Newly unsealed court filings show the office of the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., shared with the FBI and a host of media outlets the unverified dossier that alleged the Russians had compromising information on now-President Trump. 

Newly unsealed court filings show how the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and an associate shared with the FBI and a host of media outlets the unverified dossier that alleged the Russians had compromising information on now-President Trump.

McCain had denied being the source for BuzzFeed after it published the dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, but had acknowledged giving it to the FBI.

President Donald Trump again attacked late Sen. John McCain Saturday — prompting the Arizona Republican’s daughter Meghan McCain to respond that “no one will ever love” Trump the way they loved her father.

Trump’s recent attack on McCain, who passed away in August, is the latest in his years-long offensive feud against the late senator, this time targeting McCain’s ties to the controversial Russia dossier and his vote against repealing Obamacare.

“Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier ‘is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain,'” Trump tweeted, quoting Ken Starr, the independent counsel who investigated then-President Bill Clinton.

Starr called the dossier “a very dark stain” against McCain in an interview Saturday on Fox News, but also called McCain “a great man” and “an American hero.”

RUSSIAN TECH FIRM USED IN HACKING OF DEMOCRATS, MCCAIN’S ASSOCIATE DISSEMINATED STEELE DOSSIER, UNSEALED DOCUMENTS 

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In a newly unsealed declaration from September, former senior counterintelligence FBI agent Bill Priestap confirmed that the FBI received a copy of the first 33 pages of the dossier in December 2016 from McCain.

In another filing, David Kramer — a former State Department official and McCain associate — said in a Dec. 13, 2017, deposition that the dossier was given to him by author and former British spy Christopher Steele, which he then provided to more than a dozen journalists at outlets including CNN, BuzzFeed and The Washington Post. The details were first reported by The Daily Caller.

The report was also shared with State Department official Victoria Nuland, Obama National Security Council official Celeste Wallander and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.

The filings were unsealed as part of an ongoing libel case against BuzzFeed by a Russian businessman.

In his deposition, Kramer said that McCain gave a copy of the dossier to then-FBI Director James Comey on Dec. 9. Kramer told investigators that it was the sense from Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson that “having Senator McCain provide it to the FBI would give it a little more oomph than it had had up until that point.”

MCCAIN ASSOCIATED SHARED UNVERIFIED STEELE DOSSIER WITH BUZZFEED, COURT FILING SAYS

“I think they felt a senior Republican was better to be the recipient of this rather than a Democrat because if it were a Democrat, I think that the view was that it would have been dismissed as a political attack,” he said.

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An associate of the late (CLICK HERE)Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain shared with Buzzfeed News a copy of the unverified, salacious opposition research dossier alleging that Russians had compromising material on President Trump, according to a bombshell federal court filing Wednesday.

McCain had strenuously denied being the source for Buzzfeed after it published the dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. 

Earlier this year, Fox News reported that a top McCain associate, David Kramer, had been briefed on the dossier written by British ex-spy Christopher Steele in late November 2016 in Surrey, England. Kramer invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before House Republicans about his handling of the dossier.

McCain has acknowledged giving the dossier to the FBI. But, until Wednesday, it remained a mystery what role, if any, his associates might have played in the dossier leaking to the media shortly afterwards.

It must be remembered that John McCain hated Trump with a passion and would go to any length to destroy him personally and politically. Questions still remain, but the evidence is mounting that Senator McCain attempted to destroy the President elect with unverified information paid for, falsified and 

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Mosque attack in broad daylight, a replica of the Norwegian massacre.
Yesterday. March 15, 2019, two mosques in Christchurch were attacked by an armed man; 49 people were killed. The accused perpetrator of the attack is an Australian white supremacist who intended to show “immigration and increasing population of Muslims in NZ”.

The white supremacist who live streamed himself murdering 49 people in two mosque attacks in New Zealand – the worst in the country’s history – claims he was inspired by Black conservative activist Candace Owens.

n response to her name being mentioned, Owens took to Twitter to defend herself, in two bizarre posts that blame liberals instead of Tarrant.

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FACT: I’ve never created any content espousing my views on the 2nd Amendment or Islam.

