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Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist "journalist" named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin. But the connections don't end there. Boudin's son Chesa was raised by Barack Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were Boudin's comrades in the communist terrorist group, after Kathy Boudin went to prison for her involvement in an armed robbery and assault that took the...

On a brisk November morning, Cathy Wilkerson strides down one of the city’s finest streets, 11th between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, her glance sweeping across the row of handsome town houses, alighting nowhere in particular. “The street I remember,” Ms. Wilkerson says, “was a lot less polished.” If streets had memories, this one would recall a far less polished incarnation of her. On the morning of March 6, 1970, Cathy Wilkerson stumbled onto 11th Street in tatters, bleeding and her clothes all but ripped off her body. Her father’s town house, 18 West 11th Street, which she had borrowed on...

A federal judge has ordered a new trial for a woman serving 75 years in prison after she was convicted as a getaway driver in an armored-truck robbery in which a guard and two policemen were killed. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin said Judith Clark deserves a new trial because no one represented her interests in the courtroom after she insisted on remaining in a cell outside court as the evidence was unveiled in court. The judge said ... that Clark, 56, knowingly and intelligently waived her right to a lawyer. But she said the trial judge failed to ensure...

Jerrold Nadler's Two Faces on Terror By Jacob LaksinFrontPageMagazine.com | June 13, 2005Last Friday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Patriot Act had already been adjourned, but Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic blimpish congressman from New York and one of the leftmost members of the House Judiciary Committee, was too wound up to care: “We are not besmirching the honor of the United States, we are trying to uphold it,” bellowed the hefty Nadler. By this, Nadler meant to defend his attacks on the alleged abuses of the (in fact) privileged  prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Thanks to the efforts of the...

An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged By Henry Mark Holzer and Erika HolzerFrontPageMagazine.com | June 10, 2005For three decades Jane Fonda obfuscated, distorted and lied about virtually everything connected with her wartime trip to North Vietnam: her motive, her acts, her intent, and her contribution to the Communists’ war effort.  With the aid of clever handlers, she so successfully suppressed and spun her conduct in Hanoi that many Americans didn’t know what she had done there, and, more important, the legal significance. Three years ago, our book, “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam (McFarland & Co.), laid bare...

1010 WINS) NEW YORK A former radical serving 75 years in prison for the deadly 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck has asked to be released from prison. She claims she was not given proper legal representation. 55-year-old Judith Clark filed a petition for habeas corpus yesterday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Clark argues that the judge at her 1983 state trial violated the constitution when he granted Clark's request to serve as her own lawyer. Clark was convicted of three counts of second-degree murder in the 1981 armed robbery, in which a guard and two policemen were...

he far left in America has not had a lot to celebrate recently. So a good-size crowd, and not all of it graybeards, turned up at Columbia Law School on Thursday evening for a party in honor of a new book, "No Surrender: Selected Writings of an Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner," by David Gilbert. Mark Rudd, who as a member of Students for a Democratic Society led the antiwar demonstrations that shut down Columbia in the spring of 1968, was there, along with an assortment of Black Panther alumni and former members of the Weathermen. But there was also a large...

Cheerleaders for TerrorismBy Erick StakelbeckFrontPageMagazine.com | June 17, 2003 Two groups whom Islamic terrorists can count on for sympathy and support are radical lawyers and their counterparts in American law schools. Lynne Stewart is a hero of the National Lawyers Guild and a sought-after campus lecturer. While out on bail under indictment for colluding with a terrorist leader, she has been a sought-after speaker for law school audiences who relish her attacks on Attorney General John Ashcroft as a modern-day fascist and on her country for its imperialist and racist policies. Stewart made national headlines in April 2002 when she...

