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 ...
She won’t be given the benefit of a trial.
Exactly. If a mole were altering or destroying property or information, or smuggling out security codes to allow others to do so, that would clearly be unethical and almost certainly illegal. It's also possible that a group which is investigating a theory that may or may not be true might not want to have be associated with the theory until they confirm its veracity. But what else would an honest organization want to keep secret?
Further, correct me if I'm wrong, but as a non-profit corporation the NRA has meetings that are open to the public (at worst, access could be had for $35). Doesn't seem like a secret society to me.
Mods, please move this article to the "Humor" section.
"Humor", hell, move it to "Outright Fantasy".
Maybe we should start the DNC witch hunt section.
Cheers!
So this whole story is predicated on the SUSPICION that this person may have had some connection to the NRA, because she billed a firm whose clients included the NRA. What tools these gungrabbers (and the media) are. This is all they have? A tenuous connection at best.
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