{"id":20004,"date":"2012-09-07T18:56:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T22:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=20004"},"modified":"2012-10-01T19:33:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T23:33:27","slug":"obama-gets-irans-endorsement-white-house-adviser-gets-100k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2012\/09\/obama-gets-irans-endorsement-white-house-adviser-gets-100k.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama Gets Iran&#8217;s Endorsement &#8211; White House adviser gets $100K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>\u25ba David Plouffe, currently\u00a0White House senior adviser and Obama&#8217;s 2008 Campaign Manager, Takes $100,000 Indirectly From Iran, and Nobody Seems to Notice<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>\u25ba Plouffe Authored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Audacity-Win-Obama-Party-Limbaugh\/dp\/B004KAB4XI\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1345507065&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=david+plouffe\"><em>The Audacity to Win: How Obama Won and How We Can Beat the Party of Limbaugh, Beck, and Palin<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20007\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/09\/David-Plouffe-Takes-Money-Indirectly-From-Iran-and-Nobody-Seems-to-Notice1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20007\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/09\/David-Plouffe-Takes-Money-Indirectly-From-Iran-and-Nobody-Seems-to-Notice1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Plouffe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>by\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Columnists\/Pat-Caddell\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">PATRICK CADDELL<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>What if, during the gathering-storm decade of the 1930s, a senior White House aide in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration had been found to have taken big money from a company dealing closely with the Nazis? Would it have been a huge scandal? Of course it would.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">And what if, during the Cold War &#8217;40s, a top White House aide to President Harry Truman had been caught taking cash from a company dealing with the Soviets? The question answers itself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>But now, in 2012, a White House aide in the Obama administration is revealed to have received a\u00a0six-figure amount\u00a0from a company connected to Iran, and nothing happens.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>The press doesn\u2019t seem to care; the establishment is unruffled; even opposition Republicans have hardly noticed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/09\/Obama-Gets-Endorsed-by-Iran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20008\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/09\/Obama-Gets-Endorsed-by-Iran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>If we, as a nation, had been this un-vigilant back during &#8217;30s or the &#8217;40s, America might not have survived.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">More than two weeks after it ran, we can see now what should have been a big bang of a news story &#8212; the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/obama-associate-got-100000-fee-from-affiliate-of-firm-doing-business-with-iran\/2012\/08\/05\/5e6888a2-dda2-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_print.html\">August 5 report<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0that David Plouffe, White House senior adviser, had accepted $100,000 from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtnonline.com\/\">MTN<\/a>, a South Africa-based mobile-phone company&#8211;a company that does multi-billion dollar business with Iran. Yet the story has, in fact, turned out to be a whimper.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">At\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/president-obama-holds-press-conference\">Monday\u2019s White House press conference<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; the\u00a0first such Q and A session in eight weeks\u00a0&#8212; the press found time to ask questions about Syria, Afghanistan, and, of course, Mitt Romney\u2019s taxes and Todd Akins\u2019s idiotic words.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Legitimate questions all, but the juiciest potential news story was Plouffe and his money; after all, here was the chance for a brave reporter to ask the President, face to face,\u00a0<strong>why one of his closest aides had taken money, indirectly, from Iran. And yet none of the questioners seized the moment.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">So who, exactly, is David Plouffe?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20021\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/09\/David-Axelrod.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20021\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/09\/David-Axelrod.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Axelrod threatens to tell voters the evils of Mormonism &#8212; if the GOP dares to mention Obama&#8217;s pastor for 20 years, the &#8220;g*d-d*mn America&#8221; Rev. Wright.\u00a0 It&#8217;s certain that he will only mention that Mitt Romney is a Mormon and forget the fact that Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid from Nevada, is also a Mormon!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Remaining in the private sector after Obama\u2019s victory, Plouffe published in 2010 a partisan and hallowing book about Obama,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Audacity-Win-Obama-Party-Limbaugh\/dp\/B004KAB4XI\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1345507065&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=david+plouffe\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>The Audacity to Win: How Obama Won and How We Can Beat the Party of Limbaugh, Beck, and Palin<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">In addition, Plouffe did what many others, in both parties, have done after a big political win; he cashed in on the speaking circuit. One of those speeches caused him quick grief; it was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/22\/weekinreview\/22baker.html?pagewanted=1\">reported in February 2009<\/a>\u00a0that he had taken $50,000 to speak in the repressive ex-Soviet state of Azerbaijan; the backlash from human rights activists forced him to donate the money to a pro-democracy group.