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Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Adviser Randy Scheunemann Consults For George Soros

Megan Carpentier | November 12, 2010, 10:07AM


Sarah Palin and Randy Scheunemann

Since Sarah Palin took the national stage in 2008, neocon Randy Scheunemann has been at her side as an apparent confidant and foreign policy adviser, getting $30,000 in fees from her as recently as June 30, 2010.

But at the same time, Justin Elliott reports at Salon, Scheunemann's firm Orion Strategies was taking money to lobby the U.S. government from conservative boogeyman George Soros' Open Society Policy Center.

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Topics: George Soros, Michael Goldfarb, Randy Scheunemann, Sarah Palin

Justice Department

Anatomy Of A Smear: Cheney Attacks DOJ Attorneys As Terrorist-Friendly (VIDEO)

Justin Elliott | March 2, 2010, 3:18PM


Liz Cheney and Attorney General Eric Holder (inset)

An attack on Justice Department officials who previously represented detainees at Guantanamo was spawned by Sen. Chuck Grassley at a hearing last November, ricocheted around the right-wing media, and culminated today in a video release by Liz Cheney's group that all but accuses the lawyers of being terrorists.

The campaign-style ad from Cheney's Keep America Safe dubs the lawyers "the Al Qaeda Seven" and asks, "Whose values do they share?" while flashing a picture of Osama bin Laden. (Watch it below.)

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Topics: Chuck Grassley, Eric Holder, Jennifer Daskal, Justice Department, Keep America Safe, Liz Cheney, Michael Goldfarb, Neal Katyal, Osama bin Laden, Senate Judiciary Committee

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