{"id":4493,"date":"2008-08-03T21:10:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T04:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2008-08-07T22:39:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T05:39:50","slug":"update-on-gaffney-cross%e2%80%99-policy-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/03\/update-on-gaffney-cross%e2%80%99-policy-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Gaffney Cross’ Policy Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brief update on Devon Gaffney Cross<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Policy Forum on International Security (www.policyforumuk.com<\/a>) whose cozy, off-the-record briefings by senior Pentagon officials, fellow-neo-cons and fellow members of the Defense Policy Board (DPB) for select British and European reporters in exclusive clubs and cafes in London and Paris, we discovered<\/a> earlier this year, were the beneficiary of a no-bid contract by Defense Undersecretary Eric Edelman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Policy office last September. We just learned that the Policy Forum was also the beneficiary of the Smith Richardson Foundation, for which Cross has in the past served as director of research and a program office, according to the Foundation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2006 annual report which was published late last year. Cross\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 group, the report said, was to have received a grant for $25,000 during 2006 to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153organize a series of events that bring current and former U.S. policy makers and strategic thinkers together with leading European journalists and opinion makers to discuss key foreign and security policy issues.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Smith Richardson<\/a>, whose considerable endowment is based on the Vick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s VapoRub fortune, has been a big funder of neo-con organizations and individuals since the 1970\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, as well as more-mainstream organizations and universities.<\/p>\n

Despite the Pentagon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Smith Richardson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largess, the Policy Forum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website remains as dormant as ever. For more on the Forum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Cross\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 activities, just type in her name on this site. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve posted about half a dozen times on them over the past year or so. Cross, of course, is the sister of Frank Gaffney, the ultra-hawkish president of the Center for Security Policy (CSP) who last week wrote a remarkable column<\/a> in the Washington Times <\/em>in which he associated Sen. Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s use of the phrase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153citizen of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Berlin with the Terror in Revolutionary France, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Citizen Kane,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the Organization of Islamic States (\u00e2\u20ac\u009da Muslim mafia organization\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Communist China,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Russia, the non-aligned movement, the specter of gun control, and Rodney King. As you will see from the other posts, the Policy Forum appears to be closely associated with the people at Anatol Sharansky\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s OneJerusalem<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A brief update on Devon Gaffney Cross\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Policy Forum on International Security (www.policyforumuk.com) whose cozy, off-the-record briefings by senior Pentagon officials, fellow-neo-cons and fellow members of the Defense Policy Board (DPB) for select British and European reporters in exclusive clubs and cafes in London and Paris, we discovered earlier this year, were the beneficiary of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}