The American Spectator

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's hearing on her obsession: her belief that the Bush Administration had a role in the September 11th attack. /p>

McKinney, wasn't the only nut in the room. There were Georgia-grown peanuts available to attendees, along with the 50 or so attendees who were there in support of the left-wing mythology that the American government was somehow involved in the tragic events almost four years ago.

Perhaps the most interesting individual to testify before McKinney's "hearing" was Melvin Goodman, a former CIA employee, who has also been front and center in the Joe Wilson leak scandal. Goodman, one of the signatories to a letter sent out by fellow CIA analyst Larry C. Johnson, is on record as believing that McKinney's beliefs are in the mainstream, though voters were at one time less likely to believe her. The heavily Democratic district voted McKinney out of office in 2002, re-electing her two years later when the Democrat who had ousted her chose to run for the Senate instead.

McKinney's hearing went on for more than eight hours, much of it broadcast live on the Internet.

Perhaps most interesting, younger staffers from the Democratic National Committee could be seen floating in and out of the hearing. It was unclear whether they were there to monitor the insanity or to participate in it, however.

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