Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)--PNAC rises from the ashes

[Skidmore]

This came up on another thread and I felt it is important enough to deserve its own thread. PNAC closed shop and has opened under a new name. And we need to start mentioning the name of this organization when calling CSPAN and other shows and in LTTEs. PNACers need to be drummed out of positions of powers and as a cohesive group.

This is their purpose:

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/usr_doc/FDD_at_a_Glance.pdf

A sample of their publications:

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/publications/publications_list.htm?attrib_id=7395

This is who is involved in the FDD:

Board of Directors


Steve Forbes
Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Jack Kemp


Distinguished Advisors


Judge Louis J. Freeh
Fmr. Director of the FBI
Sen. Joseph Lieberman
(D-CT)
U.S. Senate


Newt Gingrich
R. James Woolsey


Board of Advisors

Gary Bauer
Bill Kristol
Donna Brazile
Hon. Richard D. Lamm
Rep. Eric Cantor
Rep. Jim Marshall
Rep. Eliot Engel
Sen. Zell Miller
Frank Gaffney
Richard Perle
Amb. Marc Ginsberg
Steven Pomerantz
Charles Jacobs
Sen. Charles E. Schumer
Charles Krauthammer

Senior Fellows


Khairi Abaza
Andrew C. McCarthy
Avi Jorisch
Barbara Newman
Samer Libdeh
Dr. Walid Phares
Mario Loyola
Victoria Toensing

Adjunct Fellows


Dr. Jonathan Adelman
Agota Kuperman
Richard Z. Chesnoff
Dr. J. Peter Pham
Paul Crespo
Jess Sadick
Tanya Gilly
Dr. Frederic Smoler
Orde Kittrie
Jan Ting
Michael I. Krauss

Staff

Tony Badran
Claudia Rosett
Amb. Richard W. Carlson
David Silverstein
Mark Dubowitz
Jonathan L. Snow
Eleana Gordon
Senior Vice-President
Jean Thurman
Clifford D. May
Alykhan Velshi
Bill McCarthy
Caitlyn Walters
Coordinator, Campus Programs
Cara Rosenthal
Senior Manager, Development
Dan Wilson

[Jacobin]

1. Yep. Same cast of whores

[peacebird]

2. new name - same sh*t. k&r

thanks for the heads up!

[magellan]

3. A pile of shit by any other name still stinks

Treasonous traitors, every last one of them. Why don't they go found their own country to turn into the fascist state of their dreams and leave ours alone.

[bonito]

33. Thay already have a country

More names.

The Israel Project is an international non-profit organization devoted to educating the press and the public about Israel while promoting security, freedom and peace. The Israel Project provides journalists, leaders and opinion-makers accurate information about Israel. The Israel Project is not related to any government or government agency.

Board of Advisors: Senator Evan Bayh (IN), Senator Saxby Chambliss (GA), Senator Norm Coleman (MN), Senator Ben Nelson (NE), Senator Arlen Specter (PA), Senator Ron Wyden (OR), Congressman Rob Andrews (NJ), Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (NV), Congressman Tom Davis (VA), Congressman Eliot Engel (NY), Congressman Frank Pallone (NJ), Congressman Jon Porter (NV), Congressman Jim Saxton (NJ), Congressman Brad Sherman (CA), Congressman Joe Wilson (SC), Actor and Director Ron Silver

[scarletwoman]

4. k & r -- these people are like herpes, they never go away. (nt)

[WiseButAngrySara]

5. Thanks for posting. I thought the same when I read about it

earlier, and just posted the link in another thread about the 'death' of PNAC.

:kick: and R!

[WiseButAngrySara]

6. Donna Brazile? ....n/t

[OregonBlue]

46. She's the CNN Democratic Strategist. How do we get rid of her and

get a real Democrat on CNN!!!! She's pushing Hillary today as usual!!

[Paulie]

7. Sen. Charles E. Schumer????

Wow... just wow.

[originalpckelly]

16. This is Likud America, just re-branded. Likud has some labor policies...

which would resemble moderate Democratic policies. Hence, the Democrats on there in the form of Schumer and Brazile.

[Morgana LaFey]

22. What a useful tool she has become

I'm sure Rove is very pleased with himself.

