Yid with Lid reports today that Obama is using Joseph E. Sandler, a member of the firm of Sandler, Reiff & Young, P.C., in Washington, D.C., who concentrates in campaign finance and election law matters, to defend him in the Philip Berg civil law suit.
Regarding Sandler, Yid with Lid described him August 14, 2007, as the “Legal Hit Man for the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)” (“an organization with terrorist ties” and “an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holyland Foundation Hamas Funding trial”):
Berg wants Obama to Produce his real birth certificate to prove that he meets the citizenship requirements to be President. Rather than just [produce] the birth certificate (is he trying to hide something?) Obama’s legal team filed a motion to dismiss. One of the Lawyers filing the motion was Joe Sandler … of the Washington law firm Sandler, Reiff, and Young …
Sandler’s role for CAIR has been to stifle people from telling the truth about Islam. For example, last year he tried to get Jihad Expert Robert Spencer banned from speaking to the Young American Foundation, by using a threatening letter. Sandler followed up by threatening columnist Mike Adams for writing about the Spencer incident.
Look, everyone deserves legal representation that is not the Issue. The real issue is why is a candidate for President of the United States, a guy who wants to take over the role of Commander-in-Chief in the war on terror, using the Lawyer for CAIR a group with terrorist connections, to represent him in a law suit? Once again the Junior Senator from Illinois leave us with questions and no answers.
The DNC connection
What Yid with Lid did not mention in this article is that Sandler is general counsel for the Democratic National Committee.
Why is the DNC’s general counsel, and his law firm, involved in Obama’s civil case? Doesn’t this at least raise some questions on the proper role of the DNC’s counsel in a civil law suit involving a presidential candidate? It’s not the DNC that is being sued, after all.
Sandler previously served as DNC general counsel, according to his law firm profile, 1986 to 1989; was general counsel of the Rules and Credentials Committee for the 1988 Democratic National Convention; and again served on DNC staff as general counsel February 1993 until May 1998.
His current law firm profile does not mention that he currently serves in that capacity although it was Sandler who, in April 2008, spoke on behalf of the DNC when it filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court “to force Sen. John McCain to stay in the public financing system until he formally [accepted] the Republican presidential nomination in September.”
The profile does not mention that Sandler was DNC general counsel in November 2006, when his name was raised regarding illegal campaign robocalls. Don McGahn, general counsel for the National Republican Campaign Committee, wrote in a letter:
I have a recording of a pre-recorded phone message from DNC counsel Joe Sandler which contains the same sorts of disclaimers (including placement) as NRCC calls. Maybe you ought to send a letter to the DNC as well?”
Nor does his law firm profile mention that, in August 2004, while Sandler was DNC general counsel, he “insisted there was nothing wrong with working for DNC as well as for MoveOn.” Sandler not only represented MoveOn.org, but also a second 527 committee, Moving America Forward. [Jonathan Groner, "Power Punch," Legal Times, 4/26/04]
At the same time, Benjamin Ginsberg, who had represented the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (which opposed the John Kerry campaign during the 2004 presidential election), resigned from President George W. Bush’s campaign. However, Sandler refused to quit the DNC.
More about the CAIR connection at jumpin’ timmy.
Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.--Thomas Jefferson.
Glad to see the Berg lawsuit mentioned in an article. If anyone is interested, you can read more about the lawsuit, including the papers Berg filed with the court at:
obamacrimes.com
The official recounting of the court proceedings is at
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-paedce/case_no-2:2008cv04083/case_id-281573/
Another Obama Crony Meets The FBI
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2008/10/another-obama-c.html
So what’s with Obama? WHY (snark) would he not just PRODUCE his REAL BC?
If he doesn’t have one, or, his real BC shows he is ineligible, and this is protected by the MSM (and others) we are in a world of hurt.
Bloomberg’s special third term….
Soros giving advice to Pelosi and Company about the bailout…
WTF is happening here?
And that the DNC and Donna Brazile would choose someone who is probably NOT an American Citizen to be the New Black Hope is a HUGE SLAP IN THE FACE to all the QUALIFIED BLACK AMERICANS who could have run. The meta message from Donna & Co. is that there ARE NO QUALIFIED BLACK AMERICANS and they have to dig up an African, or an Indonesian, or another foreigner to assure victory.
If I were Black, I would REALLY BE PISSED at this usurping of the Constitutional Requirements. After all, Black Americans are patriots too. Too bad Barky isn’t. If he were, he would just produce the darn BC and stop all this nonsense.
I would be happy to just see ANY Hawaiian BC listing “African” as a race in 1961.
I remember reading that one of the things that set Ted Bundy off was finding his BC listing him as “Illegitimate” perhaps it’s as simple as that….
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