Posted on 03/04/2008 7:45:08 PM PST by river rat
This Talbott,Russian connection has been reported on but never grew legs. Hope this article makes headlines in the NYT.
Not holding breath.
Oh, never knew Lugar was a Talbott lover.
“Was it Talbot that threatened Kathleen Willey her during a morning jog?”
I don’t remember hearing that. But it’s possible.
Yes, for sure.
At my age, after all I’ve seen during a long, involved and complex life -— I’ve come to believe that EVERY politician in Washington has been bought by someone....
Personally — I’ve seen far more honest and competent men and women in Corporate Conference rooms and Battalion HQ than I’ve ever seen at meetings with politicians.....
My own Congress Critter - Mike Honda and my Senators Feinstein and Boxer, couldn’t be more wrong or ignorant on the issues that REALLY matter. Leftists to the quick.
Having dealt with a number from all camps — I still have far more confidence in Corporate managers and Military Officers than politicians....
We can all name exceptions to the rule - but the exceptions don’t refute the rule...
Drudge report expands 5/11/99 “...Earlier this year, ABC NEWS hotshot reporter Jackie Judd showed presidential accuser Kathleen Willey a picture of a man. Judd was developing a story about an incident she was first to reveal about the morning Willey was spooked by a stranger — a stranger that knew too many details about her private life. A stranger that approached her just two days before she was to tell a grand jury about what Bill Clinton did to her in the White House. “Is this the man who approached you that morning?” Judd asked Willey. The DRUDGE REPORT can now reveal that Willey was shown a picture of Cody Shearer — the brother-in-law of Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and long-time friend of President Bill Clinton! Judd has not yet filed a report on what Willey told her that day, but Willey did open up to CNBC’s Chris Matthews in an interview on Tuesday night. Willey unloaded details of her run-in with a man: “I was walking with my three dogs, and I saw this man coming toward me... He called me by name, ‘Kathleen, did you ever find your cat?’ he asked. ‘No, I have not, and we really miss him,’ I told him. ‘Did you ever get those tires fixed on your car?’ he asked. The hair on my neck started to stand on end... He asked me about my children by name. Willey told Matthews that she can ID the man as being one of the president’s associates. The twin brother of Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott’s wife, Brooke Shearer, has been at the center of controversy since Bill Clinton has been president — but he has remained mostly out of the headlines. Freelance journalist Cody Shearer is alleged to have had cozy relations with Investigative Group International, using their office databases and hob-nobbing with operatives, according to reports in VANITY FAIR and the NEW YORK POST last summer.....”
AP 3/18/99 “…In contacts under federal investigation, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott’s brother-in-law received thousands of dollars from an associate of accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic around the time he tried to arrange the Bosnian fugitive’s surrender, according to lawyers and government officials. Talbott’s brother-in-law, Cody P. Shearer, is now telling authorities he has received mail threats from Bosnian figures who claim he took the money in 1997 with promises to win leniency for Karadzic on the war crimes charges, and demand that he pay Karadzic’s family $1 million or risk ``tragedy.’’… Even before Shearer reported the threats, the State Department inspector general and the FBI had begun investigating whether he misrepresented his ties to the Clinton administration in his dealings with the Bosnian figures, several government officials told The Associated Press….”
Thanks. I knew Talbot was involved in some dark way! Nice to know my memory isn’t completely gone.....lol!
