Serious Allegations About Fred's New Campaign Manager
I am currently researching the following allegations about Fred Thompson's new campaign manager, Spencer Abraham. If I find these to be true, I will have to withdraw my support for Fred Thompson. I first read about these allegations about Abraham last night at debbieschlussel.com. She "details" Abraham's ties to terrorist sympathizers.
As a Senator, he took marching orders from James Zogby of the pan-Islamist Arab American Institute, opposing profiling of Arabs, the use of secret evidence against Muslims (at the behest of Muslim groups), attempting to repeal the Clinton counterterrorism package, refusing to fund computer tracking of student and other foreign aliens, giving millions in our tax money right to Hezbollah, and putting CAIR on the map on Capitol Hill (taking the group's officials around to meet other Senators and Members of Congress). He took campaign contributions from the relatives of Hezbollah-backed top Lebanese officials after he got the group millions in our tax money.
Spence was one of only two Senators in the entire U.S. Senate who refused to sign a letter calling on President Clinton to condemn Palestinian terrorism and Yasser Arafat. This was at the height of a series of homicide bombings in Israel in 1999 and 2000.
As Energy Secretary, he gave top secret tours of nuclear facilities, as well as detailed information on how we secure them to Muslim nations who are our enemies. And he gave out undue post-9/11 awards to Al-Qaeda money-launderers . . . at the White House. The money launderers were raided by U.S. Customs Service agents.
After he left the Bush cabinet, Spence became a lobbyist for Mid-Eastern Muslim countries that practice the Arab boycott of Israel and don't really like us too much either. He took their money and until the Thompson race, did their bidding.
The problem with the above article is, it lacks citation. She offers no links to where she found this information. What I have read about Debbie Schlussel has led me to believe that she isn't as honest as she should be, and if she is wrong, she doesn't acknowledge it.
However; Michelle Malkin is a much more reliable source. She points out Abraham's faults about border security.
In my 2002 book Invasion (p. 71, 76), I noted the open-borders obstructionism of former Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-Michigan), who fought to block the implementation of two different tracking databases–one for foreign student visa holders and the other for all temporary visitors (which was mandated by Section 110 of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act). Abraham led efforts to starve the first database of funding and crusaded several times to kill Section 110 altogether. On September 11, 2001, neither of those databases was in place. To this day, they remain incomplete.
Well, I did some research and here is some of the info I was able to dig up.
NRO online notes that In 1997, Abraham was given an award by La Raza ("The Race"). It was the "Defender of the Melting Pot" award.
This pattern is true even for self-styled defenders of immigrants' rights. It would seem obvious that the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Council of La Raza speak for the interests of immigrants in the United States, or at least those who belong to The Race. Instead, they too have jettisoned the interests of their supposed constituents when they conflict with continued mass immigration. A milestone came in 1996, when La Raza rejected the suggestion that it trade support for the modest immigration cuts proposed by Barbara Jordan's bipartisan Commission on Immigration Reform in exchange for restrictionist groups' commitment to fight the sweeping welfare bans against legal immigrants and new retroactive deportation rules then before Congress. Instead of working for such a pro-immigrant policy of lower immigration, these "pro-immigrant" groups dumped the interests of the people they claimed to speak for in order to maintain high levels of immigration in the future. La Raza in 1997 even gave then-Senator Spencer Abraham, architect of congressional libertarians' anti-immigrant policy of mass immigration, its "Defender of the Melting Pot" award.
WND has the scoop on Abraham's ties to Hezbollah.
That man in the middle is Issam Fares, deputy prime minister of Lebanon, a self-made billionaire and a close associate of Maj. General Ghazi Kanaan, head of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon and the man known as the "kingmaker" in a small country dominated by Syria's occupying military forces.
"It is a mistake to make a comparison between the al-Qaida network ... and Hezbollah," Fares told Agence France-Presse last year. "Hezbollah did not carry out any resistance operation against American interests in Lebanon or abroad and did not target civilians in its resistance activities as happened on Sept. 11 at the World Trade Center."
Fares, through his son, Nijad, a permanent resident alien of the U.S., and his U.S.-based businesses, has contributed heavily to the senatorial campaigns of now Department of Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham.
The Washington Report on Abraham pushing for aid to Lebanon in 1999. It's important to note that Hezbollah and Syria were in control of Lebanon at this time.
In last year’s appropriations battles, Sen. Spencer Abraham was instrumental in getting earmarked aid for Lebanon increased from $12 million to $15 million, and getting $860,000 specified for the “Seeds of Peace” program. This year he has again asked Appropriations foreign aid subcommittee chairman Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to increase the amount for Lebanon to $15 million (the administration again requested $12 million) and to increase the amount designated for Seeds of Peace to $1 million.
Fred needed to choose better people to be associated with. I can't tell you how disappointed I am to find this information. I was really hoping that Debbie Schlussel's post would be some kind of rant and after further research, would find that she was incorrect. Unfortunately, that's not what happened. I'm sure everyone has heard of the saying, "guilty by association", that describes Fred now.
On the same day I receive my "I blog for Fred" mug and bumper sticker...It is with much regret that I now withdraw my support for Fred.
Who will I support for President? The man I had hoped would be doing better in the polls:
