Ron Paul to host Press Conference on 5/24 with CIA analyst Michael Scheuer

[AlexAmore]

It doesn't show up on his eventful website anymore.

 

[winston_blade]

It doesn't show up on his eventful website anymore.

I don't think that he wants a bunch of his supporters emailing different news outlets for them to show up. I think he wants to see which MSM outlets show up on their own.

 

[Bradley in DC]

Attend! Publicize it!

For those living in the greater DC metropolitan area, we need to attend the press conference. (Could someone send me one of those really, really cool Ron Paul R(evol)ution banners?) Press club events are open to the public.

Let's pack the room with Ron Paul supporters (let the press sit in the front) and bring signs and banners (maybe funny hats? I digress).

For those not in DC, everyone, please, take this opportunity to write personal letters to the editor in your local papers, radio, television, etc. Write from the heart about the event and your thoughts on it (and towards Dr. Paul). Citing local concerns, family members affected, etc., help. We need to expand the personal connection between Dr. Paul and the voters.

 

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

Maybe he'll announce Michael Scheuer is his VP candidate. Hmmm?

 

[Seth M.]

Now... "That's really an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of Sept. 11... :^P /joke


Talk about tuff on security! Is there any scuttlebutt about?

 

[JoshLowry]

Maybe he'll announce Michael Scheuer is his VP candidate. Hmmm?

Haha, that would rock...

 

[Andrew76]

listen to this!

Yes, this press conference is going to be soooo very very satisfying. Those of you who have not yet listened to the radio discussion with Mike Scheuer regarding all of this (ie: Ron Paul, OBL, War on terror, etc.) I cannot recommend it enough. To me, it is the single most supportive thing of what Ron Paul has been saying in regards to foreign policy and energy policy. I was moved to send it along to everyone I know. Make no mistake, Mike Scheuer is no anti-war pacifist, quite the opposite, and he's agreeing 100% with what Ron Paul has been saying. Please please give this a listen when you get a spare 15 minutes or so.

here it is:

http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_05_18_scheuer.mp3

 

[winston_blade]

It no longer says on his myspace or his website anything about this. Is it still going to happen? I really hope they didn't cancel it.

 

[Scott]

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/05/22/fmr-chief-of-cia-osama-unit-why-they-attack-us/

The following is a letter from Michael F. Scheuer, former Chief of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden Unit, to the editor of Antiwar.com, regarding Congressman Ron Paul’s exchange with Rudy Giuliani about why the al Qaeda network has targeted the United States.

Sir,

In the dozen-plus years I have been active in matters relating to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, I have watched them go from a small Islamist organization to a worldwide insurgent movement, while bin Laden has established himself as the primary source of inspiration and leadership for tens of millions of Muslim Islamists. This process has been made possible by two things: (a) the skill, courage, patience, and ruthlessness of bin Laden and his ilk, and (b) the refusal of the U.S. government to understand the motivation of bin Laden and his allies.

Last week, Representative Paul did all Americans an immense service by simply pointing out the obvious: Our Islamist enemies do not give a damn about the way we vote, think, or live. Though any country they ruled would surely not look like ours, they are motivated by the belief that U.S. foreign policy is an attack on Islam, its lands, and its believers. This, of course, is not to say that America is to blame for the war it is now engaged in, but it is to say that it is foolish – and perhaps fatal – for Americans to believe that are we are being attacked for such ephemera as primary elections, R-rated movies, and gender equality. If our Islamist enemies were motivated by such things their numbers would be minuscule and they would be a sporadic lethal nuisance, not, as they are, the most serious national security threat we face today.

Of the eighteen presidential candidates now in the field from both parties, only Mr. Paul has had the courage to square with the average American voter. We are indeed hated and being warred against because we are “over there,” and not for what we are and how we live. Our failure to recognize the truth spoken by Mr. Paul – and spelled out for us in hundreds of pages of statements by Osama bin Laden since 1996 – is leading America toward military and economic disaster.