In any earthly accounting it will never add up. At 12:30 p.m. tomorrow, the U.S. Post Office in Nyack, N.Y., will be renamed in honor of the two police officers and one security guard killed in the murderous 1981 Brink's robbery. As impressive as the honor is, surely it sadly pales next to the gift of freedom the New York parole board recently bestowed on one of the radical Weather Underground members convicted in the crime, Kathy Boudin. The fallen men were Police Sgt. Edward O'Grady, Police Officer Waverly "Chipper" Brown and Brink's security officer Peter Paige--military vets all. No...

In any earthly accounting it will never add up. At 12:30 p.m. tomorrow, the U.S. Post Office in Nyack, N.Y., will be renamed in honor of the two police officers and one security guard killed in the murderous 1981 Brink's robbery. As impressive as the honor is, surely it sadly pales next to the gift of freedom the New York parole board recently bestowed on one of the radical Weather Underground members convicted in the crime, Kathy Boudin. The fallen men were Police Sgt. Edward O'Grady, Police Officer Waverly "Chipper" Brown and Brink's security officer Peter Paige -- military vets...

<p>Return, now, to a time long before anyone heard of antiglobalists--a period when hot-eyed protesters went around smashing windows, setting bombs and fighting police, whom the revolutionaries invariably referred to as "pigs." It was in the '60s and '70s that the Weathermen and fellow travelers embarked on their effort to dismantle the government and the entire system, a mission they deemed central to the world revolution they aspired to lead--and one far more exciting than the dull activism of the anti-Vietnam War protests, on which they had cut their teeth.</p>

<p>The good news: The truth about Kathy Boudin's decades-long history of violent revolutionary history finally is emerging, thanks to a new book by her one-time college classmate and friend that exposes the lies she and her supporters have long been telling. The bad news: Susan Braudy's "Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristrocracy of the Left" (Knopf) was published too late to keep Kathy Boudin behind bars for her role in the 1981 Brinks heist in Nyack, in which her Black Liberation Army comrades murdered three law-enforcement officers.</p>

Angry off-duty cops demonstrated outside St. Luke's Hospital yesterday to protest the hiring of paroled killer Kathy Boudin - 22 years to the day since three men were slain in the infamous Brink's robbery. About two dozen police officers carried signs outside the upper Manhattan hospital that read: "Kill three people and get a job at St. Luke's," and shouted, "St. Luke's hires murderers." Boudin, 60, walked out of prison last month after serving nearly 22 years for the ambush that left two police officers and a security guard dead. Most of the protesters were cops from Rockland County, where...

<p>THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO this fall, a small band of well-educated young Americans hell-bent on storming heaven steeled themselves to commit an act of spectacularly gratuitous violence. A militant breakaway faction of Students for a Democratic Society, they called themselves the Weathermen. Their strategy, such as it was, blended theatrical bravado with puritanical zeal -- Bonnie and Clyde meet John Brown. Wearing crash helmets and wielding baseball bats, ululating like the revolutionaries they had studied on screen in "The Battle of Algiers," they would run wild in the streets of Chicago, lashing out at any available symbol of privilege and power: police, parked cars, affluent bystanders.</p>

American TerroristBy Greg YardleyFrontPageMagazine.com | September 22, 2003 Kathy Boudin helped kill three people on October 20, 1981, the consequences of an armored truck robbery in Nyack, New York. The robbery was a joint action of the May 19th Communist Organization and the Black Liberation Army, the money was needed to finance their criminal careers as communist revolutionaries. Although not armed herself, Boudin was in the cab of the U-Haul that served as a getaway vehicle; when police pulled the truck over, she failed to warn them about the six heavily-armed gunmen hiding in the back. They were caught...

This week, Kathy Boudin walked free after 22 years in prison. Back in the '70s, Boudin was a member of the radical Weather Underground. In 1981, after years on the run, she participated in the murder of a Brink's guard and two cops in pursuit of her revolutionary goals. Boudin now says she's sorry. She made a terrible mistake. As she told the Parole Board, "I had grown up wanting to be a doctor, and here I am and three people are dead, and I'm responsible for this." Boudin comes from a rich and influential family. In prison, she helped...

