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> Soros, Foley and the FBI
>
> By Richard Poe
> FrontPageMagazine.com
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| October 11, 2006
>
> THE SCANDAL over Congressman Mark Foley's ***ual misconduct has
generated
> some unexpected blowback. It has pitted George Soros' Shadow Party
> against the FBI.
>
>
> The Soros-funded group CREW has effectively declared war on America's
top
> federal law enforcement agency. CREW has called on the Justice
Department
> to investigate the FBI. In an October 5 statement, it accused the
Bureau
> of having "fabricated and disseminated" falsehoods about CREW, as part
of
> an FBI "cover-up" of the Foley scandal. (1)
>
>
>
> In the war of words now raging between CREW and the FBI -- CREW through
> its press releases, and the FBI through anonymous press leaks - each
> accuses the other of obstructing justice in the Foley investigation.
>
>
>
> CREW started the fight with a surprise announcement on October 2. It
> stated at a press conference that it had obtained some of Foley's
> incriminating e-mail correspondence on July 21 - two months before ABC
> News broke the Foley story on September 28. CREW claimed that it had
> sought to interest FBI investigators in the Foley e-mails, but to no
> avail.
>
>
>
> "Since the FBI has known about Rep. Foley's emails since July, the
> question arises: Did the administration help to cover up Rep. Foley's
> conduct and leave a potential ***ual predator on the loose?..." asked
CREW
> executive director Melanie Sloan. "The American public deserves to know
> not just how and why members of Congress failed to take action to
protect
> the youngsters entrusted to the care of the House of Representatives,
but
> also why the FBI - an agency charged with protecting the public - failed
> to safeguard other youngsters from a potential ***ual predator." (2)
>
>
>
> FBI sources retort that it was CREW, not the Bureau, that was playing
> games with the Foley evidence. According to the Wa****ngton Post of
> October 5:
>
>
>
> ".unidentified Justice and FBI officials told re****ters that the e-mails
> provided by CREW were heavily redacted and that the group refused to
> provide unedited versions to the FBI. One law enforcement official -
> speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing
> investigation - also told The Wa****ngton Post the FBI believed that CREW
> may have received the e-mails as early as April and that the group
refused
> to tell the FBI how they were obtained." (3)
>
>
>
> CREW says the G-men are lying. It has posted on its website a
> point-by-point refutation of their account. (4)
>
>
>
> CREW - whose initials stand for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics
in
> Wa****ngton - presents itself as a non-partisan, public interest group,
> which litigates and brings ethics charges against corrupt politicians.
> Its website (citizensforethics.org) states that CREW, "targets
government
> officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests. We will
help
> Americans use litigation to ****ne a light on those who betray the public
> trust." Despite this idealistic language, the degree to which CREW's
> litigators target Republicans and spare Democrats lends credence to the
> view expressed by many Wa****ngton observers that CREW is little more
than
> an attack machine for George Soros' Shadow Party.
>
>
>
>
> Shadow Party Agenda
>
>
>
> The Shadow Party is a tightly-coordinated network of private groups
> through which Soros disburses campaign cash and exerts influence over
the
> Democrats. In 2004, the Shadow Party raised more than $300 million for
> Democrat candidates. This gave Soros unprecedented power to bend the
> Democratic Party to his will. After the election, Soros operative and
> MoveOn PAC director Eli Pariser declared, "Now it's our party: we bought
> it, we own it." (5)
>
>
>
> Shadow Party operative Robert Borosage expressed a similar view at the
> time. A hard-left militant during the '60s, Borosage now serves as
> co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, a leftwing activist
> group which has received more than $300,000 from Soros' Open Society
> Institute. In a November 29, 2004 article in the Marxist journal The
> Nation, Borosage and Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel wrote:
>
>
>
> "[P]rogressives drive this party now - we provide the energy, the
> organizers, the ground forces, the ideas, and much of the money. We
should
> organize the opposition [against Republicans]. Progressives should
mount
> a powerful assault on Republican boss Tom DeLay." (6)
>
>
>
> It is probably no coincidence that CREW executive director Melanie Sloan
> was thinking along the same lines. "Since I started [with CREW], the
main
> thing I wanted to do was to go after Tom DeLay," Sloan told the Wall
> Street Journal in May 2005. "DeLay is my top target." The Journal
re****ts:
>
>
>
> "A former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia,
> Ms.
>
> Sloan engineered an ethics complaint against Mr. DeLay in the
> House,
>
> asked the Internal Revenue Service to audit a pair of Mr.
DeLay's
>
> fund-raising committees and sued the Federal Election Commission
> to
>
> obtain more information about possible financial ties between
Mr.
