Reply #15: Interesting tidbits from that article. [View All]

"Shortly thereafter, Abramoff was running Citizens for America, a conservative grass-roots group founded by drugstore magnate Lewis E. Lehrman. Abramoff was in frequent contact with Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, the Reagan White House's Iran-contra mastermind, about grass-roots efforts to lobby Congress for the Nicaraguan contras, according to records in the National Security Archive.

"One of Abramoff's most audacious adventures involved Jonas Savimbi, the Angolan rebel leader who had U.S. support but was later found to have ordered the murders of his movement's representative to the United States and that man's relatives. With Savimbi, Abramoff organized a "convention" of anticommunist guerrillas from Laos, Nicaragua and Afghanistan in a remote part of Angola. Afterward, Lehrman fired Abramoff amid a dispute about the handling of the group's $3 million budget."

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These two paragraphs are of interest to me for several reasons. First, it directly ties Abramoff to the Iran-Contra scandal, which is something I didn't know.

There is a rough parallel with another Iran-Contra associate of Col. North, Michael Ledeen, who appears to be behind the forged uranium documents which are behind Plamegate.

Where Ledeen had ties to Iranian operatives, it now appears that Abramoff had ties to Afghani terrorists--I mean guerrillas. We also know that Abramoff had ties to purported terrorist financiers.

And we also know that the 9/11 terrorists paid a visit to one of Jack Abramoff's SunCruz boats on September 5, 2001.

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:1UeufYqqE6IJ:www.bonitanews.com/01/09/florida/d678875a.htm+%E2%80%9CSunCruz+Casinos+turns+over+documents+in+terrorist+probe.%E2%80%9D++&hl=en

It's now clear that Ledeen was running an operation to concoct phony intelligence for the purpose of igniting a fallacious and highly profitable war.

What was Jack Abramoff's operation, I wonder?