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Take a down to earth person, a straight talker, fair-minded, with a
sense of justice for all, and of shock at discovery of the
contrary, and you're at the beginning of the Cynthia McKinney
story. But from there it surges to remote corners of the globe and
embraces a multitude of struggles. It ranges from her boat-rocking
tenure as a six-time-elected African American Congresswoman from
Georgia to her seizure on the high seas aboard the freedom flotilla
bound for Gaza and her removal to an Israeli jail, from her 2008
Green Party campaign for President of the United States to her
nights spent in a Tripoli hotel to serve as witness to NATO's
terror bombing of Libya. It's a story of justice pursued, a
McKinney hallmark - from speaking truth to lawmakers and demanding
it in return, to forays in the world's danger zones beyond the
reach of law - and so many places in between. McKinney was the lone
non-Gulf state Democratic voice on the House Committee
investigating the federal government's lack of response to the
devastation of Hurricane Katrina. She held the only Congressional
briefing critical of the 9/11 Commission's flawed conclusions and
faulty recommendations, introducing the analysis of scholars,
investigators, and former intelligence agents who joined the 9/11
victims' family members in questioning the premises and findings of
that official inquiry. As a member of the House Armed Services
Committee, she questioned Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on
malfeasance by military contractors and missing billions in the
Pentagon's budget, as well as the reasons for the failure of NORAD
air defenses on 9/11--questions that further revelations have
legitimized. And then she crossed the line that can't be crossed,
calling into question the one vested interest in Congress that none
dare counter. This is the story, in her own frank, inspiring and
sometimes hilarious words, of how it all went down. And stay tuned:
the Cynthia McKinney story is far from over yet.
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