Posted on 02/28/2003 3:03:40 PM PST by Michaelman
WASHINGTON NewsMax.com has learned that preliminary inquiries are or soon will be under way on Capitol Hill exploring the possibility of investigating the link between communists and radical Islamic terrorists. Evidence mounts that this coalition orchestrated the recent appeasement demonstrations against President Bushs policy in Iraq.
No decisions have been made on whether such a probe will go forward or what committee would be in charge. But conservatives who have seen documented evidence of that link believe now that the GOP controls the House and Senate, there is no excuse for not holding hearings.
A full-scale Senate or House probe is viewed as a means of informing an American public that is kept in the dark by a mainstream media that looks the other way on the hard-left/terrorist alliance.
The biggest question mark is whether the Justice Department, the FBI or other security agencies are paying much attention to the veteran hard-left groups backing the appeasement demonstrations. The fear is these agencies are inadequate because much of their investigative authority was defanged in the 1970s.
The post-Watergate congressional hearings by the Church and Pike committees on Capitol Hill resulted in tarnishing the CIA, FBI and other intelligence entities. That in turn prompted the legislative and executive branches of government to tie their hands. They were even forbidden to keep a file of information readily available to any citizen, such as newspaper clippings on subversive organizations.
Some of the restrictions were lifted after 9/11. For example, now they can clip newspaper stories. Still, the new policies fall short of what is needed, according to security experts talking with NewsMax.com.
The rules were not changed enough to let the FBI do the kind of work that needs to be done watching these groups, former congressional and executive branch security official Herbert Romerstein tells us.
When those seven men were caught breaking and entering at the Watergate Hotel in June 1972, little did anyone suspect they had set off a chain of events that years later would cripple Americas ability to protect itself at a time when this nation is under a greater threat than at any time in the memory of most citizens.
On the other hand, well-placed sources in the government have told NewsMax that someday someone is going to write a book about all the behind-the-scenes security efforts to protect America since 9/11.
All very assuring, and Attorney General John Askcrofts efforts to put accused terrorists in the slammer are widely applauded. But it is not known whether the Justice Department, the FBI or any national security, intelligence, or law enforcement agency has focused specifically on the terorrist-communist connection. NewsMax has found no one in government who claims to know one way or the other.
Workers World Party, a tiny Marxist organization that admires North Korea's repressive dictatorship, has coordinated much of the anti-war activity, partly through such fronts as A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), which uses former LBJ Attorney General Ramsey Clark as its public face.
Another key player is United Justice for Peace. Leftist-turned-conservative David Horowitz has identified its leader Leslie Cagan as a '60s Stalinist.
In a syndicated column just this week, Mona Charen, author of the timely book Useful Idiots, defined A.N.S.W.E.R. as explicitly communist. If a journalist can make that identification, observers are asking, what is Congress waiting for? Lets get this on the record for the American people.
If you read Hitlers Mein Kampf, Horowitz warns, you see how kooky views can result in the deaths of seventy million people. Just because the leaders of the appeasement demonstrations dont make sense doesnt mean they are not [dangerous or that they will not] get hundreds of thousands and millions of followers.
Any Capitol Hill investigation of the hard-left/Islamic terrorist alliance would require a committee chairman and Republican committee members who will stand their ground, because some Democrats on the panel are likely to try to torpedo any meaningful inquiry. That is because, as Horowitz explains to NewsMax, the Democratic Party is deeply infiltrated and also dependent on these people.
The Leslie Cagans of the world have been organizing at the local level, he adds.
Finally this warning from a man who has viewed the hard left from the inside: I guess my greatest concern is the complacency of conservatives who think we cant lose this country. We can.
And because many Rats are not only infiltrated, many are socialists/commies, as can be read on this thread: 59 Socialists in Congress
How Many Members Of The U.S. Congress Are Self-Declared Socialists?
