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Sat May 5 14:57:23 UTC 2012

Dan

that is good news.

Jim Moynihan

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>I heard on NPR's Diane Rhiem show this morning that New York  University
> has offered to admit Chen to study and Chinese authorities have said  that
> Chen can apply for a visa to take himself and his family to the US for 
> this
> purpose.  Despite all the domestic electioneering going on around this 
> event,
> Chiina has a very big stake in resolving this quickly - even more than 
> the
> US does.
>    I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
>    And when and if he gets here, we should do everything  possible to get
> Mr. Chen to an NFB convention!
> Dan
>
>
> In a message dated 5/4/2012 10:13:32 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> jamesmmoynihan at gmail.com writes:
>
> Fellow  Federationists
>
> Here is additional information regarding the blind  Chinese dissident.
> This
> situation may be resolved in Chen's  favor.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Jim Moynihan
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> Dale A. Neuman
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> China Says Chen Can Study In  US   China has announced that it will allow
> Chen Guangcheng to  study in the US, a move that could help ease tensions
> between Washington  and Beijing following days of intense diplomatic
> wrangling, reports this  morning indicate. The
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> calls announcement "a possible step toward resolving a diplomatic standoff
> with the US over the blind activist, who said he felt increasingly
> isolated
> and in danger at a Beijing hospital." On its website, the Chinese  Foreign
> Ministry stated that Chen "is currently being treated in hospital.  ... As
> a
> Chinese citizen, if he wants to study abroad he can go through  the normal
> channels to the relevant departments and complete the  formalities in
> accordance with the law like other Chinese  citizens."
>
> According to the New York
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> , the development signals "a possible breakthrough in a diplomatic crisis
> that has deeply embarrassed the White House and threatens to sour
> relations
> with Beijing." The Wall Street
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> also says the move could defuse the tense diplomatic situation, noting
> that
> it follows a string of dramatic events in the weeks-long saga, the  latest
> being Chen's Thursday appeal - via cell phone - to US lawmakers to  be
> escorted out of the country by Secretary of State  Clinton.
>
> Chen's plight generated a huge  amount of coverage last night and
> this morning, including almost 12  minutes of combined coverage from the
> three network newscasts yesterday  evening.
>
> While reports from major media  organizations are unusually
> contradictory, the Administration is receiving  a great deal of criticism
> for
> its handling of the situation. Despite the  insistence of the
> Administration
> that no US official pressured Chen to  leave the US embassy in Beijing,
> that
> allegation is widespread. For  instance, Bloomberg
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> reports that Chen told CNN: "The embassy kept lobbying me to leave and
> promised to be with me at the hospital, but this afternoon soon after we
> got
> here, they were all gone. I'm very disappointed at the US  government."
>
> Additionally, the  Administration is being portrayed as potentially
> naïve for entrusting  Chen's safety to the Chinese authorities as part of
> the
> deal that preceded  his removal from the US embassy. According to the
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> , "Many activists are suggesting that the Americans made the critical
> mistake of trusting the Chinese government too much, given its history of
> mistreating the country's dissidents and not enforcing the rule of  law."
>
> Similarly, another article in the  Washington
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> , reports, "Rights activists say the moves to isolate Chen and round up
> activists who assisted him suggest that Chinese authorities never intended
> to honor their agreement to treat Chen humanely and allow him to live
> freely
> in a new and safe location in China."
>
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> says the Administration is "desperately pushing back against the
> impression
> that it had abandoned the blind dissident to Chinese  authorities and
> betrayed American values in the process."
>
> The CBS Evening News reported that Chen has "asked  Secretary Clinton
> to take him out on her plane." NBC Nightly News reported  that Chen has 
> put
> Clinton "in a very tough spot." Andrea Mitchell added  that Clinton,
> "walking
> a diplomatic tightrope, told China's leaders they  need to address human
> rights," which "was a softer version than her  prepared remarks, which
> included a warning to China not to punish  dissidents." According to NBC,
> US
> Ambassador to China Gary Locke "said  Chen has clearly had a change of
> heart
> and they'll visit him again to find  out what he really wants."
>
> Locke Says US  Officials Snuck Chen Into The US Embassy David Martin,
> on the CBS Evening  News reported that "having escaped from house arrest,
> Chen was hiding out  with fellow dissidents in Beijing, when the US 
> Embassy
> headed by  Ambassador Gary Locke, mounted an operation to bring him in 
> from
> the  cold." Locke: "When we got the word he was in Beijing wanting to talk
> to
> us in the wee hours of the morning we went out and contacted him, and then
> we engineered almost a maneuver out of 'Mission Impossible' to bring him
> in
> to the embassy." According to Martin, "The maneuver involved  transferring
> Chen from a van driven by the dissidents to a US government  car while
> evading Chinese surveillance, then spirit him back to the US  Embassy, 
> past
> Chinese guards, whose job is to prevent would-be defectors  from reaching
> the
> embassy."
