Do I gotta say it ?
Posted on 03/04/2008 7:45:08 PM PST by river rat
Snip..... In what could be the biggest State Department scandal since State Department official and United Nations founder Alger Hiss was exposed as a Soviet spy, a top Clinton State Department official and former Time magazine journalist has been identified as having been a trusted contact of the Russian intelligence service.
Snip... The sensational charge against Strobe Talbott is made in a new book based on interviews with a Russian defector.
Snip... Talbott has been and continues to be a major foreign policy thinker. Back in 2000, when he was named head of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, he was described as "a key architect of U.S. foreign policy" during the Clinton years. Talbott now serves as president of the liberal think tank, the Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C., where he gets paid over $400,000 a year, leads a staff of 277 and presides over an endowment of over $200 million.
Snip.. This is not the first time that Talbott has come under scrutiny for his alleged contacts with agents of a foreign intelligence service. In 1994, when he was being considered for his State Department post in the Clinton Administration, he was grilled by Senator Jesse Helms, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, about his relationship with Victor Louis, a Soviet "journalist" who was actually a Soviet KGB intelligence agent. Talbott had been a young correspondent for Time magazine in Moscow.
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
Well, well, well. What have we here?
I am not surprised at all.
Yep.. I remember him well.. and, I am NOT surprised in the least.
No way, its a set up by BUSH:-()
Please tell me that he has been a foreign policy advisor to the Clinton campaign.....
Do I gotta say it ?
btt
I’ll be surprised if he turns out to have been the ONLY Soviet spy in the Clinton mob. The Chinese were certainly well represented, so why not also the USSR?
Sensational? Duh!
Is the Pope a Catholic?
Next, you'll be telling me that bill clinton is a womanizer!
Very interesting and educational article. Thanks very much for posting.
Talbott is a start. Scrutiny should also be placed on Anthony Lake, who is Obama’s foreign policy advisor.
Ask and thy shall receive.....
From the full article:
“Although Talbott has been identified in press accounts as a current adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, he showed up to hear Senator Barack Obama deliver a foreign policy address in 2005 to the Council on Foreign Relations and declared, “It was very impressive.”
Plus — Obama is not ignored:
“Interestingly, one of Talbott’s closest friends in the U.S. Senate, Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana, has emerged as a foreign policy adviser to leading Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. In 2005, Lugar and Obama made a visit to Russia to promote the scandal-ridden “Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (CTR),” also known as the Nunn-Lugar program for its original Senate sponsors. The CTR has poured about $6 billion into the former Soviet Union in foreign aid, supposedly for the purpose of preventing nuclear proliferation.”
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Maddie Albright has to be one also.
Hell, I knew this 10 years ago.
pong
That's about as far as the article goes.
do I really have to say it???
Trusted Friend Talbott Out of Loop on Russian Bug - Strobe Talbott - Brief Article
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2_16/ai_58617303/print
Jamie Dettmer
U.S. counterintelligence officers secured Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s agreement last August to refrain from briefing her deputy, Strobe Talbott — a onetime Moscow correspondent for Time magazine — about their discovery of a sophisticated Russian eavesdropping device concealed in a seventh-floor State Department conference room.
According to several U.S. intelligence and Justice Department sources, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, Talbot was kept out of the loop of the security probe that led to the arrest outside the State Department on Dec. 8, 1999, of 54-year-old Russian intelligence officer Stanislav Borisovich Gusev. “Talbott didn’t need to know; it is as simple as that,” says a Justice Department source who declined to expound on the reasons why the Clinton administration’s main Russia expert was shut out.
A CIA source tells news alert!: “Talbott has long been widely seen at Langley as being too close to the Russians — a sort of trusted friend, you might say.” According to that source, only Albright herself and Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering were kept fully briefed on the progress of a bug hunt triggered when Gusev, the top technical intelligence officer in the Russian Embassy, was spotted last summer by an FBI surveillance team wearing headphones and loitering in his car and on foot on a weekly basis outside the department. The FBI team suspected immediately that Gusev was receiving transmissions from a bug. Talbot, they were afraid, inadvertently might let slip information about the security probe.
I guess the Co-President wasn’t paying attention to National security.
The article DOES state that Talbott is reported to be a CURRENT adviser to the Clinton campaign...
river rat kindly posted an excerpt on post 14 that makes it seem likely Talbott is indeed advising the beast.
