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If we can't accuse them of being unpatriotic, can we at least accuse some Democrats of being monumentally dense? Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq. While traveling, they called for a diplomatic solution. Prosecutors say that trip was arranged by Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a Michigan charity official, who was charged Wednesday with setting up the junket at...

Follow the Money: Towards Treason Written by Melanie Morgan    Wednesday, 26 March 2008 And now for our trip in today's Way Back Time Machine.Let's visit Iraq, shall we? That's where three United States Congressmen traveled in 2002, in the days before the Bush administration launched a war to depose Saddam Hussein, sparking a huge controversy.  Following Ben Bradlee's excellent advice to Woodward and Bernstein during the Watergate era to 'follow the money', the Associated Press has learned that Saddam Hussein's secret agents financed the trip towards treason.          "An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a...

... I listened last night to syndicated talk-radio host Mark Levin report the breaking news that an Iraqi-American had been indicted as a spy. In addition, he stands accused of secretly funding the October 2002 pre-invasion trip to Iraq of three antiwar House Democrats, Congressmen Jim McDermott (D-WA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), and David E. Bonior (D-MI, now retired). I first posted a clip of that audio on MarkLevinFan.com and then I followed the money. Always follow the money. You just think that you have read all where it led in this case.

Feds Say Mich. Man Arranged U.S. Lawmaker Trips for Saddam Hussein's Intel Service The former spokesman of a Detroit-area Islamic charity, who organized U.S. congressional delegations to Iraq, has been indicted for alleged conspiracy to spy for Saddam Hussein's government. Muthanna Al-Hanooti, who worked as a top official at Life for Relief and Development — a charity in Southfield, Mich. — allegedly coordinated U.S. congressional delegations to Iraq at the direction of the executed dictator's intelligence service between 1999 and 2002. In return, investigators say he received payoffs via the United Nation's Oil for Food program. The indictment, which was...

WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors say Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion. An indictment in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam's regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary. In exchange, Al-Hanooti allegedly received 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil. The lawmakers are not mentioned but the dates correspond to a trip by Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and...

Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam's regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary.At the time, the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq.The lawmakers are not named in the indictment but the dates correspond to a...

The system allowed individuals and companies to use Iraq's UN-controlled oil-for-food programme to purchase Iraqi oil at concessionary prices and resell it, splitting their huge profits with Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader. Under the programme, the Iraqi regime had to sell its oil under international supervision but could choose its own middlemen. Those intermediaries, invariably sympathetic to Saddam and his money, paid for the oil into a United Nations account at prices agreed by Baghdad. That money was in turn used by the UN to buy food, medical supplies and other essential goods for Iraq. The purpose of the system...

FBI agents yesterday raided the suburban Detroit headquarters of LIFE for Relief and Development (LRD), the largest Islamic charity in the country. I first wrote about the group for The Post in 2003. Back then, FBI Director Robert Mueller was set to give an award to Imad Hamad, who heads the Midwest chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). But, after my Post article pointed out that Hamad was a subject in over a dozen terrorism-related investigations, the FBI revoked the award. One of those investigations concerned Hamad's close ties to LRD. Both the FBI and the then-U.S. Customs...

September 18, 2006 BREAKING: Largest U.S. Islamic Charity Raided by FBI Printer Friendly By Debbie Schlussel I've been writing about LIFE for Relief and Development for years, and I think my columns (especially this one), have finally made a difference. Ditto for my complaints about LIFE to Assistant U.S. Attorney for counterterrorism, Ken Chadwell. Less than half an hour ago, the FBI began raiding LIFE and hauling out documents. Well, it's about time. LIFE--the largest Islamic charity still open for business in America--openly admitted on its 1995-'97 taxes to be a major funder of HAMAS. Headquartered in the Orthodox Jewish...

