CIA Bloggers for Hillary

Poe.com ^ | January 29, 2008 | Richard Lawrence Poe

[Richard Poe]

by Richard Lawrence Poe Tuesday, January 29, 2008	Permanent Link Past Columns

DEMOCRAT BLOGGER Markos Moulitsas Zuñíga never fails to bewilder. He proclaims his humble origins, yet his family is rich. He heckles Hillary Clinton, yet helps her where it counts. He boasts of completing a six-month screening for CIA employment -- but says he turned down the job for no very good reason.

His fans call him "Kos". His DailyKos blog draws more than half a million visits per day, reportedly generating sufficient advertising revenue to support the Kos family in style.

Kos' followers -- called "Kossacks" -- include over 125,000 registered users and hundreds of "diarists" or bloggers, five of them paid "fellows".

Jimmy Carter, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are all DailyKos diarists.

Hillary Clinton spoke at the 2007 YearlyKos Convention, where she told the Kossacks, "We are... putting together a network in the blogosphere... we're beginning to match... the advantage of the other side."

The Washington Post touts Kos as the Democrat answer to Rush Limbaugh.

How did the 36-year-old Kos attain such lofty status?

Moulitsas presents himself as a self-made man. He told the Salvadoran newspaper La Prensa Gráfica:

"Before the Internet, someone like me could never have reached this level of success. I have no money. I don't come from a famous or powerful family."

Baloney, says Francis L. Holland, a disaffected Kossack who runs the Truth-About-Kos Web site.

Kos was born in Chicago on September 11, 1971 to a Greek father, Markos Moulitsas, Sr., and a Salvadoran mother, María Teresa Zúñiga de Funes.

Holland notes that an uncle of Kos served as El Salvador's Education Minister. His mother's family owns the Club Joya del Pacifico, a Salvadoran resort. Another Kos relative, Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga, owns the Baja Salt Group, a global supplier of industrial and table salt.

Kos' parents took him to El Salvador in 1976. They stayed for four years.

Political violence was on the rise. President Carlos Humberto Romero began cracking down on communist insurgents in 1977. This upset U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who sought to appease the guerrillas, not fight them.

Carter backed a gang of leftwing colonels and politicians calling themselves the Revolutionary Government Junta (Junta Revolucionaria de Gobierno). They ousted President Romero on October 15, 1979, promising land reform and nationalization of major industries.

Carter's "revolution" only emboldened the communists. In 1980, the country exploded in civil war. Kos' family fled the country that year when communist guerrillas threatened to kill them.

Kos joined the U.S. Army after high school. From 1989-92, he served as a 13P missile crew specialist in Bamberg, Germany. Kos says that the racial diversity of the Army awakened his inner Latino, transforming him from a Reagan Republican to a hard-left Democrat.

Bolstered by racial pride, Kos earned two bachelors' degrees from Northern Illinois University and a law degree from Boston University. He moved to San Francisco in 1998, seeking his fortune in the dot-com boom.

Then, one day, Kos decided to join the CIA. "In 2001, I was underemployed... between jobs", Kos said in a June 2, 2006 interview. "And so I applied to the CIA." Kos was amazed to find that his CIA interviewers shared his leftwing views. He recalls:

"Every single one of them was liberal... people who want to make the world a better place... people who are internationalist... That was an eye-opening experience for me."

After six months, the CIA offered him an assignment with its Clandestine Service. But Kos said no. "The Howard Dean campaign took off and I had to make a decision," he explains. Kos chose politicking over spying. Or so he says.

Curiously, Kos joined the Dean campaign in June 2003, more than a year after his CIA interlude supposedly ended. His story is fishy. But, then, so is everything else about Mr. Moulitsas.

Kos founded DailyKos on May 26, 2002. He positioned himself as a renegade, "crashing the gate" of the Democratic Party.

Yet he acts more like a gatekeeper than a gatecrasher. Following Hillary's victory in the New Hampshire primary, for instance, Kos squashed speculation that she might have cheated. "Anyone who persists in this crap is engaging in unsupported conspiracy theories and violating site policy, a bannable offense", Kos announced.

Some leftist bloggers have denounced Kos as a government plant. "Once CIA, always CIA", says Francis Holland.

Any statement Kos makes should arouse healthy skepticism. Still, his account of a "liberal", "internationalist" CIA rings true, given the brazen defiance President Bush has endured from that agency.

	Richard Lawrence Poe is a contributing editor to Newsmax, an award-winning journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. His latest book is The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Siezed Control of the Democratic Party, co-written with David Horowitz.

[Richard Poe]

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF of my Hillary ping list.

[Richard Poe]

Ping!

