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Good News: Illinois Hired Convicted Terrorist as Obamacare Navigator
Townhall.com ^ | February 27, 2014 | Guy Benson

Posted on 02/27/2014 8:43:34 AM PST by Kaslin

During her tenure as an Obamacare "navigator," Rasmieh Yousef Odeh had access to Illinois consumers' sensitive personal data. Unbeknownst to those citizens, and to her employer, Ms. Odeh has an extremely sordid past. She was convicted for her role in three bombings, including one that killed two innocent people at an Israeli supermarket in the late 1960's:

Rasmieh Yousef Odeh was convicted in Israel for her role in several bombings, including the 1969 attack on an upscale Shufersol grocery store, which killed two Hebrew University students who had stopped in to buy groceries for a hiking trip in the Jerusalem hills. Leon Kanner and Eddie Joffe were killed by a bomb hidden in a candy box tucked on a shelf, which also injured nine or 10 others, according to a website maintained by the Israeli government to commemorate terror victims. The Illinois Department of Insurance quietly revoked Odeh’s certification as a Navigator In-Person Counselor on November 24, explaining in a disciplinary report that the decision was “based on an investigation which revealed that she had been convicted in Israel for her role in the bombings of a supermarket and the British Consulate in Jerusalem and failed to reveal the conviction on her application.”


Fortunately, Illinois officials pulled the plug on this woman relatively quickly; they were tipped off to her terrorist status by a US Attorney's office in Michigan. Disconcertingly, the state's background check didn't catch this -- shall we say -- rather significant omission from her resume. Even more alarming is the fact that the federal government doesn't even require states to conduct any criminal background checks on Obamacare navigators, a stunning reality confirmed by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in Congressional testimony in November:

Sebelius tells Cornyn It's Possible Obamacare Navigators Could Be Convicted Felons

National Review reported last month that Obamacare's 'Covered California' employed at least 43 ex-criminals as navigators, including several individuals with fraud convictions. Elsewhere in Obamacare news, a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows public support for the law still underwater by double-digits, with just 35 percent of Americans expressing a favorable opinion of it. Even more problematic, frets the Huffington Post, are sentiments among uninsured Americans -- the very people for whom the law was ostensibly passed to help:


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 0bamacare; 3rdthread
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1 posted on 02/27/2014 8:43:34 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
only doin' work, Americans won't do..gov't. enslavement.

2 posted on 02/27/2014 8:46:23 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: Kaslin

BTTT!


3 posted on 02/27/2014 8:49:14 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Kaslin

How did this person get into the Country in the first place? I don’t see anything about that...


4 posted on 02/27/2014 8:49:25 AM PST by JoeDetweiler
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To: Kaslin

Good. Now convict Obama and his entire corrupt regime!!


5 posted on 02/27/2014 8:51:19 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Kaslin
I can't help but wonder how and why Rasmieh Yousef Odeh got an American visa. Murder is supposed to have no statue of limitations.

If we can track down and deport elderly ex-nazis who lied to get into the country, why can't we do the same for terrorists?

We all know the answer: because they are Muslim and reliable Democrat voters.

6 posted on 02/27/2014 8:52:00 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Kaslin

If obama had a cousin....


7 posted on 02/27/2014 8:52:40 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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8 posted on 02/27/2014 9:00:43 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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...Rasmieh Yousef Odeh...

Has this administration hired anyone with an American name??????????????????????


9 posted on 02/27/2014 9:01:27 AM PST by Boonie
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To: Kaslin

Choose health plan, or I kill you!

10 posted on 02/27/2014 9:04:14 AM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Kaslin

Criminals/socialists/totalitarians/terrorists…”at this point, what difference does it make?”, said the Sociopath of State. Oh, did I forget to include sociopath?

All the same. Degrees of scale.


11 posted on 02/27/2014 9:06:20 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Flick Lives

LOL!


12 posted on 02/27/2014 9:06:51 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Kaslin

No surprise. We already know this administration loves the jihadis who hate this country.


13 posted on 02/27/2014 9:13:03 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Kaslin

Holder wants him to be able to vote, maybe even run for public office, even be President?


14 posted on 02/27/2014 9:14:15 AM PST by bestintxas (Every time a RINO bites the dust a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: JoeDetweiler

Remember: It’s the Chicago/Obama way. Don’ ask, don’t bother to check.

I wonder how little ballerina Rahm Emanuel likes this fine kettle of fish?


15 posted on 02/27/2014 9:39:50 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kaslin

Remember obama’s phone number for obamacare is 1-800 FU
It really is. It is not a surprise that obama has terrorists working for him.


16 posted on 02/27/2014 9:44:56 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Kaslin

How did she gain entry to the US? Doesn’t our immigration department have access to some DHS terrorist watch data?


17 posted on 02/27/2014 9:59:09 AM PST by wildbill
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To: wildbill

Only grandmothers and handicap people and medal of honor recipients are on that list.


18 posted on 02/27/2014 10:10:25 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: JoeDetweiler
I found this here

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The indictment alleges that in 1995, she immigrated to the United States and naturalized as a citizen in 2004. In her immigration documents filed in the United States, the indictment alleges, Odeh omitted her arrest, conviction, and imprisonment overseas, which were material facts for the United States government in determining whether to grant her citizenship.

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Source

19 posted on 02/27/2014 10:34:52 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Thanks...


20 posted on 02/27/2014 10:40:00 AM PST by JoeDetweiler
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