SCATTERED AMONG the loose papers and bound files unearthed last week at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad was "letter no. 140/4/5," labeled "Confidential and Personal" and addressed to "The President's Office--Secretariat." The letter concerns George Galloway, a pro-Saddam member of the British Parliament, who founded a charity known as the Mariam Appeal, ostensibly to aid Iraqi children suffering under U.N. sanctions. The missive, from the Iraqi Intelligence Service, is a request that money be funneled directly to Galloway. It reads in part: His projects and future plans for the benefit of [Iraq] need financial support to become a motive...

Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge, the Communist Party that ruled Cambodia from 1976-1979. "Khmer Rouge" (or Khmer Reds) was the French rendering of the organization’s official name: the "Communist Party of Cambodia," later the "Party of Democratic Kampuchea" and also the "Communist Party of Kampuchea," or CPK. (Kampuchea is the local name for Cambodia.) Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar in what is now the province of Kompong Thong, Cambodia in 1925. He came from a prosperous farming family that in 1931 moved to the capital, Phnom Penh, where the young Pol Pot learned some of...

Karl Rove is under fire from Democrats who have demanded he apologize or resign for the his comments at a New York State Conservative Party dinner on Wednesday. Here is some of what Rove said: LET me now say a few words about the state of liberalism. Perhaps the place to begin is with this stinging indictment: "Liberalism is at greater risk now than at any time in recent American history. The risk is of political marginality, even irrelevance . . . [L]iberalism risks getting defined, as conservatism once was, entirely in negative terms." These are not the words of...

In September of 2002, Jim McDermott (D-WA), David Bonior (D-MI) and Mike Thompson (D-CA) traveled to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein. Before they left for Baghdad, Jim McDermott made the following public statement: "the President of the United States will lie to the American people in order to get us into this war." After McDermott returned, he continued to make similar statements. While the 3 Democrats were in Baghdad, did they make representations to Saddam Hussein that their fellow Democrats and the Democrats' friends in the mainstream liberal media were willing to commit seditious acts to buttress Hussein's increasingly...

...Iraq's top customer was Russia, whose firms bought $19.2 billion worth of Iraq oil and exported $3.3 billion in humanitarian goods. Fellow Security Council member France was a distant but significant second, at $4.4 billion and $2.9 billion respectively. China is also high on the list. Oil voucher recipients are alleged to include the Russian presidential office, former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, and even former Oil for Food program director Benon Sevan of the U.N.... Against this backdrop, it is impossible to take Secretary-General Annan seriously when he calls it "inconceivable" that this could have affected the Security Council's...

Bush works to woo conservative Democrats, independents in Saginaw By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN The Associated Press 8/5/2004, 9:45 p.m. ET SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — President Bush brought his message on the economy, education and health care on his latest visit to Michigan, but saved the bulk of his time for talking about keeping the country safe and protecting institutions such as marriage. "If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch," Bush said Thursday evening, bringing a cheering crowd of more than 6,000 to their feet at...

Terrorist PACBy J. Michael WallerInsight Magazine | November 21, 2003 On September 11, 2001, as people around the world opened their hearts and their checkbooks to victims of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, a prominent Muslim activist laid out $3,000 of his own. But he didn't have the victims in mind. He used the occasion to help re-elect one of his favorite federal lawmakers: a feisty left-winger who kept the FBI in her political crosshairs. According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, Abdurahman Alamoudi wrote two checks that day totaling $3,000 to the campaign committee of...

Insight on the News - National Issue: 03/02/04 Special Report Saffuri's Ties to Terror Suspects By Kenneth R. Timmerman The rise of Khaled Saffuri to political prominence within the U.S. Muslim community has all the ingredients of a Horatio Alger success story. Brought up as a stateless exile in Kuwait, Saffuri came to America as a student in 1982, went to college in San Diego, and soon gravitated into the world of Muslim activism. A talented fund-raiser and behind-the-scenes power broker, Saffuri built bridges to politicians in both parties by generously contributing to their election campaigns, from California libertarian Rep....

