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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/former-congressional-ethics-chair-my-16000-african-safari-was-research-al-qaeda
Former Congressional Ethics Chair: My $16,000 African Safari Was To Research Al Qaeda
Rep. Jo Bonner responds to MoJo's investigation of the trip he and two other GOPers took to Kenya in 2012.
Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.), the former chairman of the House ethics committee, has responded to questions Mother Jones first raised about the all-expenses paid trip to a Kenyan estate that he, two other GOP lawmakers, and members of their families took in August 2012, claiming that he was visiting the site where the Oscar-winning film Out of Africa was shot in order to learn about supposed connections between poaching and Al Qaeda.
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"My $16,000 African Safari Was To Research Al Qaeda" (Original Post)
riverwalker
Mar 2013
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. Did he file a report??
If not then he deserves to be in prison
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)2. The chair of the Ethics Committee needs to research Al Qaeda first hand?
Tikki
(14,556 posts)3. jo bonner...take your family for a two week vacation in Um Qasr, Iraq...
..then tells us what you learned. You know the al qaeda and all.
Tikki
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)4. Don't we have intelligence personnel who are supposed to be
doing this sort of "research"? Edit to add: Kenya, you say? Hmmm...
marmar
(77,072 posts)5. How long before Curveball the Elephant comes to testify before Congress?
nt