Romney Advisor Mitchell Reiss Backs ‘Terrorist’ Group, Jokes About Being ‘Potential Criminal’

[Tx4obama]

Mitchell Reiss, a foreign policy adviser to Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on Friday once again spoke out on behalf of an Iranian opposition group the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.

Reiss, a former State Department official, appeared alongside other former U.S. officials like former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and Attorney General Michael Mukasey at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. to support removing the People’s Muhajedin Organization of Iran, or MEK, from the U.S. list of designated terrorist organizations. Reiss, who served as moderator of the panel, opened his remarks with a joke about the ongoing Treasury Department investigation into the speaking fees paid to officials like him who have appeared at previous events.

“Up here on the dais this morning, we have some of America’s most distinguished public servants, most decorated military officers, and most respected diplomats — a true collection of outstanding American leaders,” Reiss said. “Or, as the Treasury Department would prefer to call us for our supporting the delisting of the MEK, potential criminals.”

Reiss said that members of the media were trying “to slander our efforts to safeguard the brave men, women and children of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty. We come here today at a time when anonymous State Department officials are trying to question our motives and our morals. We come here at a time when some people in the U.S. government are trying to intimidate us from speaking out on behalf of what we know is right and just.”

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Full article here: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/romney_advisor_mitchell_reiss_backs_mek.php?ref=fpb

[Confusious]

1. Seems same old same old as far as Republicans go

Republican rule:

You're a terrorist if we say you are, doesn't matter what you do.

Occupy wall street? Terrorists. Kill a bunch of people inhumanly, but we support you? Freedom fighters.

[sofa king]

2. He's just trying to get ahead of Sy Hersh.

It turns out that the Bush Administration trained the newest crop of international terrorists to-be in Nevada.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/04/mek.html

Yes, it's exactly the same group that Mitchell Reiss is defending. Yes, it's astonishing to learn that the Bush Administration's actual response to a US-government-created terrorist's attacks on the United States was to train up another class of terrorists to use on another crazy-ass mountain nation we can never successfully invade or occupy.

No, it doesn't surprise me at all.

[renegade000]

3. What kills me about this whole thing is

for all the inanity from the tea-party right about how Obama is a crypto-Muslim-Marxist, it is actually the right-wingers who are literally promoting an Islamist-Marxist group.

[Blue_Tires]

4. It's like an inside-out "Manchurian Candidate"