Excellent, orderly presentation.
Maybe one or two additional notes could be added such as who is Bob Bauer’s wife. Sidney Blumenthal’s son Max was reported to have tried to either join or help a group roughly known as the German Communist Party (mainly from the former GDR Party/SED.
Michael Isikoff co-wrote, on occasion, articles with old admitted Cuban DGI agent, CIA traitor Philip Agee’s partner, Mark Hosenball (who has written for, if I remember correctly, both Newsweek and TIME magazines, and other leftist publications). Hosenball and Agee were thrown out of England in the 1970’s or early 80’s on national security grounds. (There should be some good information on him at www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org and possibly www.keywiki.org. If not under his name, try under Philip Agee.
Bob Bauer's wife, Anita Dunn. She was Obama's PR person.
AFTER he was elected, she said they never responded to media queries....
they let the media (and the voters) know only what THEY wanted them to know.