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Brenton Tarrant, 28, was one of three men arrested by police in the devastating attack. He credited Owens for radicalizing him in a 74-page manifesto that he posted online. The manifesto was reported on by several major global news outlets, but not yet verified by police on Friday. Law enforcement officials say Tarrant opened fire inside the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, NZ, killing 49 people and wounding dozens more.

Back drop: In November 2016, Mohammad Anwar Sahib, the Imam of the Al-Taqwa mosque in Manukau, Auckland and a religious adviser to the FIANZ, drew controversy when he made offensive remarks about Jews, Christians, and women in a series of speeches that were posted by the blogger Cameron Slater on YouTube.

There is a common underlying pattern here, like the massacre in Denmark, where Anders Breivik , who on 22 July 2011, killed eight people by detonating a van bomb amid Regjeringskvartalet in Oslo, then shot dead 69 participants of a Workers’ Youth League (AUF) summer camp on the island of Utøya. In July 2012, he was convicted of mass murder, causing a fatal explosion, and terrorism. The fuse is lit by extreme Muslim imams who blame the Jews and Christians for all of the worlds ills. This type of inflammatory jargon can be the recipe for disaster. And seen yesterday it was.

On the day of the attacks, Breivik electronically distributed a compendium of texts entitled 2083: A European Declaration of Independence, describing his militant ideology. In them, he stated his opposition to Islam and blamed feminism for a European “cultural suicide.” The text called for the deportation of all Muslims from Europe and Breivik wrote that his main motive for the attacks was to publicize his manifesto.

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President Trump on Friday condemned a deadly attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, calling it a “horrible massacre” and a senseless act of violence.

AOC has been in the news of late, matter of fact she is the news. We have to admit this ex-bartender come media star is a bit of a hit or to some she is a TWIT. On the face of it her actions portend those of a teenager strutting her stuff when mommy leaves the house. Perhaps the lid of LSD she did when working nights at the bar or was it coke that pushed her to the limit of insanity. Well any attempt to describe her is in vain, but up to now she has been the life of the party, gang banging her way to stardom.

This is good news for the Republicans in many respects. First of all Ocasio-Cortez is the quintessential example of what is wrong with these Janey-come-lately fruit cakes. Their ideas are good in an unreal world, but living in the real world many take issue with her crack pot ideas. That leaves a putrid taste to many of the main stream Demo’s who are not about to be swayed by a rat with a mouse voice and pea size brain.

So on to 2020 we go, full charge ahead. And lo and behold we see the Democrat path of destruction coming into view. Unions most of all think the Green agenda is a no-go for the economy and that is the start. Others, for instance, the Jewish community, is jumping ship as if it was the Titanic going down head first. With Ilan Omar, the suicide bomber from Somalia and her Jew hating Rashida Tlaib, most likely an anchor baby, have taken the Democrat party down a path of antisemitism, convincing Pelosi to water down any resolution that don’t insult the Jihadists now sitting in Congress. This does not bode well for the Dem’o rats come 2020.

The socialist regime of Maduro is on the verge of imploding. It should have collapsed by now, we don’t understand why there is still support for a killer. Guess these Latin American socialist zealots love blood and lead. The latest to be blamed for the country’s demise is none other than (click for the full article from Fox News) Little Marco Rubio. Do you believe that, Marco is being blamed for the Venezuelan blackout.

On Thursday thousands of commuters had to scramble to find a way back home as subway service stopped operating, while roads came to a standstill due to confusion over blackened stoplights. The blackout forced hospital nurses to monitor patients, including premature babies in incubators, while holding candles.

Venezuela’s disputed president Nicolas Maduro, meanwhile, blamed the blackout as an “electrical war” perpetrated by the United States without providing any proof, the latest sign of a dictator who’s losing the grip over the country.

Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez echoed Maduro and said right-wing extremists are causing mayhem in the country at the behest of Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a claim mocked by the senator on Twitter.

The electrical system – once the envy of Latin America – has suffered years of mismanagement that was exacerbated amid dwindling financial resources that made it difficult for the government to continue subsidize the people’s electricity bills.

