Not buying Jason Kenney's story

Jason Kenney is claiming that he:

A) Knew nothing of the Committee for Human Rights In Iran;
B) Had a staffer double-check the background of the group but could find nothing problematic about them.

The Toronto Star suggested that there was nothing on the internet about the group.

Kenney said he is well aware that the PMOI is also known as the MEK and is listed as a terrorist group. He then specifically recalled questioning the man who invited him — whose name he said he could not recall — at a meeting in Kenney's office after the parliamentary committee meeting. He asked if the man had any ties to "those radicals in the People's Mojahedin. And he laughed or denied it or something."

"I wanted to be sure there wasn't a connection," said Kenney. "I came away with the impression that there was no connection whatsoever."

Kenney said he also later asked a staffer to double-check the background of the Committee for Human Rights in Iran to be sure it was a mainstream organization. The staffer said he couldn't "seem to find anything problematic about them."

An Internet search doesn't turn up any website for a group by that name.

Got all that?

The Star is correct. There is no website for a group by that name. So what?

There is information about the group and I would call it problematic.

A 30 second Google search turned up this from March, 2001.

In February 1998, the affidavit states that the FBI seized banking records from a Bank of America account belonging to the Committee for Human Rights in Iran (CHR), a front organization used by the MEK to disguise its fund-raising activities on behalf of the group's military wing in Iraq.

Due diligence?

The execrable Jason Kenney clearly doesn't have a clue what due diligence really means. And if he believes he or is staff did due diligence then this country is in a world of hurt. Imagine what other things are being screwed up. Either Kenney isn't coming clean or he has the laziest staffers on the Hill.

Personally, I'm working out the number of ways to describe horse shit.

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