Good Monday morning, once again, fellow political jinkies. The NFL season may be over, but the political season inside the Beltway is 24/7/365. So join us, if you can, as those wacky Dems on the Senate Judiciary committee reprise their pitiful efforts to once again smear President Bush and score political points..
MAY 8, 1969 : (RAIDS ON NORTH VIETNAMESE IN CAMBODIA - See MORTON HALPERIN) ". . .on May 8 1969, New York Times reporter William Beecher wrote that 'according to Nixon administration sources,' American B-52 bombers had raided several Vietcong and North Vietnamese supply dumps and base camps in Cambodia. . .------Athan Theoharis and John Stuart Cox, The Boss, 466-8).... via 105 posted on 04/07/2004 5:35:45 PM PDT by Fedora
1969 : (MORTON HALPERIN IS UNDER SUSPICION AS BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR LEAKING INFORMATION ON THE BOMBING OF CAMBODIA TO THE PRESS - See MAY 8, 1969 NY TIMES LEAK) in 1969 J. Edgar Hoover suspected Halperin of being responsible for leaking sensitive information on Nixon's bombing of Cambodia to the press (". . .on May 8 1969, New York Times reporter William Beecher wrote that 'according to Nixon administration sources,' American B-52 bombers had raided several Vietcong and North Vietnamese supply dumps and base camps in Cambodia. . .Hoover could not identify the leaker. He could only conjecture as to the source, advising Kissinger. . .that national security aide Morton Halperin could have leaked this information, on the grounds that Halperin 'knew [William] Beecher and that he [Hoover] considered [Halperin] a part of the Harvard clique and, of course, of the Kennedy era'. . .After leaving the NSC staff, Halperin and another wiretapped NSC aide, Anthony Lake, joined the campaign staff of Democratic presidential aspirant Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine. . .Hoover. . .reported on proposed speeches and article's of the administration's critics, about Lake's intention 'to work with Senator Fulbright in opposing the war'. . .": -----Athan Theoharis and John Stuart Cox, The Boss, 466-8).... via 105 posted on 04/07/2004 5:35:45 PM PDT by Fedora
JUNE 1971 : (NY TIMES PUBLISHES STOLEN DEFENSE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENTS AS THE "PENTAGON PAPERS" - See MORTON HALPERIN, LESLIE GELB, DANIEL ELLSBURG, LYNDON B JOHNSON) Halperin has a long and controversial track record in the world of Washington intrigue, dating back to the Johnson Administration. Journalists sympathetic to Halperin’s leftwing sentiments give him high marks for blowing the whistle on the Vietnam War, but his activism helped undermine America’s war effort and contributed to the Communist victory.
The Johnson Defense Department placed Halperin in charge of compiling a secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, based on classified documents. This secret history later emerged into public view as the so-called “Pentagon Papers.” Halperin and his deputy Leslie Gelb assigned much of the writing to leftwing opponents of the war, such as Daniel Ellsberg who, despite his background as a former Marine and a military analyst for the Rand Corporation, was already evolving into a New Left radical. In his memoir, Secrets, Ellsberg admits to concluding, as early as 1967, that, “we were not fighting on the wrong side; we were the wrong side” in the Vietnam War. [11] [[11] Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (New York: Viking, 2002) ]
Evidently Ellsberg had come to view Ho Chi Minh’s Communist regime as the wave of the future.
With Halperin’s tacit encouragement – and perhaps active collusion – Ellsberg stole the secret history and released it to The New York Times, which published the documents as “The Pentagon Papers” in June 1971.[12][[12] Ellsberg, Secrets, 2002; Seymour M. Hersh, “Kissinger and Nixon in the White House,” The Atlantic, May 1982 ]
This was a violation of the Espionage Act, which forbids the removal of classified documents from government buildings. Not surprisingly, “The Pentagon Papers” echoed Halperin’s long-standing position that the Vietnam War was unwinnable, and ridiculed Presidents Kennedy and Johnson for stubbornly refusing to heed those of their advisors who shared this opinion. It marked a turning point in America’s failed effort to keep Indo-China from falling to the Communists. The government dropped its case against Ellsberg as Nixon’s power collapsed during the Watergate intrigues. --- "The Shadow Party: Part I," by David Horowitz and Richard Poe, FrontPageMagazine.com, 10/06/04
1970s : (CLINTON, STROBE TALBOT & MORTON HALPERIN ARE ADMITTED ENTRY INTO THE USSR) Bill Clinton-[future] President, Strobe Talbot-[future] Deputy Secretary of State, Morton Halperin- [future] State Director of Policy Planning, were all welcomed into the Soviet Union (when nobody else could get in) back during their Oxford days, and squired around by the KGB. Not exactly my idea of a vacation break from studies--the Soviet Union in the dead of winter. So here begins the sordid story of the destruction of this country by one of it's most popular and hated presidents and his evil anti-American cadre. FULL ARTICLE - "THE EVIL WITHIN: CLINTON'S COMMUNIST CADRE ," by Barbara Stanley , etherzone, 05-11-2000
