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.
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BUMP!!!
stupid party BUMP!
I’m going to refrain from the “pearl necklace” jokes.
Apparently our country has been on the road to demise for many, many years. It isn’t going to be turned around so easily and, I fear, without war.
can anyone get a congressman to bring this up..
First of all, here is a wiki on Third Way liberalism.
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Third_Way_(centrism)
Third Way liberals, Obama and Kagan included, believe that if you just “incentivize” people, they won’t see their underlying conflicts and try to resolve them.
As a traditionalist, I believe that the racial, religious and class conflicts of our society have not been resolved.
I have no desire to be incentivized.
I will not co-opt conservative solutions and then call them my own.
In other words, a traditional liberal has the capacity to think for him/herself.
A Third Way liberal co-opts right wing solutions and then calls them “mainstream”. In other words, a Third Way liberal is a liar.
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