Having Schumer and Brazile (okay, Lieberman too) lends credibiilty to the organization that it wouldn't have otherwise. I really hate seeing people used in such a way, tho I don't know if Schumer is being used or not.

[nicknameless]

8. What? No Jeb Bush?

He was a PNAC signatory.

[wakeme2008]

28. Tell you Jebbie is thinking about running for something and

does not want his name to be attach to this one. IMHO

[nicknameless]

50. You could be correct.

AND/OR he could be trying to save his skin from further implication in all the neocon corruption.

He's up to his eyeballs already with BFEE, PNAC, FL 2000, and other nefarious Florida dealings.

[cool user name]

9. Sen. Charles E. Schumer is on that list ...

Fuck him ....

:wtf:

[Emit]

10. We can add them to this group

http://www.opednews.com/toenjes_IraqPolicyWeb_withTables_July19.doc

[cyberpj]

15. Wow. What an intensive work! Have you mailed it to Congressmembers? nt

[IndyOp]

11. Holy peewee - a sampling of their publications:

FDD spokespeople appear in national, international, and Arabic-language media outlets on average seven times a day, seven days a week to deliver powerful, effective messages about the need to fight terrorism and promote democratic values.

Getting Iraq to Work
(01/12/2007) Newt Gingrich, The Wall Street Journal
The American mission in Iraq must succeed. Our goal -- promoting a stable, accountable democracy in the heart of the Middle East -- cannot be achieved by purely military means.

Opposing View: Don't Accept Defeat
(01/12/2007) Clifford D. May, Andrew C. McCarthy, USA Today
Opponents of President Bush's plan for salvaging the dire situation in Iraq have every right to speak out. And those in Congress who believe it pointless to do anything other than accept defeat have the power to cut off funds.

Religion of Peace?
(01/10/2007) Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review Online
Islam is quintessentially tolerant. Its adherents are hospitable to liberty, equality, and pluralism, the rudiments of modern democracy. Those committing terror in its name are heretics -- a fringe which has "hijacked" a "religion of peace."

This conventional wisdom brims over the mainstream media’s daily servings...

But is it true?

Emphatically, the answer is “no.” So argues best-selling author and Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer in The Truth about Muhammad — Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion (Regnery, 256 pages, $27.95). And he does not expect you to take his word for it.


Don't Get Too Excited about the President's Warning to Iran and Syria
(01/10/2007) Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review Online
Supporters of the war on terror -- the global war against jihadists as distinguished from its isolated battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan -- were surely heartened last night by President Bush's monitory words for Iran and Syria.

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=442162&attrib_id=7378

[Emit]

12. And check out the funding sources

Venerableh Scaife Foundation funds a lot of these think tanks...


Douglas Feith's dad?

According to the FDD, it receives money from “a diverse group of individual philanthropists” and “does not accept any government funding.” An investigative report in the American Conservative put the FDD's annual budget at close to $3 million (American Conservative, November 17, 2003). According to the American Conservative report, the FDD relies on the support of 27 individual high-end donors, including Leonard Abramson of U.S. Healthcare; New York financier Michael Steinhardt; Edgar S. Bronfman Sr., patriarch of Seagrams and president of the Jewish World Congress, and his brother Charles Bronfman; and Lynn Schusterman, widow of Oklahoma oil executive Charles Schusterman. In 2002, the FDD received $250,000 apiece from Edgar Bronfman, Michael Steinhardt, and Home Depot founder Bernard Marcus. Other donors who each gave $100,000 included Abramson, Charles Bronfman, Lynn Schusterman, and Dalck Feith (father of Douglas Feith). The FDD also receives funding from the State Department for its democracy programs and has worked in tandem with the U.S.-government funded NED. In 2004, the Sarah Scaife Foundation granted the FDD $125,000 for general operating expenses, and a combined $275,000 in 2005 for program and project support. (For more on FDD funding, see Mediatransparency.org.)

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1475

And then we see the tentacles, reaching over to the resuscitated http://www.fightingterror.org/">Committee on the Present Danger, where Lieberman, Kyl, Shultz and Woolsey are all co-chairs.


