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Greg Craig
An antiwar protester in the 1960s, Greg Craig is an attorney who served as a senior adviser (on defense, foreign policy, and national security issues) to Senator Ted Kennedy from 1974 to 1988. In 1997 he was appointed by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as a senior adviser and a director of policy planning for the Bill Clintonadministration. In 2008 he became a top foreign policy adviser to presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Nicknamed by some “the lawyer of the left,” Craig has provided legal representation for a host of controversial defendants over the course of his professional career. According to the American Future Fund, a nonprofit organization that seeks to provide conservatives with “a mechanism to communicate ... on the issues that most ... concern them,” Craig “has a history of defending corrupt foreign leaders and murderers.”
One of Craig’s clients was John Hinckley Jr., the would-be assassin who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981. According to WorldNetDaily, “Craig was reportedly the architect of Hinckley's successful defense in which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, even though reports by the federal prosecution found Hinckley sane.”
In 1991 Craig represented Ted Kennedy and his accused nephew, William Kennedy Smith, in a Florida rape case where the young defendant was acquitted of the charges against him.
In 1998 Craig defended Bill Clinton during the impeachment hearings over the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
In the infamous Elian Gonzalez child custody case of 2000, Craig successfully represented Juan Miguel Gonzalez, the Cuban father of six-year-old Elian. Craig reportedly played a significant role in the decision to have U.S. marshals seize the boy and return him to Cuba, an outcome that was widely viewed as a victory for Fidel Castro.
Craig also defended former Bolivian Defense Minister Carlos Sanchez-Berzain, who was charged with “crimes against humanity” for having suppressed labor union riots in 2003 by ordering his army to massacre scores of unarmed civilians.
In 2004 Craig was counsel for then-United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan during investigations into the scandalous UN Oil-for-Food Program, which had allowed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to skim more than $21 billion from its coffers.
Craig also has represented Panamanian National Assembly president Pedro Miguel Gonzalez-Pinzon, a Manuel Noriega loyalistwho is believed to have been responsible for the 1992 murder of U.S. Army soldier Zak Hernandez Laporte and the attempted murder of another American soldier. According to a January 2008 Dallas Morning News editorial, “The murder indictment, combined with Mr. Gonzalez’s leadership position, is hindering bilateral relations and causing a new U.S.-Panama free trade accord to stall in the Senate, where Mr. Obama holds office.”
To view some supplemental resources about Greg Craig, click here.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/greggcraig.html
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Mazen Asbahi
Mazen Asbahi is a Chicago-based Muslim attorney who served as the Obama presidential campaign's first Muslim outreach coordinator.
He resigned in August 2008 (ten days after his appointment) when it came to light that he had served, with Jamal Said (an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Hamas funding trial), on the board of a subsidiary of the Saudi-sponsored North American Islamic Trust.
Asbahi also has ties to the Chicago and Detroit offices of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, to the Islamic Society of North America (yet another unindicted co-conspirator in the Hamas funding trial), to the Muslim Brotherhood, and to other Islamist organizations.
-- Information courtesy of Daniel Pipes
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The amount of anti-American and radical friends that Obama has surrounded himself with is astounding.
The fact that Americans are ignoring it makes me sick to my stomach.
Bernardine Dohrn
In the 1960s, Bernardine Dohrn and her husband Bill Ayers were leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society's "Weatherman" faction, which in 1969 went underground to become America's first terrorist cult. At a 1969 "War Council" in Flint, Michigan, Dohrn gave her most memorable and notorious speech to her followers. Holding her fingers in what became the Weatherman "fork salute," she said of the bloody murders recently committed by the Manson Family in which the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and several other inhabitants of a Benedict Canyon mansion had been brutally stabbed to death: "Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!" Dohrn is currently an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University.
A Chicago district attorney named Richard Elrod was seriously injured in a Weatherman riot that erupted during the Chicago "Days of Rage" in October 1969, and he was paralyzed for life as a result. Dohrn later led a celebration of Elrod's paralysis by leading her comrades in a parody of a Bob Dylan song -- "Lay, Elrod, Lay." Moreover, law-enforcement authorities are still investigating a bombing in San Francisco that killed a policeman, for which Professor Dohrn is one of the suspects.
Today Professor Dohrn expresses no real regret over her radical past. On one occasion she justified her actions, saying, "We organized both against war and racism. We also taught that all human life is equally valid, not just the body count of the United States."
