By Judi McLeod & Steve Miller
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
The expertise of Senator Harry Reid of "We-lost-the-war" fame seems to lean more heavily on the mob than it does the military.
With American troops still in harm's way, Reid, the Democratic majority leader, told reporters, fellow senators and in effect, America's enemies abroad, the war in Iraq "is dead".
A chief Democrat defeatist in the 'cut and run' contingent, Reid scores accolades from fellow colleagues and headlines from left-leaning mainstream media for his verbal shots at the troops.
"Harry Reid and his cast of "Usual Suspects" get to eat prepared food, sleep on clean sheets, work in air conditioned offices and experience luxurious baths," retired (California Highway Patrol Service) CHPS officer wrote Canada Free Press (CFP) in a letter to the editor. "Yet, this sorry excuse for a human is unwilling to vote some taxpayer money so Marines can have bare necessities."
Las Vegas journalist Steve Miller, who writes internationally syndicated columns for Rick Pornello's www.Americanmafia.com and CFP chronicles Reid's connections to the mob.
Courtesy of a controversial $1.1 million land deal, many already know that United States Senator Harry Reid is the business partner of Las Vegas attorney Jay Brown.
"Brown is a business and law partner of Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, a former mob attorney who is the law partner of current mob lawyer David Chesnoff," Miller explains.
"Chesnoff currently represents Bonanno crime family member Vinny Faraci. Brown currently represents mob straw man Mike Signorelli who was/is the business partner of Sorkis Webbe Jr., who went to prison in the 1980s for vote fraud, obstruction of justice, attempted extortion, and harboring an organized crime figure accused of murder."
It's old hat that Senator Reid allegedly violated Senate ethics rules when he failed to report a real estate transaction that netted him $1.1 million in 2004 for property he had sold three years earlier. The property was one of three land deals omitted from Reid's ethics filings because of "clerical errors".
"This isn't the first time the Honorable Harry Reid has been caught with his hands in the cookie jar," wrote Investors Business Daily on Oct. 12, 2005. "We've reported previously on other questionable land deals that have personally benefited him and his family, and where Reid used his political clout on behalf of contributors to benefit himself and his political activities."
For saying the U.S lost the war in Iraq, Reid has come under fire from pro-troop colleagues, including the ranking Republican on the House Armed services Committee, who has called for the Senate Majority Leader to resign.
"This unfortunate statement is both inaccurate and damaging…(and) can have no effect but to demoralize the brave men and women who are honorably fulfilling their mission in Iraq," said Rep. Duncan Hunter of California in a letter to Reid.
Hunter, an Army Ranger in the Vietnam War whose son, a Marine, is returning to Iraq for his third combat tour, wrote that his friendship with Reid is secondary to his obligation to the nation's wartime military forces.
Hunter added that Reid's comments "will undoubtedly be used by terrorist leaders to rally their followers--inevitably leading to increased attacks on U.S. and coalition forces.
Of Reid's alleged moonlighting with the mob, Miller asks: "Why would any upstanding member of the United States Senate willfully associate with such persons?"
Miller's investigations of Reid's ongoing land deals have unearthed eight deeds on real properties, including 1350 W. Hobson St., in Searchlight, Nevada, the senator's hometown:
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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