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=bak, but also new----https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article24466504.html man behind Willie Horton ads has new target: Hillary ClintonSean Cockerham - McClatchy Newspapers
July 12, 2007 03:43 PM
Updated July 14, 2007 10:58 AM
TACOMA, Wash. — The presidential election season has begun. So Floyd Brown is out hunting Democrats.
Brown is among the nation's best-known conservative political knife throwers.This is the fellow responsible for the "Willie Horton" television ad that helped derail the Michael Dukakis presidential campaign in 1988. Brown later wrote a book called "Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton." He also created a 1-900 line in 1992 so callers could hear edited excerpts of telephone conversations between Clinton and Arkansas lounge singer Gennifer Flowers.George H.W. Bush, the Republican president at the time, repudiated the Flowers phone line "as the kind of sleaze that diminishes the political process." Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry once accused Brown of being "personally responsible for some of the sleaziest politics this country has seen."Now Brown and the national conservative group he founded, Citizens United, are working on "Hillary: The Movie" to come out this fall."This project aims to expose the truth about her conflicts in the past and her liberal plot for the future," Citizens United says on its Web site.Citizens United is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that Brown founded in 1988. Brown is now chairman of the board, and his protege, David Bossie, runs the day-to-day operations of Citizens United as its president.Brown, sitting in a Tacoma Starbucks on a recent afternoon, said there's good reason to focus on Hillary Clinton's bid for the presidency."She's going to be the (Democratic) nominee, absolutely," Brown said. "I don't have any doubt she's going to be the nominee."Brown was circumspect in talking about the movie, bringing the project up casually and describing it only as "accurate." He said it will focus mostly on Hillary Clinton's tenure in the U.S. Senate, as well as delve into matters like the Clintons' financial ties to the Emir of Dubai.It's being produced by Bossie and Dick Morris, who was President Clinton's top political adviser in the mid 1990s before he resigned amid reports he was seeing a prostitute. Morris, a columnist and television commentator, is now one of the Clintons' harshest critics.Some Democrats might be surprised to learn that Brown, 6-foot-6 inches tall and dressed in blue jeans and sneakers, does not actually have horns sticking out of his head.The 46-year-old is relaxed and quick to laugh, the deep, rich laugh of a full-grown kid. He's been a frequent guest on "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" and appeared on shows like CNN's "Crossfire." He spoke about Hillary Clinton without vitriol in a recent interview with The Tacoma News Tribune, even sounding somewhat admiring of her political discipline.Brown's involvement in the Hillary Clinton movie aside, he said he's less consumed with politics than he used to be. He has a consulting and media firm in Washington state, Excellentia Inc. Its Web site, http://excellentiamedia.com/, says it specializes in marketing to conservatives and Christians, and that past clients have included the Bob Dole and Steve Forbes presidential campaigns.He sounded happier talking about fishing than politics."There are a lot of things in life more important than politics," Brown said.Brown's roots in Washington state run deep. He was born in Bremerton. He graduated from Olympia High School and the University of Washington. Brown said his family has been here since before statehood. He and his wife have more than 250 relatives in a 50-square-mile radius of Tacoma."I can live wherever I want, and I choose to live in Tacoma," he said.Brown has three children, ages 12 to 21. His wife, Mary Beth Brown, wrote a book about Ronald Reagan's faith. Her Condoleezza Rice book, "Condi: the Life of a Steel Magnolia," comes out next spring.He returned to Washington last year after working for five years as executive director of Young America's Foundation, an organization that acquired the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif. Brown said he oversaw preservation of the ranch and construction of the $20 million Reagan Ranch Center.To hear Brown tell it, his life was changed as a 15-year-old in 1976 when he met Reagan, who was campaigning in Portland, Ore. at the time."He just cast a vision that tapped into my idealism," Brown said.Brown focused on Reagan in a speech last month to the Mainstream Republicans of Washington State. The meeting organizers were impressed."I just find him an intriguing, interesting man," said Grace Bennett, chairwoman of the 29th District Republicans of South Tacoma and Lakewood.Former Pierce County (Wash.) Republican Party Chairwoman Jane Milhans said she arranged a different Brown event a few months ago where he gave a speech about staying engaged in politics. Milhans, a longtime friend of Brown's, said he can be inspirational.Seattle Democratic political strategist Cathy Allen said she senses Brown is becoming more moderate. She believes he might want to be more popular and is moving closer toward the moderate Washington Republican tradition of figures like former Gov. Dan Evans and Secretary of State Sam Reed.Allen said time will tell if Brown ends up mellowing into a nice guy in Tacoma.
Of course, there is the upcoming "Hillary: The Movie."
"I can hardly wait to see that one," Allen said.
Brown refers to it as "ancient history." But his name will be forever linked to one of the most controversial political ads in U.S. history.
It came as Dukakis was competing with George H.W. Bush for the presidency in 1988.
The television ad showed a menacing mug shot of Willie Horton, who is black. A narrator then said that Horton "murdered a boy in a robbery, stabbing him 19 times. Despite a life sentence, Horton received 10 weekend passes from prison. Horton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man, and repeatedly raping his girlfriend. Weekend prison passes - Dukakis on crime."
Dukakis was governor of Massachusetts and had allowed the furlough program.
Critics said the ad preyed on racial fears. Even some Republicans were offended.
"I'm not a big fan of Floyd Brown," Mary Matalin, Bush's political director, told The New York Times in 1994. "He gave us the Willie Horton ads that the Republican Party has had to eat for two election cycles now."
Brown is unapologetic. He has always maintained the ad had nothing to do with race."I'm proud of it. It was a great ad," Brown said. "It tackled an issue that has touched a lot of people."
Brown said there's a moment in every campaign when a candidate has something to handle. Dukakis didn't handle Horton well, he said.George W. Bush, on the other hand, skillfully deflected attacks on his National Guard service during the 2004 campaign, he said. Brown conceded that his old nemesis Bill Clinton was good at it as well, particularly in beating back the Gennifer Flowers allegations that Brown worked hard to publicize.
"Clinton handled that all very masterfully," he said.
He said he can't predict how "Hillary: The Movie" might affect Hillary Clinton's bid for the presidency. Every campaign is different.
Brown compares himself to a worker in a vineyard.
"Every once in a while you produce a fine bottle of wine," he said. "But most of the time you're just up there cutting off grapes."no lnx

=i thought he was fading, but see fake news, pal of k conwaywow, see ag 21 at bottom (dir mail?)crazy or just fear monger?amicus in secret energy task force lawsuit ctr for gov't integritysee citizens united orgcapt bak 8182008<a href="http://www.constantinereport.com/on-floyd-brown-and-david-bossie-deconstructing-the-obama-smear-machine-2/">http://www.constantinereport.com/on-floyd-brown-and-david-bossie-deconstructing-the-obama-smear-machine-2/</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a data-taxonomy="person" data-termid="9976" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/bill-berkowitz/" data-title="Bill Berkowitz" title="Bill Berkowitz" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;"> Berkowitz</a> www.mediatransparency.org May 5, 2008 Floyd Brown and David Bossie: Back in the Swift Boat captain's chairs Two longtime practitioners of negative campaigning are mainstreaming attacks on Clinton and Obama<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Floyd Brown and David Bossie have spent a good part of their political careers making life miserable for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Unlike <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Richard Mellon" data-termid="7663" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/richard-mellon/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Richard Mellon</a> Scaife, the billionaire financier who was unremitting in his efforts to take the Clintons down during the latter part of the twentieth century and whose newspaper endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton prior to the Pennsylvania primary, neither Brown nor Bossie have had a pro-Hillary conversion.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These days, however, Brown's new organization, The National Campaign Fund -- which launched a new website "ExposeObama.com" -- and Bossie's Citizens United have added Sen. Barack Obama to the mix.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Brown recently told Time magazine that "he had established several other front groups to fund a long-range effort to erode Obama's support, including a second PAC, called The Legacy Committee, a 527 organization called Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America and a so-called "social welfare" 501(c)4 nonprofit called the Policy Issues Institute."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bossie told Newsweek that he was "assembling material for TV spots about Obama's ties with [Bill] Ayers, a Chicago professor and unrepentant former member of the Weather Underground, a group that bombed several government buildings to protest the Vietnam War."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Best known for his infamous <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Willie Horton" data-termid="16569" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/willie-horton/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Willie Horton</a> television advertisement that helped put the kybosh on Democratic Massachusetts Governor <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Michael Dukakis" data-termid="16570" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/michael-dukakis/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Michael Dukakis</a>' presidential aspirations in 1988, Brown's National Campaign Fund has prepared a new TV attack ad called "Victims," which lambastes Obama for being too easy on gang murderers.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The campaign by Hillary Clinton has not been able to raise Obama's negatives," Brown told Time. "It is absolutely critical that Obama's negatives go up with Republicans." Time reported that copies of the ad were "e-mailed to between 3 and 7 million conservatives this week, with a plea for more funding to further spread the message."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While declining to comment on how much money he was hoping to raise, Brown pointed out that "All of the efforts I have ever done in my life have been significantly funded. This is going to be the most Internet-intensive effort for an ad debut ever."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The ad draws a parallel between Obama's weakness on gang violence and the war on terror," said Brown. According to the conservative news site, NewsMax.com, the ad "tells of a woman leaving church choir practice who was killed by gang gunfire while shielding her 6-year-old daughter, a 15-year-old boy beaten with bricks after a gang member crashed into his car, and a 14-year-old boy shot five times in the back for refusing to flash a gang hand sign."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"That same year, Barack Obama -- then an Illinois state senator -- voted against expanding the death penalty for gang-related murders, the ad points out," NewsMax reported. The ad ends: "When the time came to get tough, Obama chose to be weak. So the question is: Can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?"<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to Time, "Brown's new ad focuses on a 2001 vote by Obama in the Illinois Senate to oppose a bill that would have expanded the use of the death penalty if the perpetrator of a crime belonged to a gang. The links between Obama's vote on that issue and the deaths of three Chicago resident's are indirect and tenuous, as is the further connection the ad draws between the issue of Obama's position on the death penalty and the issue of international terrorism."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The ExposeObama team consists of Brown, who is also president of Excellentia Inc., which according to his bio, is "a consulting company specializing in non-profit organizational strategy, development and the marketing of ideas"; executive director Bruce E. Hawkins, "a highly skilled political strategist" who has worked for such conservative as <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Pat Roberts" data-termid="10171" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/pat-roberts/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Pat Roberts</a>on, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Pat Buchanan" data-termid="7643" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/pat-buchanan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Pat Buchanan</a> and <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Mike Huckabee" data-termid="14521" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/mike-huckabee/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Mike Huckabee</a>; treasurer and general counsel James V. Lacy, the co-founder and managing partner of Wewer & Lacy, LLP and the cofounder in 1978, along with the late anti-tax crusader Howard Jarvis, of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On another front, a group called Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America, headed by California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, teamed with Brown to attack both Obama and Hillary Clinton for wanting to raise taxes on the American people. According to DeVore, both senators "want to raise taxes. Americans should have this information and be aware of the other extremely liberal positions Obama and Clinton hold."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The ad draws a parallel between Obama and Clinton's records on taxes," said Brown. "The bottom line is that they can't deal with our economic problems by raising taxes. International competition cannot be addressed by raising taxes and raising the costs of business in America."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the early 1990's Brown penned "Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton," and he took credit for creating a 1-900 line for callers to listen to edited excerpts of telephone conversations between Bill Clinton and Arkansas lounge singer Gennifer Flowers who, during Bill Clinton's run for the presidency in 1992, claimed that she had had a twelve-year relationship with him.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last summer, when it looked as if Hillary Clinton was a sure-fire cinch to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, Brown announced that he was working on a movie that, according to the website of Citizens United, would "expose the truth about her conflicts in the past and her liberal plot for the future."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now, with Brown having moved on, "Hillary: The Movie" (website) is about to "explode onto the scene!" claims Citizens United's website. Produced by CU Chairman of the Board and President, David Bossie, the author of the recently released book, "Hillary: The Politics of Personal Destruction," the movie contains more than 40 interviews "with experts, opinion makers, and many of the people who personally locked horns with the Clintons."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The film has "a cast to end all casts," and includes <a data-taxonomy="person" data-termid="16576" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/dick-morris/" data-title="Dick Morris" title="Dick Morris" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Dick Morris</a>, Ann Coulter, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Newt Gingrich" data-termid="7482" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/newt-gingrich/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Newt Gingrich</a>, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Jeff Gerth" data-termid="16577" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/jeff-gerth/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Jeff Gerth</a>, Buzz Patterson, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Michael Barone" data-termid="14937" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/michael-barone/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Michael Barone</a>, Billy Dale, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Cyrus Nowrasteh" data-termid="9183" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/cyrus-nowrasteh/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Cyrus Nowrasteh</a>, Tony Blankley, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Dick Armey" data-termid="16581" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/dick-armey/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Dick Armey</a>, Bay Buchanan, Joe Connor, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Mark Levin" data-termid="16583" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/mark-levin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Mark Levin</a>, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Frank Gaffney" data-termid="7755" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/frank-gaffney/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Frank Gaffney</a>, Peter Paul, Gary Aldrich, <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Dan Burton" data-termid="10422" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/dan-burton/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Dan Burton</a>, John Mica, Michael Medved, Kathleen Willey, Kate O'Beirne, and Larry Kudlow.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Two Trailers for the film and three clever -- one 30 second and two 10 second -- advertisements for the film are featured at CU's website. The ads have been the cause of legal action: In late March, CNN reported that the Supreme Court had rejected CU's fight "to air commercials promoting" the movie without having to "indicate by name its sponsorship and disclose its political donors."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to CNN, The case, rejected on jurisdictional grounds by the Supreme Court, had been appealed after a federal District Court refused to issue a preliminary injunction clearing the way for the promotions to run. "At issue," CNN reported, "was whether broadcast ads promoting the 90-minute documentary ... are subject to strict campaign finance laws on political advocacy, or would be considered a constitutionally protected form of commercial speech." The three-judge District Court panel "rejected the group's arguments that the documentary is more akin to news or information programs like PBS' 'Nova' or CBS' '60 Minutes.'"<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"'The Movie' is susceptible of no other interpretation than to inform the electorate that Senator Clinton is unfit for office, that the United States would be a dangerous place in a President Hillary world, and that viewers should vote against her," wrote the judges in their ruling.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Both trailers are fast paced goulashes of Hillary sound-bites, flashing headlines and talking heads. The first one begins with a campaigning former North <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Carolina Sen" data-termid="13263" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/carolina-sen/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Carolina Sen</a>ator <a data-taxonomy="person" title="John Edwards" data-termid="7972" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/john-edwards/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">John Edwards</a> cautioning against "nostalgia," and climaxes with a long quote from former Clinton aide and Fox News Channel commentator <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Dick Morris" data-termid="16576" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/dick-morris/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Dick Morris</a>: "We must never underestimate this woman. We must never underestimate her chances of winning. And we must never forget the fundamental danger that this woman poses to every value that we hold dear. You see," says Morris," I know her."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Although in reality, the film is "explod[ing] onto the scene" in only a handful of selected venues, the American Spectator's Quin Hillyer called it (and the companion book), "The best compendium of Hillary mendacity (and at-least-near-criminality) available right now." Hillyer acknowledges that he "did a final copy-edit for -- but did not write -- the book." Hillyer assures readers that the film does not merely re-hash Hillary's greatest hits, but includes "an examination of more recent scandals that never received the attention they deserved."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">David Bossie is also the president and manager of an entity called The Presidential Coalition LLC, described by SourceWatch, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy as "a Republican front group that registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a Section 527 political action committee on June 30, 2005 ... [and] is affiliated with Citizens United. The group's IRS filing stated that the PAC was "Organized to directly or indirectly accept contributions and/or make expenditures to influence the selection, nomination, election or appointment of individuals to federal, state or local public office, or office in a political organization."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bossie "was fired in 1998 from his job as chief investigator for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight -- which was investigating alleged <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Clinton White" data-termid="7655" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/clinton-white/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Clinton White</a> House campaign finance abuses -- for his role in releasing selectively edited transcripts of former Clinton administration official Webster Hubbell's prison conversations," Media Matters for America has reported. "(Hubbell went to prison for defrauding his Little Rock, AR, law firm.)"<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He is also the author of a spate of books attacking Democrats including "Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Al Gore" data-termid="8051" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/al-gore/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Al Gore</a> (2000), "Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11" (2004), and "The Many Faces of John Kerry: Why This Massachusetts Liberal Is Wrong For America" (2004).<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ramping up the rage and ranting up the rhetoric about Obama's relationship with <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Bill Ayers" data-termid="16591" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/bill-ayers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Bill Ayers</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to Newsweek, David Bossie has placed Obama in his sights. The magazine reported that Bossie maintained that he was "assembling material for TV spots about Obama's ties with [Bill] Ayers, a Chicago professor and unrepentant former member of the Weather Underground, a group that bombed several government buildings to protest the Vietnam War."