Players in bush campaign email (that wasn't supposed to be public!)

[Carni]

This is long but let me know what you think...

A parody anti-Bush site called Georgewbush.org recently discovered that they have been receiving emails intended for the Bush campaign.

Here is the link to the "dead emails" on GeorgeWBush.org

http://www.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/

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

"Randa Fahmy Hudome (mailto:[e-mail])

To: Professor Walid Phares ([e-mail])
Hilary F White ([e-mail])

CC TO: Jafar Karim ([e-mail])

The email discusses some type of a press release being written by Walid Phares and/or Randa Fahmy Hudome, which will include the names of assorted Middle Eastern individuals that belong to a group called
"THE MIDDLE EASTERN AMERICAN NATIONAL CONFERENCE" who are supposdely backing Bush. (I couldn't find anything on the net that verifies the existence of this "group" MEANC as an organized coalition)

Randa Fahmy Hudome expresses concern over tainting Bush with scandal and alludes to a name which needs to remain off of the list.
(an individual named "Kamal Nawash") She also expresses concern regarding the rest of the signers being thouroughly vetted.

Now for some background on the individuals involved in this email:

Randa Fahmy Hudome- was an asst secretary of energy to Spence Abraham until a few months ago--she now runs her own Washington PR firm and was recently hired by Libya.

Professor Walid Phares (depending on what source you look at and I list several below) is an MSNBC "terrorism expert" (see links in bibliography) Another site accuses him of being a darling of the neo-cons and accuses him of meeting him with terrorist groups.

Hilary F White also had a "coalition Provisional authority" (CPA) email address as referenced on google. CPA Press releases all throughout the fall and summer of 2003 list Ms White as the contact regarding the releases.

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:1XT0od67kuoJ:www.cpa-iraq.org/pressreleases/20040202_chao.html+Hilary+F.+White++&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

The CC copy went to Jafar Karim (his real email address should have been [e-mail] but it was sent to Georgewbush.org in error)

Jafar Karim is the Bush-Cheney '04 National Coalitions Director.

My question is this: Why are an MSNBC "terrorism expert," a PR firm owner that is currently representing Libya and a previous government employee of the Coalition Provisional authority in Iraq clearing a so called press release with the Bush campaign's regional director???

If Walid Phares is writing press releases praising bush and is an MSNBC analyst isn't this yet again a conflict of interest???

(Kamal Nawash by the way, the name they wanted left off the list of endorsers, was tainted in a scandal involving a suspected terrorist tied character by the name of Alamoudi. Nawash represented himself as an Alamoudi lawyer per this article at a cached link:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:zVZokPGX7JYJ:www.insightmag.com/main.cfm%3Finclude%3Ddetail%26storyid%3D525860+Kamal+Nawash+suspected+of&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)

What follows is the reprinted email in question from Georgewbush.org
(please note if you go to the site there is also an attachment which I could not access):


----Original Message-----
From: Randa FahmyHudome
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 10:07 PM
To: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (no subject)

Okay Walid - after our conversation I went ahead and did a google search on the names below. I am not sure if they are spelled correctly. I did not find anything questionable. Since I do not know most of them - I cannot vouch for their reputations. You will have to do that. Kamal Nawash cannot be on the list - for the reasons we discussed.

Remember this: We do not want to do anything that might harm the President's chances of re-election by exposing him to any controversy. If you have doubts about these names - perhaps we don't need to do this press release at all.
--
Randa Fahmy Hudome, President
Fahmy Hudome International, LLC
815 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. #200
Washington, D.C. 20006
202-429-5566
202-429-5577 fax

From: [e-mail]
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:40:30 EDT
To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (no subject)

Friends

This is it. The final draft and the final names. I am awaiting to confirm on one Chaldean American from Detroit. Nawash, upon your suggestion is not in. Check one more time if it is the case. Couple phone numbers are missing, will be added.
QU: Do you think I should put my name as a contact?
I am up all night, working on my long memorandum of academic endorsement.
Check the signing names and let me know
Best
Walid

THE MIDDLE EASTERN AMERICAN NATIONAL CONFERENCE ENDORSES PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OCTOBER 23, 2004

CONTACT: Professor Walid Phares
[e-mail]
202 207 0188
305 283 9253

The Middle Eastern American National Conference (MEANC), based in Washington, D.C., is pleased to announce that they have endorsed George W. Bush to be re-elected as President of the United States.

The MEANC is a coalition of Americans of Middle East descent who hail from various religious and ethnic backgrounds including: Arab, Maronites, ChaldoAssyrian, Persian, African, Copt, Berber, Sunni, Shiite, Orthodox, Melkite, Syriac, Jews, Druze, Lebanese, Iraqi, Syrian, Egyptian, Libyan, Sudanese, Palestinian, Jordanian, Algerian, Yemeni, Arabian, Kuwaiti, Afghani, Iranian, Turk, Moroccan, Mauritanian, Ethiopian, and others.

The following is the text of MENAC's endorsement in full:

"We the undersigned, declare our endorsement of President George W Bush for a second term as a President of the United States. We base our endorsement on the President's support of policies we deem in line with the aspirations and agendas of the majority of Americans from Middle Eastern descent. We especially support the principles which the President has articulated in the areas of U.S. national and homeland security, the international campaign against terrorism and the promotion of human rights, democracy and self determination in the Middle East."

