How DailyKos Helped Dems Attack Bolton

Thanks for the ping! O'Connell looks to be linked to the usual suspects in the pro-Castro lobby (including Kerry and Harkin's old pro-Sandinista friend Kornbluh):

LATIN AMERICA POLICY - Smearing Reich?

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Reich is a divisive figure aligned with "hard-line Cuban-Americans," and he "engaged in illegal propagandizing for the Contras," says the Center for International Policy (CIP), which is leading the "Stop Otto Reich" campaign. "The nomination would send a deeply alienating message to our Latin neighbors."

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CIP's fellow members of the Stop Otto Reich coalition, formally known as the Coalition for a Sensible Latin America Policy (CSLAP), are: the Cuban Committee for Democracy, which says its job is to "promote the moderate and progressive sector of the Cuban-American population"; the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which was there when Latin American revolutionaries needed a voice in Washington; and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), a supporter of Marxist causes in the region with a strong scholarly and policy community base. Collectively, they are part of the StopOttoReich.com Website, which the Register.com directory says was created by IPS on May 22.

The campaign against Reich began as soon as President Bush announced his intention to nominate the Cuban-born diplomat. Two weeks after the administration floated Reich's name in February, the National Security Archive, a left-funded scholarly group that files Freedom of Information Act requests to get secret government documents declassified, quickly published an electronic collection of documents called "Public Diplomacy and Covert Propaganda: The Declassified Record of Ambassador Otto Juan Reich." The collection is illustrated with a poster from the College Republicans.

Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archive claimed, "The documentary record on Otto Reich's tenure at the Office of Public Diplomacy speaks for itself. It shows an effort through misinformation and disinformation illicitly to influence the American public, Congress and the media."

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Then the Washington Post's Karen DeYoung - pro-Sandinista during Reich's tenure at the Office of Public Diplomacy - sniped at him in an article caricaturizing him as a one-dimensional "anti-Castro figure." This was followed by attacks in The Nation calling him a liar and a Los Angeles Times piece appearing under the byline of former Costa Rican president Oscar Arias titled "A Nominee Who Stands for War."

There is some question as to whether Arias, the only foreign leader besides Castro who has publicly criticized the Reich nomination, authored the article. According to syndicated columnist Robert Novak, "Republican senators see the hand of Janice O'Connell, longtime foreign-relations aide to Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut (who simultaneously is launching a campaign for better U.S. relations with Castro)."

At that point, IPS created its StopOttoReich.com Website. White's CIP operation seized on Reich's nomination as a fund-raising opportunity. "We are leading a campaign to head off his nomination, and we believe we may well succeed," CIP Executive Director William C. Goodfellow told donors in late spring. Goodfellow complained that Reich would promote "additional efforts to destabilize the Castro government."

Nice roundup! This is one part that caught my eye:

Ms. O'Connell's views are well known. On the TransAfrica Forum Web site, TransAfrica President Randall Robinson introduces Ms. O'Connell at a roundtable

TransAfrica's another interesting member of the pro-Castro lobby. Traces their ancestry back to the inspiration of CP members W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson; founder Randall Robinson linked to the Congressional Black Caucus; board of directors has included Carlton Goodlett of the KGB front the World Peace Council and Castro sympathizers Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte; president Bill Fletcher participated in the Boston Social Forum (a branch of the World Social Forum, a Marxist-Leninist international networking body linked to various Latin American guerrilla groups and Brazil's Lula) which held a meeting coinciding with the Democratic National Convention in 2004.

The Left continues to be exposed for the low live scum they are.

...what was said in the "letters" he shoved under her door?

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And has she produced any of these "threatening letters"?

And has she produced any of these "threatening letters"?

I am sure she will have some excuse for not producing these "letters" which never existed in the first place. How disgusting it is of Biden to do what he is doing to a decent man on evidence he knows to be dubious at best.

...How disgusting it is of Biden to do what he is doing..

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Disgusting, yes. But not surprising. Biden is a first-rate slime ball opportunist, like 99% of the Rats in Congress.

I heard Peter Kornbluh has a new book out, by the way.

You mean The Pinochet File or does he have another one besides that on the way?