Romney Advisor Advocating for Terrorist Group

Baltimore Jewish Life ^ | 8/23/11 | Justin Elliott, Salon

[Nachum]

Mitchell Reiss has helped lead a campaign to rehabilitate the reputation of anti-Iranian militants

A foreign policy advisor to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been active in recent months in an advocacy campaign to rehabilitate the reputation of an underground organization in Iran known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq. The MEK has been designated by the U.S. State Department as a "terrorist" organization.

Mitchell Reiss, former director of policy planning at the State Department during the Bush administration, is now advising the former Massachusetts governor on foreign policy, the New Republic recently reported. Reiss also advised Romney's 2008 campaign.

Currently president of Washington College in Maryland, Reiss has played a leading role in an ongoing campaign to get the MEK removed from the U.S. government's official list of foreign organizations said to be involved in terrorism. Inclusion on the State Department list has far-reaching legal consequences -- including making it illegal for U.S. citizens to support or even join the group.

[Lazlo in PA]

Mitchell Reiss has helped lead a campaign to rehabilitate the reputation of anti-Iranian militants

Reiss is doing more to collapse the Iranians than the Regime has bothered to. What's the beef.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nachum.

Mitchell Reiss has helped lead a campaign to rehabilitate the reputation of... an underground organization in Iran known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq...

Mujahedin-e Khalq (on FR):

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