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Fiorina to Campbell: Stop lying about your terrorism record

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  March 7th, 2010 at 03:28 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

The California Senate race is becoming a real free for all, as the candidates go after each other’s records with gusto, and it appears that Tom Campbell is taking the worst of it. It’s not a good sign when a candidate has to say that he does not help terrorists. What’s worse for him is that Carly Fiorina is not letting it go at that.

The Campbell statement to me seems rather weak, as it repeatedly tries to drag George W. Bush down with him, to use him as a shield in some vague way. But Fiorina is now calling on Campbell to correct that page, saying that the findings of the Investigative Project on Terrorism refute Campbell’s denial that he has worked to assist Sami Al-Arian, who has been convicted in the US of aiding anti-Israeli terror.

While it’s on the record that Sami Al-Arian once snagged an invitation to the White House under President Bush, apparently through campaign contacts, there is no record of Bush going out of his way to give assistance to the man specifically. Campbell on the other hand did.

Can friends of Israel trust Tom Campbell in the Senate or anywhere else where he can influence America’s foreign policy? I’m skeptical.

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  • JadedByPolitics

    and if he is a good man he will accept this BEATING and walk away because If Campbell has supported Al-arian he CANNOT be the Republican candidate because WE leave traitorous actions like that to the Democrats You know like Obama’s Islamic Envoy

  • hickorystick

    I did a little more reading on the Investigative Project on terrorism’s website. I also read the letter Tom Campbell had written (1). Campbell had written the letter based on the Universities Letter of dismissal. He expressed standard University views on allowing all speech, and mildly disputed the Universities claim about their name being used alongside his views. He was clear in the letter he didn’t support Arian’s views. Standard Professor stuff.
    He clearly didn’t know Al-Arian was a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Board of Directors, or that he held hateful radical views. Campbell did not know Al-Arian was being surveilled by the FBI. Frankly, the White House did not pick up on this either, and it is their job to. Think Kardashian. None of this information was out where Campbell reasonably should know it.
    That Al-Arian approached Campbell, on a bill Rep Campbell was already working on, to get help for his brother, was normal workaday stuff in the 1990′s.
    Fiorina has really twisted this around. She is very dishonest. She knows the timelines don’t play out on what she is claming. There are things I don’t agree with on Campbell. But from what I have read, he has always presented his honest view. I know their is some post-operative critcism of the 2005 budget, but it doesn’t acknowledge the growing economy at that time, and California’s 2005 mostly Democrat Assembly. I read his proosals for that as well a couple months ago, and it seemed like he was being reasonable, fair and open in his discussion of the budget, and the place California was in. There is a lot of historic revisionism going on now, that is fear based and dishonest (not you).
    I would love to see Chuck Devore get elected as Boxer’s replacement. Given a choice between Fiorina and Campbell though, Campbell is a far better Person to be Senator.

    . (1) http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/359.pdf

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    You claim he just writes letters for people without knowing who they are?

  • hickorystick

    him because his brother had been stuck for three years in jail awaiting a hearing. Campbell had been concerned that immigrants were being held, because of secret evidence. The brother was set free upon a hearing. If the feds were keeping evidence secret, how could Campbell know anything was suspicious about the guy. In the 2006 plea bargain, the judge says himself Al-Arian is a master manipulator. I pulled this is off their own website
    THE COURT: Dr. Al-Arian, as usual, you speak very
    4 eloquently. I find it interesting that here in public in
    5 front of everyone you praised this country, the same country
    6 that in private you referred to as “the great Satan”; but
    7 that’s just evidence of how you operate in the face of your
    8 friends and neighbors.
    9 You are a master manipulator. You looked your
    10 neighbors in the eyes and said you had nothing to do with
    11 the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. This trial exposed that as a
    12 lie.
    http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/71.pdf#page=3

    And no, I don’t deny the letter, I linked it at the bottom of the comment. It wasn’t an unreasonable letter. If you condemn him for having contact with someone who turns out to be working with terrorists, a lot of politicians are going to be caught in that net. Just yesterday, on the International news, they said Ahmed Chalabi is the Conservative Islamic Candidate, whose main funding is now from Iran.
    There were quite a few Presidents of Universities writing letters who didn’t know who this guy was. It’s almost an automatic thing.