From a tangle of recent accusations about Iraqi oil profiteering and international deceit that stretches from Washington's Beltway to Baghdad, one name keeps popping up: Shakir Al-Khafaji, an Iraqi-born metro Detroiter [snip] The West Bloomfield father and Southfield business owner has become entangled in a simmering scandal that now threatens to overtake the United Nations' biggest humanitarian mission, the oil-for-food program. Hearings were held this week in Congress following a congressional report earlier this month that said that much of the money generated by the program was skimmed off before it reached the Iraqi people. [snip] The GAO estimated that...

Special ReportSaffuri's Ties to Terror Suspects Posted Feb. 23, 2004 By Kenneth R. Timmerman Saffuri (above) has formed relationships with several questionable allies, including Sami al-Arian, who was arrested last year. The rise of Khaled Saffuri to political prominence within the U.S. Muslim community has all the ingredients of a Horatio Alger success story. Brought up as a stateless exile in Kuwait, Saffuri came to America as a student in 1982, went to college in San Diego, and soon gravitated into the world of Muslim activism. A talented fund-raiser and behind-the-scenes power broker, Saffuri built bridges to politicians in both...

Omega Letter Christian Intelligence Digest Who Did Saddam Bribe? List Names Top Officials in France, Russia Terror - Islam Monday, February 09, 2004 MEMRI On January 25, 2004, a daily newspaper in Iraq called al Mada published a list of individuals and organizations who it says received oil from the now-deposed regime. Among those listed is Shakir al Khafaji, an Iraqi-American from Detroit, who ran "Expatriate Conferences" for the regime in Baghdad. Al Khafaji also contributed $400,000 to the production of Scott Ritter's film "In Shifting Sands." Finally, al Khafaji arranged travel and financing for the "Baghdad Democrats"--Jim McDermott, Mike...

The following report from MEMRI's Baghdad office is a translation of an article which appeared in the Iraqi daily Al-Mada,(1) which obtained lists of 270 companies, organizations, and individuals awarded allocations (vouchers) of crude oil by Saddam Hussein's regime. The beneficiaries reside in 50 countries: 16 Arab, 17 European, 9 Asian, and the rest from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Only a portion of the 270 recipients are listed and identified.

Bonior to head up Gephardt campaign in state, nationally By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN The Associated Press 12/18/2003, 5:14 p.m. ET LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. David Bonior of Mount Clemens said Thursday he will head up Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt's Michigan campaign and serve as co-chairman of the Missouri congressman's national campaign. The two worked closely together in the U.S. House before Bonior chose to run for governor in 2002 rather than for another House term. Bonior was the House minority whip and Gephardt was the House minority leader during Bonior's last years in office. Gephardt campaigned...

You may remember the Chicago-based Islamic website Soundvision.com which hosted messages celebrating and applauding the suicide bombing in Israel last week, such as these highlighted by Daniel Pipes: ************************************************************************** SoundVision.com Visitors Applaud Jerusalem Suicide Bombing. The murder of 18 bus-riding Israelis by a militant Islamic terrorist on August 19 met with the expected joy in the Palestinian and Lebanese street ("Several hundred young men poured into the streets of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon on Tuesday and handed out sweets to celebrate a suicide bomb attack on a Jerusalem bus," reads one account). More noteworthy is the public, English-language...

IN LAST WEEK'S EPISODE, much of respectable Washington was aghast that the Bush White House had "politicized" the possibility of war by questioning the patriotism of congressional Democrats who opposed the president's Iraq policy. Respectable Washington was mistaken about all this. First off, war is an intrinsically and legitimately political issue, partisan debate about which is nothing to be aghast over. And while it would indeed have been beyond the pale for the president and his men to smear Democratic dissent as per se disloyal, no such smear had actually been forthcoming. Neither, for that matter, had any serious Democratic...

