Daily Archives: June 15, 2011
Kincaid and Loudon Discuss Panetta’s Communist Ties
By: Trevor Loudon
New Zeal
Cliff Kincaid and Trevor Loudon lay out some of their case against Obama Secretary of Defense nominee Leon Panetta.
Please view this video. If you agree with it, please send it to every contact you can. Panetta’s nomination must be stopped.
Panettagate: A Real Scandal Involving National Security
By: Trevor Loudon
New Zeal

Leon Panetta
Cliff Kincaid writes on Right Side News:
Last Saturday and Sunday, The Washington Post published two articles, with a total count of 2,192 words, about Sarah Palin’s emails. The Post had said in advance it wanted the help of the public in getting to the bottom of what was in them. I told The Daily Caller this was an example of a paper desperate for a Republican scandal and willing to exploit cheap or free labor. But if you get what you pay for, the Post got what it deserved. Palingate fizzled out.
But in the spirit of public service, which the Post is apparently encouraging, my friend and associate Trevor Loudon and I have dug into the background of CIA director and Secretary of Defense nominee Leon Panetta. It’s too bad that we didn’t have this material assembled before now, but better late than never. The evidence shows that Panetta had a close and personal relationship with a member of the Communist Party by the name of Hugh DeLacy, whose record included meeting with communist espionage agents. By any objective standard of journalism, this should be big news. But the question now is whether the media, liberal and conservative, will take time off from Weinergate to pay attention and examine the evidence.
Rather than have boxes of material dumped on us, as happened in the case of Palin, we have researched hard-to-find Congressional hearings, conducted interviews and examined clippings from decades ago, university archives and the Congressional Record. It’s the kind of reporting that Bob Woodward of the Post was known for during Watergate. Of course, the target then was a Republican President and former Congressman who had made history by helping to smoke out a Soviet agent in the State Department by the name of Alger Hiss. When the targets are prominent liberal Democrats, the media lose their passion for investigative reporting. As far as communists go, to even consider them a threat is “McCarthyism” to many in the media and not worthy of any attention at all.
This is why, however, we are supposed to have congressional panels from the Senate and House—and security agencies like the FBI—to conduct such background probes. Yet, we find no evidence that the Panetta-DeLacy relationship was ever examined by the FBI or the Senate when Panetta was being considered and confirmed for the post of CIA Director. The major media have been even more derelict, content to cover the Panetta hearings for Secretary of Defense in a cursory manner and then turn their attention back to something that is easier and more fun to cover and which is sure to attract interest—Weiner. You can bet that the Democrats would rather talk about Weiner than one of their own, a former Democratic Congressman turned CIA director, who is neck-deep in a scandal involving his relationship with a communist agent and an espionage ring.
It is an open question whether the Senate will take a look at this evidence now that Panetta is up for another sensitive post and senators have to act on his confirmation.
A column of this length does not permit me to go into all aspects of what we have discovered about Panetta. But suffice it to say that the relationship with DeLacy is something that stands out. In a sense, Panetta did not hide it. Back in 1983 he inserted a tribute into the Congressional Record, recognizing DeLacy and his wife Dorothy, another communist, for their commitment to “social justice” and resisting “the dark forces of McCarthyism.” The latter strongly indicates that Panetta was aware of their involvement in the communist cause and that not only did it not matter to him, it was evidence of their courage and bravery. We knew about the tribute from press reports, but I found a copy of this tribute in the Congressional Record at a local library.
Trevor Loudon writes, “The couple, Hugh DeLacy and his wife Dorothy Baskin DeLacy, both had long histories with the Communist Party USA and were very active in the Santa Cruz ‘progressive’ movement that had helped nurture Congressman Panetta’s career. Phrases like ‘social justice’ and ‘dark forces of McCarthyism’ rolled from Rep. Panetta’s pen, in a piece that would not have been out of place in the Communist Party’s Peoples Daily World.”
He adds, “The DeLacys were not merely Panetta’s constituents—they were close personal friends. Hugh DeLacy was also a longtime correspondent, with whom Panetta regularly discussed defense and foreign policy issues.”
Loudon knows this because he took the time to examine the Hugh DeLacy papers at the University of Washington. They include a series of “Dear Hugh” and “Dear Leon” exchanges in which then-Rep. Panetta promised DeLacy several apparently sensitive documents. Not only did Panetta insert a tribute into the Congressional Record, he spoke at DeLacy’s memorial service after his death in 1986. One wonders if the FBI was ever made aware of this.
