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AE's CEO, Kahlil Byrd, has drawn scrutiny from conservatives because he formerly served as Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick's communications director. Patrick's chief strategist was top Obama strategist David Axelrod.
⁷⁶
AE board member W. Bowman Cutter is senior adviser to the Podesta Group lobbying and public relations firm, which was founded by John Podesta, who directed Obama's transition into the White House in 2008. Podesta is director of the Center for American Progress, the most important progressive think tank helping to craft White House policy. AE board members Kellen Arno and Michael Arno, noted earlier, are tied to John Podesta. Also on the board is Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute.

AE has ties to Hillary Clinton supporters as well. Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who is a prominent Hillary backer, is on the board, as is Doug Schoen, a former pollster and adviser to Bill Clinton. Schoen recently was in the news after he teamed up with Jimmy Carter's former aide Patrick Caddell to publish an editorial in the
Wall Street Journal
, entitled “The Hillary Moment,” in which they called for Clinton to throw her hat into the ring for the presidency.
⁷⁷
The two wrote another piece at
Politico
calling for Democratic voters nationally—particularly in New Hampshire—to organize a write-in campaign for Clinton.
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We conclude by noting that Barack Obama, and the Progressive movement in general, have long specialized in manipulation of the democratic process. Even before his political career, as a Saul Alinsky–style “community organizer” in Chicago, Obama worked closely with groups such as Project Vote and ACORN, which not only focused on voter registration, but was repeatedly found guilty of voter fraud. It is no coincidence that the “progressive tsunami” has brought with it a host of threats to the integrity of the American electoral process. The threat of the “National Popular Vote” may be off in the future, but others, as we have described here, are upon us now, as the Manchurian President battles for his second term.

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.

3.
Ibid.

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, April 13, 2010,
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.

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.

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.

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.

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/national_security_strategy.pdf
. See also U.S. Department of Defense, “National Security Strategy,” Quadrennial Defense Review, 2010, available at
http://www.defense.gov/qdr
/. Also the United States Department of State, “Leading Through Civilian Power: The First Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review” (2010), available at
http://www.state.gov/s/dmr/qddr
/. And The White House Office of the Press Secretary, “Remarks by the President to the United Nations General Assembly,” press release, September 23, 2010, available at
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.

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/.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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S. Stephen Powell,
Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies
(Ottawa, IL: Green Hill Publishers, Inc., 1987), 249–50 (quoted from in “Kerry, the Sandinistas, and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS),” FreeRepublic.com, February 11, 2004,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076375/posts
). Event also reported by Warren Mass, “The Trouble with Leon Panetta,”
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, January 7, 2009,
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/655
.

19.
Emerson Vermaat, “Obama's Preferred Future Spy Chief Leon Panetta,”
Free Republic
, January 8, 2009.

20.
Profile: Institute for Policy Studies, knology.net.

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American Opinion
, November 1983, quoted in Christian Gomez, “Leon Panetta and the Institute for Policy Studies,”
New American
, June 11, 2011,
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/7819-panetta-unfit-for-sec-of-defense
.

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http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/1006SDTFreport.pdf
.

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.

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/28/remarks-president-address-nation-libya
.

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The Responsibility to Protect
, December 2001, at
http://www.iciss.ca/pdf/Commission-Report.pdf
.

26.
Peter Beaumont, “Israel May Face War Crimes Trials over Gaza. Court Looks at Whether Palestinians Can Bring Case. International Pressure Grows over Conflict,”
Guardian
(UK), March 2, 2009,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/02/israel-war-crimes-gaza
. Daniel Schwammenthal, “War Crimes: The International Criminal Court Claims Jurisdiction over U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan,”
Wall Street Journal
, November 26, 2009,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870 4013004574519253095440312.html
.

27.
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http://globalr2p.org/whoweare/donors.php
.

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http://globalr2p.org/whoweare/patrons.php
.

29.
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http://www.theelders.org/elders
.

30.
Kofi A. Annan, “Two Concepts of Sovereignty,”
The Economist
, September 18, 1999,
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.

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http://www.iciss.ca/advisory_board-en.asp
.

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http://www.iciss.ca/menu-en.asp
.

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“Advisory Board,” International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,
http://www.iciss.ca/advisory_board-en.asp
.

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Magazine, January 1, 2004,
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.

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, March 1, 2010, reprinted at
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.

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(New York: Broadside Books, 2011), 183–204.

2.
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.

3.
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USA Today
, January 27, 2012,
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.

4.
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, March 2, 2012,
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.

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/.

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.

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.

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.

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, January 25, 2012,
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/01/25/411594/presidentobama-manufacturing-blueprint-economic-growth
/.

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13.
Solar Energy Regulatory Relief Act of 2011, 112th Congress, 2011–2012.

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,
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.

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.

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