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Shortly after Obama's victory in the Wisconsin primary, longtime conservative columnist Cliff Kincaid, accused the Illinois Senator of having "controversial socialist connections." Kincaid, the editor of Accuracy in Media, a right wing media watchdog group, and a contributing editor to FamilySecurityMatters.org, charged Obama with being "an associate of a Chicago-based Marxist group with access to millions of labor union dollars and connections to expert political consultants, including a convicted swindler."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Questions about Obama's relationship with Ayers were subsequently raised by conservative radio and Fox News Channel talk show host <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Sean Hannity" data-termid="10899" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/sean-hannity/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Sean Hannity</a>. <a data-taxonomy="post_tag" title="ABC" data-termid="265" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/tag/abc/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">ABC</a> News' <a data-taxonomy="person" title="George Stephanopoulos" data-termid="16250" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/george-stephanopoulos/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">George Stephanopoulos</a> asked Obama about Ayers during the Obama-Clinton debate prior to the Pennsylvania primary.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Recent columns by <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Charles Krauthammer" data-termid="9593" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/charles-krauthammer/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Charles Krauthammer</a> and Ann Coulter also raised the specter of Ayers.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to Krauthammer, Ayers, along with <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Tony Rezko" data-termid="12532" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/tony-rezko/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Tony Rezko</a>, "the indicted fixer," and <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Jeremiah Wright" data-termid="15738" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/jeremiah-wright/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Jeremiah Wright</a>, "the racist reverend," make up Obama's "Three Amigos":<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; border-color: rgb(61, 209, 236) rgb(61, 209, 236) rgb(61, 209, 236) rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 60px 0px 60px 20px; padding: 20px 0px 40px 60px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Obama makes it sound as if the relationship consists of having run into each other at the DMV. In fact, Obama's political career was launched in a 1995 meeting at Ayers' home. Obama's own campaign says that they maintain 'friendly' relations.</blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Obama's defense is that he was 8 when Ayers and his Weather Underground comrades were planting bombs at the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol and other buildings. True. But Obama was 40 when Ayers said publicly that he doesn't regret setting bombs. Indeed, he said, 'I feel we didn't do enough.'<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Would you maintain friendly relations with an unrepentant terrorist? Would you even shake his hand? To ask why Obama does is perfectly legitimate and perfectly relevant to understanding what manner of man he is.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Newsweek reported that "Obama, who lives near Ayers in Chicago's Hyde Park, attended an event at Ayers's house when Obama ran for the state Senate in 1995 -- and served on the board of a nonprofit with him for several years. Obama is aware of the acts Ayers committed when he was 8 years old and has called them 'detestable,'" says spokesman Ben LaBolt, adding that Obama occasionally bumps into Ayers in his neighborhood 'but has not seen him for months.' At a recent dinner party, according to one guest who asked not to be identified discussing a private gathering, Ayers 'ridiculed' the notion that Obama shared his left-wing views: 'He thought the idea that there was a political connection between them was absurd.'"<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In early March, John Ponder of the Pensito Review wrote that Obama biographer, John K. Wilson, author of "Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest," who said that Ayers was "not affiliated with the Obama campaign," described the Ayers relationship: "In 1995, State Sen. Alice Palmer held an event for supporters at the home of Ayers, where she announced her plans to run for Congress and introduced Obama as her chosen successor. Obama also served on the board of directors for a progressive foundation, the Woods Fund, from 1999-2001, when Ayers was also on the board. In 2001, Ayers gave $200 to Obama's state senate campaign fund. And Obama and Ayers appeared together on a 1997 panel at the University of Chicago dealing with juvenile justice (Obama also praised Ayers' approach on the subject in an op-ed he wrote that year), and on a 2002 panel on public intellectuals at the University of Illinois at Chicago.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Just as Obama's explanations about his relationship with the Rev. <a data-taxonomy="person" title="Jeremiah Wright" data-termid="15738" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/jeremiah-wright/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;">Jeremiah Wright</a> -- and Wright's increased public presence -- has not put that saga to rest, there is no doubt that right wing columnists, talk show hosts, partisan advertising and public relations specialists, pundits and two longtime practitioners of negative campaigning, Floyd Brown and David Bossie, will squeeze every last drop out of the Ayers controversy.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=236 ••••••• <a href="http://www.constantinereport.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/bossie.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s, border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86) 0s;"><img src="/6b1f0a15-d969-5b50-9def-8044a35f64f3.jpg"/></a></td></tr><tr class=""><th style="text-align: left;">Motto</th><td class="note">Dedicated to restoring our government to citizen control.</td></tr><tr class=""><th style="text-align: left;">Formation</th><td class="note">1988</td></tr><tr class=""><th style="text-align: left;">Type</th><td class="">Non-profit</td></tr><tr class=""><th style="text-align: left;">Headquarters</th><td class="">Washington, DC</td></tr><tr class=""><th style="text-align: left;">President, Chairman</th><td class="">David Bossie</td></tr><tr class=""><th style="text-align: left;">Website</th><td class="url"><a class="external free" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.citizensunited.org/">http://www.citizensunited.org</a></td></tr></tbody></table>Citizens United is a <a title="Conservatism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism">conservative</a> <a title="Non-profit organization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization">non-profit organization</a>. Its President and Chairman is <a title="David Bossie" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bossie">David Bossie</a>.<table class="toc" id="toc"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2>[<a class="internal" id="togglelink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#">hide</a>]</div><ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#Overview">1 Overview</a><ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#Advocacy">1.1 Advocacy</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#American_Sovereignty_Project">1.2 American Sovereignty Project</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#Leadership">1.3 Leadership</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#Citizens_United_Productions">2 Citizens United Productions</a><ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#Citizens_United_v.Federal_Election_Commission">2.1 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#References">3 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#External_links">4 External links</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2>[<a title="Edit section: Overview" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens_United&action=edit&section=1">edit</a>] Overview</h2>Citizens United describes its mission as being dedicated to restoring the United States government to "citizens' control" and to "reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security." To fulfill this mission, Citizens United undertakes various educational projects, including television advertising and feature films.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-About-0">[1]</a>Citizens United was founded in 1988 by conservative activist <a title="Floyd Brown" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Brown">Floyd Brown</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-1">[2]</a>. David Bossie has been its president since 2000. Its offices are on Pennsylvania Avenue in the <a title="Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill,Washington,D.C.">Capitol Hill area</a> of <a title="Washington, D.C." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> The associated Citizens United Foundation is a tax-exempt <a class="mw-redirect" title="501(c)(4)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29%284%29">501(c)(4)</a> organization.<h3>[<a title="Edit section: Advocacy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens_United&action=edit&section=2">edit</a>] Advocacy</h3>Citizens United is known for supporting conservative causes even when they conflict with the <a title="Republican Party (United States)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29">Republican Party</a>. The group produced a <a title="Television advertisement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_advertisement">television advertisement</a> that reveals several "surprisingly liberal" legislative actions taken by <a title="John McCain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain">John McCain</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-2">[3]</a> which aired on <a title="Fox News Channel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel">Fox News Channel</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-3">[4]</a> On October 2, 2006, in reaction to revelations of a GOP cover-up of inappropriate communications between Congressman <a title="Mark Foley" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley">Mark Foley</a> and teenage pages, Citizens United president David Bossie called on <a title="Dennis Hastert" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert">Dennis Hastert</a> to resign over his role in covering up the scandal.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-4">[5]</a><h3>[<a title="Edit section: American Sovereignty Project" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens_United&action=edit&section=3">edit</a>] American Sovereignty Project</h3>The American Sovereignty Project is the grassroots lobbying arm of Citizens United, focused on issues related to American sovereignty and national security. Its goals include a complete withdrawal from the <a title="United Nations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations">United Nations</a>, defeat of the treaty establishing a permanent <a title="International Criminal Court" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court">International Criminal Court</a>, and "rejection of one-world government".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-About-0">[1]</a><h3>[<a title="Edit section: Leadership" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens_United&action=edit&section=4">edit</a>] Leadership</h3>Citizens United's current leadership includes David N. Bossie, President and Chairman; Michael Boos, Vice President and General Counsel; Douglas L. Ramsey, Secretary-Treasurer; and Directors Ron Robinson, John Bliss, Kirby Wilbur.<h2>[<a title="Edit section: Citizens United Productions" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens_United&action=edit&section=5">edit</a>] Citizens United Productions</h2>Citizens United Productions, headed by president David Bossie, has released 14 feature-length <a class="mw-redirect" title="Documentary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary">documentaries</a> and will release three more films in Fall 2010. The following is a list of films produced by Citizens United Productions.<ul><li>ACLU: At War with America IRONY</li><li>Blocking 'The Path to 9/11'</li><li><a title="Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_War:The_Battle_Over_Illegal_Immigration">Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration</a></li><li>Broken Promises: The UN at 60</li><li><a title="Celsius 41.11" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_41.11">Celsius 41.11</a></li><li><a title="Hillary: The Movie" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary:The_Movie">Hillary: The Movie</a></li><li>HYPE: The Obama Effect</li><li>Perfect Valor</li><li><a title="Rediscovering God in America" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rediscovering_God_in_America">Rediscovering God in America</a></li><li>Rediscovering God in America II: Our Heritage</li><li>Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny</li><li>We Have the Power: Making America Energy Independent</li><li><a title="Generation Zero" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Zero">Generation Zero</a></li><li>9 Days That Changed the World</li></ul>Rediscovering God in America, Rediscovering God in America II, Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny, We Have the Power, and Nine Days That Changed The Worldwere hosted by the married couple <a title="Newt Gingrich" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a> and <a title="Callista Gingrich" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callista_Gingrich">Callista Gingrich</a>.<h3>[<a title="Edit section: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens_United&action=edit&section=6">edit</a>] Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission</h3>Citizens United was the plaintiff in a Supreme Court case, <a title="Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v.Federal_Election_Commission">Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission</a>. The case began as a challenge to various statutory provisions of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act_of_2002">Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002</a>, known as the "McCain-Feingold" law. The case revolved around the documentary Hillary: The Movie which was produced by Citizens United. Under the McCain-Feingold law, a federal court in Washington D.C. ruled that Citizens United would be barred from advertising its film.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-5">[6]</a> The case (<a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/08-205.htm">08-205</a>, 2010 U.S. LEXIS 766) was heard in the <a class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court">United States Supreme Court</a> on March 24, 2009. During oral argument, the government argued that under existing precedents, it had the power under the constitution to prohibit the publication of books and movies if they were made or sold by corporations. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-6">[7]</a> After that hearing, the Court requested re-argument specifically to address whether deciding the case required the Court to reconsider those earlier decisions in <a title="Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_v.Michigan_Chamber_of_Commerce">Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" title="McConnell v. FEC" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McConnell_v.FEC">McConnell v. FEC</a>. The case was re-argued on September 9. On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court overturned the provision of McCain-Feingold barring corporations and unions from paying for political ads made independently of candidate campaigns.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-7">[8]</a><h2>[<a title="Edit section: References" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizens_United&action=edit&section=7">edit</a>] References</h2>---<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_United">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_United</a></div>---<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center</a>birther
The Western Journalism Center (also called the Western Center for Journalism), founded in 1991 by <a title="Joseph Farah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Farah">Joseph Farah</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" title="James H. Smith" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H.Smith">James H. Smith</a>, who had previously worked together as editor and publisher, respectively, of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Sacramento Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Union">Sacramento Union</a>. The Center is based in <a title="Sacramento, California" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento,California">Sacramento, California</a>.The Center helped fund <a class="mw-redirect" title="Christopher W. Ruddy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_W.Ruddy">Christopher W. Ruddy</a> (who later founded <a class="mw-redirect" title="NewsMax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsMax">NewsMax</a>) to investigate conspiracies surrounding the death of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Vincent Foster" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Foster">Vincent Foster</a>, which was part of the <a title="Arkansas Project" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project">Arkansas Project</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-foster-0">[1]</a> Eventually, "the Center placed some 50 ads reprinting Ruddy's <a title="Pittsburgh Tribune-Review" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Tribune-Review">Pittsburgh Tribune-Review</a> stories in the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Times" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Times">Washington Times</a>, then repackaged the articles as a packet titled "The Ruddy Investigation," which sold for $12." In addition, "Farah also bought full page ads publicizing Ruddy's allegations that appeared in papers including <a title="The New York Times" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times">The New York Times</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post">Washington Post</a>, <a title="Chicago Tribune" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a>, and <a title="Los Angeles Times" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times">Los Angeles Times</a>" and "the ad campaign brought in over $500,000, half from individual donors-many of whom bought Foster conspiracy materials-and half from foundations, including $100,000 from Carthage." The <a title="Carthage Foundation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage_Foundation">Carthage Foundation</a> is controlled by <a title="Richard Mellon Scaife" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife">Richard Mellon Scaife</a>, whose foundations gave $330,000 to the Center in 1994 and 1995.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-scaife-1">[2]</a> Later, "WJC circulated a video featuring Ruddy's claims, Unanswered-The Death of Vincent Foster, that was produced by conservative <a title="James Dale Davidson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dale_Davidson">James Davidson</a>, chairman of the <a title="National Taxpayers Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Taxpayers_Union">National Taxpayers Union</a> (NTU) and co-editor of the Strategic Investment newsletter."In 1998, the Center sued the <a class="mw-redirect" title="IRS" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS">IRS</a> claiming it was audited in 1996 for political reasons. The lawsuit was thrown out, with appeals denied. A lower court ruled that the IRS could not be sued on allegations of politically motivated auditing practices, while a federal appeals court ruled that the Center's lawsuit was barred by the statute of limitations.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-lawsuit2-2">[3]</a>In 1997, Farah created the news website <a title="WorldNetDaily" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldNetDaily">WorldNetDaily</a> as a division of the Western Journalism Center. In 1999, WorldNetDaily was spun off<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-3">[4]</a> as a for-profit division of the Center. The Center and Farah own a majority of WorldNetDaily's stock.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-4">[5]</a>In 2004, Smith became publisher of a revived website/magazine version of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Sacramento Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Union">Sacramento Union</a>, but was ousted from that position in June 2005.The Center doesn't include either an address or telephone number on its letterhead, but is believed to be headed by conservative political operative <a title="Floyd Brown" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Brown">Floyd Brown</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-5">[6]</a> In March 2009, the Center sent out an email to conservatives promoting <a title="Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories">conspiracy theories</a> regarding <a title="Barack Obama" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">Barack Obama</a>'s citizenship.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-6">[7]</a><h2>[<a title="Edit section: References" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Western_Journalism_Center&action=edit&section=1">edit</a>] References</h2><div class="references-small"><ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-foster-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_ref-foster_0-0">^{</a> }<a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-06.html">""Western Journalism Center - Joseph Farah""</a>. Public Eye. <a class="external free" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-06.html">http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-06.html</a>. Retrieved November 29, 2005.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=%22Western+Journalism+Center+-+Joseph+Farah%22&rft.atitle=Public+Eye&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.publiceye.org%2Fconspire%2Fclinton%2FClintonculwar8-06.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Western_Journalism_Center" /></li><li id="cite_note-scaife-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_ref-scaife_1-0">^{</a> }<a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaifegraf050299.htm">""Decades of Contributions to Conservatism""</a>. The Washington Post (May 2, 1999). 1999-05-09. <a class="external free" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaifegraf050299.htm">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaifegraf050299.htm</a>. Retrieved June 29, 2006.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=%22Decades+of+Contributions+to+Conservatism%22&rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post+%28May+2%2C+1999%29&rft.date=1999-05-09&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-srv%2Fpolitics%2Fspecial%2Fclinton%2Fstories%2Fscaifegraf050299.htm&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Western_Journalism_Center" /></li><li id="cite_note-lawsuit2-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_ref-lawsuit2_2-0">^{</a> }"Journalism group can't sue over 'politically motivated' audit," Associated Press, December 20, 2000</li><li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_ref-3">^{</a> }<a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17207">World's 'No. 1 website' goes for-profit</a></li><li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_ref-4">^{</a> }Krepel, Terry (2002-02-19). <a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2002/wndown.html">"The 'O' Word"</a>. ConWebWatch. <a class="external free" rel="nofollow" href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2002/wndown.html">http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2002/wndown.html</a>. Retrieved 2008-02-02. "So, who owns WorldNetDaily? Joseph Farah is a little reluctant to answer."<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=The+%27O%27+Word&rft.atitle=ConWebWatch&rft.aulast=Krepel&rft.aufirst=Terry&rft.au=Krepel%2C%26%2332%3BTerry&rft.date=2002-02-19&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fconwebwatch.tripod.com%2Fstories%2F2002%2Fwndown.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Western_Journalism_Center" /></li><li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_ref-5">^{</a> }<a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/?page_id=2">"About"</a>. Western Center for Journalism. <a class="external free" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/?page_id=2">http://www.westernjournalism.com/?page_id=2</a>. Retrieved 2009-04-02. "Today the Center is led by columnist and veteran broadcaster Floyd Brown."<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=About&rft.atitle=Western+Center+for+Journalism&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.westernjournalism.com%2F%3Fpage_id%3D2&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Western_Journalism_Center" /></li><li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_ref-6">^{</a> }Krepel, Terry (2009-03-31). <a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-krepel/the-return-of-the-western_b_181270.html">"The Return of the Western Journalism Center"</a>. Huffington Post. <a class="external free" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-krepel/the-return-of-the-western_b_181270.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-krepel/the-return-of-the-western_b_181270.html</a>. Retrieved 2009-04-02.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=The+Return+of+the+Western+Journalism+Center&rft.atitle=Huffington+Post&rft.aulast=Krepel&rft.aufirst=Terry&rft.au=Krepel%2C%26%2332%3BTerry&rft.date=2009-03-31&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fterry-krepel%2Fthe-return-of-the-western_b_181270.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Western_Journalism_Center" /></li></ol></div><h2>[<a title="Edit section: External links" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Western_Journalism_Center&action=edit&section=2">edit</a>] External links</h2><ul><li><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/">Western Journalism Center website</a></li><li><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://archives.cjr.org/year/96/2/foster.asp">"The Vincent Foster Factory,"</a> Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 1996. An examination of the Western Journalism Center's promotion of Christopher W. Ruddy's reporting on the Vincent Foster case.</li></ul> ------HUNTINGmet Jim Johnson, who egged  resistance to Ark integration, in 88 p 72HORTON: Nat Sec Action Commitee behind Am for Bush (sponsored ad)   dtr friend of helms, raised 9M$ on ads? p 73  FEC investigated Ailes connection, but blocked by partisansgpa a wobbly<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html">http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html</a>PRA<h2 style="line-height: 18px;">Citizens United - Floyd G. Brown</h2>The web banner for Citizens United explains that the group is dedicated to "Reasserting Traditional American Values: limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, national sovereignty and security."<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P235_65665" style="text-decoration-line: none;">85</a> The group claims 150,000 members, but that is most likely a count of anyone who has sent money for projects touted in frequent direct mail appeals. The group has a member newsletter, Citizens Agenda, and a specialty periodical, ClintonWatch, sent to selected reporters and political activists.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P236_65993" style="text-decoration-line: none;">86</a>Citizens United is the project of Floyd G. Brown who published "Slick Willie:" Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton, a slim paperback book distributed as part of a direct mail fundraising effort. The book is a right-wing tirade designed to document Clinton's lack of character. What it also showed was that Brown unabashedly mixes sexism and homophobia in his conservative analysis.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P238_66558" style="text-decoration-line: none;">87</a> Along with standard attacks on Clinton as a draft dodger and friend to labor unions, Brown asserts: "Bill Clinton's America sees no difference between families of homosexual lovers' and the traditional, monogamous, faithful family...In addition, Mr. Clinton has surrendered completely to the pro-abortion feminists who dominate the Democratic Party."<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P239_67043" style="text-decoration-line: none;">88</a> It's no surprise to find cites to the ultra-conservative Human Events and neo-conservative American Spectator in "Slick Willie."Brown's bio establishes his ultra-conservative credentials and his success at attracting media attention:<blockquote><ul><a name="P241_67293">In 1988 and 1992, Mr. Brown's independent expenditure campaigns supporting President Bush produced effective and memorable ads including the now-famous "Willie Horton ad." In 1991 Citizens United produced the highly controversial ad "Who Will Judge the Judge" in its successful campaign supporting Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the Supreme Court...A frequently sought after commentator and lecturer, Mr. Brown has appeared on radio and television talk shows including CNN's Crossfire and Inside Politics, NBC News, ABC's Prime Time Live, CBS News, FOX Morning News, Comedy Central's Politically Incorrect, Donahue, and many more.</a><a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P242_67929" style="text-decoration-line: none;">89</a></ul></blockquote>Brown remains proud of the 1988 Willie Horton ad, widely denounced as racist pandering. In 1992, he attempted to place ads for a $4.99 paid phone call that would play tapes of Gennifer Flowers in a telephone conversation with then-governor Clinton. The hook was a promise that the conversation probed sexual matters. The incident was so tasteless that the Bush/Quayle campaign was again forced to condemn Brown and his tactics.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P244_68428" style="text-decoration-line: none;">90</a> Brown also arranged a screening for a reporter of Militia leader Linda Thompson's video, "Waco: The Big Lie," a potage of conspiracy theories linking Clinton to premeditated murder.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P245_68653" style="text-decoration-line: none;">91</a>In a 1994 Chicago Tribune opinion piece, reporter Carol Jouzaitis wrote that the main researcher for Citizens United, David Bossie, "harvests tales of alleged wrongdoings from a network of Clinton enemies, then peddles them to Capitol Hill and media contacts in hopes of prompting scandalous stories.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P247_69030" style="text-decoration-line: none;">92</a> Bossie was the main researcher for Brown's Slick Willie book, and wrote for ClintonWatch. Jouzaitis found that some members of the mainstream media regularly checked in with Brown for "for the latest Whitewater grist." For instance, Jouzaitis reported that "Members of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board...[met] with Brown and examined his pile of information." Following that meeting, "the Journal devoted nearly half of its editorial page one day to reprinting" materials obtained from Brown:<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P248_69659" style="text-decoration-line: none;">93</a><blockquote><ul><a name="P249_69666">Brown and Bossie claim that "dozens" of networks, newspapers and magazines-including Time and Money magazines, NBC and the London Times-have used them for information or interviews.</a></ul></blockquote>When journalist Trudy Lieberman researched the influence of Citizens United for the Columbia Journalism Review, she reviewed some 200 news stories in late 1993 and early 1994 and found four stories where there was "an eerie similarity between the Citizens United agenda and what has been appearing in the press, not only in terms of specific details but in terms of omissions, spin, and implication." Lieberman tracked one incident where Citizens United repackaged previously reported charges about a letter from Vincent Foster in a more dramatic form, and sent the charge out to media contacts. According to Lieberman, "From January 1 to the end of March, twenty-three news organizations referred to the Foster letter--more than triple the number that picked up the story after the November 3 Washington Post piece." According to Lieberman, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Dallas Morning News, The Arizona Republic, The Boston Globe, and Newsday regularly featured what ClintonWatch had highlighted.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P251_70852" style="text-decoration-line: none;">94</a>The worldview of Citizen's United is easy to trace to the anti-Clinton Republicans in the House. According to an article from the New York Times News Service posted on the Free Republic Web Page:<blockquote><ul><a name="P253_71082">The dominant staff member of the House committee [investigating campaign finances] is its chief investigator, David N. Bossie. He reports directly to [Rep. Dan] Burton and not through the general counsel....He was an investigator in last year's Whitewater inquiry conducted by Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y.</a><a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P254_71385" style="text-decoration-line: none;">95</a>[AILES camp mgr]</ul></blockquote>Bossie was later removed from the Burton probe for allegedly passing information to reporters.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P256_71654" style="text-decoration-line: none;">96</a>As reporter Francis X. Clines reports, Burton, an ultra-conservative republican from Indiana, seemed to have adopted the Citizen's United line:<blockquote><ul><a name="P258_71965">"Who moved the body?" Burton boomed from the House floor in rejecting the official finding of suicide and feeding conspiracy theories with an account of re-enacting the event in his own backyard by shooting bullets into a "head-like object."</a><a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P259_72206" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">97</a></ul></blockquote>Brown's ClintonWatch newsletter, which referred to Clinton's "radical socialist agenda,"<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P261_72410" style="text-decoration-line: none;">98</a> reflects the apocalyptic conspiracism commonly found in the hard right. Despite this, Brown's work reached deep into mainstream politics. In 1994, according to Jouzaitis:<blockquote><ul><a name="P262_72699">Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) quietly invited Brown to give 10 junior House Republicans his highly partisan take on Whitewater probes. Brown's materials also have wound up in the hands of Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa) whose staff also has been doing its own investigation as the congressman presses for hearings into Whitewater. Leach's spokesman, Joe Pinder, declined to say how they got there.</a></ul></blockquote>Two of Brown's senior staff are veterans of the ultra-conservative subculture with its conspiracist worldview of communism as a vast left wing conspiracy-a worldview that originated in the Old Right.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P264_73288" style="text-decoration-line: none;">99</a> Cliff Kincaid is director of Citizens United Foundation's American Sovereignty Action Project. He the author of two conspiracist books on the United Nations, Global Bondage: The U.N. Plan to Rule the World and Global Taxes for World Government, both published by Huntington House.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P265_74194" style="text-decoration-line: none;">100</a> Kincaid's claims about the UN are promoted within the patriot movement.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P266_74326" style="text-decoration-line: none;">101</a> Kincaid also works for Accuracy in Media, and writes columns for Human Events and the American Legion Magazine, with a circulation of 3 million.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P267_74522" style="text-decoration-line: none;">102</a>In a 1991 article for Human Events, Kincaid red-baited groups protesting the Gulf War and quoted right-wing undercover operative Sheila Louise Rees, claiming antiwar demonstrations were concocted "by the traditional hard-line peace activist organizations that have always worked with the Communist Party U.S.A."<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P268_74894" style="text-decoration-line: none;">103</a> Human Events is now published by Eagle/Phillips Publishing. Regnery Publishing is primarily owned by Phillips Publishing and the Regnery family.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P269_75119" style="text-decoration-line: none;">104</a>Michael Boos, a longstanding hard right ideologue, is the Legal Director of the National Citizens Legal Network, which is a project of Citizens United Foundation.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P271_75478" style="text-decoration-line: none;">105</a> In the Winter 1982-83 edition of the Young Americans for Freedom magazine, New Guard, he wrote an article headlined "The Nuclear Freeze Fairy Tale: Communist Front Groups Behind the Peace Movement." Boos warned that the "peace movement" is in fact not spontaneous but "Rather, it is a well conceived and thus far successfully implemented sinister scheme being directed by the Soviet Union through its front groups in the U.S. and abroad." In 1984 Boos spied on the anti-intervention group CISPES, then wrote a report titled: "Group in Nation's Capitol to Aid Left-Wing Terrorists." Boos also filed a story with the right-wing newsletter from Phillips Publishing, American Sentinel, and sent an unsolicited copy to the FBI, which promptly distributed it to 32 of its field offices. The FBI launched an official probe of CISPES based in part on the Boos report.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html#P272_76397" style="text-decoration-line: none;">106</a>Citizens United is an example of how the players and themes in conspiracist anticommunism shifted seamlessly to conspiracist antiliberalism and joined the campaign against a demonized Clinton, pulling their conspiracy theories into the mainstream media and Congress.<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-11.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Previous</a> | <a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clinton2_TOC.html" target="_top" style="text-decoration-line: none;">TOC</a> | <a>Print</a> | <a href="http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-13.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Next</a>==<h2 class="title" style="line-height: 1.15em; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 2px; font-weight: normal;">Floyd Brown Posts Archive</h2><div> </div><div class="content"><div class="view view-rww-taxonomy-terms view-id-rww_taxonomy_terms view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-5"><div class="view-content"><div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-news-outlet-obamacare-just-killed-its-millionth-person" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Right-Wing 'News' Outlet: 'Obamacare Just Killed its Millionth Person'</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Peter Montgomery, Wednesday 05/15/2013, 11:33am</div><div class="views-field-view-node">An email sent from Charisma media, a Pentecostal media company, brings the “news” that Obamacare has killed its millionth person. Amazingly, this milestone was reached even before health care reform has been fully implemented. The claim is not documented or explained in any way. It seems to be mostly an attention-grabbing way to promote some right-wing hucksterism.  Here’s how the letter starts: Obamacare Just Killed its Millionth Person... Dear Concerned Citizen,  The eleventh hour is upon us. In the coming weeks, the full impact of Obamacare will take... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-news-outlet-obamacare-just-killed-its-millionth-person" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div><div class="views-field-view-node"> </div></div><div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-warn-gop-not-nominate-mitt-romney" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Religious Right Activists Warn GOP Not To Nominate Mitt Romney</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Wednesday 07/13/2011, 1:39pm</div><div class="views-field-view-node">Right-wing activist and former California legislator Steve Baldwin has organized an open letter to “Conservative, Catholic and Evangelical Leaders” asking them to refuse support for Mitt Romney’s campaign for president. Already a number of activists including failed US Senate candidate and Tea Party hero Joe Miller; Rick Scarborough of Vision America; Brian Camenker of MassResistance; Linda Harvey of Mission America; Michael Farris of the Home School Legal Defense Association; Ted Beahr of WND and Movieguide; Gary Glenn of American Family Association-Michigan, Kelly... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-warn-gop-not-nominate-mitt-romney" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div><div class="views-field-view-node"> </div></div><div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dozens-gop-leaders-declare-solidarity-those-who-want-see-homosexuality-outlawed" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Dozens of GOP Leaders Declare Solidarity With Those Who Want To See Homosexuality Outlawed</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 12/15/2010, 11:21am</div><div class="views-field-view-node">Last week when Jeremy Hooper discovered that the Family Research Council was planning to roll out a campaign fighting back against the Southern Poverty Law Center's designation of the organization as an anti-gay hate group, we noted that FRC was asking people to sign on to the campaign to "stand in solidarity with Family Research Council, American Family Association, Concerned Women of America, National Organization for Marriage, Liberty Counsel and other pro-family organizations that are working to protect and promote natural marriage and family." By doing so, we pointed... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dozens-gop-leaders-declare-solidarity-those-who-want-see-homosexuality-outlawed" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div><div class="views-field-view-node"> </div></div><div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-round-389" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Right Wing Round-Up</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 11/12/2010, 6:36pm</div><div class="views-field-view-node">Justin Elliott @ Salon: Top Palin aide is on Soros' payroll. George Zornick @ Think Progress: Fox News Stands Behind Beck’s Latest Soros Attacks While Jewish Groups See Anti-Semitism. Ryan Grim @ Huffington Post: George Bush Book 'Decision Points' Lifted From Advisers' Books. Stephanie Mencimer @ Mother Jones: How Not to Win Friends in Washington, Tea Party Edition. Towleroad: Iowa GOP Senate Leader: Four Remaining Judges Will be Removed Unless the People Get to Vote on Gay Marriage. Eric Kleefeld @ TPM: West Backs Kaufman Against 'This Left-Wing,... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-round-389" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div><div class="views-field-view-node"> </div></div><div class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rep-bachmann-signs-fringe-fest" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rep. Bachmann Signs on to Fringe Fest</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 06/28/2010, 10:26am</div><div class="views-field-view-node">Last year, we wrote a series of posts about the How To Take Back America Conference which was hosted by Janet Porter and Phyllis Schlafly and several other Religious Right groups and featured as speakers everyone from Mike Huckabee to Michele Bachmann to Trent Franks. This year, the event has been taken over by Joseph Farah and WorldNetDaily and seems to have lost most of its ties to the Religious Right, which is why we had not really mentioned it until now.  The speaker's list contained just the sort of fringe right-wing activists you'd expect from a WND-organized conference: ... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rep-bachmann-signs-fringe-fest" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MORE ></a>[democ 21?]</div><div class="views-field-view-node"> </div></div><div class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/does-he-simply-hate-christianity-does-he-hate-united-states-or-both" style="text-decoration-line: none;">"Does He Simply Hate Christianity... Does He Hate the United States... or Both?"</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 10/08/2009, 10:19am</div><div class="views-field-view-node">That is the question asked by those behind the new effort to impeach President Obama which is, of course, being covered by WorldNetDaily: A political activist who was behind the famous Willie Horton advertisement that left Gov. Michael Dukakis' candidacy for president floundering and was among the first to sound the alarm on the need for Bill Clinton's impeachment says the United States is collapsing around its citizens right now, but there is a defense. "Make no mistake. We're now in the middle of a bloodless coup – the takeover of an entire nation by the hate-America crowd... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/does-he-simply-hate-christianity-does-he-hate-united-states-or-both" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div><div class="views-field-view-node"> </div></div><div class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/surprise-right-opposes-sotomayor" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Surprise! The Right Opposes Sotomayor</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 07/23/2009, 10:38am</div><div class="views-field-view-node">In a move that nobody could have ever predicted, 150+ right-wing activists have signed on to a letter to the Senate opposing the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court: 156 conservative and constitutional cause leaders and citizens have signed a letter to members of the U.S. Senate expressing opposition to the confirmation of President Obama's nominee to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. One of the letter's signers, Richard A. Viguerie, said, "The media and Republicans aren't defining President Obama as an extremist politically... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/surprise-right-opposes-sotomayor" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div><div class="views-field-view-node"> </div></div><div class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even views-row-last"><div class="views-field-title"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dusting-dirty-playbook" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Dusting Off the Dirty Playbook</a></div><div class="views-field-path" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 04/22/2008, 4:16pm</div><div class="views-field-view-node">It looks like the man responsible for 1988’s infamous Willie Horton ad is back and has his sights set on Barack Obama: Starting Tuesday, a group of conservative activists led by Floyd Brown, author of the famous Willie Horton ad used so effectively against Michael Dukakis in 1988, will begin a campaign to tar Obama as weak on crime and terrorism, a strategy that aims to upend Obama's relatively strong reputation among Republican voters. … Brown's new ad focuses on a 2001 vote by Obama in the Illinois Senate to oppose a bill that would have expanded the... <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dusting-dirty-playbook" style="text-decoration-line: none;">MORE ></a></div></div></div></div></div>- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/floyd-brown#sthash.ANyjEWKV.dpuf ===FLOYD G. BROWNAs the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Citizens United, Brown can only be categorized as an “ultra-conservative, dominionist” with a radical agenda for the United States of America. Along with Citizens United he has served as the Executive Director of Young America’s Foundation, an outreach program whose goal is indoctrination of our youth into the culture of extreme politics. Active on college campuses, the YAF engages such speakers as John Stossel, Ann Coulter, and David Horowitz. The YAF also promotes Horowitz’s Intellectual Diversity Movement which believes that the curriculum being taught is based in liberalism and that the conservative ideology is not being presented.The YAF operates the Reagan Ranch, also known as Rancho Del Cielo where it conducts conferences, seminars, internships, and disseminates “educational” materials throughout the nation.Brown’s ultra-conservatism doesn’t stop there, however. He is also President of Excellentia, Inc. which he founded in 2007. Excellentia, Inc. bills itself as a Conservative and Christian Marketplace. They provide fundraising; campaign and strategy development; direct mail; copy writing and production; radio and TV production and scripts; and ad placement and analysis services. According to their website:“Climb your mountain of success with our help. We have a passion for serving in the marketplace of ideas. We have been in the business of promoting conservative and Christian ideas for over 30 years. Our professionals have developed some of the most memorable marketing campaigns in recent history. We will help you reach your community of interest with unparalleled success. Successful clients have included non profit organizations, political campaigns and publishing organizations.”A frequent guest on network and cable TV shows, and a contributor to several publications, Brown became obsessed with the Clinton’s. He published a slim paperback entitled “Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton,” in which he went on the standard diatribe about Clinton being a friend of labor unions and a “draft dodger” he also asserted: “Bill Clinton’s America sees no difference between families of ‘homosexual lovers’ and the traditional, monogamous, faithful family…In addition, Mr. Clinton has surrendered completely to the pro-abortion feminists who dominate the Democratic Party.”In 2007, Brown co-founded the <a title="Floyd Brown" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Brown" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Campaign Fund</a> along with Bruce E. Haekins, James V. Lacey, Tim Kelley and Michael Reagan. The purpose was to fund the presidential campaigns of  John McCain and Rudy Giuliani as they were concerned about the popularity of <a title="Hillary Clinton" href="http://www.biography.com/people/hillary-clinton-9251306" target="_blank" rel="biographycom" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hillary Clinton</a>.In 1992, during an interview with the Washington Times, Brown stated:“I have a sense of what connects with people like me. We’re not culturally Republicans. We’re not libertarians. We’re not neo-conservatives or former liberals. We’re just old-fashioned, blue collar social conservatives. These are people who couldn’t care less about politics, want to be left alone by government, but if their country calls for them to fight abroad, will. You win elections by cultivating people like me.”Nothing could have been further from the truth. The barely thirty-one year old Brown had waded into the dark side of the political arena several years earlier when he started Citizens United and began to organize political campaigns along with an effort to secure Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas an appointment, and the campaigns against Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton. Brown came to notoriety, however, during the Dukakis campaign when he produced the infamous “Willie Horton ads.” Later, he played a prominent role in the Whitewater Scandal.Brown and his National Campaign Fund created an anti-Obama website which they update regularly at ExposeObama.com. Filled with anti-Obama hatred and venom accusing him of being soft on crime and islamo-fascism, the website has been criticized nationally for the misinformation that it distributes.Brown sits on the Council for National Policy, a powerful and highly secretive group of largely Dominionist political figures who hold clandestine meetings and initiate policies to further an extreme agenda of theocracy and ultra-conservatism.While Brown is considered odious in many circles, he carries a big stick and hob-nobs with others even more tainted than he. His expertise in the area of swift-boat advertising is much sought after by the right and the desperate. This does not, however, diminish the effectiveness of Brown’s campaign acuity. His associates are every bit as ruthless as Brown, and every bit as determined to succeed.To realize just how connected Floyd Brown is, check out the chart below which depicts those with whom he hob-nobs, infuences, and supports as well as some of their affiliations.https://crookedcrosses.wordpress.com/category/pacs/==   wacko? larouche?<h1>Richard Mellon Scaife: Who Is He Really?</h1><h3>by Edward Spannaus</h3><h3>Printed in The Executive Intelligence Review -- a Series, Beginning March 21, 1997. </h3><hr /><table border="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr align="center"><td><a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/scaife.htm#End%20of%20Page">End of Page</a></td><td><a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/contents.htm#assault">The Assault on the Presidency</a></td><td><a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/sitemap.htm">Site Map</a></td><td><a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/intro.htm#empire">Overview Page</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <h4>Contents:</h4><ul><li style="list-style: none;" /><li><a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/scaife.htm#part1">Part I</a> </li><li><a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/scaife.htm#part2">Part II</a> </li><li><a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/scaife.htm#documentation">Documentation</a> </li><li><a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/scaife.htm#part3">Part III</a></li></ul><a name="part1" id="part1"> </a> <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h1>Who Is Richard Mellon Scaife? Part I</h1> <a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/scaife.htm#contents">Return to Contents</a> The following article will be continued in a forthcoming issue.He's considered the stupidest member of his extended family, and was kicked out of Yale, not once, but twice. He's a (supposedly recovered) alcoholic, as have been most members of the family. The kindest description of his personality is dark and mysterious.'' He is known for never looking his own employees straight in the eye.He has a long history of using the U.S. Justice Department to target his enemies. He got his own sister's fiancé indicted; after his sister married the poor chap, the man ended up dead within a year--some say suicide, some say murder.He owns a network of newspapers, but he himself refuses to be interviewed by reporters from other publications. On one occasion, when a reporter for the Columbia Journalism Review tried to question him, he berated her as a f--king Communist c--nt.''He gave a million dollars to Richard Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), and he is the biggest funder of right-wing think-tanks in the United States today.Meet ... Richard Mellon Scaife.His name is hardly a household word, but in the past quarter-century, Dickie'' Scaife has been one the most powerful behind-the-scenes operators in the United States. His power comes purely from his wealth, and specifically, from the way that he has deployed that wealth at the instruction of the Anglo-American banking families that he represents. Dickie is not known for his brains--in fact, he was kicked out of college twice, first expelled as the result of a drunken brawl, and flunked out the second time. His family made him go local,'' to Pittsburgh University, which he tried to make up for, by majoring in British history.Only recently has Richard Mellon Scaife come into public prominence, as a result of the disclosure that he is the bankroller of a cushy retirement'' position for Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr at Pepperdine University. This raised eyebrows, to put it mildly, because Scaife is the principal funder of a news media propaganda campaign aimed at defaming and discrediting Starr's main target, President William Clinton. Scaife has also bankrolled a nationwide crusade charging that White House aide Vincent Foster did not commit suicide, but was murdered; something which is also the subject of official investigation by the recipient of Scaife's largesse, Kenneth Starr.In the 1980s, Scaife also coordinated and financed a similar campaign of media defamation against Lyndon LaRouche, a Presidential candidate and founder of EIR, and Scaife has a long history of using his own newspapers to smear others who have drawn his ire.But this is nothing new for Scaife. What he is now doing to President Clinton, and what he did to Lyndon LaRouche, is what he was trained and deployed to do. Scaife is not simply a multimillionaire supporter of conservative groups,'' as he is portrayed in the news media; nor is he simply an eccentric rich man who has an obsession against President Clinton.To understand what is being done to President Clinton today, and to understand what lies behind the campaigns of defamation run by the news media against figures such as Clinton or LaRouche, it is necessary to know who and what, someone like Richard Mellon Scaife actually is.That story, naturally enough, starts in London. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">The Anglo-American OSS</h2>Dickie Scaife is what one might call a second-generation OSS brat.'' During World War II, Dickie's father, as well as a number of his father's close business and familial associates, occupied high positions in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)--America's wartime intelligence service. Alan Scaife, his father, was a lieutenant colonel in the OSS. A number of cousins of Dickie's mother, Sarah Mellon Scaife, also had very high positions in the OSS. For example: Paul Mellon (a cousin of Dickie's mother and a rabid Anglophile) was recruited in London to the OSS by his brother-in-law, David Bruce. Paul trained with British troops, became a major in the OSS, worked under Allen Dulles in Berne, Switzerland, and commanded a unit responsible for conducting propaganda operations behind disintegrating German lines.David Bruce, husband of Paul Mellon's sister Ailsa Mellon Bruce, was designated by OSS head William Donovan to oversee all OSS operations in Europe from his base in London. (Although some say, with justification, that it was Bruce who was designated by the U.S. banking-establishment families to oversee Donovan.) Another OSS cousin was Larimer Mellon, who likewise worked on Allen Dulles's staff in Berne.David Bruce (a direct descendant of the Scottish Bruce dynasty) later divorced Ailsa and married his second wife, Evangeline, an OSS secretary whose father had been a special liaison to British intelligence from the U.S. State Department.It is reliably reported that these Anglophilic OSS circles around Scaife's father were the crucial influence on steering Dickie into intelligence-related philanthropy''--i.e., the private funding of joint British-U.S. intelligence projects which were commonly mis-identified as CIA'' projects or fronts.It is more accurate to describe the CIA as a front'' for these Anglo-American banking families. But even that would be too simple. The CIA is an agency of government, and is thus subject to the institutional and bureaucratic pressures to which any agency of government must respond. The families'' attempt to control the CIA, as they do with the State Department and other agencies. The principal means of control is through the private financing of think-tanks, conferences, publications, etc., which attempt to train the personnel, and set the agenda, for the institutions of government. This is precisely what Dickie Scaife and his family money did when the Reagan-Bush administration came into office in 1981. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">The "Focal Point" and First Boston</h2>Another element of this bankers-intelligence apparatus is what is called the Focal Point system. The public may misconceive of this apparatus as CIA''--but the CIA is simply a secondary component of this operation, which encompasses the old families, military intelligence capabilities, and private intelligence operations. One intelligence source, familiar with this system, said recently that CIA'' is simply a cover story'' for activities that the banking families and other institutions and agencies carry out in the name of the CIA. The Focal Point system, within the official government apparatus, was originally created in the mid-1950s by then-CIA Director Allen Dulles. It functioned as a capability extending into other agencies, particularly the Department of Defense, for conducting covert operations and paramilitary special operations.'' A particular emphasis was counterinsurgency and civil affairs'' (as taken over from the British); an included feature of this was psychological warfare and propaganda.Within the military, the Focal Point system was centered in the Joint Chiefs of Staff--and remnants of this system still exist to this day, in the Support Activities Branch of the J-3 Special Operations Division.There was also a substantial private'' component to the Focal Point system, the precursor of the privatized intelligence operations authorized under the Reagan-Bush Executive Order 12333. But this privatized intelligence system was already active in the 1950s, according to knowledgeable sources, with the First Boston Corp., the First National Bank of Boston (now Bank of Boston), and other banking houses playing a leading financial role. see<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=vh7sx2xtjGEC&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=eugenics+america+gray+gamble&source=bl&ots=DN1QFIeljk&sig=EBhBZu5HMG9FRrdbRp5zrt1VmdA&hl=en&ei=ULtNTIPjC4G-sQP95L3-DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=vh7sx2xtjGEC&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=eugenics+america+gray+gamble&source=bl&ots=DN1QFIeljk&sig=EBhBZu5HMG9FRrdbRp5zrt1VmdA&hl=en&ei=ULtNTIPjC4G-sQP95L3-DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false</a>Of particular interest here, among the many families which played key roles in this Anglo-American bankers' intelligence network (such as the Astors, Rockefellers, and the du Ponts), are three families: the Roosevelts, the Mellons, and the Welds.Mellon Securities had merged into First Boston in 1946, and as of about 1980, the Scaife family held about 6% of First Boston, and the combined Mellon and Scaife families about 13%. First Boston's principal law firm was Sullivan and Cromwell, out of which Allen Dulles ran U.S. intelligence after the termination of the OSS and until the creation of the CIA. This is also Paul Mellon's law firm; his and much of the Mellon family's financial affairs were run by Stoddard Stevens of Sullivan and Cromwell, who has been described as Paul's father figure.''Dickie Scaife was brought into this system by his OSS relatives no later than 1973, and in 1979 he was placed on the board of directors of First Boston, where he remained until 1987. At that time, 40% of First Boston was owned by Crédit Suisse-White Weld (of the dope-running family of former Justice Department official William Weld). In 1988, First Boston became CS First Boston, and the size of the board was apparently considerably reduced.Already in 1929, a White Weld banker, John A. Gade, had proposed the creation of an American central intelligence agency, to be modelled explicitly on British intelligence. The current, most public, standard-bearer of the Weld family, is William Weld, who organized the judicial frameup of Lyndon LaRouche from his positions as U.S. Attorney in Boston and, then, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. William Weld is married to a Roosevelt, Susan, the daughter of another OSS veteran, Quentin Roosevelt.The Oyster Bay branch of the Roosevelt family is deeply enmeshed in this OSS-Wall Street intelligence apparatus, and they are especially close to Cord Meyer, a key operative of this network who shows up again and again as a top operative with responsibility for handling CIA'' front organizations. It was Teddy Roosevelt's grandson Kermit (Kim'') Roosevelt, who had proposed the creation of a propaganda and intelligence agency'' to Wall Street lawyer William Donovan during World War II. Kermit subsequently worked with British intelligence to overthrow the Mossadegh government in Iran in 1953, an action which worked to the financial benefit of not only British Petroleum, but also of Gulf Oil, a Mellon family enterprise which was closely tied to First Boston after the 1946 Mellon Securities merger. In 1958, Kermit retired'' to take the strategic position of vice president for government relations with Gulf Oil. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">Dickie gets his assignment</h2>When he was 40 years old, having been trained and disciplined through some particularly nasty operations to be described in our next installment, Dickie Scaife was formally inducted into the top levels of the Anglo-American bankers' intelligence apparatus. In 1973, he took control of the Scaife family foundations, which he had previously run jointly with his sister Cordelia. He dramatically changed the focus of foundation grants, to emphasize British-intelligence-oriented right-wing'' think-tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, or the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. This was not something totally new; funding from the Scaife family foundations for some of these institutions, such as the National Strategy Information Center, goes back into the early 1960s. Of singular importance is the position Dickie was given in early 1973, when he was allowed to take over ownership of Forum World Features, a joint British intelligence-CIA news media operation based in London. This is probably the most important career advancement for Dickie, for it defines the track he has pursued since: the use and the manipulation of the news media to promote favored causes, and to attack and defame adversaries. There is a direct path from Forum World Features, to the Bush secret government's'' Public Diplomacy operation created in 1983, which in turn spawned the Get LaRouche'' task force, all the way through to the anti-Clinton propaganda machine which Scaife directs and finances today.The background of Forum World Features (FWF) is instructive. Although accounts of its creation vary, it appears that it was a division of Kern House Enterprises, created by Kermit Roosevelt in the 1960s; one account says that Kermit was entrusted with creating the CIA's publishing empire.'' Kern House was set up by Roosevelt with Mellon money; in turn, it set up a London subsidiary, Kern House Enterprises, Ltd. Kern House begat Forum World Features, financed with funds from the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC), based in New York. FWF's major purpose was to supply feature material to newspapers around the world, including at least 30 in the United States. It also commissioned a number of books.One of the premier private intelligence think-tanks, NSIC was formed in 1962, primarily with Mellon family money; on the board was Prescott Bush (of the Harriman-linked Bush family, and George's brother), John Norton Moore of the University of Virginia (one of the authors of Bush's EO 12333), and various representatives of the corporate and intelligence world, as well as personnel associated directly with Scaife.From 1966 to 1973, FWF was headed by John Hay Whitney, a raving Anglophile who had been U.S. ambassador to Britain, and who was the publisher of the New York Herald Tribune. In 1973, Dickie Scaife purchased Kern/FWF, and headed it until its demise in 1975-76, following its exposure as a CIA'' front. At the time of its dissolution in 1976, its three directors were Scaife, Scaife's top operative Daniel McMichael (former president of the Pittsburgh World Affairs Council), and Lewis Preston, the chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust (and later head of the World Bank).In 1975, a British weekly, Time Out, and the Washington Post, published a 1968 memorandum from the CIA station chief in London to then-director Richard Helms, describing FWF as an agency-sponsored operation providing a significant means to counter Communist propaganda.'' The memorandum portrayed FWF as a CIA proprietary, which was run with the knowledge and cooperation of British intelligence.'' The overseer of FWF in the United States was Cord Meyer.(Cord Meyer, incidentally, not only promoted the publication of material favorable to the Anglo-American banking-intelligence establishment, but attempted to block publication of disfavored material. Author and former CIA officer Victor Marchetti reports that in 1972, Meyer, whom he describes as the number-two man in the CIA Clandestine Services, visited the New York offices of Harper and Row to attempt to stop the publication of Alfred McCoy's first edition of The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. As a result, the publisher insisted that McCoy submit the manuscript to the CIA before it would be published.)Although FWF was dissolved, its operations were not. Its day-to-day operations in London were managed by Brian Crozier, a British writer long associated with both U.K. and U.S. intelligence. In 1970, Crozier had also become the head of another FWF-created organization in London, which was renamed the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC). Between 1973 and 1979 alone, Dickie Scaife's private trusts gave over a million dollars to Crozier's ISC.In a 1980 proposal, Scaife's aide Daniel McMichael described ISC as doing a first-rate job in conducting research on low-level conflict,' i.e., political and psychological warfare, revolutionary activities, insurgency operations and terrorism.'' McDaniel boasted that ISC work is consistently used by the Thatcher government,'' and that the ISC had solid working relationships with the Heritage Foundation, the National Strategy Information Center, the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis [associated with Tufts University and its Fletcher School] and a number of other Scaife-supported organizations.'' On ISC's board of directors at that time were a number of top, easily identified British intelligence and counterinsurgency officials.After FWF was dumped, its book publishing operations were taken over by Rossiter Publications, later renamed Craven House. Crozier was also its managing director. Among authors published by Crozier's shop was Robert Moss, a British intelligence operative who floats between the ISC, the London-based Royal Institute for International Affairs, and the Heritage Foundation in the United States. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">Promoting his British "Heritage"</h2>Scaife is also one of the biggest financiers of British-linked think-tanks in the United States promoting conservative'' social and economic policies--prototypical of which is the Heritage Foundation. Although beer magnate Joseph Coors is more publicly identified with Heritage, the fact is, that Scaife has provided more funding for Heritage than has Coors. From 1974 up through the end of the 1970s, Scaife provided about $200,000 a year to Heritage; after a shakeup in the late 1970s--which transformed it into what one Heritage staff member termed an outpost for British intelligence in the United States''--Scaife's support jumped to the range of $1 million a year. (In November 1994, just after the commencement of the short-lived Gingrich revolution'' of the 1994 elections, Newt opened a speech at the Heritage Foundation President's Club by praising two people who have really created modern conservativism--Dick Scaife and Ed Feulner.'' Gingrich went on: Dick Scaife is a remarkable citizen who has spent many years as a key force in sustaining conservative ideas and who has played a major, major role on the Heritage Foundation's board, and he's been a good friend and a good ally for a very long time, and I remember working with him starting in the late '70s.'')In fact, Scaife's role at Heritage increased after the 1976-77 shakeup, when he personally brought in Edwin Feulner to head it up. Feulner (a board member of the Sarah Scaife Foundation) placed many Brits into key policy positions at Heritage, among whom was Stuart Butler, a member of the British Fabian Society. A socialist at the conservative'' Heritage Foundation? Not so strange. Both are motivated by a deep-seated, bitter hatred of industrial capitalism. It was, after all, the Fabian'' London School of Economics to which Friedrich von Hayek, later the founder and head of the Mont Pelerin Society, had moved his Austrian School'' of economics in the 1930s.In a 1981 interview with EIR, Butler explained it as follows: In the case of the Reagan government, we are using a conservative government to impose a quite radical, left-wing program--all based upon solid, liberal economic principles. There really isn't so much difference between the people in the Fabian Society, people like myself, and Milton Friedman. We really overlap in the middle of things on such ideas as local control.''What Butler said then, goes many-fold for Gingrich's 1994 Contract with America.But that gets ahead of the story. First came the so-called Reagan Revolution,'' which on virtually every level was run by operatives associated and financed by Mellon Scaife, along with four other foundations which make up the Philanthropic Roundtable.'' The Roundtable includes the Smith Richardson Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (these four are known as the Four Sisters'' because they finance almost all of their projects in common), plus the J.M. Foundation.Even more important, was the reorganization of intelligence operations in the Reagan administration, and the creation of what became known as the secret government'' run under the personal direction of Vice President George Bush in the 1980s. This secret and parallel government'' was simply the Scaife Mellon network of think-tanks and and academic retainers, brought into the government, and made official.''