Emails Reveal Obama Admin Shut Down WW II Memorial Knowing
Vets Were Coming
by Robert Wilde 11 Mar 2014, 11:59
AM PDT
Newly released public records show
that the Department of the Interior
knew in advance that two groups of aging veterans would be visiting the World
War II Memorial on October 1, 2013, but they decided to barricade the premises
anyway.
According to emails obtained by
National Review Online, the U.S. National Park Service employees were also
constantly monitoring the news for any negative media attention. Moreover, the
emails show that government shutdown exceptions were granted to National Park Service employees.
The Obama administration tried to
make political hay out of the government shutdown by closing the National Mall
and denying access to monuments, but the decision backfired when the veterans
defied the signs and fences and entered the WWII Memorial. The vets were taking part in the Mississippi Gulf
Coast Honor Flight, established in 2011 to help fly the state's WWII veterans
to Washington, D.C. and to provide tours to monuments
dedicated in their honor.
Obama told the American people
that it was necessary to shut down the Mall and blamed Republicans for creating
the hardships. However, the emails reveal that the Department of the Interior
and National Park Service did not have to shut down the monuments but did so to
make a point.
On September 30, Tom Buttry, a
legislative correspondent in Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-Iowa) office, stated that
it would actually be easier and less costly to keep the mall open than to shut
it down:
While I understand that these
memorials have remained accessible to the public during past shutdowns (I’d
imagine with the mall being so open, it'd probably [be] more manpower intensive
to try to completely close them), I wanted to do my due diligence and make 100
percent sure that people could visit the outdoor memorials on the National Mall
in the event of a shutdown.
Department of the Interior
National
Park Service is a division of the U.S.
Department of the Interior.
Note: Sally Jewell is
the secretary for the U.S. Department of
the Interior, and a trustee at the National
Parks Conservation Association.
Dirk A. Kempthorne
is a trustee at the National Parks
Conservation Association, was the secretary for the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the chairman for the National Park Foundation.
Bryan Traubert is
a director at the National Park
Foundation, and married to Penny S.
Pritzker.
Ken
Salazar is the chairman for the National
Park Foundation, a partner at Wilmer
Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, and was the secretary at the U.S. Department of the Interior for the
Barack Obama administration.
Thomas L.
Strickland was the assistant secretary for fish and wildlife and parks at
the U.S. Department of the Interior
for the Barack Obama administration,
and is a partner at Wilmer Cutler
Pickering Hale and Dorr.
Cameron F. Kerry
was an associate at Wilmer Cutler
Pickering Hale and Dorr, is the U.S.
Department of State secretary John
F. Kerry’s brother, and a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
John
F. Kerry is Cameron F. Kerry’s
brother, the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, and married to Teresa
Heinz Kerry.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is married to the U.S.
Department of State secretary John
F. Kerry, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP,
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Michael Rossetti
is a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss,
Hauer & Feld, LLP, and was the counsel to the secretary for the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Guy
R. Martin was the assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of the Interior, and is a partner at Perkins Coie.
Robert
F. Bauer is a partner at Perkins Coie,
was the White House counsel for the Barack
Obama administration, and Barack
Obama’s personal counsel.
Barack
Obama’s personal counsel was Robert
F. Bauer, and was an intern at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP, and is Craig M. Robinson’s sister.
Craig M. Robinson
is Michelle Obama’s brother, and his basketball coach to children's team was Penny S. Pritzker.
Noteworthy quote:
Without Penny Pritzker, it is unlikely that Barack Obama
ever would have been elected to the United States Senate or the
presidency.
- New York Times, July 15, 2012
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Penny S. Pritzker
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, married to Bryan Traubert,
was Craig M. Robinson’s basketball
coach to children's team, the national finance chair, fundraiser for the 2008
Barack Obama presidential campaign, a co-chair for the 2009 Barack Obama
inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national co-chair for the 2012 Barack
Obama presidential campaign, a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama
inaugural committee, and the host for the Barack Obama fund-raising
dinner.
Bryan Traubert is
married to Penny S. Pritzker, and a
director at the National Park Foundation.
Jonathan B.
Jarvis is a director at the National
Park Foundation, and a director at the National
Park Service.
‘War’: Vets planning ‘Million Vet March on the Memorials’
against Obama (Past Research for Penny S. Pritzker, Bryan Traubert, and the National
Park Service)
Sunday, October 13, 2013
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