Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol Start ‘Keep America Safe’
Ben Smith has the scoop on Keep America Safe, a new pressure group headed up by former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
Jul 31, 202048.3K Shares1M Views
Ben Smith has the scoop on Keep America Safe, a new pressure group headed up by former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Liz Cheney. Cheney’s partners are Debra Burlingame and Bill Kristol — whose other new venture, the Foreign Policy Initiative, is only seven months old. And so far, with a snarky video that attacks the president for playing golf too much, the 501(c)4 looks like an activist extension of the Weekly Standard’s smash-mouthing blog, which on Friday nearly collapsed from the weight of Obama-bashing Nobel Prize posts:
“„The group’s mechanics are largely a product of former campaign aides to Senator John McCain: Michael Goldfarb, now a Weekly Standard blogger, is an adviser to the group; its executive director is McCain war room chief Aaron Harison, and the video was produced by Justin Germany, the McCain aide who produced a campaign videotitled, “The One,” which mocked Obama as a messianic figure.
Cheney’s constant TV appearances have, so far, been a function of her family name and of the strong possibility that she’ll run for office someday. This effort gives TV hosts something else to say when they introduce her; it will also, says Cheney, publish “memos by Bush Administration lawyers justifying waterboarding and other practices to make the case that they aren’t torture.”
Paula M. Graham
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