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Has Al Gore sold out American interests to dangerous foreign influences? The former vice president’s “sale of Current TV to Al Jazeera is not a laughing matter,” says investigative journalist Cliff Kincaid.
“This transaction is a homeland security threat that violates numerous U.S. laws,” says Kincaid, who has called for a congressional invesigation of the reported $500 million sale and writes:
Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Afghanistan, who interviewed bin Laden, was sent to prison for being an agent of al Qaeda. In Iraq, after the American invasion, the same thing occurred. Al Jazeera’s first managing director was exposed as an agent of the Saddam Hussein regime and the channel promoted the anti-American insurgency. The coverage inspired foreign Jihadists to come to Iraq to kill American soldiers, as captured terrorists acknowledged in interviews.
Kincaid warns that even “conservative members of Congress are silent” about the Al-Jazeera deal. In order to call attention to the issue, Kincaid will hold a 1 p.m. press conference Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Kincaid will be joined at the event by Pamela Geller, the conservative blogger and author who has led opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque in New York, and by broadcaster Jerry Kenney, who has filed complaints with the U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission over Al Jazeera’s illegal broadcasts into the U.S.
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Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 2.2.13 @ 7:23PM
The ironic thing is that during our "intervention" in the US and now as we support the Islamist FSA in Syria, Al Jazeera has acted as quite the propaganda tool to recruit Sunni Islamist nut jobs to do America's bidding in the Middle East.
Of course we shouldn't let them buy Current TV because we don't want any competition to our domestic propaganda programming as espoused by CNN and FAUX (I mean FOX) News.
Bob K| 2.2.13 @ 8:28PM
Mr. McCain,
Since you pointed it out do you have any ideas why "conservative members of congress are silent" about this deal?
Republican Congressman Michael McCaul from Texas is Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and Kincaid is implying that he is sweeping this under the rug. He states that McCaul said he "does not want ............hundreds of Americans calling his office at 202-226-8417 and requesting an investigation of Al Jazeera's terrorist ties." (Notice that Kincaid supplied the phone number!)
Why not?
Is there something in this deal that is advantageous to McCaul and his district and perhaps not to the USA?
Rhoetus| 2.2.13 @ 11:53PM
Al Gore is an affront to ethics and works against Americans' liberty.
PCC| 2.4.13 @ 7:39AM
I'm willing to listen to Mr. Kincaid's point of view and arguments against the sale on "homeland security" grounds, but it seems to me that it wouldn't do the Republic any harm to be exposed to al Jazeera's slant on current events, in the US or elsewhere.
As for Mr. Gore making a profit on the sale, however distasteful or hypocritical it may seem, well, that's capitalism, especially as practiced in the politically-connected USA.