[Mo1]

Janice O'Connell has been with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee since 1977, worked for Senator Frank Church, Senator Claiborne Pell, and since 1986 for Senator Dodd. Worked in opposition to Contra aid and military assistance to El Salvador, supported restoration of civilian rule in Haiti, worked on legislation to end sanctions on food and medicines to Cuba, and to lift travel restrictions on American travel to Cuba.

She worked for Frank Church???

The same Frank Church that dumbed down our intell agencies with his Committee???

[Howlin]

One and the same. Interesting, huh?

[Mo1]

http://www.autentico.org/oa09597.php
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Other State Department careerists don't seem to understand that Bill Clinton no longer is president. Jim Carragher, coordinator for Cuban affairs, and Ambassador John F. Maisto, special assistant to the president for Latin America, still lean toward rapprochement with an unreformed Cuba.

Like-minded officials include Kevin Whitaker, deputy director of the Cuban desk, and his wife, Betsy, who works in public diplomacy. Many of these officials believe presidents come and go but Janice O'Connell lasts forever. O'Connell is a veteran Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer who (sponsored by Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut) relentlessly presses for normalization with Castro.