Met Randy Scheunemann (apparently new) U.S. Top Foreign Policy Adviser

[seemslikeadream]

1 day ago: Randy Scheunemann, top foreign policy adviser for Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., arrives in Waterford, Mich., Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008.






2 days ago: Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., top foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann, center and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., second from left, speak to reporters on board the Straight Talk Air campaign charter airplane before take off from Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008.



1 day ago: Randy Scheunemann, top foreign policy adviser for Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., facing camera, holds a map of Georgia, while speaking to the senator, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008, on board the Straight Talk Air campaign airplane while waiting on the runway to take off in Newark, N.J.





months ago: In this May 16, 2008, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, speaks with his director of Foreign Policy and National Security Randy Scheunemann, as they board McCain's chartered plane at Washington's Ronald Reagan Airport. According to records on file with Congress, Scheunemann has lobbied the National Security Council, Congress and the State Department on behalf of Stephen Payne, the Texas businessman and longtime Republican fundraiser caught up in a controversy over whether he sought to sell access to the Bush White House.

[DJ13]

1. PNAC

ie: ASSHOLE

[seemslikeadream]

5. and he don't look to happy

1 day ago: Randy Scheunemann, right, and Nicolle Wallace, advisers to Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., listen as McCain speaks to reporters during a news conference Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008 in Birmingham, Mich. Scheunemann worked as a lobbyist for the government of Georgia, while advising McCain on foreign policy. For the duration of the campaign, Scheunemann is taking a leave of absence from the firm.

[Another Bill C.]

6. Project for a New American Century

was a high level Pinky and the Brain fan club.
Pinky: Gee, Brain, what are we going to do tonight?
Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!

http://web.archive.org/web/20020206003030/www.newamericancentury.org/publicationsreports.htm

[seemslikeadream]

8. Robert Kagan

American Enterprise Institute Panel on Russia & Georgia Military Conflict (August 13, 2008)


WATCH THIS YOU'VE GO TO HEAR KAGAN

http://www.c-span.org /


http://www.aei.org/events/eventID.1769,filter.all/event_detail.asp

The War in the Caucasus: An Initial Assessment Print Mail


Start: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:00 AM

End: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:30 AM

Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Directions to AEI

On Friday, August 8, the longstanding tensions between Georgia and Russia over the separatist region of South Ossetia escalated dramatically. Reports indicate that late last week, Georgia’s staunchly pro-Western government launched an offensive to reclaim the territory, shelling secessionist militias and sending forces into the city of Tskhinvali. Russia, which maintains a peacekeeping detachment in South Ossetia, responded in short order with what President Bush has called “disproportionate” force, striking civilian and military targets deep within Georgia and deploying a naval flotilla off the country’s Black Sea coast. Following three days of intense hostilities and repeated appeals for Western intervention, Georgia took steps to deescalate the conflict, calling for a cease-fire and withdrawing its troops from South Ossetia. Although Russia declared an end to its military operations on August 12, Russian troops remain deployed on Georgia territory and a resolution has yet to be achieved.

Praised by American policymakers as a bastion of democracy, Georgia has proven to be an enthusiastic ally of the United States in recent years, deploying a brigade to Diyala province in Iraq, lobbying for NATO membership, and seeking increased European integration. How, then, will the United States and its European allies respond to the current conflict? What are the implications of the war for other aspiring pro-Western governments? What does Russia’s conduct in the conflict tell us about Moscow’s longer-term domestic and foreign policy objectives? At an AEI event on Wednesday, August 13, AEI resident scholars Leon Aron and Frederick W. Kagan will provide an initial analysis of the conflict, with commentary from retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters and from Lt. Col. Bob Hamilton, an Army foreign area officer and fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who recently returned from a two-year tour as chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation in Tbilisi, Georgia. AEI’s Thomas Donnelly will moderate the discussion.


8:45 a.m. Registration

9:00 Panelists: Leon Aron, AEI
Frederick W. Kagan, AEI
Lt. Col. Bob Hamilton, U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, U.S. Army (Retired)

Moderator: Thomas Donnelly, AEI

10:30 Adjournment

[MadMaddie]

2. This guy and Rove apparantly traveled to Georgia

before the skirmish broke out. It is possible that they have interefered with government policies. They may have committed crimes.

[seemslikeadream]

3. Yes I do believe they have

It's the Logan Act, is it not? :)

[MadMaddie]

7. You are correct!!

http://law.jrank.org/pages/8357/Logan-Act.html

<snip>
The Logan Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 953 <1948>) is a single federal statute making it a crime for a citizen to confer with foreign governments against the interests of the United States. Specifically, it prohibits citizens from negotiating with other nations on behalf of the United States without authorization.
<snip>


:hi:

[tavalon]

13. I hereby christen you "Wonk" as in policy wonk

We all have the disease here and yes, it's the Logan Act.

[Subdivisions]

4. Lieberfuck is always there isn't he? n/t

[tavalon]

14. Yep, he's just there to remind us that stupid can and does cross party lines.

[bleever]

9. Project for a New! Improved! American Century.

Yeah, that'll work out.

Thanks, slad.

[autorank]

10. "map of Georgia while speaking to McCain" - uh, that's the goods

Truly outstanding. Recommended.

[seemslikeadream]

12. a few minutes before that

[autorank]

15. ;;)

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Will he be in the Mets bullpen

God knows we need him...

:evilgrin:

[sattahipdeep]

16. Thanks

:kick: