Posted on 05/31/2010 5:02:44 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
In a disturbing revelation for a Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan took millions of dollars from the Saudis as dean of Harvard Law School and a chunk of it reportedly came from 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
The bin Laden family has donated millions of dollars to the Ivy League university over the years, including generous endowments for the school’s Islamic law program and others to finance scholarships for students from Muslim countries. The family has a fondness for Harvard because Osama bin Laden’s brother, Abdullah, received a master’s degree from the school in the 1990s and a doctorate in 2000.
When Kagan took over as dean of the law school in 2003, she launched an aggressive and unprecedented fundraising campaign that raked in a whopping $476.5 million, the most lucrative in the law school’s history. Renowned as a prolific fundraiser, Kagan was tapped to head the law school after spending a few years as a professor there when her job in the Clinton White House ended. In addition to the $476.5 million generated by the targeted campaign—dubbed "Setting the Standard"—Kagan helped raise an extra $60 million for the Harvard Law School Fund.
A chunk of the cash came from the Saudis—and probably the bin Ladens—who have bankrolled many key programs at the Cambridge Massachusetts school over the years. In fact, Harvard has accepted so much cash from the bin Ladens that the Cambridge City Council passed a resolution calling upon the university to donate compensation money for victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Harvard officials refused.
Kagan’s Saudi/bin Laden money connection probably served as an inspiration in protecting the Saudi kingdom against a lawsuit for financing the 2001 terror attacks. Thousands of family members of 9/11 victims sued Saudi Arabia and several members of its royal family for actively aiding in financing the attacks through front groups posing as charities. As Solicitor General, Kagan blocked the lawsuit, citing the “potentially significant foreign-relations consequences of subjecting another sovereign state to suit."
Another skeleton in Kagan’s closet is her financial ties to Goldman Sachs, the global investment firm embroiled in a major fraud scandal. For four years Kagan worked as an “advisor” at the Wall Street titan that donates generously to Democrats. She received a $10,000 annual “stipend” for her advice even though she was quite busy at the time raising money at Harvard and serving as dean of its law school.
“I am a traditionalist liberal. I don’t support her.”
Out of curiosity, how do you define a ‘traditionalist liberal’?
Most likely the reason 0bamao nominated her - he hates this Country!
Aspirin time for me. I must need more sleep.
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“Are our best intellectuals trying to turn our culture into the Village?”
Never make the mistake of thinking that the Ivies are home to ‘our best intellectuals’. It’s not even remotely true.
Instead of being considered a seat on the Supreme Court, she should be arrested....along with the rest of these Marxists posing as Fascists.
Today is not a good day to get banned.
Or to get a visit by guys in big black SUVs, wearing dark suits, and sporting sun glasses.
Plus, H&K MP5's scare our Lab.
Let’s consider the source here. Leftists fear Judicial Watch about as much as they fear Bullwinkle J. Moose.
“Not to be a nitpicker but the Bin Laden family has been on good terms with the US for a long time.”
I don’t think you are nitpicking. It is really something to say Kagan took money from OBL if in fact she took it from his brother, father, cousin, whoever.
I rather doubt Osama was donating to Harvard, before or after 9/11.
But if they’ve got something to back this up, well, if they did you’d think that would be the lead sentence.
Judicial Watch is a good outfit but lying/smearing doesn’t help us.
this needs to b e emailed to the congressional committee that is looking at her
saudis turban deep into another segment of the US Gov.
Now OBL too?
Just Damn!
Now it all comes into focus.
No wonder Baraq Hussein 0bama tapped Kagan.
0bama isn’t the Messiah, he’s the 12th Imam.
Yikes...she makes Helen Thomas look attractive!
No one ever lost a dime overestimating the stupidity of the American people. - P.T. Barnum
Goldman Sachs must be laughing that they bought Kagan for 10,000 a year ;-)
She’s out pimping her stint at Harvard as her major qualification for SCOTUS, when in fact most of her time there was fundraising.
Carpet Muncher Alert!
Is this for real???
That’s uncalled for. We shouldn’t be making comments on her appearance, saying she looks like a man, or musing out loud whether she and Larry Summers have ever been seen in the same place.
Er, oops.
that realy inspires confidence
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