Updated info: October 2002I could no longer find a list of current membership for the Progressive Caucus on the DSA website. However, Representative Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), Chairman of the caucus, maintains such a list on his U.S. government provided website: bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp
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Member/Position/District |
Address | Phone | Website |
Dennis Kucinich (CO-CHAIR, OHIO-10) |
1730 LHOB | 225-5871 | WEBSITE |
Barbara Lee (CO-CHAIR, CALIFORNIA-09) |
426 CHOB | 225-2661 | WEBSITE |
Lynn Woolsey (VICE-CHAIR, CALIFORNIA-06) |
2263 RHOB | 225-5161 | WEBSITE |
Peter DeFazio (OFFICER, OREGON-04) |
2134 RHOB | 225-6416 | WEBSITE |
Jesse Jackson, Jr (OFFICER, ILLINOIS-02) |
313 CHOB | 225-0773 | |
Major Owens (OFFICER, NEW YORK-11) |
2309 RHOB | 225-6231 | WEBSITE |
Bernie Sanders (OFFICER, VERMONT) |
2233 RHOB | 225-4115 | WEBSITE |
Hilda Solis (OFFICER, CALIFORNIA-31) |
1641 LHOB | 225-5464 | WEBSITE |
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Member/Position/District |
Address | Phone | Website |
Neil Abercrombie (MEMBER, HAWAII-01) |
1502 LHOB | 225-2726 | WEBSITE |
Tammy Baldwin (MEMBER, WISCONSIN-02) |
1022 LHOB | 225-2906 | WEBSITE |
Xavier Becerra (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-30) |
1119 LHOB | 225-6235 | WEBSITE |
Corrine Brown (MEMBER, FLORIDA-03) |
2444 RHOB | 225-0123 | WEBSITE |
Sherrod Brown (MEMBER, OHIO-13) |
2438 RHOB | 225-3401 | WEBSITE |
Michael Capuano (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-08) |
1232 LHOB | 225-5111 | WEBSITE |
Julia Carson (MEMBER, INDIANA-10) |
1339 LHOB | 225-4011 | WEBSITE |
William "Lacy" Clay (MEMBER, MISSOURI-01) |
415 CHOB | 225-2406 | WEBSITE |
John Conyers (MEMBER, MICHIGAN-14) |
2426 RHOB | 225-5126 | WEBSITE |
Danny Davis (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-07) |
1222 LHOB | 225-5006 | WEBSITE |
Rosa DeLauro (MEMBER, CONNECTICUT-03) |
2262 RHOB | 225-3661 | WEBSITE |
Lane Evans (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-17) |
2211 RHOB | 225-5905 | WEBSITE |
Eni Faleomavaega (MEMBER, AMERICAN SAMOA) |
2422 RHOB | 225-8577 | WEBSITE |
Sam Farr (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-17) |
1221 LHOB | 225-2861 | WEBSITE |
Chaka Fattah (MEMBER, PENNSYLVANIA-02) |
1205 LHOB | 225-4001 | WEBSITE |
Bob Filner (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-50) |
2463 RHOB | 225-8045 | WEBSITE |
Barney Frank (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-04) |
2252 RHOB | 225-5931 | WEBSITE |
Raul Grijalva (MEMBER, ARIZONA-07) |
1440 RHOB | 225-2435 | WEBSITE |
Luis Gutierrez (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-04) |
2452 RHOB | 225-8203 | WEBSITE |
Maurice Hinchey (MEMBER, NEW YORK-26) |
2431 RHOB | 225-6335 | WEBSITE |
Sheila Jackson-Lee (MEMBER, TEXAS-18) |
403 CHOB | 225-3816 | WEBSITE |
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (MEMBER, OHIO-11) |
1516 LHOB | 225-7032 | WEBSITE |
Marcy Kaptur (MEMBER, OHIO-09) |
2366 RHOB | 225-4146 | WEBSITE |
Tom Lantos (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-12) |
2217 RHOB | 225-3531 | WEBSITE |
John Lewis (MEMBER, GEORGIA-05) |
343 CHOB | 225-3801 | WEBSITE |
Jim McDermott (MEMBER, WASHINGTON-07) |
1035 LHOB | 225-3106 | WEBSITE |
James P. McGovern (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-03) |
430 CHOB | 225-6101 | WEBSITE |
George Miller (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-07) |
2205 RHOB | 225-2095 | WEBSITE |
Jerry Nadler (MEMBER, NEW YORK-08) |
2334 RHOB | 225-5635 | WEBSITE |
Eleanor Holmes Norton (MEMBER, D.C.) |
2136 RHOB | 225-8050 | WEBSITE |
John Olver (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-01) |
1027 LHOB | 225-5335 | WEBSITE |
Ed Pastor (MEMBER, ARIZONA-02) |
2465 RHOB | 225-4065 | WEBSITE |
Donald Payne (MEMBER, NEW JERSEY-10) |
2209 RHOB | 225-3436 | WEBSITE |
Nancy Pelosi (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-08) |
2457 RHOB | 225-4965 | WEBSITE |
Bobby Rush (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-01) |
2416 RHOB | 225-4372 | WEBSITE |
Jan Schakowsky (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-09) |
515 CHOB | 225-2111 | WEBSITE |
Jose Serrano (MEMBER, NEW YORK-16) |
2342 RHOB | 225-4361 | WEBSITE |
Pete Stark (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-13) |
239 CHOB | 225-5065 | WEBSITE |
Bennie Thompson (MEMBER, MISSISSIPPI-02) |
2432 RHOB | 225-5876 | WEBSITE |
John Tierney (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-06) |
120 CHOB | 225-8020 | WEBSITE |
Tom Udall (MEMBER, NEW MEXICO-03) |
502 CHOB | 225-6190 | WEBSITE |
Nydia Velazquez (MEMBER, NEW YORK-12) |
2241 RHOB | 225-2361 | WEBSITE |
Maxine Waters (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-35) |
2344 RHOB | 225-2201 | WEBSITE |
Diane Watson (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-32) |
2413 RHOB | 225-7084 | WEBSITE |
Mel Watt (MEMBER, NORTH CAROLINA-12) |
2236 RHOB | 225-1510 | WEBSITE |
Henry Waxman (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-29) |
2204 RHOB | 225-3976 | WEBSITE |
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Congressional Progressive Caucus
But they sure didn't scruple at handing over 900 raw FBI files to Hillary Clinton.
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