Culture of Corruption: Harry Reid Staffer Caught in Sham Marriage to Keep Terror Suspect in the U.S.
Senator Harry Reid’s office is once again embroiled in a scandal involving a staffer, this time with implications for national security and (surprise) journalism ethics. Two weeks ago, it was revealed that a Reid staffer and other congressional aides were buying or selling shares in companies regulated by Congress.
Now, Reid’s Hispanic press secretary, Diana Tejada, has been implicated in an immigration scam involving a false marriage to a Lebanese national who was under investigation by the Oklahoma City Joint Terrorism Task Force, according to a FoxNews report. A spokesman for the Senate majority leader from Nevada, Jim (“I spin for a living”) Manley, would not comment other than to say that the “staffer at issue is no longer with our office.” Manley refused to provide a timeline as to Tejada’s dismissal or to say when the majority leader found out about the investigation.
Authorities say that Tejada, 37, fraudulently married Bassam Mahmoud Tarhini, who has been investigated for ties to Islamic extremists. “In 2008, sources with knowledge of the case told FoxNews.com, the FBI — working with the Oklahoma City Joint Terrorism Task Force — sent what’s called a collateral request to ICE, asking them to track down Tejada to interview her about Tarhini,” reported FoxNews.
In the summer of 2008, Tejada lied to federal investigators who were interested in Tarhini’s radical ties. She was not employed with Reid’s office at the time; she was employed with La Raza. Tejada contended then to agents that her marriage was legitimate. She joined Reid’s staff in October 2008, and in November “Tejada broke down and confessed that her marriage was a lie, carried out to get Tarhini U.S. residency,” after being presented with new evidence by the feds, according to FoxNews. What’s clear from reports is that for 24 months after confessing to federal agents that her marriage to a man with possible terror connections was a sham, Tejada continued to work for Senator Reid. For reasons as yet unclear, though Tejada faced a possible 25 years in jail on the variety of felony charges at play, the federal government declined to prosecute. And though she says she was paid to enter into the sham marriage, the failure to prosecute means we will probably never know who paid her to engage in a sham marriage involving a man suspected of having ties to terrorists, a marriage that would have given the man an inside track to permanent residency in the U.S. All of this gives rise to a couple of questions that ought to be directed Harry’s way. Why did Tejada remain employed on Reid’s staff for two years after the confessed crimes came to light, and were any strings pulled in relation to scuttling her prosecution?
So let’s go behind the curtain to reveal what the media has to say about it, friends.
Are his other aides hired from similar organizations like the Aryan Nations, the Nation of Islam, and the Muslim Brotherhood!? He shouldn’t be an elected or appointed official with such close ties to organzation promoting separatism, racial supremacy, and anti-Semitism.
Fifty years of denigration of marriage have led to shame marriage, homosexual marriage, self-marriage, why not every marriage?
You left out sheep and dogs as significant others: oh, how insensitive, I forgot dogs are unclean according to devout Muslims. I guess I won’t send a resume to NPR.
Can I marry my dog, inseminate her for puppies, and claim them as tax deductions? why not
oh heck..LaRaza what else can we expect.. Interesting to know why, after violating so many laws, she was not prosecuted…who pulled what strings?
Time for Harry to step down
Are we blowing another intel worker’s cover, fellas?
Only in your dreams.
Given that we are discussing the man who saved the world from a giant world wide depression with no thanks for it, we should go easy on the fellow. He knows more than anybody ever knew and the whole world owes him a really big favor. Angle should quit while she’s ahead.
The really bad part of this farce has little to do with Harry Reid. What’s bad is the Justice Department’s refusal to prosecute. This corruption is in every government agency because they are all staffed by liberal Democrats. A Republican win this election will be just the first step on the yellow brick road.
You are sorta right and sorta wrong. If it weren’t the US Senate Majority Leader’s staff you’d have a point. But Reid has “juice” and any breaks given his people is fair game for speculation, IMO, so he’s guilty until proven innocent as far as I’m concerned – particularly when the MSM is playing along and supporting his no harm, no foul “narrative”. Or maybe Santa Claus is real.
As much as I dislike Reid, I really don’t think this marriage has anything to do with his election……unless it is to question the intelligence of the woman who married the guy.
