DEM SHOCKER!!... Speaker Pelosi Was Sending Messages to FARC Terrorists...!

The Real Democrat Party ^ | 7/07/2008 | Gateway Pundit

[coffee260]

Gateway Pundit gives us this:

SWAMP POLITICS—

New information reveals that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was indirectly sending messages to the FARC. The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is designated as a terrorist group by the US government. Speaker Pelosi was doing this while at the same time she refused to bring a free trade agreement with Colombia up for a vote in the US House. In fact, Pelosi took extraordinary steps to block this trade agreement with America’s closest ally in South America.

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Colombian Sen. Piedad Cordoba (left) is currently under investigation by the Colombian attorney general for ties to the FARC. Cordoba claims that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sending messages to the FARC terrorists. Cordoba also claimed during FARC negotiations that Pelosi had assigned Rep. Jim McGovern, as the point man. Captured FARC documents confirmed in March that Mr. McGovern had been working with an American go-between, who had been offering the rebels help in undermining Colombia’s elected and popular government.

The Wall Street Journal reported on the confiscated FARC documents that implicated Rep. McGovern back in March:

The Reyes hard drive reveals an ardent effort to do business directly with the FARC by Congressman James McGovern (D., Mass.), a leading opponent of the free-trade deal. Mr. McGovern has been working with an American go-between, who has been offering the rebels help in undermining Colombia’s elected and popular government.

Mr. McGovern’s press office says the Congressman is merely working at the behest of families whose relatives are held as FARC kidnap hostages. However, his go-between’s letters reveal more than routine intervention.

Now, today we find out who was directing Rep. McGovern–
Speaker Pelosi!
Mary Anastasia O’Grady at The Wall Street Journal reported:

Last fall, Mr. Chávez and the FARC hatched an audacious plan whereby the Venezuelan would take “proof of life” of Ms. Betancourt to French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris, where the plight of Ms. Betancourt was a cause célèbre. The rebels wrote that Mr. Chávez was sure French pressure for negotiations would cause President Bush to “order Uribe to allow the meeting” between Mr. Chávez and the rebels on Colombian soil, something Mr. Uribe had refused to do. The rebels reported that Mr. Chávez was “super-motivated,” because he viewed the rendezvous as a public-relations coup that would give him and the FARC “continental and world renown.”

That plan flopped, but Mr. Chavez had other cards up his sleeve. One involved Colombian Sen. Piedad Cordoba, who is currently under investigation by the Colombian attorney general for ties to the FARC. She figures prominently in the captured rebel documents, and is notoriously close to Mr. Chávez.

She met at the Venezuelan presidential palace with FARC leaders last fall. From that meeting the rebels reported that “Piedad says that Chávez has Uribe going crazy. He doesn’t know what to do. That Nancy Pelosi helps and is ready to help in the swap [hostages in exchange for captured guerrillas]. That she has designated [U.S. Congressman Jim] McGovern for this.“

If the speaker of the House was working with Ms. Cordoba in this scheme, her judgment was more than a little misguided. The rebels write that on a trip to Argentina Ms. Cordoba told them, “It doesn’t matter to me the proposal that Sarkozy has made to free Ingrid. Above all, do not liberate Ingrid.” In short, why give up such a useful pawn?

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (C), senior FARC rebel commander Ivan Marquez (L) of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and Colombian senator Piedad Cordoba walk at Miraflores Palace in Caracas November 8, 2007. (Reuters)

Don Surber believes it is time someone reined the Queen Bee in.

Previously:
Captured FARC Documents Link Democrats to Terror Group
Busted!… Democratic Point Man on Colombia Caught Dealing With FARC
Interpol Confirms Authenticity Of Raul Reyes’s Computer Files
Interpol Confirms: US Democrat Was Secretly Working With FARC
MEDIA IGNORES Rep. McGovern Was Secretly Communicating With FARC
FARC Connections to German Leftists & US Democrats Exposed
Will the Colombian Hostage Rescue Expose the Democrat’s Links to FARC?

[AliVeritas]

Bingo.

[Roccus]

This might rock your world.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&before_9/11=ableDanger

[VAFlagwaver]

Just imagine if sedition laws were enforced... OK, so I’m a dreamer!!

[Califreak]

Scary.

[HonestConservative]

Your lips to God’s ears.

I don’t know what’s wrong with this President that he hasn’t found the “eject” button.

[Grampa Dave]

Yep, and good riddance if they were guilty.

[SuziQ]

Cordoba also claimed during FARC negotiations that Pelosi had assigned Rep. Jim McGovern, as the point man.

That slimeball is my Congressman.

[SuziQ]

All I remember about that is-and I may be wrong here-that government negligence was a major cause of 9/11 because they had names but nothing was ever done about it.

Several different agencies had pieces of information, but without one entity putting it all together, the warning signs were missed. It wasn't negligence, it was just typical government agency action; no one agency knows what another is doing.

[Liberty Valance]

I wish this would be surprising to me. I've considered Pelosi a traitor since her earliest efforts to undermine the Bush administration and the war against terrorism. Sadly, she's just one on a long list of treasonous elected U.S. officials.



"**** *** too Nancy"

[DaGman]

"The idea being that legal commerce would build up their domestic industries, improve their overall economy, and help drive a wedge between the people and the drug lords."

Money seeks the best return, or so we're told by economists. I think that's probably true. So the question is where is the best return on investment going to come from? "legal commerce" and "domestic industries" or cocaine.

Cocaine will provide the best ROI by far. It makes the farmers a helluva lot more money than corn or fake Nike's. Everyone in Columbia makes money from cocaine directly or indirectly. Cocaine drives the Columbian economy in a way that no other product or commodity will do.

[Libloather]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was indirectly sending messages to the FARC. The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is designated as a terrorist group by the US government.

Is Nancy a terrorist? (Sure seems so...)

[writer33]

Is Nancy a terrorist?

In more ways than one.

[SFConservative]

Is Pelosi’s ego unprecedented or is she dumber than a rock or both?

The combination of a big ego and relative stupidity is exactly what propels people like Pelosi. Just smart enough to pull off maneuvers with the big ego powering through and shrugging off sane alternatives. An ego big enough to do daring things but not smart enough in the long run to survive an escalating chain of insane maneuvers.

Very smart people often are unable to take action - too many good alternatives and analysis paralysis.

Very dumb people screw up on the first try.

Semi-smart people too dumb to understand their limitations take action and with good instincts can survive for quite a while. That class of people is usually the spawning ground for politicians.

There are exceptions: people so smart that they understand this dynamic, use it consciously, and get extraordinary results - e.g., Newt. Of course, their own belief in their super-human qualities and unassailability will usually sink these people, e.g., Newt.

The sad part is that the media is run by populist numbnuts and no longer by people who see it as their purpose to insist on politician's honesty, thereby allowing people like Pelosi to be portrayed as benevolent instead of as the power-driven semi-dim-bulbs they are. Nothing happens until there is such an embarrassing crisis that even the media can't keep up pretenses. This may be happening now with this story, but I will hold my breath for a while ...

[Irish Eyes]

....................Nothing happens until there is such an embarrassing crisis that even the media can't keep up pretenses. This may be happening now with this story, but I will hold my breath for a while .

What is it going to take to get rid of Pelosi?