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Gun-control groups fear top activist was NRA spy
AP via SFGate ^ | 8/5/8 | MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 08/05/2008 3:22:21 PM PDT by SmithL

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A gun-control activist who championed the cause for more than a decade and served on the boards of two anti-violence groups is suspected of working as a paid spy for the National Rifle Association, and now those organizations are expelling her and sweeping their offices for bugs.

The suggestion that Mary Lou McFate was a double agent is contained in a deposition filed as part of a contract dispute involving a security firm. The muckraking magazine Mother Jones, in a story last week, was the first to report on McFate's alleged dual identity.

The NRA refused to comment to the magazine and did not respond to calls ... Nor did McFate.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; bradybunch; bradywatch; espionage; maryloumcfate; mcfate; nra
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1 posted on 08/05/2008 3:22:22 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

If so, good for her. May her damage of the anti-gun movement be irremediable.


2 posted on 08/05/2008 3:24:45 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: SmithL
Bwaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaa!

When you have them looking over their shoulders and inventing espionage scenarios, you know you have them scared.

3 posted on 08/05/2008 3:24:58 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SmithL

Even if true, did she do anything illegal?


4 posted on 08/05/2008 3:25:05 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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Even if true, did she do anything illegal?

Living is illegal if you're pro 2A.

5 posted on 08/05/2008 3:27:03 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: SmithL

Maybe she just saw the light and realized that these Leftists really don’t want to make the world a safer place.


6 posted on 08/05/2008 3:29:27 PM PDT by Clock King (Under revision...)
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To: SmithL

In any case this proves these groups are filled with morons.
If she is not a spy then they are eating their own, never a good move. If she was a spy then they have proven how silly and inept they are.....


7 posted on 08/05/2008 3:30:03 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Got Freedom ? Thank a Veteran...... Want to keep Freedom? Don't vote Obama)
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and the RATS, take another one in the..................HA ha!!!

8 posted on 08/05/2008 3:30:59 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist -CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: SmithL
I have to laugh

/Bill Murray

9 posted on 08/05/2008 3:31:52 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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Oh please, the gun grabbers are desperate, they will try anything to boost fundraising for their anti Civil Rights campaign.

“NRA spy hurt common sense gun legislation passage”

I expect to see Sarah Brady or Helmke foaming at the mouth any day now...


10 posted on 08/05/2008 3:32:36 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Romans 10.10/Eze 11.2)
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To: SmithL
The suggestion that Mary Lou McFate was a double agent is.......

Who outed her? Rove or Cheney?

11 posted on 08/05/2008 3:34:59 PM PDT by umgud
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Ahhh....Little did Mary Lou McFate know that this man
had her on "double secret probation" the whole time.

So I guess the joke's on her....right?

12 posted on 08/05/2008 3:36:45 PM PDT by AreaMan
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I would like to know just what secrets the gun grabbers need to protect from *spies*?

I hope she was a mole for the NRA and I hope she writes a book.I hope it answers these questions:

Who really funds these groups?

What ultimate agendas do they espouse among themselves?

What have they done/plan to do to discredit individual gun owners?


13 posted on 08/05/2008 3:37:57 PM PDT by reformedliberal (Capitalism is what happens when governments get out of the way.)
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To: SmithL

i wanna be an nra spy.....where do i sign up


14 posted on 08/05/2008 3:38:32 PM PDT by joe fonebone (The Second Amendment is the Constitutions reset button)
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To: SmithL

DooDoo, DooDoo, isn’t that how aliens sound -— LOL!


15 posted on 08/05/2008 3:44:42 PM PDT by Tarpon (Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
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Whaddya bet HGCI will be yelling for death by firing squad?

Oh, wait...

16 posted on 08/05/2008 3:46:48 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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"It's so venal," Miller said. "In the battle of ideas with the gun lobby, we're at a constant disadvantage because we're honest."

One more lie

17 posted on 08/05/2008 3:59:44 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Graybeard58

Not under the current gub’mint, but after ‘08 she might be tried and shot retroactively.


18 posted on 08/05/2008 4:00:46 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Don't cheer for Obama too hard - the krinton syndicate is moving back into the WH.)
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To: SmithL
Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire NJ, said he feels betrayed by McFate. Miller's brother, an FBI agent, was shot to death in 1994. ... Miller said. "In the battle of ideas with the gun lobby, we're at a constant disadvantage because we're honest."

I feel sorry for Mr. Miller's loss but he is delusional.
The anti 2nd Ammend. groups deal in emotionally charged propaganda, misinformation and half truths.

Mr. Miller dishonors the service of his brother with idiotic statements like that.

19 posted on 08/05/2008 4:07:33 PM PDT by AreaMan
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What, pray tell, is an “NRA spy”? Were these antigunners doing something so secretive that they didn’t want their methods and motives made public?


20 posted on 08/05/2008 4:15:26 PM PDT by meyer (...by any means necessary.)
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