybeard58
I would like to know just what secrets the gun grabbers need to protect from *spies*?
I hope she was a mole for the NRA and I hope she writes a book.I hope it answers these questions:
Who really funds these groups?
What ultimate agendas do they espouse among themselves?
What have they done/plan to do to discredit individual gun owners?
13
posted on
08/05/2008 3:37:57 PM PDT
by
reformedliberal
(Capitalism is what happens when governments get out of the way.)
To: SmithL
i wanna be an nra spy.....where do i sign up
14
posted on
08/05/2008 3:38:32 PM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(The Second Amendment is the Constitutions reset button)
To: SmithL
DooDoo, DooDoo, isn’t that how aliens sound -— LOL!
15
posted on
08/05/2008 3:44:42 PM PDT
by
Tarpon
(Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
To: SmithL
Whaddya bet HGCI will be yelling for death by firing squad?
Oh, wait...
16
posted on
08/05/2008 3:46:48 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
To: SmithL
"It's so venal," Miller said. "In the battle of ideas with the gun lobby, we're at a constant disadvantage because we're honest."One more lie
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posted on
08/05/2008 3:59:44 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: Graybeard58
Not under the current gub’mint, but after ‘08 she might be tried and shot retroactively.
18
posted on
08/05/2008 4:00:46 PM PDT
by
WorkingClassFilth
(Don't cheer for Obama too hard - the krinton syndicate is moving back into the WH.)
To: SmithL
Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire NJ, said he feels betrayed by McFate. Miller's brother, an FBI agent, was shot to death in 1994. ... Miller said. "In the battle of ideas with the gun lobby, we're at a constant disadvantage because we're honest."I feel sorry for Mr. Miller's loss but he is delusional.
The anti 2nd Ammend. groups deal in emotionally charged propaganda, misinformation and half truths.
Mr. Miller dishonors the service of his brother with idiotic statements like that.
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posted on
08/05/2008 4:07:33 PM PDT
by
AreaMan
To: SmithL
What, pray tell, is an “NRA spy”? Were these antigunners doing something so secretive that they didn’t want their methods and motives made public?
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posted on
08/05/2008 4:15:26 PM PDT
by
meyer
(...by any means necessary.)
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