http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/former-congressional-ethics-chair-my-16000-african-safari-was-research-al-qaeda
Former Congressional Ethics Chair: My $16,000 African Safari Was To Research Al Qaeda

Rep. Jo Bonner responds to MoJo's investigation of the trip he and two other GOPers took to Kenya in 2012.

Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.), the former chairman of the House ethics committee, has responded to questions Mother Jones first raised about the all-expenses paid trip to a Kenyan estate that he, two other GOP lawmakers, and members of their families took in August 2012, claiming that he was visiting the site where the Oscar-winning film Out of Africa was shot in order to learn about supposed connections between poaching and Al Qaeda.
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