In the mid-1990s Dohrn and her husband, Bill Ayers, hosted meetings at their Chicago home to introduce Barack Obama to their neighbors during his first run for the Illinois Senate.
In 2008 the Obama campaign produced a “fact sheet” pronouncing Dohrn and Ayers to be "respectable" members of the "mainstream" community.
To view a comprehensive profile and numerous supplemental resources about Bernardine Dohrn, click here.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/dohrn2.html
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Van Jones is gone due to his radical past. Let's keep it on a roll and expose the hell out of Obama's radical past.
Bill Ayers
Along with his wife Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers was a 1960s leader of the homegrown terrorist group Weatherman, a Communist-driven splinter faction of Students for a Democratic Society. Characterizing Weatherman as "an American Red Army," Ayers summed up the organization's ideology as follows: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents." In his 2001 screed Fugitive Days, Ayers boasts that he "participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972." All told, Ayers and Weatherman were responsible for some 30 bombings aimed at destroying the defense and security infrastructures of the United States. "I don't regret setting bombs, said Ayers in 2001, "I feel we didn't do enough." In Fugitive Days, Ayers reflects on whether or not he might use bombs against the U.S. in the future: "I can't imagine entirely dismissing the possibility," he writes.
Today Ayers is a professor of education and a Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois.
In the mid-1990s, Ayers and Dohrn hosted meetings at their Chicago home to introduce Barack Obama to their neighbors during his first run for the Illinois Senate. Ayers also contributed money to Obama’s 1996 Senate campaign.
In 1995 Obama was appointed as the first Chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), a “school reform organization” founded by Ayers, who would later write, in his book Teaching Toward Freedom, that his educational objective was to “teach against oppression” as embodied in “America’s history of evil and racism, thereby forcing social transformation.”
When National Review Online writer Stanley Kurtz in 2008 asked the Obama presidential campaign about the nature of its candidate's connection to Ayers, the campaign issued a statement claiming that Ayers had not been involved in the “recruitment” of Obama to the CAC board in 1995. But when Kurtz reviewed the CAC archives at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, he found that Ayers in fact had been one of five members of a working group that assembled the initial CAC board which hired Obama.
“Ayers founded CAC and was its guiding spirit,” Kurtz wrote in September 2008. “No one would have been appointed the CAC chairman without his approval.” According to Kurtz, the CAC archives show that Obama and Ayers worked as a team to advance the foundation's agenda -- with Obama responsible for fiscal matters while Ayers focused on shaping educational policy. The archived documents further reveal that Ayers served as an ex-officio member of the board that Obama chaired through CAC's first year; that Ayers served with Obama on the CAC governance committee; and that Ayers worked with Obama to write CAC’s bylaws.
A September 2008 WorldNetDaily report offers still more details: “Ayers made presentations to board meetings chaired by Obama. Ayers also spoke for the Chicago School Reform Collaborative before Obama's board, while Obama periodically spoke for the board at meetings of the collaborative … According to the documents, the CAC granted money to far-leftist causes, such as the radical Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which …has done work on behalf of Obama's presidential campaign.”
WorldNetDaily reported further that “while Obama chaired the board of the CAC, more than $600,000 was granted to an organization founded by Ayers and run by Mike Klonsky, a former top communist activist. Klonsky was leader of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party, which was effectively recognized by China as the all-but-official U.S. Maoist party.”
In 1999 Ayers joined the Woods Fund of Chicago, where he served as a director alongside Barack Obama until the latter left the Woods board in December 2002. In 2002 (while Obama was still on the board), the Woods Fund made a grant to Northwestern University Law School's Children and Family Justice Center, where Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn, was employed.
At a 2007 reunion of former members of the Weather Underground and Students for a Democratic Society, Ayerscomplained about “a kind of rising incipient American form of fascism,” and about America’s “jingoistic patriotism, unprecedented and unapologetic military expansion, white supremacy … attacks on women and girls, violent attacks, growing surveillance in every sphere of our lives … the targeting of gay and lesbian people …”
In 2008 the Obama campaign produced a “fact sheet” pronouncing Ayers and Dohrn to be "respectable" members of the "mainstream" community.
To view a comprehensive profile and numerous supplemental resources about Bill Ayers, click here.
(source): http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/bayersredo.html
By the way... For those of you that trust Factcheck.org, let it be known that both Obama and Ayers sat on the board of the founders of that organization; 'The Annenberg Foundation'.
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