Posted on 05/05/2005 9:23:33 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
U.S. Tentatively Names Hardliner as N.K. Rights Point Man
Officials connected with the North Korean human rights movement said Thursday the U.S. has tentatively decided to name former White House domestic policy advisor and noted neocon Jay Lefkowitz as special envoy for human rights in North Korea.
The special envoy will be tasked with making and execution of U.S. policy concerning North Korean human rights in an ambassador-level position created when the North Korean Human Rights Act went into effect in October.
The U.S. had put off naming an envoy for the last six months to avoid provoking North Korea, but analysts believe the naming of a neoconservative at this juncture shows Washington is no longer prepared to tread softly now that tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear program are approaching crisis level.
Lefkowitz, a lawyer by trade, served as deputy executive secretary of the Domestic Policy Council, director of Cabinet affairs and U.S. representative to the UN Human Rights Commission, and is known to have the trust of the current president.
Jay Lefkowitz was born in 1962 in New York City. He earned an A.B. from Columbia University in 1984 and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1987.
After graduating from law school, Lefkowitz worked as an associate at a law firm until 1991. He would also serve, in 1990, as a public member to the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. In 1991, Lefkowitz became President George H.W. Bush’s associate director for domestic policy and deputy executive secretary to the Domestic Policy Council, a post he held for two years.
After leaving public service in 1993, Lefkowitz went became a partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm before becoming general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget in 2001. In 2002, President George W. Bush named Jay Lefkowitz deputy assistant to the President and director of the Domestic Policy Council.
Ping!
Start the draft the neo-cons are on the warpath.
OH OH Chia Pet Kim and UN won't be amused ROFL
I hope John Bolton get confirm and this guy get confirm I think that drive Libs and some of world leaders badmouth us at UN NUTS
Will this position require Senate confirmation?
Poor KCNA is going to run out of insults!
Now that Bush won, they are saying 'we ain't talkin' for more FOUR YEARS', until they can get at least a quisling President Hillary Clinton.
Of course we know that that such a piss-poor NK regime cannot last four more years if they are effectively suffocated and shut off. Of course, this explains their provocative, zero sum, 'what's their to lose?' moves of recent. They see the end of the game I am sure.
If the dude would just be a man, and take his gold bars & dancing girls, and go to Cuba, unceremoniously picking up his Zurich/Geneva money on the way, think of all the lives that might be saved. But no. (Looks like) he's pride-fully in it till he gets a US bunker buster right in the face.
Oh yeah if John Bolton get confirm and so this dude they going run out of insults
ROFL
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