“My apologies to people of Venezuela,” he wrote in a tweet. “I must have pressed the wrong thing on the ‘electronic attack’ app I downloaded from Apple. My bad.”

The irony here is that AOC, that is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for the uninitiated, believes we should go Green. That is fine and dandy, but empirical evidence indicates that The Green Machine is nothing more than Hope and Change and you now how that worked out. Ask the good citizens of Venezuela what they think of Black-outs?

Greens and Greenpeace called out.

Not only those of the Jewish faith are contemplating changing parties, but Christians too are thinking about fleeing the House Gas Chamber. With the likes of the three suicide bombers and AOC hold the reigns, the picture becomes crystal clear. What we are seeing is a multiple attack on American values. The Judeo-Christian ethic is at risk.

Let us explain. The Green agenda is nothing more than the fleecing of the rich by the transfer of wealth to the lazy irresponsible do nothing, know nothing. Don’t let their words fool you. Going green and saving the planet is a worthwhile objective, however the cost of 32 trillion dollars is unsustainable. Printing presses are not up to the task, just ask those who lived through Germany’s Wiemar Republic and more recently Jimmy Carter’s Venezuela; that worked out well, didn’t it?

Pelosi is on the run from the ruthless swarm of suicide bombers. But it is too late, they have gotten to her. Like a lion eyeing their prey these Muslim Jihadists, including AOC have their nails into Pelosi’s rear end. She is their next meal. Soon the rest of the old beasts will be road kill. Hunting season has begun. Poachers have reached the House.

And what will happen if their agenda becomes real? Watch out defense industry, your honey pot will go poof. Defense workers, your out of a job.
Israel, forget your 3 billion a year. Troops, you too will find the sliding rough as defense budgets will be slashed to the bone; troops pulled out of the far distant lands. Borders, they will be open to every Muslim Jihadist in the world. Africans and Latin Americans will flee their worn torn countries to come here and milk our social welfare system. Sharia laws will become common place; Christians and Jews will be targets. Can’t they see what has happened across the pond? Most importantly, you and your family will have to register with the government; new ID cards will be issued. Taxes will rise to 90% of income. And that is the start.

Our thoughts and suggestions for the next couple of years to the moderate Democrat including the Jewish members are right on. Do they want to belong to a party spearheaded by reckless anti-American Muslims, we think not. Mind you that this is the beginning, you guys (old timers) are finished. Nothing can stop the steam roller coming for your head. You will not have a say in the politics of destruction.

So what can they do? Only one choice here! SWITCH PARTIES.

We bet that this is the thinking of many Democrats. They don’t say it but in their hearts are anti-Muslim, anti-immigration, pro Constitution. Additionally, many are sick and tired of welfare programs that run on and on with no viable results. These programs have been the bread and butter of the Black Caucus, who by the way have manifested their Jew hate by voting for the resolution, elections come and go and they pimp themselves to the Black community only for their own ego, and POWER. COMPLETE FAILURES ARE THESE INCOMPETENTS. The results are proof of their ignorance.

Leading up to the 2020 election we can foresee many Democrats jumping ship before being relegated to steerage . At last count there were approximately 24 Jewish House members, plus many Christians who are friends of Israel. If they mutiny the Trump revolution will be intact and Victory for America and You will be assured.

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How many times have we warned American Jews that their time of influence is about to come to an end. As recent days have testified that Islamic Jihadists have infiltrated America’s heart; we see first hand the evidence.

The House of Representatives has become a Jihadist organization; lovers of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hezbollah. They are out of control, slurring Judaism, Israel and anyone who gets in their way. Its too late now, the venomous snakes have taken on the Nazi diatribe. Jews look out, they are coming for you.

Speaker Pelosi has hit a new low, bowing to the Islamic scum Jihadist that now sits in the House of Representatives. Pelosi is no better than Adolf Hitler’s assistant who lit the ovens. She copped out. Jews look out, the day has come, one you never dreamed of his here. You were nice, you welcomed these Muslims from war torn countries with open arms, now you are being pushed out of your own country; one that your forefathers defended since the Revolution. We cannot believe that those Jewish members have not stood up and contemn Pelosi and these Muslim suicide bombers. Jump Ship now. The only party that will protect you is the Republican party. Can’t you see what is happening?

