Trying to write a story on Dead Letters (Raw Story)

[rawstory]

But there's so much there. Can anyone point me to the stuff (besides the crack thing, which is more wonkette's venue than mine) that is actually substantive? I looked at the church thing and it doesn't have anything on specific churches (violating IRS code) or anything.

Any bullet points? Thanks for your help.

[crispini]

1. The NOAA guy

who didn't want to accept questions from "enviros" -- shows an attitude there.

Also shows collusion between gvmt and employees. Poss violation of Hatch act.

And the church thing-- the campaign was going out and registering voters at churches. These churches should lose their tax exempt status.

[Carni]

2. UPDATE: [e-mail] is Jafar karim Try THIS--

Seems to me there is something here but I can't tell for sure...so I would welcome a second opinion!

In a nutshell the first email on the dead mail site is From:

"Randa Fahmy Hudome <mailto:[e-mail] >"

Randa Fahmy Hudome is the head of a two person PR firm in DC.

The firm has been hired by Libya (fairly recently)

She used to be Spence Abraham's undersecretary at the energy dept

The name she mentions in the email that should not be used for "reasons they discused" is Kamal Nawash

He was tied to the below individual but apparently was also running for a state senate seat in Virginia

"It began on Aug. 16, when British authorities at London's Heathrow Airport discovered Alamoudi with $340,000 in sequentially numbered $100 bills as he attempted to fly to Syria. British officials say Alamoudi admitted he had received the money from the Libyan government ."

"As Insight goes to press Alamoudi is in an Alexandria, Va., jail on federal charges relating to aiding and abetting terrorism, illegally funding U.S. pressure groups with laundered money from Libya and Saudi Arabia, and financing terrorists in Syria and inside the United States. Kamal Nawash, calling himself an Alamoudi lawyer, claimed the charges are politically motivated. He did not address the individual allegations."

I have all the supporting links if anyone wants them--is this significant of anything?

UPDATE: [e-mail] is Jafar Karim here are the goods on him:



http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=karim+bush+campaign+&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&u=www.gwu.edu/%7Eaction/2004/bush/bushorg.html&w=karim+bush+campaign&d=16EE0E0155&icp=1&.intl=us

Director of Coalitions Jafar Karim
Served as chief of staff and earlier as legislative director to then Rep. John Thune (R-SD). BLS '93 from University of South Dakota.
-National Farm & Ranch Steering Committee (launched March 1, 2004)
-Democrats for Bush (launched March 24, 2004)
-National Hispanic Steering Committee (launched April 12, 2004)
-National First Responders Leadership Team (launched April 21, 2004)
-National Veterans Leadership Team (launched May 11, 2004)
-National "Educators for Bush" Team (launched May 27, 2004)
-Small Business Leaders for Bush-Cheney '04 (launched June 17, 2004) ...BC '04 Business Coalition Director Mina Nguyen
-African Americans for Bush National Steering Committee (launched July 19, 2004) ...Tiffany Watkins
-Asian Pacific American National Steering Committee (announced Aug. 30, 2004)
-Conservative Values >
-Health Professionals ...Tiffany Watkins
-Seniors
-Sportsmen
-Students
notes >

-National W Stands for Women Leadership Team (launched May 12, 2004) ...Coordinator Cathy Gillespie

[crispini]

3. Also if you know some legal eagle types

I'd be very interested in figuring out what that lawyer was trying to say or do. Too much legalese for me.

[crispini]

4. Post it here! I'm dying to see this get out further!

Why is no one interested in this story... IMO, some very tasty tidbits!