Posted on 04/21/2006 12:01:43 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 04/21/2006 12:47:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
"Edwards said they were going to count every vote..and find out if there was ballot-stuffing...and Kerry backed down without a fight.."
Edwards is too stupid -to realize his party was stuffing the till a la Mary McChristmas- and Kerry backing down without a fight???????? He just heard they were serving rice for supper and "backed" on out of there.
***I don't know whether she did it or not so it's hard to have a view on it.***
What part of CONFESSION is it this dumb--- doesn't understand???
America's Red Army
By Jennifer Verner
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 1, 2004
As radicals from across the country descend upon New York City this week in their malicious attempt to violently disrupt the Republican National Convention, it appears the perfect time to dissect the affiliations and leadership of one of the most influential anti-Bush “peace” groups to emerge since 9/11: Win Without War.
Comprised of 42 environmental, feminist, religious and human rights groups that claim to be united in promoting peaceful solutions for international problems, Win Without War first burst onto the political scene in December 2002, at an international press conference featuring leftist actor Mike Farrell. Although the organization was initiated with a letter signed by over 100 celebrities calling for an end to America's “imperialist” wars, with the help of David Fenton, the founder of the public relations firm, Fenton Communications, and the rabidly anti-Bush Internet outfit, Moveon.org, the campaign was presented as a non-partisan patchwork of American life. But while Fenton may want Americans to see Win Without War as being “middle of the road,” the sum of its parts paints a vastly different picture.
Fenton Communications is a “socially responsible” PR firm with a penchant for backing Marxist regimes, and Win Without War boasts a number of “progressive” operatives, like the coalition's director, Tom Andrews, and Clinton employee, Maggie Williams, who use non-profits to front for the Democratic Party line.
In addition, elements of the fringe Left like Veterans for Peace, which held a solidarity convention in Havana with Cuban veterans of Angola in 1992, are also members of the Win Without War team. And, to top it off, funds are channeled through billionaire George Soros' Open Society Institute and the ultra-leftist Tides Foundation into many of the coalition members' bank accounts. Indeed, Win Without War isn't even close to the mainstream- it's the Left Bank.
The radical Left owes a great debt of gratitude to David Fenton. He has mixed Neo-Marxist ideology with junk science, trial lawyers, labor, progressive millionaires, politicians, and radical policy wonks to construct a complex, moneymaking left-wing advocacy empire. Fenton Communications reported billing $6 million dollars in 2002, and will likely make much more this year with high profile clients like The Heinz Family Foundation, the aforementioned Open Society Institute and Moveon.org.
Fenton has never forgotten his radical 60s roots, and surrounds himself with like-minded comrades. His client list has included the Cuban-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and Grenada's Maurice Bishop, who welcomed hundreds of Cuban and Soviet “advisors” to his small island before radical Marxist members of his own cabinet murdered him in October 1983 (Ten days later, the US invaded Grenada, and ended all Cuban military construction projects). Fenton Communications also had no trouble taking money from El Salvador's revolutionary Marxist guerillas, the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN), a group responsible for thousands of innocent deaths in that country's thirty-year civil war. Fenton’s organization has also served as the mouthpiece for Nicaragua's Sandinistas.
Fenton presently makes a name for himself as a champion of environmental junk-science scare campaigns - the type favored by trial lawyers and “earth-friendly” companies like Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. In a 2002 report titled, “Fear Profiteers: Do ‘Socially Responsible’ Businesses Sow Health Scares to Reap Monetary Rewards?” a highly respected panel of research scientists found “a tangled web of non-profit advocacy groups with a public relations 'ring leader' playing spider.” The web spinner was none other than David Fenton.
But while he currently poses as a fervent environmentalist, Fenton has a militant political past and has cut his radical teeth in the 60s as a photographer for the pro-Vietcong Liberation News. He was a long-time friend of radical left icon, Abbie Hoffman, and was also a leading advocate and promoter of the Nuclear Disarmament movement, a stronghold for Marxists after the end of the Vietnam War.
According to Frontpage Magazine’s Thomas Ryan:
“[Fenton] began his ‘journalism’ career as a photographer and media specialist for the Liberation News Service, which was named in admiration of and loyalty to the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. The anti-American, Communist movement Fenton and his colleagues emulated called for the ‘overthrow [of] the camouflaged colonial regime of the American imperialists and the dictatorial power of Ngo Dinh Diem, servant of the Americans, and [to] institute a government of national democratic union [in Vietnam].’”
Fenton was also a member of the White Panther Party (a Caucasian-led offshoot of the Black Panthers), and even did photography work for the Weathermen, the Communist/anarchist group which bombed the U.S. Capitol building, along with other prominent U.S. institutions in Washington, DC and New York City.
At Win Without War, Fenton has gathered together many of his oldest friends and clients. The assembled cast of characters has a long history of pushing the far left's political agenda through Democratic Party activism backed by millions of dollars from wealthy philanthropic clients.
