The CNP Vetted Sarah Palin: Is this the conspiracy you're looking for?

I ran across this article from last year, appearing in "The Nation", that claims that Sarah Palin was vetted by the Council for National Policy when she was chosen as McCain's running mate:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/352178/ultra_secretive_right_wing_group_met_in_minn_to_vet_palin



For those of you unfamiliar with the Council for National Policy:

http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy

most dangerous/powerful powers-behind-the-scenes groups in the country

lots of mention of them here lately, and deservedly so....

but when you see the list of CNP participants, which includes not only a long list of Fundamentalist organizations but also outright cults (including Moonies and Scientology), and the fact that they are intimately involved in choosing those running for high office, then I don't know what else to call it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6053164

on edit: forgot one: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3965917

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/23/did-ensigns-mistress-fail-to-report-her-own-payoff/

It was Jack Abramoff’s casino-making-deal house on (132?) D Street SE that backed up to The Family house.
Porter Goss was right across the street from Abramoff, at 131 D Street SE.


The Indian Gaming Trade Assn is around the corner on 2nd Street SE.

Oh, and the Justice House of Prayer until a few months ago rented the 2nd floor of Bank of America on the SE corner of 2nd & Pennsylvania Ave. They just moved over a block next to Starbucks at 3rd & Penn SE. It looks like they have an entire row house now.

If you google YWAM (Youth with a Mission), tax record owners of The Family’s house, you will see hits for Justice House of Prayer and a number of common names.


132 D, SE was the house owned by Alexander Strategy Group, who were Tom DeLay’s henchmen. ASG was directly connected to Abramoff. ASG sold that house to then Cong. Jim Ryun (KS) at a discount. Ryun was defeated in ‘06 partly because of that shady deal.

The 100 blocks of C and D, as you have pointed out, are very important places of business and residence for much of “the nation’s business.”

A group called “The Madison Project” (religious organization, of course) is/was run out of 119 C, SE. (Public Integrity’s Record).

What’s interesting about Madison is that it was run by Timmy Teepel, who is presently Gov “Bobby” Jindal’s Chief of Staff in Louisiana. Teepel was also influential with Jindal when he was in the Senate. More importantly, Teepel is a major homeschooling proponent. Madison is also closely affiliated with Patrick Henry College, which is a freakshow homeschooler’s college and law school in Purcelville, VA.

Probably not a coincedence that Jim Ryun (he of the scandal house, mentioned above)… Ryun’s sons took over running The Madison Project.

Probably also not a coincedence that from that same address, 119 C Street, SE, was where the Triad fundraising scandal of ‘96 was run.

Shady shady shady dealings going on around the 100 block SE square of C and D.

Posaune, you’re a local. Any idea who occupies the alley dwellings on that block?

“responsible for direct mail accounting”

Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Good to know…

It is interesting where Oliver North and Jack Abramoff intersect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff

In 1985, Abramoff joined Citizens for America, a pro-Reagan group that helped Oliver North build support for the Nicaraguan Contras. Citizens for America staged an unprecedented meeting of anti-Communist rebel leaders known as the Democratic International in Jamba, Angola. This conference included leaders of the Mujahedeen from Afghanistan, UNITA from Angola, the Contras, and opposition groups from Laos. Out of this largely ceremonial conference came the International Freedom Foundation. Abramoff helped to organize, and also attended the conference.

There is a strange and little-known 1986 UPI story -- available as an image at http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=943&dat=19861216&id=8XgLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dFMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6936,4793497 but apparently not online in print form -- which states:

Rep. J.J. Pickle, D-Texas, chairman of a House Ways and Means subcommittee, said Monday he will begin a probe into the political activities by tax-exempt organizations linked to the Iran scandal, including political action committees and tax-exempt foundations set up by conservative fund-raiser Carl Russell Channell.

A report Sunday by The Lowell (Mass.) Sun said Lt. Col. Oliver North and other White House officials were aware that $5 million in arms sales profits had been routed to groups supporting pro-Contra congressional candidates. The report said some of the profits were funneled to a Channell-inspired foundation — the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty — that sought to defeat candidates opposed to military aid for the Nicaraguan rebels. . . .

Jack Abramoff, former executive director of another conservative lobbying group, Citizens for America, acknowledged he met at least a dozen times with North at the group's Washington offices in early 1985 and talked about the administration's program to muster support for Central America. "We didn't get any money from the Ayatollah," Abramoff said, referring to the allegations of diverted Iranian money.

Rep. Michael Barnes, D-Md., who was defeated in a primary bid for the Senate, said his organization tried to find out who was paying for negative advertising against him but never was able to trace the source of the funds. "It's a lot worse than Watergate if this is true," Barnes told reporters at a briefing.

Abramoff, Norquist, and Reed were all brought into CNP quite early as sort of junior cadet members. There was a 1998 CNP meeting at which the featured speakers included several people who later became caught up in the Abramoff scandal -- Dick Armey, John Doolittle, Christopher Cox, and former DeLay chief of staff Susan Hirschmann. (http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.tysons.1998.htm)

There are a number of other interesting names among the "Members in Attendance" at that event -- including Mark Sanford. Sanford is also shown as heading a workshop on "The Politics of Social Security," so that's at least one Family/CNP link.

I also have a list of Family members who received money from Abramoff's tribes or were otherwise associated with him: Charles Grassley, John Ensign, James Inhofe, Conrad Burns, Jim DeMint, and Todd Tiahrt. Abramoff also donated $4000 to Ensign's senate campaign in 2003.

(The LaRouchies claim there's some sort of direct Abramoff-Family link by way of Rabbi Daniel Lapin. Like most of what the LaRochies say, I've never been able to verify that, but I'm not prepared to say it isn't true.)

Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute may also be part of this cluster. Blackwell was among the attendees at that 1998 CNP meeting, and according to Wayne Madsen, "The Leadership Institute, headed by Virginia Republican official Morton Blackwell, counts such right-wing members of Congress as Tom DeLay, Frank Wolf, Sam Brownback, John Ensign, Todd Tiahrt, Charles Grassley, James Inhofe, Zach Wamp, and Joseph Pitts as members of its 'bi-partisan' congressional Board of Advisors. The above Republican members of Congress are also core members of The Fellowship." (I wouldn't normally cite Madsen, but in this case he seems to be repeating public information, so I assume it's ok.)

What's particularly interesting about Madsen's LI/Family list is that Ensign, Inhofe, Tiahrt, and Grassley are also on my Abramoff list. So there really may be some sort of nexus going on here.

They were toast the minute she walked in the room.

They told each other it was because of her anti-abortion views to validate it, because IF they really heard her speak or actually asked her hard questions, they would have never ever picked her...so for some reason, their ears were not working correctly. Wonder what it was that kept them from seeing her as a completely inapprorpaite choice? (yes, this is a rhetorical question)

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