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• Monday, November 17, 2008 05:51 PM

  @ zoltan newberry

  re: each creep has an established place in our wonderful academic community which can tell you a lot about the state of our academic community

  You mean, like this guy?

  Douglas J. Feith is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute. He is a Belfer Center Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Douglas_Feith

  "The fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth"

  -Gen. Tommy Franks, in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack

  P.S. For all the attacks on Ayers, he and his cohort are but tiny blips on the radar screen insofar as doing any real damage to the United States.

  Feith and his cohort, on the other hand, have actually caused death and destruction on a massive scale.

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  As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972), I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.

  Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.

  Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago.

  I do take issue with the statement in your news article that the Weathermen indictment was dismissed because of “prosecutorial misconduct.” It was dismissed because of illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by John N. Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director.

  William C. Ibershof

  Mill Valley, Calif., Oct. 8, 2008

  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/opinion/l10ayers.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

  —Scorpio69er Read Scorpio69er's other letters
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