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    Muslim Brotherhood official, former Clinton Foundation employee arrested in Cairo

    Muslim Brotherhood official, former Clinton Foundation employee arrested in Cairo

    By Adam Kredo — The Washington Free Beacon
    Wednesday, September 18, 2013



    • Gehad el-Haddad.

    A senior Muslim Brotherhood official who, until recently, had been employed by the William J. Clinton Foundation was arrested in Cairo on Tuesday and charged with inciting violence.

    Gehad el-Haddad served as one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s top communications officials until Egyptian security forces seized him as part of a wider crackdown on officials loyal to ousted former President
    Mohamed Morsi.

    Before emerging as a top Brotherhood official and adviser to Morsi, el-Haddadserved for five years as a top official at the Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit group founded by former President Bill Clinton.

    El-Haddad gained a reputation for pushing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist agenda in the foreign press, where he was often quoted defending the Brotherhood’s crackdown on civil liberties in Egypt.

    He was raised in a family of prominent Brotherhood supporters and became the public face of the Islamist organization soon after leaving his post at the Clinton Foundation.

    However, much of his official work with the Brotherhood took place while he was still claiming to be employed by the Clinton Foundation.

    “It was only a matter of time before Gehad el-Haddad was arrested,”Egypt expert Eric Trager told the Washington Free Beacon. “Many of the other Muslim Brotherhood spokesmen have been apprehended, and in addition to decapitating the organization, the military-backed government has been specifically targeting the Brotherhood’s media wing, including by shutting down its T.V. stations at the time of Morsi’s ouster on July 3.”

    “It has also gone after those connected to Morsi’s presidential office, andGehad’s father is Morsi adviser and Muslim Brotherhood Guidance Office member Essam el-Haddad,” noted Trager, a next generation fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP).

    El-Haddad’s father was a top foreign policy adviser for Morsi until both were apprehended by Egyptian security personnel.

    El-Haddad’s arrest sparked outrage among Brotherhood supporters, scores of whom have taken to the street in protest in the weeks sinceMorsi was removed from office and seized by the Egyptian military.

    “We are thinking about you and you are in our prayers,” one supporterwrote on Twitter Wednesday.

    “Freedom for #gehad el haddad,” tweeted another.

    El-Haddad served as the Clinton Foundation’s city director from August 2007 to August 2012, according to his LinkedIn profile.

    Just a month after El-Haddad left the Clinton Foundation to work full-time for the Brotherhood, former President Morsi was invited to deliver his first major speech at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), the high profile political family’s other nonprofit.

    El-Haddad’s employment at the Clinton Foundation overlapped with his official work for the Muslim Brotherhood, which began in Cairo in February 2011 when he assumed control of the Renaissance Project, a Brotherhood-backed economic recovery program.

    El-Haddad officially became a senior adviser for foreign affairs in Morsi's Freedom and Justice Partyin May 2011, when he was still claiming to be employed by the Clinton Foundation.

    El-Haddad was quoted in the Guardian newspaper in March 2012 as “one of the Brotherhood’s senior advisers.” USA Today referred to him as “a senior adviser to the Muslim Brotherhood” in May 2012.

    El-Haddad was “charged with developing a long-term economic recovery program,” known as the Renaissance Project, during his time as senior adviser.

    Egyptian media reported in July 2012 that the program was actually meant to bring the country more in line with the Muslim Brotherhoods extremist religious ideals.

    “Renaissance is far more than the electoral program of President Mohamed Morsi or theBrotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party,” the Egypt Independent reported at the time. “It is a 25-year project to reform state, business and civil society, rooted in the Brotherhood’s Islamic values but conditioned by the experiences of the project’s founders in the modern economy.”

    Haddad told the Independent that he applied the knowledge he learned at the Clinton Foundation to his work at the Renaissance Project.“The Clinton Climate Initiative taught Haddad about managing an NGO and the role that civil societytakes between the state and private sector, lessons he is applying to the Renaissance Project,” the report states.

    El-Haddad represented the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Climate Initiative in Egypt during his overlapping tenure, according to his LinkedIn profile.

    He additionally “setup the foundation's office in Egypt and managed official registration,” “supervised policy-making workshops & presented foundations views,” and “presented projects to high-level government officials,” among many other duties.

    El-Haddad left the Clinton Foundation in August 2012, two months after Morsi assumed the Egyptian presidency.

    He was appointed a “senior adviser and media spokesman” to the Muslim Brotherhood in January 2013 and served in that role until his arrest.

    El-Haddad regularly defended the Brotherhood’s authoritarian crackdown on civil society, evenrunning damage control in December 2012 when Morsi supporters attacked women and children.

    When widespread Democratic protests broke out on June 30, El-Haddad referred to the demonstrators as violent thugs in an interview with the Free Beacon.

    “The anti-Morsi camp are providing a political endorsement to the violence,” he said at the time. “Some have resorted to violence because they didn’t do well at the ballot box.”

    El-Haddad did not respond to an email request for comment sent shortly after reports emerged of his arrest.

    The Clinton Foundation did not respond to multiple requests for comment on El-Haddad’s employment and arrest.

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    A senior Muslim Brotherhood official who, until recently, had been employed by Clinton was arrested in Cairo

    Posted on 18 September, 2013 by Amy


    via freebeacon

    A senior Muslim Brotherhood official who, until recently, had been employed by the William J. Clinton Foundation was arrested in Cairo on Tuesday and charged with inciting violence.

    Gehad el-Haddad served as one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s top communications officials until Egyptian security forces seized him as part of a wider crackdown on officials loyal to ousted former President Mohamed Morsi.

    Before emerging as a top Brotherhood official and adviser to Morsi, el-Haddad served for five years as a top official at the Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit group founded by former President Bill Clinton.

    El-Haddad gained a reputation for pushing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist agenda in the foreign press, where he was often quoted defending the Brotherhood’s crackdown on civil liberties in Egypt.

    He was raised in a family of prominent Brotherhood supporters and became the public face of the Islamist organization soon after leaving his post at the Clinton Foundation.

    Read more via freebeacon


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    Obama: ‘I Don’t Have Pride Of Authorship For This Thing’

    September 24, 2013 11:59 PM


    President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton greet supporters during a campaign rally at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Va., on Nov. 3, 2012. (credit: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

    NEW YORK — President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton took to the same stage Tuesday to promote the new health care law that Obama championed after Clinton’s own efforts to reform health care years earlier fell flat.
    Joining forces under dimmed lights in a hotel ballroom in New York, Obama and Clinton laid out the law’s benefits and its connection to the economy while dispelling what they called disinformation about its downsides. Clinton, acting as host, lobbed the questions; Obama answered with the eagerness of a guest on a daytime TV talk show.

    It was a pair of presidents in dark suits, reclining on comfy, white chairs as they reflected on the effort that went in to passing the sweeping law, and the intense challenges facing its implementation. New exchanges where Americans can buy health insurance — a centerpiece of the law — open for enrollment on Oct. 1.
    “I don’t have pride of authorship for this thing, I just want the thing to work,” Obama said. He added that he was confident Americans will be swayed by its advantages even though polls show they’re deeply wary of the law. “The devil you know is always better than the devil you don’t know.”

    Clinton felt free to point out some of the drawbacks in the law’s implementation, while making clear that Obama was not the one to blame. For example, he noted that the Supreme Court said states could not be forced to take Medicaid money to finance the expansion of health coverage.

    “That’s going to lead to a cruel result, and there’s nothing the president can do, and it’s not his fault. That’s what the Supreme Court said,” Clinton said.

    The hour long appearance, sponsored by the former president’s foundation known as the Clinton Global Initiative, marks the start of a concerted campaign by the Obama administration and its allies to inform consumers about their options under the law. It also took place around the 20th anniversary of Clinton’s address to a joint session of Congress calling for an overhaul of the health care system.

    That effort, by Clinton and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, was unsuccessful.

    Mrs. Clinton, who ran against Obama before becoming his first-term secretary of state, introduced the two presidents with a list of what they have in common. They’re both left-handed, love golf and have fabulous daughters, she said. And one more thing:

    “They each married far above themselves,” Clinton said with a laugh.

    Beyond the discussion, Obama also plans to promote the law during a speech Thursday at a community college in Maryland. Vice President Joe Biden will reach out to nurses across the country on a conference call and Obama will hold a separate call with mayors and other state and local officials, the White House said. First lady Michelle Obama plans outreach to key groups, such as mothers and military veterans, through editorials.

    Aware that a lack of participation could imperil the law’s success, Obama noted the “unprecedented effort” by conservatives to block it, then repeal it, then scare Americans out of signing up for coverage. The Republican-controlled House has voted dozens of times to repeal, delay or starve the law of funds, arguing that it is hurting the economy. None of the bills have advanced in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

    Obama said the budding effort to explain and promote it is in part about clearing up misconceptions that opponents have intentionally cultivated.

    “Normally, this would be pretty straightforward,” Obama said. “But let’s face it. It’s been a little political, this whole Obamacare thing.”

    Afterward, Obama spoke at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Officials said about 250 people were expected at the event, paying anywhere from $5,000 to the maximum of $32,400 to attend.

    http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/...ush-obamacare/


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