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Most of the information about Huma Abedin was brought to light years ago by Michele Bachmann, who was immediately censured by her own party, including John McCain who punished her for suggesting Huma should have been vetted by the FBI like all other high level advisors. Michele Bachman was pretty much destroyed by this episode of courage. She said this when it mattered and John Boehner, the current Speaker, made sure she was mocked and felt every bit of intimidation he could arrange, although with the recent uprising against him by members of his own party, he may well be gone by September. The fact that Boehner is still the Speaker tells us how far gone the Republican Party is. The amount of heat Bachmann took from the media, including Fox News, for doing her job seriously tells us that the media is as deeply corrupted and uninterested in American security, as is the DemoMarxist Party.

Perhaps we have a Shiite Sunni Civil War within the Democrat Party? Obama has been alleged to be a “kindred spirit” with the Muslim Brotherhood with a brother Malik allegedly in the top ranks with the MB regular guests at the White House. But every indication based on the Iran Deal and his top advisor being the Iranian ValJar is that Obama is helping build a Shiite Caliphate.

“Shrillary” by contrast is joined at the hip with Huma Abedin whose family is in the top ranks of the Saudi Sunni Islamic State. Since Saudi Arabia is the loser in the Iran Deal as oil exporter and seat of the Sunni Islamic cabal, perhaps Obama is trying to take out Shrillary for much bigger reasons than personal animus.

Whether the situation is this clear cut or simply our government dabbling in the civil war between the Sunni and Shiite Caliphates, we have much to be concerned about as a nation. Some ponder whether it is advisable to poke a beehive with a stick, but it is less advisable to poke a beehive and a wasp’s nest with a stick when standing in the middle. During the Thursday night dancing with the candidates show, I was hoping there might be at least one question that gently touched on the issue of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration into all levels of our government and the staffing of key positions with Islamic apologists like Jeh Johnson and John Brennan, plus of course, Huma Abedin, who is not an Islamic apologist, she is a flat-out Islamic operative. But I have a tendency to live in fantasy land.

What is more mysterious than the link between the administration and the musbros is why the “Republicrats” stick up for them. There seem to be deep tentacles of Islam into the government, and it would be a nice story if we had an investigative journalist to look into why they do it. Bachmann was right but she paid dearly for it.

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All of this to lead us into Daniel John Sobieski’s piece today in American Thinker, titled “Agents of Influence? Huma Abedin and Valerie Jarrett …

Somehow the conclusion by State Department investigators that Huma Abedin, close associate and friend of former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, was overpaid by some $10,000 as she worked at a State Department job specifically created just for her, does not surprise. Abedin, who is expected to assume the same Rasputin-like role in a Hillary Clinton administration as Valerie Jarrett does for President Obama, has done very well for herself. As the Washington Post reports:

The finding  — which Abedin has formally contested — emerged publicly Friday after Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) sent letters to Secretary of State John F. Kerry and others seeking more information about an investigation into possible “criminal” conduct by Abedin concerning her pay….

The letters also sought the status of an inquiry into whether Abedin had violated conflict-of-interest laws related to her special employment situation, which allowed her to work simultaneously for the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and a private firm with close ties to the Clintons.

Nice work if you can get it. The Clinton Foundation is neck-deep in allegations of influence peddling and Huma Abedin’s history has raised questions of what influence she herself has been peddling and its influence on America’s disastrous foreign policy of late, particularly in the Middle East. As Investors Business Daily has editorialized:

Abedin made $135,000 a year as Clinton’s deputy, a period in which she is reported to have raked in as much as $355,000 from consulting contracts. Having a pipeline into the Clinton inner circle is invaluable to some. This reminds us of Johnny Chung’s famous comparison of the Clinton White House to a subway turn style — you had to put money in to gain entry.

The triage of evil under the spell of the Muslim Brotherhood…

Abedin also has some interesting family connections. Her father is said to be close with the Saudi government’s Muslim World League, and her mother is said to be a member of the Muslim Sisterhood. World Trade Center bombing prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review: “The ties of Ms. Abedin’s father, mother and brother to the Muslim Brotherhood are both specific and substantiated.”

The Muslim Brotherhood took power in Egypt with the Obama administration’s approval after it had all but abandoned the government of Hosni Mubarak, a long-time ally and friend. It was while Abedin was advising Hillary that State dropped its long-standing policy of having no dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood.

As Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review, Huma Abedin’s family and work history suggests a devotion to Islamic supremacist ideology that may go a long way to explaining our imploding Middle East policy from Baghdad to Egypt:

Ms. Abedin worked for many years at a journal that promotes Islamic-supremacist ideology that was founded by a top al-Qaeda financier, Abdullah Omar Naseef. Naseef ran the Rabita Trust, a formally designated foreign terrorist organization under American law. Ms. Abedin and Naseef overlapped at the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA) for at least seven years. Throughout that time (1996–2003), Ms. Abedin worked for Hillary Clinton in various capacities.

The consulting firm Abedin worked for was Tenco Strategies, founded by longtime Bill Clinton aide Douglas Band, with the former President initially serving on its board. Abedin allegedly sent some 7,000 emails on her government account that involved Band.

Sen. Grassley has a particular interest in Abedin’s 2013 designation as an SGE, or “special government employee,” which is a government designation for those who fill “an unmet government need for rare or unique expertise, while allowing individuals to retain their private-sector positions. As we have seen Abedin’s expertise is indeed unique and her simultaneous employment by three employers allowed her a unique position to influence and to peddle influence. As the Washington Examiner reported:

“The Committee has learned of allegations that, during your simultaneous employment by the Department of State, Teneo, and the Clinton Foundation, you were solicited for and delivered favors for preferred individuals,” Grassley wrote to Abedin.

Abedin was reportedly among several key aides to Hillary Clinton that hosted email accounts on a private server in the presidential candidate’s New York home in violation of federal records laws.

If Hillary Clinton wins in 2016, she will presumably assume the same role as Valerie Jarrett does in the Obama administration. Valerie Jarrett undoubtedly had significant input into President Obama’s Munich-like deal with Iran, which kicks the nuclear can down the road to assured detonation over Israel, which Iran continues to threaten to wipe off the map when it is not wishing “death to America”. Her influence over President Obama is legendary:

The Iranian-born Jarrett (her parents were American-born expatriates) is the only staff member who regularly follows the president home from the West Wing to the residence and one of the few people allowed to call the president by his first name.

“President” Valerie Jarrett…

Her influence is shown by an account in Richard Miniter’s book “Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him.”

It relates that at the urging of Jarrett, Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden three times before approving the Navy SEAL mission in Pakistan on May 2, 2011. Seems she was concerned about political harm to Obama if the mission failed.

Those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Valerie Jarrett’s hold over President Obama is as mysterious as it has proven dangerous. We do nor need another Jarrett in the person of Huma Abedin, whose corruption and influence peddling may be surpassed only by the future president who would put her in a position of power.

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Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.