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In reply to the discussion: When HRC was SoS one of her foreign policy advisors was famed neocon [View all]arcane1
(38,613 posts)86. I DO know, and I've led you to the post several times proving it. Here it is again to ignore:
Inaugural Meeting of Secretary Clinton's Foreign Affairs Policy Board
Media Note
Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
December 5, 2011
On Monday, December 19th, Secretary Clinton will host the first meeting of the Foreign Affairs Policy Board. The Board is composed of 25 members who will meet at the Department of State periodically to discuss issues of high priority for the Secretary and the Department. It will focus on broad strategic questions and provide the Secretary and other senior Department officials with insights, perspectives, and ideas. Secretary Clinton will meet with the Board several times during the duration of her tenure.
Secretary Clinton selected a distinguished, diverse, and bipartisan membership with a wide range of expertise and background, including past government service, academia, politics, development, and business. Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution and a former Deputy Secretary of State, will serve as the Boards Chair. He will work closely with the Secretary and her Policy Planning Director, Jake Sullivan, to coordinate the Board and its meetings.
The Boards members are listed below. Each will serve a two-year term.
Liaquat Ahamed
Ann Fudge
Helene Gayle
Nina Hachigian
Stephen Hadley
Jane Harman
Carla Hills
Alberto Ibargüen
Robert Kagan
Rachel Kleinfeld
Jim Kolbe
Stephen Krasner
Ellen Laipson
Mack McLarty
Mike Mullen
Vali Nasr
John Negroponte
Jacqueline Novogratz
Tom Pickering
John Podesta
Anne-Marie Slaughter
James Steinberg
Strobe Talbott
Laura Tyson
Rich Verma
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/12/178274.htm
Seems like he was hired by none other than Clinton herself
Media Note
Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
December 5, 2011
On Monday, December 19th, Secretary Clinton will host the first meeting of the Foreign Affairs Policy Board. The Board is composed of 25 members who will meet at the Department of State periodically to discuss issues of high priority for the Secretary and the Department. It will focus on broad strategic questions and provide the Secretary and other senior Department officials with insights, perspectives, and ideas. Secretary Clinton will meet with the Board several times during the duration of her tenure.
Secretary Clinton selected a distinguished, diverse, and bipartisan membership with a wide range of expertise and background, including past government service, academia, politics, development, and business. Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution and a former Deputy Secretary of State, will serve as the Boards Chair. He will work closely with the Secretary and her Policy Planning Director, Jake Sullivan, to coordinate the Board and its meetings.
The Boards members are listed below. Each will serve a two-year term.
Liaquat Ahamed
Ann Fudge
Helene Gayle
Nina Hachigian
Stephen Hadley
Jane Harman
Carla Hills
Alberto Ibargüen
Robert Kagan
Rachel Kleinfeld
Jim Kolbe
Stephen Krasner
Ellen Laipson
Mack McLarty
Mike Mullen
Vali Nasr
John Negroponte
Jacqueline Novogratz
Tom Pickering
John Podesta
Anne-Marie Slaughter
James Steinberg
Strobe Talbott
Laura Tyson
Rich Verma
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/12/178274.htm
Seems like he was hired by none other than Clinton herself
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A number of career foreign policy aparachiks are committed neocons. They serve GOP and Dems alike,
leveymg
Sep 2015
#35
Totally agree. And that's why we should prefer candidates that have a human side, a conscience.
erronis
Sep 2015
#10
A lot of male Democrats did also. Ever since Viet Nam and being called soft.
LiberalArkie
Sep 2015
#28
Robert Kagan & his NeoCon Wife Victoria Nuland who served Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney and SOS Hillary
KoKo
Sep 2015
#14
Clearly you're just an irrational hater who hates Obama's race and Clinton's gender.
arcane1
Sep 2015
#54
He wasn't hired at the same time as the appointment of Clinton as Secretary of State.
George II
Sep 2015
#39
I tried to research it (google) and I couldn't find who and when he was hired
passiveporcupine
Sep 2015
#40
I think the responsibility to check his background belongs to the OP. She's the one who threw out..
George II
Sep 2015
#41
Sorry, I haven't presented his resume here as being what it is in the OP.....
George II
Sep 2015
#50
No it isn't. Do you know when Kagan started working for the State Department? It wasn't during...
George II
Sep 2015
#64
December, 2011. Unless you have a link to refute my link direct from the State Department.
arcane1
Sep 2015
#67
The Obama administration was not his first stint at State, the first was under Reagan and George
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2015
#70
Like I asked rhetorically earlier, I'll say it outright now - you don't know how.....
George II
Sep 2015
#85
I DO know, and I've led you to the post several times proving it. Here it is again to ignore:
arcane1
Sep 2015
#86
Simply NOT true - Kagan has been working for the State Department for more than 30 years! He....
George II
Sep 2015
#88
State.gov: "Secretary Clinton selected a distinguished, diverse, and bipartisan membership..."
arcane1
Sep 2015
#56
And my post goes ignored while other posts get replies telling me I'm ignorant.
arcane1
Sep 2015
#68
It's truly sad that here, on DEMOCRATIC Underground, that this tactic is used.
George II
Sep 2015
#51
Wake up. There's a warmonger advising a leading presidential candidate.
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2015
#77
I'm not too crazy about it, personally. Old Iran/Contra people aren't welcome either.
arcane1
Sep 2015
#104