Congressman Jim McDermott: Saddam Hussein's Useful Idiot in the U.S. Congress by Larry Elder (October 10, 2002) Article website address: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1966 Summary: A member of U.S. Congress on enemy soil, declaring greater trust and faith in the enemy than in his own president! [CAPITALISM MAGAZINE.COM] Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, post-Sept. 11, held up a New York Post headline, "Bush Knew." "Bush knew," said Sen. Clinton. "The president knew what?" Then Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., on a radio talk show, insisted that Bush not only knew, but intentionally avoided taking action so as to enrich his friends in the military business....

WASHINGTON -- President Bush issued an apology Friday over the removal of Abdullah Al-Arian, son of a University of South Florida professor, from a White House meeting of Muslim officials. "The president is very concerned that an action was taken that was wrong, inappropriate, and the president apologizes for it on behalf of the White House," press secretary Ari Fleischer said. A uniformed Secret Service officer ordered Al-Arian, a congressional intern and Duke University senior, to leave a briefing Thursday of Muslim officials. Al-Arian's father, USF professor Sami Al-Arian, has been entangled in an investigation of terrorists. His uncle is...

<p>WASHINGTON — Several of the House's more prominent and colorful members, including GOP leader Dick Armey and Democratic stalwart David Bonior, are leaving office with the close of this Congress. Some are taking the short walk down the Capitol hallway to the Senate. One took a longer trip to a Pennsylvania jail.</p>

<p>I was recently in Iraq as part of a delegation of members of Congress who traveled there to observe the humanitarian conditions, press upon the Iraqis the need for weapons inspections and gain insight into the dangerous implications a unilateral, preemptive strike would have on U.S. national interest. These are subject areas generally ignored in our current discourse.</p>

Chemical and biological agents were tested in Florida, Alaska, Hawaii, Maryland and Utah. By THOM SHANKER N.Y. TIMES NEWS SERVICEposted 10/09/02 WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department, acknowledging a much wider testing of toxic weapons on its forces, said it had used chemical warfare and live biological agents during Cold War-era military exercises on American soil, as well as in Canada and Britain, according to secret documents cleared for release to Congress on Wednesday. Sixteen newly declassified reports describe how chemical and biological exercises, previously undisclosed, used deadly substances like VX and sarin to test the vulnerability of American forces to...

Think of Mike Thompson as the silent partner. He's the Californian who accompanied his fellow House Democrats, David Bonior and Jim McDermott, on the journey to Iraq that Republicans can't stop talking about. That's because Bonior and McDermott couldn't stop talking as they worked their way through hospitals, schools and meetings with various Iraqi officials. McDermott was particularly outspoken. He stood on Iraqi soil urging Americans to take Saddam Hussein's promises on weapons inspections at "face value" and said President Bush was willing to "mislead the American people." The more Bonior and McDermott talked, the less Thompson was seen or...

If Democrats fail to win back the House, it's likely that some in the party will look for the seeds of defeat in a late-September weekend in Baghdad, where visiting Democratic Congressmen asked the world to put faith in the word of Saddam Hussein. "It's just a disaster," said one top Democratic official, who requested anonymity. "Even the average person who doesn't believe we should go to war in Iraq is bound to see [the visit] as support for an enemy of the United States. And those who support the president on Iraq will think it's treasonous." Members and strategists...

Congressmen Jim McDermott and David Bonior have "MISLED" the American people about their Vietnam service.  During their Baghdad press conference, both McDermott and Bonior touted their Vietnam combat service, while calling President Bush a liar and praising Sadam Hussein's openness and cooperation.  Upon returning to the U.S., the two congressmen held a press conference and again highlighted their Vietnam combat service, as an obvious measure to boost their qualifications to remark on the horrors of war. Following the news conference, McDermott appeared on MSNBC and once again clearly established at the onset of the interview that he had served in...

