What thorough and painfully stupid lies from WND’s Jerome Corsi. This idiot says Maj. Hasan “played a homeland security advisory role in President Barack Obama’s transition into the White House, according to a key university policy institute document.” Actually — you know what, I’m going to basically retweet what I wrote for the Windy to save time:
Wrong! So thoroughly, thoroughly wrong!
That GWU document no more “advised” the Obama transition as did the flurry of think-tank documents and advisory strategies put out by endless interest groups. It had, and therefore Hasan had, absolutely no connection to the Obama administration. Here, for instance, is a story I wrote in November about one such strategy “advisory” paper prepared by the civil liberties community for the Obama transition about counterterrorism strategies. Really, this is as stupid as saying that a guy who writes a letter to The New York Times “advised” editor Bill Keller.
Danger Room’s Noah Shachtman posts the accurate version of this claim:
In May — a few weeks after his pro-bomber post — he participated in attended a meeting of the Homeland Security Policy Institute’s presidential transition task force.
Not even Doug Feith would consider this a “connection” to Obama. Media Matters has oh so much more on this front. But I wonder how long it’ll take before this easily disproven lie makes its way to talk radio and Fox News and Republican congressmen.
Update: Thanks to Annie Lowrey and Jason Linkins, there is now literally nothing left of Corsi’s bullshit report.
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No later than COB today
A just and sane society would simply shun Jerome Corsi. Thank you for this thorough debunking of his rantings, which hardly rise to the level of ‘claims.’
Well the MSM (and a variety of right-wing think tanks) had better jump all over Cosrsi for protraying this as an Obama Advisory Task Force [amazingly convened before either the Republican or Democratic nominees had been decided].
After all, looking at the invitees you’ll find reps from CBS, Politico, a writer for the New Republic (Andrew C. McCarthy who is on the Board), to former CIA Director and McCain-Palin supporter Richard V. Allen, Ed Meese III, Francis Frago Townsend, George Foresman, former Republican Senator Connie Mack…there is even a Representative from AlPAC. Throw a few score Bush Administration appointees from the FBI, US DOJ, and Homeland Security, Congressional Committee Reps, etc.
In fact it’s hard to see that anyone from Obama’s campaign had a seat at the table.
http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.pdf