The house on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan resolution that only indirectly condemned Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar‘s repeated ‘anti-Semitic’ and ‘pernicious’ comments — without mentioning her by name. Another cop-out by the Jew hating Democrats.

Our main thought here is simple, if you are a House member, we are talking about Democrats only of the Jewish faith and sit next to Tlaib or Omar are you going to greet them as follows: Allahu Akbar!

Sitting next to them is akin to sitting next to Adolph Hitler. When will the Democrat House members of the Jewish faith wake up before it is too late? Can’t they see that the House chambers are taking on the same hue as Hitler’s Gas chambers.

“NEVER AGAIN” – HOLLOW WORDS FROM THE JEWISH MEMBERS OF CONGRESS – THE GAS CHAMBERS ARE NEXT

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By now everyone who is breathing has heard of the Venezuelan filet minion; boiled shoes and topped off with human Au Jus. A sharp knife and strong teeth are all you need to digest the treat. This is not a joke, but the true facts of Venezuelans who are starving. Over 2.6 million Venezuelans have fled the once jewel of Latin America.

What happened? Leaders with a socialist bent took over and boy did they takeover, takeover everything, from A to Z. Socialism, a once stupid idea whose time has come and gone. The worst disease known to man, there is no cure. However, the village idiot keeps on doing the same thing over and over again, hoping for a different result. “Not gonna happen”.

The United Nations is condemning violence at points on the Venezuelan border where opposition figures have been trying to bring in aid shipments, according to a statement tweeted Sunday.

(click)Opposition leader Juan Guaido has called on the international community to consider “all options” to resolve Venezuela’s crisis, a dramatic escalation in rhetoric that echoes comments from the Trump administration hinting at potential U.S. military involvement.

Guaido’s comments late Saturday came after a tumultuous day that saw disputed President Nicolas Maduro’s forces fire tear gas and buckshot on activists trying to deliver humanitarian aid in violent clashes that killed four people and wounded some 300 others.

Back in the hey-day Venezuela was swimming in money, BLACK GOLD, as they say. Then Hugo, the CHAVISIMO came to power.

Hugo Chavez was the elected strongman of Venezuela who took office in 1999 and remained there until his death from cancer in 2013. Hugo Chavez was the son of schoolteachers, and he graduated from the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences in 1975. That led to a career in the military — at least until he formed his own revolutionary force within the Venezuelan army and tried to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez in 1992. He failed and was jailed, but after two years in prison, Chavez was pardoned by President Rafael Caldera and made the transition from soldier to politician. An engaging speaker and charismatic personality, he was elected to the presidency as a leftist reformer and modern-day Simón Bolívar. (His reforms were called the “Bolivarian Revolution.”) After taking office on 2 February 1999, he instituted sweeping reforms that resulted in widely divided opinions of his presidency: supporters saw him as a populist leader and champion of the poor, while critics called him anti-business and neo-fascist. He shunned U.S. and European support and focused on South American and Third World solidarity. He was an economic and political supporter of Fidel Castro and a sharp-tongued critic of George W. Bush and U.S. policies. (He once called Bush “the devil” in a speech at the United Nations, saying the podium still smelled of sulfur from Bush’s speech the previous day.) Hugo Chavez’s presidency provided some topsy-turvy times for Venezuela: he survived a kidnapping and coup attempt in April of 2002, withstood a recall referendum in August of 2004, and battled cancer through various treatments and surgeries in his last few years. He was re-elected to another six-year term in October of 2012, but finally succumbed to cancer a few months later.

He purged the upper ranks of the state-run oil giant—the untouchable goose that laid the golden egg—and then had the company divert precious resources away from energy fields and into socialist-style manufacturing co-ops and other boondoggles.

