In the scandal surrounding Jack Abramoff's
indictments, and Tom Delay's indictments, there is much
speculation as to who will be named in the expansive
investigations of who knew what and who participated in possible
illegal activities. While many report on the various
connections, some touching on the political connections, some on
the conservative, the christian coalition and Jerry Falwell's
Moral Majority, what many seem to miss is the relationship of
the many discussed, who hold or have held membership in the secretive
Council for National Policy or CNP.
Founded in 1981, the first confirmed
mention of Jack Abramoff as a member was from the CNP members
telephone directory for 1984-1985. The final confirmed
membership year was 1988, with a gap in information until 1996,
when he is no longer listed as a member. However, Tom DeLay is
listed as a member in 1996, 1998 and it is unknown if he
remained a member. According to various news reports, Tom
DeLay received gifts from former
CNP member Jack Abramoff, and some reports state that,
Delay once called Jack Abramoff,
"one of my best friends." For More on the CNP
See What is the CNP
; Council
for National Policy 1996 Members ;
Council
for National Policy 1998 Members ;
CNP Executives
and the main CNP Index:
http://www.SeekGod.ca/topiccnp.htm
What is noteworthy is that Jack Abramoff's
International Freedom Foundation (IFF) was launched after he was
a member of the CNP and he was no longer a member by the time
questions arose concerning IFF, with the closing of IFF by
1993/94.
From the article which discussed
the Newsday report, Front for Apartheid,
which appeared in Newsday, Sunday, July
16, 1995, it alleged that Abramoff was an intelligence agent in
1983, along with others listed. It went on to say of the IFF: "
"...The
International Freedom
Foundation, founded in 1986
seemingly as a conservative think tank, was in fact part of an
elaborate intelligence gathering operation, and was designed
to be against apartheid's an instrument for "political
warfare" against apartheid's foes, according to former senior
South African spy Craig Williamson. The South Africans spent
up to $1.5 million a year through 1992 to underwrite
"Operation Babushka," as the IFF project was known.
The current South African National
Defence Force officially confirmed that the IFF was its dummy
operation.
"The
International Freedom
Foundation was a former SA Defence
Force project," Army Col. John Rolt, a military spokesman,
said in a terse response to an inquiry. A member of the IFF"s
international board of directors
also conceded Friday that at least half of the
foundation's funds came from
projects undertaken on behalf of South Africa's military
intelligence, although he refused to say what these projects
were except that many of them were directed against Nelson
Mandela's African National Congress...."
>http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/lhiff.html
What many are missing is the CNP
connection which also brought these many individuals together.
From the
CNP biographies:
Jack Abramoff - CNP Member 1984-85, 1988. National Chairman, College of Republicans; Chairman, United Students of America Foundation, 'dedicated to educating students on the need
to defund political activism on campus'; president Scorpion Film Productions, Inc.; chairman, Regency Entertainment Group, Ltd.; member, Board of Directors, The Conservative Caucus Research and Education Foundation.
Former executive director, Citizens for America, former chairman, College Republican National Committee, and also USA Foundation.
In the 1984-85 Council for
National Policy Annual Directory, it stated under his bio;
"National Chairman, College Republicans; under his leadership,
College Republican National Committee has become the largest,
most active student political organization in America; Chairman,
United Students of America Foundation, dedicated to educating
students on the need to defund political activism on campus;
Executive Producer, "Fallout", a student radio
program.; President, United Students Press Service; Publisher,
New American Magazine, a national monthly conservative student
magazine; College Republicans confront leftist groups on campus
and promote the conservative agenda...." He was based in
Washington DC at that time with the United Students of America
Foundation address being his contact. He was also a law student
by then.
Jack Abramoff is an Orthodox Jew with
close ties to Rabbi Lapin/Toward Tradition and movie critic
Michael Medved. He was also a supporter of
CNP's Tom
Delay, whom Delay once called
"one of my best friends."
"In July 2002, at the height
of the anti-Jena campaign, Bauer and Rabbi Daniel Lapin, a
fixture at Christian-right events, founded the American
Alliance of Christians and Jews. On the group's board were
Dobson, Robertson, Falwell
and one Jack Abramoff.