> DeLay
>
> and a Kansas utility. She also urged the Justice Department to
>
> investigate Mr. DeLay for his role in promising fund-raising
help
> to a
>
> family member of Nick Smith, at the time a Republican House
>
> representative from Michigan, in exchange for Mr. Smith's vote
on
>
> Medicare legislation." (7)
>
>
>
> CREW was joined in its campaign against DeLay by a swarm of Soros-funded
> groups, all posing as "non-partisan" watchdogs - among them Common
Cause,
> Democracy 21, Public Citizen, Public Campaign and the Campaign Legal
> Center. (8) The above-named groups have all received large
contributions
> from Soros' Open Society Institute. Common Cause has received $650,000;
> Democracy 21, $300,000; Public Citizen, $275,000; and Public Campaign,
> $1.3 million.(9) The Campaign Legal Center acknowledges on its Web site
> that it too has received "generous financial sup****t" from the Open
> Society Institute.
>
>
>
> Most of CREW's targets have been Republicans. On those few occasions
when
> it picks fights with the left, it tends to target people like Green
Party
> candidate Ralph Nader, whom Democrat leaders regard as competitors or
> spoilers. (10)
>
>
>
> On March 14, 2006, The Hill newspaper re****ted that CREW had targeted 14
> Republican legislators for lawsuits or ethics complaints, but only one
> Democrat (Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas). (11)
>
>
>
>
> Democrat Operatives
>
>
>
> CREW was founded by Democrat activists Norm Eisen and Louis Mayberg.
> Eisen is an attorney. Mayberg is president and co-founder of the
> Bethesda, MD mutual fund management firm ProFund Advisors LLC.
>
>
>
> CREW's 990 IRS filing for 2001 lists its three founding directors as
Louis
> Mayberg, Mark Penn and Daniel Berger. Mayberg and Berger are prominent
> Democrat donors. Mark Penn is a top Democrat strategist and pollster.
>
>
>
> Penn played a decisive role in Bill Clinton's 1996 campaign, and served
as
> head of message and strategy for Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign.
> Penn is a fellow of Simon Rosenberg's New Politics Institute (NPI), an
> im****tant Shadow Party think tank. He is president and co-founder of
the
> polling firm Penn & Schoen Associates.
>
>
>
> CREW deputy director Naomi Seligman Steiner formerly served as
> communications director for Media Matters for America, yet another group
> with strong ties to Soros' Shadow Party.
>
>
>
> Melanie Sloan became executive director of CREW in 2003. She is a
> long-time Democrat operative, having served as a former aide to Rep.
John
> Conyers and Senator Joe Biden.
>
>
>
> Before joining CREW, Sloan served as nominations counsel for Joe Biden's
> Senate Judiciary Committee (1993); counsel for the Crime Subcommittee of
> the House Judiciary Committee for Charles Schumer (1994); minority
counsel
> for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee under John
> Conyers (1995-1998); and assistant U.S. district attorney for the
District
> of Columbia (1998-2003).
>
>
>
>
> Soros Money
>
>
>
> George Soros' Open Society Institute contributed $100,000 to CREW in
> January 2006. (12) More im****tantly, CREW has re****tedly received
> substantial funding through the Democracy Alliance, a network of
leftwing
> millionaires and billionaires organized by Soros. According to the
> Wa****ngton Post:
>
>
>
> "...a Democracy Alliance blessing effectively jump-started
>
> Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Wa****ngton (CREW)....
>
> Alliance officials see CREW as a possible counterweight to
>
> conservative-leaning Judicial Watch, which filed numerous
lawsuits
>
> against Clinton administration officials in the 1990s." (13)
>
>
>
> Other CREW funders include the Tides Foundation, the Barbra Streisand
> Foundation, the Arca Foundation, the David Geffen Foundation, the
Wallace
> Global Fund, the Mayberg Family Charitable Foundation, the Woodbury
Fund,
> Inc., and the Sheller Family Foundation - all institutions distinguished
> by their sup****t for far-left causes. (14)
>
>
>
> "The Mark Foley scandal is over, as the disgraced Congressman enters
rehab
> and leaves politics forever," states an October 4 e-mail to Nation
> subscribers. "But. the Republican Congressional Leader****p scandal is
> most definitely not over."
>
>
>
> The Congress is well rid of Foley. No one is sorry to see him go. But,
> for the Shadow Party, the Foley scandal is merely a means to an end.
> Their goal is regime change. They will not rest until government power
> rests in Soros' hands. And they will use any pretext to achieve that
> ambition.
>
>
>
> Until now, CREW has met little resistance. The confidence with which it
> challenges the FBI bespeaks its long track record of success. It
remains
> to be seen whether the FBI will crumble as easily before CREW's
onslaught
> as have so many Republican leaders.
>
>
>
>
> NOTES:
> http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24871
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