Tom Andrews is Fenton's assistant spin-doctor at WWW. Andrews served two terms in Congress beginning in 1990 and was called the House of Representatives' “most progressive member” in 1994. Andrews was defeated by Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) in a bid for the Senate, and subsequently started a decade-long career as a rabble-rouser for progressive, Democratic Party causes in the murky world of left-wing non-profit organizations like Citizen Action, where he was national programs director.
Fenton's firm worked for Citizen Action and paired the non-profit group with the Sierra Club (also Fenton's client) to target Republicans in 15 key Congressional races in the 1996 election cycle. In 1997, Citizen Action collapsed under an avalanche of scandal and corruption generated by its role in the 1996 Teamster's money laundering scandal. This happened just as Tom Andrews was leading a campaign to “clean up” the Republican Congress.
Andrews then joined forces with Fenton to form New Economy Communications, a non-profit media company supported by the far left Tides Foundation. In keeping with David Fenton's philosophy, New Economy Communications is known for smearing companies like Nike in anti-sweatshop campaigns and bringing media attention to obscure, Marxist-leaning anti-globalization groups.
The backbone of Win Without War is coalition member Moveon.org. Thousands of foot soldiers for the Democratic Internet sensation provide the bulk of Win Without War's membership. Moveon.org is currently partnering with Win Without War in a media campaign attacking the Bush administration's continued “ownership” of Iraq after the handover of sovereignty. The blatantly partisan ads also solicit donations for Moveon.org's 527 Political Action Committees.
Like Moveon.org, most Win Without War coalition members are closely linked to Fenton Communications. The NAACP, Medea Benjamin's Global Exchange and ice cream mogul Ben Cohen, founder of coalition member True Majority, all do business with Fenton. Other WWW members, like NOW, WAND, Peace Action and Fourth Freedom Forum have close ties with Fenton's rich clients or employees.
Three coalition members - the Sierra Club, Families USA and Center for International Policy - are typical of the nexus between the Democratic Party, Fenton Communications and Win Without War. The Sierra Club, David Fenton's client since the earliest days of his company, is now a proud member of the peace coalition. The Sierra Club's “unaffiliated” political committee has already contributed thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates this election cycle. And that's not counting the soft money the PAC will dole out to Sierra-friendly Democrats when the campaign season heats up.
Families USA is an organization that claims to be “the voice of the healthcare consumer.” Yet this non-profit organization has such close ties with the Democratic Party, it was called the “de facto public relations manager of the Clinton Administration's campaign for comprehensive health care legislation” by the New York Times. The organization also received over $300,000 from George Soros's Open Society Institute in 2002. Families USA has another connection to Fenton: Maggie Williams, who now serves as a board member for the health care group, is a former employee of Fenton Communications. Williams was a president at the PR firm in between her years working at the White House for Hillary Clinton and her current job leading the staff at Bill Clinton's Harlem office.
One of the most sophisticated of Fenton's anti-war projects is the co-mingling of Win Without War and the Center for International Policy (CIP). Before 9/11, CIP, a Fenton Communications client, mainly acted as Fidel Castro's greatest “think tank” ally. Much of its million-dollar budget was spent lobbying to end economic sanctions and travel restrictions against Cuba.
Now, it has another mission. Fenton has established a “war room” with CIP called The Iraq Policy Information Program (IPIP). Its main job is getting the anti-Bush foreign policy message out to the media and providing guests for talk shows. A featured speaker of the IPIP is former ambassador Joe Wilson, one of the Bush administration’s most vocal enemies. Like Moveon.org and Win Without War, the contact for the Iraq Policy Information Program is Fenton Communications. Win Without War also collects tax-deductible donations through CIP.
In addition to progressive non-profits associated with Win Without War, Fenton Communications flaks for the politically motivated wealthy patrons who fuel their efforts. Fenton has a client list filled with America's richest, most left-leaning philanthropic organizations. They include the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Ford Foundation, The Blue Moon Fund (formerly the W. Alton Jones Foundation), The Heinz Foundation and George Soros's Open Society Institute. Fenton Communications undoubtedly crafted Win Without War with its left wing clients, like Soros and Heinz-Kerry, in mind. Through non-profit coalition members, John Kerry-supporting billionaires are free to dole out taxpayer subsidized millions to oust the Bush administration without spending limits and scrutiny from the Federal Election Commission.
Win Without War is not promoting human rights and a peaceful world. Coalition members NOW and Medea Benjamin's “Global Exchange” aren't concerned about whether or not the women of Afghanistan and Iraq are free from the torture and oppression of the Taliban and Saddam. Greenpeace and the Sierra Club could care less that the Bush Administration has removed the greatest environmental criminal in history. And Families USA would have been pleased to leave Iraq's children without adequate nutrition and healthcare under Saddam Hussein and the corrupt Oil for Food program.
