Posted on 05/31/2010 5:02:44 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
In a disturbing revelation for a Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan took millions of dollars from the Saudis as dean of Harvard Law School and a chunk of it reportedly came from 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
The bin Laden family has donated millions of dollars to the Ivy League university over the years, including generous endowments for the school’s Islamic law program and others to finance scholarships for students from Muslim countries. The family has a fondness for Harvard because Osama bin Laden’s brother, Abdullah, received a master’s degree from the school in the 1990s and a doctorate in 2000.
When Kagan took over as dean of the law school in 2003, she launched an aggressive and unprecedented fundraising campaign that raked in a whopping $476.5 million, the most lucrative in the law school’s history. Renowned as a prolific fundraiser, Kagan was tapped to head the law school after spending a few years as a professor there when her job in the Clinton White House ended. In addition to the $476.5 million generated by the targeted campaign—dubbed "Setting the Standard"—Kagan helped raise an extra $60 million for the Harvard Law School Fund.
A chunk of the cash came from the Saudis—and probably the bin Ladens—who have bankrolled many key programs at the Cambridge Massachusetts school over the years. In fact, Harvard has accepted so much cash from the bin Ladens that the Cambridge City Council passed a resolution calling upon the university to donate compensation money for victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Harvard officials refused.
Kagan’s Saudi/bin Laden money connection probably served as an inspiration in protecting the Saudi kingdom against a lawsuit for financing the 2001 terror attacks. Thousands of family members of 9/11 victims sued Saudi Arabia and several members of its royal family for actively aiding in financing the attacks through front groups posing as charities. As Solicitor General, Kagan blocked the lawsuit, citing the “potentially significant foreign-relations consequences of subjecting another sovereign state to suit."
Another skeleton in Kagan’s closet is her financial ties to Goldman Sachs, the global investment firm embroiled in a major fraud scandal. For four years Kagan worked as an “advisor” at the Wall Street titan that donates generously to Democrats. She received a $10,000 annual “stipend” for her advice even though she was quite busy at the time raising money at Harvard and serving as dean of its law school.
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Our country is going to HELL in a hand basket.In America today what is good is bad and what is bad is good.
HUH???
This is a RESUME ENHANCER for a DEMOCRAT appointee.
And someone is surprised that our Muslim president picked a terrorist sympathizer?
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A hand basket?? Seems more like a rocket sled these days.
Interesting. She’s out pimping her stint at Harvard as her major qualification for SCOTUS, when in fact most of her time there was fundraising. It’s not like she was actively involved in the curriculum at Harvard Law or even teaching in some meaningful way.
But this information won’t even get a shrug from the Senate and will present absolutely no barrier to her being seated on SCOTUS for life.
When Justice Ginsberg steps down shortly, there is no telling who Premier Hussein will send up there next. He could nominate The Oprah and the Dhimmies would approve...
Long time subversion activity by SA & Wahhabists. Now they get their SCOTUS nominee.
Dhimmitude at its best.
You can't say the sweetest sound is the call to prayer and call yourself an American.
Reported by whom?
Re #12 — What a nasty looking woman! Looks like a guy in drag.
Yecccchhhh!
Probably? What we need is FACT, not guesses.
Not to be a nitpicker but the Bin Laden family has been on good terms with the US for a long time. They disowned and financially cut off Osama years before he attacked America because of his criticism of the Saudi royal family.
Bin Laden was born by his father’s 10th wife and who knows how many other wives he has had since then. Bin Laden himself had at least 4 known wives and 20 to 24 children. So family in that part of the world doesn’t have the same meaning as family here. It’s possible the people donating to Harvard never even met Osama.
We had a similar thread a few weeks ago when people wrote that the girl who won the Miss USA pageant had family in Hezbollah. Odds are that’s true but odds are just as good she wouldn’t recognize one of those Hezbollah family members if they walked up to her and shook her hand.
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The bin Laden family has donated millions of dollars to the Ivy League university over the years, including generous endowments for the school’s Islamic law program and others to finance scholarships for students from Muslim countries. end quote.
Harvard has a program in Islamic law.
I’d find it more respectable to study Islamic law in Egypt or in Syria or even in Shiraz.
If this is an attempt to synthesize Oriental and Occidental cultures, I will be extraordinarily enraged. There is no synthesizing them. There is no common ground without the abject sacrifice of individualism.
Are our best intellectuals trying to turn our culture into the Village?
Kagan is a Third Way liberal.
She will not fight against the powerful.
Instead, she will fawn upon and co-opt them.
I am a traditionalist liberal. I don’t support her.
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