April 11, 2008 (LPAC)--Hillary Clinton has finally fired London agent Mark Penn as her chief campaign adviser. The April 7th action has removed a saboteur who has long been positioned inside of the Clinton camp, applying pressure and extortion on behalf of the London-New York axis of imperial looters and war crazies.
We report here highlights from the next issue of Executive Intelligence Review's scoop: the Penn story of treachery, from the 1990s, up through his official employment by British empire leaders consumed with hatred for the United States and for the Franklin Roosevelt legacy of the Democratic Party.
Mark Penn was hired into President Bill Clinton's re-election campaign in early 1995 by Dick Morris, the sleaze-ball pollster. Morris represented the cabal of anti-FDR Harrimanites and neo-conservatives within the Democratic Party who were furious at the President for trying to act independently despite their support for his 1992 election.
Morris and Penn pressured Clinton to react to the 1994 Newt Gingrich-led Republican congressional victory by attacking welfare recipients and wage-earners to gain conservative support, in line with the London-directed "Third Way" program.
Clinton fired Morris in 1996, ostensibly for letting Morris's prostitute listen in on Presidential conversations. His subordinate Mark Penn replaced Morris as Clinton's chief pollster.
Morris and Penn both had remarkable fascist credentials. The cousin of the mafia's fixer Roy Cohn, Dick Morris had been hired in 1982 to help Cohn's protégé Roger Stone manage the 1982 senate campaign of Prescott Bush, Jr.. Meanwhile, Stone and Cohn directed the "dark side" dirty tricks for the hard core nazi element within the Republican party.
Mark Penn had worked for the Israeli extreme right. While he and his consulting partner Doug Schoen were managing Prime Minister Menachem Begin's 1981 re-election campaign, Begin bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor, an act applauded by Penn and Schoen and condemned by Begin's Israeli opponents as a campaign stunt three weeks before the election.
Dick Morris went to work for British Empire media mogul Rupert Murdoch as his attack dog against the Clintons.
The Penn and Schoen firm was bought in 2001 by WPP Group, the London-based advertising and political consulting monopoly. The buyout pushed Penn's personal wealth towards the stratosphere.
Penn's new bosses were at the heart of the British imperial oligarchy. WPP's 1986 founder Martin Sorrell had been a leader of the Saatchi & Saatchi agency that had run Margaret Thatcher's 1979 campaign, and had shared the spoils by representing the big firms she privatized. Sorrell brought in David Ogilvy as WPP chairman (1989-1992) to position the agency to manage transatlantic political affairs, in line with Ogilvy's standing as the leading British intelligence strategist for psychological warfare.
It was WPP, through its subsidiary Hill & Knowlton, that in 1991 ran the "Iraqis kill Kuwaiti babies" campaign of deceit, to soften opposition to the invasion of Iraq that Thatcher had urged on President Bush, Sr.
It was WPP, through their subsidiary BKSH -- Roger Stone's old firm -- that managed the Iraqi National Congress/Ahmed Chalabi campaign of lies, to put Bush Jr.'s government behind Tony Blair's push for a new, 2003 Ira war.
By this time Mark Penn was chief executive of WPP's worldwide subsidiary Burson-Marsteller, of which the old Roger Stone firm was now a subordinate unit.
Mark Penn and Doug Schoen managed Tony Blair's 2005 re-election campaign. It was a family affair: Penn's wife Nancy Jacobson, in the previous year, had founded the Third Way political action committee within the U.S. Senate, as an arm of London's anti-FDR movement, while Mark Penn served as pollster for the Democratic Leadership Committee and its Third Way propaganda.
On April 6, 2008, the London Daily Mail disclosed that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown "is secretly planning to headhunt the world's most expensive polling expert in an attempt to revive his political fortunes." The Daily Mail commented that "Mr. Brown can only hire multi-millionaire Mr. Penn if Mrs. Clinton is forced to pull out of the White House race in favor of Mr. Obama, as many experts predict." Brown had previously hired former executives of WPP Group as the two top strategists in the Prime Minister's office.
The day after the Daily Mail story broke, Penn was forced to resign as Mrs. Clinton's lead adviser. The public explanation was the flap over Penn, as WPP's man, being caught lobbying for a free trade treaty with Colombia which Mrs. Clinton opposes. Media sewers such as Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, which demand acceptance of free trade, offered a variety of explanations for Penn's firing, none of them political!