Lapin's organization, Toward Tradition, which administered
the AACJ, received $25,000 from one of
Abramoff's gambling
industry clients in 2000; took $75,000 from
Abramoff and his clients;
and then, upon Abramoff's
written instructions, hired the wife of Tony Rudy to the
tune of $5,000 a month. Rudy, who was Tom DeLay's deputy
chief of staff at the time, later a lobbyist, has been named
in Abramoff's guilty plea"
[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060220/blumenthal
]
Founder and former chairman of The International Freedom Foundation (IFF) which was recently exposed by senior South
African military personnel as a cut-out of the South African military and
Special Branch. IFF functioned as a propaganda arm for South African STRATCOM directed against the
African National Congress and the trade union confederation. 3b
3b. For STRATCOM>
Stratcom's bogus news agency rings by Ann Eveleth ,
August 14, 1998 See:
http://web.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/980814/NEWS16.html ; See: A Small Circle of
Friends. by Tom Burghardt Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR)> http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/right/lpratt.html
RE: STRATCOM "...General Viljoen had personally ordered the attacks on so-called "African National Congress Targets" including the blow up of suspected anti-apartheid activists and
critics. As revealed by former spy Craig Williamson from classified State Security Council documents, Viljoen was also responsible for Stratcom (Strategic Communications), a covert organization involved in frame-ups,
political assassinations, bombings, torture, covert propaganda and "dirty tricks campaigns"...(Stefaans
Brummer, "The Web of Stratcoms", Weekly Mail and Guardian. 24 February 1995)."
4
[4. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/37/076.html
> Political History of South Africa; >
Fri, 9 May 97 ;EXPORTING
APARTHEID TO SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA By
Michel Chossudovsky; Michel
Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa,
author of The Globalization of Poverty: Impacts of IMF
and World Bank Reforms, Third World Network, Penang
and Zed Press, London, 1997. Copyright by Michel Chossudovsky,
Ottawa, 1996.]
From the 2001 article
The Height of Hypocrisy by
Josey Ballenger:
"...In
the late 1980s and early 1990s [CNP's]
Dan Burton
and [CNP's] Republican Senator
Jesse
Helms
worked with the International Freedom Foundation, a Washington-based organization in part clandestinely funded by the South African military
to prop up overseas support for apartheid. The goal of the anti-communist group was to gather intelligence on, and discredit, the then-banned African National Congress. Burton and Hatch voted against key 1986 legislation
banning trade and investment with South Africa, even when most of their party moved across the floor to support it...It is the height of hypocrisy that Orrin Hatch or Dan Burton would be opposed to anyone breaking
sanctions against South Africa," said Salih Booker, who was the Democratic professional staff member of the House foreign affairs subcommittee on Africa in the mid-1980s. He is now executive director of the Africa
Policy Information Centre, a non-profit advocacy organization in Washington. Dan Burton called the freedom movement of the ANC a 'terrorist' organization and spent most of the time attacking their leadership, notably
Nelson Mandela," Booker said, noting that Burton was the ranking Republican on the Africa subcommittee at the time. "He never had a word against the white supremacists who ruled; he never met with those
fighting for freedom, unlike others on the committee, Republicans and Democrats alike...after many of his Republican peers decided to support US trade and investment sanctions against South Africa, Burton remained a
stalwart against the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986. So did Hatch. That Bill " which became law by garnering a two-thirds majority to override president Ronald Reagan's veto " outlawed petroleum
product exports and imports of South African coal, uranium, iron, steel, textiles, sugar and other agricultural products, and prohibited new investment in South Africa.
"The role of apartheid military intelligence in the International Freedom Foundation surfaced in 1995 when former South African spy Craig Williamson revealed that the former Pretoria regime spent up to
$1,5-million a year until 1992 to underwrite "Operation Babushka", as the foundation was known.
"A member of the foundation's international board of directors disclosed that at least half of the foundation's money came from projects undertaken on behalf of South Africa's military intelligence, New York's
Newsday reported in 1995 after a three-month investigation. And Colonel John
Rolt, a South African army representative, confirmed that "the International Freedom Foundation was a former South African Defence Force
project".
"Burton, Helms and other foundation participants, such as former Republican presidential candidate
Alan Keyes, denied knowledge of the South African funding link. But Burton was an active participant. In 1987,
for example, when Senator Edward Kennedy chaired a study of children in apartheid prisons, the foundation retaliated by sponsoring an investigation into the ANC's treatment of children, The Observer of London reported...