Win Without War is about raw power, soft money and selling a false, radical Left bill of goods in order to defeat the Bush administration in November. The sooner the American people find out the truth, the better.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=14893
Look for Dana Priest to write an article this week about the Earth really being flat, and that the idea that it is round was just a "sting" story planted into the CIA by Republicans to protect their power.
Joe Wilson has his 'little' private consulting business. And he is a member of a think tank belonging to a Saudi big wig.
He has plenty of faucets for legitimate $$$ to come through. And quite a few for 'other' kinds, too. And you know what I'm talkin about!
Pinz
I would guess it is C - O - N - F - E - S - S - I - O - N.
It is a pretty long word.
On a more serious note: Her confession has been reported in several news stories but has there been an official confirmation? (This thread is so long now it is difficult to find all the info..)
See:http://www.antimedia.us/
Living in the Looney Bin
Sounds like nobody knew for sure--not even Saddam!
"The officer has acknowledged unauthorized discussions with the media and the unauthorized sharing of classified information," said CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano. "That is a violation of the secrecy agreement that everyone signs as a condition of employment with the CIA."
To many grapevines out there. She would not have been fired if she was not involved with the leak. With the CIA being the sieve it is, Johnson's argument doesn't hold up. She was to well connected with to many people with perfect excuses to leak secret info, as you accutely know.
Another thread here on FR notes that McCarthy has also donated money to Democratic congressional candidate Joseph Sestak. Others who have contributed to Sestak include former CIA Director John Deutch and Sandy Berger. Sestak is in a race with Kurt Weldon (Able Danger). No connections here, move along.
Weldon blasts Sestak’s ties with fired CIA senior analyst (Able Danger?)
Delaware County Daily Times ^ | 4/23/06 | WILLIAM BENDER
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619963/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619963/posts
Weldon officials also suspect McCarthy leaked information to the media last year in an attempt to debunk the congressman’s book, "Countdown to Terror," which is highly critical of the CIA. Weldon plans to call for a FBI investigation "to see what national security information she leaked and who she leaked it to," Puppio said.
Also, according to this article:
In McCarthy's final position at the CIA, she was assigned to its Office of Inspector General, looking into allegations that the CIA was involved in torture at Iraqi prisons, according to a former colleague who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case is under investigation.
If that is true it would have made her directly involved with investigations in questions regarding torture, secret renditions etc.
Mary McCarthy and *Dana Priest's* husband... assuming you mean Bill Goodfellow.
We need to keep all of these connections straight. I know it's hard! lol
Pinz
Ack Ack! Need flow chart!
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060423/NEWS06/604230476/1012
April 23, 2006
Ex-CIA official: 'Policy was set'
Spy agency veteran says White House ignored doubts about Iraq's WMD program
"WASHINGTON -- The former chief of the CIA's European operation is accusing the White House of ignoring the spy agency's doubts that Iraq had a budding nuclear program or weapons of mass destruction as the U.S. prepared for war."
Article goes on to say the WH used it's own intelligence and ignored "crucial information from a high and credible source" who 'claimed" there wasn't any 'active' programs for WMD.
Tyler Drumheller (who retired last year) identifies the source on 60 Minutes as Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri and apparently states U.S. spies had made a deal with Sabri and says Tenet told Bush,Cheney and others in September '02, but that a few days later the WH said it wasn't interested, claiming that 'they' said it wasn't about intel anymore, it was now about regime change.
It says Paul R. Pillar oversaw American intelligence assessments about the Middle East until October and he wrote in the March-April issue of Foreign Affairs that the WH 'selectively ignored crucial intelligence assessments' about 'Iraq's unconventional weapons' and about probability of postwar chaos in Iraq (Will someone PLEASE tell me which war didn't have chaos in the aftermath?????????????????).
According to this article, Pillar said Friday:
"Are there people still wearing the badge inside the intelligence community who share these concerns?" said Pillar, who is now a visiting professor at Georgetown University. "Absolutely. There's no question about it."
There will be no surprise that the New York Times contributed to this story, will there?
Scott Ritter, Vince Cannistraro, Joe Wilson, VIPs members...
Looks like you might have found the USA conduit for Oil-for-Food $$$
Now all we need are connections for Marc Rich, beyond the Clintons, Jack Quinn and Scooter Libby, I mean.
The connections are too many and too fast. Does Fitzpatrick have connections to any of these CIA folks in the past???
Pinz
Yet, Joe said his trip wasn't secret at all.
The only thing good about all of this uncovering, as far as my poor nerves are concerned, is that Porter Goss has already made and filed these connections -- probably months or years ago.
I keep trying to tell myself that we are probably not finding any surprises as far as the *real* investigators are concerned. But we are making many first-time *public* connections.
I did indeed pop some corn last night for the first time in months! lol
Pinz
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