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National Review ^ | 5/4/05 | Byron York

[kcvl]

May 18, 2004

Mr. Reich originally had been George Bush's nominee to be Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs in 2001. He had the votes to be confirmed. But Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd and his first lieutenant on the Senate foreign relations committee, Janice O'Connell, blamed Cold-War warrior Reich for the defeat of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas in the late 1980s and were determined to block his nomination.

Vicious mud slinging ensued. At least one sloppy, lazy "journalist" spread rumors that Mr. Reich had ties to a Cuban terrorist. Mr. Dodd also whispered to Senate colleagues that the nominee was going through a hostile divorce and hiding assets from his wife. None of the charges stuck for the simple reason that they lacked merit. Finally, Mr. Reich reports that Ms. O'Connell told another Hill staffer that she had a plan to make it financially impossible for him to take a government job by raising questions about the sale of his private consulting business. Under the terms of the deal, Mr. Reich was scheduled to receive payments over four years, something State Department lawyers told him was completely legal and ethical. But Mr. Reich tore up the contract anyway. Out of mud, Mr. Dodd simply refused to allow the confirmation hearings to proceed.

[mabelkitty]

This is going to get real good.
Reich nailed her in public.

[cyncooper]

O'Connell impresses on State Department officials that she represents the permanent government whose word must be heeded by temporary presidential appointees.

Oh my. Suspected but to just have it stated so baldly...

[cyncooper]

Yes he did. I wish I'd been paying closer attention at the beginning of the story on Fox today, but I did see him take to the mikes and I liked it.

A lot.

[cyncooper]

Ping over here and read the posts as some very enlightening articles are posted as well.

[Howlin]

What a vile little man Dodd is.

Be sure to watch the rerun of Brit's show at midnight; it's the very first story. Otto Reich came straight out of his "meeting" today and blasted HER and Dodd and Biden and their staffs.

[nutmeg]

Thanks, Howlin. Very interesting... I'll ping my list.

[nutmeg]

ping!

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[Howlin]

Keep reading; kcvl is pulling stuff out of his desk drawer, evidently.......LOL.

[finnman69]

There is a lot of evidence AmyinDallas is Amy Boardman Hunt

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387441/posts?page=34#34

[Howlin]

This is very disturbing. Very. How can a woman who isn't elected weild this much power in the name of a United States senator and pretty much ram through her own personal agenda?

[Mo1]

Who is this O'Connell chic

I just saw the 2nd air of Special Report and the claim she is the leaker???

[Howlin]

Read all this stuff kcvl has posted about Ms. O'Connell and Dodd; she's doing quite a bit of wheeling and dealing; and holding up nominiation.

Looks like a pattern to me; and patterns always have a reason.

[Mo1]

Thanks .. I'll go stalk her post

[Howlin]

They are on this thread.

[Mo1]

Also helping to keep Chavez in power has been the attention of Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), at the time of the brief coup the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, and his chief foreign-policy aide, Janice O'Connell. Columnist Robert Novak wrote in April that Dodd and particularly O'Connell hold a grudge against Assistant Secretary of State Otto Reich, a conservative and anticommunist. This antagonism to Reich in particular, and conservatives generally, fuels Dodd's aggressive stance on U.S. policy in Latin America.

Chavez ???

Carter's Buddy???

Hmmmm .. besides Communism ... Oil?

[Mo1]

She approves personal service contracts by the U.S. mission in Cuba and recently warned a staffer there that his aggressive distribution of books and radios would get him kicked out of the country. O'Connell was instrumental in stalling the installation of Bush's nominee as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs: Cuban-born Otto Reich, a former ambassador to Venezuela

SHE approves personal service contracts ???

Don't mind me .. I'm still catching up and thinking out loud

But who is this women and WHY does she have so much say?

[Mo1]

Just an FYI

But you might want to stalk kcvl's posted about Janice O'Connell and Chris Dodd

Very interesting stuff!!

[Mo1]

Janice O'Connell has been with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee since 1977, worked for Senator Frank Church, Senator Claiborne Pell, and since 1986 for Senator Dodd. Worked in opposition to Contra aid and military assistance to El Salvador, supported restoration of civilian rule in Haiti, worked on legislation to end sanctions on food and medicines to Cuba, and to lift travel restrictions on American travel to Cuba.

She worked for Frank Church???

The same Frank Church that dumbed down our intell agencies with his Committee???

[Howlin]

One and the same. Interesting, huh?