A State of Siege: Financial Pearl Harbor, Muslim Spies, Israeli Spies, Four Moronic Congressmen of Apocalypse..……..
“One week after accusing the Council on American-Islamic Relations of conspiring to plant "spies" inside Congress targeting sensitive security-related committees, four Republican lawmakers have formally asked the House sergeant at arms to investigate whether the D.C.-based Muslim group has carried out its alleged plans.……..”
“A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today applauded statements by members of the U.S. House of Representatives rejecting claims made yesterday by several of their GOP colleagues that Muslim congressional interns are "spies." The Council on American-Islamic relations (CAIR) also said that one of its directors has received a death threat after the Wednesday launch of a "Muslim-bashing" book by several right-wing members of Congress. CAIR's offices in Washington, D.C., Detroit, and Northern and Southern California also received obscene phone calls. The San Diego caller referenced the anti-Muslim book.……Yesterday, several right-wing members of Congress launched a book called "Muslim Mafia" and asked for an investigation of Muslim "spies" on Capitol Hill……….”
“Moon scientist Stewart Nozette held as Israeli spy in FBI sting. An American astrophysicist with top-level nuclear security clearances appeared in court yesterday after being arrested in an FBI sting and charged with trying to sell secrets to Israel. Stewart Nozette, who helped to discover water on the Moon and spent six years at a top-secret defence technology agency, was lured into a trap by federal agents. They posed as Israeli intelligence operatives who met him at a Washington hotel and agreed to pay him cash for classified papers. “I don’t get recruited by Mossad every day,” Mr Nozette allegedly said, according to wiretaps. “I knew this day would come. I just had a feeling.”…....…”
“Eight months ago it looked as if Wall Street was in store for strong financial regulation -- oversight of derivative trading, pay linked to long-term performance, much higher capital requirements, an end to conflicts of interest (i.e. credit rating agencies being paid by the very companies whose securities they're rating), and even resurrection of the Glass-Steagall Act separating commercial from investment banking. Today, Congress is struggling to produce the tiniest shards of regulation that would at least give the appearance of doing something to rein in the Street…….”
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