From the rightweb link:

Republican Party insiders dominate the FDD's board, and its president, Clifford May, is the former director of communications for the Republican National Committee (1997 to 2001). May was also the editor of Rising Tide, the party's official magazine. May is also vice chair of the Republican Jewish Coalition and chairman of the policy committee of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), which is described by the FDD as a “venerable Cold War group” that was revived by the FDD in 2004. May writes a weekly column that is nationally distributed, and he has contributed to various media outlets, including the National Review Online, CNN's American Morning, and National Public Radio's Morning Edition.

[originalpckelly]

17. HOLY FUCK! A cabal emerges! And some of them are fucking Democrats!

:grr:

I want to know why Brazile is a member of an organization which would put out such bile!

[mod mom]

23. Maybe this is what her and kkkarl discuss during their lunches.

[cyberpj]

13. These "foundations" are such a great way to launder their money. nt

[spindrifter]

19. And they cycle their people who are no longer

"serviceable" in public office or appointments to the high-paid world of the think tanks. Wonder where Lynne Cheney is currently collecting a paycheck.

[spindrifter]

14. Very disturbing--they

definitely have an outreach to education--undergraduate support, teaching programs, etc. They are organized to move their ideas in a big way. We need to do some more work to find out exactly where their outreach dollars are going.

[Emit]

18. Yes -- they're spreading their tentacles far and wide

check out what rightweb details -- from link in my post above

Since its founding, the FDD has developed a large staff and established itself as a think tank through its senior and adjunct fellows, including senior fellows Khairi Abaza, Avi Jorisch, Samer Libdeh, Andrew C. McCarthy, Barbara Newman, Walid Phares, and Victoria Toensing. FDD adjunct fellows include Jonathan Adelman, Richard Chesnoff, Paul Crespo, Tanya Gilly, Orde Kittrie, Michael I. Krauss, Agota Kuperman, J. Peter Pham, Jess Sadick, Frederic Smoler, and Jan Ting. The FDD's staff includes employees for campus outreach and communications, including those who manage the FDD's blog (fdd.typepad.com) and its radio program (“Danger Zone”).

Other prominent FDD staff members include Claudia Rosett, FDD's “journalist-in-residence” who writes regularly for Commentary and was awarded the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism. The Breindel Award was established by Rupert Murdoch to recognize “the columnist, editorialist, or reporter whose work best reflects the spirit of writings by Eric Breindel: Love of country and its democratic institutions as well as the act of bearing witness to the evils of totalitarianism.” (For more about Breindel, see Craig Horowitz, “The Connection Man,” New York Magazine, March 22, 1999.)

The FDD features on its website Rosett's investigation into the UN Oil for Food Program, which FDD boasts “took the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal from a footnote to the front page, and in doing so caused the world to see the UN in a new light.”

Another prominent FDD staff member is Amb. Richard Carlson, FDD's vice chairman. Carlson directed Voice of America for the last six years of the Cold War, and he was responsible for the U.S.-government funded Radio Marti, which broadcast to Cuba. Carlson also served as president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for five years.

In its first five years, FDD established or sponsored numerous programs that have extended its influence and reach. Three of these programs focus on increasing university attention to terrorism: the Undergraduate Fellowship on Terrorism, the Academic Fellowship on Terrorism, and the Summer Workshop on Teaching about Terrorism (SWOTT). According to FDD, SWOTT is a “unique, U.S.-based effort to provide college professors with the tools they need to teach about the threat of terrorism and the methods used to combat it … and includes classes that encompass all facets of terrorism studies and field trips to military and other national security-related installations.” FDD fellowships and terrorism education programs routinely involve study trips to Israel.

[bonito]

20. K&R n/t

[Hissyspit]

21. Zell Miller. Joe Lieberman - why did ANY Democrat in Conn. vote for him??

Richard Perle. These looney toons continue to associate with one another. Do they not have a clue?

[bonito]

24. This needs a hundred votes!

Because it's the beast we're dealing with.

[bonito]

25. Another good site

http://www.lewrockwell.com/ Libertarian but a wealth of info and intelligent discourse.

[KoKo]

26. Wonder if Donna Brazille was on there before or after she was Gore's Campaign

Manager. Seems like Gore was done in by these two. Seeing who they are affiliated with and their behavior since Selection 2000 one does wonder if he was "set up," or just fell in with the wrong crowd. It's shocking that these two are involved with PNAC and yet were so involved with Gore.

[Pachamama]

27. Brazille and Lieberman.....

Yes, I wonder too about them and their "real" role in Gore's campaign....

All I know is that when I first saw an interview a few years back with Brazille praising Rove and saying they were friends, I got chills.....

I think, if I were Karl Rove, and I wanted to have my candidate win, what better way than to have some insiders in to the opponnents campaign....

:eyes:

[wakeme2008]

29. She cost Gore the election...

Had Gore won WV he would have won the 2000 election. Donna was the person that told Gore he did not have to go to WV and talk with the Union leaders. And the Unions voted for Bush.

[CoffeeCat]

39. Brazille stood up for Junior regarding Katrina!!

I'll never forget--hearing Donna Brazille praising Junior
in the aftermath of Katrina. She called on all Democrats
to quit pointing fingers and to find solutions.

Meanwhile, people were dying in the streets of thirst, and
drowning in the rafters of their homes.

I always wondered why she would have toed the line for Junior,
during that shocking disaster.

She's a frickin neocon.

These people are like parasitic aliens. They are attempting to
coalesce a one-party system--made up of themselves and their
warmongering evil.

These people are unAmerican and they are a threat to our democracy.

I imagine that there are many other Congress people involved in this.
They just chose to hide in the shadows. Many vote with the neocons,
and we are often shocked and wondering why. I guess we now know.

I wonder what role, if any, Hillary has with these goons?

[DoYouEverWonder]

32. Does make you wonder

what those two were about in 2000?

Gore got screwed in more ways then one it seems.

[Roxy66]

35. Wow....boy he was sure taken. It's kind of scary

[donheld]

30. Like snakes they just shead their skin and keep going

They also can't seem to hide. They run, but don't hide.

[Selatius]

31. Richard Perle and William Kristol are here? Talk about stupid.

It's the same damn people.

Then there's that idiot Newt Gingrich who says the 1st amendment goes too far.

[Roxy66]

34. Holy Shit....look at all the supposed Dems!!! I'm scared!

[Skidmore]

36. Kicking for the Monday morning crowd.

[EFerrari]

38. Thanks, Skidmore. Man, that list makes my stomach churn. n/t

[kma3346]

37. This makes me sick

and really mad too! Obviously, the Democratic party has been infiltrated (and for quite some time now). I hope that if Al decides to run again, he steers way clear of these wolves in sheep's clothing. What really kills me is that Donna Brazile is always on as the "liberal" pundit on the Democratic side. It's pretty bad when you have only two points of view and one of them is a fraud and a fake.

This also makes me wonder what the hell they're up to. Thank God for the Internet; otherwise, I'd be much less informed (probably less worried, anxious, and mad too....)

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[Miss Chybil]

40. 7 times a day, 7 days a week to talk about the "need" to fight terrorism?

Is there anybody, besides a terrorist, who doesn't know there is a "need" to fight terrorism? I think the problem lies in "how" to fight terrorism. These people want to make it look like people who don't think global warfare is the correct way to fight terrorism somehow approve of terrorism. This is bullshit.

[myrna minx]

41. K&R n/t

[ellacott]

42. This Brazille and Schumer are really disappointing

I can't see how they can align themselves with these people. I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary were apart of this group.

[The Stranger]

43. K&R

[sofa king]

44. I've compared that list with the PNAC list

According to Rightweb.
Former PNAC contributors are listed in bold.