<p>Kathy Boudin, carrying roses she was given after her mother died, walks out of a Westchester prison yesterday (above). She was jailed 22 years ago for her role in the infamous Brinks heist that left two cops and a guard dead.</p>

The Age of No Consequences The world where we live. Just about exactly as I am writing this, up in Westchester County, north of New York City, Kathy Boudin, aged 60, is being released from prison after 22 years. Back in 1981, she helped the Black Liberation Army, an extreme-Left terrorist group, rob a Brinks truck. A security guard was killed in the robbery. When the getaway vehicle was stopped at a police roadblock soon after, Ms. Boudin in the passenger seat, her companions gunned down two policemen. For her participation in this robbery and these three murders, Ms. Boudin...

<p>BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) &#8212; Over bitter protests from law officers, 1960s radical Kathy Boudin was released from prison yesterday after serving 22 years for murder in an armored car heist that left two policemen and a security guard dead.</p> <p>"I'm physically ill right now," said Brent Newbury, president of the Rockland County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. "I can't believe I just saw Kathy Boudin walk out of prison."</p>

BEDFORD, N.Y. - Over bitter protests from law officers, 1960s radical Kathy Boudin was released from prison Wednesday after serving 22 years for murder in an armored car heist that left two policemen and a security guard dead. "I'm physically ill right now," said Brent Newbury, president of the Rockland County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. "I can't believe I just saw Kathy Boudin walk out of prison." Boudin, 60, a former Weather Underground member, was granted parole last month despite heavy opposition of relatives, friends and colleagues of the slain men. On Wednesday morning, she walked out of the Bedford Hills...

<p>September 17, 2003 -- It was hard from Day One to understand the rationale for paroling Kathy Boudin, the one-time child of privilege turned revolutionary urban terrorist. Apparently Gov. Pataki had some questions, too, because big changes at the state parole board are accompanying Boudin's walk to freedom this morning. While Pataki's office last night denied involvement, Parole Board Chairman Brion Davis is said no longer to be involved in its day-to-day affairs.</p>

In 1970, Kathy Boudin belonged to a revolutionary cell that failed in an attempt to commit mass murder at an army dance at Fort Dix. A decade later, she participated in a robbery that killed 3 people and left 9 children fatherless. Last week, two brain dead black parole board members released her from prison because she said she did it for them. On August 20, 2003, two New York parole board commissioners Vernon C. Manley and Daizzee D. Booey -- both African American -- paroled convicted terrorist Kathy Boudin, who was serving twenty years to life for felony murder...

<p>ALBANY - The lawyer of Brinks robber Kathy Boudin said yesterday a new place has been found to house her when she is released from jail - possibly as soon as next week.</p> <p>The original choice, the home of Charlotte Phillips and Oliver Fein, married doctors from Brooklyn, was scrapped after their identities became public, lawyer Leonard Weinglass told The Post.</p>

Thursday, August 28, 2003 Kathy Boudin's Liberation Bradford Wilson, National Association of Scholars In 1981, Kathy Boudin, a Bryn Mawr grad and daughter of American-style privilege, was convicted of second degree murder for her role in an armed robbery of a Brink's car in Nyack, New York. The violent crimes that day of Boudin and her friends in the Weather Underground included the murder of two police officers and a Brink's guard. The New York Times reported last week that by the unanimous vote of two -- yes, two -- parole commissioners, Ms. Boudin's release was ordered. No explanation was...

<p>As far as we know, Chesa Boudin (Yale '03) has never met Edward O'Grady III (Annapolis '97). Let's just say that they have a connection through their folks. Mr. Boudin's mother, Kathy Boudin, has been doing time for her role in the 1981 Brinks robbery in Nanuet, N.Y., that killed Lt. O'Grady's policeman-father, along with another Nyack cop and a Brink's security guard.</p>

Portrait of a Progressive Terrorist By Greg YardleyFrontPageMagazine.com | August 25, 2003 On August 20, 2003, two New York parole board commissioners Vernon C. Manley and Daizzee D. Booey -- both African American -- paroled convicted terrorist Kathy Boudin, who was serving twenty years to life for felony murder and robbery.  In 1981, as part of a joint action by the Black Liberation Army and May 19th Communist Organization, Boudin had participated in the hold-up of an armored truck in Nyack, New York, a botched robbery that left three dead - security guard Peter Paige and Nyack police officers Waverly...