In addition to this evidence, we have congressional hearings, information about a communist cell active in Santa Cruz, and Panetta’s own record as a member of Congress, where he fought during the 1980s to protect communist advances in such countries as Nicaragua and Grenada and worked feverishly to undermine President Reagan’s anti-communist foreign policy and military defense build-up. Incidentally, back then Panetta was a foe of CIA covert action to protect America’s vital interests, which makes Obama’s selection of him as CIA director even more interesting. We know that Panetta’s CIA director of public affairs, George Little, was listed as a dinner guest of Al-Jazeera at a Radio and TV Congressional Dinner, and that Panetta has issued no public warnings about a Muslim Brotherhood takeover of the Middle East. The evidence indicates the CIA may be on the side of radical forces in the region. His only apparent success as CIA director has been the killing of Osama bin Laden, an impressive operation that has nevertheless backfired in the sense of sending a nuclear-armed Pakistan into the arms of Communist China.
Veteran journalist Wes Vernon has seen our evidence, as it has been released over the last several days, and has marveled at the cover-up so far. In a column titled, “Media blackout: CIA director accused of links to Communist spy contact—scandal ignored,” he notes that “…DeLacy was not only a prominent member of the Communist Party USA, but also a personal contact of identified Soviet spies Solomon Adler and Frank Coe and accused spy John Stewart Service, and one has to wonder: What was there about DeLacy’s background and record that attracted the friendship of the man who is now CIA Director and has been nominated to assume an even higher national security post—Secretary of Defense?”
He concludes, “If Panetta’s nomination for Secretary of Defense makes it through the Senate Armed Services Committee—and barring indications to the contrary, it would appear “the skids are greased”—then what? Is there not one conservative senator prepared to raise this issue on the floor when the confirmation is up for debate? Not one? Why?”
John Loudon – How to Win in 2012
By: Trevor Loudon
New Zeal
My good friend, “cousin” and former Missouri State Senator, John Loudon, explains how patriots can get the best possible results in the crucial 2012 elections.
And yes. Good looks do run in the family!
Watcher’s Council Nominations – Almost Summer Edition
From: The Watcher’s Council

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.
Council News:
This week, Constitutionists United For Liberty, Arthur Hu at Asian Week and Capitalist Preservation, all took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status.
You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.
Simply head over to the ‘Contact Me’ page at Joshuapundit and post your link along with an e-mail address in the comments section no later than Monday 6 PM PST to be considered for our honorable mention category and then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.
It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members, while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?
So, let’s see what we have this week….
Council Submissions
- The Colossus of Rhodey – “X-Men: First Class,” Israel, and the line between good and evil
- Simply Jews – Matthew Hess: rabid, but how rabid he is indeed?
- Joshuapundit – The Weiner Affair And The Disintegration Of Our Politics
- The Noisy Room – An American Descent Into Hell
- New Zeal – Why Panetta? Is Slashing Defense the Real End Game Here?
- Right Truth – The Simple and Difficult Economy
- The Razor – President Obama, Lay Off Our British Friends
- Bookworm Room – It’s not what you believe; it’s what you do with those beliefs that counts
- VA Right! – Obama Visits NC Plant That Used $39 Million Stimulus to Make $127 Light Bulbs and Pays CEO $4.2 Million
- The Political Commentator – Is it an “Arab spring” or a winter of discontent?
- Rhymes With Right – Say What?
- Snapped Shot – Sense of Humor
- The Glittering Eye – Whistle A Happy Tune
- GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Blunt Reality
Honorable Mentions
- Arthur Hu/Asian Week – Fukushima: It’s About Israel, Palestine and Iran
- Constitutionists United For Liberty – The GOP Debate
- Capitalist Preservation – Baby Please Don’t Go
Non-Council Submissions
- Yourish.com – Obama ramps up the pressure on Israel submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- Harry’s Place – Hamas Funder IHH on Tolerance: No Way! submitted by Simply Jews
- Zombie – How A teacher’s Rally Made me Anti-Education submitted by Joshuapundit
- American Thinker/James Lewis – Barracuda Snakecharmer Sarah and the Mob submitted by The Noisy Room
- Sultan Knish – Redistributing Freedom To Tyranny submitted by New Zeal
- El Pais – A Valley For All Of The Fallen? submitted by Right Truth
- Civil Candor – Will Obama Punish Alabama for Fair New Immigration Law? submitted by The Razor
- Dirty Spending Secrets – Dirty Spending Secrets submitted by Bookworm Room
- Doug Ross – Narcissistic rage, envy and revenge at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue submitted by VA Right!
- American Thinker – Anthony Weiner: The Tweet Smell of Success submitted by The Political Commentator
- Reason’s Hit & Run – The Ayn Rand-Satan Connection Revealed! submitted by Rhymes with Right
- Frank J. Fleming/Pajamas Media – Tips for Not Appearing Crazy on the Internet submitted by Snapped Shot
- American Digest – Overseen In The Library submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Line Of Departure – Our Once And Future Kings submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- The Optimistic Conservative – Erdogan: Ottoman echoes growing louder submitted by The Watcher
- Tablet – Spring Break submitted by The Watcher
Enjoy!