Jerome Corsi Swiftboater...ties Hasan to Obama

[samplegirl]

Swift Boat enabler and Obama basher Jerome Corsi is portraying accused Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan as a transition team adviser to President Obama.




The Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University published a document May 19, entitled “Thinking Anew – Security Priorities for the Next Administration: Proceedings Report of the HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force, April 2008 – January 2009,” in which Hasan of the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine is listed on page 29 of the document as a Task Force Event Participant.






Corsi tries to make his case by saying Hasan “attended meetings” of the Homeland Security Policy Institute Presidential Transition Task Force. And he raises a question as to “whether or not Hasan made comments from the audience that influenced the task force recommendations or not.”




In his World Net Daily article, Corsi claims that a new book claims, “Hasan is just the tip of a jihadist Fifth Column operating within the ranks of the U.S. military – which is too blinded by political correctness to see the threat.” And guess where you can buy this shocking book? Yes, World Net Daily.




A small amount of investigation reveals:




Significantly, Nidal was not the author of the document. He was not a member of the HSPI’s “Presidential Transition Task Force.” Nor was he a member of the HSPI’s “Task Force Staff.” He was not a member of the HSPI’s Steering Committee or a briefer to the task force.



Also, the activities of the HSPI here do not in anyway constitute official transition advice to the White House, despite the fact that a committee got named the “Presidential Transition Task Force” and the HSPI’s activities involved identifying homeland security priorities and offering advice.



Corsi admits that it’s a non-issue by writing:



While the GWU task force participants included several members of government, including representatives of the Department of Justice and the U.S Department of Homeland Security, there is no indication in the document that the group played any formal role in the official Obama transition, other than to serve in a university-based advisory capacity.

[notadmblnd]

1. conveniently, the paper disappeared from the website.

perusing their site. I see they are into spreading the fear with the papers that they write. Lots of statements by Frank J. Cilluffo, whoever he is?

http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/congress.htm

here's who he is:

Cilluffo joined GW in April 2003 from the White House where he served as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security. Shortly following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Cilluffo was appointed by the President to the newly created Office of Homeland Security, and served as a principal advisor to Governor Tom Ridge.

Prior to his White House appointment, Cilluffo spent eight years in senior policy positions with the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think tank. At CSIS he chaired or directed numerous committees and task forces on homeland defense, counterterrorism, transnational crime, and information warfare and information assurance.



http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/about/Frank_Cilluffo.cfm
a bush devote who now operates a think tank. yeah, It was all O'bama's idea.

NOT!!!

[FightingIrish]

2. I stumbled across that yesterday and was thown by the group's title.

In reading the document, it is clear that the task force began work months before the election and was preparing policy recommendations for whomever won the election. You could just as easily tie Hasan to John McCain.

[notadmblnd]

3. This is an example of republicans grasping at straws

The guy that head the task force worked as assistant to the Pres when bush was in office. Bush has the link to Hasan not Obama.

[samplegirl]

4. I agree.

[lisa58]

5. FUCK HIM....

[Submariner]

6. "Swift Boat Liars for Bush" never had any integrity anyway

LIARS to the core.

[DainBramaged]

7. Too bad he doesn't live near a volcano