Soros Show Trials


By Matthew Vadum on 4.28.09 @ 6:08AM
American Spectator
Excerpt:


The so-called Commission on Accountability which mysteriously  
appeared on the political scene a few days ago to push for show  
trials related to War on Terror interrogation policies is a PR hoax  
created by liberal philanthropist George Soros and political  
operatives sympathetic to the Obama administration.


The push is part of a vindictive campaign to pay back the architects  
of the War on Terror for making a good faith effort to defend America


To some the arrival of the Commission on Accountability, with its 19  
member groups including Amnesty International USA and Human Rights  
Watch, suggested a significant groundswell of support in the  
nonprofit activist community for the proposed creation of an  
independent, non-partisan commission to examine the treatment of  
captured suspected terrorists. These groups all want Bush  
administration officials investigated for doing their jobs.


But the Napoleonic plotter Charles Maurice de Talleyrand's eternal  
aphorism that treason is a matter of dates is not lost on today's  
left, which, having recaptured the White House and Congress, now  
wants to pay back the architects of the War on Terror for daring to  
defend America from Islamist totalitarians.


Alas, this spanking new David Axelrod-style astroturf group was  
manufactured by Soros himself and Obama loyalists.


The proof was surprisingly easy to find.


That's because the domain name registration record for the group's  
website indicates near the bottom that the site was reserved for  
George Soros. It also indicates it was registered by Blue State  
Digital, LLC.


A BusinessWeek profile in June of last year identified Soros as a  
Blue State Digital client since 2006 and called the firm then- candidate Obama's "secret weapon." The firm was described as "a  
market research-New Media hybrid that has played an instrumental role  
in fostering Obamamania." Although the Obama campaign refused to  
discuss the firm for the article, Blue State Digital boasted that  
"its handiwork and technology can be seen in the more than $200  
million Obama has raised online, the 2 million phone calls made on  
the candidate's behalf, and in barackobama.com's social network of  
850,000 users, who have organized 50,000 campaign events."


The profile also noted that the firm was founded in 2004 by four  
former members of Howard Dean's presidential campaign. "But Thomas  
Gensemer, a former venture capitalist who, at 31, is now Blue State's  
managing partner, says he and his associates wanted to use such tools  
to mobilize grassroots support for progressive candidates, causes, or  
products," the profile states.


Blue State Digital was "tightly entwined with the campaign,"  
BusinessWeek reported. "Joe Rospars, a 27-year-old partner, attends  
all of the Obama campaign' senior staff meetings, says Gensemer.  
Campaign insiders suggest privately that Blue State has so impressed  
Obama that, if he wins in November, the company could be in the  
unique position to play a role inside the White House."


Indeed.


Moreover, at least eight of the 19 left-leaning institutional members  
of the Commission on Accountability are funded by the secretive Soros.


One is Soros's foundation, the Open Society Institute, which has  
given away more than $5 billion over the years to various left-wing  
causes. The Open Society Institute has given money to seven of the  
Commission members. They are the Carter Center ($256,834 in 2000),  
the Constitution Project ($840,883 since 2001), Human Rights First  
($445,000 since 2003), Human Rights Watch ($4,013,690 since 2000),  
Jewish Council for Public Affairs ($110,000 in 2005), National  
Institute of Military Justice ($255,000 since 2005), and Physicians  
for Human Rights ($1,224,153 since 1999).


The creation of the Commission on Accountability dovetailed nicely  
with President Obama's indication last week that he is open to the  
possibility of pursuing probes of Bush administration officials for  
the use of enhanced interrogation techniques.