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Given that precedent, it\u2019s all the more remarkable that nobody in the media has made a stink about Plouffe taking twice as much money from MTN, a $15 billion-a-year mobile phone company, for a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hWvPm04BFx4\">speaking gig to MTN executives in Lagos, Nigeria<\/a>\u00a0in December 2010.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">One of the firm\u2019s assets is MTN Irancell, which is\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Iran\u2019s second-largest mobile operator.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0Indeed,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204573704577186442481474770.html\">according to the\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204573704577186442481474770.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">, MTN Irancell accounts for more than a fifth of MTN subscribers worldwide.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">For its part, an MTN spokesman told the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>Post<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0in its August 5 story that Plouffe was engaged \u201cbecause of his expertise and his knowledge of the U.S. political scene.\u201d But importantly, the speaking gig came\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/11\/15\/david-plouffe-axelrod-adviser_n_783462.html\">three weeks after it was announced that Plouffe would be joining th&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">In other words, MTN wasn\u2019t just paying to schmooze with a well-connected political insider; it was paying to schmooze with a future senior White House aide, someone who would have close access to the President and to national security secrets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">And while the same\u00a0<em>Post<\/em>\u00a0article added that the White House assured that Plouffe held no private meetings with MTN executives on his speaking trip, the questions of how one defines \u201cprivate meeting\u201d and whether or not Plouffe held meetings with MTN executives elsewhere seem not to have come up.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20019\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20019\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/09\/Stop-the-bomb.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20019\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/09\/Stop-the-bomb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UANI is a bi-partisan, broad-based coalition in formation that will comprise individuals and organizations from across the political and ideological spectrum. UANI\u2019s coalition of members, including human rights and humanitarian groups, the labor movement, political advocacy and grassroots organizations, representatives of diverse ethnicities, faith communities, political and social affiliations, will be united in a commitment to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Yet one activist group,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com\/\">United Against Nuclear Iran<\/a>, (UANI) doesn\u2019t seem to buy these attempted soothings. UANI has been campaigning for sanctions against MTN for three years. The group issued a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com\/press-releases\/uani-statement-washington-posts-reporting-mtns-business-iran\">statement<\/a>\u00a0on August 6, the day after the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>Post<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0story, noting MTN Irancell\u2019s subservience to the Iranian government, adding that it was especially egregious when Irancell shut down phone service to dissidents during the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009\u20132010_Iranian_election_protests\">2009-10 \u201cGreen Revolution.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Declared UANI:\u00a0\u201c<strong>MTN has blood on its hands.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Pointing its finger at the White House aide, UANI&#8217;s statement continued, \u201cWe hope Mr. Plouffe will use his considerable influences to urge President Obama to sanction MTN and most important enact a full economic blockade on Iran, so that companies will no longer be able to operate there.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>And UANI offered model language for sanctions which would prohibit the sort of speeches-for-hire that Plouffe had delivered.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">That same day, August 6, the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u2019s rogue conservative blogger, Jennifer Rubin,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/post\/question-time-for-obama\/2012\/08\/06\/caf67c8c-dfef-11e1-a19c-fcfa365396c8_blog.html\">got right down to it when she asked why Plouffe still had a job<\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Why hasn\u2019t the president fired David Plouffe who \u201caccepted a $100,000 speaking fee in 2010 from an affiliate of a company doing business with Iran\u2019s government\u201d? How can the president tell other countries not to do business with the regime if a senior adviser has?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Yes, those are good questions, going right to the heart of not only ethics in the White House, but also US national security policy around the world. But nobody else asked them.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/americac2c.com\/profiles\/blogs\/david-plouffe-takes-money-indirectly-from-iran-and-nobody-seems-t?xg_source=msg_mes_network\">http:\/\/americac2c.com\/profiles\/blogs\/david-plouffe-takes-money-indirectly-from-iran-and-nobody-seems-t?xg_source=msg_mes_network<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">See Watchwoman on the Wall Related Post:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Canada cuts ties with Iran, closes embassy, orders Iranian diplomats home<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong>Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird blamed Iran\u2019s increasing military assistance to the Syrian government, its refusal to comply with UN resolutions on its nuclear program, its anti-Israel stance and its support for terrorism as among the reasons for the move.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=19997\" target=\"_blank\">Read more: http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=19997<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2012\/08\/23\/david-plouffe-iran\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2012\/08\/23\/david-plouffe-iran<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><strong>\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193\u2193<span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/>\nPLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family: 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