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Boehner Blasts Bachmann's 'Dangerous' Accusations Against Clinton Aide (Gag)
Newsmax ^ | Thursday, 19 Jul 2012 03:14 PM

Posted on 07/19/2012 9:16:44 PM PDT by robowombat

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner defended a senior adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after five members of his caucus claimed her relatives had ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

Boehner, an Ohio Republican, told reporters in Washington today that while he doesn’t know Huma Abedin personally, his impression is that she has a “sterling character.” The accusations made against her in a June 13 letter to the State Department were “pretty dangerous,” the speaker said.

A day earlier Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, criticized five House Republicans, including former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, who sent the letter alleging Abedin’s family had connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and questioning whether she promoted the organization’s cause within the U.S. government.

McCain, in a Senate floor speech yesterday, called the allegations “an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable citizen, a dedicated American and a loyal public servant.”

“When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation, and we all grow poorer because of it,” McCain said, adding that he has known Abedin for more than a decade.

In the letter, Bachmann and the other House Republicans cited a report from the Center for Security Policy, a Washington policy group, claiming that Abedin’s mother, brother and late father had connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. It is Egypt’s largest Islamist organization, from whose ranks the country’s new president, Mohamed Mursi, was selected.

The letter said Abedin’s position “affords her routine access to the secretary and to policymaking” and that the State Department has “taken actions recently that have been enormously favorable to the Muslim Brotherhood and its interests.”

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1 posted on 07/19/2012 9:16:49 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: robowombat

“Shut up, subjects,” he explained.


2 posted on 07/19/2012 9:19:10 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: robowombat

I want bone head Boner to be ousted immediately. He better get ready for the rail because he is going to ride the Tea Party Rail very soon.


3 posted on 07/19/2012 9:19:57 PM PDT by marygonzo
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To: Mr. Jeeves

It was strange indeed. Even Michael Reagan slammed Bachmann.


4 posted on 07/19/2012 9:20:22 PM PDT by Perdogg (Let's leave reading things in the Constitution that aren't there to liberals and Dems)
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To: Perdogg

Maybe we should insist that all these “surrender monkeys” wear white surrender flags on their lapels. Mark Levin promised to skewer these people tomorrow on his Friday show and he was livid....


5 posted on 07/19/2012 9:24:15 PM PDT by Frank Sheed (The injustice of trendiness is nearly dualistic in its isomorphism.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Sympathizer in the White Hut already. Why can’t they be thought of as being elsewhere? Moose loyalty is to the creed, not the Flag, not to our Constitution and not to all things American even though we Americans are polarized on many issues yet not permanently settled.


6 posted on 07/19/2012 9:28:01 PM PDT by Surrounded_too
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To: robowombat

I didn’t think I had remaining any respect for Boehner, but now I’m sure. This is what passes for leadership in the Republican party? It’s frustrating — not only do we have to constantly struggle to beat back the left, but we have to fight to rein in the right. Exasperating.


7 posted on 07/19/2012 9:28:32 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: robowombat

I didn’t care for what Bachman said, but there is no need to pile on.


8 posted on 07/19/2012 9:30:54 PM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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To: robowombat

I’ll feel so much better when Boner cries over the next islamsist murder.


9 posted on 07/19/2012 9:32:17 PM PDT by DManA
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To: robowombat

Well...is it true? The best defense against accusations of slander is the truth. I want to know if it is true, and I am not the least bit interested in hearing what Boehner, McCain et al say about her “sterling character”.

Is it true?

Remember when liberals attacked Joseph McCarthy so virulently back in the Fifties? There was plenty of vitriol, but I don’t remember any liberals asking if his accusations were true.

By the way, given who she was married to, who she works for, “sterling” is not an adjective I would venture to use to describe her character.


10 posted on 07/19/2012 9:32:52 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: robowombat

It’s funny but the dingbat Democrats can lie and say whatever stupid crap comes out of their mouth and the rest of the Dems will pile on and support them. What the heck is wrong with these Republicans?


11 posted on 07/19/2012 9:34:29 PM PDT by sheana
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Drudge has a link to Front Page magazine and an article that lists ALL of Huma’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood.....except the page is gone. Either it crashed, or.........


12 posted on 07/19/2012 9:36:05 PM PDT by cumbo78
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To: robowombat

Let me say first..I despise Hillary. Not as much as O.

Probably anything connected with this admin is suspect.

But it seems Huma’s family are the one with connections.

Maybe some here have a perfect family. And for that I congratulate you. I think most, myself included, have fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters that do not share our beliefs.

My Dad? They based the Archie Bunker character on him, lol. That is not me..and he doesn’t sway my opinion in the least when we speak.


13 posted on 07/19/2012 9:37:45 PM PDT by berdie
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To: robowombat
Watching John McCain take the lead with our Speaker trotting behind, it is safe to assume Michele Bachmann knows of what she speaks. Old
McCain lives to savage Republicans, especially women and old
folks.
14 posted on 07/19/2012 9:37:54 PM PDT by Hans
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To: robowombat

When is Boner up for re-election? This guy has got to go!!


15 posted on 07/19/2012 9:38:01 PM PDT by Batman11 (Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
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To: cumbo78

http://patdollard.com/2012/07/the-dark-muslim-brotherhood-world-of-huma-abedin-weiner/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter


16 posted on 07/19/2012 9:47:58 PM PDT by Perdogg (Let's leave reading things in the Constitution that aren't there to liberals and Dems)
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To: MVV
It is a very simple, straightforward question, how DID Umma get top secret security clearance, when her father, mother and brother were members of the Muslim Brotherhood?

I want to know.

Thank you Michelle, for asking the question.

17 posted on 07/19/2012 9:50:30 PM PDT by mickie (My grandson is a Marine...God Bless them all!)
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To: robowombat

Probably true. You can always tell by the tone and tenor of the blowback .... the louder and longer, the higher the possibility of it being true. Brings to mind a story a couple of months back about the intelligence bunch taking action because of a security risk getting too close to a cabinet member. Someone spreading the truth out of school or congressional intelligence committee?


18 posted on 07/19/2012 9:51:03 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Skittle pooping unicorns are more common than progressives with honor & integrity.)
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To: robowombat
Calling Allen West; Marco Rubio - John Bolton to the 'aide of their Countryman'.

Incredible; incredible; the ignorance. And it is not, Michelle Bachman's.

And yes; they may well be 'dangerous' - via threats from whom? We send men to die in Middle East; can these useful idiots step up to the plate; and show some backbone?

Why will they; of course; if they do not even bother to educate themselves to ALL the threats, America faces?

Oh, shame. . .the Republican Party must rid itself of these; who 'cannot see'/refuse to see. . .and/or; refuse to speak or warn against American's most heinous enemies.

19 posted on 07/19/2012 9:54:33 PM PDT by cricket
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It’s perfectly true. Huma Abedin Wiener is closely related to at least three Muslim terrorists. And I presume that she got a security clearance because she is Hillary clinton’s lesbian partner.

Of course it also doesn’t help that we have a Muslim in the White House and that Hillary is also a Muslim lover—in more ways than one.


20 posted on 07/19/2012 9:56:03 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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