 2008
Election
 John
McCain
 Randy
Scheunemann
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MACEDONIA News:
20080813
John
McCain -  Randy
Scheunemann -  Politics
-  Georgia
-  Russia
-  Taiwan
- Macedonia
-  Romania
-  Latvia
-  US
-  Law
- 2008
Election
"McCain
adviser got money from Georgia." ... "[2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain's chief foreign policy adviser
and his business partner lobbied the senator or his staff on 49 occasions
in a 3 1/2-year span while being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars
by the government of the former Soviet republic of Georgia." ... "The payments
raise ethical questions about the intersection of Randy Scheunemann's personal
financial interests and his advice to the Republican presidential candidate
who is seizing on Russian aggression in Georgia as a campaign issue." ...
""Scheunemann's work as a lobbyist poses valid questions about McCain's
judgment in choosing someone who — and whose firm — are paid to promote
the interests of other nations," said New York University law professor
Stephen Gillers. "So one must ask whether McCain is getting disinterested
advice, at least when the issues concern those nations."" ... ""If McCain
wants advice from someone whose private interests as a once and future
lobbyist may affect the objectivity of the advice, that's his choice to
make."" ... "Scheunemann's firm lobbied McCain's office on four bills and
resolutions regarding Georgia, with McCain as a co-sponsor or supporter
of all of them." ... "In addition to the 49 contacts with McCain or his
staff regarding Georgia, Scheunemann's firm has lobbied the senator or
his aides on at least 47 occasions since 2001 on behalf of the governments
of Taiwan and Macedonia, which each paid Scheunemann and his partner Mike
Mitchell over half a million dollars; Romania, which paid over $400,000;
and Latvia, which paid nearly $250,000." -By Pete
Yost -AP via
-Yahoo
20080523
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John
McCain - Randy
Scheunemann -
 Charlie
Black -  Money
- Politics
-  Foreign
- Russia
- Macedonia
- Republic
of Georgia -  Zaire
is the Democratic Republic of the Congo -  Military
-  Food
-  Indiana
-  Arizona
- US
- 2008
Election - Law
- "Senior
Aide's Lobbying Efforts Highlight Challenge for McCain."
... "For a decade, [lobbyist] Randy Scheunemann has been a campaign staffer
to [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain, an ideological
ally in the fight to contain Russian power -- and a lobbyist seeking the
Arizona senator's support for former Soviet states." ... "The lobbying
group Mr. Scheunemann founded in 2001, Orion Strategies LLC [Limited Liability
Company], has earned $2.6 million from clients for whom Mr. Scheunemann
directly lobbied [Arizona Senator] Sen. McCain and his staff, Justice Department
records show." ... "In March, as scrutiny intensified, Mr. Scheunemann,
who is the campaign's top foreign-policy staffer, sent a letter to the
Justice Department's office for foreign-client lobbying registrations saying
he had stopped working for clients such as Macedonia and [the Republic
of] Georgia. However, his company's contracts with those countries, worth
a combined $240,000, appear still to be in effect. A spokeswoman for the
Georgian Embassy in Washington said the country's contract with Orion is
active. The Macedonian contract is listed as active in Justice Department
records." ... "Charlie Black, a McCain campaign senior adviser, has represented
foreign leaders accused of corruption and human-rights abuses, such as
Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire [now the Democratic Republic of the Congo]. He
ended his relationship with BKSH & Associates Worldwide this year.
Outside advisers and fund-raisers for the campaign include Wayne Berman,
a registered lobbyist for an Indiana food-packaging company that sells
to the Department of Defense." -By Mary Jacoby
-WSJ.com
20080522
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John
McCain - Randy
Scheunemann - Money
- Politics
- Foreign
- Republic
of Georgia - Latvia
- Macedonia
- Romania
-
 Ky
- Arizona
- US
- 2008
Election - "Former
Outside NRA Lobbyist Gives A Boost To McCain." ...
"When he went to woo the National Rifle Association convention in Louisville,
Ky. [Kentucky], on Friday, it did not hurt that presumptive Republican
presidential nominee, [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate
and Senator] Sen. John McCain of Arizona, was accompanied by a former
outside NRA [National Rifle Association] lobbyist turned campaign adviser,
Randy
Scheunemann." ... "Officially the top foreign policy and national security
adviser to McCain’s campaign, Scheunemann told National Journal in March
he has weighed in with advice on Second Amendment and firearms issues.
