Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:08:58 PM
National Review has tried
to investigate the public relationship between Barack Obama and former
Weather Underground radical William Ayers at the University of
Illinois, but has run into a stonewalling University of Illinois.
The university refuses to release the records of the project that would
detail the extent of collaboration between Obama and Ayers, despite the
public nature of the university. The Chicago campus blames the donor of
the Annenberg Challenge for the delay
How likely will it be that the university and the donor will reach an
agreement between now and the election? I’d assume a very low
percentage for success. The donor him/herself told the university that
they didn’t have the rights to release the information, supposedly
concerned about Social Security numbers getting released. That’s
absurd; universities know how to redact private information before
releasing records to the public.
Ayers started off in politics as a domestic terrorist. He plotted to
explode a bomb at the Pentagon, and wound up on the run for years while
the FBI botched its investigation. His wife, Bernardine Dohrn, also
aided and abetted domestic terrorists and may have had material involvement in thefts and a robbery
that resulted in the murder of a policeman. Neither Ayers nor Dohrn
have ever expressed any remorse for their crimes; in fact, in 2001
Ayers told the New York Times that he regretted not doing more as part of the Weather Underground, and in 2007 both Ayers and Dohrn repeated their leftist revolutionary schtick