NYPost 9/6/99 Editorial “…First, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers gave an interview in which he said the Clinton administration opposes any further International Monetary Fund loans to Russia without adequate safeguards and accounting. Hours later, the White House insisted that the administration hasn’t reached a decision on whether to support new IMF loans. Then Summers’ spokeswoman said flatly that the U.S. opposes any delay in new loans. Welcome to the wonderful world of Bill Clinton’s Russia policy. The White House is scrambling, and with good reason - mounting reports indicate that billions in foreign-loan payments were siphoned off by top Russian political officials and laundered through western banks Like the Chinese nuclear-espionage scandal, the question here is what did the Clinton administration - and most particularly in this case, its point man on Russia, Vice President Al Gore - know, and how did it respond. ….Ironically, the real tipoff may have come from Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, the architect of Clinton’s Russia policy. “We have been aware from the beginning that crime and corruption are a huge prob-lem in Russia and a huge obstacle to Russian reform,” Talbott recently told Newsweek in urging the West to “calm down.” By all accounts, Talbott is entirely correct - except that new reports suggest strongly that Clinton and Gore tried to keep a lid on the stunning extent of government fiscal corruption. Which means Talbott was himself involved. Which means his reassurance isn’t very reassuring. The New York Times reports that Gore was shown a CIA report in 1995 detailing the personal corruption of the vice president’s Russian counterpart, Viktor Chernomyrdin. According to the Times, Gore “rejected their report - a move that [CIA analysts] said had led them to understand that Gore was not interested in further information on the topic.” ….”
The New York Press 9/7/99 “….If you thought comedy was dead, you obviously haven’t heard of Strobe Talbott, the State Dept.’s factotum where Russian affairs are concerned. The Strobe used to be a Time hack, a man who took, and continues to take, himself extremely seriously. The reason I find him so funny is simple. There is no bigger mess than Russia right now, but the Strobe, who should have resigned in shame five years ago, remains unaffected by the intrusion of fact and continues to bang on endlessly. If the Strobe were a politician, I would understand. Politicians have no shame, no honor and are as likely to fall on their sword as Hillary and Bill Clinton are to tell the truth. But the Strobe is a hack, and he should know better. The great swindle that is Russia took place under his watch, and as William Pfaff wrote in The Los Angeles Times, “Ambition was involved... Strobe Talbott wanted the reputation of an important influence on reform in Russia, a country that always intrigued him.” But let’s not be too beastly with the Strobe. He is only a Clinton-Gore catamite, yet another bald-faced phony working for the most corrupt administration since Huey Long bit the bullet. The real criminals are the Draft Dodger and the Bore. Here’s William Pfaff again: “Bill’s friendship with Boris, and Al’s with Victor Chernomyrdin, served to identify them in the eyes of voters as patrons of the new Russia and as men of state. They used American resources to keep friend Boris Yeltsin in power-itself an inducement to corruption.” I don’t think there has ever been a greater swindle in the history of the world. While visiting the Riviera last year I saw firsthand the scale of it. Sixty percent of all luxury yachts priced at more than $5 million belonged to Russians; 65 percent of luxury villas renting out at more than $100,000 per month were taken by guess who. Fifty percent of the clientele of the most expensive hotels in the area were Russkies. (Ironically, the house I used to rent on Cap d’Antibes, Les Cloches, included by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Tender is the Night, later on Irwin Shaw’s favorite rental on the Riviera, is now owned by, according to some reports, Victor Chernomyrdin, as part of the Chateau de la Garoupe property that he reputedly paid for in cash to the tune of 70 million greenbacks!)
My, my.........how the threads of a story begin to weave a magnificent web........
Excellent finds and posts......
We all need to be reminded of that which we don’t wish to repeat.....
I’m hoping Obama the “man for change” has a stake ready to drive through the Clinton legacy’s heart....
In 1993, when Talbott was nominated by President Clinton as Ambassador at Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State on the new Independent States (of the former Soviet Union), Senator John McCain took to the Senate floor to declare that, despite Talbott being a close friend and personal pick of the President's, "I cannot in good conscience vote to confirm his appointment."
McCain said that Talbott, as a writer for Time magazine and a commentator, had been guilty of making "mistaken observations" and suggesting "flawed policy solutions" on the matter of whether Russia "will evolve peacefully and democratically, collapse into chaos, or return to totalitarianism, be it Communist or fascist."
McCain noted that Talbott opposed all of the Reagan initiatives, including deployment of missiles to Europe and the Strategic Defense Initiative, which had kept Europe free from Soviet control and eventually resulted in the demise of the Soviet empire. McCain said that "it would require many more hours for me to cite all the examples of mistakes and inconsistencies upon which Mr. Talbott bases his reputation as a Soviet expert."
