She has impressive creditials:(1) Reporter for the Los Angeles Times
(2) Former advisor for George Soros’s Open Society Institute.
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Posted on 04/16/2009 6:56:02 AM PDT by Schnucki
In what has to be one of the most extreme appointments yet by the Obama Administration, ex-Los Angeles Times columnist and Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks has just been made an adviser to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michelle Fluornoy - a move Brooks describes as "my personal government bailout."
Bailout is certainly the right word for someone who appears to have no relevant national security qualifications for the position. She does though have experience working as Special Counsel for George Soros's Open Society Institute in New York, and as a former adviser to Harold Koh, the hugely controversial nominee for Legal Adviser to the State Department.
Brooks' new boss Fluornoy holds one of the most powerful posts in the Pentagon, and is already playing a key role in shaping the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan as well as the wider war against al-Qaeda. She will also be a central figure in shaping U.S.-UK defence cooperation and Washington's policy towards NATO. As an adviser to Fluornoy, Brooks will wield an extraordinary degree of influence in helping shape U.S. policy. Her extreme views should therefore be closely scrutinized.
Brooks' description of the previous occupant of the White House as "our torturer in chief" is hard to square with President Obama's call for bipartisanship. Nor is her ludicrous comparison of the Bush Administration's legal arguments on the war on terror with Adolf Hitler's use of political propaganda.
She has also accused civilian White House and Pentagon officials from the last administration of being "eager to embrace the values normally exemplified by military juntas," while urging "military personnel to speak out, regardless of the cost, when they think our civilian leaders have gone beyond the pale" - little more than an open-ended call for the politicization of the armed forces.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
The Nightmare continues.
CHANGE you can bereave in...
Sad, that the only “news” article regarding Brooks had to come from the UK...of course the L.A. Times cheered her apointment on a Blog.
She will leak classified material to suit her own political agenda.
Somebody prove me wrong!
“a move Brooks describes as “my personal government bailout.”
A comment so completely reflective of the leftists’ mindset.
Putting his hard core ideologs into mid-level positions where they do not come under Congressional scrutiny and are embedded to do the most damage.
you nailed it- and there is nothing worse than an underling put in place by ‘the boss’ who can run and report on your every word
O’Reilly was all over this the other night. Yeah, I admit it, I am a BOR fan, flame suit on.
Nor will simply leaking information be all of her agenda. The other part is to gut and demoralize so much of the military as is tactically possible from her position, by doing “opposition research” on recalcitrant military personnel, by shuffling assignments in the civilian and military chains of command, and by exerting a little pressure on even those military and civilian personnel who do not resist, but are not immediately compliant.
Look for a hole the size of the one Jamie Gorelick managed to drive in the intelligence-gathering capabilities of the various agencies.
Jimmy Carter left the military in relatively good shape by 1981, compared to what is going to happen now. The “savings” will be transferred to the “Civilian Defense Corps”, an internal paramilitary force that answers only to the Oval Office.
“while urging “military personnel to speak out, regardless of the cost, when they think our civilian leaders have gone beyond the pale””
She knows not what she asks.
In the Soviet Union such people were called commissars or political officers.
Excellent point
She has impressive creditials:(1) Reporter for the Los Angeles Times
(2) Former advisor for George Soros’s Open Society Institute.
Barf Alert! Barf Alert! Heaven Help Us! SOS to God Almighty... Heaven Help Us!
The rest of us have good Credentials...
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