"The International Freedom Foundation was created in 1985 by Jack Abramoff, a conservative lobbyist who once represented the late Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese
Seko. Abramoff and [CNP's ]
Duncan Sellars, who
served as the foundation's chair, were both Burton campaign contributors but denied knowing about the South African funding, according to media reports in 1995.
"Abramoff said the foundation had been funded by hundreds of contributors in the US, Europe and Israel. Apartheid South Africa's last president, FW de
Klerk, cut off funding for covert "political"
operations in 1992 and the foundation folded in 1994..." 5
[5. The Height of Hypocrisy,
Story Filed: Thursday, March 22, 2001 2:21 PM EST ;
Johannesburg, Mar 23, 2001 (Mail and Guardian/All Africa
Global Media via COMTEX;) by Josey Ballenger , a writer
for The Public;
Africa News Service;
Mail and Guardian. Distributed by All Africa Global
Media (AllAfrica.com) obtained via Northern Light ]
See Also for more on IFF
including the Newsday report, Front for Apartheid,
which appeared in Newsday, Sunday, July
16, 1995>http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/lhiff.html
The IFF's headquarters was in
north-east Washington, D.C., at 200 G Street, next door to the
Free Congress Foundation". There were also contributions to IFF
from a "Jay Parker".
It is unclear if this is the
same Jay Parker>
J. A. "Jay" Parker
From Selected
CNP Joint Organization/Media/Projects Index E
- J >
International
Freedom Foundation [UN connected, a Washington-based
organization in part clandestinely funded by the South African
military to prop up overseas support for apartheid.] ~ Duncan
Sellars, Burton
Yale Pines , Jesse
Helms, Honorable
Dan Burton, Jack
Abramoff, Alan
Keyes
Regarding being located next
door to
Paul Weyrich 's
Free Congress Foundation, regardless of whether planned or
coincidence, there are connections to other CNP members via that
organization:
From the CNP Joint
Projects >
E ~ J
Free Congress
Foundation [originally Committee for the Survival of a
Free Congress] or it's affiliates~
Paul Weyrich
Howard Ahmanson, Jr.,
Jeffrey Coors and Coors Family,
Morton Blackwell,
Hon. Howard "Bo" Callaway,
Richard B. Dingham,
Jesse Helms,
Robert H. Krieble,
Connaught (Connie) Marshner,
Burton Yale Pines,
Richard M. Scaife,
Richard Viguerie,
Larry P. McDonald ,
Diana Weyrich
American Legislative Exchange Council.(ALEC)
>http://www.alec.org/
~
Samuel A. Brunelli,
Paul Weyrich, Coors now Castle Rock Foundation,
Scaife's Family and Allegheny Foundation, Amway, IBM, Ford,
Philip Morris, Exxon, Texaco and Shell Oil. Rep.
Louis (Woody) Jenkins,
Rep. Jack Kemp,
John H. Sununu ,
Howard Kaloogian,
Rep. Hal Jones,
William M. Polk,
Lawrence D. "Larry" Pratt,
Penny Pullen ,
Kathleen Teague [Rothschild],
Diana Weyrich
National Foundation for Women Legislators >
http://www.womenlegislators.org/home.html~
Robin Brunelli [wife of
Samuel A. Brunelli],
Coors Brewing
Free
Congress PAC ~
Paul Weyrich,
Richard B. Dingham
Krieble Institute ~
Dr. Robert H. Krieble,
Gary Hofmeister,
Paul Weyrich
National Empowerment Television [NET]~
Paul Weyrich,
Gary Hofmeister
National Pro-Family Coalition
~
Connaught (Connie) Marshner
Free
Congress Foundation's Coalition for Constitutional Liberties
>
http://www.freecongress.org/centers/technology/ccl/wu990514.htm~
Harry Valentine/Sound the Trumpet Ministries
Free
Congress Research and Education Foundation
~
Paul Weyrich,
Jeffrey Coors, Coors Family, the Smith Richardson
Foundation, Richard Mellon-Scaife Foundation,
Sen. William L. Armstrong,
John D. Beckett,
Dr. Robert J Billings , Marion
(Mac) Magruder,
Kathleen Teague [Rothschild]
February 7, 2006 Update: On
February 4, 2006, Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to conspiracy and
fraud in Florida. Prior to that, he had plead guilty to charges
in Washington. In Florida, he "admitted counterfeiting a $23
million wire transfer to complete the $147 million purchase of
SunCruz Casinos, a company that runs gambling cruises, in 2000".