1976 : (MORTON H HALPERIN RAILS AGAINST THE US INTELLIGENCE SERVICES) “Using secret intelligence agencies to defend a constitutional republic is akin to the ancient medical practice of employing leeches to take blood from feverish patients. The intent is therapeutic, but in the long run the cure is more deadly than the disease,” Halperin wrote in his 1976 book, The Lawless State: The Crimes of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies.[14] ...--- "The Shadow Party: Part I," by David Horowitz and Richard Poe, FrontPageMagazine.com, 10/06/04
(* My Note: Halperin would later go on to work for George Soros)
1984 - 1992 : (MORTON H HALPERIN IS DIRECTOR OF THE ACLU & HEAD OF ITS "NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVES") Halperin went on to become the director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1984 to 1992 and head of its "National Security Archives." From this position, he waged open war against U.S.intelligence services, through the courts and the press, seeking to strip the government of virtually any power to investigate, monitor or obstruct subversive elements and their activities.[13] It did not take long for Halperin to go the next logical step and argue for abolishing America’s intelligence services altogether....--- "The Shadow Party: Part I," by David Horowitz and Richard Poe, FrontPageMagazine.com, 10/06/04
MARCH 21, 1987 : (THE NATION ARTICLE : ACLU's MORTON H. HALPERIN VILLIFIES THE US & CALLS FOR ABOLISHMENT OF US INTELLIGENCE SERVICES) In a March 21, 1987 article in The Nation, Halperin expanded on this theme [arguing for the abolishing of the US's intelligence services] and, like Ellsberg, took the position that America was the real villain in the Cold War. He wrote, “Secrecy does not serve national security. Covert operations are incompatible with constitutional government and should be abolished.”[15] This was a call for unilateral disarming of our intelligence services to match the universal disarmament of our military which has long been a staple of the radical agenda. --- "The Shadow Party: Part I," by David Horowitz and Richard Poe, FrontPageMagazine.com, 10/06/04
1998 : (MORTON HALPERIN BECOMES DIRECTOR OF POLICY FOR THE US STATE DEPT) In 1998, Halperin became director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department. During his tenure 15 State Department laptop computers containing highly classified intelligence information disappeared. . ----- Lowell Ponte, "The ABC's of Media Bias"
MAY 11, 2000 : (REPORT : MORTON HALPERIN/MISSING STATE DEPT LAPTOP) For more years than one can imagine, the cabal of communists in academia have been plotting and planning the complete destruction of the United States. Morton Halperin has just popped up in the news in regards to a missing laptop at the State Department ( or two, or three, or, as is always the case with this administration, likely more), so we take this timely opportunity to reveal his past, present and future. ----- FULL ARTICLE - "THE EVIL WITHIN: CLINTON'S COMMUNIST CADRE ," by Barbara Stanley , etherzone, 05-11-2000
FEBRUARY 2002 : (GEORGE SOROS HIRES MORTON HALPERIN TO HEAD THE WASHINGTON DC OFFICE OF THE 'OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE') Soros had hired Halperin in February 2002, to head the Washington office of his tax-exempt Open Society Institute – part of Soros’ global network of Open Society institutes and foundations located in more than 50 countries around the world. Given Halperin’s history, the appointment revealed much about Soros’ political goals.--- "The Shadow Party: Part I," by David Horowitz and Richard Poe, FrontPageMagazine.com, 10/06/04
***
Morton Halperin in February 2002 became Director of the Open Society Policy Center and has worked closely ever since with its creator, eccentric billionaire international financier George Soros, who committed tens of millions of dollars in 2004 to a variety of efforts to defeat President Bush. One of these Soros-funded political efforts is the Center for American Progress (CAP), launched in summer 2003, one of the “Seven Sisters” pillars of the left’s “Shadow Government.” CAP is also known as “the official Hillary Clinton think tank,” described by Horowitz and Poe as “a platform designed to highlight Hillary’s policies and to enhance her prestige as a potential presidential candidate." According to a March 1, 2004 report by Robert Dreyfuss in The Nation, Halperin and Soros handpicked the President of CAP, former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta. . .----- Lowell Ponte, "The ABC's of Media Bias"
Evidently, Soros wishes Halperin to continue his war on America’s intelligence services. According to an Open Society Institute press release, one of Halperin’s principal assignments on the Soros team is to battle “post-September 11 policies that threaten the civil liberties of Americans.” [16] ---[16] Andrea Pringle, “George Soros Opens Washington Office: Wants Open Society Institute to Have Added Impact on Policy” (press release), Open Society Institute, Washington DC, 10 June 2002
