http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/10/spotted-weiner-abedin-at-argo-premiere-138114.html?hp=r6
Spotted: Weiner, Abedin at ‘Argo’ premiere
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, made an appearance at the D.C. premiere of “Argo” on Wednesday. The couple stopped by the screening after a reception for the film, which chronicles the Iran hostage crisis, at the Canadian Embassy.
A few years ago, Weiner advised Ben Affleck — the director and star of “Argo” – on his political role in “State of Play.” But it was actually Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who helped Affleck with this movie, the actor said.
Ben Affleck finds David Petraeus remarkable, is buddies with Huma Abedin
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Petraeus was actually on hand, attending an event at the Canadian Embassy and then watching the film alongside other prominent Washingtonians at the movie theater in Chinatown. Also in the crowd were “Argo” cast members John Goodman and Bryan Cranston, along with former Rep. Anthony Weiner and his wife, State Department official Huma Abedin. Affleck explained why he invited his “good friend” Abedin, who in turn brought along her husband. “The reason why she is here, is she was instrumental in helping us shoot at the State Department,” Affleck said. “As you noticed, we shot at the real State Department ... our production designers were allowed to go inside and look at the seventh floor and recreate it.”
And then as a point of trivia at least one of the men who escaped the US embassy to the Canadian one in 1979 did so not by sneaking out, but by openly joining the crowd as a protester and shouting their slogans... and years later he's one of those opposing sanctions on the Iranian regime.
It reminds me of the Tahrir square uprising in Egypt where you can see westerners, including Americans like code pink & the Google guy heavily involved in stirring all that up. Did he really sneak out of the US embassy or was he one of the instigators in bringing down the Shah from the beginning, as Obama's admin brought down Mubarak? In the case of the Shah the Carter admin thought that a populist Marxist regime would be more useful than the Shah, and it looks like the Obama admin thought a populist regime full of groups allied with leftists would be more useful than Mubarak. And of course Brzezinski [sp] is involved yet again...