The plot thickens: Al-Arian in the White House

Jewish World Review ^ | Feb. 25, 2003 | Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

[Sabertooth]

Since when, is the mere act of speaking up in one's own defense not allowed in the US?

Luis, that's not what happened. Khaled Saffuri used his access with this Administration and attempted to intervene in an ongoing terror investigation of the Safa Trust, a donor to his Islamic Institute. He wasn't speaking up in his own defense.

Bush obviously had no knowledge of the meeting, but that doesn't make Saffuri's attempt to influence the investigation less problematic.

[Luis Gonzalez]

OK, so he was there to speak in behalf of others being investigated.

Note the word "investigated". An investigation usually includes the gathering of information from all sorts of different sources in order to arrive at a conclusion.

If you exclude sources arguing in behalf of the people or group being investigated, or providing facts contrary to the accusations and/or incidents in question, it stops being an investigation, and becomes a witch hunt.

[justshe]

Yes....most 'sly'.

I'm moving onto other threads until actual PROOF can be shown re: this issue. The 'sly' innuendos and suppositions can only be rehashed so many times. As another poster stated yesterday, the horse is dead. All some are now trying to do is show what big muscles they have by swinging their perceived sledgehammer over and over and over and over and over and over...ad nauseum.

It was my impression that Jim didn't want any more replays of the replay of the replays posted.

"Pulled on 02/24/2003 12:23 PM PST by Jim Robinson, reason: Enough of this crap..."

Moving on...

[mattdono]

Exactly! This is why the charge that "these protesters are giving aid, comfort, and cover" is so poignant. These idiots can say that we are being McArthy-ites or whatever, but this is a perfect example of why they should shut their skull caves!

[Republic of Texas]

I would be more upset about this, except for the fact that it all took place pre-9/11. Most of us, at that time, thought that Muslims were like us. They had their extremists, but all religions do, and the vast majority of them just wanted peace. I think we have all learned better since then, and that includes the FBI, GW Bush and the WH staff.

[yoe]

Miz, you and posters 17 & 23 all surmise the same thing and that is who indeed overruled the FBI and CIA. I don't think you have to look any further than Bill Clinton's White House. The same preposterous, ludicrous imposter of a president who told us Education was fixed; Health was fixed; Aids was almost cured and smoking, that dastardly habit was licked and Bill Gates was Reno’ed for good measure. He simply did not want to rock his luxury cruse with something so upsetting as Sami and his terrorists who were gaining at a gallop in American and around the world. Coddling Arafat and other terrorist within the United Nations was much more to their liking, Hillary, Madeline, Janet, Al and Bill loved the rosy little world they painstakingly photo-oped and painted for America all the while pulling this nation down morally, spiritually and economically by spending like drunken sailors, to a Third World position.

Sami could indeed work unfettered at his leisure to undermine America as there was no one to stop him and a White House that did not care.

[John Lenin]

The plot thickens ? What plot is the guy talking about ? The plot to send Sami to the slammer for 50 years ? I think the article is a little overboard with the insinuation of some kind of White House plot.

The real question is why do we give Arafat US tax dollars to be a terrorist supporter ?

[Generalissimo]

President George W. Bush once again endorses terrorists. He also invited another Arab terrorist to the White House. That terrorist is Abu Mazen (a.k.a. Mahmoud Abbas). Abu Mazen was Arafat's bookkeeper and primary financier. Also, Bush even said that he was not concerned about Osama bin Laden. On March 13, 2002, Bush said: "I truly am not that concerned about him [Osama]."

[SJackson]

President George W. Bush once again endorses terrorists. He also invited another Arab terrorist to the White House.

This terrorist has been there before.