2003 summer : (SHADOW GOVERNMENT : CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS IS LAUNCHED - See MORTON HALPERIN, JOHN PODESTA) Morton Halperin in February 2002 became Director of the Open Society Policy Center and has worked closely ever since with its creator, eccentric billionaire international financier George Soros, who committed tens of millions of dollars in 2004 to a variety of efforts to defeat President Bush. One of these Soros-funded political efforts is the Center for American Progress (CAP), launched in summer 2003, one of the “Seven Sisters” pillars of the left’s “Shadow Government.” CAP is also known as “the official Hillary Clinton think tank,” described by Horowitz and Poe as “a platform designed to highlight Hillary’s policies and to enhance her prestige as a potential presidential candidate." According to a March 1, 2004 report by Robert Dreyfuss in The Nation, Halperin and Soros handpicked the President of CAP, former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta. . .----- Lowell Ponte, "The ABC's of Media Bias"
JULY 17, 2003 : (LONG ISLAND, NY : GEORGE SOROS' BEACH HOUSE : "SHADOW PARTY" MEETING : MORTON HALPERIN ATTENDS) To the extent that the Shadow Party can be said to have an official launch date, July 17, 2003 probably fits the bill.[10] On that day, a team of political strategists, wealthy donors, leftwing labor leaders and other Democrat activists gathered at Soros’ Southampton beach house on Long Island. Aside from Soros, the most noteworthy attendee was Morton H. Halperin. ... No one has published a full list of the attendees at Soros’ July 17 meeting in Southampton, at which Soros laid out his plan to defeat President Bush.[17] However, a partial list is available in accounts that appeared in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. These include an impressive array of former Clinton administration officials, among them Halperin. Prior to working for Soros, Halperin had served eight years under Clinton, first as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and finally as Director of Policy Planning for the Clinton State Department.
The guests at Soros’ beach house also included Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta; Jeremy Rosner, former special advisor to Clinton’s Secretary of State Madeline Albright; Robert Boorstin, a former advisor to Clinton’s Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin; and Steven Rosenthal, a leftwing union leader who served the Clinton White House as an advisor on union affairs to Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, and Ellen Malcolm, founder and president of the pro-abortion lobby Emily’s List, also attended the meeting, as did such prominent Democrat donors as auto insurance mogul Peter B. Lewis; founder and CEO of RealNetworks Rob Glaser; Taco Bell heir Rob McKay; and Benson & Hedges tobacco heirs Lewis and Dorothy Cullman. --- "The Shadow Party: Part I," by David Horowitz and Richard Poe, FrontPageMagazine.com, 10/06/04
JANUARY 2, 2004 : (AS OF THIS DATE THESE ARE GOV. HOWARD DEAN'S FOREIGN POLICY ADVISORS : ) Foreign Policy Advisers Exclusive advisers: Benjamin Barber, Ivo Daalder, Morton Halperin, Elisa Harris, General Joseph Hoar (USMC, Ret.), Major General Randy Jayne (USAF, Ret.), Franklin Kramer, Anthony Lake, General Merrill McPeak (USAF, Ret.), Clyde Prestowitz, Susan Rice, Jeffrey Sachs, Danny Sebright, Admiral Stansfield Turner (USN, Ret.), William Woodward ---------Governor Howard Dean , http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2004_01-02/Dean.asp Several of these folks also show up with Robert McNamara and Joseph Wilson among others at: Secure America , http://www.secureamerica.us/html/about_advisers.html 40 posted on 06/13/2004 10:02:00 PM PDT by Fedora
MARCH 1, 2004 : (REPORT : HALPERIN & SOROS HANDPICK FORMER CLINTON WH CHIEF OF STAFF JOHN PODESTA TO BE PRESIDENT OF CAP aka CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS) According to a March 1, 2004 report by Robert Dreyfuss in The Nation, Halperin and Soros handpicked the President of CAP [Center for American Progress], former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta. . .----- Lowell Ponte, "The ABC's of Media Bias"
Who's CAP again?
* CAP : I'm reading Madam Hillary which is a more interesting book than I thought it would be. Page 28 mentions that Hillary has organized and gotten funding (with the help of Soros and others) for several think tanks including the Center for American Progress. The Center has a 501(c)4 designation which permits the propoganda section to be more aggressively partisan.
Sara Wartell, a veteran of the Clinton administration, is the Center's chief operating officer. The Center focuses on hot button issues in Washington with an eye to influencing Congress, the public and the media through a sophisticated rapid response media campaign.
The rapid response media campaign is run by Debbie Berger, the daughter of Sandy Berger! ----82 posted on 08/11/2004 3:46:40 PM PDT by Peach
See also THUNDER ROAD GROUP, MEDIA MATTERS, ETC
