How Michele Bachmann Is Tied to the Ugandan Movement to Execute
Gay People  Why did Michele Bachmann hire an accused terrorist
and ex-spy who pals around with a central figure in the Ugandan
effort to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death?  Peter
Waldron is a Christian pastor and on-the-ground organizer for
the Bachmann campaign in Iowa. He is also, as The Atlantic's
Garance Franke-Ruta reported this week, an accused terrorist who
spent 37 days in a Ugandan prison after officials there found
him with a cache of assault rifles and ammunition in 2006.
Weird, huh? He's also a self-promoting globe-trotting raconteur
who actively encourages the perception that he is a U.S.
intelligence operative. And, as reporter Andrew Rice—who met
Waldron in Uganda in 2004—notes, he is pals with a Ugandan
minister named Martin Ssempa: "The Sunday I attended Ssempa's
church, after he finished his sermon, the pastor told his
audience that he had a special guest to introduce, a visitor
from the United States. All eyes fix