Posted on 01/29/2008 8:03:22 AM PST by bs9021
Where Alger Hiss Prevails
Cliff Kincaid, January 29, 2008
It’s no surprise that Hillary is enlisting the help of advisers from her husband’s administration, but so is Obama. His most notable foreign policy adviser is Anthony Lake, a former national security adviser to Bill Clinton who became a laughingstock for expressing doubts as to whether Alger Hiss, the founder of the United Nations and a top State Department official, was a communist spy. Hiss had been convicted of perjury for denying he was a communist agent and decoded Soviet transcripts later confirmed his guilt. Lake’s doubts led to a controversy that caused him to withdraw his nomination as Clinton’s CIA director. He ended up in academia as a professor at Georgetown University.
Is there anybody in the press willing to ask Obama whether he shares Lake’s doubts about Hiss? How about Hillary? The answers to that question could generate some real news in the campaign.
As noted by Neil King Jr. of the Wall Street Journal, Obama’s foreign policy team is “heavy on onetime aides to President Clinton.” King mentioned Lake, but without noting his controversial views on Hiss, and others.
King correctly noted that there are no “substantial policy differences” between Obama and Hillary, with both favoring “a more robust emphasis on diplomacy and multilateral engagement…” In other words, regardless of whether Hillary or Obama wins, you can count on more power and authority for the United Nations. In practical terms, this means the U.S. will intervene more often in areas of the world where U.S. national interests are NOT at stake. It could mean involvement in more war, not less.
Susan Rice, a key foreign policy adviser to Obama who frequently appears on television on his behalf, has been a major proponent of U.S. military action in Darfur...
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So Obama’s advisor is a communist holocaust denier?
Bears repeating: It could mean involvement in more war, not less.
So Anthony Lake was wrong about Hiss.
And Bush was wrong about the Iraqi WMDs.
Being mistaken about something doesn’t mean you are a liar or otherwise evil.
Unfortunately Cliff Kincaid is not the man his esteemed predecessor, the late Reed Irvine, was.
No surprise Obama is looking at former clinton hacks. To find anyone else of the leftist stripe who has “hands on” experience in screwing up our national defense, foreign policy and vital interests, you have to go all the way back to the carter years.
He was "wrong" about Hiss because he agreed with him.
The fact that he was a Soviet agent was well known.
It is like Mrs. Clinton being a disciple of Al Alinski.
Does anybody else wonder why we still support the UN?
It tries to undermine the Constitution of the USA and would love to cripple our Constitutional Republic.
In over 60 years No major politician has ever tried to get the USA out of the UN.
16 out of 17 of the AMERICANS that were involved in creating the U . N. were later identified, in sworn testimony, as secret communist agents.
The first (Titular) Secretary General was the AMERICAN Alger Hiss.
Alger Hiss served time in prison pursuant to his involvement in a Communist spy ring.
Many of the other AMERICANS that were involved in creating the U . N. fled the country, to avoid prosecution.
The ONE AMERICAN, that was involved in creating the U . N. and was NOT later identified, in sworn testimony, as a secret communist agent, was Dean Acheson.
Dean Acheson’s law firm was the legal representative of the Soviet Union, in U. S. courts.
If the AMERICANS that were involved in creating the U . N. were Communists, what do you think we got from the rest of the world?
Interesting, thanks for posting. The more things “CHANGE”.../sarcasm
“He was “wrong” about Hiss because he agreed with him.
The fact that he was a Soviet agent was well known.”
Most people agreed with the original jury verdict of guilty of perjury. Some believed Hiss’s consistent claims of innocence. No one is in doubt any more.
There are lots of things that are “well known” that are not true at all, such as Vincent Foster committed suicide in Fort Marcy Park, and people cause global warming. We should all be free to question these “well known facts” without having our characters vilified by the likes of Cliff Kincaid.
Ahh --- But he like the others you cite espoused the "well known" facts long after the KGB files were publicized.
Facts don't mean much to those who have an agenda. There are those who are still saying Hiss and Rosenbergs are innocent. He probably still says Hiss was railroaded. Ask him.
“after the KGB files were publicized.”
You have goaded me into diving into looking up this matter.
They are still arguing about the identity of the Soviet spy who was code-named “Ales”, as in this recent article, which claims Hiss was innocent:
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su07/ales-birdlong.html
After reading what I can find on the web, it seems to me very likely that Alger Hiss was in fact the spy “Ales”, but those who would like to think otherwise can find fragments of evidence that seem to exonerate him. What seems certain is that someone in the US delegation at Yalta was a Soviet spy, and Hiss is a much better fit to the known evidence than the other proposed person, H. Wilder Foote:
http://jeffersonflanders.wordpress.com/a-comparison-alger-hiss-wilder-foote-and-ales/
So in my eyes, the verdict on Hiss remains “guilty”, but it’s OK to question that verdict. Your point that those questioning the verdict have an hidden agenda also seems reasonable.
Many times their agenda is not hidden at all.
Look at the group International ANSWER and see who is openly on their web site.
After looking at that, why would anyone vote for someone supported by them? There are other web sites also: The daily KOS , Moveon.org, Democraticunderground.com, --- There are a bunch and they are front groups for Mrs. Clinton and other democrats.
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