Dang, is this the biggest Freeper investigative find since Dan Rather’s falsification?
More:
For over a decade, Justin Cooper has worked at the intersection of the highest levels of government, business, and philanthropy. From the White House to former and current Heads of State, to Fortune 50 corporations he has provided strategic counsel to some of the world’s most notable individuals and organizations. As a long-standing advisor to President William J. Clinton, Mr. Cooper has traveled the globe and successfully managed business engagements, negotiations and product development and launches — including the historic trip to North Korea to secure the release of two detained U.S. journalists and his work on three best selling books. Through this unparalleled experience, Mr. Cooper brings his leadership and unique skills to bear on a range of clients and subject areas.
In his ongoing role as a Senior Adviser to President William J. Clinton, Mr. Cooper provides counsel to the former President on a broad range of issues, including business matters, public affairs, political outreach and personal finances, in addition to his work with the Clinton Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Family Foundation. Justin has worked with the Clinton Foundation since its inception just over a decade ago and has helped to raise the over $400 million to fund its programs and the construction of the Clinton Presidential Center. During this time, Mr. Cooper has helped to grow the foundation from a handful of employees to more than one thousand full time staff across over sixty countries. Mr. Cooper has played a crucial role in managing the development of the foundation into one of the most recognized global philanthropic brands fostering the development of new programs and building strong relationships with donors and trustees to support the work. Mr. Cooper is also responsible for the management of the President’s professional and personal relationships. In this capacity, he has traveled the world with the President participating in bilateral meetings with foreign dignitaries and advising him on his role in summits with world leaders, speaking engagements, fundraisers, conferences and other events — most notably, the President’s transition from public to private life and Clinton’s efforts working with former Presidents Bush in disaster recovery after the tsunami in South East Asia, hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the hurricanes and earthquake that devastated Haiti.
Mr. Cooper began working in the White House in 1999 and has served as Staff Assistant in the Oval Office, Special Assistant to President Clinton and The President’s Aide. Mr. Cooper played a leading role in working with the President and the publishers on the best selling memoir My Life, the philanthropic book Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, and his latest book Back to Work: Why We Need Strong Government for a Strong Economy.
Mr. Cooper also serves as an advisor to corporations, governments, philanthropic organizations, institutions and senior corporate leadership on corporate strategy, managing and organizing their businesses, building their reputation and addressing and proactively managing developing issues and trends. Mr. Cooper brings a unique background and wealth of experience to advising clients on the inner workings of business, government, public policy and philanthropy.
Mr. Cooper holds a Juris Doctorate from Fordham University Law School in New York City, and a Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude from American University in Washington, DC.
Currently he serves on the Board of Directors of the American University in Dubai and on the Advisory Board of Decision Sciences.
Source: http://www.americansecurityproject.org
Looks like the "American Security Project" might (Needs Verification) be tied to George Soros and Chuch Hagel:
Media Is Chuck Hagel a George Soros Plant? We Look At the Evidence Jan. 20, 2013 11:23pm Mytheos Holt 5.1K Shares
Could Chuck Hagel, the man President Obama wants to become Secretary of Defense, secretly be a pawn of George Soros? It is a question that liberals would not bear hearing, and one that many conservatives, no doubt, would not bear going unanswered.
And indeed, evidence has come to light suggesting that the answer to this question may incline toward the positive. Specifically, a recent report by Aaron Klein of KleinOnline suggests the following about the would-be defense secretary:
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for defense secretary, serves on the board of a George Soros-funded group that advocates a nuclear-free world.
The Ploughshares Fund has a long history of anti-war advocacy and is a partner of the Marxist-oriented Institute for Policy Studies, which has urged the defunding of the Pentagon and massive decreases in U.S. defense capabilities, including slashing the American nuclear arsenal to 292 deployed weapons.
The Poughshares Fund has also partnered with a who’s who of the radical left, including Code Pink, the pro-Palestinian J Street, United for Peace & Justice, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and the Demos progressive group, where Obama’s former green jobs czar, Van Jones, serves on the board.[...]
A primary Ploughshares donor is the Tides Foundation, a money tunnel in which leftist donors provide funds to finance other radical groups. Tides is itself funded by Soros.[...]
Ploughshares is directed by Joseph Cirincione, who served as an advisor on nuclear issues to Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Cirincione also served as director of nuclear policy at the Center for American Progress.
Among the groups Ploughshares donates to the anti-Israel Americans for Peace Now, the Arms Control Association, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Center for Policy Alternatives, the Soros-funded Center for Public Integrity, the radical Citizen Action, Citizens for Environmental Justice, the Coalition for New Priorities and the radical the Institute for Policy Studies.
This is damning stuff, and no doubt many would take evidence of a Soros connection as proof beyond doubt that Hagel is an anti-American radical, or possibly even someone who takes his marching orders from Soros.
But is that proof really so strong? Certainly Hagel’s choice to be on the board of an organization like the Ploughshares Fund, which does list Hagel as a board member on its website, is an argument against his judgment. But how much the organization’s connection to Hagel proves about his involvement with Soros, and how much a simple connection with Soros would prove about Hagel, are wider questions.
Six Degrees of George Soros: Is Hagel Connected?
To begin with, there is the matter of Hagel being on Ploughshares’ board. Certainly, given Ploughshares’ generally extremely anti-war and anti-nuclear stance (as documented in the above article), this is evidence that Hagel holds far more dovish views possibly than even President Obama. In fact, given that far left websites have attacked Soros as a war profiteer in the past, and Soros himself bought 2 million shares of Halliburton in 2007, it may indicate that Hagel holds views to the left of Soros himself.
But does serving on the board of an organization that takes some of its money from Soros prove that Hagel himself is in Soros’ pocket? Probably not. For one thing, given Soros’ aforementioned investment in Halliburton, that would make anyone serving on Halliburton’s board into a potential Soros puppet. It would also open the way to an accusation of Soros-fraternizing against people such as Dick Cheney, which is a difficult accusation to stomach. It is also unclear how much money the Tides Foundation donated to Ploughshares, whether Hagel himself drew a salary from nonprofit work with this group, and how much Hagel was involved in the day-to-day decision making at Ploughshares.
Moreover, if the aforementioned standard that serving on an organization’s board makes you complicit with the people funding it were applied, it would mean that Ploughshares is not Hagel’s only connection to Soros. In fact, given that Hagel is listed as serving on the board of the Chevron Corporation, it would mean that until last year, when Soros sold his shares in Chevron, Hagel was connected to Soros through two separate channels. In fact, given Soros’ prolific charitable giving (not all of which goes to partisan causes), there are probably more connections still to be found in the full list of other organizations whose boards Hagel sits on. That list is as follows:
Bread for the World, Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, George C. Marshall Foundation, Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Global Strategy Forum, Global Zero, Hamilton Project, Initiative for Global Development, Lung Cancer Alliance, International Center for the Study Of Radicalization and Political Violence, National Bureau of Asian Research’s Next Generation Leadership Board, Ploughshares Fund, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, U.S. Institute of Peace Middle East Senior Working Group, U.S. Middle East Project, America Abroad Media, American Security Project, and The Washington Center. He is also co-chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Corporate Council.
In any event, I'd bet those 30,000 emails HRC deleted would make for some interesting reading!