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Obama/Ayers Connection Coverup?

Given the nature of this message I tend to doubt that NRO and Stanley Kurtz will mind my extensive quote here from his post, at all. Obviously, the intent is to get the message out, my intent is to help to that end.

Kurtz: [1]

In the process of tracing down the Obama-Ayers connection, I located a large cache of documents housed in the Richard J. Daley Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago. These documents are the internal files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a small foundation, founded and inspired by Bill Ayers, for which Obama served as board chairman (almost surely at Ayers’s behest). Although the library initially promised me access to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, top library officials mysteriously intervened at the last minute to bar access. There followed a struggle between myself and library officials over my right to examine the documents. Although I cannot know for certain, there is reason to believe that Bill Ayers himself may have been consulted, behind the scenes, as the conflict grew.

The explanations offered by library officials for the last-minute decision to block access to the documents were contradictory and shifting. I cannot say for certain that we are dealing with a politically motivated cover-up, but it seems like a very real possibility. Before my access was cut off, an assistant at the library sent me a “finding aid” for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records — a document of over 60 pages indicating the contents of the 947 file folders in the Collection. The evidence in the finding aid suggest that the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records could provide very important information about Barack Obama’s background and the history of his working relationship with Ayers.

I need public help to gain access to this critically important repository of information. Frankly, since the dispute over access, which played out late last week, I have grown concerned about the security of the documents. Public awareness is probably the best way to reduce the likelihood of documents being damaged or spirited away before I have a chance to break the embargo and gain access to the Collection.

There seems enough smoke here to warrant some pressure…. to mix a metephor.  And that the press is in the tank for Obama is more clearly shown all who will but note it. Tom Maguire at Just One Minute agrees [2]:

So let’s see – Obama has been misrepresenting his relationship with Ayers to the press (this misdirection of Ben Smith of The Politico from last February [3] is a comedy classic) and now someone is blocking access to the records detailing the workings of the group founded by Ayers and chaired by Obama.  In another world the press would smell a cover-up.  In this one?  My guess [4] has been that the mainstream press will remain in the tank for Obama rather than risk annoying their remaining readers by appearing to be pawns of the right-wing attack machine.

This one’s heating up, people. Watch Memeorandum for more.

Addendum: (Bit) This post made the Chicago Sun Times [5]. Thanks.