McCain Defends Clinton Aide Huma Abedin Against Bachmann Accusation About Muslim Brot

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Describing the accusations against her as “ugly” and “sinister,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., came to the defense of Huma Abedin, longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.Last week five Republican members of the House of Representatives, including former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, made claims that Abedin’s family has ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and questioned whether she is part of a nefarious conspiracy to harm the United States by influencing U.S. foreign policy with her high-level position at the State Department.
“The Departments Deputy, Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, has three family members – her late father, her mother and her brother – connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and /or organizations. Her position affords her routine access to the Secretary and to policy making,” according to the the June 13th letter, signed by Reps. Bachmann, R-Minn., Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, Thomas Rooney, R-Fla., and Lynn Westmoreland, R-GA.
The letter was sent to Harold Geisel, the Deputy Inspector General at the Department of State, while similar copies were sent to the Departments ofHomeland Security, Justice, Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

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[Rattfink]

I have always liked McCain. He is one of the few politicians in America who seems unafraid to speak his conscience.

[gaijinsamurai]

Moderate Republicans know the lunatic fringe of their party are making them a laughingstock. Good for Sen. McCain for standing up to them.

[Dominique]

Bachmann's mouth only seems to be good for one thing, gobbling on a corn dog, and the country would be better served by her keeping it shut.

[Corrupt]

Moderate Republicans know the lunatic fringe of their party are making them a laughingstock. Good for Sen. McCain for standing up to them.

Well said Gaijin.

[mechin]

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This woman is such an evil Muslim Brotherhood operative that she married a Jewish Democrat Congressman and even bore him a child!
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Honestly, these House reps should be punished at the polls for such un-American attitudes.

PS: Can we start a rumor that Bachmann is a Swiss operative? I think that has more merit than the accusations against Abedin.

[House Sparra]

..Honestly, these House reps should be punished at the polls for such un-American attitudes.

ooo I don't know if you would have survived McCarthyism either.. jus' sayin'.

[Clear_blues]

Good on Mr. McCain for standing up to idiots and demagogues

[OneUp1911]

Go away McCain

You embarrased yourself enough already,quit trying to get back into the election race since you lost.

[T-5 Killer]

Go away McCain

You embarrased yourself enough already,quit trying to get back into the election race since you lost.

WTF where did this come from. Be gone troll

[American Caesar]

Yeah this is just as silly as the whole Bush family connection to the Bin Laden family nonsense.

[Mr Gently Benevolent]

Yeah this is just as silly as the whole Bush family connection to the Bin Laden family nonsense.

Or the Bush family connection to Hitler

[Dominique]

Go away McCain

You embarrased yourself enough already,quit trying to get back into the election race since you lost.

Ummm...say what? How exactly did you come to that conclusion?

[ACDC]

WTF where did this come from. Be gone troll

Hahaha....i was thinking the same !!!!

[Atlantic Friend]

Or the Bush family connection to Hitler

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I know for a fact some of the Bush family lived in the 1930s, just as Hitler rose to power. So... coincidence? I think not!