[2ndDivisionVet]

From the photo, it looks like he was in artillery and rose to the rank of PFC/E-3. Just what the CIA is looking for...LOL

[Chode]

10 to 1 says the FPOS was never offered a CIA job in the first place...

[squidly]

"Every single one of them was liberal... people who want to make the world a better place...

Yep. We conservatives all want to burn the world to cinders.

[Cindy]

Thank you for the ping Mr. Poe.

A lot of research there.
I checked some of the hypertext links, already.

[Incorrigible]

It's all about the Blogola baby!

What's Unknown Jerome up to these days?

Related Threads:

KOS - Armstrong Blogola Scandal

DUmmie FUnnies 06-20-06 (KOmmie KOs Engulfed In Blogola Scandal)

DUmmie FUnnies 06-21-06 (Head KOmmie KOs Reacts To Exploding Blogola Scandal)

DUmmie FUnnies 06-22-06 (KOs KOverup Exposure Makes KOs Go BERSERK!!!)

DUmmie FUnnies 01-25-07 (Hillary's Lock On The Money Disturbs The Nutroots)

And of course, there's your own article Richard:

BLOGGERGATE: Hillary Leads Army of Paid Bloggers

 

Bring on the chocolate fountain!

 

[SnakeDoctor]

It’d be HILARIOUS is Kos was a right-winger in the CIA who set up a site to spy on leftist revolutionaries in the U.S.

H

[sageb1]

Richard, DKos does NOT have 125,000 members. They just want you to think they do. I did a study of the UID#s for several months last year and discovered the assigned numbers jump past 500, even 1000, at times. They may possibly have 1/4 of the membership they boast. I also see no evidence of racism or any other type of bigotry (other than toward Republicans). I’m not defending Kos or his site and he does have influence within the leftosphere. CIA? Anything’s possible. A lot of jerks work for the CIA.

[sageb1]

Maybe we can convince his folk? ;)

[Cicero]

I don’t think there ARE any conservatives in the CIA.

[Fiddlstix]

........Kos was amazed to find that his CIA interviewers shared his leftwing views. He recalls:

"Every single one of them was liberal... people who want to make the world a better place... people who are internationalist... That was an eye-opening experience for me."

After six months, the CIA offered him an assignment with its Clandestine Service. But Kos said no. "The Howard Dean campaign took off and I had to make a decision," he explains........

Whew! I feel so much better now that I know this....
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Yeah! Right!

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[penelopesire]

Interesting stuff. Why am I not surprised....lol. The CIA, the FBI and the State Department are infested with Clintoon holdovers. Not to mention every single government bureaucracy at the state and federal level!

[SnakeDoctor]

I’d doubt that. The CIA is fairly heavily populated by ex-military personnel ... and the military is an overwhelmingly conservative group.

H

[Verginius Rufus]

Liberals in the CIA? Does the name “Valerie Plame” ring a bell?

[Richard Poe]

Hemorrhage writes: "The CIA is fairly heavily populated by ex-military personnel ..."

Are you sure about that? This is from the "careers" section of cia.gov:

"You should also know that the CIA is not a veteran preference agency."

[Richard Poe]

sageb1: "I also see no evidence of racism or any other type of bigotry (other than toward Republicans)."

Well, I'm just citing what Kos himself told the Washington Monthly. His interviewer Benjamin Wallace-Wells wrote:

"After high school, Moulitsas, then a Reagan Republican thanks largely to the White House's support of the Salvadorean government, spent four years as an army artillery scout, mainly in Germany. He had begun to gravitate leftwards while in the military--its diversity had incubated in him a kind of nascent identity politics liberalism--and when he was discharged and enrolled at Northern Illinois University, he became active in campus politics, writing a column for the school paper and helping to lead the college's Hispanic student group."

[scrabblehack]

Hmm...I went to a CIA recruitment meeting a long time ago...the recruiter said he was not averse to deceiving us.
I did not get as far as an interview though.

If the interviewer brought up liberal politics, I would not swallow the bait.

It’s a 30 page application — CIA is very selective. Maybe a close relative can cut the red tape, but I don’t believe him.

[Richard Poe]

sageb1: DKos does NOT have 125,000 members. They just want you to think they do. I did a study of the UID#s for several months last year and discovered the assigned numbers jump past 500, even 1000, at times. They may possibly have 1/4 of the membership they boast.

This is interesting. Can you explain it in layman's terms? I'm not a techie. What exactly do you mean when you say that "the assigned numbers jump past 500, even 1000, at times"?

[Richard Poe]

scrabblehack writes: It’s a 30 page application — CIA is very selective.

30 pages? Good heavens! That sounds almost as complicated as applying for a handgun permit in New York City. Almost.