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From the full article:
Pleased With Hillary And Obama
Although Talbott has been identified in press accounts as a current adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, he showed up to hear Senator Barack Obama deliver a foreign policy address in 2005 to the Council on Foreign Relations and declared, “It was very impressive.” A story about the speech carried by MSNBC and published on Obama’s Senate website noted that Lugar was “helping” Obama in the foreign policy field, that Obama and Lugar “have formed a political joint venture and mutual admiration society,” and that they had traveled to Russia together. The trip to Russia was designed to ensure Obama’s support for maintaining and even expanding the foreign aid for Russia through the CTR program.
Let's chase some scientists with Chinese sounding names instead!
If Hillary Clinton becomes the nominee, this could give McCain a big issue. Assuming he’s willing to use it, which is not a given.
This is why crippling the NSA is so important to the left. Yes, we are listening to foreign communication to American citizens -— those who choose to assist our enemies.
Thanks very much for the correction. My apologies. (It’s been a long day today...up at 4:00am flying home from out west...time for bed...heading for nightmares now that Hillary has just won Ohio...OUT!)
Wasn’t he a college roommate or close college friend of someone high in the Dem establishment?
many ‘progressive’ liberal idealists in the u.s. are just such useful idiots - to marxist enterprises of every stripe - as Talbot was and, i suspect, as Talbot remains
Strobe Talbot should be arrested and charged with espionage.
If she was she wouldn’t have pushed for the bombing of Serbia.
Was it Talbot that threatened Kathleen Willey her during a morning jog? As I recall, he mentioned the names of her children & cat in a manner she perceived to be a threat.
I remember the ‘94 accusations. The press didn’t care then and they won’t care now.
How come I’m not surprised!
Strobe met Bubba Clinton while both were Rhodes Scholars.
(Maybe Strobe instigated Bubba’s trip behind the Iron Curtain back then...)
This Talbott,Russian connection has been reported on but never grew legs. Hope this article makes headlines in the NYT.
Not holding breath.
Oh, never knew Lugar was a Talbott lover.
“Was it Talbot that threatened Kathleen Willey her during a morning jog?”
I don’t remember hearing that. But it’s possible.
Yes, for sure.
At my age, after all I’ve seen during a long, involved and complex life -— I’ve come to believe that EVERY politician in Washington has been bought by someone....
Personally — I’ve seen far more honest and competent men and women in Corporate Conference rooms and Battalion HQ than I’ve ever seen at meetings with politicians.....
My own Congress Critter - Mike Honda and my Senators Feinstein and Boxer, couldn’t be more wrong or ignorant on the issues that REALLY matter. Leftists to the quick.
Having dealt with a number from all camps — I still have far more confidence in Corporate managers and Military Officers than politicians....
We can all name exceptions to the rule - but the exceptions don’t refute the rule...
Drudge report expands 5/11/99 “...Earlier this year, ABC NEWS hotshot reporter Jackie Judd showed presidential accuser Kathleen Willey a picture of a man. Judd was developing a story about an incident she was first to reveal about the morning Willey was spooked by a stranger — a stranger that knew too many details about her private life. A stranger that approached her just two days before she was to tell a grand jury about what Bill Clinton did to her in the White House. “Is this the man who approached you that morning?” Judd asked Willey. The DRUDGE REPORT can now reveal that Willey was shown a picture of Cody Shearer — the brother-in-law of Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and long-time friend of President Bill Clinton! Judd has not yet filed a report on what Willey told her that day, but Willey did open up to CNBC’s Chris Matthews in an interview on Tuesday night. Willey unloaded details of her run-in with a man: “I was walking with my three dogs, and I saw this man coming toward me... He called me by name, ‘Kathleen, did you ever find your cat?’ he asked. ‘No, I have not, and we really miss him,’ I told him. ‘Did you ever get those tires fixed on your car?’ he asked. The hair on my neck started to stand on end... He asked me about my children by name. Willey told Matthews that she can ID the man as being one of the president’s associates. The twin brother of Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott’s wife, Brooke Shearer, has been at the center of controversy since Bill Clinton has been president — but he has remained mostly out of the headlines. Freelance journalist Cody Shearer is alleged to have had cozy relations with Investigative Group International, using their office databases and hob-nobbing with operatives, according to reports in VANITY FAIR and the NEW YORK POST last summer.....”
