Feinstein releases statement about Kavanaugh nomination and secret letter.

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    Centrist? Why do these liars claim they are "moderates?"

    Sinema in 2003: Sinema’s anti-war group blasted ‘U.S. terror,’ depicted soldier as skeleton on flyers.

    In sharp contrast, during that same decade, Martha McSally, Sinema’s GOP opponent, was leading a squadron of A-10s against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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    "Centrist?"
    "Moderate?"

    Kyrsten Sinema Promoted a Terrorist Lawyer

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    Don’t buy the Arizona Senate candidate’s excuses.

    In 2003, Democratic Senate hopeful Kyrsten Sinema had promoted campus appearances by Lynne Stewart, a radical lawyer, while Stewart was being prosecuted for providing material support to terrorism. Having been called out on this, Sinema has distorted basic facts of the case.

    Sinema represents Arizona’s 9th district in the House and is locked in a tight race against Martha McSally, who represents the state’s 2nd district, for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Jeff Flake.

    Ms. Stewart, who died in 2017, was the main attorney in the 1995 terrorism prosecution of her client, Omar Abdel Rahman, better known as the “Blind Sheikh.” Abdel Rahman was the jihadist whom Stewart was convicted of abetting; she helped him communicate with his murderous Egyptian terrorist organization from the American prison where he was serving a life sentence.

    A leading light of the notoriously jihadist-friendly lawyer left, Sinema now portrays herself as a moderate progressive. To the contrary, her political activism began when she co-founded a “social justice” organization, Local to Global Justice, while studying law at Arizona State University. In that connection, Sinema urged people to attend two 2003 events at which Stewart was the featured speaker.

    Stewart was under federal indictment for providing material support to terrorism. She and two co-defendants, longtime Abdel Rahman aides Ahmed Abdel Sattar and Mohammed Yousry, were accused of facilitating the Blind Sheikh’s communications with the Islamic Group (Gama’at al Islamia), the Egyptian terrorist organization the Blind Sheikh had helped found in the early 1980s when it participated in the assassination of President Anwar al-Sadat.

    By the time Stewart and her co-defendants committed the crimes alleged in the indictment, the Blind Sheikh had been convicted of

    (a) orchestrating a terrorist war against the United States that included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a subsequent (unsuccessful) plot to bomb New York City landmarks;
    (b) soliciting attacks on U.S. military installations; and
    (c) conspiring to murder — and soliciting the murder of — Egypt’s then-president, Hosni Mubarak.
    Sentenced to life imprisonment, the Blind Sheikh thereafter issued the fatwa that al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden credited with authorizing the 9/11 attacks. Regarding the United States, Abdel Rahman had urged:

    Muslims everywhere to dismember their nation, tear them apart, ruin their economy, provoke their corporations, destroy their embassies, attack their interests, sink their ships, . . . shoot down their planes, [and] kill them on land, at sea, and in the air. Kill them wherever you find them.

    The Islamic Group (Gama’at) went to great lengths attempting to extort the United States government to release the Blind Sheikh:

    In 1997, Gama’at threatened to “target . . . all of those Americans who participated in subjecting [Abdel Rahman’s] life to danger” — “every American official, starting with the American president [down] to the despicable jailer.” The organization promised to do “everything in its power” to obtain his release.

    Six months later, Gama’at jihadists set upon 58 foreign tourists and several police officers at an archeological site in Luxor, Egypt, brutally shooting and slicing them to death. The terrorists left behind leaflets — including in the mutilated torso of one victim — demanding that the Blind Sheikh be freed.

    Gama’at subsequently issued a statement warning that its forcible struggle against the Egyptian regime would proceed unless Mubarak met its three demands: the implementation of sharia, the cessation of diplomatic relations with Israel, and “the return of our Sheikh and emir to his land.”

    In March 2000, terrorists associated with the Abu Sayyaf group kidnapped some tourists in the Philippines and threatened to behead them if Abdel Rahman and two other convicted terrorists were not freed. Authorities later recovered two decapitated bodies (four other hostages were never accounted for).

    On September 21, 2000, only three weeks before al-Qaeda’s bombing of the U.S.S. Cole [killing 17 members of the U.S. Navy], al-Jazeera televised a “Convention to Support the Honorable Omar Abdel Rahman.” Front and center were Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri (then bin Laden’s deputy, now his successor as emir of al-Qaeda). They warned that unless Sheikh Abdel Rahman was freed, jihadist attacks against the United States would be stepped up. At the same event, Mohammed Abdel Rahman, an al-Qaeda operative who is one of the Blind Sheikh’s sons, exhorted the crowd to “avenge your Sheikh” and “go to the spilling of blood.”

    These are the jihadists whom Stewart helped the Blind Sheikh consult with and direct by unlawfully transmitting messages, in contravention of enhanced confinement measures the Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons (BOP) had put in place to prevent communications between the convicted terrorist leader and his subordinates.

    In promoting Stewart, Sinema maintained that the lawyer was “emphatically not guilty.” According to Sinema, Stewart was charged only because of surveillance powers enabled by the “hastily enacted PATRIOT Act.” Sinema insisted that Stewart was merely “doing her job for the past 27 years as an outspoken criminal defense lawyer.”

    These claims are frivolous, notwithstanding their straight-faced restatement by Sinema’s Senate campaign.

    "Moderate?"
    "Centrist?"
    Are you kidding me?

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/kyrsten-sinema-promoted-a-terrorist-lawyer/

     
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