Board of Directors


Steve Forbes
Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Jack Kemp


Distinguished Advisors


Judge Louis J. Freeh
Fmr. Director of the FBI
Sen. Joseph Lieberman
(D-CT)
U.S. Senate


Newt Gingrich
R. James Woolsey


Board of Advisors

Gary Bauer
Bill Kristol
Donna Brazile
Hon. Richard D. Lamm
Rep. Eric Cantor
Rep. Jim Marshall
Rep. Eliot Engel
Sen. Zell Miller
Frank Gaffney
Richard Perle
Amb. Marc Ginsberg
Steven Pomerantz
Charles Jacobs
Sen. Charles E. Schumer
Charles Krauthammer

Senior Fellows


Khairi Abaza
Andrew C. McCarthy
Avi Jorisch
Barbara Newman
Samer Libdeh
Dr. Walid Phares
Mario Loyola
Victoria Toensing

Adjunct Fellows


Dr. Jonathan Adelman
Agota Kuperman
Richard Z. Chesnoff
Dr. J. Peter Pham
Paul Crespo
Jess Sadick
Tanya Gilly
Dr. Frederic Smoler
Orde Kittrie
Jan Ting
Michael I. Krauss

Staff

Tony Badran
Claudia Rosett
Amb. Richard W. Carlson
David Silverstein
Mark Dubowitz
Jonathan L. Snow
Eleana Gordon
Senior Vice-President
Jean Thurman
Clifford D. May
Alykhan Velshi
Bill McCarthy
Caitlyn Walters
Coordinator, Campus Programs
Cara Rosenthal
Senior Manager, Development
Dan Wilson

________________________________

It's an interesting list. Plenty of PNACers there, but with perhaps a larger sampling of weasel politicians and Fox News-style media pundits, including Richard Chesnoff and Paul Crespo. It looks like this group is tossing Leo Strauss in favor of Alfred Rosenberg. The ghost of Scooter Libby is still there, too, in the form of lawyer and camera-hog Victoria Toensing, who helped pimp the spurious idea that Valerie Plame didn't have a cover to blow.

When I first looked at this list I fully expected to find a number of recently out-of-work Congressional Chiefs of Staff. I didn't check them all, but I didn't find any.

[w4rma]

45. What the heck is Schumer doing in that group? Schumer, I hardly knew ye. (nt)

[133724]

47. War in Lebanon forcast in early '05

We hereby ask you to intervene as follow:



1) To vote for as new UNSCR demanding directly that the Syrian occupation army withdraws from all Lebanese territories immediately.



2) To form a UN sponsored multinational force, under Chapter 7 of the Charter, to deploy as soon as possible on all Lebanese Territories and along the entire borders of the Lebanese Republic to protect the Lebanese populations from the presence of foreign armed forces, particularly the Syrian occupation forces and Terrorist organizations.



3) To help in the forming of an interim Government under the auspices of the United Nations which mission would be to organize the upcoming legislative elections in May and attend to the socio-economic needs of the Lebanese people.



4) To put the Lebanese Army under the direct command of the multinational force in preparation for its reforming, equipping, training and handing over to the future Government formed by a new President elected by the newly democratically elected Parliament of Lebanon.



5) To form an international committee to help Lebanon recover from occupation and involve the vast resources of the Lebanese Diaspora under the auspices of the United Nations.



And in view of the dangerous developments and the risks of violence that would generate from a non withdrawal of Syrian forces, or from a unilateral redeployment not in application of UNSCR 1559, and in view of the fact that the Lebanese populations are left without protection under a foreign, dangerous and armed occupation,



In view of the fact that millions of Lebanese citizens are now deprived from a national and sovereign protection, while thousands of them are detained and tortured in the custody of the Syrian occupation army, its security extensions within the Lebanese armed forces and Terrorist organizations


http://www.defenddemocracy.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=266756&attrib_id=7393


These people just don't know when to quit....

[Fovea]

48. What a delightfully Orwellian name change!

from the gang formerly known as 'buttfuckers for chastity.'

Though seriously. These relationships should have remained obscure, the fact that they have had to call in the 5th columnists is like Pappy Price's 1864 raid through Missouri. A last ditch, double down high stakes shot. I think they may be in big trouble.

[Rex]

49. Holyshit, it's The Foundation!

It didn't click with me until I went and read their website! Folks, The Foundation is an evil group of religious nutjobs that, and this is the scary part, control huge portions of our country! I see a few names missing that I know are members.

[Ignacio Upton]

51. They're not a new group

Jeane Kirkpatrick is listed, even though she died.

[Swamp Rat]

52. Look at all those evil bastards!

:kick: