Questions surround Kagan’s handling of White House eco-terrorist controversy
By Byron York, Washington Examiner, May 12, 2010 [here]
In 1995 and 1996, future Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was involved in a bizarre controversy in which the Clinton White House was accused of siding with an eco-terrorist group locked in a standoff with federal agents deep in the woods of Oregon. The incident led to an investigation by House Republicans, who concluded that a staffer on the White House Council on Environmental Quality tipped off the environmental radicals to impending action by U.S. Forest Service law enforcement agents — a leak that Forest Service officials believed endangered the lives of their agents on the ground.
Kagan, at the time an associate White House counsel, had no role in leaking the feds’ plans to the radicals, but House Committee on Natural Resources investigators concluded she shirked her responsibility by not searching for the source of the leak or pushing for punishment of the leaker.
“Nothing was ever done by Elena Kagan to learn the details about the leaks, or to identify the leaker and ensure that proper punishment occurred,” the committee’s 1999 report concluded. In fact, investigators found evidence suggesting that Kagan, in internal White House discussions, defended the alleged leaker.
The story began in September 1995, when loggers planned to harvest timber from Warner Creek, an old-growth area that had been hit by a 1991 arson fire. The Forest Service approved the harvesting of dead and damaged trees, but some environmentalists claimed the clearing would endanger healthy trees as well.
A group of activists took over the road leading into the forest and blocked it with large rocks and chunks of concrete. They dug trenches, some six feet deep, to prevent trucks from passing, and in one trench they embedded a car in concrete. They built a fortress and settled in for a showdown. More ominously, Forest Service officials believed at least one of the protesters was armed. … [more]
Note: the “protesters” also burned down the Oakridge Ranger Station. Eventually some of those involved in the Warner Creek “protests” formed an eco-terrorist group that also burned down sawmills, powerlines, car dealerships, and the School of Horticulture at the University of Washington. More than a dozen were eventually captured and sentenced to long terms in Federal penitentiaries. See [here].
Note 2: the connections between the Obama Administration and domestic terrorist groups is well known. After all Weatherman bombers Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are close associates [here]. What is perhaps less well known are the deep connections between domestic terrorists and other leftish politicians, such as Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski and former Gov (now candidate) John Kitzhaber.
Note 3: putting Kagan on the Supreme Court is an act of violent sabotage to the U.S. Constitution and to America. Let’s hope Congress is not that insane.