Tag: aipac
-
rice to be subpoenaed in aipac spying case
from ap: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and more than a dozen other current and former intelligence officials must testify about their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists, a federal judge ruled Friday in an espionage case. Lawyers for two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbyists facing charges have subpoenaed Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley,…
-
so who’s afraid of the israel lobby?
from ray mcgovern: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee brags that it is the most influential foreign policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill, and has demonstrated that time and again, and not only on Capitol Hill. Nowhere is the Lobby’s power more clearly demonstrated than in its ability to suppress the awful truth that on…
-
maryland county bans political junkets to israel
from jewish daily forward: In a challenge to one of the most powerful lobbying tactics used by the Jewish community, a county in Maryland decided last week that local legislators could no longer go on sponsored trips to Israel. Montgomery County’s ethics commission decided last month that council members are prohibited from traveling at the…
-
August 2007 Clearinghouse
‘noble’ is good, not grand brainwashing the hero-worshiping society warren buffett sees silver lining in market chaos bbc drops fictional terror attack to avoid offending muslims suspicious man seen before virginia tech massacre US army to launch new video game book tells of philharmonic’s nazi ties robert fisk: even i question the ‘truth’ about 9/11…
-
kos faithful line up behind clinton
from kurt nimmo: It is quite the spectacle, witnessing the Bilderberger Queen, Hillary Clinton, and the CFR habitué, John Edwards, sucking up to Markos Moulitsas and the “liberal” bloggers, an easily hoodwinked gaggle the possible selectees will bamboozle next year… News for Yahoos would have us believe… “Clinton is viewed skeptically by the blogging community,…
-
news on the march
townhall: ron paul will place 2nd in iowafrom usa today: Patrick Ruffini makes the case this morning at the conservative Townhall blog that Republican Rep. Ron Paul will place second at the Iowa GOP’s “straw poll” Aug. 11 in Ames… Hugh Hewitt, also writing this morning at the blog, thinks Ruffini may be over-thinking things.…
-
april clearinghouse
china to force rain ahead of olympics could global warming be halted by controlling the weather? the mystery of the 9/11 car bombs rosie pledges allegiance to seeking ‘truth’ about 9/11 security contractor faces growing protest over 824-acre base street closed to look for 9/11 remains drill angers conservatives prof who criticized bush added to…
-
what is aipac?
from google video/wikipedia: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is a special interest group that lobbies the United States Government in favor of maintaining a close US-Israel relationship. Describing itself as “America’s Pro-Israel Lobby,” it is a mass-membership organization including both Jews and non-Jews. AIPAC was formed during the Eisenhower administration, and since then…
-
what if the fbi hired someone honest to look into 9/11?
from 9/11 blogger/op-ed news: It did. Her name was Sibel Edmonds. This is her story, as she told it to me. Edmonds discusses what she knows, whom it implicates, and what she’s been through and what hope there is in the new Congress to start an investigation. Here’s the audio . Edmonds: The most important…
-
news on the march
clinton sucks up to aipac with talk of iran warfrom raw story: At a speech Friday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Friday, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said “no option can be taken off the table” when dealing with Iran… Clinton tempered her remarks by saying she’s advocated engagement with “our enemies and Israel’s…