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An amazing story at Gateway Pundit of the links between US Congressional leadership and FARC. Back in March, I repeated the Wall Street Journal story about Congressman James McGovern who was attempting to undermine this country’s foreign policy by offering his support to FARC guerrillas;

A military strike three weeks ago killed Raúl Reyes, No. 2 in command of the FARC, Colombia’s most notorious terrorist group. The Reyes hard drive reveals an ardent effort to do business directly with the FARC by Congressman James McGovern (D., Mass.), a leading opponent of the free-trade deal. Mr. McGovern has been working with an American go-between, who has been offering the rebels help in undermining Colombia’s elected and popular government.

Today’s story is also from the Wall Street Journal and written by Mary Anatasia O’Grady indicates that McGovern was working under the direction of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi;

[Colombian Senator Piedad] Cordoba…currently under investigation by the Colombian attorney general for ties to the FARC…figures prominently in the captured rebel documents, and is notoriously close to Mr. Chávez.

She met at the Venezuelan presidential palace with FARC leaders last fall. From that meeting the rebels reported that “Piedad says that Chávez has Uribe going crazy. He doesn’t know what to do. That Nancy Pelosi helps and is ready to help in the swap [hostages in exchange for captured guerrillas]. That she has designated [U.S. Congressman Jim] McGovern for this.”

If the speaker of the House was working with Ms. Cordoba in this scheme, her judgment was more than a little misguided. The rebels write that on a trip to Argentina Ms. Cordoba told them, “It doesn’t matter to me the proposal that Sarkozy has made to free Ingrid. Above all, do not liberate Ingrid.” In short, why give up such a useful pawn?

So members of Congress took it upon themselves to conduct a foreign policy of directly dealing with terrorists in violation of our own policy - and their express purpose was to undermine our national security. They’ve done the same thing in the Middle East since before the Iraq war. The Democrats are making it appear that we have an erratic foreign policy and destroying our credibility in the world.

If anyone ever deserved to be lined up against a wall and shot, it’s these traitorous, pompous, arrogant meddling goofballs. It’s as if we the Keystone cops running Congress.

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