However, on April 2, 1993, Talbott was confirmed by the Senate to this post by a Yea-Nay Vote of 89-9. One of his leading Senate backers was Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar. The nine voting against Talbott were Craig (R-ID), Faircloth (R-NC), Gorton (R-WA), Helms (R-NC), Kempthorne (R-ID), Lott (R-MS), McCain (R-AZ), Smith (R-NH), and Wallop (R-WY).
Excerpt from the article
Los Angeles Times 6/8/99 James Pinkerton “...Quick quiz: Who once sang, “Imagine there’s no countries”? You’re right if you answered John Lennon. Now how about this: “Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete.” Was that the next line of “Imagine,” the late Beatle’s 1971 utopian anthem? No, those words were written by Strobe Talbott, deputy secretary of State for this particular nation, when he was still a columnist for Time magazine, on July 20, 1992. Yet, even if he can’t carry a tune, attention should be paid to Talbott. He is more than a paper-pusher: He was the top U.S. negotiator in the Kosovo peace talks, spending some 50 hours negotiating last week with Russia’s Balkans envoy Viktor S. Chernomyrdin and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari to strike the accord, which as of this writing is still discordant...Talbott has left a plentiful paper trail: In addition to 20 years of work for Time, he has written, co-written or edited nine books about the Soviet Union and the Cold War. One theme runs through most of them: that Ronald Reagan, described in “Deadly Gambits” (1984) as a “befuddled character,” deserves most of the blame for the nuclear arms race of the 1980s. Indeed, in 1990, as his magazine dubbed Mikhail Gorbachev “Man of the Decade,” Talbott credited Gorbachev with revolutionizing not just the U.S.S.R. but the rest of the planet: “The Gorbachev phenomenon may have a transforming effect outside the communist world, on the perceptions and therefore the policies of the West.” ....If nothing else, Talbott expressed himself plainly: “All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances . . . they are all artificial and temporary.” He pointed to the then-emerging European Union as a “pioneer” of “supranational” regional cohesion that could “pave the way for globalism.” ....”
They made the trip together.
DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: RED FLAGS OF TREASON - PEOPLE
SUBSECTION: Strobe Talbott
Revised 1/8/01
http://www.alamo-girl.com/03157.htm
More there than can be properly posted in a thread, but it has a larger timeline that can be followed.
Hmmmm... Wonder if Strobe introduced Bubba to his special friends.
I don’t know, but post#45 is interesting....
Talbott was/is a KGB/FSB mole in the Clinton administration for all those years, he was one of the architects of Clinton’s adventure into Kosovo, he orchestrated the pillaging of Russia and the creation of the oligarchs, he was on the take and personally did more than almost any other man in destroying the window of opportunity for the hopes and dreams of hundreds of millions of people trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
And a final post:
STRATFOR 5/3/99 “...Whether in a week or a month, the Kosovo crisis is drawing to a close. The basic outlines of the settlement are already visible. The question now is what the world will look like afterwards. We expect a much more sober, cautious, and even mildly isolationist U.S., facing the fact that tremendous power is not the same as omnipotence. We see a dramatic decline in European confidence in American leadership. Germany was particularly concerned about Russia’s reactions and is likely to concentrate on maintaining its relations with Moscow independent of NATO’s decisions. The big winner was Russia, a country that got money, respect, and the position of honest broker. The most extraordinary outcome of Bill Clinton’s Kosovo adventure was that it turned Boris Yeltsin into a statesman, with his representative, Chernomyrdin, taken more seriously in Bonn and Rome than Clinton’s Strobe Talbott. That was no small feat for the Clinton foreign policy team....”
Well I’m sure the Chinese are pissed. They thought they bought the Democratic Party. Now to find out they were sharing their stolen secrets with the Russians?
Is there no honor among socialists anymore? I think we need a purge or two.
One State Department communist mole exposed, a hundred more to go.
If this is true, the Clinton Admin is not the only one’s with egg on their face. Talbot was for years a senior editor at Time Magazine, in charge of all the Russia stories.
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