We just won a reversal of the denial of parole to my friend and client Kathy Boudin. NYSupreme Court Justice Benza just faxed his opinion to my co-counsel Len Weinglass. He orders a new hearing for failure of the parole board to consider the sentencing court's opinions and recommendations as contained in the sentencing minutes. Kathy's now been in prison over 21 years on a 20 to life sentence. At the sentencing the judge said he expected that Kathy would be granted parole after 20 years. The DA said that whether Kathy would be released after 20 years would depend...

hen explosives accidentally demolished a Greenwich Village town house 33 years ago, three young militants inside were killed, leaving two of their comrades to stagger out and into clandestine life. All were members of the Weathermen, a violent offshoot of 1960's radicalism.One of the survivors, Kathy Boudin, was granted parole last week for her role in a 1981 armored car robbery that left a Brink's guard and two police officers dead. The Boudin case was a compelling reminder of a turbulent era. But the other woman who escaped serves as another reminder, of how a once revolutionary band has dispersed...

<p>Some final thoughts on the parole of Kathy Boudin, the '60s radical and cop-killer-accomplice, now ordered set free after 22 years behind bars.</p> <p>A reconsideration of that order, always a long shot, was ruled out yesterday.</p> <p>Much has been made of the exemplary prison record compiled by the former Weather Underground radical.</p>

Kathy Boudin needs your help NOW! Dear Friend of Justice, There are ten days left until Kathy Boudin goes before the parole board again. We urgently need your help. Kathy has spent 22 exemplary years in prison. Even the parole board is impressed with her remarkable work and disciplinary record. She is 60 years old. In August 8th's N.Y. Times a spokesman for the state's Division of Parole is described as saying that "the people urging that Ms. Boudin remain locked up outnumber those who want her freed." This is simply not true! The parole board must hear that there...

Give Islamic terrorists this much credit: At least they act out of deep religious conviction, twisted though it is. At least--tragically--they are not inept; they generally know how to rig a bomb and accomplish their horrible goals. And when caught, they tend to acknowledge their crimes. Their American counterparts of the 1960s were not nearly so inspired, skilled or bold. Their philosophy was a lazy hash of Mao and Marx and Dylan, and their dreams of bombing Army bases and the Pentagon largely remained dreams or else blew up, literally, in their faces. We didn't call them "terrorists'' back then,...

The son of '60s radical Kathy Boudin says his mother wants to personally apologize to the relatives of the three men killed in an 1981 armored car heist when she is freed from prison in the next few weeks. “She would very much like to have an opportunity to express her remorse,” Chesa Boudin said Thursday, shortly after talking to her by telephone at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. “She’s not been allowed to do that thus far.” It was the first time he had spoken to his mother since she learned Wednesday that she had been granted parole after...

<p>New York's decision Wednesday to parole left-wing terrorist Kathy Boudin &#8212; who was denied parole twice in the past two years &#8212; shocked relatives, friends and colleagues of the three men killed in a 1981 armored-car heist.</p> <p>"Today's Eddie's birthday. He would have been 55 years old, so it's especially difficult," said Edward O'Grady, whose uncle, police Sgt. Ed O'Grady, was gunned down with M-16s after Boudin helped spring an ambush while her gang made its getaway from a robbery in Nyack, N.Y.</p>

<p>August 21, 2003 -- What message is to be learned from yesterday's decision granting parole to Kathy Boudin, the child of privilege turned urban terrorist? Simply this: Get enough big-name celebrities on your side, and maybe - just maybe - you'll walk free.</p>