Strange, Obama-Allied Think Tank Doesn't Deny It's Doing a Pro-Hizballah Project for the U.S. Government
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By Barry Rubin
Recently, I wrote an article about receiving a letter saying the Council for American Progress is running a project to advocate U.S. engagement with Hizballah and that high-ranking officials in the Obama administration were encouraging this as part of their own campaign to start talking with the Lebanese terrorist group that is a client for Iran and Syria in trying to take over Lebanon and destroy Israel.
The head of the project, a strong supporter of Hizballah, has denied it. Yes, he admitted. That's what my assistant wrote but he lied. The letter began, however, with the assistant saying the director asked him to write me. So one would think the director approved the letter. The Cable, a publication of Foreign Policy magazine, dismissed the story merely because the director denied it. The Cable's headline speaks dismissively of a "conspiracy" proving to be non-existent. Yet the Cable didn't even bother to interview anyone from the Council for American Progress!
Two different sources told me that they were explicitly told the same story by those running the project about the connection to the Council and the Obama administration.
Thus, I wrote in some detail about why this response in the Cable wasn't satisfactory. But now there's a new factor:
My two stories and the Cable article have been widely circulated. It suddenly struck me that the Center for American Progress has issued no denial that it is conducting such a project. It's hard to believe they thought the project director--a strong supporter of Hizballah--had said enough.
But it's peculiar! If someone was running around falsely claiming he was doing a project for your think tank wouldn't you expect that institution to issue an official denial?
So the lack of a denial by the Center for American Progress is making me even more suspicious that the story is true and they are undertaking such a project. The project director's letter also said it is being done for the Obama Administration. Might that also be true?
If the Center for American Progress denies conducting this project I'd be ready to believe them. But why haven't they denied it?
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By Barry Rubin
Recently, I wrote an article about receiving a letter saying the Council for American Progress is running a project to advocate U.S. engagement with Hizballah and that high-ranking officials in the Obama administration were encouraging this as part of their own campaign to start talking with the Lebanese terrorist group that is a client for Iran and Syria in trying to take over Lebanon and destroy Israel.
The head of the project, a strong supporter of Hizballah, has denied it. Yes, he admitted. That's what my assistant wrote but he lied. The letter began, however, with the assistant saying the director asked him to write me. So one would think the director approved the letter. The Cable, a publication of Foreign Policy magazine, dismissed the story merely because the director denied it. The Cable's headline speaks dismissively of a "conspiracy" proving to be non-existent. Yet the Cable didn't even bother to interview anyone from the Council for American Progress!
Two different sources told me that they were explicitly told the same story by those running the project about the connection to the Council and the Obama administration.
Thus, I wrote in some detail about why this response in the Cable wasn't satisfactory. But now there's a new factor:
My two stories and the Cable article have been widely circulated. It suddenly struck me that the Center for American Progress has issued no denial that it is conducting such a project. It's hard to believe they thought the project director--a strong supporter of Hizballah--had said enough.
But it's peculiar! If someone was running around falsely claiming he was doing a project for your think tank wouldn't you expect that institution to issue an official denial?
So the lack of a denial by the Center for American Progress is making me even more suspicious that the story is true and they are undertaking such a project. The project director's letter also said it is being done for the Obama Administration. Might that also be true?
If the Center for American Progress denies conducting this project I'd be ready to believe them. But why haven't they denied it?
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