>>“When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.”
So basically the identities of the corporate entities driving this nonsense remain camouflaged to the American Public. That would precisely seem to be a conspiracy...unless you have information otherwise.<<
That’s the argument the Democrats made about Dick Cheney’s energy policy meetings - that if the executive branch gets advice and they don’t publish that advice its a conspiracy.
The executive branch makes the argument that need honest input and that having a way to get input without the people being quoted ion the papers the next day is important.
The weird thing about that argument being applied here are that the ACIEP meetings are generally open to the public - that’s a pretty lousy way to run a conspiracy.
It is possible that this meeting was not open to the public if the ACE nominees are secret until announced by the Secretary of States office.
But still, you have to assume bad intent to see a conspiracy here. And if every time the executive branch gets private advice its a crime- that would lead impeaching the President - I just don’t follow that line at all.
In this case, you simply don’t want “journalists” such as Corsi (or Kinsolving, WND’s man at the White House) playing gotcha-games. I can see it now, “Mr. President? Joe Blow of Evil Corporation said ‘blah blah blah’ at a meeting at the State Department. Do you stand by those comments?”
“That’s the argument the Democrats made about Dick Cheney’s energy policy meetings - that if the executive branch gets advice and they don’t publish that advice its a conspiracy.”
Dick Cheney’s meetings clearly dealt with American energy policy. Whether that should be conducted in private or in public was and remains a valid public policy issue. The same issues arose when Hillary Clinton felt compelled to try to nationalize health care.
The potential for public mis-understanding, the very real potential for compromise of American sovereignity for transnational corporate priorities and UN socialist imperatives, demands open, public meetings concerning these issues. Anything else , in this day and age, opens its participants to being labeled traitors. There is no room for a private agenda concerning these matters.