The Florida case has links to Abramoff's activities "as a
prominent Washington lobbyist and to a guilty plea he entered a
day earlier in Washington to fraud, conspiracy and tax-evasion
charges." Abramoff is cooperating with prosecutors, "in what
Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher described as a broad
corruption investigation," and many politicians are distancing
themselves from him. Abramoff had been a major fundraiser to
President Bush's campaign, raising at least $100,000. Many
politicians are turning money over to charities that is known to
have come from Abramoff or his associations.
According to the Center for
Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign contributions, "Jack
Abramoff, Indian tribes he represented and people connected to
his SunCruz casino boat company gave a total of $4.4 million to
more than 240 members of Congress and political committees from
1999 through 2005". [Source: USA
Today.com Posted 1/4/2006 11:29 AM Updated 1/4/2006 10:57
PM; Abramoff pleads guilty to
more charges; By Jim Drinkard and Andrea Stone, USA
TODAY; http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-01-04-abramoff-florida_x.htm]
Michael Scanlon, his business
partner, has also pleaded guilty to corruption charges.
James Dobson,
Pat Robertson,
Ralph Reed,
Jerry Falwell, Tony
Perkins,
Gary
Bauer, and other CNP and religious right leaders are
being discussed in the press regarding their associations with
Jack Abramoff and
Tom DeLay and whether they were privy to
their respective activities.
Thomas D. DeLay - CNP
1996, 1998, ?; United States House of
Representatives; represented 22nd District of Texas since 1984. Became a
Christian in 1985; Republican, appointed Deputy Minority
Whip in 1988, House Majority Whip in 1994; elected House
Majority Leader after 2002 elections.
In 2005, Tom DeLay was
indicted in Austin, Texas on criminal charges of conspiracy to
violate election laws in 2002 by a Travis County, Texas grand
jury after having waived his rights under the statutes of
limitations. He temporarily resigned from his position as House
Majority Leader and on January 7, 2006 announced he would not
seek to return to his position.
Tom Delay
and and his political
associates Jim Ellis and John Colyandro were first indicted September 28, 2005, by the Travis County, Texas, Grand Jury, all
three charged with "conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme.".
[http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/delay/delay92805ind.html]
DeLay received gifts
from former CNP member Jack Abramoff. It is unknown if they were
members of the CNP at the same time because of the missing
membership information between 1988, Abramoff's last known
membership year, and 1996, DeLay's first year that can be
confirmed.
Michael Scanlon, Abramoff's business partner, has also pleaded
guilty to corruption charges.
James
Dobson,
Pat Robertson,
Ralph Reed,
Jerry Falwell,
Tony Perkins,
Gary Bauer, and other CNP and
religious right leaders are being discussed in the press regarding their
associations with Jack Abramoff and
Tom DeLay
and whether they were privy to their respective activities.
Although
DeLay has been
publicly denying the charges, the trial judge dismissed the one
count of the indictment, alleging conspiracy to violate election
law. Judge Priest, however, denied the motion to dismiss the
charges alleging money laundering and conspiracy to engage in
money laundering.
According to various media,
and in particular, in December 2005, the Washington Post
reported that a group of Russian oil executives gave money to a
non-profit advocacy group which was linked to Tom DeLay and Jack
Abramoff. The reports suggest that it was an attempt to
influence his vote on a 1998 International Monetary Fund bailout
of the Russian economy. Associates of Ed Buckham, the founder of
the U.S. Family Network, stated that executives from the oil
firm Naftasib offered a donation of $1,000,000 to secure DeLay's
support, with DeLay denying that the payment, which came via a
check from a London law firm to U.S. Family Network, influenced
his vote. Naftasib denied it made the payment or that they were
represented by the named law firm, and the dissolved law firm
declined to comment.
