Counterterrorism Blog

The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has referred its investigatory report on British MP George Galloway (Acrobat file) to numerous law enforcement bodies and regulatory agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom, including the Justice Department, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. With Chairman Sen. Coleman and ranking Member Sen. Levin in agreement, the subcommittee concluded that "there is reasonable cause to believe that a violation of law may have occurred" as a result of Galloway's "false and misleading testimony under oath regarding his role in the solicitation of oil allocations from the Hussein regime." Specifically, the report presents evidence that Oil-for-Food payments of $150,000 were made to Galloway�s wife, with $446,000 paid to his political campaign against U.N. sanctions, called the �Mariam Appeal,� from oil allocations awarded by the Hussein regime to Galloway. Galloway denied all such allegations under oath at the subcommittee hearing on May 17.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross (here) and I (here and here) have discussed this case and Galloway's disgusting alliance with Islamic terrorists. Galloway and his buddies should be very concerned that Sen. Levin joined with Chairman Coleman in the referral - Sen. Levin is a veteran of the PSI, he is highly respected in the CT community as a Senator who knows his stuff, and he would not have agreed to Chairman Coleman's referral request unless he was convinced of its sound basis. Hopefully we'll get to see whether Galloway, a "terrorist toadie" if there ever was one, can survive a pot of legal "hot water."