Jack Abramoff is WHY we need to probe the Council for National Policy

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Turns out he was a member back in 1984.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jack_Abramoff:_Republican_Activism

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1. All you have to do is look at the membership

and you can see the involvement. All roads lead to the CNP.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

2. Wow - that's a very interesting fact, thanks.

(& I couldn't agree more about the need to examine the CNP - I'd love to know what Bush said to them/promised in that pre-election talk.)

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3. There do seem to be some connections there

I'm often skeptical of claims about the CNP. It just doesn't seem to be as active these days as in the middle 90's. But there's no doubt that Abramoff made some of his connections there. In particular, there was a 1998 meeting at Tysons Corners where the speakers included Christopher Cox, John Doolittle, Dick Armey, and Susan B. Hirschmann (a former DeLay aide who joined Abramoff at Greenberg Traurig.)

Abramoff's old College Republican buddies, Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed, have also been members.

[AntiFascist]

4. Very interesting nt

[cosmicdot]

5. "We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure..."

"We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure in this country." Paul Weyrich (quote prefaces Daily Kos thread Sith Lords of the Ultra-Right

if nothing else, a secretive society shouldn't have tax breaks ... reform of the IRS 501 codes might help a little ... but, these slugs will conspire with or without it

hopefully, Abramoff will have a huge reach


from:

Meet the Most Powerful Conservative Group You've Never Heard Of

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Look for them if you're at a ritzy hotel in Tyson's Corner, Va.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is the headliner. White House counsel Alberto Gonzales will speak, as will Timothy Goeglein, deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. There have been no public announcements, and there won't be. The 500 or so members will hear private, unvarnished presentations.

White House spokeswoman Anne Womack said Gonzales' remarks would not be released. The CNP's bylaws keep out the press and prevent disclosure of the transcribed proceedings — unless all the speakers give their assent. Few do.

In a 2000 filing with the Internal Revenue Service, the CNP says it holds "educational conferences and seminars for national leaders in the field of business, government, religion and academia." It says it produces a weekly newsletter keeping members abreast of developments, and a biyearly collection of speeches. Executive Director Morton Blackwell was paid a little more than $70,000. The organization took in more than $732,000.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121170&page=1

from:

Secret Society

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At the time of the 2004 Republican National Convention, the The New York Times ran a brief story on CNP's meeting in New York, described as "'a pep rally' to re-elect President Bush," buried on page 10 of a Saturday paper. The article disclosed some high-level attendees, including Undersecretary of State John Bolton, Assistant Attorney General R. Alexander Acosta, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and revealed, well after the fact and for the first time in the American press, that Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had attended a meeting "not long after the Iraq invasion." The article did virtually nothing to add to the public discussion of CNP's activities or to question its tax-exempt status.

And while the mainstream media is asleep at the switch, CNP members' access to conservative media outlets enable them to collaborate and disseminate their propaganda. One example is Bozell and the Media Research Center, the mission of which is "to provide the conservative movement with the marketing and public relations tools necessary to deliver its message into the 21st century." Another example is that five directors of Salem Communications Company are or have been officers and directors of CNP: Salem's president and CEO, Edward G. Atsinger, III; Stuart W. Epperson (host of Truth Talk Live, a radio show broadcast on Salem's radio network); Roland S. Hinz (who is also president of Hi-Favor Communications, which has purchased radio stations from Salem to implement a Christian format in Spanish); Hodel; and Judge Paul Pressler (a retired Texas judge who has made a career of advocating a conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention). Salem owns over 100 Christian broadcast radio stations, is the provider of Christian programming on XM Satellite Radio, and recently agreed with America Online to provide the only Christian talk radio station on the AOL Radio Network. Last year, Salem was ranked in the top 100 in Fortune Small Business magazine's list of fastest growing small public companies. Salem is the seventh largest owner of radio stations in the country, and while it barely rivals Clear Channel at over 1,200 stations, the combined Christian broadcasting power of Salem and American Family Radio – a project of the American Family Association – would rank them fourth, just behind powerhouses Clear Channel, Cumulus, and Citadel. Many Republican House and Senate candidates, as well as the Bush/Cheney campaign, the Republican National Committee, and the Republican Majority Issues Committee, the issue advertising committee formed by DeLay, have been the beneficiaries of not only Atsinger's largesse, but that of Salem Communications' political action committee as well.

http://www.alternet.org/story/21372/

Demopedia:

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Council_for_National_Policy

Even the KKK is 501'd as the Council of Conservative Citizens
KKK = CCC