We need phone numbers, city, states

John Hajjar, Esq., MA
Lebanese American
617-770-0500

Dr Joseph Jebeily
Lebanese American

Tom Harb, Florida
Maronite-American

Jacob Keryakes, Jersey City, NJ
Coptic - American
201-920-7277

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:tcnz_cw2n4oJ:www.marchforjustice.com/8.14.03.letter.php+Jacob+Keryakes&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

"MSNBC.com’s Jacob Keryakes and Alex Johnson, NBC’s Linda Fasulo, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report."

Former State Senator, John Nimrod, Chicago, IL
Assyrian American
[e-mail]

........... city state
Chaldean American

Dr Zuhdi Jasser, Arizona
Muslim-American
[e-mail]
602-721-7186

Farid Ghadry, Maryland
Arab Syrian American
301-346-5000

Mohamed Eljahmi, MA
508-254-4370
Arab Libyan American

Mrs Zainab al Suwaij , MA
Arab Iraqi American

Mohamed Mansour Kane, New York
African-Mauritanian-American
( 646) 824-1226

Jimmy Mullah, Washington DC
African-South Sudanese American

Abderhaman Tajeldin, North Carolina
African-Darfur-American
[e-mail]
Jamal Hassan
South Asian American, Maryland
410-540-4905, [e-mail]

From: Randa FahmyHudome
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 12:00 PM
To: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (no subject)

WALID - ATTACHED IS THE PRESS RELEASE. PLEASE FILL IN YOUR CONTACT NUMBER LETTER HEAD ETC. ALSO I NEED CITY AND STATES TO SHOW GEOGRAPHICAL DIVERSITY. LEAVE THE LAST PAGE AS TALKERS FOR THOSE WHO WILL BE CALLED BY THE PRESS
PLEASE LET ME KNOW OF APPROVAL ASAP SO I CAN HELP YOU DISTRIBUTE TO THE PRESS.
--
Randa Fahmy Hudome, President
Fahmy Hudome International, LLC
815 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. #200
Washington, D.C. 20006
202-429-5566
202-429-5577 fax
ATTACHMENTS: MIDDLE EAST PRESS.doc




Source links (cached):

Randa Fahmy Hudome/Libya:

http://sev.prnewswire.com/publishing-information-services/20041024/NYSU01024102004-1.html

MSNBC tie Professor Walid Phares:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:3NaHC70LHOYJ:mehran.blogs.com/kahdan/walid_phares/+Professor+Walid+Phares+msnbc&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Link Hilary White/coalition provisional authority Iraq:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:3QMGk2cIHO0J:www.usinfo.pl/releases/docs/iraqhelp.htm+Hilary+F.+White++703-343-9631+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Position of Jafar karim/Bush campaign:
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:fPg1bh0di-YJ:www.arabamericannews.com/newsarticle.php%3Farticleid%3D1013+jafar+karim&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[treading_water]

1. I think it means

that nobody "real" is endorsing * so they have to make up fake groups to do it. :evilgrin:

[Carni]

4. I'm sure!

Most of those same names (the signers on the "press release") met with Bush at the Whitehouse on March 8th, 03 to "discuss mid-eastern affairs" how convenient right before the invasion!

[treading_water]

5. Wow.

That gives me chills.

[Carni]

6. One of the signers of the "press release" is like the Chalabi of Syria

He wants to overthrow etc. --I honestly wonder who the hell is really running (and who owns) this country at this point!

[riverwalker]

2. There is a lot to chew on there

a search on just one name, Professor Walid Phares, comes up with enough shady connections to do a whole 60 Minutes program on just one of the dead letter emails. This is a treasure trove of corruption, landing in our lap.

[Carni]

3. Check out the link on Hilary White

The other contact listed at the CPA with Hilary White is Michael Leach--

Someone by that name was the one that "fixed" the absentee ballot applications in Florida (they were allowed in with their lap top for two weeks unattended by a repuke elections surpervisor.)

I don't know if it's the same Michael Leach but I am going to try to check!

[AnnInLa]

7. do me a favor, send your whole post, no, even better,

send your post and this thread to Wonkette, Raw Story, Kos, Josh Marshall, Oliver Willis



www.dailykos.com...click on "contact us"
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

[Carni]

8. Will do!

Thanks for the email links!

[T Bone]

10. We need a master list of every NAME and every email addie

from that fiasco---fiasco for the GOP that is , but we need a master list of every name, and every email address associated with each name that was retrieved and posted by the owners of that dead letter box !!!!

A MASTER LIST, names and their emails !!!!
Let the research and the criminal prosecutions begin.

[Carni]

12. I am sure there are many untold gems on the dead letter page!

NT

[MazeRat7]

9. Excellent research !!!! but.....

I am afraid it will get lost in the noise It seems lately all anyone cares about are the latest polls, what druge or the freeps are saying, whos on tv when, and coming up with witty captions for unflattering pictures of chimppy.

Oh well..... thanks again. It has peaked my interest in looking deeper into the to/from list of all those messages. I sure there is more to learn if we just look deeper.

MZr7

[Carni]

11. I hear you...this is the mundane stuff that everyone says WTF about.

It matters but it isn't exactly thrilling to read!

[ZombieNixon]

13. I wonder who the "controversial" persons are?

And how it might damage Shrub's chances of re-selection if it were known they were endorsing him?

[Synnical]

14. Kick n/t