(click)He fended off a coup attempt, blacklisted voters who tried to have him recalled, took over the TV and radio airwaves, and created a Sunday talk show, Aló Presidente, where he waxed poetic about Simón Bolívar, mocked George W. Bush, and sang and told jokes for hours on end. He became the international darling of the leftist movement, shipping subsidized fuel to Nicaragua and Cuba (the Castros, in exchange, sent doctors and teachers to Venezuela), giving away heating oil to the poor in the Bronx, signing joint ventures with Iran and Russia, financing Argentina after its default, and even hobnobbing with Hollywood’s radical set—Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, Michael Moore. And, of course, he drafted a new constitution, giving birth to the “Fifth Republic,” which allowed him (and later Maduro) to seek reelection indefinitely.

QUITO, Ecuador – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is in Ecuador as part of a continent-wide campaign to intensify pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to give up power.

Guaido, who recently visited the leaders of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, on Saturday met Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno in the coastal city of Salinas.

Guaido, who the U.S. and 50 other nations recognize as Venezuela’s rightful president, says he seeks a “peaceful transition” that will allow his homeland to overcome its political and humanitarian crisis.

Last weekend, Guaido coordinated a failed effort to bring aid from Colombia and Brazil into Venezuela, where security forces loyal to Maduro blocked the supplies.

Maduro described Guaido’s gambit as part of a U.S.-backed plot to overthrow him.

Moreno says he supports Guaido’s attempt to bring “democratic change” to Venezuela.

For a quick take on those of the Jewish faith who constantly affiliate themselves with the Democrats, the question arises, are they to continue to harbor themselves in the Democrat party? Has the time come where they make a serious breakout? To be part of an organization consisting of “Jew haters, anti Israel deniers and members of Hezbollah” is anathema to everything the progressive Jew has striven for during the past century.

Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) made arguably the most anti-Semitic remarks of her career on Wednesday night during a town hall event in Washington, D.C., claiming that her “Jewish colleagues” have devised a plan to silence her and that pro-Israel groups are making politicians loyal to Israel.

Back in Omar’s district, her constituents are waking up to her bigotry. A local newspaper published a letter to the editor by Omar constituent Maxine Baker, who said she regretted voting for Omar and called on her to resign:

I voted for Rep. Ilhan Omar. I am sorry I did. My hope was that now we have a large Somali population in Minnesota that it would be a good thing. To be elected to the United States Congress is such an honor and she could have done so much to promote relations between Somalis and other immigrants. But to make anti-semitic remarks about our Jewish allies is disgusting.

Our Jewish friends and neighbors come from the Holocaust. Isn’t that enough and didn’t the Somali people come to our country because they were being persecuted? In my opinion, Rep. Omar is not a good representative of this country. There is no place for racism in our Congress. I urge Rep. Omar to resign.

Omar isn’t the only one elected to Congress who hate Jews and everything they supposedly stand for but in actuality don’t – influence, money, politicians, news media, institutions, the country, etc. The other three are Israel (Jew haters – doesn’t matter where the Jew lives, they are still supporters of Israel and therefore are conspiring with Israel.)

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Omar — who is a well-documented anti-Semite — was flanked by fellow far-left Democrat Reps. Rashida Tlaib (MI) and Pramila Jayapal (WA) (another Jew Hater from Washington state) during the event at a Busboys and Poets restaurant.
Omar has been under intense scrutiny from forces across the political spectrum for promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and using anti-Semitic tropes, which earned her condemnation from her own party. Tlaib and Jayapal are also Muslim plants who have earned their credo by playing the Jew card.

Tlaib came under fire in January when she suggested that US senators backing an anti-boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) bill hold dual loyalties.

“They forgot what country they represent,” Tlaib said in a tweet at the time. “This is the U.S. where boycotting is a right & part of our historical fight for freedom & equality.”

If signed into law, the bill would protect states that pass anti-BDS bills, including those that ban work with contractors who boycott Israel, from lawsuits. Civil libertarians have decried the state laws as impinging on speech freedoms.

In response to Hoenlein’s allegation, Denzel McCampbell, Tlaib’s communications director, told The Times of Israel that “she was talking about senators like [Marco] Rubio who were attempting to strip Americans of their right to free speech. Any other interpretation is inaccurate and unintentional.”

