Mercer post on Abourezk Staff Spy
Bob Mercer has a post on the staff member from former Democratic US Senator Jim Abourezk who ended up spying on the United States and passing the information to the communist regime of Fidel Castro:
The Washington Post reports this morning that Walter Myers and Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers pleaded guilty in federal court Friday “that they spied for Cuba over the past three decades, receiving coded instructions over a shortwave radio and passing along information to intelligence operatives in ‘dead drops’ and ‘hand to hand’ passes.” (See the full story by reporter Del Quinten Weber at www.washingtonpost.com.) Myers, age 72, gets life in prison, his wife, age 71, six to seven-plus years. The story says they agreed to become spies for Cuba while living in South Dakota.
According to a long piece reported by Toby Harnden and published earlier this fall by Washingtonian magazine, the couple met in Washington, D.C., while she worked on the staff of then-U.S. Sen. Jim Abourezk, a Democrat from South Dakota. The Harnden story notes, “Among her colleagues were Tom Daschle, later Senate majority leader, and Pete Rouse, now a senior adviser to President Obama.” She had married during high school in Yankton, according to Harnden’s account, and later lived in Aberdeen with her first husband, Chuck Trebilcock, and their four children. She divorced in 1973 at the age of 37 and moved with the children to Colorado, where she married a second time to a man 13 years younger. Harnden wrote that she was working on Abourezk’s staff in Washington, D.C., within two years, the marriage dissolved. While there, she met Myers. The couple in turn met their initial Cuban contact at a gathering at the home of Wendy Greider, who was Abourezk’s staff member for foreign affairs.
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What does this tell you about Abourezk, Daschle, and their fellow travelers? I think it says a lot about where their hearts are. This does not mean they are active communists or whatever. It just means that they are very willing to indulge extreme leftism, even open treason. It’s scary.
Where was Kruschev sending the ships bearing the missiles? President Kennedy certainly understood the threat posed by Cuba.
9:55 it doesn’t mean any more than the fact that you posted on the same blog topic as I did here. Chances are, if you eat in public restaurants, you have, from time to time, unsuspectingly had a meal in close proximity to criminal of some sort. By your logic, you are therefore indulging them. What’s scary is your reasoning. It’s McCarthyesque and bizarre.
Fleming: Abourezk didn’t sit next to the spy. he HIRED her for his staff and later got her a job at the PUC. then when she got caught spying for our enemy, she immediately called Abourezk. What does that tell you?
It is awesome to see so many mouth-breathing Neocon/Pretend Patriots who shout and pound their chests on this website.
I will sleep better tonite with all of you watchdogs for freedom on your post.
Go lay by your dog dish 9:55.
Yeah, and I will sleep better knowing that Abourezk’s staff are behind bars. With the principles of Daschle,when do you think his staff will be brought up on charges?
By Arrow’s reasoning, anyone who ever hired a person who subsequently became a spy, or an embezzler, or a child molester, or a drunk driver, etc. was somehow in cahoots with — and of the same moral caliber as — the criminal. That’s ridiculous.
These people were low-level spies but spies just the same. Sen. Abourezk/his staff hired spies. In retrospect, they should have exercised greater judgment and vigilance when they made this hire. I know and like Sen. Abouresk and have no doubt he wouldn’t have hired them if he so much as suspected they were spies.
Two comments:
1) In our society, people given information in confidence can suffer consequences if people they give htis confidential information misuse the information. This happens in our personal lives, business lives and with regard to national security information.
2) We have no evidence that any information these spies misused came directly or indirectly from Sen. Abourezk or his staff.
Until we know more, we should just use this as a lesson to be more diligent with regard to the people placed in important positions and not use it as a means to besmirch Sen. Abourezk and his colleagues more than they deserve.
I think Mr. Mercer is a Sibbyite.