I'm more interested in why these guys want to associate with groups like Halperin's Center for American Progress:
In 1998, Halperin became director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department. During his tenure 15 State Department laptop computers containing highly classified intelligence information disappeared. . .Morton Halperin in February 2002 became Director of the Open Society Policy Center and has worked closely ever since with its creator, eccentric billionaire international financier George Soros, who committed tens of millions of dollars in 2004 to a variety of efforts to defeat President Bush. One of these Soros-funded political efforts is the Center for American Progress (CAP), launched in summer 2003, one of the “Seven Sisters” pillars of the left’s “Shadow Government.” CAP is also known as “the official Hillary Clinton think tank,” described by Horowitz and Poe as “a platform designed to highlight Hillary’s policies and to enhance her prestige as a potential presidential candidate." According to a March 1, 2004 report by Robert Dreyfuss in The Nation, Halperin and Soros handpicked the President of CAP, former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta. . .----- Lowell Ponte, "The ABC's of Media Bias"
Halperin is also associated with the Institute on Policy Studies:
Also, in 1969 J. Edgar Hoover suspected Halperin of being responsible for leaking sensitive information on Nixon's bombing of Cambodia to the press (". . .on May 8 1969, New York Times reporter William Beecher wrote that 'according to Nixon administration sources,' American B-52 bombers had raided several Vietcong and North Vietnamese supply dumps and base camps in Cambodia. . .Hoover could not identify the leaker. He could only conjecture as to the source, advising Kissinger. . .that national security aide Morton Halperin could have leaked this information, on the grounds that Halperin 'knew [William] Beecher and that he [Hoover] considered [Halperin] a part of the Harvard clique and, of course, of the Kennedy era'. . .After leaving the NSC staff, Halperin and another wiretapped NSC aide, Anthony Lake, joined the campaign staff of Democratic presidential aspirant Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine. . .Hoover. . .reported on proposed speeches and article's of the administration's critics, about Lake's intention 'to work with Senator Fulbright in opposing the war'. . .": Athan Theoharis and John Stuart Cox, The Boss, 466-8). 105 posted on 04/07/2004 5:35:45 PM PDT by Fedora
JUNE 1971 : (NY TIMES PUBLISHES STOLEN DEFENSE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENTS AS THE "PENTAGON PAPERS" - See MORTON HALPERIN, LESLIE GELB, DANIEL ELLSBURG, LYNDON B JOHNSON) Halperin has a long and controversial track record in the world of Washington intrigue, dating back to the Johnson Administration. Journalists sympathetic to Halperin’s leftwing sentiments give him high marks for blowing the whistle on the Vietnam War, but his activism helped undermine America’s war effort and contributed to the Communist victory.
The Johnson Defense Department placed Halperin in charge of compiling a secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, based on classified documents. This secret history later emerged into public view as the so-called “Pentagon Papers.” Halperin and his deputy Leslie Gelb assigned much of the writing to leftwing opponents of the war, such as Daniel Ellsberg who, despite his background as a former Marine and a military analyst for the Rand Corporation, was already evolving into a New Left radical. In his memoir, Secrets, Ellsberg admits to concluding, as early as 1967, that, “we were not fighting on the wrong side; we were the wrong side” in the Vietnam War. [11] [[11] Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (New York: Viking, 2002) ]
Evidently Ellsberg had come to view Ho Chi Minh’s Communist regime as the wave of the future.
