Liberal Hero Baghdad Jim McDermott was the first Congressman to receive the not so prestigious Golden Spine Award for his "liberal courage" other undistinguished recipients include Denny Kucinich, D-OH; DNC Chairman Howard Dean & John Conyers, D-MIThe 2006 fund raiser for Baghdad Jim was to help him pay more than $700,000 for illegally turning over a taped conversation to reporters, violating the privacy rights of John Boehner, R-OH and Newt Gingrich, R-GA in 1996
Baghdad Jim was one of the three Democrat Members of Congress that took a trip to Iraq in 2002 just prior to the Iraq invasion---federal prosecutors say that Saddam Hussein's Intelligence Agency secretly financed the trip.
Muthanna Al-Hanooti, former head of the Michigan Branch of Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR, has been charged with conspiracy and making false statements to the FBI. The Hussein Spy Al-Hanooti, was compensated with 2 million barrels of oil for his work.