The war is now well and truly politicized — and the Democrats have done it. I watched the sickening performance of Congressmen McDermott and Bonior from Baghdad last Sunday, and couldn't believe my eyes. Where are the condemnations? Why haven't Democrats openly distanced themselves from these foolish and scurrilous remarks? The truth is, Republicans, including most especially the president, have been almost shockingly quiet about this. What McDermott and Bonior said and did was infinitely worse than the remarks that led to Sen. Daschle's angry denunciation of the president on the Senate floor. It is the president who has...

VANITY: C-SPAN will broadcast a live news conference today at 10:00 AM ET from the US Capitol. The C-SPAN website does not give the exact location, but this would be a great opportunity for a DEMOCRAT TRAITOR FREEP!

You’ve Got 90!  (Buchanan, Press & Baghdad) Sept. 30 — Pat and Bill disagree about the three Democrats who went to Baghdad to convince Iraqis to let inspectors in. Was it a good or a bad move? PAT BUCHANAN:        We’ve got three Democratic congressmen, three members of your good party, Bill, over there in Baghdad, the Baghdad three. Or the Jane Fonda caucus, inside the Democratic cloakroom.        One of them is David Bonior, a respected leader, the No. 2 ranked Democrat. Another is Jim McDermott of the state of Washington. These gentlemen have...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Visiting U.S. lawmakers urged both Iraq and the United States on Monday not to interfere in the inspection process, adding that war is not the only way out of the crisis. "There is a way to solve this crisis without war. It is for the Iraqis not to interfere and for the United States not to interfere in the inspections process," Rep. David Bonior, a Michigan Democrat, said during a news conference. Rep. Jim McDermott, a Washington Democrat who has suggested the Bush administration may be misleading the American public on the dangers posed by Iraq,...

BREAKING - CAPTION THE PICTURE - Bonior (D-MI and Iraq) and McDermott (D-WA and Iraq) at the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad, September 30, 2002 "THIS JUST IN - THEY REMAIN DOWN ON THEIR BENDED KNEES TO MURDERERS: Congressmen David E. Bonior (D-MI and Iraq) and Jim McDermott (D-WA and Iraq) with Salem al-Kubaisi, head of the Arab and Foreign Relations Committee, at the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad, September 30, 2002. They called President Bush a liar, and apparently pled allegience to Saddam as they claimed America gave cancer and birth defects to Iraqi children. In contrast to their lies, shown...

BASRA, Iraq, Sept 29 (AFP) - Three anti-war US congressmen on a rare visit to Iraq on Sunday criticised the 12-year UN sanctions regime as "barbaric", saying that open weapons inspections must resume to ensure it is lifted. Democrat representative David Bonior of Michigan spoke of "the horrific and barbaric suffering ... particularly children are undergoing," after visiting a hospital, a paediatric clinc and two desalination plants in this southern Iraqi port city. He stressed along with colleagues Jim McDermott of Washington state and Mike Thompson of California "the absolute necessity to end the sanctions" through "fair, open, unrestricted...

"Daschle isn't a gas bag," Senior Enemy Agent Jack Hughes reports. "He's a whoopie cushion!" So let's all make whoopie with Tom, if only to cushion his fall. How many soapboxes did he mount last Wednesday before tumbling down to the Senate floor? He's now suspects some mean Republicans and White House operatives stole his lifts and elevator shoes. What's more, the urgency of the moment left him no time to touch up the coloring of his hair. This shouldn't be taken to mean that the flaming red on his neck and face wasn't his natural color. Fortunately for all...

Ba'th Party Arab political party and movement in the Middle East, principally in Syria and Iraq, where its local branches still hold the power of the countries.Alternative spellings of the party name are Ba'ath and Baath, but Ba'th is the most correct. IDEOLOGY The basic principles of the Ba'th Party were unity and freedom inside an Arab nation. The party also based itself on the belief that Arabs had a special mission to end Western colonialism.The Ba'th Party was nationalistic, populistic, socialistic and revolutionary. Its socialism was not communism but did involve land reform, public ownership of natural resources, transport,...

