Charles C. Johnson @ The Daily Caller:
Documents obtained by The Daily Caller show that staffers for then-Sen. Chuck Hagel met repeatedly with a controversial pro-Iran lobby group, and some met with the organization’s president.
Hagel is President Barack Obama’s choice to be the next secretary of defense. Arizona Sen. John McCain and other Republicans have conceded that a vote — and likely confirmation — will take place during the week of Feb. 25.
Iranian state-run media have referred to the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC) since at least 2006 as “Iran’s lobby” in the U.S.
It portrays itself in the media as an independent group of Iranian expatriates. But Sam Nunberg, director of the Legal Project at the Middle East Forum project, describes the NIAC as an Iranian “front group.”
And documents released during the discovery phase of a defamation lawsuit NIAC filed against Seid Hassan Daioleslam, editor of the Iranian American Forum and one of the regime’s most public critics, include correspondence with Mohammed Javad Zaif, then Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations.
Nunberg’s organization is helping to represent Daioleslam.
The civil discovery documents also include a letter written by NIAC legislative assistant Babak Talebi describing Sen. Hagel as “generally on our side” regarding issues concerning the Islamic Republic.
There are rumors that Obama is only going to Israel to try to pressure that country into letting Iran continue its path to nuclear power.
Hagel is PERFECT for Obama.
NanG RE#1 RUMOURS Great album by Fleetwood Mac.—-Otherwise—worthless waste of time.
Richard Wheeler
you should know from the warzone that when there is smoke there is fire coming,
or did you forget, or you did not listen when told,
this is a dangerous man for that job,
because IRAN IS TEAMING WITH NORTH KOREA,
THAT ADD UP TWO NUCLEAR EXCHANGE HELPING EACH OTHER,