Obama Appointee Suggests Radical Plan for Newspaper Bailout

Who IS Rosa Brooks? The following description is from Wikipedia; it shows troubling connections to George Soros - and a belief that Al Quaeda was not that dangerous until the US fought back.

She is a commentator on MSNBC, highly partisan, very smart.

She was raised on socialism (her mother wrote “Nickeled and Dimed”), has never held a real job, and is a professor of law. Perfect for the Obama administration.

From Wikipedia:

Rosa Brooks is an op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she also serves as Director of Georgetown Law School’s Human Rights Center. She is rumored to be taking a post in the Obama administration.

Brooks’ work has appeared in publications ranging from Harper’s Magazine to the Washington Post, and in 2005 she began a weekly op-ed column for the Los Angeles Times. Most of her columns focus on foreign policy, human rights, and national security issues. Her columns are often marked by humor and an edgy, satirical style.

Brooks is also a frequent guest and panelist on MSNBC (The Rachel Maddow Show, Race for the White House, Countdown, and Tucker), a commentator on Bloggingheads.tv [1], and a blogger for Slate Magazine’s XX Factor. Her recent scholarly work focuses on terrorism and rule of law issues, international law, human rights, law of war, and failed states.

Brooks’ previous work included service as a senior adviser to Assistant Secretary Harold Hongju Koh at the U.S. Department of State, five years as an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and a stint as Special Counsel to the President at the Open Society Institute, George Soros’ philanthropic foundation.

She has also been a consultant for Human Rights Watch, a board member of Amnesty International USA, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law.

She is active in political causes. In her columns, she was an enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, and in 2004 she served as a foreign policy advisor to the Kerry-Edwards campaign. She is a board member of the National Security Network, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Fragile States, and a member of the steering committee of the White Oak Foreign Policy Leaders Project. Brooks has degrees from Harvard University (where she was president of Phillips Brooks House Association), Oxford University (where she was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School.

On the Al Qaeda threat

“In 2001, administration stalwarts suggested that Osama bin Laden rivaled Hitler in the danger he posed to U.S. security and insisted that Al Qaeda’s power was so great that nothing short of a “global war on terror” was required.

“At that time, most experts say, this description of Al Qaeda simply wasn’t true. It was little more than an obscure group of extremist thugs, well financed and intermittently lethal but relatively limited in their global and regional political pull. On 9/11, they got lucky — but despite the unexpected success of their attack on the U.S., they did not pose an imminent mortal threat to the nation.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-brooks20jul20,0,4584141.column?coll=la-opinion-center

The daughter of best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and psychologist John Ehrenreich, Brooks currently lives in Virginia.

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