With Halperin’s tacit encouragement – and perhaps active collusion – Ellsberg stole the secret history and released it to The New York Times, which published the documents as “The Pentagon Papers” in June 1971.[12][[12] Ellsberg, Secrets, 2002; Seymour M. Hersh, “Kissinger and Nixon in the White House,” The Atlantic, May 1982 ]
This was a violation of the Espionage Act, which forbids the removal of classified documents from government buildings. Not surprisingly, “The Pentagon Papers” echoed Halperin’s long-standing position that the Vietnam War was unwinnable, and ridiculed Presidents Kennedy and Johnson for stubbornly refusing to heed those of their advisors who shared this opinion. It marked a turning point in America’s failed effort to keep Indo-China from falling to the Communists. The government dropped its case against Ellsberg as Nixon’s power collapsed during the Watergate intrigues. --- "The Shadow Party: Part I," by David Horowitz and Richard Poe, FrontPageMagazine.com, 10/06/04
1970s : (CLINTON, STROBE TALBOT & MORTON HALPERIN ARE ADMITTED ENTRY INTO THE USSR) Bill Clinton-[future] President, Strobe Talbot-[future] Deputy Secretary of State, Morton Halperin- [future] State Director of Policy Planning, were all welcomed into the Soviet Union (when nobody else could get in) back during their Oxford days, and squired around by the KGB. Not exactly my idea of a vacation break from studies--the Soviet Union in the dead of winter. So here begins the sordid story of the destruction of this country by one of it's most popular and hated presidents and his evil anti-American cadre. FULL ARTICLE - "THE EVIL WITHIN: CLINTON'S COMMUNIST CADRE ," by Barbara Stanley , etherzone, 05-11-2000
1984 - 1992 : (MORTON H HALPERIN IS DIRECTOR OF THE ACLU & HEAD OF ITS "NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVES") Halperin went on to become the director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1984 to 1992 and head of its "National Security Archives." From this position, he waged open war against U.S.intelligence services, through the courts and the press, seeking to strip the government of virtually any power to investigate, monitor or obstruct subversive elements and their activities.[13] It did not take long for Halperin to go the next logical step and argue for abolishing America’s intelligence services altogether....--- "The Shadow Party: Part I," by David Horowitz and Richard Poe, FrontPageMagazine.com, 10/06/04
MARCH 21, 1987 : (THE NATION ARTICLE : ACLU's MORTON H. HALPERIN VILLIFIES THE US & CALLS FOR ABOLISHMENT OF US INTELLIGENCE SERVICES) In a March 21, 1987 article in The Nation, Halperin expanded on this theme [arguing for the abolishing of the US's intelligence services] and, like Ellsberg, took the position that America was the real villain in the Cold War. He wrote, “Secrecy does not serve national security. Covert operations are incompatible with constitutional government and should be abolished.”[15] This was a call for unilateral disarming of our intelligence services to match the universal disarmament of our military which has long been a staple of the radical agenda. --- "The Shadow Party: Part I," by David Horowitz and Richard Poe, FrontPageMagazine.com, 10/06/04
FEBRUARY 193 : (CLINTON ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF MORTON HALPERIN TO NEW POSITION OF "SECDEF FOR DEMOCRACY & PEACEKEEPING" BUT THE NOMINATION WOULD STALL) In February 1993, President Bill Clinton’s administration announced the appointment of Morton Halperin to the new position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Peacekeeping. Halperin withdrew his name from consideration in January 1994, his nomination stalled by both Republican and Democrat U.S. Senators who refused to consent to so radical a nominee. --------
"The ABC's of Media Bias-The radical roots of ABC Political Director Mark Halperin," by Lowell Ponte, FrontPageMagazine.com , 10/14/04
Morton Halperin's son Mark is the political director at ABC...
OCTOBER 8, 2004 : (ABC NETWORK : MARK HALPERIN MEMO) And now ABC News has left in place its Political Director Mark Halperin. ABC has done this despite the network’s acknowledgement that Halperin wrote a memo that to many seems to direct ABC reporters, anchors and producers to slant its coverage by downplaying the misstatements of Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry and by viewing negatively any misstatements by Republican candidate Bush.
Halperin’s directive reached ABC people on October 8, the very day that ABC “Good Morning America” co-host Charlie Gibson would be selecting questions for and moderating the second presidential debate between Bush and Kerry. Did Halperin intend to influence Gibson’s decisions in this debate? ...
...Halperin was for many reasons too controversial to win Senate confirmation. He had advocated unilateral nuclear disarmament of the United States, publication of most U.S. military secrets, and an end of all clandestine activities by the U.S. against the Soviet Union and its colony in Communist Cuba. ------- "The ABC's of Media Bias-The radical roots of ABC Political Director Mark Halperin," by Lowell Ponte, FrontPageMagazine.com, 10/14/04
Thanks; nice compliation.