At day’s end, Mr. Paul has at least temporarily shaken the pillars of the bipartisan consensus on U.S. foreign policy. Neither party, and none of the candidates, want to discuss the Islamists’ motivation because they would have to deal with energy policy, support for Israel, and the 50-year record of U.S. support and protection for Arab tyrannies. These holy cows of U.S. politics have long been off limits to debate, but Mr. Paul has now accurately identified them as the source of motivation for our Islamist enemies, and implicitly has said that the obsessive interventionism of both parties has inspired al-Qaeda and its allies to kill 7,000-plus U.S. civilians and military personnel since 11 September 2001. The war we are engaged in with the Islamists is a long way from over, but it need end in America’s defeat only if Mr. Paul’s frank statements are ignored.

And no matter how you view Mr. Paul’s words, you can safely take one thing to the bank. The person most shaken by Mr. Paul’s frankness was Osama bin Laden, who knows that the current status quo in U.S. foreign policy toward the Islamic world is al-Qaeda’s one indispensable ally, and the only glue that provides cohesion between and among the diverse and often fractious Islamist groups that follow its banner.

Respectfully,
Michael F. Scheuer
Falls Church, VA

 

[ronpaulitician]

FreeMarketNews.com

Breaking - Ron Paul, CIA, Rebut Giuliani at Press Confab, May 24
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com


Presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-TX) will be joined by Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden Unit, to discuss flawed American foreign policy and its implications on terrorism, security and Iraq.

The press conference will be held at 9:30AM EST on Thursday, May 24 in the National Press Club Lisagor Room.

During the "First in South" GOP debate, earlier this month, Dr. Paul stated that 50 years of interventionism in the Middle East is a significant motivating tool for radical Islamists. Dr. Paul's position, though disparaged during the debate, has since received backing from numerous individuals, including others in the GOP, administration officials and - in excerpted reports - from the 9-11 Commission itself.

In the debate, Rudy Giuliani, a presidential candidate and well-known former Republican mayor of New York, called Dr. Paul's position "absurd." Giuliani is commonly characterized as a GOP "front-runner." He is also considered well-versed in foreign policy, given his supervision of the "international city" of New York and his position as its leader during 9/11. However, he stated that he had "never heard such an explanation" as Ron Paul's.

According to a limited-circulation release, Dr. Paul and Mr. Scheuer are expected to explain why Rudy Giuliani is wrong on security and foreign policy and provide documentation about the unintended consequences of interventionism - known to many in the intelligence (and Dr. Paul as well) as "blowback."

 

[aravoth]

I'd put a lot of money on the fact that nobody of the mainstream media is going to be there.

agree

 

[Therion]

CNN will probably be there. They seem to be RP's biggest fans in the MSM.

 

[tnvoter]

I'm betting that everyone's going to have cameras on this- for fear of missing a possible big scoop - or they're still hoping for RP to slip up somewhere.

 

[MsDoodahs]

I just checked the CSPan schedule for tomorrow, and I don't see it listed on any of their 3 channels.

Bummer...

I hope the campaign records it and puts it on the net...

 

[LibertyOrDie]

I just checked the CSPan schedule for tomorrow, and I don't see it listed on any of their 3 channels.

Bummer...

I hope the campaign records it and puts it on the net...

Anymore news on this? Anyone know if it is going to covered anywhere? If on TV, let me know, I would love to post it on YouTube!

 

[tnvoter]

LOL, whether the media covers it or not depends on entirely whether or not something interesting is going on in the american idol show. It seems to scoop over anything else in world news lately.

I'm tuning in looking for it anyways, just in case.

 

[rpliving]

it should be going on now.

 

[Gee]

Its listed as going from 9:30 - 10:00 am
http://npc.press.org/

I guess that means no one covered it

 

[MsDoodahs]

Not seeing a thing on CSpan right now, but I only have one and two.

According to the blog at LRC, Cspan was going to be there, so maybe they're recording it to be shown on air later?

 

[NMCB3]

Lew Rockwell is reporting that C-SPAN has backed out. I guess no one cares if the GOP "front runner" (Rudy) is clueless about foreign policy. As long as the special interests are pandered to.