Obama’s bios are as important for what they leave out as for what they reveal. I first became suspicious of his now-infamous trip to Pakistan (which he took in the summer between Occidental and Columbia) because he refused to mention this adventure in his books.
Think of it: We are talking about a man who compiled not one but two autobiographical works before the age of 46. We are talking about an ambitious politician intent on establishing his foreign policy cred. Yet he refused to mention a dangerous trip to Pakistan which he made at a time when travel to that country was discouraged by the State Department. That country was then the focus of the CIA’s largest covert operation, the supplying of the Afghan mujahadeen. While there, this callow college kid met with one of the most powerful men in Pakistan — a meeting arranged by an unnamed personage with the American Embassy. (Spook-watchers know what that means.)
If the trip was a pleasure jaunt, why did Obama keep it a secret? And how did he pay for the journey?
Obama kept his hair-raising Pakistan adventure completely under wraps for many years. He never alluded to it in public. He wrote two autobiographies without once mentioning a dangerous trip to an exotic war zone — a trip that most guys would consider rather thrilling and colorful.
Does that reticence strike you as odd? Sure strikes me as odd.
Even odder: One month after the passport scandal, Obama — a propos de rien — let slip that he had been to Pakistan.
Passports.
As a former Indonesian citizen, young Barry probably possessed two passports. The Agency just loves people who have two. At that time, the Indonesian passport would have made travel to (and within) Pakistan much easier.
There’s another reason why Obama may have been recruited. I have argued that Obama comes from a rather spooky family. As mentioned above, Stanley Ann Dunham, our current president’s mother, also went to Pakistan — for reasons that have no discernible link to her career path. She even learned Urdu. Why?
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