Really? And, if Reid were a Republican, or more so if he were a Tea Partyer? And, Slick Willy isn’t a pervert!
According to the Whitman standard, we are to assume that Reid knew of this all along and was active in the coverup, correct?
I just want to make sure I’m applying an impartial standard.
Are you ready for another $2.6 Trillion dollar tax bill (Heritage Foundation analysts), to add to the growing 13 Trillion dollar US treasury Deficit? Then you just vote for any Democrat, who is going to stick that bill on you, your grandchildren–with another illegal alien AMNESTY. Dump Senator Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer and all the Pro-Amnesty, Anti-Sovereignty Democrats and Liberal fringe, including Governors, Mayors, Police Chiefs and elected officers. GOOGLE–Voter Fraud; Illegal alien costs; illegal aliens and Social Security. Search the facts for yourself, because Huffington Press, Washington, Post, Los Angeles Times and the New York Times and the left wing open border fringe media, will spit on the truth and tell you a bunch of lies and propaganda.
How can anybody not feel completely betrayed by corrupt politicians involved in insider trading, the hiring of illegal aliens, steering taxpayer money to relatives companies only to get the same money back in campaign contributions, the buying of votes, the buy off of unions, not allowing overseas military to vote, steering scholarship monies to relatives. failure to pay taxes and the list goes on. Now this…It makes me ill.
How can anybody not feel completely betrayed by the many corrupt politicians involved in insider trading, the hiring of illegal aliens, steering taxpayer money to relatives companies only to get the same money back in campaign contributions, the buying of votes, the buy off of unions, not allowing overseas military to vote, steering scholarship monies to relatives. failure to pay taxes and the list goes on. Now this…It makes me ill.
If ever there was evidence of the left-Islam alliance, here be it.
Angle’s Angle vs. Reid’s Reactionism “by Kate Evans”
If nothing else, Democrats are consistent.
Their consisistency in this case can be traced back at least to 1964. Prior to that, Dwight Eisenhower was treated somewhat benignly and was merely called a dolt. By ’64, Democrats had moved on to their current demonization tactic and Barry Goldwater was labeled an extremist who planned to blow up the planet. Ditto with Ronald Reagan. With slight variations, ditto Sarah Palin, ditto Christine O’Donnell and ditto Sharon Elaine Angle.
Now, in the stretch drive to November 2nd and with Angle running at 50% to Harry Reid’s 46% according to the latest Rasmussen poll, Reid’s storm troopers are bound to intensify radical, extremist charges against the Republican candidate who can in large part credit ROCPAC, a nascent Political Action Committee, for winning that nomination last June against Sue Lowden.
Today, thanks to her stance as a leading opponent of Obamacare, Angle may almost be considered the poster child for the GOP surge in popularity over recent months at the same time public opposition has grown immeasurably.
How best could Reid and his Democrats do battle against Angle? Why, by calling her an extremist, of course.
But, who is really the radical, who the extremist? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2134)
The New York Times, Sows’ Ears, and Silk Purses
No matter what they say, I don’t think it’s possible to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. The New York Times does, though.
The former “paper of record,” “the Old Gray Lady,” currently on life support with a DNR notice above its sick bed, does not literally believe in the possibility of the conversion of a dirty pig’s ear into a pricey handbag but it does seem to think it can convert Sen. Harry Reid into a winner.
The Times made a final desperate shot last Friday toward that end in its front page article, “In Nevada, It’s Hold Nose and Cast Vote,” the chief premise of which is that both Reid and his Republican conservative opponent, Sharron Angle, stink, at least in the noses of most Nevadans and possibly in the opinion of the article writers, Dan Barry and Michael Cooper.
The underlying message in the piece is that, since both Reid and Angle are rotten candidates, why not go with the most powerful one?
The Times reporters interviewed a number of Democrats and Republicans for “In Nevada, It’s Hold Nose and Cast Vote,” which would seem to suggest equitable reporting. However, as CNSNews.com points out, without quoting a single Republican who fears the thought of Harry losing, the Times article went on to say that, “Some Republicans fear losing such a powerful ally [that would be Harry] in Washington.” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2451)