Rashida Tlaib, then a Democratic candidate for Michigan’s 13th Congressional district, during a rally in Dearborn, Michigan, October 26, 2018.

Hoenlein also said the Conference of Presidents was particularly worried about support for Israel on the left wing of the Democratic party.

“We are very concerned about some of the currents in the body politic, especially on the democratic left,” he said. “But we have started already to reach out to people and sectors on the Democratic left and frankly we have found them receptive.”

Twenty-seven percent of Democrats said they sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians, a Pew Research Center poll from June 2018 found. That was down from 38% support among Democrats in a similar survey from 2001.

WASHINTON (JTA) — The Republican leader in the US House of Representatives said he would take action against two Democrats who have sharply criticized Israel if the Democratic majority did not do so.

“If they do not take action I think you’ll see action from myself,” Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader, said according to Capitol Hill reporters writing for a number of newspapers. “This cannot sustain itself. It’s unacceptable in this country.”

So, the question remains, are the Jews to bolt the anti-Israeli party in 2020? Many are now questioning, as noted above, their support for a party that preaches antisemitism anti-Israeli diatribe on a daily basis. Time for the AMERICAN JEW TO WAKE UP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

(click) Pamela Geller, an (click)activist and blogger known for her virulent anti-Muslim opinions and writings. Geller, a diehard Trump supporter, is perhaps best known for her fierce public opposition to the construction of a mosque near the site of the 9/11 memorial, and her sponsorship in 2015 of a “Draw Muhammad” cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, after which two suspects opened fire on a security guard before being shot and killed by police. She was banned from entering England in 2013 after the country said her presence would not be “conducive to the public good.”

(click) Pamela Geller, an (click)activist and blogger known for her virulent anti-Muslim opinions and writings. Geller, a diehard Trump supporter, is perhaps best known for her fierce public opposition to the construction of a mosque near the site of the 9/11 memorial, and her sponsorship in 2015 of a “Draw Muhammad” cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, after which two suspects opened fire on a security guard before being shot and killed by police. She was banned from entering England in 2013 after the country said her presence would not be “conducive to the public good.”

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In early 2014 Brandeis University in Massachusetts announced that Ali would be given an honorary degree at the graduation commencement ceremony. In early April, the university rescinded its offer following a review of her statements that was carried out in response to protests by the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) and lobbying by Joseph E. B. Lumbard, Head of the Islamic Studies Department, other faculty members and several student groups that accused Hirsi Ali of “hate speech”. University president Frederick M. Lawrence said that “certain of her past statements” were inconsistent with the university’s “core values” because they were “Islamophobic.”^] Others expressed opinions both for and against this decision.^[84] The university said she was welcome to come to the campus for a dialogue in the future.

The university’s withdrawal of its invitation generated controversy and condemnation among some. But, The Economist noted at the time that Hirsi Ali’s “Wholesale condemnations of existing religions just aren’t done in American politics.” It said that “The explicit consensus in America is ecumenical and strongly pro-religious …” The university was distinguishing between an open intellectual exchange, which could occur if Hirsi Ali came to campus for a dialogue, and appearing to celebrate her with an honorary degree.^]A Brandeis spokesperson said that Ali had not been invited to speak at commencement but simply to be among honorary awardees. She claimed to have been invited to speak and expressed shock at Brandeis’ action. Hirsi Ali said CAIR’s letter misrepresented her and her work, but that it has long been available on the Internet. She said that the “spirit of free expression” has been betrayed and stifled.^]David Bernstein, a law professor at George Mason University, criticised the Brandeis decision as an attack on academic values of freedom of inquiry and intellectual independence. Among the commenters, Jeffrey Herf, a Brandeis alumnus and historian, published an open letter criticizing Lawrence’s decision, saying it had “done deep and long-lasting damage to a university.” Lawrence J. Haas, the former communications director and press secretary for Vice President Al Gore, published an open letter saying that Lawrence “succumbed to political correctness and interest group pressure in deciding that Islam is beyond the pale of legitimate inquiry … that such a decision is particularly appalling for a university president, for a campus is precisely the place to encourage free discussion even on controversial matters.”^]