<hr /><a name="part2" id="part2"> </a><h1>Who is Richard Mellon Scaife? Part II</h1> <a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/scaife.htm#contents">Return to Contents</a>  Part 2 of our exposé on the moneybags behind the media campaign against the President. Edward Spannaus reports on Scaife and the Bush secret government.'' <blockquote>Richard Mellon Scaife has recently come into prominence as the bankroller of a news-media campaign aimed at President Clinton, while he is sponsoring a cushy retirement'' position for Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. In Part 1 (EIR, March 21), we showed that Dickie'' Scaife has been deployed for almost 25 years by the old Office of Strategic Services Anglo-American financier-intelligence circles, to do exactly this sort of thing.</blockquote> Since Dickie Scaife was allowed to take over the Scaife family foundations and trusts in 1973, he has been a principal funder of that network of nominally conservative'' foreign policy think-tanks which operates as a training ground and as the agenda-setter for the foreign service and intelligence communities. During the Reagan-Bush administrations, this cluster of conservative think-tanks virtually became the government. In reality there were two governments in the Reagan-Bush administration--the official, public government, and the secret government'' run by Vice President George Bush. The official government, particularly the National Security Council, the State Department, and the intelligence community, were riddled with Scaife's grantees and beneficiaries. But behind the official government lay what became known as the secret government''--and Scaife's network of think-tanks and foundations provided the intellectual rationalization which justified its creation, including the infamous Executive Order 12333. As far as is known, most of Scaife's hirelings didn't dirty their hands with actual drug-running or assassinations, but they did provide key funding and staff for the entire so-called Project Democracy'' apparatus, and also for the semi-official public diplomacy'' propaganda machine which ran cover for Bush's Contra drug-runners and Afghansi terrorists. <a name="[1]" id="[1]" /><a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/scaife.htm#1.">[fn1]</a>Then and now, Scaife does not limit his largesse to strategic and foreign policy matters, but he is also a primary funder of a burgeoning network of think-tanks and propaganda mills promoting the feudal economic policies coming out of the Mont Pelerin Society. Under the guise of Thatcherism,'' these groups provided the social and economic policies, and much of the staffing, for the so-called Reagan Revolution,'' and more recently, for the Gingrich-Gramm gang in the wake of the Republican Party takeover of Congress in the 1994 elections. One could say that the earnest money for the Contract with America'' was paid by Dickie Scaife.A third distinctive cluster of organizations funded by Scaife are the right-wing legal foundations and litigation groups; originally founded to counter civil libertarians and environmentalists, they have increasingly become pro-environmentalist and libertarian in their outlook--as well as financing legal attacks on President Clinton and the Clinton administration.Here, we will look more closely at the intelligence and foreign policy think-tanks which virtually took over the Reagan administration in 1981, and which provided the underpinning for Bush's secret government'' built up in 1981-86. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">Origins of the secret government</h2>As the Iran-Contra scandals played out in televised Congressional hearings in 1987, many Americans began to get a glimpse of what some Congressmen called the parallel'' government, and others simply called the secret government.'' What most Americans didn't know, is the intellectual foundations were developed by Richard Mellon Scaife's hirelings. Two Scaife-funded operations played central roles in preparing the way for the creation of this secret government'' machinery. The first was a series of national security seminars held during 1973-79 by the International Security Studies Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University--organized by Prof. Uri Ra'anan. The second was a series of seven conferences held during 1979-84 by the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence,'' organized by Roy Godson.Both Godson and Ra'anan were subsequently deeply involved in what became known as the Iran-Contra'' scandals; and--not surprisingly--both were personally and heavily involved in dirty operations against Lyndon LaRouche. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">Ra'anan and the Fletcher School</h2>The Fletcher School is the oldest graduate school of diplomacy in the United States. Its students are tracked into careers in the foreign service, the CIA, and the military. From its founding, the International Security Studies Program within the Fletcher School was financed almost exclusively through grants from the Scaife family foundations and trusts. On its Advisory Council in the 1980s were R. Daniel McMichael and Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, both trustees of Scaife family foundations. After the arrest of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard in November 1985, Ra'anan, the chairman of Fletcher's International Security Studies Program, was quoted praising his former student Pollard in the New York Times as bright and articulate.'' Upon Pollard's graduation from the Fletcher School in 1978, he had gone to work for U.S. Naval Intelligence. One of his classmates, Mira Lansky Boland, went to work for the CIA for two years, and then for the Pentagon; in 1984, Boland transferred to the Washington office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), where she soon became devoted full-time to the Get LaRouche'' task force.Pollard was no accident, nor was Boland. Ra'anan (born Heinz Felix Frischwasser in Central Europe in 1926) spent the war years in London, and then emigrated to Israel. He came to the United States in the early 1960s, and, working out of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, set up an Israeli spy-recruiting unit. In 1967, he joined the faculty at the Fletcher School.In 1973, the International Security Studies Program initiated a series of annual conferences, funded by Scaife, on a wide range of strategic topics. Dozens of senior figures in the U.S. military-intelligence community were brought in to participate. The last seminar, in April 1979, was on Intelligence Policy and National Security.'' Ra'anan himself was named to an advisory committee in 1980 to help shape Reagan's foreign policy and defense platform. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">Godson and the Consortium</h2> Roy Godson, a wholly-owned asset of Scaife, Inc., is the son of a longtime Lovestonite State Department official, Joe Godson, who served principally in London and Belgrade, Yugoslavia after the war, and who founded the London branch of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Roy Godson, after getting his master's degree at Columbia University (where he was already known as a CIA watcher of left-wing groups''), was immediately sent to Pittsburgh, where he was given his first teaching post at Carnegie-Mellon University (1967-69), and where he was also hired as a program director of the Pittsburgh World Affairs Council (where Scaife's aide R. Daniel McMichael was president). Godson's first book, American Labor and European Politics (1976), was financed by a grant that McMichael arranged; his next book was published by the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC).From Pittsburgh, Godson went to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and by the late 1970s, was regarded as an expert'' on Soviet methods. In 1979, Scaife money enabled Godson to launch the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence (CSI), a direct extension of the 1970s Fletcher conference series, reflecting the expectation that the Republicans would be victorious in the 1980 elections, which would present an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of re-organizing U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence capabilities.The Scaife-funded effort by the American Tories to take over and subvert the country's intelligence reorganization had an important, if unwitting, ally in the new Director of Central Intelligence<scproofers stet=""><ecwilliam j="" casey="" had="" been="" founder="" nsic="" along="" with="" george="" bush="" s="" brother="" prescott="prescott" considered="" leo="" cherne="cherne" international="" rescue="" committee="" scaife-funded="" freedom="" house="house" his="" closest="" colleagues="" and="" advisers="" while="" did="" not="" hold="" in="" very="" high="" regard="regard" he="" viewed="" network="" of="" intelligence="" community="" hard-liners="" who="" frequented="" the="" godson="" consortium="" events="" as="" a="" resource="" to="" be="" drawn="" upon="" /></scproofers>And although Casey was not a great fan of George Bush, he was an enthusiast of off-the-books'' covert operations, and he often preferred using non-CIA personnel to run such operations--usually drawing on Pentagon personnel requisitioned through the NSC--which effectively put Vice President Bush in charge of such operations.The charter'' of the secret government and privatized intelligence operations was Executive Order 12333, signed by Ronald Reagan on Dec. 4, 1981, along with EO 12331 (signed Oct. 20, 1981, which reconstituted the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, or PFIAB), and EO 12334 (also signed Dec. 4, 1981, which created the three-member Intelligence Oversight Board). The relationship between the three orders, was that PFIAB would identify areas where intelligence active measures'' or covert operations were desired; the Oversight Board then reviewed covert actions and provided the legal justification for them.EO 12333 and its sister orders were the product of the Godson CSI Consortium process, along with a workshop on Law, Intelligence and National Security'' sponsored by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security held in Washington in December 1979. All of this was funded by Scaife, and naturally, almost everyone who played a major role in the creation of EO 12333 was involved with the Sciafe-funded think-tank network. It was reportedly drafted by two regulars at the Godson Consortium--Angelo Codevilla, from the Hoover Institution and a senior staffer for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Kenneth deGraffenreid, also a former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer and a Reagan-Bush NSC official--and then run through the Senate and House Intelligence Committees.Others reportedly involved in the drafting were Paul Seabury and Anne Armstrong of PFIAB, and Prof. John Norton Moore of the University of Virginia, who became the chief legal consultant to the Intelligence Oversight Board.EO 12333 was touted as unleashing'' the intelligence agencies from the restrictions of the Carter years, much of which stemmed from the post-Watergate Congressional investigations of the intelligence agencies in 1975-76.Among significant changes from the previous 1978 Executive Order 12036, was that the President could designate agencies other than the CIA to conduct special activities'' (covert operations), and that CIA was permitted to conduct special activities'' inside the United States. Although private contracting had been permitted under the earlier EO, it could only be done covertly with the approval of the Attorney General; EO 12333 allowed concealment of private contracting without any approval by the U.S. Attorney General. According to one source who was involved in the process, deGraffenreid had sought an even broader privatization charter; this was beaten back, but the loophole was still big enough to permit almost anything that the dirty deGraffenreid faction wanted. This also opened the door even wider for the Bush networks to bring British and Israeli intelligence operatives into official U.S. intelligence operations.EO 12333 also designated the NSC as the highest Executive branch entity'' for review and guidance of all foreign intelligence, counterintelligence and special activities.'' Under the committee structures being set up within the NSC, Vice President Bush was then effectively put in charge of all intelligence activities. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">Theodore Shackley and covert operations</h2>The role of Theodore Shackley requires special mention--for it was critical to the creation of the Bush secret government.'' When Bush was CIA director in 1976-77, Shackley was his deputy director for plans (covert operations). Shackley was forced to resign from the CIA in 1978, but he had already built up a vast financial and intelligence network in Asia and the Middle East, which he put at Bush's disposal during the Reagan administration. Vice President Bush's national security adviser, Don Gregg, was a Shackley protégé; it was Gregg who brought his longtime associate Felix Rodriguez on board for the Contra gun- and drug-running operation. At the December 1980 Consortium event on Intelligence Requirements for the '80s: Covert Action,'' in Washington, Shackley's presentation laid out a detailed proposal for rebuilding'' America's covert paramilitary capabilities. The Shackley speech was a recipe for the subsequent Contra and related efforts, complete with the offline'' funding. According to one intelligence source, Shackley gave a similar presentation to the Reagan Presidential transition team on intelligence. Attending the briefing, according to the source, were Casey, Bush, and Max Hugel, Casey's first deputy for covert operations.Shackley reportedly urged that the rebuilt covert intelligence and paramilitary apparatus be run offline''--which meant using the band of intelligence community asteroids'' who had gathered around him from his days as CIA station chief in Miami and later in Laos, such as Felix Rodriguez and the operatives who staffed the Oliver North-Richard Secord Contra supply operation and their international arms ring. Shackley also reportedly urged that the new special teams be run directly out of the White House: What this meant in practice, was through the NSC staff apparatus that functioned under Vice President Bush's direction under the authority of EO|12333, and National Security Decision Directives 2 and 3.All of Shackley's proposals were enthusiastically promoted by Godson in the seven-volume proceedings of the CSI. The proceedings were published by the Scaife-funded NSIC, which appointed Roy Godson to head up its expanded Reagan-era Washington office. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">Caught!</h2>Scaife's network did not just provide the intellectual'' underpinnings for the secret government'' and offline intelligence operations. In a couple of instances, his operatives were caught directly laundering money for the drug-running Contras, and they almost found themselves indicted as a result of the Iran-Contra investigation. Two of these were Godson and the aptly named Clyde (Terry'') Sleaze, who described himself, during his Iran-Contra deposition in 1987, as having been general counsel for Richard M. Scaife and his family and entities'' during 1974-86. Sleaze testified that he had met Godson while the latter was working for the NSIC, and Sleaze said that he had attended some of the NSIC seminars, as well as having often visited the NSIC to check up on what they were doing with Scaife's money. Sleaze testified that Godson had asked him for a contribution involving Nicaragua, and that as a result, he had then met personally with Oliver North, then-National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, and Roy Godson in the White House Situation Room, where they asked Sleaze to raise $400,000 for a Contra organization. However, Sleaze testified that he raised only $5,000 from another individual, which he sent to Godson to be deposited with an offshore entity called I.C. Inc.'' Sleaze also said that he had arranged a substantial contribution (actually, $60,000) to Godson from a Goldman Sachs stockbroker, and that then there was another $100,000 donated to the Heritage Foundation, arranged through Ed Feulner, for Central America.The money was laundered through Heritage, then through another non-profit organization controlled by Richard Miller and Frank Gomez, and then into I.C., Inc. The $60,000 contribution ended up in one of the North-Secord Enterprise'' bank accounts (that of Lake Resources) in Switzerland.Miller was subsequently indicted and pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States by using tax-exempt organizations for improper purposes. Gomez was given immunity from prosecution in exchange for cooperation with the independent counsel. Godson, Sleaze, and Feulner managed to escape indictment. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">Footnote</h2><ol><li style="list-style: none;"><a name="1." id="1."> </a><a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/scaife.htm#[1]"></a></li><li>For a thorough description of Bush's secret government'' apparatus and Public Diplomacy, see EIR Special Report <a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/sources.htm#Bushmurder">George Bush and the 12333 Serial Murder Ring,''</a> October 1996, Chapter 2. </li></ol><hr width="75%" align="center" /><a name="documentation" id="documentation"> </a> <h1>Documentation:
Richard M. Scaife's private government</h1> <a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/scaife.htm#contents">Return to Contents</a>  <blockquote>Following is a partial listing of grants from 1973 through about 1993, made by the three Scaife family foundations run by Richard Mellon Scaife that publicly report their grants. The three are the Sarah [Mellon] Scaife Foundation, the Allegheny Foundation, and the Carthage Foundation. The complete list of grantees is much longer. There are also three private family trusts that do not report their activities publicly; it is reported that some of the most sensitive, intelligence-related grants made by Dick Scaife are handled through the private trusts. These are the Richard Mellon Scaife Family Trust No.|1 and No.|2, and the Trust for the Grandchildren of Sarah Scaife.</blockquote> <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">Intelligence and foreign policy think-tanks</h2>National Strategy Information Center (NSIC) Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and DiplomacyGeorgetown University, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Stanford University, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and PeaceAmerican Bar Association, Standing Committee on Law and National SecurityThe Committee for the Free WorldCommittee on the Present DangerForeign Policy Research Institute, PhiladelphiaInstitute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge, MassachusettsAmerican Security Council FoundationU.S. Global Strategy CouncilJamestown FoundationUniversity of Virginia Law School, Center for Law and National SecurityNew York University, National Security Education Program of the Graduate School of Public AdministrationFreedom House, New YorkProdemca (Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America)National Endowment for DemocracyInstitute for the Study of Conflict, London, U.K.Center for European and Strategic Studies, London, U.K.World Affairs Council, Pittsburgh <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">Social-economic policy think-tanks</h2>Mont Pelerin Society American Enterprise InstituteHeritage FoundationCato InstituteReason FoundationFree Congress FoundationAtlas Economic Research FoundationAmerican Legislative Exchange CouncilNational Taxpayers UnionFoundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, New YorkManhattan Institute, New YorkCitizens for a Sound EconomyCompetitive Enterprise InstituteIntercollegiate Studies InstituteNational Center for Policy AnalysisRockford InstituteInstitute on Religion and Democracy <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">Population control</h2> Planned Parenthood Population Action InternationalPopulation Crisis CenterFederation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">News media propaganda</h2>Accuracy in Media American SpectatorAmerican Spectator Educational FoundationCenter for the Study of Popular CultureFoundation for American Communications, Los AngelesFoundation for Cultural ReviewMedia InstituteWestern Journalism Center, Sacramento <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">Legal foundations</h2>National Legal Center for the Public Interest, Washington Washington Legal Foundation, WashingtonPacific Legal Foundation, SacramentoLandmark Legal Foundation, Kansas City, MissouriAtlantic Legal Foundation, New YorkMid-Atlantic Legal Foundation, PhiladelphiaSoutheastern Legal Foundation, AtlantaNew England Legal Foundation, BostonMid-American Legal Foundation, ChicagoCapital Legal Foundation, WashingtonThe Mountain States Legal Foundation, Denver <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">The new administration</h2> From the very beginning, the Reagan administration was packed with officials who had come from Scaife-backed and -financed private institutions. Some of these were:  <ul><li style="list-style: none;" /><li>Martin Anderson: Assistant to the President for Policy Development; Hoover Institution, Committee on the Present Danger (CPD). </li><li>Richard Allen: Reagan's first national security adviser; a founder of Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); then senior staffer at Hoover Institution. </li><li>Richard Pipes: National Security Council (NSC) Soviet specialist; attended five of seven CSI seminars; CPD. </li><li>Geoffrey Kemp: NSC Middle East specialist; from Fletcher School; CSIS. </li><li>Roger Fontaine: NSC Latin America specialist; CSIS, American Enterprise Institute (AEI). </li><li>Roy Godson: NSC consultant; National Strategy Information Center (NSIC); entire career was Scaife-financed and -sponsored. </li><li>Kenneth deGraffenreid: NSC director of intelligence programs; attended six of seven CSI seminars. </li><li>David Abshire: head of national security transition team, chairman of President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB); CSIS. </li><li>Leo Cherne: PFIAB; Freedom House, CSI seminars. </li><li>Paul Seabury: PFIAB; all seven CSI seminars. </li><li>Glenn Campbell: transition team; chaired Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB); Hoover Institution. </li><li>John Norton Moore: chief legal consultant to IOB; University of Virginia Center for Law and National Security. </li><li>William Casey: Director of Central Intelligence<scstet><ec a="" founder="" of="" nsic="" in="" /></scstet> </li><li>William Van Cleave: Reagan's transition team on defense; financed by Scaife grant at University of Southern California. </li><li>Jack Marsh: Secretary of the Army; NSIC; worked directly for Scaife. </li><li>John Lehman: Secretary of the Navy; Foreign Policy Reseach Institute (Philadelphia). </li><li>Fred Iklé: Undersecretary of Defense; CSIS, CSI seminar. </li><li>Alexander Haig: Reagan's first Secretary of State; board of Foreign Policy Reseach Institute (Philadelphia). </li><li>Jeane Kirkpatrick: Ambassador to United Nations; AEI. </li><li>Edwin Meese: Counsel to President, then Attorney General; Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management, University of San Diego; Pacific Legal Foundation. </li></ul> <a name="part3" id="part3"> </a> <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h1>Who is Richard Mellon Scaife?
Part III</h1> <a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/scaife.htm#contents">Return to Contents</a>  <blockquote> Part 3 of our exposé on the moneybags behind the media assault against President Clinton and Lyndon LaRouche. Edward Spannaus reports.</blockquote> A certain irony exists, in the fact of Richard Mellon Scaife's bankrolling of a network of anti-capitalist Mont Pelerin Society think-tanks in the U.S. The Mont Pelerin Society--the modern-day embodiment of the feudal, aristocratic Austrian School'' of monetarist economics--bitterly hates industrial capitalism and any form of centralized, dirigist measures through which a nation-state can build up its own industrial-technological base, while restricting access to predatory international financial looters. The fact of the matter is that the Pittsburgh Scaife family was a pioneering U.S. industrial family, especially in the 19th century. At one time, the family was wont to boast that the Scaife Company (formerly William B. Scaife & Sons) was the oldest manufacturing company west of the Alleghenies.'' It was undoubtedly a beneficiary of the American System'' of economics--national banking, protective tariffs, and internal improvements--as was practiced off-and-on through the 19th century.The company grew out of a tin-plating enterprise begun in 1802; it produced ordnance for the War of 1812 against the British, and also during the Civil War against the British-sponsored Southern secession. Throughout the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, the Scaife metal-working company continually invented new products; it built boilers for steamboats and for railroad steam engines; it invented range boilers''--the forerunners of today's hot-water heaters for households--and high-pressure vessels, and provided corrugated iron roofing and structural iron for factories and warehouses.But Dickie's father Alan Scaife preferred the financier-oligarchy milieu of the Mellon family to his own family's industrial tradition. He joined the Mellons for boozing, steeple-chasing, and fox-hunting, and married into the Mellon family in 1927. In 1940, he joined the Mellons' Gulf Oil, and within two years he had been brought into the Oh So Social'' Office of Strategic Services (OSS) which shipped him off to London. After the war, he served as the Mellon family representative on Gulf's executive committee, and was made a Vice President of T. Mellon & Sons--the newly created non-profit family forum and trust, which was explicitly based upon a British model. Despite all this, Alan Scaife was never treated as a full-fledged Mellon. Dickie would later describe his father as sucking hind tit'' to the Mellons.As he grew older, young Dickie became resentful of the treatment that his father had gotten at the hands of the Mellons, and he often made his animosity known, particularly toward his uncle, Richard King Mellon. Dickie became known as a bull in a china shop.'' Some attributed his impetuousness to his being thrown by a horse at age 9; his skull was partially crushed, and was repaired with an aluminum plate and much plastic surgery.As soon as his father died in 1952, Dickie sold off the Scaife Company for one dollar.Politically, Dickie became a Goldwaterite, when the Mellons were mainstream Republicans. In the 1960s, the Pennsylvania GOP split between the Rockefeller and Goldwater wings; Dickie bankrolled many of the right-wingers.Nevertheless, by 1973, he was tamed and house-broken. The method by which this was accomplished is illustrative, and became the model which Dickie would go on to use against his targetted adversaries and enemies--including Lyndon H. LaRouche and, now, President Clinton. This may also, by the way, shed some light on Scaife's obsession with the death of White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster, and his fanatical backing of the effort to prove'' that Foster did not really commit suicide. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">The taming of Dickie</h2>In the 1950s, Scaife began to hang around his sister Cordelia's boyfriend Robert Duggan, who took young Dickie under his wing. In 1963, Dickie helped Duggan get elected as district attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, on the GOP ticket. But Duggan was an Irish Catholic from the wrong side of the tracks, and Dickie's besotted mother, Sarah Mellon Scaife, would never let Cordelia's boyfriend into her house. Duggan's ambitions grew large, and Dickie wanted to make him governor of Pennsylvania, something which the Republican establishment, controlled by the Mellons, George Bush's cousin Elsie Hillman, and U.S. Sen. Hugh Scott, were not going tolerate. After Richard Nixon was elected President in 1968--with the help of Scaife money--Duggan tried to block the appointment of Rockefeller man Dick Thornburgh as U.S. Attorney in Pennsylvania; Duggan lost the fight. The victorious Thornburgh came into office with an agenda for what many regarded as a political vendetta.'' Thornburgh changed the priorities of the federal prosecutor's office to focus on political corruption'' and white-collar crime,'' and before long, rumors began circulating about DA Duggan's alleged ties to the mob. The Internal Revenue Service got in on the case, and Scaife and Duggan attempted to use their contacts in the Nixon Justice Department to squelch the investigation--after all, Dickie had chaired the finance committee for Nixon-Agnew in 1968, and would go on to give over $1 million (broken up into 334 separate checks to avoid gift taxes) to Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) in 1971.But Thornburgh persisted, subpoenaing four detectives from Duggan's district attorney's office, giving them immunity, and forcing them to give evidence against their boss. In the fall of 1971, Dickie was turned'': He crawled to Thornburgh's office to join in the destruction of his erstwhile political mentor and his sister's boyfriend. Dickie began to target Duggan in the newspaper he had purchased, the Greensburg Tribune-Review. As a book about the Mellon family puts it: Shorn of Scaife's influence, Duggan became easy pickings.''Thornburgh was preparing a tax-evasion case against Duggan, and made preparations to interview Cordelia Scaife, to squeeze her for information about Duggan. She and Duggan quickly got married, meaning that she could not be compelled to provide evidence against her husband. Dickie, according to one account, was intensely upset. He went into orbit.'' Shortly after that, Dickie and Cordelia stopped speaking with each other; by all accounts, they have not spoken since.On March 5, 1974, Thornburgh got a federal grand jury to hand down a six-count indictment for tax fraud against Duggan. But, a few hours before the indictment came down, Duggan was found dead, apparently of a blast from a shotgun which was found nearby without any fingerprints on it. Duggan's death was officially ruled a suicide--although, according to a number of sources, Cordelia has always believed Duggan was murdered, as has Duggan's family.By 1975, Dickie Scaife had publicly reconciled with the mainstream Republicans in Pennsylvania, declaring himself a middle-of-the-roader,'' and proclaiming: I'm now enthusiastic about Rockefeller.'' But by 1974, as we described in Part 1 (see EIR, March 21, 1997), Dickie had been inducted into the old OSS intelligence circles of the Anglo-American bankers, and from that point on, all of his philanthropy'' went in whatever direction they dictated. Dickie had learned to follow orders: His betrayal of Robert Duggan was his rite of passage.Scaife became notorious for using the Tribune-Review to target opponents. Two cases in the 1970s were particularly flagrant: that of Dr. Murdoch Head, and that of Dr. William Mansour. (These two cases were described in detail in an April 1981 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette series on Scaife, which was recently confirmed to the author to have been very accurate, by a knowledgeable source.) <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">The Murdoch Head case</h2> Dr. Murdoch Head ran the Airlie Foundation near Warrenton, Virginia, which included a conference center and a film-making operation. Scaife was introduced to Airlie officials by executives of the Smith-Richardson Foundation (a CIA- and Bush-linked operation which, to this day, works in tandem with Scaife's foundations). Also involved was then-U.S. Rep. Jack Marsh, who progressed from being a board member of Airlie, to a Scaife staff member, and then secretary of the Army in the Reagan-Bush administration. Beginning in 1968, money from the Scaife foundations, at that time jointly run by Dickie and sister Cordelia, financed many Airlie conferences and films. By 1972, Dickie Scaife and the Airlie crowd were at odds, with Scaife pushing a heavy anti-Communist theme for Airlie films, which Dr. Head's associates resisted. (During this time, his estranged sister Cordelia continued to maintain close relations with Dr. Head and Airlie.)Airlie found itself subjected to IRS audits in 1974 and again in 1976, for which it blamed Scaife. In 1978, Airlie tax documents and records were leaked to the Warrenton-based local weekly, Fauquier Democrat, and were also sent to the Virginia State Corporation Counsel and Attorney General. In 1979, Head was indicted by the U.S. Attorney in Alexandria, Virginia, on charges of tax evasion, conspiracy, and attempting to bribe Pennsylvania Congressman Daniel Flood and others. Head was not convicted on the substantive tax or bribery charges, but was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the IRS. (The parallels to the LaRouche case, which likewise involved the Alexandria U.S. Attorney's Office, the Virginia Attorney General, leaks to the Loudoun Times-Mirror--a sister paper of the Fauquier Democrat in Northern Virginia's oligarchical Hunt Country--and a tax-conspiracy case, are striking.)Meanwhile, back in Pennsylvania, Scaife's Tribune-Review was devoting so much coverage to the Airlie case and Dr. Head's trial in Alexandria, that reporters, in both states, were dumbfounded. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">The William Mansour case</h2>In reporting on the case of Dr. William Mansour in 1981, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that some people believe that once you run afoul of the forces of Scaife, you also run afoul of the forces of the federal government, that he is, in some way, able to get federal agencies like the Justice Department to look closely at those he does not like.'' Mansour was a local physician in Westmoreland County, Pa., who owned a local hospital, as well as a competing newspaper to Scaife's Greensburg Tribune-Review. He also held liberal political views, hence doubly drawing Scaife's intense dislike. Scaife went after Mansour in 1973, and, using the local U.S. Attorney's Office under Dick Thornburgh and the FBI, was able to instigate an FBI investigation. In fact, Scaife was able to arrange to have an FBI agent visit one of Mansour's former sisters-in-law at her Detroit home in September 1973 to interrogate her about Mansour's alleged ties to the Middle East, and whether he had given $500,000 to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which Mansour denied.Scaife himself had long-standing connections into the FBI, and has been described as a friend from an early age of J. Edgar Hoover.'' (Perhaps not so coincidentally, the FBI agent who was deployed in Detroit at Scaife's request was a 22-year veteran of the bureau, Phil Mercado, who, during 1974, became the case agent and handler for informant Vernon Higgins. Higgins had been infiltrated the National Caucus of Labor Committees, the philosophical association founded by Lyndon LaRouche, and its 1970s political wing, the U.S. Labor Party. Higgins provided a pretext for armed FBI agents to raid the Detroit offices of the NCLC and USLP in June 1974. When Mercado's deposition was taken by NCLC and USLP's lawyers in 1975, the authorization for his testimony, and the restrictions upon it, was signed by then-Assistant U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh.)In 1977, the Justice Department officially opened an investigation of Mansour. Scaife's lawyer Clyde Sleaze (whom we met in last week's installment) was kept abreast of the grand jury investigation, which resulted in Mansour's indictment in 1980. As with the Airlie/Head case, Scaife's Tribune-Review devoted an inordinate amount of coverage to Mansour--all of it negative--which resulted in a drop in business for Mansour's medical practice. Justifiably, Mansour publicly accused Scaife of being behind his problems with the Justice Department. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">"Get LaRouche!"</h2>One of the earliest and most persistent of the LaRouche-watchers'' was Roy Godson--who, as we noted in Part 2 last week, went to Pittsburgh in 1968 to teach at the Carnegie-Mellon Institute, and was executive director of the Scaife-financed and -run Pittsburgh World Affairs Council; later, Godson's position at the National Strategy Information Center and his creation of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) was also bankrolled by Scaife. As early as 1967-68 at Columbia University, in New York City, Godson was already known to be watching the new political movement founded by Lyndon LaRouche, whose activities there were targetted by the FBI. Bureau documents further show that, in January 1976, Godson, accompanied by Tom Kahn of the AFL-CIO, went to FBI headquarters and briefed the head of the FBI's Internal Security Section on his pet theories about LaRouche and the NCLC. Godson was particularly fixated on speculating about the source of funds for the NCLC: According an FBI memorandum, he suggested that the NCLC was getting money from Iraq and from the Soviets, and he offered his intelligence reading on relations between LaRouche and various European communist parties. About two weeks after this, Godson called the FBI to offer his observations about alleged Greek communist influence on the NCLC during 1968-69.In the course of one of the Godson-organized CSI seminars in the early 1980s, described in our last installment, EIR was explicitly attacked as being a vehicle for Soviet disinformation by former CIA counterintelligence official Donald Jamieson, and by Herbert Romerstein, a consultant to the U.S. Information Agency.In the Reagan administration, Godson was one of the most vocal against LaRouche. During the early part of the Reagan administration, LaRouche and his associates often met with officials of the NSC and other federal agencies, particularly during the 1982-83 tenure of William Clark as national security adviser. Clark's executive assistant, Richard Morris, a witness for the defense at LaRouche's federal trial in 1988 and in a Virginia state trial of an associate of LaRouche in 1990, testified about a grouping within the NSC staff who were sharply opposed to LaRouche; Morris testified that the most vocal opponents of LaRouche were Kenneth deGraffenreid, Walter Raymond, and Roy Godson. Morris reported that Godson characterized Lyndon LaRouche as as a socialist, as a communist, as a member of the KGB, as a fascist, and always he was an extremist,'' adding that Godson insisted that Morris stop meeting with LaRouche and his representatives.In January 1983, the demand for an investigation of LaRouche was brought into the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) by the circle associated with Scaife and Godson--the latter being a consultant to PFIAB at the time. According to an FBI document, a complaint by Henry Kissinger was raised at a PFIAB meeting of Jan. 12, 1983, by fellow PFIAB member David Abshire of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)--a Scaife-funded think-tank. The vice chairman of PFIAB at the time was Leo Cherne, the founder of Freedom House, also a Scaife-funded institution. The PFIAB discussion did succeed in triggering an FBI investigation of LaRouche; the FBI responded with a memorandum repeating the Godson-Jamieson line, that activities of the NCLC and EIR dovetail nicely with Soviet propaganda and disinformation objectives.''However, the FBI stated that, officially, it did not have an investigation of the NCLC going at that time under either domestic security or foreign counterintelligence guidelines. In order to remedy this, a campaign of news media defamation of LaRouche was organized, starting in early 1983 by the Bush-Scaife-Godson crowd. This was a joint public-private effort growing out of the Public Diplomacy'' operation, which we detailed in our October 1996 EIR Special Report on George Bush and the 12333 Serial Murder Ring.''Public Diplomacy was headed at the NSC by Walter Raymond, a long-time CIA propaganda specialist who worked with Cord Meyer, and who intersected the London-centered Forum World Features operation headed by Dickie Scaife in the 1970s. In mid-1982, Raymond was posted to the NSC at the recommendation of Vice President George Bush's national security adviser Don Gregg. DeGraffenried became a deputy to Raymond. On Jan. 25, 1983--less than two weeks after the PFIAB meeting where the demand to get LaRouche was raised--Raymond drafted a memorandum proposing the creation of a private-donor group to fund Public Diplomacy propaganda programs supporting administration policies in areas such as Afghanistan, Central America, and Western Europe. We can not, forever, rely on one or two good souls, such as Smith-Richardson or Mellon-Scaife,'' Raymond wrote. (The Smith-Richardson Foundation, along with the John M. Olin Foundation and Scaife's foundations, comprise a cluster of intelligence-connected foundations which fund almost all the same institutions and programs as those we listed in Documentation last week, on p.|67.)In March, Raymond sent another memo to National Security Adviser Clark, describing efforts to pull together the private-donors group: The group was largely pulled together by Frank Barnett, Dan McMichael (Dick Scaife's man), Mike Joyce (Olin Foundation), Les Lenkowsky (Smith-Richardson Foundation) plus Leonard Sussman and Leo Cherne of Freedom House. A number of others including Roy Godson have also participated.'' Frank Barnett was from the NSIC--funded by Scaife as well as the other cited foundations.In the spring of 1983, the same group convened a meeting at the New York apartment of Wall Street financier John Train--known as the last of the OSS `old boys' on Wall Street.'' Dickie Scaife personally attended that meeting, as did about two dozen news media representatives. There were at least two followup meetings in 1983-84. Mira Lansky Boland, a graduate of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Diplomacy, and the Washington, D.C. Fact-Finding Director for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), later testified that she attended a meeting at Train's residence in 1984, at which Roy Godson was also present.The Train meetings were devoted to the coordination of planted articles and features hostile to LaRouche in the news media, and they directly resulted in attacks on LaRouche during the 1984-86 period on NBC-TV, in the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, Reader's Digest, and thousands of others. It also ultimately resulted in a book-length attack on LaRouche published in 1989 with funding from the Smith-Richardson Foundation.The campaign of news-media defamation of LaRouche was a precondition for the judicial frame-up of LaRouche and his associates. The first indictment against LaRouche was brought in Boston--where the Weld and Mellon families' First Boston Corp. wielded enormous power. When the Boston federal case against LaRouche flopped, a second indictment was brought in Alexandria, Virginia--the intelligence agencies' favorite U.S. court district--under the overall direction of U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. <hr width="75%" align="center" /><h2 align="center">"Get Clinton!"</h2>As should be clear to the reader by now, Dickie Scaife's current financing and coordination of the news-media attack on President Clinton, is exactly of the same form as what Scaife has been deployed to do since the early 1970s, when he was assigned to take over Forum World Features/Kern House by the Anglophile bankers' intelligence network. Forum World Feature's specific purpose was to finance and circulate selected features and articles for the news media internationally. The Public Diplomacy'' operation in the 1980s which Scaife financed did exactly the same thing as FWF, including orchestrating news media attacks on targetted adversaries. The Columbia Journalism Review put it slightly more politely in a 1981 profile of Scaife: It said that he has made the formation of public opinion both his business and his avocation.... Scaife could claim to have done more than any other individual in the past five or six years to influence the way in which Americans think about their country and the world.''Today, almost on a weekly basis, one can pick up a newspaper and find full-page ads on the Vincent Foster death, reprinting articles written by Christopher Ruddy for Scaife's Greensburg (now Pittsburgh'') Tribune-Review. The ads are paid for by Scaife, with funds laundered through the Western Journalism Center (WJC). WJC also occasionally reprints articles by the British Intelligence stringer and London Sunday Telegraph Washington correspondent Ambrose Evans-Pritchard--who also writes directly for the Tribune Review.Other ads promoting theories about the alleged coverup of the Vincent Foster death can also be found, produced by Accuracy in Media (AIM), another group bankrolled by Scaife since the 1970s, and long known for its defense of the CIA against any attacks, not to mention its protection of George Bush's drug-running Contras in the 1980s. Currently, Scaife's foundations are AIM's largest contributors, having given them $630,000 from 1989-93.The WJC and AIM also produce features on the Foster case for newspapers and television programs. AIM's Reed Irvine has a weekly broadcast on National Empowerment Television (NET), a cable channel founded by Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation, to which Scaife gives about $1 million a year.At the end of 1993, the Whitewater scandals against President Clinton, which had been dormant since the 1992 primaries, were revved up again with the publication of the Troopergate'' story in the British-linked American Spectator. Already in the 1970s, Scaife had given over $1 million to the American Spectator's publishers, and this has continued to the present day; between 1989 and 1993, Scaife gave $1.3 million to the American Spectator Educational Fund for research'' and other purposes.Another top purveyor of Vincent Foster conspiracy theories is Strategic Investment newsletter, run by former Times of London editor Lord William Rees-Mogg, and James Dale Davidson, chairman of the National Taxpayers Union, also Scaife-funded. Davidson has produced a video jointly with the Western Journalism Center called Unanswered: The Death of Vincent Foster.''What does Scaife himself say about all this? Very little publicly, but, in a rare interview he gave to the New York Times in 1995, he proclaimed, The death of Vincent Foster: I think it's the Rosetta Stone to the whole Clinton administration,'' adding that Foster's death had the potential to become the political story of the century.The other major means by which Scaife finances attacks on the President--apart from his funding of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's GOPAC and right-wing think-tanks such as the Heritage Foundation--is through the cluster of right-wing legal foundations and litigation centers. Prominent among these (see Documentation, p.|67 in our previous issue's installment) is the Landmark Legal Foundation, which has offered advice and assistance to Paula Jones in her sexual-harassment claim against Clinton, and which has ensconced itself in other Whitewater-related matters.Another, similar Scaife-financed organization is the Washington Legal Foundation, previously known as the Capital Legal Foundation. On its Legal Policy Advisory Board are Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, John Norton Moore of the University of Virginia Law School, and Massachusetts governor and former LaRouche prosecutor William Weld. On its National Board of Advisers are Senators Fred Thompson (Tenn.) and Orrin Hatch (Utah)--both involved in Senate investigations of the Clintons--and Jesse Helms, who played a role in the dumping of the first Whitewater independent counsel and his replacement with Kenneth Starr.The work of Scaife's network of conservative legal foundations is overseen by the Washington-based National Legal Center for the Public Interest (NLCPI), which he, of course, also funds. One of the directors of NLCPI is David Davenport, president of Pepperdine University; Scaife is on Pepperdine's board of trustees. Davenport and Scaife also sit together on the advisory board of the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace in Palo Alto, California.It is David Davenport who has offered Bush-leaguer Kenneth Starr a cushy position at Pepperdine University, financed in large part by Scaife, when Starr wraps up his investigation and legal assault on President Clinton as the Whitewater independent counsel. 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Any use of, or quotations from, this article must attribute them to The Executive Intelligence Review.     Brown says the initial effort, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cabl0KSFUqo">a 60-second spot called "Victims"</a> will be aired later this month in North Carolina and e-mailed to between 3 and 7 million conservatives this week, with a plea for more funding to further spread the message. "All of the efforts I have ever done in my life have been significantly funded," Brown claimed, though he declined to describe the size of the purchase. "This is going to be the most Internet-intensive effort for an ad debut ever."The new ad recounts the deaths of three Chicago residents in 2001 at the hands of criminal gangs. "That same year, a Chicago state senator named Barack Obama voted against expanding the death penalty for gang-related murders," an ominous female narrator intones. "So the question is, can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?"Brown is funding the initial ad campaign through a political action committee called the National Campaign Fund, which had $14,027 in the bank at the end of March. Brown said he had established several other front groups to fund a long-range effort to erode Obama's support, including a second PAC, called The Legacy Committee, a 527 organization called Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America and a so-called "social welfare" 501(c)4 nonprofit called the Policy Issues Institute.<div style="border: medium none; overflow: hidden;">
Read more: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1733873,00.html#ixzz0xqPD2asE">http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1733873,00.html#ixzz0xqPD2asE</a>
</div> ag 21BS NCCR?note bold is them, i took our redJohn R. Houk© September 26, 2012 The United Nations keeps on finding deceptive ways to enlist the United States of America into a sovereignty ending compact with the United Nations. If the UN is able to trump a national government’s sovereignty that essentially makes the UN a global governing body making the rule of law on a global basis. In America’s case the existence of a global rule of law authority would nullify the U.S. Constitution eradicating the best Liberty-Rights the world has ever seen basically making the Bill of Rights portion of Constitution subservient to United Nations legal precedent. Free Speech would be reduced hindering minority beliefs. Religious Freedom would be regulated to meet varying standards; e.g. Biblical Christians could not have the same public worship say a Muslim may have (Church bells no – Islamic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhan" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">adhan by muezzin</a> yes); Biblical Christians would be jailed preaching against homosexuality, Biblical Christians could be jailed for preaching (<a href="http://christianity.about.com/od/glossary/f/greatcommission.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Christ’s Great Commission</a>) for atheists and non-Christians might be offended and incited to violence and so on and so on. The Second Amendment for American individuals to bear arms for protection would controlled or ended by the UN because armed citizens is always a threat to government authority and essentially the UN would be the World Government. Undoubtedly there are other Constitutional Rights that would be curtailed or terminated by UN authority. The most notorious path the UN has been implementing Agenda 21 which is using ecological-Global Warming-Agriculture-Depopulation as the path to operate a top to bottom global government. Here is a brief description of Agenda 21: <blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(31, 86, 125); padding: 15px 30px; line-height: 28px;">Awareness of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development is racing across the nation as citizens in community after community are learning what their city planners are actually up to. As awareness grows, I am receiving more and more calls for tools to help activists fight back. Many complain that elected officials just won’t read detailed reports or watch long videos. “Can you give us something that is quick, and easy to read that we can hand out,” I’m asked. So here it is. A one page, quick description of Agenda 21 that fits on one page. I’ve also included for the back side of your hand out a list of quotes for the perpetrators of Agenda 21 that should back up my brief descriptions. A word of caution, use this as a started (sic) kit, but do not allow it to be your only knowledge of this very complex subject. To kill it you have to know the facts. Research, know your details; discover the NGO players in your community; identify who is victimized by the policies and recruit them to your fight; and then kill Agenda 21. That’s how it must be done. The information below is only your first step. Happy hunting. What is Sustainable Development? According to its authors, the objective of sustainable development is to integrate economic, social and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption, social equity, and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity. Sustainablists insist that every societal decision be based on environmental impact, focusing on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control and reduction. Social Equity (Social Justice) Social justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people “to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment.” Redistribution of wealth. Private property is a social injustice since not everyone can build wealth from it. National sovereignty is a social injustice. Universal health care is a social justice. All part of Agenda 21 policy. Economic Prosperity Public Private Partnerships (PPP). Special dealings between government and certain, chosen corporations which get tax breaks, grants and the government’s power of Eminent Domain to implement sustainable policy. Government-sanctioned monopolies. Local Sustainable Development policies Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, STAR Sustainable Communities, Green jobs, Green Building Codes, “Going Green,” Alternative Energy, Local Visioning, facilitators, regional planning, historic preservation, conservation easements, development rights, sustainable farming, comprehensive planning, growth management, consensus. Who is behind it? ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (formally, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives). Communities pay ICLEI dues to provide “local” community plans, software, training, etc. Addition groups include American Planning Council, The Renaissance Planning Group, International City/ County Management Group, aided by US Mayors Conference, National Governors Association, National League of Cities, National Association of County Administrators and many more private organizations and official government agencies. Foundation and government grants drive the process. Where did it originate? The term Sustainable Development was first introduced to the world in the pages a 1987 report (Our Common Future) produced by the United Nations World Commission on Environmental and Development, authored by Gro Harlem Brundtland, VP of the World Socialist Party. The term was first offered as official UN policy in 1992, in a document called UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21, issued at the UN’s Earth Summit, today referred to simply as Agenda 21. What gives Agenda 21 Ruling Authority? More than 178 nations adopted Agenda 21 as official policy during a signing ceremony at the Earth Summit. US president George H.W. Bush signed the document for the US. In signing, each nation pledge to adopt the goals of Agenda 21. In 1995, President Bill Clinton, in compliance with Agenda 21, signed Executive Order #12858 to create the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in order to “harmonize” US environmental policy with UN directives as outlined in Agenda 21. The EO directed all agencies of the Federal Government to work with state and local community governments in a joint effort “reinvent” government using the guidelines outlined in Agenda 21. As a result, with the assistance of groups like ICLEI, Sustainable Development is now emerging as government policy in every town, county and state in the nation. (<a href="http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=7035" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">READ THE REST</a> – Agenda 21 In One Easy Lesson; Worldview Times; 04/04/11)</blockquote> Now that I have the stage with Agenda 21 become aware of the next UN scheme to terminate American Sovereignty. That scheme is called the <a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/disabilities-convention.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities</a> (CRPD) [SA <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/2012/07/24/un_treaty_mischief_on_disabilities/page/full/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Phyllis Schlafly</a>]. This is a United Nations sponsored international treaty that has a name that evokes the emotion of sympathy. I mean who doesn’t help Disabled People? Who wants to be labeled a wicked miser for refusing compassion for the Disabled? The thing is there are loads wording that would nullify the United States Constitution. Below is a <a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Western Center for Journalism</a> (WCJ) email that is informative and gives you the ability to participate in mass faxing to your Senator (<a href="http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Treaties.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">The Senate must approve all foreign treaties</a>). JRH 9/26/12<a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9LWGE6L33LPDC" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Please Support NCCR</a>GOP Senators Pushing Constitution Subverting UN Treaty By Floyd BrownSent: 9/25/2012 10:04 AMSent by WCJ What Would You Say If We Told You That The United States Senate Is About To Ratify A U.N. Treaty That Seeks To • Eradicate Your Parental Rights • Advance Abortion Around The World • Sexualize Children As Young As Five-Years Old • And Institute Population-Control Measures At Home And Abroad?
