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Palin adviser worked for foreign governments
Toronto Sun | 10/4/10 | Mark Hosenball
FR Posted on Monday, October 04, 2010 by pissant
WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin, seen as a possible Republican presidential candidate, has paid tens of thousands of dollars for foreign policy advice to a U.S. firm that represents three overseas governments, campaign finance documents show. While legal, the adviser’s work as an agent for other countries raises questions about whether Palin is receiving impartial information about foreign relations and could be become a subject of debate if she runs for president or another elected office.
Financial reports filed by the former Alaska governor’s fundraising committee known as SarahPAC, show that between December 2009 and the end of May 2010, it made seven payments to Orion Strategies. The firm is a Washington consulting firm founded and led by Randy Scheunemann, a lobbyist who served as a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain in his 2008 U.S. presidential bid and to Palin when she became McCain’s Republican running mate.
Controversy over campaign advisers who work as lobbyists for foreign or domestic interests can often blight national political campaigns. At least five of McCain’s aides quit his presidential campaign because of their lobbying activities.
The administration of President Barack Obama has put rules in place to try to restrict the hiring of lobbyists for senior government jobs.
Palin’s committee made a $30,000 payment to Orion on Dec. 2, 2009, and six other $10,000 payments to the firm between January and the end of May of this year. The reports say that at least three of the payments were for consulting work on international issues.
Documents filed by Orion Strategies with the Foreign Agents Registration Unit of the U.S. Department of Justice report that from December 2009 to May 2010 — the same period when it was being paid consulting fees by SarahPAC — the firm was formally registered under federal law as an agent for three foreign governments.
Orion directly represents Georgia and Taiwan, and has been retained by Montenegro through a second Washington lobbying firm.
Scheunemann, whose ties to Georgia stoked controversy when he advised McCain’s campaign, is not known to be working as a paid adviser for any other likely presidential contenders. Neither Palin, SarahPAC, Scheunemann nor Orion responded to telephone and e-mail requests for comment.
U.S. law requires U.S. agents representing foreign governments to disclose their activities. But they are not legally restricted from acting as advisers to U.S. political campaigns. Palin has kept herself in the limelight by backing conservative candidates for midterm elections this year and making high-profile appearances. But she has declined to say whether she will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Obama in the 2012 presidential election.
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ONE IS KNOWN BY THE COMPANY ONE KEEPS
(News release circa 2/11) Sarah Palin has added veteran Republican strategist Michael Glassner to serve as COS for her political action committee, Sarah PAC. Glassner, an attorney and longtime adviser to former Kansas senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole, has signed on to steer the former Alaska governor's political operation as she considers a possible 2012 presidential bid. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Glassner managed her vice presidential operations.
ITEM What does this tell you about Glassner: he worked for Dole AND McCain.
ITEM Michael Glassner served as counselor to NY/NJ Port Authority Chairman Lewis M. Eisenberg.
ITEM Eisenberg was one of the first to introduce pro-abortion policies into the Repub Party---was he a stalking horse for the dreaded neocons?
ITEM For many years, Mr. Eisenberg was a partner of Goldman Sachs & Co (at the same time Rahm Emanuel worked for G/S?)
ITEM Eisenberg served on New York Gov George Pataki's transition team and was a key adviser to New Jersey Gov Christine Whitman (both of them not known as staunch conservatives).
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REFERENCE After years w/ Goldman Sachs, in 1990, Eisenberg founded Granite Capital International Group, an investment management company headquartered in NYC. Mr. Eisenberg also served from 1995-2001 as Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the NY/NJ Port Authority. The Port Authority is the owner of the World Trade Center, and Mr. Eisenberg led the agency through the first three months of recovery and clean-up after the 911 terrorist attacks. He was recently named a member of New York's Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Authority, which will spearhead the rebuilding of Ground Zero.
Eisenberg's community and charitable activities include leadership in health and healthcare related institutions. He is on the Planning Board of UJA/United Jewish Federation.
Mr. Eisenberg was once elected Finance Chairman of the RNC. He raised millions of dollars for the Republican Party and Republican candidates.
Eisenberg’s support for Republicans appears to be limited..... He also wrote checks to liberal Democrats like Walter Mondale, Dick Gephardt, Tim Wirth, Chris Dodd, Bruce Babbitt, Joe Biden, and others.
Trivial details like that (/snix). Oh, and the b-i-g-g-i-e WRT how the US was going to pay for it all. One of Bush's top aides was fired b/c he told Bush the neos were low-balling him, and that the Iraq invasion might cost as much as $60 Billion.........now, trillions of dollars later (gag)............
BTW, does anyone know what Feith, Frum, Billy Kristol and the rest of the pukes actually do for a living? None of the pukes have any visible means of support, unless you count:
(1) <> media prostitution,
(2) <> editing stupid magazines subsidized by offshore wire transfers,
(3) <> infiltrating the US government,
(4) <> running endless think-tanks that pontificate on how nice it is to goad the US military into invading foreign countries of the pukes choosing,
(5) cheerleading <> amnesty,<> National Greatness, <> America as Empire, <> endless war, <> John McCain,
(6) <> squatting in the Repub Party destroying it from within,
(7) <> religious cleansing of the Repub Party,
(8) <> kicking so/con Repubs to the curb, and,
(9) <> selling US secrets to our enemies.
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FAST FORWARD TO LIBYA AND MISSION CREEP "No Fly Zone" is another term for nation-building. First you have to eliminate their ability to fly (obliterate infrastructure -- an Act of War), then there is the problem of figuring out what it means to "win" (as young American soldiers are slaughtered and wounded).
And then the fun stuff for neos -- rebuilding with trillions of US tax dollars with little or no accountability. And all those special little secret business arrangements.
There's neo guru, like Richard Perle's war profiteering starting a Mideast oil biz with US invasions. The connivers are salivating as we type---wetting their pants at the chance to get their greedy hands on trillions more US dollars..........with no concern for how many US soldiers and others are killed or have their lives ruined.