He said he had stopped lobbying for all his clients early this year, and
his lobbying registration forms show that the NRA work ended at the end
of 2007." ... "But during that year while he was helping the [McCain] campaign,
Scheunemann & Associates, one of two boutique firms he runs, received
$40,000 in fees from the NRA. The NRA, one of his oldest clients, paid
him the same amount for several prior years. Scheunemann, who started working
for the campaign as a volunteer in early 2007, did not return four calls
seeking comment for this story." ... "According to one NRA lobbyist who
was at the convention, Scheunemann arrived and departed with McCain. Scheunemann
spent most of his time at the event backstage -- where McCain had a brief
meeting with NRA leaders, according to a lobbyist." ... "Scheunemann’s
other lobbying firm, Orion Strategies, has worked for several foreign governments,
including [the Republic of] Georgia, Latvia, Macedonia and Romania, who
have joined or are seeking to join NATO." -By Peter
Stone -NationalJournal
20080520
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John
McCain - Randy
Scheunemann - Money
- Politics
- Foreign
- Macedonia
- Republic
of Georgia - Taiwan
- Arizona
- US
- 2008
Election - Law
- "McCain
adviser's work as lobbyist comes to light." ... "[2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain's top foreign policy
adviser lobbied the Arizona senator's staff on behalf of the republic of
Georgia while he was working for the campaign, public records show." ...
"Randy Scheunemann, founder of Orion Strategies, represented the governments
of Macedonia, Georgia and Taiwan between 2003 and March 1, according to
the firm's filings with the Justice Department. In its latest semiannual
report, the firm disclosed that Scheunemann had a phone conversation in
November about Georgia with Richard Fontaine, an aide in McCain's Senate
office." ... "Orion Strategies earned $540,000 from its foreign clients
over the year ending on [December] Dec. 1, reports show. Scheunemann also
received $56,250 last year from March to July from McCain, according to
campaign finance records." ... "The campaign consulting fees ended at a
time when McCain was under financial pressure to cut costs, but Scheunemann
remained the campaign's top foreign policy adviser. He represented McCain
throughout last fall — including an appearance at a Republican Jewish Coalition
event during the same week he lobbied McCain's Senate office." ... "Georgia
paid Orion Strategies $240,000 in the year ending Dec. 1, reports show."
-By Matt Kelley -USATODAY
20060607
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US
-
 EU
-  Intelligence
-  Terrorism
-  Law
Enforcement -  Prisons
- Transport
- Human
Rights - Politics
-  Britain
-  Germany
-  Italy
-  Sweden
-  Turkey
-  Spain
- Romania
-  Poland
- "Probe
of CIA Prisons Implicates EU Nations." ... "Fourteen
European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a "spider's web" of
human rights abuses to help the CIA spirit terror suspects to illegal detention
facilities, a European investigator said Wednesday." ... "Swiss senator
Dick Marty's report to Europe's top human rights body was thin on evidence
but raises the possibility of a cover-up involving both friends and critics
of Washington's war on terror. It says European governments "did not seem
particularly eager to establish" the facts." ... "He listed 14 European
countries - Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Bosnia, Macedonia, Turkey,
Spain, Cyprus, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Romania and Poland - as being
complicit in "unlawful interstate transfers" of people." -By
Jan Sliva -AP
via -Forbes
20051206
-
US
- Germany
-
 Afghanistan
- Secret
- Military
- Terrorism
- Intelligence
- Prisons
- Law
- Politics
-  VA
- "German
citizen held in secret prison sues ex-CIA director."
... "A German citizen whom the CIA abducted from Macedonia and held in
a secret prison in Afghanistan for five months sued former CIA Director
George Tenet on Tuesday, saying he'd been tortured." ... "[Khaled] Al-Masri's
lawsuit, filed by ACLU lawyers in Alexandria, Va. [Virginia], sheds light
on the CIA's secret practice of "extraordinary renditions," using special
teams to capture suspected terrorists and transport them to countries that
practice torture or to one of the agency's reported secret prisons in Eastern
Europe or Asia." ... "In the four years since the Sept. 11 attacks, the
CIA has captured about 3,000 people, including some top al-Qaida leaders,
according to a Washington Post report. Intelligence committees in Congress
have been told that the CIA's inspector general is investigating possible
"erroneous renditions."" ... "U.S. officials refuse to confirm or deny
the existence of secret prisons." -By Frank Davies
and Warren P. Strobel -MercuryNews
20030318
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- "State
Department Noon Briefing Transcript [List of the 30 Nations Supporting
US Disarmament of Iraq]." ... "BRIEFER: Richard
Boucher, Spokesman." ... "MR. BOUCHER: There are 30 countries who have
agreed to be part of the coalition for the immediate disarmament of Iraq.
I'd have to say these are countries that we have gone to and said, "Do
you want to be listed?" and they have said, "Yes."" ... "They are: Afghanistan,
Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark,
El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy,
Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua,
the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom,
and Uzbekistan." ... "In addition to these countries, there are actually
another 15 or so that we know of, probably more than 15, that are cooperating
with us in -- and the coalition, or perhaps offering defensive assets in
the event that Saddam resorts to the use of weapons of mass destruction."
-Washington
File -State.gov
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