AP 3/18/99 “…In contacts under federal investigation, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott’s brother-in-law received thousands of dollars from an associate of accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic around the time he tried to arrange the Bosnian fugitive’s surrender, according to lawyers and government officials. Talbott’s brother-in-law, Cody P. Shearer, is now telling authorities he has received mail threats from Bosnian figures who claim he took the money in 1997 with promises to win leniency for Karadzic on the war crimes charges, and demand that he pay Karadzic’s family $1 million or risk ``tragedy.’’… Even before Shearer reported the threats, the State Department inspector general and the FBI had begun investigating whether he misrepresented his ties to the Clinton administration in his dealings with the Bosnian figures, several government officials told The Associated Press….”
Thanks. I knew Talbot was involved in some dark way! Nice to know my memory isn’t completely gone.....lol!
NYPost 9/6/99 Editorial “…First, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers gave an interview in which he said the Clinton administration opposes any further International Monetary Fund loans to Russia without adequate safeguards and accounting. Hours later, the White House insisted that the administration hasn’t reached a decision on whether to support new IMF loans. Then Summers’ spokeswoman said flatly that the U.S. opposes any delay in new loans. Welcome to the wonderful world of Bill Clinton’s Russia policy. The White House is scrambling, and with good reason - mounting reports indicate that billions in foreign-loan payments were siphoned off by top Russian political officials and laundered through western banks Like the Chinese nuclear-espionage scandal, the question here is what did the Clinton administration - and most particularly in this case, its point man on Russia, Vice President Al Gore - know, and how did it respond. ….Ironically, the real tipoff may have come from Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, the architect of Clinton’s Russia policy. “We have been aware from the beginning that crime and corruption are a huge prob-lem in Russia and a huge obstacle to Russian reform,” Talbott recently told Newsweek in urging the West to “calm down.” By all accounts, Talbott is entirely correct - except that new reports suggest strongly that Clinton and Gore tried to keep a lid on the stunning extent of government fiscal corruption. Which means Talbott was himself involved. Which means his reassurance isn’t very reassuring. The New York Times reports that Gore was shown a CIA report in 1995 detailing the personal corruption of the vice president’s Russian counterpart, Viktor Chernomyrdin. According to the Times, Gore “rejected their report - a move that [CIA analysts] said had led them to understand that Gore was not interested in further information on the topic.” ….”
The New York Press 9/7/99 “….If you thought comedy was dead, you obviously haven’t heard of Strobe Talbott, the State Dept.’s factotum where Russian affairs are concerned. The Strobe used to be a Time hack, a man who took, and continues to take, himself extremely seriously. The reason I find him so funny is simple. There is no bigger mess than Russia right now, but the Strobe, who should have resigned in shame five years ago, remains unaffected by the intrusion of fact and continues to bang on endlessly. If the Strobe were a politician, I would understand. Politicians have no shame, no honor and are as likely to fall on their sword as Hillary and Bill Clinton are to tell the truth. But the Strobe is a hack, and he should know better. The great swindle that is Russia took place under his watch, and as William Pfaff wrote in The Los Angeles Times, “Ambition was involved... Strobe Talbott wanted the reputation of an important influence on reform in Russia, a country that always intrigued him.” But let’s not be too beastly with the Strobe. He is only a Clinton-Gore catamite, yet another bald-faced phony working for the most corrupt administration since Huey Long bit the bullet. The real criminals are the Draft Dodger and the Bore. Here’s William Pfaff again: “Bill’s friendship with Boris, and Al’s with Victor Chernomyrdin, served to identify them in the eyes of voters as patrons of the new Russia and as men of state. They used American resources to keep friend Boris Yeltsin in power-itself an inducement to corruption.” I don’t think there has ever been a greater swindle in the history of the world. While visiting the Riviera last year I saw firsthand the scale of it. Sixty percent of all luxury yachts priced at more than $5 million belonged to Russians; 65 percent of luxury villas renting out at more than $100,000 per month were taken by guess who. Fifty percent of the clientele of the most expensive hotels in the area were Russkies. (Ironically, the house I used to rent on Cap d’Antibes, Les Cloches, included by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Tender is the Night, later on Irwin Shaw’s favorite rental on the Riviera, is now owned by, according to some reports, Victor Chernomyrdin, as part of the Chateau de la Garoupe property that he reputedly paid for in cash to the tune of 70 million greenbacks!)
My, my.........how the threads of a story begin to weave a magnificent web........
Excellent finds and posts......
We all need to be reminded of that which we don’t wish to repeat.....
I’m hoping Obama the “man for change” has a stake ready to drive through the Clinton legacy’s heart....
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