Perez nominated Jake Sullivan to be a vice-chair of the Platform Committee. Sullivan was a national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden. He also worked as a deputy chief of staff for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was a senior policy adviser for Clinton's 2016 campaign.
Sullivan is a member of the Alliance for Securing Democracy's Advisory Council, which also includes Michael Chertoff, the ex-Homeland Security secretary; Bill Kristol; a neoconservative who pushed for the Iraq War; Michael McFaul, the former United States ambassador to Russia; Mike Morell, the ex-CIA director; John Podesta, the chairman of Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign; and Mike Rogers, the former Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
As The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal has documented, the Alliance For Securing Democracy is a factory of modern-day McCarthyism, where it brands alternative media outlets as "vehicles for Kremlin propaganda" and paints actual people as Russian bots to discredit dissent against U.S. foreign policy.
An email chain in the "Podesta Emails" that WikiLeaks published in 2016 showed Clinton offering support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement if she was elected. It would have to pass some tests, but, as Sullivan indicated, environmental protections were not required: "Enviro was not a test."
Sullivan did not believe the Clinton campaign could limit contributions from lobbyists or their clients because "clients" might be difficult to define. They could advocate for stronger bribery laws to limit the political influence of donations on legislation, but that would be "really dicey territory" for Clinton, he added.
Apartheid Israel operatives occupy the DNCBakari Sellers, Dan Shapiro, Meghan Stabler, and Wendy Sherman were also nominated to the Platform Committee. Each has defined themself as a "pro-Israel" Democrat, providing reliable cover to the apartheid state that is increasingly unpopular among younger members of the party.
Reminder: Just an example of how Israel can bring parties together. @AIPACpic.twitter.com/bpXJRd40
- Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) July 26, 2012
In 2015, Sellers became a member of National Council of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He led an effort [PDF] in 2016 to ensure the DNC's platform did not adopt language that Sanders supported, which would have acknowledged the Democrats had a responsibility to confront the humanitarian crisis facing Palestinians in Gaza.
Quoting Clinton, Sellers stated, "We must repudiate all efforts to malign, isolate, and undermine Israel and the Jewish people." He added, 'We have to be unified in fighting back against BDS," referring to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.
As a CNN contributor and former surrogate for Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, he has consistently attacked Sanders, weaponizing his identity to consistently insist his campaign has a "long way to go" with black voters. And when Sanders entered the 2020 race, Sellers reacted, "I don't have a problem with Bernie getting in the race; 'When is he getting out?' is probably a better question."
Dan Shapiro is a former US ambassador to Israel who opted to remain in the apartheid state indefinitely with his family rather than return to the country he supposedly worked for.
Obama ambassador @DanielBShapiro openly supporting massacre of civilians caged in a ghetto for being the wrong religion. Meanwhile he is a settler in the country stolen from them. How depraved can you be? Go home Dan! pic.twitter.com/85II6MvP0H
- Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) May 22, 2018
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