And what would you say if we told you that a number of Senate Republicans have joined hands with the Democrats and are actually pushing the ratification of this United Nations treaty, either because they are legitimately ignorant when it comes to the actual language of this treaty, or are simply too scared to oppose it because it is masquerading as an international effort to affirm the rights of disabled persons?We couldn’t have made it up if we tried. As a matter of fact, Senator Jim DeMint, who is leading the charge in opposition to this United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) treaty, came right out and said: “When you look at the language in the treaty you realize THERE ARE OTHER THINGS AT STAKE HERE. A LOT OF THE LANGUAGE IN THERE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DISABILITIES....” [Emphasis Ours]And now, CRPD actually stands a better-than-even chance of actually being ratified because RINO Senators Richard Lugar, John Barrasso and Johnny Isakson, voted with the Democratic majority in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to send it to the full Senate for ratification… <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">and we’re not about to let our elected officials pass this unholy thing in the dark of night while no one is looking</a>.       You can <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">stop CRPD the exact same way you just sunk the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) and the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). We need to get our elected officials on record NOW. It only takes 34 Senators to say “No” and if 34 of them put their opposition to CRPD IN WRITING, right here and right now, as they did with LOST and ATT, we can kill CRPD, dead in its tracks, without even bringing it up for a vote.</a><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div>Use the button or the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every one of the 47 Republican Members of the United States Senate.<a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">YES FLOYD, SEND MY FAXES</a> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div>The Problem With The CRPD Is That It’s Not Really About Helping Persons With Disabilities. In Actuality, It’s A Ploy To Trick Us Into Voluntarily Surrendering Our Sovereignty. Make no mistake, the canard of addressing the needs of the disabled is simply pretty ribbons and bows. What’s inside the actual package is the surrender of our sovereignty to the America-haters and tyrannical third-world dictatorships that call themselves United Nations Members.And we’re not the only ones saying it. The Heritage Foundation writes that“ratifying it [the CRPD] would subject the U.S. to UNTOLD THREATS against itssovereignty and invite further intrusion by U.N. officials into sensitive social and domestic policies.” [Emphasis Ours]         Heritage goes on to say: “However, U.S. ratification of the [CRPD] is more than merely superfluous; the [CRPD] threatens American sovereignty in a variety of ways. As with other human rights treaties, the [CRPD] established a treaty body composed of unelected ‘experts’ … that evaluates the compliance of state parties to the treaty.”       Those are mighty strong words coming from an organization like Heritage that strives to phrase just about everything in as dignified and academic a manner as humanly possible. There can be no mistake, CRPD is all about the surrender of our national sovereignty… <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">and we’re in no mood to surrender it… we’re not going to stand by a let it happen without a fight</a>. <a href="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00122.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img title="clip_image001[22]" border="0" hspace="1" alt="clip_image001[22]" vspace="1" src="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00122_thumb.gif?w=20&h=18" width="20" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; background-image: none;" /></a>  Senator Jim DeMint said: “We don’t need to go beyond our Constitution and federalist system by allowing our fundamental rights to be dictated by unaccountable and unelected international bureaucrats.”<a href="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00123.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img title="clip_image001[23]" border="0" hspace="1" alt="clip_image001[23]" vspace="1" src="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00123_thumb.gif?w=20&h=18" width="20" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; background-image: none;" /></a>  John Bolton, the former-Ambassador to the United Nations, was making an obvious reference to the CRPD as the hat-trick to LOST and ATT when he recently said: “I think there are a lot of threats to American sovereignty that the Obama administration has had cooking in the U.N. They’ve kept it kind of low key.”<a href="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00124.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img title="clip_image001[24]" border="0" hspace="1" alt="clip_image001[24]" vspace="1" src="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00124_thumb.gif?w=20&h=18" width="20" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; background-image: none;" /></a>  And Bonnie Alba, an independent columnist, who served in various positions in the Department of Defense, said of the United Nations: “[I]f we acquiesce to the U.N. plan to run the world under the guise of helping the poor and weak, there is one guarantee. Over time all nations would lose their national sovereignty to the U.N. which would end up performing as a Banana Republic Dictatorship through enforced collection of taxes. And accountable to no one.” And what is perhaps the ultimate irony is that this treaty, if ratified, would probably do nothing to safeguard the innate, inalienable (and for those of us in the United States, God-given) rights of people with disabilities. Instead, <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">it WOULD erode (or even eradicate) the civil liberties of your children and grandchildren; and that’s why we must speak out and make our voice heard at this very moment</a>.<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div>Use the button or the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every one of the 47 Republican Members of the United States Senate.<a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">YES FLOYD, SEND MY FAXES</a> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div>But The Eradication Of Our Sovereignty Is Not The End Game. It’s Just The Beginning. Mike Farris with the Home School Legal Defense Fund clues us in to the first bit of United Nations trickery on CRPD when he tells us that the “CRPD provides no specific definition of disability.” And Farris is not alone. Heritage concurs: “Other language in [the CRPD] is troubling… such as its lack of a clear definition of disability, which it defines as ‘an evolving concept.'” Of course, neglecting to clearly define the term “DISABILITY” in the 50 distinct articles of the “Convention on the Rights of Persons with DISABILITIES” treaty WAS NO ACCIDENT. It’s Standard United Nations Operating Procedure.An unelected and unaccountable body of America-haters and third-world thugs, or as Heritage put it, “a treaty body composed of unelected ‘experts,'” will define this “evolving concept” as they go. The definitions of what constitutes “disabilities” and “rights” will constantly change, expand and morph to include greater numbers of people, and as more “rights” are allocated to an ever-increasing numbers of people who are deemed “disabled,” others will demand these newly created special “rights” as well.And our enemies will simply rinse-and-repeat the process, continually abuse this “evolving concept” and impose unfunded, unconstitutional and even sublimely ridiculous mandates upon you, your children and your grandchildren, under the guise of “securing the rights of the disabled.” In reality, they’ll simply be attempting to overwhelm our already strained entitlement system, and crippling the United States under the weight of that same entitlement system.If you think that ObamaCare and Barack Obama’s other economy crippling shenanigans are bad, know that <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">the demagogues of the third-world are just itching to show us how it’s really done… but we’re not going to give them the chance</a>.We can’t give them the chance because we might not be able to close Pandora’s Box once it is flung open; and once our own cowardly politicians start to tell us that we are obliged to follow the DICTATES of this body of third-world thugs and America-haters (and tyrannically enforce OUR compliance on THEIR behalf), it’s all over.Article VI of our own Constitution requires compliance: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”As for our enemies, they won’t comply; and all the America-haters at the United Nations will simply turn their backs and look at us with blank stares on their faces. ‘What do you mean Iran is not complying with the provisions of the treaty… of course they’re in compliance… however, the other member nations of the panel would like to address some more issues involving your compliance with you.’After all, THEY define the terms and THEY make the rules as they go. As with many United Nations treaties and resolutions, CRPD will mean whatever they say it means on any given day, and <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">our children and grandchildren will be left with no national sovereignty… no individual liberties… and a wreaked economy. Our children and grandchildren will be reduced to serfdom under the iron fist and the autocratic rule of those who despise freedom, liberty, and most of all, us… but it doesn’t have to be that way. We can put a stop this menace today</a>.<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div>Use the button or the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every one of the 47 Republican Members of the United States Senate.<a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">YES FLOYD, SEND MY FAXES</a> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> Did You Know That The Promotion Of The Radical Worldwide Abortion Movement Goes Hand In Hand With Safeguarding The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities?    And just what do abortion and the rights of the disabled have to do with each other? We still don’t know, but we DO KNOW that the United Nations has become infamous over the years, for constantly sneaking coded abortion advocacy language into treaties and resolutions that should have nothing whatsoever to do with abortion; and CRPD is no exception.Article 25 of the CRPD which addresses issues of “Health” states that the “State Parties” are mandated to “take all appropriate measures” to ensure those covered under the treaty have access to “gender-sensitive” health services… and “free or affordable health care and programmes… in the area of sexual and reproductive health…” (“sexual and reproductive health,” is known to be United Nations-speak for abortion).And just so you know not only how committed the Left is when it comes to promoting a radical worldwide abortion agenda, but also how the United Nations intentionally interjects “code phrases” in treaties and resolutions; consider what happened when Senator Marco Rubio actually introduced an amendment to the CRPD in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which simple stated:“The United States understands that the phrase ‘sexual and reproductive health’ in Article 25(a) of the Convention does not include abortion, and its use in that article does not create any abortion rights, cannot be interpreted to constitute support, endorsement, or promotion of abortion, and in no way suggests that abortion be promoted as a method of family planning.”ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE.  Chloe Cooney with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) wrote: “These extreme views in opposition to women’s rights and U.S. participation in the global community only succeed in marginalizing a bipartisan effort like the [CRPD],” and Senator Barbara Boxer echoed that statement: “No senator in my view should use any international treaty to push his or her views on an issue that isn’t part of this treaty.”Did you catch that? The United Nations is advancing a treaty that allegedly attempts to safeguard the innate and inalienable rights of persons with disabilities and interjects the promotion of abortion into the document THROUGH THE USE OF CODE WORDS; and when a Marco Rubio sought to clarify that the treaty on the rights of the disabled “in no way suggests that abortion be promoted as a method of family planning,” Barbara Boxer and her denizens of the Left accused RUBIO of interjecting HIS “views on an issue” into the debate.And the Democrats and the RINOs on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Rubio down. That’s <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">why we need 34 Senators to go on record NOW and put their opposition to CRPD in writing. We need to send the world a message. The United States refuses to even hold a vote on lunacy</a>.<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div>Use the button or the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every one of the 47 Republican Members of the United States Senate.<a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">YES FLOYD, SEND MY FAXES</a> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> And Did You Know That Our Children Have The “Right” To Sexual Gratification From The Moment They Emerge From The Womb And This Disability Treaty Is Going To Enforce That “Right” Too?    Senator DeMint and Mike Farris have very real and well-founded concerns when it comes to Article 7 of the CRPD, which mandates that states ensure that “the best interests of the child” shall be the primary consideration in all actions concerning the “rights” of the child.As Farris, who sees the dangers in his capacity as one of the nation’s leading, if not the nation’s leading, homeschool advocate states: “Should the government’s assessment of the child’s best interests differ from that of the parents, the government gets to make the decision, not the parents.”DeMint says: “We’re afraid that if the language suggests that parental authority is not absolute, we’re going to have an international body telling our parents they can’t homeschool.”What DeMint and Farris aren’t addressing is that the dangers posed by this treaty to your children and grandchildren are far worse. Article 23 of the CRPD, deceptively and ironically titled, “Respect For Home And The Family” mandates that children have “access to age-appropriate information, reproductive and family planning education are recognized, and the means necessary to enable them to exercise these rights are provided.”You might be interested in knowing what the United Nations typically means when it uses the term “age-appropriate” in reference to “reproductive and family planning education,” because it doesn’t mean what you think it means… at least not to far too many United Nations officials and NGOs.As an aside, you may have also realized that the term “rights” is also a United Nations code word that typically means “coerced mandate;” a scary proposition when the word is used in relation to the topics of “abortion,” “health care,” “the disabled,” and “child gratification.”One of the good-guys, Family Watch International, a NGO that attempts to prevent some of the more radical anti-family notions that come out of the United Nations from ever seeing the light of day, tells us about the term “age-appropriate:” <a href="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00125.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img title="clip_image001[25]" border="0" hspace="1" alt="clip_image001[25]" vspace="1" src="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00125_thumb.gif?w=20&h=18" width="20" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; background-image: none;" /></a>  “The International Guidelines on Sexuality Education,” which is a “publication issued by UNESCO, UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund “maintains that children have a right to receive instruction in sexual pleasure, masturbation and homosexuality…”<a href="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00126.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img title="clip_image001[26]" border="0" hspace="1" alt="clip_image001[26]" vspace="1" src="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00126_thumb.gif?w=20&h=18" width="20" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; background-image: none;" /></a>  Other UNESCO guidelines tell us that children as young as five-years-old should be taught “that they can touch their body parts for sexual pleasure” and;<a href="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00127.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img title="clip_image001[27]" border="0" hspace="1" alt="clip_image001[27]" vspace="1" src="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00127_thumb.gif?w=20&h=18" width="20" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; background-image: none;" /></a>  A significant number of activists connected to the United Nations assert “that children are sexual from birth, and as such, are entitled to experience sexual   pleasure.” Volumes have been written on this subject. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people have never read anything issued by the United Nations and United Nations’ recognized NGOs; and if you are so ignorant as to believe that the sexualization of your child is not “age-appropriate”… well that’s just too bad.Under the terms of the treaty, the United States Government will be mandated to enforce the dissemination of “age-appropriate information” and “reproductive and family planning education” to your child, whether you, as the parent, like it or not. It’s your child’s “right.”As Senator Boxer would probably say, you really should not “use any international treaty to push” your personal “views on an issue that isn’t part of this treaty.” We say <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">“nuts” to that… our God-given liberties are non-negotiable and it’s essential that we communicate that message to our elected officials</a>.<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div>Use the button or the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every one of the 47 Republican Members of the United States Senate.<a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">YES FLOYD, SEND MY FAXES</a> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> And Did You Further Know That Population-Control And The Rights Of The Disabled Go Hand In Hand Too?    Article 25 of the CRPD, which has already been quoted in part, also mandates that “State Parties” provide access to “population-based public health programmes…” And just what is a “population-based public health” program?One example that may actually be familiar to you is something called “Agenda 21,” a term which should conjure visions of former Vice-President Al Gore’s “Earth In The Balance”-enviro-babble; but a good, hard, look at Barack Obama’s Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, John P. Holdren, should more accurately solidify what is meant by “population-based public health programmes” in your mind.As it turns out, Van Jones wasn’t the only “nut” in Obama’s inner-circle, and what is probably even more startling is that the United States Senate actually confirmed Holdren.In 1997, Holdren co-authored a textbook entitled “Ecoscience,” which advocated mass sterilization, compulsory abortion, one-world government and the establishment of a global police force to enforce these population control measures… errrr… “rights.”Here are several more of the “greatest hits” from Holdren’s tome: <a href="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00128.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img title="clip_image001[28]" border="0" hspace="1" alt="clip_image001[28]" vspace="1" src="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00128_thumb.gif?w=20&h=18" width="20" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; background-image: none;" /></a>  “Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution [he’s talking about the United States Constitution] if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.” -page 837 <a href="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00129.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img title="clip_image001[29]" border="0" hspace="1" alt="clip_image001[29]" vspace="1" src="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00129_thumb.gif?w=20&h=18" width="20" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; background-image: none;" /></a>  “If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization.” -page 917 <a href="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00130.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img title="clip_image001[30]" border="0" hspace="1" alt="clip_image001[30]" vspace="1" src="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00130_thumb.gif?w=20&h=18" width="20" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; background-image: none;" /></a>  “… a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable… the Regime could have the power to control pollution not only in the atmosphere and oceans, but also in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes that cross international boundaries or that discharge into the oceans. The Regime might also be a logical central agency for regulating all international trade… including all food on the international market.” -pages 942 and 943<a href="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00131.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img title="clip_image001[31]" border="0" hspace="1" alt="clip_image001[31]" vspace="1" src="https://oneway2day.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/clip_image00131_thumb.gif?w=20&h=18" width="20" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; background-image: none;" /></a>  “The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.” -pages 942 and 943 <div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div>Use the button or the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every one of the 47 Republican Members of the United States Senate. <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">YES FLOYD, SEND MY FAXES</a> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> Why Would So Many Republican Senators So Willingly Support The Surrender Of Our Sovereignty To The United Nations?    We’ve got our work cut out for us because Senators Lugar, Barrasso and Isakson aren’t the only Senate Republicans supporting this atrocity. Senators John McCain, Jerry Moran and Bob Corker have already gone on record in support of the CRPD as well… <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">and more are certain to follow if our elected officials don’t hear from you right now</a>.These 6 RINOs only need 8 more Senate Republicans to agree to this affront to our sovereignty, and there are plenty that are ripe for the picking… Senators Lindsey Graham, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Scott Brown, Kay Bailey-Huchinson, Lamar Alexander, Mark Kirk, Thad Cochran, Michael Enzi, John Thune and Lisa Murkowski come immediately to mind.That’s more than 8 and that list is by no means inclusive. Senators Moran and Barrasso, who stood in opposition to LOST, are actually pushing CRPD. McClatchy even reported that Jim DeMint is very aware that he’s “up against other Republican senators” and that he “faces an uphill battle in preventing ratification.”But <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">that doesn’t mean we can’t win this fight. We’ve fought much harder battles and if you make your voice heard now, we can win</a>.Why would these Republican Senators so willingly surrender our sovereignty to the United Nations? Why ask why? History, after all, is clear. In the “Federalist Papers” Alexander Hamilton observed that “a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people” and “that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying obsequious court to the people….”Perhaps it is enough to say that it takes intelligence, discernment and courage to do the right thing; particularly when the “right thing” is opposing something that masquerades as an effort to advance the rights of the disabled.Isakson’s own office inadvertently confirmed the above by issuing a slyly-worded statement that said he “voted in favor of the [treaty] in the committee because ratification would signal to the world that the U.S. is committed to continuing its role as the international leader in disability rights.”But hold on… wait until you hear what came next. Isakson’s office actually added that the treaty “will not erode our sovereignty.” Is he serious?Perhaps, but it’s more than certain that Isakson and far too many of our Republican leaders didn’t bother to read Article 46 of the CRPD, which explicitly states: “Reservations incompatible with the object and purpose of the present Convention shall not be permitted.”Isakson and Company should know better; but they don’t. Mike Farris said: “They lack the knowledge to execute their offices AND IT’S SHAMEFUL.” [Emphasis Ours]  One thing is certain. When our elected officials are <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">done picking up the mountains of faxes that will spill from their overflowing fax trays onto their floors… they won’t be able to use the excuse that they “lacked knowledge.”</a>       So let’s make our demands known. Tell our <a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">elected officials in no uncertain terms, with an election approaching, that there will be dire career-ending consequences UNLESS they send the opposition a clear message that even bringing this treaty up for a vote is an effort in futility. We want them on record… and we want it in writing</a>.<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div>Use the button or the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every one of the 47 Republican Members of the United States Senate.<a href="https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form138/secure_index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">YES FLOYD, SEND MY FAXES</a> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr align="center" size="2" width="90%" noshade="" style="height: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> Floyd BrownUN Continues NWO CourseJohn R. 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