CYNTHIA McKINNEYPOSITION: Democrat Congresswoman from GeorgiaDONOR: Abdurahman Alamoudi AMMOUNT: $2000 on September 11, 2001 DETAILS: Alamoudi, President of the American Muslim Foundation, is a well known radical mohammedan activist known for publicly praising terrorist organizations. He worked closely as an informal advisor and affiliate of several Clinton administration officials (source). At an October 2000 rally in Washington, D.C. Alamoudi spoke to a radical islamic crowd announcing ""I have been labeled by the media in New York as being a supporter of Hamas. Any supporters of Hamas here? (cheers) Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of Hamas ... I...

First, please don't forget to vote today. I doubt I have to remind anyone here that. Secondly, what's the turnout in your area? Lastly, Go Posthumus, Blanchard, both Dingells, Ficano, Jonathon Grant(over RINO Stewart), Alan Cropsey, Allen Lowe, Steve Vear, Dale Shugars(over RINO Upton), Michelle McManus, and Bob Gosselin.

Democrats hold first televised debate in Marquette By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN The Associated Press 7/18/02 3:51 PM MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) -- The three Democratic candidates for governor held a heated debate Thursday in their first televised meeting. The hour-long verbal matchup at Northern Michigan University was one of two for the Democratic candidates before the Aug. 6 primary. All three aggressively challenged their opponents, shaking fingers at each other at times and raising their voices on more than one occasion. Former Gov. James Blanchard and U.S. Rep. David Bonior both accused Attorney General Jennifer Granholm of working too closely with...

Democratic gubernatorial camps at odds over debates By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN The Associated Press 6/25/02 6:44 PM LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Democratic candidates James Blanchard and David Bonior have agreed to appear together in at least four debates, but candidate Jennifer Granholm now says she wants to debate only twice before the Aug. 6 primary. Blanchard's debate negotiator, Bob Kolt, says Granholm is breaking the pledge she made when she accepted Blanchard's call to do five debates. In a June 4 news release, Granholm said, "I agree to five debates. ... I look forward to meeting you on the debate...

<p>It's getting chippy along the gubernatorial campaign trail. Nothing really nasty, just aggressive elbowing.</p> <p>U.S. Rep. David Bonior, who went into an attack mode early in the campaign, was the target of weekend jabs from contenders from both parties. Republican state Sen. Joe Schwarz branded Bonior "a socialist." Ex-Gov. Jim Blanchard, a fellow Democrat, called him a far-left "Nader Democrat."</p>

Gubernatorial candidates release 2001 tax returns The Associated Press 4/15/02 10:24 AM LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Former Gov. James Blanchard says he took in $581,418 in income last year and paid $162,630 in state and federal taxes. He also paid Canadian income taxes. Blanchard and other candidates running for governor released their 2001 income tax returns Monday, the tax filing deadline. Blanchard, of Beverly Hills, said his income came from his job as a partner in the Washington law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand; paid positions on corporate boards; and capital gains, dividends, interest and an annuity....

School funding a hot topic for candidates Most running for governor would consider changes By Tim Martin Lansing State Journal Most of the candidates to become Michigan's next governor say they would consider changes to the state's public school funding system. The debate comes as many of Michigan's wealthiest school districts - especially those with falling enrollment - contemplate budget cuts. They want changes in state law that could let them get more money for operating expenses such as salaries and academic programs. Democrats David Bonior and Jennifer Granholm and Republican John Schwarz say they would consider giving local voters...

Granholm's record being targeted AG says critics desperate, trailing in polls By Chris Andrews Lansing State Journal When Jennifer Granholm accepted the Democratic nomination for attorney general in 1998, she told party delegates, "Elect me, and I'll say to the people of Michigan, 'I'll take your case.' " Four years later, Granholm's Democratic rivals for governor are questioning whether she's lived up to her words. They say she's put her role as the attorney for Gov. John Engler and state government ahead of her duties in looking out for the people's interests. U.S. Rep. David Bonior of Mount Clemens says...