From SourceWatch, with
hotlinks removed:
"....Prosecutor Ronnie Earle
"broadened the scope of his inquiry into election spending" on
January 5, 2006, "demanding documents related to funds that
passed through a nonprofit organization," the U.S. Family
Network, Inc., "founded in 1996 by DeLay's then-chief of staff,"
Ed Buckham," which "received $500,000 in 1999 from the National
Republican Congressional Committee and used some of the money to
finance radio ads attacking Democrats," R. Jeffrey Smith
reported in the Washington Post.
"From Russia With Love"
"Two former associates" of DeLay's former chief of staff
and organizer of U.S. Family Network, Inc., Ed Buckham,
said Buckham told them Russian oil and gas executives
"Marina Nevskaya and Alexander Koulakovsky of the oil firm
Naftasib" contributed $1 million in 1998 "specifically to
influence DeLay's vote on legislation the International
Monetary Fund needed to finance a bailout of the
collapsing Russian economy." Jack Abramoff "had been
working closely with two such Russian energy executives on
their Washington agenda, and the lobbyist [Abramoff] and
Buckham had helped organize a 1997 Moscow visit by DeLay."
--R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post ,
December 31, 2005.
"...District
Attorney Ronnie Earle issued subpoenas late Monday
afternoon [December 12, 2005,] for California businessmen
Brent Wilkes and Max Gelwix, records of Perfect Wave
Technologies LLC, Wilkes Corp. and ADCS Inc. in connection
with a contribution to a fundraising committee at the
center of the investigation that led to DeLay's indictment
on money laundering charges," the Associated Press's
Suzanne Gamboa reported.
...Following the
November 21, 2005, plea agreement on federal conspiracy
charges by Michael Scanlon -- former aide to DeLay and
partner to DeLay associate Jack Abramoff -- the likelihood
of "federal charges against members of Congress
intensified" when Scanlon "agreed to co-operate with
investigators."
[4]
"The Wall Street
Journal reported November 25, 2005, that the Justice
Department's "investigation into possible
influence-peddling by prominent Republican lobbyist Jack
Abramoff is examining his dealings with four lawmakers,
more than a dozen current and former congressional aides
and two former Bush administration officials, lawyers and
others involved in the case. ... [Namely] House Majority
Leader Tom DeLay of Texas, Rep. Bob Ney (R., Ohio),
Rep. John Doolittle (R., Calif.) and Sen. Conrad Burns
(R., Mont.), according to several people close to the
investigation. ... Five of the former aides worked for Mr.
DeLay, including" Tony Rudy, Ed Buckham and Susan B.
Hirschmann. "The three were top aides to Mr. DeLay and are
now Washington lobbyists."
[5]
"Long-time political
allies DeLay and Roy Blunt, "the deputy who succeeded him
as House majority leader, orchestrated a political money
carousel in 2000 that diverted donations secretly
collected for presidential convention parties to some of
their own pet causes."
"When it all
ended, DeLay's private charity, along with the consulting
firm that employed DeLay's wife and the Missouri campaign
of Blunt's son, Matt, who now is the state's governor, all
ended up with a piece of the pie,
according to campaign documents reviewed by The Associated
Press."
[6]
"Jack Abramoff,
the Washington lobbyist recently charged in an ongoing
federal corruption and fraud investigation, and Jim Ellis,
the DeLay fundraiser indicted with his boss last week in
Texas, also appeared in the picture."
[7]
"DeLay has
received perks from Abramoff for years, including an 'education and golfing' trip to
Korea,
funded by a registered foreign agent, which is a violation
of House rules. ("The money was funneled through a
Washington tax-exempt group and the trip arranged" by
Abramoff. [8]
"Also involved in
the transactions is the Alexander Strategy Group, the
"political consulting firm formed by DeLay's former chief
of staff, Ed Buckham."
[9]
"None of the
hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations DeLay
collected for the 2000 convention were ever disclosed to
federal regulators because the type of group DeLay used
wasn't governed by federal law at the time."
[10]
[SourceWatch: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_D._DeLay]
Again From Source Watch:
"Tom DeLay is
implicated as the recipient of numerous gifts and other
favors from indicted Washington Lobyist Jack Abramoff,
whom he once characterized as "one of his closest and
dearest friends." Abramoff and his wife have personally
contributed $40,000 to DeLay and his PAC. Abramoff also
arranged multiple overseas expense-paid trips for DeLay
and his top staffers to Russia, Saipan and Britain over
the years. Funding for these trips has been closely tied
to Indian gaming tribes, Russian business tycoons and
overseas sweatshop operators.
