Former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy has lately been engaged in an effort to “remove the [Iranian] Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) from the State Department list of foreign terror organizations.”

Via ThinkProgress a month ago:

Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) told ThinkProgress he was paid $25,000 to speak at a rally to remove a controversial Iranian exiled opposition group from the U.S. terrorist rolls after previously not saying if he was paid.

Kennedy wouldn’t tell Foreign Policy’s Josh Rogin whether or not he was paid to speak at the rally to remove the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) from the State Department list of foreign terror organizations. But asked by ThinkProgress, Kennedy replied that he had been paid $25,000 and that he wouldn’t accept the money if he didn’t believe in the cause . . .

Flash-forward to yesterday’s New York Times full-page ad:

There’s more to this than meets the FBI (former director Louis Freeh), no?