20 April 1993

Waco – The Big Lie
Waco II – The Big Lie Continues

WACO – The Rules of Engagement

A Noble Lie
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Barack O’Clinton

Thirty one out of forty seven people that Brarck Obama has named so far for transition or appointments have ties to the Clinton Administration.

“This isn’t lightly flavored with Clintons. This is all Clintons, all the time.”

And you thought you were getting change?

A who’s who guide to the people poised to shape Obama’s foreign policy here

“The American people understand the real gamble is having the same old folks doing things over and over and over again and somehow expecting a different result.” -Barack Obama

oh the politics of, “I told ya so”

Obama’s New AG – A Disappointment

What a disappointment!

Eric Holder

-Clinton nominated Holder to be the next Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno.

-As Deputy Attorney General, Holder was drawn into controversy surrounding President Clinton’s last-minute pardon of fugitive and Democratic contributor Marc Rich.

-Holder has worked as an attorney at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., representing clients such as Merck and the National Football League. In 2004, Holder helped negotiate an agreement with the Justice Department for Chiquita Brands International in a case that involved Chiquita’s payment of “protection money” to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a group on the U.S. government’s list of terrorist organizations. In the agreement, Chiquita’s officials pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $25 million. Holder represents Chiquita in the civil action which grew out of this criminal case.

-In January 2008, Holder joined a brief in District_of_Columbia_v._Heller along with Janet Reno and a handful of other former Justice Department officials in support of the D.C. handgun ban. The brief stated that the right to keep and bear arms is not an individual right

hey Barack! If we wanted the Clintons we would have voted for them.

Wolfowitz is back

missed!
Chairman Appointed for the International Security Advisory Board

The Department of State is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Paul Wolfowitz as the Chairman of the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board (ISAB). Dr. Wolfowitz is currently a visiting scholar in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies development issues. He has spent more than three decades in public service and higher education. Most recently, he served as President of the World Bank and Deputy Secretary of Defense. Prior to that, he was Dean and Professor of International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Other previous positions include Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (1989–1993), U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia (1986–1989), Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs (1982–1986) and Director of Policy Planning (1981-1982) at the Department of State.

The ISAB provides the Department of State with a source of independent insight, advice, and innovation on all aspects of arms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, political-military issues, and international security and related aspects of public diplomacy. The ISAB provides analysis and insight into current issues-of-interest for the Secretary on a regular basis.

oh crap!
Top Obama adviser has long ties to conservatives

Because of Obama’s relative inexperience on foreign policy, it is this part of his team that is getting much of the attention, and one adviser in particular —Dennis Ross, Bill Clinton’s Mideast envoy, whose record includes supporting the pro-Iraq War advocacy campaigns of the Project for the New American Century and serving as a consultant to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a bastion of Israel-centric policy thinking in Washington. ….

Ross got his start in high-level policy-making working under Paul Wolfowitz in the Pentagon during the Carter administration. Wolfowitz — who is better known for his role pushing the Iraq War after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and for his controversial tenure as World Bank head — tasked Ross with helping draft a study assessing threats to US interests in the Persian Gulf.

The 1979 study, titled the Limited Contingency Study, concluded that aside from the Soviet Union, a key threat to the region’s oil fields was Iraq.

In his 2004 book the Rise of the Vulcans, James Mann writes that this study, the Pentagon’s “first extensive examination of the need for the United States to defend the Persian Gulf,” would go on to “play a groundbreaking role in changing American military policy toward the Persian Gulf over the coming decades.”

When Wolfowitz was tapped to head the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff after the election of Ronald Reagan, he included Ross in his team of assistants, which, according to Mann, would go on to become, over the next two decades, “the heart of a new neoconservative network within the foreign policy bureaucracy.”

Other Wolfowitz team members from that time included I Lewis Libby, a Washington lawyer who later became notorious as the disgraced former chief aide to Vice -President Dick Cheney; James Roche, President George W Bush’s Air Force Secretary who resigned after being implicated in the Boeing tanker leasing scandal; Zalmay Khalilzad, US Ambassador to the UN and post-invasion ambassador to Iraq; Alan Keyes, the perennial Republican presidential candidate; and Francis Fukuyama, the “end of history” theorist and erstwhile neoconservative ally who turned against the faction after the Iraq invasion.

Ross’s close association with neoconservatives has deepened over the years, becoming especially pronounced in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Ross served as the co-convenor of WINEP’s Presidential Task Force on the Future of US-Israel Relations, which issued the June 2008 report “Strengthening the Partnership: How to Deepen US-Israel Cooperation on the Iranian Nuclear Challenge”.
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