“I should add that I would resent anyone, George W. Bush or Shelly Rubin, telling me whom I can talk to and whom I can’t talk to. I hope that we haven’t reached that stage yet in our democracy.
There is, however, one small problem with one of Harriman’s sources, Shelly Rubin, who is now head of the Jewish Defense League. Rubin is the widow of Irv Rubin, one of the founders of the JDL, which has been described by the FBI as a “violent extremist Jewish organization.” One needs only to Google the Jewish Defense League for a list of the crimes it has committed within the United States, including being suspected by the FBI in the murder of one of my staff members – Alex Odeh – in Orange County, California. Her husband, Irv Rubin, was in jail when he died, charged with plotting to blow up a mosque in California, as well as an office of Congressman Darrell Issa. Asking Rubin about me would be very much like asking the Mafia if the FBI is being too tough on them.” more