[15]
"The Associated Press
reported on April 7, 2005, "DeLay's political action
committee did not reimburse lobbyist Jack Abramoff for the
May 2000 use of the skybox, instead treating it as a type
of donation that didn't have to be disclosed to election
regulators at the time.
"The skybox donation,
valued at thousands of dollars, came just three weeks
before DeLay accepted a trip to Europe including golf with
Abramoff at the world-famous St. Andrews course for
himself, his wife and aides that was underwritten by some
of the lobbyist's clients."
"Two months after
the concert and trip, DeLay voted against gambling
legislation opposed by some of Abramoff's Indian tribe
clients."
[16] "
[SourceWatch: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_D._DeLay]
In a January 6 press release issued
three days after Jack Abramoff's indictment, James Dobson
declared,
"If the nation's politicians don't
fix this national disaster, then the oceans of gambling money
with which Jack Abramoff tried to buy influence on Capitol
Hill will only be the beginning of the corruption we'll see."
... "Gambling--all types of gambling--is driven by greed and
subsists on greed."
From Abramoff's Evangelical Soldiers
by Max Blumenthal, writing for The Nation and posted
February 2, 2006, and noting individuals such as
James Dobson,
Pat Robertson,
Ralph Reed,
Jerry Falwell, Tony
Perkins,
Gary
Bauer, all of whom are
members of the CNP:
"...What Dobson neglected to
mention--and has yet to discuss publicly--is his own pivotal
role in one of Abramoff's schemes. In 2002 Dobson joined a
coterie of Christian-right activists, including Tony Perkins,
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, to spearhead Abramoff's
campaigns against the establishment of several Louisiana
casinos that infringed on the turf of Abramoff's tribal
clients. Dobson and his allies recorded messages for phone
banking, lobbied high-level Bush Administration officials and
took to the airwaves. Whether they knew it or not, these
Christian soldiers' crusade to protect families in the
"Sportsmen's Paradise" from the side effects of chronic
slot-pulling and dice-rolling was funded by the gambling
industry and planned by the lobbyist known even to his friends
as "Casino Jack."
"The only Christian-right activist
confirmed to be completely aware of Abramoff's rip-off was
Ralph Reed. He and Abramoff have a long and storied history
together. When Abramoff chaired the College Republican
National Committee in the early 1980s, Reed served as the
organization's executive director. They reunited in 1989, when
Abramoff helped Reed organize the remains of Pat Robertson's
failed 1988 presidential bid into the Christian Coalition. In
1997, with the Christian Coalition under IRS investigation and
Reed facing accusations of cronyism from the group's chief
financial officer, he left to start his own consulting firm,
Century Strategies. Reed contacted Abramoff right away. "I
need to start humping in corporate accounts," Reed told him in
1998. "I'm counting on you to help me with some contacts."
..."In
July 2002, at the height of the anti-Jena campaign,
[Gary]
Bauer and
Rabbi Daniel Lapin, a fixture at Christian-right events,
founded the American Alliance of Christians and Jews. On the
group's board were Dobson,
Robertson, Falwell and one Jack
Abramoff. Lapin's organization, Toward Tradition, which
administered the AACJ, received $25,000 from one of
Abramoff's gambling industry
clients in 2000; took $75,000 from
Abramoff and his clients; and then, upon
Abramoff's written
instructions, hired the wife of Tony Rudy to the tune of
$5,000 a month. Rudy, who was Tom DeLay's deputy chief of
staff at the time, later a lobbyist, has been named in
Abramoff's guilty plea"
[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060220/blumenthal
]
Daniel
Lapin is mentioned in> CNP bio on
D. James Kennedy:
"...D James Kennedy hosts an
annual "Reclaiming America for Christ" conference,
at which fellow activists like Shirley Dobson,
Larry Poland,
and Janet Parshall exhort Christians to organize at the
grassroots level, swaying the decisions of national
policymakers; April 19, 2000, ecumenical group form the
Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship (ICES) [SEE:
ICES] members include, Father Richard John Neuhaus of the
magazine First Things,
James Dobson of Focus on the Family, D.
James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries,
"Bill" Bright, Tom
Minnery, etc., and Rabbi Daniel
Lapin of Toward Tradition.
"