>
>
> Romney  Questions The Administration's Treatment Of Chen NBC Nightly
> News reported  that "this rather incredible drama...has ricocheted back
> here
> and is now  part of the race for President." Mitt Romney "said the
> Administration was  too eager to keep its summit on track and should not
> have
> handed Chen over  to the Chinese." Romney: "If these reports are true, 
> this
> is a dark day  for freedom and a day of shame for the Obama 
> Administration."
>
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> reports Romney said he "was concerned about the circumstances of the
> negotiations between the US and Chinese governments that led Chen to leave
> the embassy after assurances that he and his family would be protected if
> they remained in China."
>
>
> Issa Circulates Proposed Holder  Contempt Resolution   News that House
> Oversight and Government  Reform Chairman Darrell Issa is circulating a
> contempt of Congress  resolution against Attorney General Holder over the
> "Operation Fast &  Furious" controversy generated heavy print media
> coverage
> this morning,  but drew no mention on network newscasts last night.
>
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> reports that Issa "circulated a proposal Thursday to hold" Holder "in
> contempt of Congress, accusing Holder of failing to cooperate with a
> congressional inquiry into the botched gun-trafficking operation called
> Fast
> and Furious. Justice Department officials disputed the accusations, 
> saying
> the department has been cooperating fully with the investigation,  which
> was
> launched by Issa" and Sen. Charles Grassley "a year and a half  ago."
>
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> , "The 64-page draft resolution and an accompanying 17-page staff briefing
> paper explain what" Issa "called the 'reckless conduct' of the Fast and
> Furious investigation and the 'hardships' faced by the family of a US
> Border
> Patrol agent killed with a weapon purchased in the probe. The two
> documents
> also detail retaliation against agents who blew the whistle on  the
> operation
> and the 'carnage in Mexico' that Fast and Furious helped  fuel. 'This
> briefing paper and draft contempt report explains the case to  both 
> members
> of the committee and the American people for holding Attorney  General
> Holder
> in contempt of Congress,'" Issa said.
>
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> reports, "Issa has issued two subpoenas to obtain documents from the DOJ,
> and is arguing that the agency's glacial pace in returning the requested
> information provides cause for holding Holder in contempt of Congress.
> 'Congress now faces a moment of decision between exerting its full
> authority
> to compel an agency refusing to cooperate with congressional  oversight or
> accepting a dangerous expansion of executive-branch authority  and
> unilateral
> action allowing agencies to set their own terms for  cooperating with
> congressional oversight,'" the staff memo  said.
>
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> reports that Deputy Attorney General James Cole released a statement
> saying
> that the Justice Department "strongly disputes the contention that  we 
> have
> failed to cooperate with the Committee's review," and added that  the
> disputes over document production "stem not from a lack of  cooperation,
> but
> from our sincere and unwavering belief that disclosure of  materials
> related
> to ongoing criminal investigations and prosecutions  could well jeopardize
> our core law enforcement  mission."
>
>
> Documents Seized From Bin Laden's Compound Released To  The Public   NBC
> Nightly News reported, "Today we learned still  more about what Bin Laden
> was
> up to in his final months and days in that  secret compound in Abbottabad,
> Pakistan." Correspondent Jim Miklaszewski  added, "The documents seized in
> last year's raid on Bin Laden's hideout  released today revealed Bin Laden
> was still intent on killing Americans.  The documents show Bin Laden had
> ordered Al Qaeda to assassinate President  Obama or General David 
> Petraeus."
>
> On ABC  World News, Brian Ross reported, "These documents recovered
> have proven to  be hugely valuable, as an insight into what might be 
> coming
> next from Al  Qaeda. ... Just five days before he was killed, a 
> tantalizing
> clue, when  Bin Laden asked about a plot using poison being planned by one
> Al
> Qaeda  team. But there are no further details in the documents  released."
>
> Bob Orr, on the CBS Evening  News, said bin Laden "was frustrated
> with poorly planned attacks that  killed too many Muslims and he worried 
> US
> drone strikes threatened Al  Qaeda's core in Pakistan." Orr added that the
> letters also "reveal  tensions between bin Laden and other top terrorists.
> He
> rebuffed pleas  from his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, to merge Al Qaeda with
> Al-Shabaab in  Somalia and rejected Anwar al-Awlaki as a proposed leader 
> in
>
> Yemen."
>
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> , in an article titled "US Uses Bin Laden Letters To Degrade Al-Qaida,"
> reports that the letters were "released by US officials intent on
> discrediting his terror organization." The AP says they "portray a network
> weak, inept and under siege -- and its leader seemingly near wit's end
> about
> the passing of his global jihad's glory days. The documents,  published
> online Thursday, are a small sample of those seized during the  US raid on
> bin Laden's Pakistan compound," and, "by no accident, they show  al-Qaida
> at
> its worst."
>
> Campaign News
>
> Obama Has Seven-Point  Lead In Virginia in WPost Poll   The Washington
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> reports a new Post poll shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney in the
> battleground state of Virginia, 51% to 44%. The Post says Obama "has a key
> advantage in his bid for reelection: The coalition of Virginians that
> helped
> propel him to victory" in the state in 2008 "is largely intact. Yet  the
> survey shows that voters in the state are split on Obama's signature
> healthcare reform law and that they remain deeply pessimistic about the
> way
> things are going in the country, creating a potential opening for 
> Romney."
>
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> reports that Virginians "split down the middle on the administration's
> major
> policies overall, but tend to credit Obama with doing a good job:  The
> president checks in with a 53 percent approval rating; 44 percent
> disapprove
> (it's a narrower 50 to 47 percent among registered  voters)."
>
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> says Virginia "is becoming the hottest new battleground in this year's
> race
> for the White House. Shifting demographics have" Obama "fighting for
> another
> win in this Southern state four years after he became the first 
> Democratic
> presidential nominee to carry Virginia in more than four  decades," while
> Romney "is banking on buyers' remorse as he works to prove  that Obama's
> unlikely 2008 victory was a fluke."
>
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> , meanwhile, reports that Romney on Thursday said the 2012 presidential
> race
> "could all come down to Virginia." Stumping in Portsmouth, VA, Romney
> said,
> "This may well be the state that decides who the next president  is."
>
>
> Bachmann Formally Endorses Romney   The Minneapolis  Star
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> reports, "After weeks of dropping hints," Rep. Michele Bachmann "came out
> firmly Thursday for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, granting him a
> measure of Tea Party backing after criticizing him harshly during her
> presidential bid." Appearing with Romney in Virginia, Bachmann "called for
> unity in the Republican ranks to defeat President Obama in November,
> saying
> she wanted to 'lend my voice and my endorsement to Mitt Romney to  take 
> the
> country back.'"
>
> NBC Nightly  News reported, "While she was still vying for the GOP
> nomination herself  in the heat of the campaign, she called Romney's
> Massachusetts healthcare  package, quote, 'a deal breaker for
> conservatives'
> and said he couldn't  beat President Obama."
>
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> reports that Romney "has spent the past few days on the campaign trail
> surrounded by women, slamming President Obama's record on the economy and
> ticking off the economic hardships faced by female entrepreneurs."
> Yesterday
> in Virginia, Romney "was joined on stage by" Bachmann, "one of  the most
> high-profile conservative women in the country." And though  Bachmann
> "never
> addressed the gender gap or the GOP 'war on women,' as  Democrats have
> dubbed
> some Republican efforts, the context of her  appearance with Romney was
> clear: that the fight for this swing state and  a White House victory is
> all
> about appealing to women."
>
> McDonnell Makes Case For Romney In Virginia
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> reports "a possible vice-presidential pick," Gov. Bob McDonnell, also
> joined
> Romney, and "made his case as the steward of Virginia's strong  economy."
> McDonnell said, "For those of you not from here, welcome to the  most
> business-friendly state in America, the Commonwealth of Virginia.  Welcome
> to
> the state with the lowest unemployment rate in the Southeast.  Now as good
> as
> that is, imagine how much better off we're going to be with  President 
> Mitt
> Romney?"
>
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> reported on its website that in his speech, "McDonnell, like Bachmann
> before
> him, took time for special criticism of the Obama administration's
> environmental policies, arguing excessive regulations have prohibited
> Virginia companies from opening new coal mines and natural gas 
> refineries."
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> Ancestry Controversy Has Some Doubting Warren's  Staying Power
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> writes, "Political candidates facing controversy are often given this
> advice: Get all the bad news out immediately if you want to take control
> of
> the news cycle on a damaging story." However, Elizabeth Warren (D),  who's
> bidding to unseat Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R), "has delivered  a
> series of uneven and confusing responses to revelations that she once
> listed
> herself as a minority law teacher, raising questions about whether  this 
> is
> just one blip in a long race or an image-defining moment that  undercuts
> her
> profile as an authentic populist candidate." Politico adds  that "some
> Democrats" are "privately" wondering if her credibility has  been 
> "damaged."
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> column, Joe Battenfeld writes that Warren's "stumbling efforts to douse
> the
> firestorm surrounding her claims of being a Native American minority  have
> raised concerns among local and national Democrats who are  questioning 
> her
> campaign's competence." As to Warren's "conflicting  explanations about 
> why
> she listed herself as a minority in university  directories," University 
> of
> Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato  said, "This is what happens 
> when
> candidates don't tell the truth. It's  pretty obvious she was using (the
> minority listing) for career  advancement."
>
> Political Humor
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> this week, as part of his big Did I Mention I Killed  Bin Laden Tour. He's
> kind of traveling around and Mitt Romney is  criticizing the President. He
> said Obama should not politicize the death  of Osama bin Laden. Mitt 
> Romney
> made that announcement on the anniversary  of bin Laden's death, standing
> next to Rudy Giuliani, at a fire station in  New York City, at 9:11 in the
> morning."
>
> Jimmy Fallon: "Last week,  the brakes on President Obama's limousine were
> apparently damaged while he  was in Georgia. Yeah, Obama tried to call 
> AAA,
> while Biden tried to call  the Geico gecko."
>
> Jimmy Fallon: "Here's an election update. Today,  former GOP candidate
> Michele Bachmann officially endorsed Mitt Romney for  President. Romney
> called it 'the boost I've been waiting for,' while Obama  calls it 'the
> boost
> I've been waiting for.'"
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